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CHAPTER VII.

Account of Families.

ABELL.

The first Abell in the county was Caleb, who came from
Orange near the end of the last century. In 1798 he purchased
what is still known as the old Abell place on Moore's
Creek. It originally consisted of six hundred and ninety-four
acres, comprising three different grants, but all bought
from the executors of Henry Mullins, of Goochland. Caleb
conveyed it to his son, John S. Abell, in 1808. John S. entered
the Baptist ministry about 1830, and died in 1859. In
1816 he married Lydia Ralls, and his children were Alexander
P., who was a magistrate under the old regime, was first
a merchant in Charlottesville, then Teller in the Monticello
and Charlottesville National Banks, married Ann, daughter
of William McLeod, and about 1876 removed to Greenville,
S. C.; George W., who was one of the early ministers of the
Disciples Church; and J. Ralls, whose wife was Susan,
daughter of William Dunkum.

Besides John S., there were Joshua Abell, who married
Caroline, and Richard, who married Emily, daughters of
Benjamin Martin, of North Garden; Caleb, who married
Jane, daughter of William Black; and Benjamin F., whose
wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Grayson.

ALPHIN.

John Alphin began to purchase land in the county in
1778, when he became the owner of two hundred and fifty
acres on Meadow Creek between the Staunton and Whitehall
Roads. He continued his purchases till he acquired
more than a thousand acres in one body. He conducted
a noted hostelry, situated nearly opposite the residence
of Jesse Lewis, and for many years a favorite resort
for men of the turf. He furnished excellent accommodations,

a prime cuisine, large stables, and a track for training horses.
His house was a place of wide notoriety at the beginning of
the century.

He married Martha, daughter of Christopher Shepherd, and
his children were Julius, Sarah, the wife of William Chapman,
Jane, the wife of David Owen, Nancy, the wife of William
Fagg, Mary, the wife of Blake Harris, and Elizabeth. He
sold to the county in 1806 the land on which the old Poor
House was built. He died in 1818. Most of his family disposed
of their interests in his estate, and removed to the West,
some of them to Blount County, Tennessee.

ANDERSON.

David Anderson and his wife Elizabeth, came from Hanover
County, and lived on a plantation in Albemarle, not far
from Scottsville. David died in 1791, and his wife in 1804.
They had eight sons, William, Nathaniel, Thomas, Richard,
David, Matthew, Edmund and Samuel, and three daughters.
Of the daughters, Ann was married to Dabney
Minor, of Hanover, Sarah, to Chrisopher Hudson, and
the third to a Barrett, whose son Anderson Barrett lived
in Richmond, and was an executor of both his grandparents.
One of the sons, Nathaniel, had his residence
on the old glebe of St. Anne's on Totier, which he bought
from John Breckinridge in 1796. He married Sarah,
daughter of John Carr, of Bear Castle, and sister of Dabney,
Mr. Jefferson's brother-in-law. He died in 1812, and left
four children, William, Nathaniel, Mary, the wife of a
Mosby, and Elizabeth, the wife of a Lawrence. Nathaniel
married Sarah Elizabeth —, and his children were Martha,
the wife of Stephen Woodson, Mary, Dabney Minor and
Overton. Edmund, son of David, is thought to be the same
person who married Jane, daughter of William Lewis, and
sister of the celebrated explorer, Meriwether Lewis. He
died in 1809, leaving two sons and four daughters, William,
Dr. Meriwether, who married Lucy Harper, Ann, the wife of
Thomas Fielding Lewis, Jane, the wife of Benjamin Wood,
Lucy, the wife of —, Buckner, and Sarah, the wife of
Gabriel Harper.

Richard Anderson, son of David, married Ann Meriwether,
sister of Lucy, the wife of William Lewis. He at one time
owned an interest in the land on Ivy Creek on which the
Prison Barracks were built, and which he sold to John Harvie
about a year before their building took place. His son
David was living at Milton at the beginning of the century,
and represented Brown, Rives & Co., one of the firms
doing business in that town. In 1801 David was appointed a
magistrate of the county, but resigned the next year. Some
time after he removed to Richmond. He married Susan,
daughter of Reuben Moore, of Culpeper, and his children
were Meriwether L., Richard, Catharine, the wife of Jefferson
Trice, of Richmond, and Helen, the wife of a Porter. In
1829 he returned to Albemarle, and married again Mary,
daughter of Thomas W. Lewis, and widow of James Leitch,
and two years later his son Meriwether married Eliza Leitch,
daughter of his step-mother. Their home was at Pantops.
David Anderson died in 1841, and Meriwether in 1872.

It is believed Richard Anderson had two other sons,
Edmund and Jasper. Edmund married first Frances Moore,
sister of his brother David's first wife. Some years later he
married Ann, daughter of William Cole, of North Garden,
and not long after Jasper married her sister, Susan Cole. In
1813 Edmund purchased from Clifton Rodes, executor of John
Jouett, sixty acres of land lying east and north of Charlottesville,
and extending from the present Ninth Street east to the
hill overlooking Schenk's Branch, and laid it out in town lots.
This tract was known as Anderson's Addition. He sold
a number of lots, chiefly on East Jefferson and Park Streets,
during the decade of 1820, and in 1831 conveyed to John J.
Winn and Alexander Garret Lot Thirty-Four, the present
Maplewood Cemetery. In the meantime he removed to Richmond,
and entered into business under the firms of Anderson
& Woodson, and of Anderson, Woodson & Biggers; but
the business failing, he transferred all his property in Albemarle
to John R. Jones as trustee, who in 1829 sold it for
the payment of his debts. A son, Charles Anderson, was a
Druggist in Richmond, and a few years ago removed to
Roanoke, where he died.

BALLARD.

Ballard was one of the first names of the county in the
order of time. As early as 1738, Thomas Ballard obtained
a patent for three hundred and twenty acres near the foot of
Piney Mountain. His descendants became numerous, all
having large families, and occupying farms in the stretch of
country between Piney Mountain and Brown's Cove.
Thomas died in 1781, leaving six sons and three daughters,
Thomas, William, John, David, Bland, Samuel, Ann, the
wife of Gabriel Maupin, Frances, and Susan, the wife of
William Pettit. The second Thomas died in 1804. His
children were John, James, Ann, the wife of a Bruce, Mary,
the wife of a Davis, Lucy, the wife of Joseph Harvey, Elizabeth,
the wife of Frost Snow, and Martha, the wife of Thomas
Pettit. John married, it is believed, Elizabeth, daughter of
Roger Thompson, and died in 1829, leaving seven sons and
one daughter, Edward, James, David, John, Nicholas, William,
Wilson, and Elizabeth, the wife of Pleasant Jarman.
James, brother of John, married Ann, daughter of David
Rodes, and died in 1853. His children were Garland,
Thomas, David, Susan, the wife of Thomas L. Shelton,
Selina, the wife of Thomas Bohannon, Judith, the wife of
Nimrod Day, Frances, the wife of Porter Cleveland, Sophia,
the wife of Hudson Oaks, and Mary, the wife of William
Thompson. William, son of the first Thomas, married a
daughter of William Jarman, and lived below Mechum's
Depot; and his son John P., after occupying a position with
Valentine, Fry & Co. in Charlottesville, removed to Richmond,
where he founded the Ballard House, formerly one of
the most popular hotels of that city. Bland married
Frances, daughter of John Shiflett, and died in 1809. His
family consisted of five sons and ten daughters. He donated
the ground on which the old Ivy Creek Methodist Church was
built.

BARCLAY.

Robert Barclay and his wife Sarah lived, in the early part
of the century, on the south side of the road leading from the
Cross Roads to Israel's Gap, at the place where James B.

Sutherland now resides. There Barclay died in 1818, and his
widow was afterwards married to John Harris, of Viewmont.
He left two sons and two daughters, Mary E., who became
the wife of John D. Moon Sr., Thomas J., James T., and Ann
Maria, the wife of Edward H. Moon. Thomas died unmarried
in 1828. About the same time James came to Charlottesville,
and opened a drug store. He lived in the brick house on
the northeast corner of Market and Seventh Streets, which
he bought in 1830 from Rev. F. W. Hatch. This place and
some other property he sold to T. J. Randolph, and the same
year purchased from him Monticello, containing five hundred
and fifty-two acres, then valued at seven thousand dollars,
the transaction being in all probability an exchange. He
resided there till 1836, when he sold it with two hundred and
eighteen acres to Commodore Uriah P. Levy. He then became
a Disciples minister, and sailed as a missionary to
Jerusalem, where he remained for many years. As the result
of his researches there, he published a large work descriptive
of the place, entitled The City of the Great King.
He and his wife Julia had several children, among them a
son, who was appointed by Mr. Cleveland in his first term
Consul to Algiers, where a kinsman of the same name had
discharged the same functions a hundred years before. The
latter part of Mr. Barclay's life was spent in this country
with a son in Alabama, where he died a few years ago.

BARKSDALE.

William Barksdale is noticed in the records in 1765. He
was for a number of years a buyer of land, chiefly on the
south fork of the Rivanna north of Hydraulic Mills, and on the
upper part of Mechum's River. He and his wife Ann were
the parents of eleven children, Nathan, Goodman, Samuel,
Jonathan, John H., Nelson, —, the wife of John Douglass,
Ann, the wife of Alexander Fretwell, Sarah, the wife of William
Warwick, of Amherst, Lucy, the wife of Richard Burch,
and Elizabeth. William Barksdale died in 1796, and some
years later his widow was married to Philip Day.

Nathan seems to have died young, leaving two sons,

Achilles and Douglass, to whom their grandfather gave a
tract of land on Mechum's River above the Depot of that
name. Goodman and Jonathan were settled in the same
neighborhood. Goodman died in 1832. Jonathan married
Lucy, daughter of Giles Rogers, and died in 1831. His
children were Nancy, the wife of George W. Kinsolving,
Lucy, the wife of Richard Rothwell, Ralph, Nathan, who
married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Parmenas Rogers,
and whose children were Ralph, Lucy, Mary and George,
and William G., who married Elmira, daughter of John
Wood. Jonathan formerly owned the land on which the
village of Hillsboro stands.

Samuel Barksdale lived between the old Lynchburg Road
and Dudley's Mountain. He was twice married, first to
Mary, daughter of Jeremiah Hamner, and secondly to
Jemima, daughter of Charles Wingfield Sr. His children by
the first marriage were Elizabeth, the wife of William Watson,
long the keeper of the county jail, and Mary, the wife of
William Douglass. Those by the second were Rice G.,
whose wife was Elizabeth White, whose children were John
H. Jr., and James S., and who died in 1879, John, who was a
Presbyterian minister, one of the first set of students at Union
Theological Seminary, but who died in Charlottesville in
1829, just after entering upon his work, Jane, the wife of
Willis Day, and Sarah, the wife of Richard Fretwell.

John H. Barksdale resided north of Hydraulic Mills. His
children were Hudson, Elizabeth, the wife of Charles Overstreet,
and Orlando, who some years ago lost his life on the
Railroad near the Burnt Mills, in the act of saving Edward
Gilbert from being crushed by a passing train. Nelson was
the most active and thrifty of the family. His home was
also north of Hydraulic Mills. For many years he farmed
the Sheriffalty of the county, and was Proctor of the University
while it was yet in its humbler guise as Central College.
He died in 1861. He married Jane, daughter of Jesse
Lewis, and his children were Mary Jane, the wife of J. Frank
Fry, Sarah, the wife of John J. Bowcock, Sophia, the wife
of James Fray, John T., Eliza, the wife of Albert Terrell,

and secondly of Robert Durrett, Caroline, the wife of T. J.
Eddins, and Margaret, the wife of Dr. H. O. Austin.

BIBB.

The Bibbs came to Albemarle from Louisa. In 1821 William
A. became associated in the mercantile business with
his father-in-law, Nimrod Bramham. He was appointed a
magistrate of the county in 1832. When the Branch of the
Farmers' Bank of Virginia was established in Charlottesville,
he was appointed its Cashier, and managed its affairs with
eminent skill until all business was interrupted by the war.
In 1836 he purchased from the trustees the square on which
the old Female Seminary stood, the present site of the Leterman
mansion, and made it his residence until his death in
1865. He married Sarah Bramham, and his children were
Henry, Angeline, the wife of Edward J. Timberlake, Dr.
William E., Horace, Cornelia, the wife of George W. Thornhill,
Emma, the wife of Professor H. H. Harris, James T.,
Sarah, the wife of Robert Williams, and F. Gillett, the wife
of George Willingham, of South Carolina.

John H. Bibb, a nephew of William A., commenced his
business life as a clerk in the house of Valentine, Fry &
Co. It was not long however before he became a merchant
on his own account, conducting his affairs with success until
the war. He was also the first Cashier of the Charlottesville
Savings Bank. He built the brick house on the west side of
Ridge Street, now in the possession of Dr. George Scribner,
and resided there for some years. His home was afterwards
at Branchland, where Major Bolton now resides, and he
finally purchased the large brick on Jefferson Street, formerly
the dwelling of John R. Jones. He married Harriet, daughter
of French Strother, of Culpeper, and his children were
Helen, the wife of William P. Louthan, A. Pendleton, and
Catharine, the wife of Dr. William Du Bose, United States
Navy. Mr. Bibb died in 1888.

BISHOP.

A William Bishop was the grantee of a small parcel of
land on the south fork of Hardware in 1756, which his

descendants sold in 1774 to George Eubank. In 1782 James
Bishop entered four hundred acres on the Blue Ridge in the
Afton neighborhood, which he and his wife Elizabeth subsequently
sold to other parties. About the end of the last
century Joseph Bishop began to purchase land in the county,
and continued to purchase from time to time in various
localities, particularly in the Biscuit Run Valley and the
vicinity of D. S. In 1803 he bought from John Carr twelve
acres bordering on the west side of Charlottesville, and extending
from the Staunton to the Whitehall Road; with this
tract his name was more intimately connected. He established
the tanyard at the west end of Main Street. He
erected the first buildings in Random Row, and gave lots on
Vinegar Hill to most of his children. The largest part of
this land he sold not long before his death to John Neilson,
an Irishman, who was one of the contractors for the University
buildings. Joseph Bishop died in 1825. He left nine
children, John T., who married Mary Ann, daughter of James
Jeffries, and removed to Dearborn County, Indiana, Joseph,
James, Ann, the wife of Johnson Pitts, Patience, the wife of
Gustavus Parsons, Mary, the wife of William Young,
Frances, Jonathan A. J., who removed to Missouri, and
Lucy Jane, the wife of Ezra M. Wolfe. Joseph Bishop's
wife was Jane, daughter of Edmund Terrell, and his wife,
Margaret Willis, a grandaughter of Henry Willis, the founder
of Fredericksburg, and his wife, Mildred Washington Gregory,
sister of General Washington's father. His son, Joseph,
was an active dealer in Charlottesville real estate. He was
one of the original trustees of the Disciples Church.

BLACK.

Samuel Black was a native of Ireland, and coming to this
country as a student of theology, was licensed to preach by
the Presbytery of New Castle. He was settled as pastor
over two churches in Donegal Presbytery in Pennsylvania.
In 1743 he began to visit Virginia as a missionary, and in
1747 received a call from Mountain Plains Church, and the
people of Ivy Creek, who formed the congregation of D. S.

In 1751 he purchased from Richard Stockton four hundred
acres on Mechum's River, where he made his home until his
death in 1770. For a time he taught school in connection
with his ministerial duties. His wife's name was Catharine
Shaw, and his children were Samuel, James, Margaret, Mary,
Sarah, John and William. James became the owner of six
hundred acres on Stockton's Creek not far from Rockfish Gap,
where he kept a public house, and where in the fall of 1777
he had as a guest General George Rogers Clark. He and
his wife Eleanor sold out in 1780, and seem to have removed
from the county. John and his wife Elizabeth, in 1789 sold
to Menan Mills one hundred and thirty acres adjoining the
home place. After this time the only member of the family
whose course can be traced is Samuel, the eldest son.

He became a man of prominence, prospered in his affairs,
was active as a magistrate for some years, and died in 1815.
He and his wife Mary had six sons and three daughters,
Samuel, William, Dorcas, the wife of Charles Patrick, Catharine,
Mary, the wife of John Ramsay, James, John, Joel and
Daniel. The second son, William, married Matilda Rowe,
and died in 1809, leaving seven children, Samuel, who died
unmarried in 1846, Jane, the wife of Caleb Abell, Andrew,
James, Thomas, who died unmarried in 1878, John and Mary.
Andrew died in 1875. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Nicholas
Merritt, and his children, William, Nicholas, Mary, the
wife of Willis Piper, Elizabeth, the second wife of James H.
Rea, and Cynthia. James married Rosanna, sister of
Andrew's wife, and died in 1876. His children were Samuel,
Nicholas, Elizabeth, the wife of Richard Robinson, and Sarah
Ann, the first wife of James H. Rea.

BOWCOCK.

The first of the Bowcock family in the county was Jason.
The records mention indeed a Samuel Bowcock, but nothing
more is known of him except that he died in 1783. A daughter
of Alexander McKinzie, who from 1742 to 1799 owned
part of the land now possessed by the University, was the

wife of a Bowcock, and left a daughter who was living at the
beginning of the century. The husband here referred to may
have been Samuel, and he may possibly have been the father
of Jason. The latter lived on the Barboursville Road north
of Stony Point, and died in 1816. He and his wife Judith had
six children, Ann, the wife of Achilles Douglass, Douglass,
Achilles, Tandy, Mildred, the wife of John Douglass, and
John, who succeeded his father on the old place. In December
1822, Achilles Bowcock, while sitting at table at Nathaniel
Burnley's in Stony Point, apparently in perfect health, fell
dead from his chair.

Douglass lived at the junction of the Earlysville and Piney
Mountain Roads, and kept tavern there for some years before
his death in 1825. His wife was Mildred Blackwell, and his
children Catharine, the wife of Dr. John F. Bell, who removed
to Kentucky, and John J. John J. occupied a large place
in the hearts of the people of the county. His early advantages
in point of education were slender, and his natural
gifts not brilliant, yet few men exercised a wider or more
beneficial influence in the community. His powers of perception
were clear, his judgment sound, and his integrity
without spot or suspicion. He inherited his father's farm,
and followed him in the conduct of a public house; but almost
immediately he espoused the views which had then begun to
prevail on the subject of temperance, and turned the tavern
into a house of entertainment. The disputes of the surrounding
country were largely referred to his arbitration, and his
decision was accepted as an end of strife. His neighbors
often desired that he should be the guardian of their children,
and settle their estates. He was a magistrate under the old
regime, and among the first elected under the new constitution;
and four times in succession he was made by the choice
of his fellow justices presiding magistrate of the County Court.
For many years he served as Colonel of the Eighty-Eighth
Regiment, his farm by the way being the regular place of its
muster. He was a member of the House of Delegates, and
according to a friend of opposite politics, such was the universal
regard in which he was held, that no competitor could

stand before him, and he might have been re-elected as often
as he wished; but his unambitious temper soon declined the
honor. He was for a long period a ruling elder in the South
Plains Presbyterian Church. He died full of days in 1892,
and was followed to the tomb by the high esteem and sincere
regrets of all who knew him. His wife was Sarah, daughter
of Nelson Barksdale. Of his five sons and two daughters,
Dr. Charles, who for many years practised his profession at
Everettsville, did not long survive him.

BOWEN.

Four brothers named Bowen bought land in Albemarle,
James M., William, Peter and Thomas C. They came from
the vicinity of Jeffersonton, Rappahannock County. In
1817 James and William together made their first purchase
of five hundred acres from Benjamin Ficklin—the old White
place southwest of Batesville. James must have relinquished
his interest to William, since in 1829 the latter with his wife,
who was Eliza George, of Fauquier, sold this land to Roland
H. Bates. William was a teacher, having had a school
near Ivy Depot, and afterwards near Mount Ed church. He
finally returned to Rappahannock. Peter, who was a physician,
never resided in the county, though he more than
once purchased land in the Greenwood neighborhood. Besides
farming, James for some years prosecuted business as a
merchant. He prospered in his affairs, and in 1835 bought
the old Ramsey place, with its Mill, building the large brick
mansion which still stands, calling it Mirador, and making
it one of the finest seats in the county. He married Frances
Starke, and his children were Ann, the wife of Dr. John
R. Baylor, Mary, the wife of Dr. O. R. Funsten, of
Clarke, and Eliza, the wife of her cousin, Dr. George M.
Bowen, son of Peter. James died in 1880. His grandson,
James Bowen Funsten, was recently consecrated Episcopal
Bishop of Boise, Idaho.

When Thomas first came to the county, he also engaged in
the vocation of teaching. One of his schools was located
beside the old Mount Pleasant Methodist Church, which

stood on the hill three or four hundred yards west of Hillsboro,
and there he had Slaughter Ficklin as one of his pupils.
In 1837 he purchased from John Pilson the place which he
occupied till his death, which had been the old home of Isaac
Hardin, and which consisted of three tracts, Huntsmans, so
called from a former owner who removed to Kentucky, Hard
Labor, and Greenwood, which gave name to the Depot subsequently
established. Thomas Bowen acted a more prominent
part in the affairs of the county than his brother, and
served as a magistrate prior to the Constitution of 1850. He
was twice married, first to Miss Wheatley, of Culpeper, and
secondly to Margaret Timberlake, of Clark County. He left
two daughters, Mary Eliza, the wife of Colonel Grantham,
of Jefferson County, and Julia, the wife of John Shirley.
His death occurred in 1886. Thornton W. Bowen, who
lived north of Whitehall, was a brother of these gentlemen.

BRAMHAM.

Nimrod Bramham first appears, when he commenced business
as a merchant at the point where the road over Turkey
Sag comes into the Barboursville road. His store there was
a noted centre for many years. He purchased the place in
1797 from James Sebree and Gravett Edwards. He was
highly esteemed both for his commercial skill and energy,
and for his civil and military abilities. In 1800 he succeeded
William Wirt as Lieutenant in the militia, and in 1806
Francis Walker as Colonel of the Eighty-Eighth Regiment.
In 1801 he was appointed a magistrate. He represented the
county in the Legislature in 1812. In 1805 he gave the
ground for the Priddy's Creek Baptist Church, and was one
of the first trustees of the Charlottesville Baptist Church.
He probably removed to Charlottesville in 1806, as he then
bought part of the lot on the west side of the Square, where
for years he did business under the firms, first of Bramham
and Jones, and afterwards of Bramham and Bibb. In 1818
he purchased from Jesse W. Garth the place southwest of
Charlottesville, on which he built the large brick house, the
present residence of Herndon Fife, where he spent the

remainder of his life. He died in 1845. His wife was
Margaret Marshall, of Culpeper, and his children, Sarah, the
wife of William A. Bibb, Nimrod, James, Lucy, the wife of
John Simpson, Gilly, the wife of William Eddins, and Jane,
the wife of Dr. Wyatt W. Hamner.

BRAND.

Joseph Brand came from Hanover County, and in 1779
bought from John Clark seven hundred and seventy-three
acres of land on Mechunk Creek. Some years after he purchased
a tract of more than six hundred acres on the Rivanna
opposite Milton. He also owned property in Hanover, and
land in the North Western Territory on the Miami. He died
in 1814. He and his wife Frances had twelve children,
Benjamin, Sarah, William, James, Joseph, Chiles, David,
Robert, Eliza, George, John, and Frances, the wife of David
Huckstep. What became of most of this large household is
not known. One of the sons, William, it is believed, emigrated
to New Orleans, where he prosecuted a successful
business. The year after her father's death, Sarah was married
to John Robertson, a native of Scotland, who had taught
school in the county for some years, and who in 1814 was
taken under the care of Hanover Presbytery as a candidate
for the ministry. Chiles married Elizabeth Bryan, and died
in 1861. His children were Ann Eliza, the wife of Thomas R.
Bailey, Mary Jane, the wife of Richard Pinkard, Sarah, Richard,
Catharine, who was for many years a teacher in Charlottesville,
and became the wife of William Bell, of Augusta,
Maria, William, James, and Lucy, the wife of R. H. Munday,
who still occupies the house on University Street which was
conveyed to her grandmother by John M. Perry in 1825.
William D. Meriwether and James Lindsay were the acting
executors of Joseph Brand, and according to the instructions
of his will sold the land opposite Milton to Martin Dawson
in 1815, and that on Mechunk to Joseph Campbell in 1833.

BROCKMAN.

One of the early land owners in the northeast part of the
county was Samuel Brockman. He died in 1779, leaving

two sons, Samuel and William, and probably a third named
Jason. William was apparently prosperous in his affairs.
He lived on Priddy's Creek, owned a considerable quantity
of land, and had one of the first mills erected in that section.
He died in 1809. A Baptist church, the precursor of the
present Priddy's Creek Church, was on his land, and he devised
it to the congregation using it as a place of worship.
His children were Frances, the wife of a Taylor, Elizabeth,
John, Margaret, the wife of a Henderson, Thomas, William,
Ambrose, Samuel, and Catharine, the wife of a Bell. Ambrose
married Nancy, daughter of Captain William Simms,
and became a Baptist preacher. Samuel married Ann Simms,
a sister of Ambrose's wife, and his son Samuel, who died in
1847, was the father of Richard Simms, Bluford, Tandy,
Simpson, Tazewell, and Agatha, the wife of Thomas Edwards.
Richard Simms married Martha, the daughter of Wiley Dickerson,
and removed to Amherst. Among his children were
Fontaine D., Harriet, the wife of William Jeffries, Tandy,
and Willis Allen, who removed to Atlanta, Georgia.

In the early part of the century many of this name emigrated
to Kentucky, a Tandy Brockman going to Christian
County, and Elizabeth, a widow, with a large family of children,
to Boone.

BROOKS.

James Brooks was a lawyer of the early Albemarle bar.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Woods, and lived
on a parcel of land on Mechum's River below the Miller
School, given him by his father-in-law. He died in 1815,
comparatively young. His children were Robert, Elizabeth,
James and Richard. He, and after him his son Robert, had
charge of the estate of Thomas West.

In 1808 Robert married Elizabeth, daughter of James Hays,
the founder of New York, and at first resided in Nelson
County. In 1812 he became a resident of New York, purchasing
Lot Thirty-One, on which stood at the time a one-story
framed house. In 1817 he made from David Hays the
first purchase of what was subsequently the Brooksville plantation
in the same vicinity. The next year his brothers and sisters

appointed him their attorney to sell nine thousand acres
of land in Harrison County, Kentucky. For a long period
he kept a tavern at Brooksville, held in high esteem among
travellers for its capital good cheer. He was a magistrate of
the county, and a ruling elder in the Mountain Plains
Church. He and John Pilson were the only justices who
appeared to enforce the law against profane swearing, both
paying over to the Poor Fund fines which they had imposed
for that offence. His children were Elizabeth, Mary Frances,
William, Robert, Ira, Henry and Maria Antoinette. But
though possessing a fine farm, and conducting a popular
hostelry, his affairs became greatly embarrassed. In 1836
he was compelled by his debts to sell his place to James P.
Tyler, and removed to Kentucky.

BROWN.

The Browns of Brown's Cove were a Hanover family. Its
head, Benjamin, and his eldest son Benjamin, patented a large
area of land in Louisa County, both before and after its
establishment in 1742. They began to obtain grants in
Albemarle also soon after its formation. From 1747 to 1760
they entered more than six thousand acres on both sides of
Doyle's River. Benjamin Sr., married Sarah Dabney, who
according to Dr. Charles Brown's will, was descended from
the Jennings that left the enormous estate in England, which
such a multitudinous posterity in this country has coveted,
and which prompted Dr. Charles to cross the great sea twice
in his old age. Benjamin died in 1762, leaving eleven children,
Benjamin, William, Agnes, Barzillai, Benajah, Bernard,
Bernis, Bezaleel, Brightberry, Elizabeth, the wife of John
Price, and Lucretia, the wife of Robert Harris. Passing
these names under review, one can imagine the delight of the
old gentleman in the iterating alliteration of B. B., and how
assiduously he searched the Scriptures and the Lives of the
Saints, to attain his pet ideal.

Benjamin and William were their father's executors, and
appear to have had their portions and residence in Hanover
or Louisa. Barzillai sold out in Albemarle, and settled in

Shelby County, Kentucky, in 1809. Benajah also disposed
of his interests, and removed to Buckingham.

Bernard had his home at the foot of Buck's Elbow, not far
from Whitehall. He was the first of the family to depart
this life, dying in 1800. He and his wife Elizabeth had
twelve children, Robert, Reuben, Bernard M., Charles,
Thomas E., Ira B., Asa B., Benjamin H., Bezaleel, Francina,
the wife of John Rodes, Lucy, the wife of Nathaniel
Thompson Sr., and Sarah. Robert and Reuben emigrated
to Sumner County, Tennessee. Bernard M. married Miriam,
daughter of David Maupin, and had nine children, among
whom were Thompson Brown, Sarah, the wife of Clifton
Browa, and Pyrena, the wife of Tilman Maupin. Charles
practiced medicine in Charlottesville in the early part of the
century. He lived where Dr. W. G. Rogers now resides
till 1822, when he removed to the farm on the waters of Ivy
Creek which he bought from Crenshaw Fretwell, and on
which his son Ezra still resides. He married his cousin
Mary, daughter of Bezaleel Brown, and had six children.
He died in 1879, having attained the remarkable age of
ninety-six years. Thomas H. married first Mildred Brown,
and secondly Lucy, daughter of Horsley Goodman. By his
first marriage he had a daughter Emaline, who was the wife
of W. G. Fretwell. Ira B. married Frances Mullins, and
had six children, among them Burlington D. Brown. Benjamin
H. married Judith, daughter of Hudson Fretwell.
Bezeleel married Elizabeth, daughter of John A. Michie, and
his children were Cynthia, the wife of William H. Brown,
Frances, Addison, Williamson, Mary, the wife of George
W. Kemper, Martha, the wife of Charles H. Parrott, and
John A. M. He was cut off in the prime of his days in 1825.
The family of Bernard Brown was remarkable in one respect.
He and his three sons, Charles, Thomas H., and Ira B.
were magistrates of the county, and two of them served as
Sheriff, Charles in 1841, and Thomas H. in 1849.

Bernis was one of the early Methodist preachers in the
county and country, entering the ministry some years
before the close of the last century. He married Henrietta,

daughter of John Rodes, and died in 1815, leaving
eight children, Sarah, the wife of Thomas Jones, Henrietta,
the wife of John Ruff, Ann, the wife of John Dickerson,
Bernis, Tyree, Benjamin T., who married Lucy Richards,
Elizabeth, the wife of Charles Carthrae, and John R.

Bezaleel was an officer in the Revolutionary army at Yorktown,
was a magistrate of the county, and served as Sheriff
in 1805. He died in 1829. He and his wife Mary had six
children, William T., Bezaleel, Elizabeth, the wife of Jesse
Garth, Lucy, the wife of her cousin Reuben, Bernard's son,
Sarah, the wife of Charles Parrott, and Mary, the wife of Dr.
Charles. William T. married Mary, daughter of James Jarman,
and died in 1877. His children were Lucy, Sarah, the
wife of John R. Early, and Mary, the wife of Dr. William E.
Bibb. Bezaleel was appointed a magistrate in 1835, was a
member of the House of Delegates from 1844 to 1847, and
died in 1878.

Brightberry and his wife Mary had five sons, Horace,
Clifton, William, Nimrod, and Brightberry. He died in 1846.
Horace lived at the head of the Cove, just beneath Brown's
Gap, and his house, on account of its bracing air, quiet seclusion
and generous fare, was a favorite resort of the Methodist
clergy during the heat of summer.

This family of Brown, from their early settlement, their
prominent part in public affairs, the high character generally
prevalent among them, and the lasting impress they have
made on the natural scenery of the county, is one of the
most noted in its history.

A numerous family of the same name began with Andrew
Brown, who in 1789 bought land in North Garden from John
Everett. He lived in a house which is still standing, about
a quarter of a mile west of North Garden Depot. He died
in 1804, and the place was well known for many years after
as the residence of his wife Mary. His children numbered
thirteen, Elizabeth, the wife of Joel Yancey, John, James,
Anderson, Nancy, Lucy, the wife of Ralph Thomas, Sarah,
the wife of Absalom Johnson, Nelson, Mary, the wife of Martin
Moore, Margaret, the wife of James Kinsolving, Williamson,

Maurice and Damaris, the wife of Benjamin W.
Wheeler. John married Martha, the widow of John P.
Watson, who had devised to her his real estate, nearly five
hundred acres lying east of North Garden Depot; she however
in 1816 joined with her second husband in a deed to
James Leigh, that it might be reconveyed to him. He died
in 1845, and his children were John A., William, Catharine,
the wife of Jerome B. Wood, Sarah, the wife of John M. Carr,
Ann, the wife of George W. Rothwell, Charles, Martha, the
wife of Benjamin F. Ammonett, and Marietta, the wife of
Elijah J. Bettis. Anderson and his wife Susan had ten children,
among whom were Sarah, the wife of D. C. Rittenhouse,
Mary Jane, the wife of James A. Watson, and the late
Andrew J. Brown, of Charlottesville.

A Benjamin Brown was associated with David Ross in the
purchase of a large number of lots in Charlottesville, when
they were originally sold. He died about 1799, and John
Brown, of Louisa, was his executor. It is probable Benjamin
lived in Louisa, and he may have been the eldest son of Benjamin
Sr., of Brown's Cove.

Another Benjamin Brown was a lawyer of the Albemarle
bar at the beginning of the century. He was the owner at
different times of the plantations of Meadow Creek and
Mooresbrook, at which latter place his son, Robert M., a
prominent attorney of Amherst, was born. He married Sarah
E. W., daughter of Colonel Charles Lewis, of North Garden.
After selling Mooresbrook to R. B. Streshley in 1812, he
removed to Amherst County.

Matthew Brown, who it is said was not related to the last
mentioned Benjamin, married Ann, the sister of Benjamin's
wife. For a few years subsequent to 1804, he resided on a
thousand acres which he purchased from John M. Sheppard,
of Hanover, and which were situated in North Garden on the
north side of Tom's Mountain. He also removed to Amherst.
At a later date he was a contractor for erecting the buildings
of the University. He was the grandfather of Judge Thompson
Brown, of Nelson.

BURCH.

In 1763 Thomas Burch, of Caroline County, together with
Ritchins Brame, purchased from Francis Jerdone four hundred
acres on Ivy Creek, a part of the Michael Holland tract,
of which another part is the present Farmington. He died
in 1775, leaving his widow Sarah, and fourteen children,
Mary, the wife of a Howlett, Cheadle, John, Benjamin,
Keziah, the wife of a Cook, William, Sarah, the wife of a
Bowles, Ann, Frances, Samuel, Joseph, Richard, Jean
Stapleton, the wife of John Rodes, son of the first Clifton,
and Thomas. His widow and James Kerr were designated
executors of his will. As to what became of most of this
large family, no sign remains.

Samuel was shot by George Carter in his own door on
Main Street in Charlottesville in 1800. His house was situated
about where the store of T. T. Norman now stands. His
wife, who was Mary, daughter of James Kerr, with her
daughter Sarah, who became the wife of Robert Andrews, removed
to Fleming County, Kentucky, and their interest in the
lot on which Samuel had lived, was sold to William Thombs
in 1828. Two sons, Thomas D. and James Kerr settled in
Wake County, North Carolina, James K., whose wife's name
was Helen, became a Presbyterian minister, preached at one
time in Kentucky, and in his last years removed to Missouri.
His daughter, Catharine was the wife of the distinguished
divine of Kentucky, Dr. Nathan L. Rice.

Joseph Burch in 1786 married Mary, daughter of the elder
Clifton Rodes and his wife Sarah, daughter of John Waller,
of Pamunky. He removed to Kentucky. A son of Joseph
was the Rev. Clifton R. Burch, whose daughter was the wife
of John C. Breckinridge, the Vice President; and a daughter
of Joseph was the wife of Waller Bullock, and mother of the
late Rev. J. J. Bullock, of Baltimore and Washington.

Richard Burch married Lucy, daughter of William Barksdale
in 1791. He was the owner of what is now known as
the Ivy Cottage plantation, which was no doubt a part of his
father's place. In 1793 he entered upon a contest with Moses
Bates in regard to the erection of a mill on Ivy Creek; and

in 1813 the Court decided that the right to the bed of the
creek belonged to Burch. Meanwhile he devoted himself to
tavern keeping. He conducted a public house at Stony
Point, then at Michie's Old Tavern, and still later at the
Swan in Charlottesville. In 1821 he was engaged in the
same business in Lovingston, Nelson County.

BURNLEY.

John Burnley, an Englishman, who lived in Hanover
County, returned to England in 1771, leaving in Virginia a
will of that date, but making another in England in 1778.
In both of these he bequeathed property to a son Zachariah,
and to daughters, Elizabeth and Keziah, who were both
married to Dukes. A litigation followed respecting these
bequests, and was protracted through a period of fifty years.
Hardin Burnley, a brother or son of John, obtained patents
for land in Albemarle from 1749 to 1764. Zachariah, probably
the one already mentioned, and a citizen of Orange
County, purchased in 1767 from Dr. Arthur Hopkins nearly
fifteen hundred acres on Hardware and Totier, which Hardin
had patented, but forfeited for non-payment of quit rents.
In 1788 he also purchased upwards of four hundred acres at
the mouth of Priddy's Creek, which he shortly after sold to
Peter Clarkson. Nicholas Mills, of Hanover, in 1786 conveyed
to James Burnley, of Louisa, a considerable tract of
land on Beaver Creek, north of Mechum's River Depot, and
from the nominal consideration specified it is likely he was
Mill's son-in-law. He fixed his residence there, as did his
son John also; but toward the close of the century they
appear to have sold to other persons, and removed elsewhere.

A Reuben Burnley was the owner of Lots Seventy-Three
and Seventy-Four in Charlottesville, the square on which Dr.
W. G. Rogers resides, and with his wife Harriet conveyed
them in 1806 to Dr. Charles Everett. A James Burnley
purchased about eighty acres north and northeast of the University
in 1803, but dying before the deed was made, the property
was conveyed to his wife Ann. He left a daughter Mary,
who was married first to John L. O'Neal, and secondly to

Daniel Piper, and in the decade of 1820 she and her second
husband sold this land to different persons, in part to the
University. When the estate of Cornelius Schenk was sold,
Ann bought Lots Sixty-Seven and Sixty-Eight, immediately
west of the Episcopal Church, and lived there for many years,
selling them in 1837 to Alonzo Gooch. From her the spring
at the foot of the hill, at the junction of the extension of
High Street with the Whitehall Road, formerly went by the
name of Burnley's Spring. There can hardly be a doubt
that all these Burnleys, as well as those mentioned hereafter,
derived their descent from the same stock.

Of eight brothers of the name belonging to Louisa County,
two, and the descendants of two others, settled in Albemarle.
Seth Burnley lived north of Hydraulic Mills, married Ann,
daughter of Horsley Goodman, and died in 1857. He was
succeeded by his son James H., who married Mildred, daughter
of John J. Bowcock. Nicholas, who lived in the Beaver
Creek nieghborhood, married Susan, daughter of James Harris.
He left two sons, James Harris and Joel, who removed
to Pickaway County, Ohio, and a daughter Mary, who was
the wife of John T. Wood. Samuel, the son of Henry Burnley,
pursued for many years the calling of a teacher. He
married Martha, the daughter of his cousin Nathaniel, and
spent his last days on his farm on Mechunk, not far from
Union Mills. He died in 1875. A sister of Samuel, Mildred,
became the wife of Crenshaw Fretwell, and four of his nieces
the wives of Judge George P. Hughes, James F. Burnley, A.
J. Wood and J. R. Wingfield. Nathaniel, the son of John
Burnley, settled in the early part of the century at Stony
Point, where he kept tavern for many years. In 1829, in
partnership with Rice W. Wood, he bought from John M.
Perry the Hydraulic Mills, where he transacted the milling
and mercantile business until his death in 1860. In 1811 he
married Sarah, daughter of the elder Drury Wood, and his
children were James F., William, Horace, Drury, Martha,
the wife of Samuel Burnley, Lucy, the wife of Charles Vest,
Mary J., the wife of Dr. Garland A. Garth, Emily, the wife
of Burwell Garth, and Cornelia, the wife of James P. Railey.

Nathaniel's sister Elizabeth was married in 1816 to Hudson
Fretwell.

BUSTER.

A family named Buster, occasionally spelled in the records
Bustard, was settled in the county at, or soon after, its formation.
Its head was William, who lived in North Garden
on the north fork of Hardware, near where the old White
mill stood. He was one of the signers of the call to Rev.
Samuel Black. A bridge called by his name spanned the
stream near by, and was a landmark in the vicinity up to the
end of the last century. As early as 1749, his wife Elizabeth
was left a widow. He had certainly two sons, John and
Claudius, who were the owners of more than three hundred
acres on the Hardware. Both also bought land on the head
waters of Mechum's River. John was for a time a citizen of
Augusta County. About 1785 he established himself on
Moore's Creek, a mile or two south of Jesse Maury's residence.
He was a ruling elder in the D. S. Church, and died
in 1820, aged eighty-three. He was twice married, first to
Elizabeth Woods, and secondly, to Alice, daughter of John
Gilliam. His children were Ann, the wife of John Wingfield,
Martha, the wife of Matthew Wingfield, Sarah, the wife of
Dixon Dedman, Margaret, the wife of William Foster, Elizabeth,
the wife of George Moore, Patience, the wife of Levi
Wheat, Claudius and David.

Claudius about 1785 purchased the D. S., where he kept
tavern until his death in 1807. He and his wife Dorcas had
eleven children, John, Mary, the wife of James Hays, the
founder of New York, William, Claudius, Thomas, Benjamin,
Patience, the wife of Charles Bailey, Nancy, the wife of
William Garland, Robert, Charles Franklin and Elizabeth.
Claudius, whose wife's name was Ann, and Thomas removed
to Kanawha, where Thomas was a Justice of the
Peace in 1819. Another of the sons, thought to be Charles
Franklin, removed to Loudoun County, whence his descendants
afterwards went to Greenbrier, of which county one of
them was recently the Clerk.

A Buster, no doubt another son of William and Elizabeth,

married Mary, daughter of Thomas Smith, and had two
sons, John and David. These brothers in 1784 bought a
tract of land on the old Richard Woods Road southwest of
Ivy Depot, part of which they sold to William Gooch. John
also owned the land in North Garden east of Israel's Gap,
which he sold in 1799 to Thomas Carr, and which was the
home of his son Dabney Carr for more than three score years.
John Buster in 1786 married Lucy, daughter of Mask Leake,
and about the beginning of the century removed to Charlotte
County.

CARR.

Major Thomas Carr, of King William, commenced entering
land within the present bounds of Albemarle in 1730. Up
to 1737 he had patented more than five thousand acres along
the north fork of Rivanna, and on the west side of the South
West Mountain. The most of this land he gave to his son
John, of Bear Castle, Louisa. John, who died about 1769,
was twice married, first to Mary Dabney, and secondly to
Barbara Overton. His children were Thomas, Dabney,
Samuel, Overton, Garland, and Sarah, the wife of Nathaniel
Anderson, who resided on the old glebe of St. Anne's.
Thomas married Mary Clarkson, and his children were John
Manoah, Dabney, Thomas, Samuel, and Mary, the wife of
Howell Lewis, of North Garden. He lived on the south
fork of the Rivanna, and died in 1807. John M. was the
Clerk of the District Court of Charlottesville, and the first
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Albemarle, which office he filled
till 1819. His home was at Belmont, the residence of the late
Slaughter Ficklin. His wife was Jane, the daughter of Colonel
Charles Lewis, of North Garden, and his children Charles
Lewis, a physician, who married Ann, widow of Richard P.
Watson, and practised in North Garden, John H., who
married Malinda, daughter of Manoah Clarkson, Nathaniel,
Willis, a physician, who married Mary Ann Gaines, and
practised in the vicinity of Ivy, and Jane. Most of this
family, it is believed, emigrated to Kentucky. Dabney
married Lucy, daughter of John Digges, of Nelson, lived in
he southwest corner of North Garden, near the foot of Israel's
Gap, and died in 1862, about ninety years of age.

Dabney, the second son of John, was the rising orator of
Revolutionary times, mentioned by Wirt in his Life of
Patrick Henry. He married Martha, sister of Mr. Jefferson.
He lived in Goochland, but died in 1773 in Charlottesville,
whither he had come on business. He was buried at old
Shadwell, but in consequence of an agreement made in youthful
friendship, Mr. Jefferson had his remains removed to
Monticello, where it was the first of a long list of distinguished
interments in the present cemetery. His children
were Peter, Samuel, Dabney, Martha, the wife of Richard
Terrell, Jane, the wife of Miles Cary, and Ellen, the wife of Dr.
Newsom, of Mississippi. Peter studied law, was some time
Mr. Jefferson's private secretary when President, married
Hester Smith Stevenson, a young widow of Baltimore, lived
at Carrsbrook, was appointed a magistrate, but soon resigned,
and died in 1815. He left three children, Dabney, minister
to Turkey six years from 1843, Ellen, wife of William B.
Buchanan, of Baltimore, and Jane Margaret, wife of Wilson
M. Cary. Samuel lived at Dunlora, was a magistrate, Colonel
of cavalry in the war of 1812, member of the House of
Delegates and the State Senate, married first his cousin Ellen
Carr, and secondly Maria, sister of Major William S. Dabney,
was the father of James Lawrence, of Kanawha, and Colonel
George, of Roanoke, and died in Kanawha in 1849. Dabney
began life as a lawyer in Charlottesville, married his cousin
Elizabeth Carr, lived where Ira Garrett so long resided, and
after being Chancellor of the Winchester District, became
Judge of the Court of Appeals in 1824. He died in Richmond
in 1837.

Samuel, the third son of John Carr, was an officer in the
Navy, married a Mrs. Riddick, of Nansemond, and died
without children. He devised his place Dunlora to his
nephew and namesake, Samuel.

Overton, fourth son of John, married a Mrs. Anderson,
and resided in Maryland. His two daughters, Ellen and Elizabeth,
became the wives of Colonel Samuel and Judge Dabney.
A son, Jonathan Boucher, came to this county, married his
cousin Barbara, daughter of Garland Carr, settled in Charlottesville

as a lawyer, was Commonwealth's Attorney for
eleven years from 1818, bought Dabney Carr's place, and sold
it to Ira Garrett when he moved to the country, lived where
Dr. H. O. Austin recently resided, and finally emigrated to
Missouri. He was the father of Mary Ann, wife of Hugh
Minor. Another son, Overton, was for many years Doorkeeper
of the House of Representatives at Washington.

Garland, youngest son of John, was a magistrate of the
county, and lived at Bentivar, where he died in 1838. He
married Mary, daughter of William Winston, of Hanover,
and his children were Francis, Daniel Ferrel, James O.,
Barbara, the wife of J. Boucher Carr, Elizabeth, the wife of
Rev. John D. Paxton, of Rockbridge, and Mary, the wife of
Achilles Broadhead, who succeeded William Woods as
County Surveyor, removed to Missouri, and was the father of
the late Hon. James O. Broadhead, of St. Louis, and Professor
Garland C., of the University of Missouri. Francis
was in many ways a useful man, a physician, a teacher, an
editor, Secretary of the County Agricultural Society, Secretary
of the Faculty of the University, and for many years an
active magistrate. He also served as Sheriff in 1839. He
married first Virginia, daughter of Richard Terrell, and secondly
Maria, daughter of Richard Morris. He had two sons,
Peter, who removed to Missouri, and the late F. E. G. He
lived in town in the one story frame in the rear of the late
Thomas Wood's, and in the country at Red Hill, where he
died in 1854. Daniel Ferrel succeeded his father at Bentivar,
married Emily, daughter of William Terrell, and died in
1847, leaving his estate to his son, Dr. W. G. Carr. James
O., married Mary, daughter of Richard H. Allen, lived at the
Meadows, the present residence of H. C. Michie, and near
the close of his life removed to Amherst, where he died in
1864.

William Carr was the patentee of upwards of four thousand
acres on the north fork of the Rivanna, above that
entered by Major Thomas Carr, and embracing the region
lying west of the Burnt Mills. He was also granted a tract

of four hundred acres on Buck Mountain Creek. These
entries were made from 1737 to 1740. After the death of
William, his widow Susan was married to Lodowick O'Neal.
He had a son Thomas, and a daughter Phoebe, the wife of
Walter Chiles; these persons who sold portions of the land
above mentioned, belonged to Spotsylvania. A part of this
land also was the property of Mordecai Hord, during his
residence in the county. It is likely William had another
son named Charles, as in 1780 a part of the same land that
William had entered, and that "had formerly belonged to
Charles Carr," was sold by Walter Carr (presumably a son
of Charles) and his wife Elizabeth.

Three other Carrs, heads of families, lived on the west side
of the South West Mountain, south of Stony Point. What
relation they bore to each other, or to those already mentioned,
is not known; but there can scarcely be a question
that they were all derived from the same source. Their
names were Gideon, Micajah and John. Gideon died in 1795.
His children were William, Thomas, Mary, the wife of
Thomas Travillian, John, Gideon, Nancy, the wife of Benjamin
Thurman, Micajah, Elizabeth, the wife of John Fitch,
and Meekins. It is probable most of the descendants of this
family emigrated to the West. A notice of the death of
Thomas Carr is extant, in which it is stated that he was the
son of Gideon Carr, a pioneer settler on the Little Mountain
in Albemarle, that he removed to Wilson County, Tennessee
in 1807, and that he died in 1821 in the seventy-ninth year
of his age.

Micajah died in 1812. He was at one time the owner of
Colle. He and his wife Elizabeth had ten children, Mary,
the wife of W. J. Blades, Martha, the wife of Daniel Shackelford,
Mildred, the wife of James Travillian, David, James,
John, Henley, the wife of Gideon C. Travillian, Sarah, the
wife of John H. Maddox, George, who in early life taught
school in Charlottesville, and at the time of his death in 1886
was the Nestor of the Albemarle bar, and Burton, who
removed to Green County, Kentucky.

John Carr was a successful man. He became the owner

by purchase of more than fifteen hundred acres in different
parts of the county. He died in 1809. He and his wife
Elizabeth had nine children, David, who married Eliza,
daughter of Achilles Bowcock, Thomas D., Mary, the wife
of Wiley Dickerson, Malinda, the wife of Drury Wood,
Nancy, the wife of Allen Jones, Elizabeth, the wife of
Thomas Salmon, Sarah, the wife of James Early, Anderson,
who removed to Montgomery County, Tennessee, and John
F., who removed to Nelson County.

CARTER.

John Carter obtained in 1730 the grant of nine thousand,
three hundred and fifty acres, which embraced the whole of
what is still called Carter's Mountain. It seems strange he
should have taken up a rugged mountain, when the whole
country lay before him to choose from, the Biscuit Run
valley, the fair campaign between Moore's and Meadow
Creeks, the fertile lands of Ivy, the North and South Gardens,
and the Rich Cove; but perchance, having spent all
his days in the tidewater district, wearied with its flatness,
and languid from its malaria, the breezy summits of the
mountains had a peculiar charm in his eyes. He was the
eldest son of Robert (King) Carter, and was made Secretary
of the Colony in 1721; for which appointment it is said he
paid fifteen hundred pounds sterling. He also patented
ten thousand acres on Piney and Buffalo Rivers in Amherst.
He died in 1742, about two years before the formation of
Albemarle; hence the title frequently given him in the early
records in connection with places associated with his name,
the late Secretary's Ford, Road, Mill, &c. He never lived
in the county, but had in it two establishments, both furnished
with a large number of servants, the Mill improvement
on the west side of the mountain, on the north fork of
Hardware, and the other on the east side called Clear Mount,
perhaps the same with Redlands, or Blenheim. His eldest
son Charles succeeded to his patrimonial estate in Lancaster,
but his lands in Albemarle were given to his son Edward.
Edward married Sarah Champe, and in his early life lived

in Fredericksburg, but in his latter years spent much of his
time at Blenheim. He represented the county in the House
of Burgesses with Dr. Thomas Walker from 1767 to 1769,
and in the House of Delegates with George Nicholas in 1788.
He died in 1792. His children were John, Charles, Edward,
William Champe, Hill, George, Whitaker, Robert, Elizabeth,
the wife of William Stanard, uncle of Judge Robert
Stanard, Sarah, the wife of her cousin George Carter, Jane,
the wife of Major Verminet, Mary, the wife of Francis T.
Brooke, Judge of the Court of Appeals, and Ann W. Troup.

Charles married Elizabeth, daughter of Fielding Lewis,
and among his children was Maria, the wife of Professor
George Tucker, of the University, and mother of Eliza, wife
of Professor Gessner Harrison, and Maria, second wife of
George Rives.

Edward married Mary R., daughter of Colonel Charles
Lewis, of North Garden, and had among other children by
this marriage Dr. Charles Carter. His second wife was
Lucy, daughter of Valentine Wood and Lucy Henry, sister
of the famous orator. He sold his possessions in Albemarle,
and removed to Amherst.

William Champe married Maria Farley, lived at one time
at Viewmont, which he purchased from Governor Edmund
Randolph, and subsequently removed to Culpeper. His
daughter Elizabeth became the wife of Samuel Sterrow, of
that county. Hill lived in Amherst, and married there it, is
said, a Miss Rose.

George became insane, and was no doubt suffering from
mental derangement, when in 1800 he was bound over for
challenging James Lewis, and a few days after killed Samuel
Burch. Mr. Jefferson in a letter to his daughter dated July
fourth refers to this event: "A murder in our neighborhood
is the theme of present conversation. George Carter shot
Burch of Charlottesville in his own door, and on very slight
provocation. He died in a few minutes. The examining
Court meets to morrow." As the result of the trial, he was
sent to the Asylum, where he continued until his death in
1816.

Whitaker never married, and squandered his property by
dissipation. He died in Charlottesville in 1821. A year or
two before his death he conveyed to his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Mary Eliza Carter, one-seventh and one-twelfth of a parcel
of land in Fluvanna, about twenty-five acres near Scott's
Ferry, devised by Edward Carter to his seven youngest sons;
in the consideration for this fag-end of a handsome estate,
"for kindness, pecuniary and other favors," there was something
sadly pathetic.

Robert married Mary Eliza, daughter of John Coles. He
lived at Redlands, just east of Carter's Bridge, where he died
comparatively young in 1810. His children were John Coles,
who married Ellen Monroe Bankhead, was a magistrate, was
once the owner of Farmington, and moved to Missouri. Robert
H., who succeeded his father at Redlands, was admitted
to the bar, was appointed a magistrate, and married Margaret
Smith, a granddaughter of Gov. W. C. Nicholas, Mary,
the first wife of George Rives, and Sarah, the wife of Dr.
Benjamin F. Randolph.

CLARK.

Christopher Clark was a large land owner in Louisa, and
obtained grants within the present limits of Albemarle in
1732. He was a Quaker, and with his son Bowling was
overseer of a Friends' Meeting House, which was situated
on land he had entered near the Sugar Loaf peak of the South
West Mountain. He and Bowling also took out patents on
Totier Creek. Numerous tracts in the eastern part of the
county were owned by the Clark family. John in 1778 purchased
from Robert Nelson, of Yorktown, more than two
thousand acres on Mechunk, which were patented in 1733
by Thomas Darsie, and which Clark sold the same year to
James Quarles and Joseph Brand. As well as can be ascertained,
Christopher and his wife Penelope had five sons and
four daughters, Edward, Bowling, Micajah, John, Christopher,
Elizabeth, the wife of Joseph Anthony, who entered
two thousand and forty acres in Biscuit Run valley, and
moved to Bedford County, and a number of whose descendants

intermarried with members of the Cabell family, Sarah,
the wife of Charles Lynch, Rachel, the wife of Thomas
Moorman, and the wife of Benjamin Johnson.

The most of the family removed to Bedford, now Campbell
County. In 1754 Edward and Bowling were overseers of
the Friends' South River Meeting House, located on Lynch's
Branch of Blackwater Creek, three or four miles from Lynchburg.
Micajah married Judith, daughter of Robert Adams,
and his children it is believed were Micajah, Robert, Jacob and
William. Robert married Susan, daughter of John Henderson
Sr., and followed his relatives to Bedford; his children
were Robert, the first manufacturer of iron in Kentucky,
James, Governor of Kentucky when he died in 1839, and
Bennett, the father and grandfather of the two John Bullock
Clarks, who were both members of Congress from Missouri,
and both Generals in the Confederate army. William was
deputy sheriff for John Marks in 1786, and was empowered
by the Legislature on account of his chief's removal to sell
lands delinquent for taxes. He was also a magistrate of the
county, and died in 1800. His sons were Jacob, James and
Micajah, and his widow Elizabeth (Allen) Clark is remembered
by many as the proprietor of Clarksville, an excellent
house of entertainment near Keswick, recently the country
seat of James B. Pace, of Richmond. James was a magistrate,
married Margaret, daughter of Thomas W. Lewis, of
Locust Grove, and in 1836 with most of the Lewis family
emigrated to Missouri. Micajah became a physician, and
was for many years a successful practitioner in Richmond.

CLARKSON.

Five Clarksons filled a considerable space in the early history
of the county, Peter, John, William, James and Manoah.
There is documentary evidence that three of these
were brothers, John, William and James, sons of David
Clarkson, who came from Amherst; it is probable the other
two were also brothers in the same family. There seems
moreover to have been three sisters, Mary, the wife of Thomas
Carr, Susan, the wife of John Lewis, the father of Jesse, and
Letitia, the wife of Zebulon Alphin.

Peter began to purchase land in 1770, buying two hundred
and fifty acres from John Senter, not far from the present Rio
Station, which he and his wife Ann sold soon after to Thomas
Carr. Possessing apparently a large amount of money just
after the Revolution, he purchased during the decade of 1780
nearly three thousand acres, lying on Spring Creek near
Whitehall, south of Ivy Depot, and in the neighborhood of
the Burnt Mills. On this last tract he made his home until his
death in 1814. His children were Elizabeth, William, Julius,
Mary, the wife of Richard Harrison, David, and Ann, the wife
of Mann Townley. William and Julius were merchants in
Milton, but the former removed to Bourbon County, Kentucky.
Julius married Mary, daughter of Jesse Lewis, and
died in 1812. His widow afterwards became the wife of John
H. Craven, and his only child, Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas
W. Maury. David received a part of his father's place at the
mouth of Priddy's Creek, where he died early. He and his
wife Lucy, daughter of Joseph Morton, had four children,
Joseph Morton, who emigrated to Alabama, Elizabeth, the
wife of Richard D. Simms, Mary, the wife of James Collins,
of Madison, and Nancy, the wife of Francis Catterton. Ann,
the venerable widow of Peter, died in 1822, in the eighty-eighth
year of her age.

John and William settled beside each other, west of the
road between Hydraulic Mills and the Bowcock place. John
bought upwards of five hundred acres from Major John Wood,
and William upwards of four hundred from David Wood.
A place of business existed somewhere on their land, known as
Clarkson's Store, in all likelihood conducted by both, as both
were alike overtaken by business disaster. In 1807 they conveyed
their farms to the same trustees to secure debts due
William Brown & Co. of Richmond, and within nine years
both farms were sold by the trustees, that of William to
George Crank, and that of John to Nelson Barksdale. In
1820 John and his wife Nancy made another conveyance to
Barksdale, perhaps to dispose of the dower, in consideration
of a life estate in fifty-nine acres. It is not known whether
either of the brothers had children, but it is thought that

James Clarkson, who married Maria, daughter of David
Wood, was the son of John and Nancy.

James Clarkson made his home in the forks of Hardware,
his place embracing the mouth of Eppes Creek, and being
the same afterwards owned by the young patriot, Roberts
Coles, and now in the possession of Tucker Coles. He
bought it from William Champe Carter in 1799. He suffered
from the burden of debt, and to secure it placed his property
under a deed of trust; but he must have arranged his affairs
successfully, as in 1828 he and his wife Elizabeth sold his farm
to Thomas Maupin, son of William. He died in 1829 at the
advanced age of ninety-five. A son Reuben removed to
Meade County, Kentucky, and another, Julius, married
Margaret M., daughter of John Thomas. Julius died about
1835, and in 1838 his widow was married to Robert Cashmere.

Manoah Clarkson advanced in the course of life more
slowly, but more surely. In 1777 he bought nearly three
hundred acres on Ivy Creek near the Barracks, which he
sold two years later to John Harvie. He then rented from
Garland Carr in the forks of the Rivanna. At length he
purchased from David Anderson six hundred acres three or
four miles south of Charlottesville, a part of the old Carter
tract, where he lived until his death in 1829 in his eighty-eighth
year. He was twice married, and had twelve children,
Mary, the wife of Jeremiah A. Goodman, Nancy, the wife of
Jesse Lewis, Jane, the wife of Thomas Ammonett, Mildred,
the wife of Nathan Goodman, who went to Kentucky, James,
Anselm, who moved to Kentucky, Frances, the wife of M.
C. Darnell, Dorothy, Malinda, the wife of John H. Carr,
Elizabeth, the wife of William Watkins, Charlotte, the wife
of Edmund Hamner, and Martha, the wife of Dudley Jones.

COCHRAN.

John Cochran came to Charlottesville from Augusta County
about 1825. For years he was one of the leading merchants
of the town, occupying the store on the southwest corner of
Jefferson and Fifth Streets, and residing in the building immediately

to the west. He was a man of energy and sound
judgment, and achieved great success. In 1829, at the sale
of lots in Anderson's Addition, he purchased a parcel of
ground on Park Street, where he erected the large brick mansion,
in which he lived until his death in 1883, at the age of
eighty-six. He was appointed a magistrate of the county in
1843. His wife was Margaret Lynn, daughter of Major John
Lewis, of Sweet Springs, and his children were Judge John L.,
Margaret, the wife of John M. Preston, Howe P., Henry K.,
William Lynn, and George M. Mr. Cochran owned the mill
on Meadow Creek that had formerly belonged to John H.
Craven, and has left his name associated with it, and the adjoining
pond; which however in the ever-changing movements
of time has already become a thing of the past.

COCKE.

James Powell Cocke, of Henrico, went to Augusta County
in 1783, and bought from Rev. James Waddell, the blind
preacher, Spring Hill, the old Patton place, that lay at the
west foot of the Blue Ridge. In 1787 he came over to Albemarle,
and purchased from Robert Nelson, son of President
William Nelson, sixteen hundred acres, situated where the
south fork of Hardware breaks through the mountain, one of
the tracts patented in the name of Mildred Meriwether. He
fixed his residence on the east side of Fan's Mountain, and
the west edge of the Eppes Creek valley, on the place recently
owned by J. Henry Yates. He first built the mill which has
ever since continued in that vicinity, and which for many
years went by his name. His death occurred in 1829. He
was twice married, first to Elizabeth Archer, and secondly to
Lucy Smith, and his children were James Powell, who married
Martha Ann Lewis, but died without children in 1811,
Smith, who died unmarried in 1835, Chastain, who also died
unmarried in 1838, Mary, the wife of Dr. Charles Carter, and
Martha, the second wife of V. W. Southall.

Charles Cocke, a nephew of the elder James P., came from
Southampton County in 1815, and bought from Rezin Porter
the farm about two miles west of Porter's Precinct, on which

he lived during his life, and which is now in the possession
of the Lane brothers. He was a physician, though it is believed
he never practised in this county. He was an active
politician, and from 1822 to 1843 was at times a member of
the House of Delegates, and afterwards of the State Senate.
He was appointed a magistrate in 1819, and was serving as
Sheriff at the time the Constitution of 1850 became operative,
and the office of Justice of the Peace was made elective. It
is said he sued the county for the salary which would have
accrued, had his term reached its usual end; but it is hardly
supposable the sovereign power of a popular convention could
not cut short any office. After some change in his politics,
he was defeated as a candidate, and at a Fourth of July dinner
occurring shortly after, the circumstance gave rise to the
following toast: "Dr. Charles Cocke, of Albemarle, a dead
cock in the pit, killed in wheeling." His wife was Sarah
Taylor, and he had one daughter, Charlotte, who became the
wife of William Gordon, of Nelson.

The distinguished and eccentric General John H. Cocke,
of Fluvanna, though never a citizen of this county, was yet
much interested in its affairs through his connection with
the University. He was prominent among those who labored
for its establishment, and was one of its first Board of Visitors.
He was an earnest promoter of the cause of Temperance,
and in his efforts to this end, especially to guard the
students from temptations to inebriety, he purchased nearly
fifty acres of land on the south side of the University Street,
extending from the corner near the Dry Bridge to the Junction
Depot, and built a large hotel in which no liquor was to be
allowed, and which he named the Delavan, from his eminent
friend and coadjutor in the cause, of Albany, N. Y. The
hotel had a wall in front, flanked with heavy pillars, and
covered with stucco stained with the tawny hue of the Albemarle
clay; and from this peculiarity it acquired the popular
soubriquet of Mudwall. The hotel has long since gone, but
its site is occupied by the Delavan Colored Church; and to
this day there is a struggle for the pre-eminency between the
names of Delavan and Mudwall. The public-spirited scheme

of the good General was premature; like many other well-laid
plans of mice and men, it went agley.

Another person of the same name, prominent in the Greenwood
neighborhood, was John S. Cocke. He was settled in
that section as early as 1824. In 1827 he bought from Elijah
May the tavern which had been well known from the beginning
of the century under the conduct of Colonel Charles
Yancey and May, but which under Cocke's management
became still more widely celebrated for its admirable fare
among the throngs journeying to the Virginia Springs. As
in the case of many noted hostelries in the county, the advent
of the railroads destroyed his business. He was a magistrate
under the old system, and was active in public affairs.
Pecuniary troubles overtook him in his old age, and his last
days were spent in Charlottesville, where he died in 1879.

COLE.

In 1778 William Cole, a citizen of Charles City County,
purchased from John Jones upwards of a thousand acres in
North Garden, just north of Tom's Mountain. His wife
was Susanna Watson, a sister it is believed of William
Watson, who settled in North Garden in 1762. His children
were William, John, Mary, the wife of Thomas Woolfolk,
Nancy, the wife of Edmund Anderson, Sarah, Susan, the
wife of Jasper Anderson, Richard, Joseph and Elizabeth,
the wife of Joseph H. Irvin. The most of the sons never
lived in the county, their father leaving them portions of his
large estate below Richmond. He devised to Joseph his
Albemarle land, on which he, his mother and sisters appear
to have had their dwelling. The father died in 1802, Joseph
in 1812, and his mother in 1814. In 1815 the land was sold,
part to Norborne K. Thomas & Co., of Richmond, and
part to Stephen Moore; a considerable portion of it subsequently
came into the possession of Atwell and Philip Edge.
For many years after the estate had passed into the hands
of strangers, Miss Sarah Cole, whose residence was in Richmond,
was accustomed to pay annual visits to the old home,
where the remains of many of her kindred lay buried.

COLES.

The main body of the land on which the Coles family resided,
was granted to Francis Eppes in 1730, who received
a patent for six thousand, five hundred acres. He devised
it to his sons Richard and William. They sold three thousand
acres to John Coles, but their deed was never admitted
to record, because proved by only two witnesses. In 1777
Francis Eppes, son of Richard, with his wife Elizabeth, made
a conveyance of the tract to Mr. Coles, and acknowledged it
before Thomas Jefferson and George Gilmer as magistrates.

John Coles' father, John, came to this country from Enniscorthy,
Ireland, and established himself in Hanover County,
Virginia, where he married Mary Winston. His children were
Walter, Sarah, Mary, the wife of John Payne, and mother of
Dorothy, President Madison's wife, John, and Isaac, who
lived in Halifax County, and was a member of Congress
from that district. John settled in Albemarle on the land
above mentioned. He married Rebecca E. Tucker, who
first drew the breath of life in the historic city of Jamestown.
His children were Walter, John, Isaac, Tucker, Edward,
Rebecca, the wife of Richard Singleton, of South Carolina,
Mary Eliza, the wife of Robert Carter, Sarah, the wife of
Andrew Stevenson, Elizabeth, and Emily, the wife of John
Rutherford, of Richmond. John Coles died in 1808, and his
wife in 1826.

Walter was a magistrate of the county, but soon resigned.
His home was at Woodville, the present residence of Charles
Shaw, where he died in 1854, at the age of eighty-two. He
married first Eliza, daughter of Bowler Cocke, of Turkey
Island, and secondly Sarah, daughter of John Swann, of
Powhatan. His children were Walter, who succeeded his
father at Woodville, who married Ann E. Carter, and who
was the father of Dr. Walter, of St. Louis, and of Sarah and
Elizabeth, still residing near the old home, and Edward,
who was given a farm about five miles south of Charlottesville,
which his father bought from William T. Henderson
in 1806, who married Letitia, daughter of Rezin Wheat, and
who died in 1883.

John married Selina Skipwith, of Mecklenburg. His home
was Estouteville, where he died in 1848. He left three sons,
John, who lived near Warren, Peyton, who married his
cousin Isaetta, and succeeded his father at Estouteville, where
he died in 1887, and Tucker, whose present residence is
Viewmont.

Isaac A. was a member of the Albemarle bar, for a time
President Jefferson's private secretary, and a member of the
House of Delegates. He lived at Enniscorthy, married
Mrs. Julia Stricker Rankin, widow of Hon. Christopher
Rankin, of Louisiana, and had two children, Isaetta and
Stricker. He died in 1841, and his wife in 1876. Tucker also
represented the county in the House of Delegates. He married
Helen Skipwith, of Mecklenburg, and died without
children at Tallwood in 1861.

Edward, the youngest son of John Coles, was the private
secretary of President Madison, sold the plantation on Rockfish
River left him by his father, and in 1818 removed to Illinois,
carrying with him all his slaves, giving them their
freedom, and settling them by families on farms near Edwardsville.
He was appointed by Mr. Monroe first Governor of the
Territory of Illinois, was elected its second Governor when
it became a State, and having made an earnest and successful
struggle against a party seeking to make it a slave State,
he removed to Philadelphia in 1832. He there married Sarah
L. Roberts, and died in 1868. He had three children, one of
whom, Roberts, came to Virginia, lived on the old Clarkson
farm on the south fork of Hardware, was a Captain in the
Confederate army, and fell on Roanoke Island in 1862. His
remains were brought for interment to the Coles cemetery at
Enniscorthy.

CRAVEN.

The parents of John H. Craven belonged to Bucks County,
Pennsylvania. He himself came to Albemarle from Loudoun
County in 1800; in that year he became a renter from
Mr. Jefferson of the land that now comprises the farm
of Tufton. The lease was evidently drawn by Mr. Jefferson
in the clear and exact language with which he

usually wrote, mentioning the fields each by its own name,
and the order of their crops, and providing for the payment
of the rent in gold and silver, and the continuance
of the ratio between them at that time existing, even
though it might be changed by law during the term of the
lease. Before its expiration—it was to run for five years—Craven
began to purchase land from Isaac Miller, and from Tucker
and Samuel H. Woodson, till he was the owner of more than
six hundred acres lying north and northwest of Charlottesville.
In 1819 he bought from Richard Sampson, Pen Park,
then containing four hundred acres, and two years later from
the same person nearly five hundred acres on the east side of
the Rivanna; so that his possessions extended from the top
of Rich Mountain to Meadow Creek, opposite the present residence
of H. C. Michie. He owned the mill now known as
Cochran's, but then called the Park Mills. He was considered
one of the best farmers of the county. After the death
of his first wife Elizabeth, he married Mary, widow of Julius
Clarkson, and daughter of Jesse Lewis. His children were
John D., who married Jane Wills, George W., who married
Susan, daughter of Alexander St. C. Heiskell, William, who
married Ellen Craven, his cousin, removed to Illinois, and
died in Jacksonville in that State in 1868, Elizabeth, the
wife of Stapleton C. Sneed, Amanda, the wife of Malcolm F.
Crawford, and Sarah, the wife of Robert W. Lewis. All
these were the parents of large families, and their descendants
have for the most part emigrated to other sections of the
country. The old home of John D. Craven on Rose Hill,
still occupied by his remaining children, is the only portion
of the great estate now belonging to the name. John H.
Craven died in 1845.

DABNEY.

In 1759 John Dabney, of Hanover, bought from Joel Terrell
and David Lewis four hundred acres, and from Joel
Terrell four hundred more, which included the present Birdwood
plantation, and the oldest tavern perhaps in all the
section, called at the time Terrell's Ordinary. In 1764 William
Dabney, a brother, purchased from Archibald Woods

four hundred acres on Mechum's River, above the Depot of
that name. John soon returned to Hanover. William sold
his place in 1768 to William Shelton, and John having died
in the meantime, his trustees sold his land in 1773, six hundred
acres of it to James Kerr, and the remainder to Robert
Anderson.

In 1803 William S. Dabney came to the county, and
bought from Wilson C. Nicholas nearly nine hundred acres
on the head waters of Ballenger's and Green Creeks, now in
the possession of Edward Coles. He died in 1813. His wife
was Sarah Watson, of Green Spring, Louisa, and his
children were Maria, the wife of Colonel Samuel Carr, James,
Walter, William S., May Senora, the wife of Benjamin M.
Perkins, and Louisa, the wife of William M. Woods. Walter
removed to Arkansas. William S. succeeded his father in
the possession of the farm. He was a man of decided
efficiency and success, both in his private business and in
matters of public concern. He was appointed a magistrate
in 1835, and entrusted with many affairs of importance by
his brethren of the county bench. His taste was relied on
as well as his judgment. In 1856 when improvements to the
courthouse were contemplated, a plan reported by him was
adopted, according to which the present enclosure and pavements
of the Square were made. In 1846 he purchased Dunlora,
Colonel Samuel Carr's old place, whither he removed,
and where he died in 1865. He married Susan Gordon, and
his family had the unusual distinction of having two sons
occupy leading professorships in the University of Virginia,
William C. in the Medical Faculty and Walter in that of
Law.

Mildred, daughter of Samuel Dabney and his wife Jane
Meriwether, of Hanover, was the wife of Dr. Reuben Lewis,
brother of the celebrated explorer. She died at her home near
Ivy Depot in 1851.

DAVIS.

Isaac Davis in 1769 bought from the Webb family, of New
Kent County, eight hundred acres on the north fork of the
Rivanna, near Webb's Mountain. His deed for this land

was witnessed by the great orator, Patrick Henry, and was
probably drawn by him. He was one of the early magistrates
of the county. Dr. George Gilmer in a letter to Mr.
Jefferson at the outbreak of the Revolution, refers to him;
mentioning his leading the Albemarle company to Williamsburg,
he speaks of old Isaac Davis marching at the head of
the troop, as an indication of the determined and zealous
spirit that animated the people. Many years were allotted
the old patriot after the close of the war, his death not
occurring till 1805. His children were William, Elizabeth,
the wife of Richard Durrett, Isaac, who married Harriet,
daughter of Garland Garth, and Robert.

John A. G. Davis came to Albemarle from Middlesex,
and engaged in the practice of law. In 1828 he was associated
with Thomas W. Gilmer in the publication of the Virginia
Advocate. In 1830 he was chosen to occupy the
professorship of Law in the University of Virginia, as the
successor of John T. Lomax. His death took place in 1840.
He married Mary Jane, daughter of Richard Terrell and his
wife Martha, who was the daughter of Dabney Carr and
Martha, sister of Mr. Jefferson. His children were Eugene,
Dr. John Staige, Rev. Dabney C. T., Rev. Richard T., and
Caryetta, wife of Robert C. Saunders.

DAWSON.

The name of Dawson has place in the records from the
beginning of the county. At the first meeting of the County
Court, Martin Dawson was appointed to appraise the estate
of Charles Blaney in the vicinity of the Cove. In 1747 he
patented three hundred acres on Buck Island, which he sold
in 1761 to John Burrus. He lived on Ballenger's Creek, and
was no doubt the father of Rev. Martin Dawson, one of the
earliest Baptist preachers of Albemarle. The son commenced
preaching during the Revolutionary War, and as soon
as the statute of religious freedom was passed, giving to
non-Episcopal ministers a license to solemnize the rite of
marriage, he was greatly in demand in this respect as well
as in the pulpit. He supplied the Baptist churches throughout

the county, but his labors were chiefly given to the
Totier Church, which was commonly called by his name.
His home was on a farm of more than five hundred acres,
which lay southeast of Hughes's Shop, and there he finished
his earthly course in 1821. His wife's name was Elizabeth,
and of his twelve children, Martin, the eldest, removed to
Gallia County, Ohio, John in 1812 to Mississippi Territory,
and Elijah, who married Martha, daughter of Benajah Gentry,
to Missouri. Another son, Allen, married Lucy, daughter
of Christopher Wingfield, and was for a number of years a
citizen of Charlottesville, a magistrate, clerk of the town
trustees, and deputy Suveyor of the county. He also taught
school, first on his farm four or five miles south of town,
and afterwards at his house on Main Street near east Third,
which from his institution, and the Female Seminary, being
located thereon, received its former name of School Street.
Notwithstanding his multifarious occupations, he was unsuccessful.
Accumulated debts constrained the sale of his
property piece by piece, till all was gone. A daughter of
Rev. Martin, Elizabeth, was the wife of Reuben Elsom, who
lived in the southern part of the county.

As early as 1757, John Dawson, whose wife was Sarah
Carroll, was living on the waters of Carroll Creek. Did he
remove to Amherst, now Nelson, and was he the father of
Martin, the well known merchant of Milton? Certain it is,
that Martin's father was named John, that his place was in
Nelson, not far from Faber's Mills, and that he was the
brother of Rev. Martin's father. Martin was one of nine
children. He established himself in Milton shortly after it
was founded, at first apparently connected with Brown, Rives
& Co.; and he continued to be associated with the village,
until its business was wholly absorbed by Charlottesville
and Scottsville. By his diligence, thrift and good judgment,
he amassed a considerable fortune. About 1822 he purchased
Bellair on the north side of Hardware below Carter's Bridge,
which had before belonged to Charles Wingfield Jr., and
there he made his residence until his death in 1835. He

left a will so elaborately indited, that it was twice taken
before the Court of Appeals for construction. In his desire
to promote popular education, he directed that an academy
should be established at each of the three places, Milton,
Bellair, and his father's old homestead in Nelson; that suitable
buildings should be erected both for teachers and
scholars; and that their advantages should be assigned in
the first place to the boys of Albemarle and Nelson. Having
a premonition that these provisions might be adjudged
invalid, he directed that in case they were set aside, his
property at the places mentioned should be sold, the proceeds
transferred to the Literary Fund of the State, and the
interest devoted to the cause of education in the two counties
specified. The latter bequest was approved by the judgment
of the Court. He also prescribed the enclosing of ten
acres at the old homestead in Nelson as a family burial place,
where he enjoined his own remains to be interred. Besides
his private business, he was much employed in that of the
county. He was appointed a magistrate in 1806, and frequently
occupied a seat on the bench of the County Court.
He never married.

A brother, Pleasant Dawson, was the owner of nearly
fifteen hundred acres on the lower Hardware. He was
engaged in milling operations, in the prosecution of which
he was involved in a long litigation with Littlebury Moon.
He died unmarried in 1826. A sister, Nancy, was the wife
of Rev. Hugh White, a Baptist minister, who was for a time
a lot holder both in Charlottesville and Milton.

Another brother was John S. Dawson, the father of seven
children, some of whose representatives are at present residents
of the county. His son, Benjamin, married Dorothy
Childress, and of their children Benjamin H. lives at the
western foot of Still House Mountain, and Andrew, and
Agnes, the wife of Peter Turner, about two miles south of
Porter's Precinct. Another son of John S., was Pleasant L.,
whose daughter Jane, the wife of Dr. Isaac F. Forbes,
recently died in Charlottesville, at the house of her son-in-law,
Harrison Robertson, and whose son, John L., still

lives on the lower Hardware, where he has long and usefully
discharged the office of Justice of the Peace. Pleasant's
widow, Mahala, survives in the enjoyment of a green old
age, and forms a link between this and former generations.

DEDMAN.

Samuel Dedman came to Albemarle from Louisa in 1768.
He settled in the Ragged Mountains, about a mile below
the Reservoir, where he purchased two hundred acres from
William T. Lewis. He died in 1800. He and his wife
Mary had a large family, John, Samuel, Richmond, Bartlett,
Nathan, who married Elizabeth, daughter of William
Gooch, and from whom are descended Rev. Neander Woods,
of Memphis, and Rev. William H. Woods, of Baltimore,
Dixon, Sarah, the second wife of John Everett, Susan, Nancy,
the wife of Moses Clack, and Mary, the wife of John Simms.
They all eventually emigrated to the West, some to southwest
Virginia, and others to Kentucky. Bartlett lived for a
few years in Charlottesville. He built a dwelling on a lot
he purchased from John Nicholas at the foot of Fourth
Street east, which he sold in 1801 to William Waller Hening.
Dixon was the last to remain in the county. He succeeded
to the property below the Reservoir. He was twice married,
first to Sarah, daughter of John Buster, and secondly to
Sarah Drumheller. He finally sold out about 1828, and
went West.

DICKERSON.

John Dickerson was settled in the north part of the county,
while yet it belonged to Louisa. He lived on the north fork
of the Rivanna, not far from Piney Mountain. He died in
1788. He and his wife Mary had three sons, John, William
and Thomas. Thomas died in 1807. His wife's name was
Mildred, and his children were Frances, the wife of Rev.
John Goodman, the wife of William Thurman, the wife of
John Crossthwait, Thomas, Wiley, who married Nancy,
daughter of Rev. Jacob Watts, Griffith and Lucy. Another
Wiley, son of one of the other brothers, married in 1789
Mary, daughter of John Carr. He died in 1847. His children

were William, Willis, Malinda, the wife of George W.
Turpin, Martha, the wife of Richard Simms Brockman, the
wife of B. C. Johnson, Mary, the wife of Elisha Thurman,
and Sarah, the wife of Archibald Duke.

DOLLINS.

The family of Dollins has been established in the county
from early times. The first of the name was Richard, who
in 1761 bought land on the head waters of Mechum's River,
and a few years later purchased from the Stockton family on
Virgin Spring Branch. He died in 1774. His wife's name
was Elizabeth, and his children were Ann, Presley, John and
William. John died in 1787. He and his wife Elizabeth had
six children, one of whom was John, who died in 1823, leaving
five sons and one daughter, John, Tyree, Richard, Jeremiah,
William, and Susan, who was the wife of a Polson.
Of this family, Jeremiah married a daughter of Nicholas Merritt,
and died in 1856. His children were Tyree, Martha, the
wife of William Lupton, John, Nicholas, Mary Ann, the wife
of a Rogers, and Sarah, the wife of a Baber. Some of the
earliest nurseries in the county were planted by members of
this family, and on this account the name is well known in
connection with the cultivation of fruit.

DOUGLASS.

A family of Douglass was living in the Cove neighborhood
as early as 1751, two of which were James and George,
probably brothers. They were among the first members of
the Cove Presbyterian Church. George died in 1785.

Three brothers named Douglass resided in the north part
of the county in 1761, Charles, Thomas and John. Their
farms were situated on the Barboursville Road near the Orange
line. Charles married a daughter of Robert and Mourning
Adams, and died in 1823. His children were Robert and
Charles, to whom he gave lands he owned in Kentucky, and
who removed to that State, Ann, the wife of Joseph Timberlake,
Judith, the wife of John Dickerson, and Sarah.
Thomas died in 1830, leaving four children, James, Achilles,

Nancy and John. Achilles was appointed a magistrate in
1796, and acted a prominent part in the affairs of the county.
He served as Sheriff in 1823. He married Nancy, daughter
of Jason Bowcock, and died in 1844. His home the latter
part of his life was on the north fork of Priddy's Creek, near
the present station of Burnley's. John Douglass Jr., married
Mildred Bowcock, a sister of Achilles's wife.

DOWELL.

John Dowell was one of the pioneers who broke the virgin
soil of the county. He obtained a patent for four hundred
acres on Priddy's Creek in 1738, and up to 1759 had received
grants of more than a thousand acres in that section. He
died, it is believed, sometime during the Revolutionary War.
He left at least four sons, John, who died in 1794, William,
who died in 1795, Ambrose, and Thomas, who died in 1815.
All had large families, and from them are descended those
who still bear the name in the county, besides others who
removed to different parts of the West.

DUKE.

James Duke, of Henrico, was the owner of two hundred
acres on Beaver Creek, in which he probably became interested
through his kinsman James Burnley, both of whom
were descended from the Englishman, John Burnley, before
referred to. He and his wife Mary disposed of this land in
1795 to George West. Cleviers Duke, of Louisa, also
descended from John Burnley, had two sons Richard and
James, who were settled in Albemarle. In 1806 Richard
married Maria, daughter of Thomas Walker Jr. In 1821 he
purchased from M. L. Walker and John Wren the Rivanna
Mills, afterwards known as the Burnt Mills, which they and
G. G. Lindsay had bought from Dabney Minor in 1819. He
was appointed a magistrate in 1819, served as Sheriff in 1847,
and died at Morea in 1849. His children were William J.,
who married Emily Anderson, Lucy, who was the wife of
David Wood, and with him removed to west Tennessee, where
she was married secondly to John H. Bills, Mary J., the wife

of William T. Smith, Mildred, the wife of Christopher Gilmer,
Sarah, the wife of Harvey Deskins, Martha, Margaret, the
wife of Robert Rodes, Charles and Richard T. W. R. T.
W. married Elizabeth Eskridge, of Staunton, taught school
in Lewisburg, W. Va., was admitted to Albemarle bar in
1849, filled the office of Commonwealth's Attorney three
times, represented the county in the House of Delegates, was
a member of Congress, was Colonel of the Forty-Sixth Virginia
in the civil war, and died in 1898.

James, the brother of Richard, was associated with him in
the management of the Rivanna Mills. In 1832 he purchased
from James McCulloch the brick mill and store located at
Millington. Subsequently he established a mill on Rocky
Creek, where he spent his remaining days. He was
appointed to the county bench in 1838, and departed this life
in 1844. His wife was Miss Biggers, of Louisa, and his
children were Richard, who removed to Nelson County,
Horace, who removed to Mississippi, Charlotte, the wife of
Dr. William G. Carr, and Lucy, the wife of Thomas Ballard.
A daughter of Richard became the wife of John Cole, and
resides where her grandfather died.

Alexander Duke, of Hanover, in 1835 married Elizabeth,
daughter of Alexander Garrett. For some years he was connected
with Rev. Pike Powers, and afterwards with Charles
Slaughter, in conducting a high school at Midway. He was
the father of Mrs. Horace Jones.

DUNKUM.

Two brothers named Dunkum lived on the Carter's Bridge
Road south of Charlottesville, in the early part of the century,
and both were efficient and prosperous farmers. William,
who resided nearer town at the place lately occupied by Lord
Pelham-Clinton, and now by Mr. Harbottle, began his purchase
of land in 1803, and continued it until his plantation
comprised nearly a thousand acres. In 1837 he conveyed to
Lewis Teel, Robert Gentry and Jeremiah A. Goodman the
land on which stood the Piney Grove Baptist Church. He
died in 1846. His wife was Frances Gentry, and his children

were Mary Ann, the wife of Lewis Sowell, William L.,
Chesley, James T., Frances, the wife of Jesse L. Fry, Elizabeth,
the wife of Philip Edge, Martha, the wife of John H.
Barksdale, Susan, the wife of J. Ralls Abell, and Elijah, who
married Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Ficklin, and built
the large brick house on Ridge Street long occupied by the
late Dr. R. B. Dice.

John Dunkum lived about a mile south of his brother, where
he settled in 1807. His lands were in extent but little short
of those of William. He died in 1855. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Marshall Durrett, and his children were
James, Martha, the wife of William Pitts, Mary, the wife of
Chester Bullard, Elizabeth, Jane, and Sarah Ann, the first
wife of Philip Edge.

DURRETT.

The name of Durrett was connected with the territory of
Albemarle, while it was yet a part of Hanover. In 1737 Bartholomew
Durrett patented nearly three hundred acres on
Priddy's Creek, and the next year Richard patented three
hundred in the same section. A genealogical chart of the
Terrells in the possession of Gen. W. H. H. Terrell, of Indianapolis,
states that Abigail, daughter of Henry Terrell and
Ann Chiles, of Caroline, was married to Colonel Durrett, of
Albemarle. If this refers to Colonel Richard, she must have
been a first wife. According to the records, the name of
Richard's wife was Sarah. He passed his days on Priddy's
Creek, and died in 1784. His children were Richard, Elizabeth,
the wife of Jacob Watts, Ann, the wife of Robert Sanford,
Frances, the wife of Frederick William Wills, Agatha,
the wife of William Flint, Mildred, the wife of a Williams,
the wife of Stephen K. Smith, and the wife of a Burrus.

Richard the younger, James Douglass and others bought
parts of a large tract of land on Priddy's Creek, which had
belonged to Roger Dixon. Dixon in 1766 had encumbered it
with a deed of trust for the benefit of James Harford, an
English merchant; and when the purchasers bought, they
perhaps regarded themselves safe under the acts of the Legislature
barring the debts of British creditors. But Harford

brought suit against the claimants in the United States Court,
and about 1809 recovered judgment, so that they were obliged
to pay again for their shares. Durrett's share amounted to
five hundred and fifty acres. In 1772 he began purchasing
the tract adjoining Earlysville, on which he resided the
remainder of his life. He died in 1820. His wife was Elizabeth,
daughter of Isaac Davis, and his children John D.,
Isaac W., Thomas, Davis, Robert D., Mildred, the wife of
James Simms, Susan, the wife of Thomas Garth, Elizabeth,
the wife of James Watts, Sarah, the wife of John Early, and
Frances, the wife of Archibald Buckner. John D. married
Frances Davis, and his children were Matilda, the wife of William
Catterton, Thomas, who married Emily Wood, Frances,
Elizabeth, the wife of Daniel P. Key, Sarah, Isaac, and Richard
W., who married Lucy Twyman. Thomas married
Frances Simms, and his son Thomas married Mary, daughter
of James Early, and was the father of Dr. James T., and
Frank. Robert D. married Elizabeth Price.

Two brothers of this name became residents of the Batesville
district the latter part of the last century. They came
from Caroline, and were no doubt of the same stock with
those just mentioned, though it seems impossible now to
trace the relationship. Marshall Durrett in 1783 purchased
from Robert Terrell nearly four hundred acres on the head
waters of Mechum's River, where he was living at the time;
and as the land he bought was part of that entered by Henry
Terrell, of Caroline, the Abigail Terrell already alluded to
may have been his first wife. In 1803 he purchased from
Robert Bolling in the North Garden, whither he removed and
resided until his death in 1834. He was appointed a magistrate
in 1796, and served as Sheriff in 1819, succeeding
Charles Wingfield Jr., who at the time of his death had occupied
the office but a month. Marshall's wife was Dorothy,
daughter of John Digges, of Nelson, and his children Sarah,
the wife of Robert Field, Richard, Rice, Marcus, Silas, Benjamin,
Paul, Ann, the wife of William Morris, and afterwards
of John D. Rodes, Elizabeth, the wife of John Dunkum, and
John. Marcus succeeded his father in the home in North

Garden. He was also a magistrate, one of the last set
appointed under the old Constitution. He married Sarah
Ann, daughter of H. Carter Moore, and died in 1878.

James Durrett, the brother of Marshall, in 1799 purchased
land of John Epperson, where he resided until his death in
1822. His place was the same afterwards owned by C. W.
Purcell, of Richmond, Alton Park. He married Nancy
Digges, a sister of his brother's wife, and his children were
Frances, the wife of Richard Richardson, Sarah, the wife of
Horsley Goodman, William, Mildred, the wife of William
Bumgardner, Elizabeth, the wife of William McClunn, Nancy,
the wife of Colston Heiskell, who removed to Philadelphia,
James, who married Susan Goodman, John, who married
Mary Diggs, and Richard, who married Elizabeth, daughter
of William Piper. Many of the descendants of these
brothers removed to Kentucky and Missouri.

DYER.

Samuel Dyer appeared before the Albemarle Circuit Court
in October, 1835, to apply for a pension as a Revolutionary
soldier. He then stated that he was born October 8th, 1756,
and was in his eightieth year. His first purchase of land
was made in 1787 from Thomas Staples, consisting of five
hundred acres, and extending from Hudson's Creek to Totier,
in all likelihood embracing his home, Plain Dealing, where
he lived and died. His store, a well known place of business
in those days, was situated at the junction of the roads from
Staunton and Charlottesville to Scott's Landing. He was so
successful in his mercantile pursuits, that he soon became the
owner of more than twenty-two hundred acres. He established
extensive milling operations at Glendower. He was
much employed in public business, being appointed on
account of his integrity and sound judgment largely to
superintend matters of general concern in his section of the
county. He finished his earthly course in 1840, aged eighty-four,
and his venerable partner, whose name was Celia
Bickley, died the same year.

Their family consisted of eleven children, William H.

who was appointed a magistrate in 1824, Ann, the wife of
George Robertson, Elizabeth, the wife of George M. Payne,
John, Thomas, Mary Jane, the wife of George A. Nicholson,
Martha, the wife of Joseph S. Watkins, Samuel, Francis B.,
Robert and Sarah. During the decade of 1830 most of the
children emigrated to Missouri. Francis was one who remained.
For a number of years he was a prominent member
of the Albemarle bar. He built the brick house and office
on East Jefferson and Seventh Streets, now occupied by
Major Horace Jones. Obliged by business misfortune, induced
perhaps by extravagant living, to surrender this property,
he removed to the house on Park Street, the present
residence of Drury Wood, where he died in 1838. Many
now living remember him as a man of genial disposition
and great corpulence; yet withal he was captain of an artillery
company (with John Eubank as orderly sergeant) which
drilled annually at Old's Forge on the north fork of Hardware.
He married Sarah White, of Staunton, and was the
father of five children, one of whom, Celia, was the wife of
William P. Staples, of Richmond.

EADES.

A family named Eades were among the early settlers in the
southern part of the county. Abraham Eades patented land
on Ballenger's Creek in 1751. In 1758 Joseph gave to his
sons, Thomas and John, one hundred and fifty acres on
Totier, and the next year Jacob sold three hundred acres on
Totier to Rev. John Ramsey, rector of St. Anne's. It is likely
Abraham, Joseph and Jacob were brothers. The two latter
disappear from the records, and they, or their families, probably
fell in with the tide of emigration that bore away such
numbers to the West. Abraham, a son of Abraham, was
for many years in the early part of the century, engaged in
the inspection of tobacco in the Nicholas Warehouse at Warren.
He died in 1828. His family were Joseph, Mildred,
the wife of a Shepherd, Abraham, Susan, Charlotte, and
Sarah, the wife of Richard Chandler. Shepherd Eades, a
son of one of this family, married Mary, daughter of Benjamin

Norvell, and died in 1848. He left a son Shepherd, and
three daughters, Mary Ann, the wife of a Starke, Charlotte,
the wife of a Turner, and Sarah, the wife of a Venable.

EARLY.

The name of Early is first mentioned in the records in
1790, when Joel, executor of Jeremiah Early, purchased
from Charles Hammond three hundred acres on the Rivanna
in the Burnt Mills neighborhood, which had formerly belonged
to Walter Carr. It is probable these persons were
citizens of Orange. In 1809 James Early, certainly from
Orange, bought eighteen hundred and ninety-four acres on
Buck Mountain Creek from the representatives of Major
Henry Burke, who had been a magistrate of the county, and
Major in the Eighty-Eighth Regiment, and who died in 1803.
The children of James Early and his wife Elizabeth, were
John, James, Joab, William, Lucy, the wife of James Simms,
Theodosia, the wife of George Stevens, and Elizabeth, the
wife of Thomas Chapman.

John Early in 1822 bought from the executors of Richard
Durrett nearly a thousand acres lying between the Buck
Mountain Road and Jacob's Run. From him the village of
Earlysville derived its name, and in 1833 he gave to Thomas
Lane, David Thompson and Henry Marshall the ground on
which its church was built. He was twice married, first to
Sarah, daughter of Richard Durrett, and secondly to Mrs.
Margaret Allen Timberlake. He died 1833. His children
were James T., Isaac Davis, Susan, Elizabeth, the wife of
Edward Ferneyhough, Amanda, the wife of Joshua Jackson,
Mildred, the wife of Richard Wingfield, Thomas, Frances,
Joseph, Jeremiah A. and William. James, son of James,
married Sarah Carr, and among his children were John F.
Early, who some twenty years ago opened a female Seminary
in the Shackelford house on High Street, and afterwards
removed to Texas, Mary, the wife of Thomas Durrett, and
Frances, the wife of Isaac Davis, and mother of Mrs. W. R.
Burnley. Joab married Elizabeth Thompson, and his children
were William T., well remembered by many as Buck

Early, and James and Nathaniel, of Greene County. William,
son of James, married Sarah Graves, and his children
were William L., of Madison, and Thomas J., who married
Caroline, daughter of the elder Drury Wood.

EUBANK.

Families of the Eubank name have lived along the south
fork of Hardware from the earliest times. They sprang
from two brothers, George and John. It is believed they
came from Orange County. In 1758 George bought from
James Ireland three hundred acres on Beaverdam, not far
from the present Soapstone Quarries. The next year John
purchased from Matthew Jordan in the same vicinity. The
year after the organization of the county, 1746, a John Eubank
obtained a grant of nearly three hundred acres on
Rocky Creek, in its northwest section; it is possible he was
the same person as the one just mentioned.

John died in 1789. His wife's name was Hannah, and
his children were John, James, William, Nancy, Elizabeth
and Sarah, who were both married to brothers named Fortune,
a family that lived in the same neighborhood, and
Frances, the wife of a Gilmer. George died in 1802. He
and his wife Mary had six children, John, Elizabeth, George,
Frances, the wife of her cousin, John Eubank, Nancy, the
wife of David Watson, and Mary, the wife of Richard Hazelrig.
George also brought up two orphan children, Nelson
and Sarah Key, whom he committed to the care of his
daughter Frances and her husband, and for whose subsequent
welfare he made special provision. His two sons,
John and George, had each twelve children.

The Eubanks appear to have been quiet, industrious
farmers, fairly prosperous in their worldly affairs. The
family particularly marked for its energy and success was
that of James, son of John. He married Mildred Melton,
and had five sons and three daughters. He died in 1821,
leaving a considerable estate. Two of his sons, John and
George W., took advantage of the opening of the Staunton
and James River Turnpike, established taverns on the road,

and for many years did a large business in the entertainment
of those transporting the vast amount of produce at
that time passing between the Valley and Scottsville. George
married his cousin, Winifred Eubank, and had eight children.
He died in 1841. John married Sarah Strange, and died
without children in 1854. Emigration to the West has taken
many from the different branches of this family, so that
comparatively few of the name remain now in the county.

EVERETT.

John Everett was the first of the name to appear in the
county. At one time he lived on the waters of Moore's Creek,
on the place adjoining the old Lewis place, the present Birdwood.
This place he purchased from John Spencer in 1781,
and in 1788 sold it, and removed to a farm near the Cross
Roads, which he bought from Joseph Claybrook. His second
home was what is still known in the neighborhood as
the old Methodist Parsonage. Here he laid out a town about
the beginning of the century, called Traveller's Grove, but
it never advanced beyond the sale of three or four lots.
When the prospects of the town had lost their roseate hue,
the Colonel, as he was known, changed the name to Pleasant
Grove, and under this designation conducted a tavern
for some years. He was somewhat of a sporting character,
raised fine horses, and had a training track on his place.
He was twice married, first to Sarah, daughter of Tarleton
Woodson, and secondly to Sarah, daughter of Samuel Dedman.
In 1807 he disposed of his property, and removed to
Cabell County.

Dr. Charles Everett was established in Charlottesville as
one of its physicians as early as 1804, when he purchased from
Tucker M. Woodson the part of Lot Fifty-Nine fronting on
High Street. Two years later he bought from Reuben Burnley
the two lots opposite, Seventy-Three and Seventy-Four,
where he had his office and stable; this property he sold to Dr.
Charles Brown in 1814. It is probable however that before
the last date he had removed to Belmont near Keswick, which
he made his subsequent residence during life; having bought

from John Rogers six hundred and thirty-six acres in 1811. It
was not till 1821 he became the owner of the place adjoining
on the south, which has since been known by the name
of Everettsville; this tract of four hundred acres he purchased
from Mr. Jefferson, whose father had obtained a patent for it
in 1756. The Doctor, besides being actively engaged in the
practice of his profession, devoted much attention to the public
affairs of the county, and to politics. He was appointed
a magistrate in 1807, and represented the county for several
terms in the House of Delegates. He never married, and
died in 1848, by his will emancipating his servants, and
devising his estate to his nephew, Dr. Charles D. Everett.
Not long before the war a person named Thom, from Mercer
County, Pennsylvania, presented to the Circuit Court a certificate
of his appointment as Guardian of some of the Doctor's
old servants, and applied for the legacies he had left for
their benefit.

FAGG.

John Fagg was a Revolutionary soldier, and in the early
years of the century was a tavern keeper in Charlottesville.
In 1818 he bought from William Garth a part of the old
Barracks place, which he called Barrack Grove, and which
is now the residence of Mrs. Garland A. Garth. There he
lived until his death in 1829, at the advanced age of ninety-two
years.

A son William married Nancy, daughter of John Alphin
and removed to Blount County, Tennessee. From that place
he sold in 1834 his wife's share of her father's estate to Jesse
Lewis. John, another son, married Elizabeth, daughter of
Jacob Oglesby, and was associated with his father-in-law as
Inspector in Henderson's and Randolph's Tobacco Warehouses.
He afterwards conducted a store in Milton, as late
as 1834. It is related of him, that in the fall of 1833,
when the memorable storm of star-falling occurred, he was
with a number of others beyond the Valley on a hunting
expedition. While the meteoric phenomenon was in progress,
some of the servants, who had risen early in discharge of
their duties, rushed terror-stricken into the camp to arouse

the sleeping hunters. All started at once to observe the
scene, some with the interest of curiosity, others in mortal
dread that the day of judgment had come—all except Fagg.
He clung to his blankets, involuntarily, it was believed,
because of too abundant potations the night before; and
when appealed to by the cries and vivid descriptions of his
friends, he exclaimed, "Oh boys, that's nothing. Why, I see
that every morning when I'm at home; the fact is, you
might see it too, if you weren't too lazy to get up." In 1836
he sold Barrack Grove to Garland Garth, and probably went
to join his relatives in the South West.

FARISH.

William P. Farish came to Albemarle from Caroline about
1820. He is mentioned in 1823 as a manager for Charles L.
Bankhead. In subsequent years he was engaged in superintending
the affairs of John N. C. Stockton. In 1834 he purchased
from John M. Perry six hundred acres on the south
fork of the Rivanna below Hydraulic Mills, and the same
year sold to William H. Meriwether the tract on which
Meriwether erected the Rio Mills. He bought in 1837 from
Ira Garrett the plantation south of Charlottesville, now in the
possession of Rev. J. T. Randolph, on which he subsequently
resided until his death. After the demise of Mr. Stockton in
1837, he was appointed the administrator of his estate, and
in the years following sold off his large possessions, except
Carrsbrook, which was reserved for his family. He also had
the direction of the Stage lines which Stockton controlled.
In 1845 the firm of Farish & Co. was formed, by which the
Stage property was bought and managed for many years.
The firm consisted of W. P. Farish, Dr. O. B. Brown, of
Washington City, Slaughter W. Ficklin and John S. Cocke.
About this time Mr. Farish entered the ministry of the Baptist
Church. He died in 1869. His wife was Mellicent
Laughlin, and his children Thomas L., and Ann, the wife of
Rev. J. T. Randolph.

Stephen M. Farish was a brother of William P., and probably
came to the county before him. He was for a time a

resident of Milton, and afterwards lived in the vicinity of
Earlysville. He was twice married, and his children were
Susan, Andrew J. and William.

In 1823 Hazelwood Farish sold to Thomas Poindexter Jr.,
the stock and equipment of a Stage line running through
Charlottesville.

FARRAR.

John Farrar lived in the southwest part of the county, and
died in 1769. His children were Perrin, Catharine Jopling,
Sarah Spencer, William, Peter, Thomas, Elizabeth and Richard.
Perrin, William, Peter and Richard were all owners of
land on Green and Ivy Creeks, branches of the lower Rockfish.
Perrin died about 1793, leaving eight children who removed
to Amherst.

Richard married Susan Shelton, of Louisa, and died in
1807. He was a ruling elder in the Cove Church. His
children were Joseph, Landon, John S., Lucinda, the wife of
Samuel L. Wharton, Elizabeth, the wife of George Wharton,
both of whom emigrated to Davidson County, Tennessee, and
Sophia, the wife of Dr. Samuel Leake, and mother of Hon.
Shelton F. Leake. John S. was appointed Colonel of the
Forty-Seventh Regiment in 1815. He died in 1832, and left
nine children, Richard L., Matthew G., Elizabeth, Martha,
Marcellus, Sarah, the wife of Alexander K. Yancey, Sophia,
the wife of George W. Piper, Lavinia and Susan.

FICKLIN.

Benjamin Ficklin became a citizen of Albemarle about 1814,
and is described in one place as being from Frederick County,
and in another from Culpeper. Either then, or shortly after,
he entered the Baptist ministry. He purchased in the western
part of the county upwards of thirteen hundred acres,
and his residence for twenty years, called Pleasant Green,
was the place adjoining Crozet on the west, now occupied by
Abraham Wayland. He was appointed to a seat on the
county bench in 1819. In 1822 he proposed to sell his lands
with the design of removing to Ohio or Indiana. This purpose
however was abandoned, and in 1832 he removed to

Charlottesville where for a number of years he was engaged
in the manufacture of tobacco.

He was noted for his uprightness and decision of character.
At the time of his removal to Charlottesville, the state of
things in the town, morally and religiously, was far from
being unexceptionable. In a clandestine manner, most of the
stores did more business on Sunday than on other days.
The negroes came in in large numbers for purposes of traffic.
Great quantities of liquor were sold. In the later hours of
that day, the roads leading from town were lined with men
and women in all stages of drunkenness, some staggering
with difficulty, others lying helplessly by the wayside. Mr.
Ficklin set himself vigorously to remedy these evils. He
warned the merchants that every violation of the Sunday
law should be visited with the highest penalty. A similar
warning was given to the negroes; and by the lively application
of the lash to those who neglected it, the town and roads
were soon cleared of transgressors. Sabbath observance put
on a new face. The comfort of worshippers, and the general
order of the community, were vastly promoted. So impartial
was the old man in the execution of his duty, that when
one of his own wagons, sent out to sell tobacco, trespassed
upon the sacred hours in reaching home, he imposed a fine
upon himself. It is said, that a member of the bar remonstrated
with him on what he considered his excessive zeal,
and stated by way of illustration, that in the preparation of
his cases he had often been obliged to work on Sunday;
whereupon Mr. Ficklin at once fined him on his own confession.
Altogether the whole county was laid under many
obligations to his courage, efficiency, and public spirit.

His last years were overclouded by business reverses. He
closed his earthly career during the war, in the last days of
1864. His wife's name was Eleanor, and his children were
Slaughter W., Benjamin F., who was one of the last Stage
proprietors in the country, Ellen, the wife of a Brown,
Susan, the wife of J. R. Hardesty, Elizabeth, the wife of
Elijah Dunkum, and Lucy, the first wife of Fontaine D.
Brockman.

FIELD.

For many years before the end of the last century, and in
the early part of the present, the name of Field was a
familiar one in the vicinity of Batesville. The family head
was Robert, who began to purchase land in that section in
1766. From small beginnings he rose gradually, till he acquired
a considerable estate. He died in 1824. He was twice
married, and raised a family of ten children, Mary, the wife
of a Garland, Elizabeth, the wife of John Mills, Sarah, the
first wife of Charles Yancey, Jane, the wife of Thomas
Grayson, John, Robert, Ralph, Joseph, Susan, the wife of
Nelson Moss, and Nancy, the wife of William Wood.

Three of the brothers married sisters, daughters of the
elder Jesse Wood, John being united to Sarah, Ralph to
Mildred, and Joseph to Elmira. Joseph died before his
father, leaving two sons, William and Joseph. His widow
afterwards became the wife of John Robinson. Robert led
the way in emigrating first to Kentucky, and subsequently to
Missouri, and was ultimately followed by most of the
family; by all indeed bearing the name. John's home was
east of Batesville, where Mrs. William H. Harris resides.
Here he kept for many years a well known public house.
In 1807 he conveyed to Marshall Durrett, James Wood,
Charles Massie, Jonathan Barksdale, Oliver Cleveland,
Thomas Massie, Henry Emerson, William Wood Sr., and
John Wood, son of Isaac, ground for the old Mount Ed
Church, on the south side of the public road, and on the top
of the hill between Whitesides Creek and Captain White's.
His son, bearing his name, was a druggist in Charlottesville,
doing business on the public square under the firm of Field
& Goss. In 1831 the father sold his place to Isaac White,
and all the family joined their kindred in the West.

FITCH.

In 1759 William Daniel Fitch bought land on the east
side of the South West Mountain, near Hammock's Gap,
where he seems to have had his home. He died in 1814
His family consisted of twelve children, only two of whom

were sons, John, who died before his father, and William D.
The latter was one of the early and leading inhabitants of
Milton. He maintained his interests there, until the place
was completely shorn of its prestige and trade. While its
flourishing days lasted, he was an Inspector of tobacco in
Henderson's Warehouse, and the proprietor of a public house.
About 1829 he removed to Charlottesville, and took charge of
the Eagle Tavern. This property he purchased in 1833.
He continued to be engaged in its management during the
remainder of his life. His death occurred in 1848. He
married Mary Bernard, who survived him twenty years.
This worthy couple, though without children of their own,
exercised the kindly care of parents over many of their
nieces and nephews.

FRETWELL.

The first Fretwell appearing on the records was William,
who in 1776 bought part of the Sumter land near Piney
Mountain. It is conjectured his wife was a Crenshaw, as his
eldest son bore that name. He died in 1822. His children
were Crenshaw, John, Thomas, William, Susan, believed to
have been the first wife of Elijah Garth, and the wife of
Fendall Sebree. At the time of his death Thomas, William
and Susan had already departed this life.

Crenshaw lived on the waters of Ivy Creek, not far from
Garth's Mill. This place he and his wife Sarah sold to Dr.
Charles Brown in 1822. A protracted litigation in which he
was concerned, in connection with the old Draffen tract of
land in the same neighborhood, was finally settled by the
Court of Appeals in 1831. As no subsequent mention of
him is found, it is supposed he removed from the county.
John married Mildred, daughter of Thomas Garth Sr. His
home was on the western side of the Garth plantation, on
the Whitehall Road. He died in 1837. His children were
Emily, the wife of Mortimer Gaines, Lucy, the wife of Samuel
Kennerly, Susan, William G., Frances, Selina and John
T. William G. married Emeline, daughter of Thomas H.
Brown, and his children were John T., Susan and Lucy
Elizabeth. John T., son of John, married Nannie A.—,

and his children were William G., Susan B., and Frances.
Thomas lived between Free Union and the old Garrison
Meeting House. He kept a store, which was known as Fretwell's
Store, and which at the beginning of the century was
the place for holding elections for Overseers of the Poor for
the northwest district of the county. His wife was Agnes
Burrus, and at the time of his father's death, she and her
family were living in Kentucky.

William married Jemima Brown. He resided on the
Staunton Road, above Mechum's Depot. He was deemed
by his neighbors fit to be a landmark, because of his uncommon
stature; in a deed of Nelson Hardin to his brother
Isaac, the property is described as adjoining that of the tall
William Fretwell. He died in 1807. His children were
William C., who married first Mildred, daughter of Henry
Burnley, of Louisa, and secondly Vienna, daughter of G. W.
Kinsolving, Susan, the wife of William Brown, Judith, the
wife of Benjamin H. Brown, Nancy, the wife of Augustine
Stephenson, and Hudson. Hudson married Elizabeth,
daughter of John Burnley, of Louisa, and sister of Nathaniel
Burnley. His home was the large brick house on the
Staunton Road, above Mechum's Depot, where for many
years he kept a public house. He died in 1834. His children
were Mary, the wife of Paul Tilman, Burlington,
William, Franklin, Susan, the wife of Overton Tilman,
Jurena, the wife of James H. Jarman, Brightbury, and
Bernard.

Alexander Fretwell was for the first quarter of the century
one of the business men of Warren. He was probably the
same Alexander, who sold to Isaac Hardin in 1792 five
hundred acres on the Staunton Road, adjoining the William
just mentioned; from this too it may be inferred, that he
also was a son of the first William. He died in 1825. He
seems to have been twice married, first to Ann, daughter of
William Barksdale, and secondly to Jane Hughes. His
children were James B., who died in 1868 in Sumner County,
Tennessee, aged eighty-three, Richard, Nancy, and three other
daughters, the wives of Robert Anderson, Matthew Martin

and William Moorman. Richard married Sarah, daughter
of Samuel Barksdale, and had ten children. He lived on
the east side of Dudley's Mountain, at the place recently
occupied by Major Berkeley. About 1840 he removed to
Lewis County, West Virginia.

FRY.

Joshua Fry was born in England, and educated at the
University of Oxford. Coming to this country, he was
made Professor of Mathematics in William and Mary College.
He was present at the organization of Albemarle
County, and was appointed one of its first magistrates, its
Lieutenant, and its Surveyor. For some years he was
actively engaged in surveying lands in this and adjacent
counties, and entered a considerable number of tracts in his
own name. When the French and Indian War broke out in
1754, and a regiment was raised in Virginia on that occasion,
Fry was appointed its Colonel, and Washington its
Lieutenant Colonel. Fry repaired to Fort Wills, now Cumberland,
Md., the rendezvous, to assume the command, but
shortly after died, and was there buried. The home of
Colonel Fry was the plantation just south of Carter's Bridge,
which he patented in 1750, and which is now known by the
name of Viewmont. There his widow lived till her death in
1773, and in 1786 the place was sold to Governor Edmund
Randolph.

The wife of Colonel Fry was Mrs. Mary Micou Hill, and
his children were John, Henry, Martha, the wife of John
Nicholas, Clerk of the county, William, and Margaret, the
wife of John Scott. John married Sarah, sister of Thomas
Adams, who was once the owner of Blair Park, and had
three children, Joshua, William and Tabitha. He died in
1778. Joshua married Peachy, youngest daughter of Dr.
Thomas Walker. He was appointed a magistrate of the
county, and represented it in the House of Delegates. Towards
the end of the last century he removed to Kentucky,
where he taught for a time a classical academy, and was the
ancestor of a numerous posterity, the Frys, Greens, Bullitts

and Speeds, who have acted a prominent part in the affairs
of that State. Henry served as deputy Clerk of the county,
married Susan, daughter of Dr. Thomas Walker, and removed
to Madison County near Rapidan Station, where he died in
1823 in his eighty-fifth year. He had nine children, one of
whom, Reuben, was the father of Joseph L. Fry, for twenty
years the Judge of the Wheeling Circuit; another, Henry,
married Mildred, daughter of Rev. Matthew Maury, and was
the father of J. Frank Fry, long a Commissioner of the
Revenue of the county; and another, Wesley, was the father
of Captain W. O. Fry. William, the Colonel's son, died
unmarried about 1760.

GANTT.

Henry Gantt, of Prince George County, Maryland, came
to Albemarle in 1813, and purchased from James Bullock,
agent of Brown, Rives & Co., seven hundred and eighty-four
acres, which had belonged to Robert and William
Alcock, and which were situated southwest of the Cross
Roads in North Garden. He made this place his residence
for some years. On the fifth of December 1821, he bought a
ticket of the State Lottery of Maryland, and on the thirteenth
drew a prize of forty thousand dollars. He afterwards returned
to his old home in Maryland, and was succeeded on
the farm in North Garden by his son, Dr. John W. Gantt, to
whom he and his wife Ann formally conveyed it in 1830.
Here the Doctor lived and practised his profession till 1835,
when he purchased from Charles A. Scott the plantation on
James River, just above the mouth of Totier. On this place
he passed the remainder of his days. He was appointed a
magistrate of the county in 1830. In 1837 he and his wife
Sarah conveyed the farm near Cross Roads to Joseph Sutherland,
in whose family it has since remained. The Doctor
died in 1860. His children were Henry, Philip, Albert, and
Mary, the wife of Z. R. Lewis.

GARLAND.

The first of the Garland name who settled in Albemarle
was James. He came from Hanover County, where he had

married his wife, Mary Rice. In 1761 he bought land in the
coves of the mountains southwest of the Cross Roads. He
purchased first from James and John Coffey, and afterwards
from Robert Nelson, till he possessed considerably more than
a thousand acres. He also purchased from Samuel and
William Stockton upwards of four hundred acres near the
head of Mechum's River, including a mill which the Stocktons
had built. He was acting as magistrate in 1783, when
the existing records begin, and was appointed Sheriff in
1791. He died in 1812. His children were Elizabeth, the
wife of Thomas Garland, Edward, Rice, Robert, Clifton,
Mary, the wife of James Woods, who in 1797 emigrated
to Garrard County, Kentucky, and as nearly as the lines of
descent in this family can be ascertained, James and Nathaniel.

Edward lived on the south side of the north fork of Hardware,
near the crossing of the old Lynchburg Road. He
was appointed a magistrate in 1801, and in 1808 succeeded
Francis Taliaferro as Commissioner of the Revenue for St.
Anne's, which office he filled until his death in 1817. His
wife was Sarah, daughter of Colonel John Old, and his children
Nathaniel, Mary, the wife of Nicholas Hamner, Fleming,
James, Elizabeth, the wife of Joseph Sutherland, Sarah, the
wife of Pleasant Sowell, and Maria, the wife of Thomas Hamner,
who removed to Lewis County, West Virginia.

The home of Rice was the present farm of Bloomfield near
Ivy Depot. He was appointed a magistrate in 1791, was
elected to the Legislature in 1808, and served as Sheriff in
1811. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Hamner,
and died in 1818. His children were William, James, Rice,
Samuel, Elizabeth, the wife of Henry White, Mary Rice, the
wife of Robert H. Slaughter, Burr, Maurice and Nicholas.
William and James were their father's executors. The former
lived for a time in Charlottesville, was the constructor
of the present Lynchburg Road, and died in 1841. Rice
was a lawyer, and settled in Leakesville, N. C. Samuel
became a prosperous man of business in Lynchburg.

Robert was an active practitioner at the Albemarle bar, and

about 1822 removed to Nelson. Clifton was appointed a
magistrate in 1806, and in 1813 contested unsuccessfully
the election of Jesse W. Garth to the House of Delegates.
He died unmarried in 1815.

James, as already narrated, lost his life at the Prison Barracks
in 1781. His wife was Ann, daughter of John Wingfield
and Mary Hudson, and his children Hudson M., James
P., and Spotswood. They all removed to Amherst. Hudson
was admitted to the bar, represented Amherst in the
Legislature, was a captain in the war of 1812, was an intimate
friend of General Jackson, and received from him an office in
Washington, which he held until the administration of President
Tyler. His wife was Letitia Pendleton, and he was the
father of Judge James Garland, of Lynchburg, and General
John, of the United States Army, whose daughter was the
wife of General Longstreet. Spotswood became the first
Clerk of Nelson, married a Rose, and was the father of Landon,
late Chancellor of Vanderbilt University.

In 1778 Nathaniel bought land from Colonel Charles Lewis
in North Garden, near Taylor's Gap. He died in 1793.
His wife's name was Jane, and his children were Frances,
the wife of John Woodson, Nelson, Mary, the wife of Isham
Ready, Anderson, whose widow Nancy was married to Richard
Bruce, and whose children removed to Lewis County,
Kentucky, Elizabeth and Peter. Peter married Elizabeth,
daughter of Benjamin Martin, who after her husband's decease
became the wife of Daniel, son of Thomas Martin and Mary
Ann White. Peter's sons were James and Goodrich.

William Garland, who was probably a brother of the first
James, married Ann, daughter of Christopher Shepherd, and
died comparatively young in 1777. His children were Frances,
the wife of Reuben Pendleton, Mary, James, and David
S. David S. resided at New Glasgow in Amherst, and in
1807 represented the district in Congress. His wife was Jane,
daughter of Colonel Samuel Meredith and Jane Henry, sister
of the renowned orator.

Another branch of the Garlands was resident in the county
at a later date. About 1833 a mercantile firm did business

on the public square in Charlottesville under the style of
Binford & Garland. The Garland of the firm was James,
who soon after removed to Richmond. In 1835 his brother
Thomas purchased from John R. Campbell the fine low
grounds on the Rivanna, just below the mouth of Buck Island.
He was appointed a magistrate of the county in 1838. He
was a man of unamiable temper and unsavory reputation.
He died in 1874. The brothers came from Goochland County.
Their mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Morris,
of Green Spring, Louisa, and sister of Mrs. Dr. Frank Carr.

GARRETT.

The name of Garrett must always awaken interest in Albemarle,
because of its long official connection with its affairs.
William Garrett appeared on the scene in 1764, when he purchased
from Francis Jerdone, the same person who bought
the Farmington lands and sold them to George Divers, two
thousand acres along the northern base of Tom's Mountain,
in North Garden. In the course of the next ten years he
disposed of this property to different parties, but far the
greater portion of it to John Jones. Garrett as well as Jerdone
belonged to Louisa. It is thought he was the grandfather
of Alexander Garrett. The father of Alexander was
Henry, who in 1810 removed from Louisa to Kentucky, and
in passing through Charlottesville constituted his son his
attorney to settle up his business. He departed this life in
his new home in 1815.

Alexander came to the county as early as 1794. In 1799
he was a deputy of Samuel Murrell, who at that time was
Sheriff. A year or two after he married Elizabeth, daughter
of James Minor, who resided on the north fork of the Rivanna,
near Stony Point; and from the mention of his name
among those assigned to work the roads, Mr. Garrett evidently
lived for a time in the same vicinity. In 1806 he
received the appointment of deputy Clerk under John Nicholas.
About that time his wife died, and in 1808 he married
Evalina, daughter of John Bolling, of North Garden. In
1815 he succeeded Mr. Nicholas as County Clerk, and in

1819 was appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court upon the resignation
of John Carr, who had occupied that office since the
Circuit Court superseded the District Court in 1809. Both
of these offices he held until 1831, when his brother Ira was
made County Clerk. Besides his official duties, he was assiduous
and successful in many lines of business. He was a
large dealer in real estate, owning at different times fine tracts
of land in various neighborhoods of the county, Meadow
Creek, Birdwood, North Garden, North Blenheim, Ivy Cottage
and Greenwood. About 1815 his home was on the south
side of University Street, and during the decade of 1820 he
erected the large brick mansion at the foot of Second Street.
In 1825 he laid out and brought into market the lots on Ridge
Street, and in 1828 built Midway as a hotel, of which J. A.
Xaupi was the first occupant. During his latter years, owing
no doubt to the constant and long continued strain on his
powers, he was afflicted with softening of the brain. He
died in 1860. By his first marriage he had a daughter, Elizabeth,
the first wife of V. W. Southall, and by his second,
Dr. John Bolling Garrett, Susan, the wife of Dr. Thomas
Johnson, Eliza K., the wife of Alexander Duke, and Clarissa,
the wife of Dr. Thomas J. Pretlow.

Ira Garrett, like his brother, commenced his business life
by riding Sheriff. He was a deputy under Benjamin Harris
in 1815, and Robert Davis in 1817. Soon after he became
deputy County Clerk under his brother, and in 1831 succeeded
him as principal. When the office became elective,
he was chosen both to it and the Circuit Court Clerkship,
term after term, as long as the people had a voice; and even
when another was appointed by military authority, it was
demanded by an overwhelming public sentiment that the
faithful old man should act as deputy. In 1818 he bought
from Jonathan B. Carr the place at the east end of Main
Street, which he made his home the rest of his life. He always
had a strong inclination to rural pursuits, and in 1836
purchased a plantation south of Charlottesville, afterwards
the farm of W. P. Farish; but with him the lack of a close
hand marred the knack of accumulation, and the project soon

failed. Just before the war he bought Sunnyside, the late
residence of Colonel Duke, but the outbreak of hostilities interfered
with his enjoyment there. After the war however he
indulged this fancy at Hobby Hill, a cottage with a few acres
east of James D. Goodman's, where he and his wife, who
shared in his taste for horticulture, spent a part of every
summer. He died full of years in 1870. His wife was
Eliza, daughter of John Watson, and his children Dr. Henry,
of Southwest Virginia, John Alexander, George, Jane, the
wife of Benjamin Winn, Ann, the wife of Thomas M. Smyth,
Isaetta, the wife of K. Kemper, and Ellen, the wife of—
Watkins, who emigrated to Mississippi.

GARTH.

The first of the Garth family in Albemarle was Thomas,
who in 1762 bought from Samuel Taliaferro four hundred and
fifty acres on the Indian branch of Buck Island Creek. In
1770 he purchased from John Lewis, of Halifax, nearly a
thousand acres on Blue Run, not far from Barboursville.
The next three or four years he was employed by Mr. Jefferson
to buy the Lego estate from William and James Hickman,
sons of Edwin Hickman, the second Sheriff of the
county. In 1779 he bought another thousand acres of the
Lewis estate on Ivy Creek, and continued his purchases in
that section, till he owned all the land stretching from near
the Staunton Road, opposite Jesse Lewis's place, to the forks
of Mechum's and Moorman's Rivers. On this tract he
resided until his death. He was appointed a magistrate
in 1791, and served as Sheriff in 1807. He died in 1812.
His wife, it is said, was Judith Long, and his children
Thomas, John, Elijah, Jesse, Garland, Ann, the
wife of Richard Gaines, whose daughter Margaret was the
wife of George Crank, and mother of R. G. Crank, a representative
of the county in the Legislature twenty years ago,
Sarah, the wife of Samuel Poindexter, who removed to Bedford
County, Susan, the wife of Isaac Dalton, who emigrated
to Stokes County, North Carolina, and Mildred, the wife of
John Fretwell.

Thomas succeeded his father on Chesnut Ridge. He died
in 1834. He married Susan, daughter of Richard Durrett,
and his children were Jesse Winston, Willis, William, Elizabeth,
the wife of Dr. Thomas K. Clark, and mother of Cornelia,
the wife of Drury Burnley, and of Catharine, the wife
of George McIntire, and Frances, the wife of James Michie.
Jesse W. was deputy Sheriff, was admitted to the bar, was
for six years Commonwealth's Attorney, was member of the
Legislature, sold Birdwood to his brother William, and in
1818 removed to Alabama. His wife was Unity Dandridge,
of the same kindred as Patrick Henry's second wife. Willis
lived at the place occupied by the family of Legh R. Waddell,
married a Miss Graves, and was prominent in the establishment
of Mount Harmony Church. He died without
children in 1851. William resided at Birdwood, built the
spacious brick dwelling it contains, and by his improvements
made it one of the principal country seats of the county. He
married Elizabeth, daughter of George Martin and Barbara
Woods. He died in 1860, leaving eleven children, J. Woods,
Edgar, Lewis, George, Eugene, Georgiana, the wife of Rollin
Kirk, Gabriella, the wife of James Kirk, Susan, the wife
of Smith P. Bankhead, Elizabeth, the wife of William S.
Bankhead, Celestine, the wife of Marshall Walker, and secondly
of John Stockton, and Alice, the wife of Philip Gilchrist.

John married Ann, daughter of John Rodes, sold the land
on Blue Run which was given him by his father, and near
the close of the last century removed to Kentucky. Elijah
received from his father a plantation of more than five hundred
acres southwest of Still House Mountain, and in the
early years of the century acted as deputy Sheriff. He was
twice married, first to Susan Fretwell, and secondly to Catharine,
widow of George Wayt. He died in 1817. His
children were Littleton, Paschal, Elizabeth, the wife of a
McGarvey, and Virginia, the wife of a Cross.

Jesse lived on a plantation his father gave him, lying west
of the Barracks. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Bezaleel
Brown, and his children Thomas, William T., Brightberry,

Bezaleel, Mary, the wife of John H. McKennie, and
Sarah, the wife of Willis C. Goodman. He died in 1836.

Garland resided on the old Barracks place, where he built
the large brick mansion recently occupied by the late George
Carr. He married Susan Crenshaw, and his children were
Dr. Garland A., Burwell, Isaac, Harriet, the wife of Isaac
Davis, and Hardenia, the wife of Dr. Waller Head, who removed
to Missouri. Mr. Garth was deprived of his home by
business reverses, and spent his last days with one of his
children in Nelson County.

GENTRY.

The different Gentry families in Albemarle seem to have
sprung from the same head. Nicholas Gentry died in 1779,
leaving eleven children, Moses, David, Nicholas, Mary Hinson,
Robert, Benajah, Nathan, Martin, Elizabeth Haggard,
Jane Timberlake, and Ann Jenkins. Moses bought land in
1778 from Samuel Gay on the old Lynchburg Road north of
Garland's Store. He was a ruling elder in the Cove Church.
He died in 1810. His children were Claiborne and Nicholas,
who married sisters, Jane and Mary, daughters of Bezaleel
Maxwell, Frances, the wife of Thomas Fitzpatrick, and
Joanna, the wife of Joseph Walters. Addison, a son of
Nicholas, married Lucy, a sister of Shelton F. Leake.

Prior to 1778 David and Martin were owners of land on
Doyle's River, which they afterwards sold to Benajah Brown.
A son of one of these brothers probably was Richard Gentry,
who in 1784 married Jane, daughter of James Harris, and
removed to Kentucky, and whose descendants held a reunion
at Crab Orchard in August 1898. And from one of them in
all likelihood came George Gentry, who died in 1818, whose
home was not far from Free Union, whose wife's name was
Elizabeth, and whose children were James, George, William,
Frances, the wife of Nathaniel Tate, Austin, Aaron, Christopher,
Martha, the wife of John Walton, Elizabeth, the wife
of Edward Ballard, and Nancy, the wife of Edward Walton.
The children of Christopher and his wife Sarah, were Martha,
the wife of Joel Maupin, Mary, the wife of Henry Via, Frances,

the wife of Thomas Gibson, Elizabeth, the wife of James
Dunn, Paschal, Henry, and Dicey, the wife of Garrett White.

Benajah lived on Biscuit Run, where he commenced to purchase
land in 1764. In 1817 he transferred his property to
his son Robert, although his death did not occur till 1830.
Martha, the wife of Elijah Dawson, son of Rev. Martin, who
removed to Callaway County, Missouri, and Elizabeth, the
wife of William Goodman, were daughters of Benajah. Robert
married Mary, daughter of Francis Wingfield, and was the
father of Albert.

Robert Gentry, believed to be the son of Nicholas, bought
in 1766 from Martha, widow of Samuel Arnold, a place on
the head waters of Ivy Creek, which he and his wife Judith
sold in 1776 to John Woodson. Philip Joyner, whose
daughter was the wife of a Robert Gentry, and who once
owned the land the University stands on, devised the land
to his two grandsons, Charles and Jesse Gentry. They sold,
the one in 1775, and the other in 1783, and appear to have
emigrated to North Carolina. Whether the Robert just mentioned
was the same with the son of Nicholas, is unknown.

GILMER.

George Gilmer, immigrant, was a native of Scotland, who
after a short sojourn in London, came to this country. He
settled in Williamsburg, and practised his profession as a
physician. His son Peachy, a fellow student of Nicholas
Meriwether in William and Mary College, paid a visit to his
friend in Albemarle, and fell in love with and married his
sister Mary. This led to his brother George visiting the
county, and ultimately marrying Lucy, daughter of Dr.
Thomas Walker.

George like his father was a physician. He settled in
Charlottesville, and his first residence was on Main Street,
near the present store of T. T. Norman. He seems afterwards
to have lived on Jefferson Street, on the south end of
the lot facing the west side of the Square. He was a man of
great activity and public spirit. The agitation preceding
the Revolution had already begun when Dr. Gilmer came

to Charlottesville, and from the first he displayed the liveliest
concern in the questions involved. Allusion has already
been made to the prominent part he performed in the
earliest movements towards independence. In 1777 he purchased
from John Harvie Pen Park, which he made his home
for the remainder of his life, the home of intelligence and
refined hospitality graphically described by John P. Kennedy
in his Life of Wirt. About the same time he purchased land
on Mechunk, until he owned more than two thousand acres
in that section. He was appointed a magistrate, served as
Sheriff in 1787, and was a member of the House of Delegates.
He died in 1796. His children were Mildred, the wife of
William Wirt, George, Peachy, John, James, Lucy, the wife
of Peter Minor, Harmer, Francis W., and Susan, the wife of
Zachariah Shackelford.

Pen Park continued to be the home of the family during the
life of Mrs. Gilmer. That part of the plantation called Rose
Hill, where the children of John D. Craven now reside, was
given to Mr. Wirt, and there he built a house; but having
no family, he and his wife lived for the most part with her
mother. The mother and daughter both died in 1800, and
the next year Mr. Wirt removed to Richmond. The homestead
was soon after sold to Richard Sampson, and still later
to John H. Craven, whose residence there many yet remember.

George married Elizabeth, daughter of Christopher Hudson,
of Mount Air. He became the owner of the Mechunk lands,
which some years after were sold under deeds of trust to
Dabney Minor. He died in 1836. His children were Thomas
W., George Christopher, John H., Sarah, the wife of Dr.
Samuel W. Tompkins, Georgiana, the wife of Colin C. Spiller,
Maria, the wife of Samuel G. Adams, Ann, the wife of
Peter McGee, Martha, and Lucy, the wife of Edward Pegram.
Thomas W. was a lawyer, member of the Legislature, Governor
of Virginia, member of Congress, Secretary of the
Navy, and lamentably perished on board of the United States
ship Princeton in 1844. His wife was Ann Baker, of Shepherdstown,
Va. In 1826 he lived on Park Street where Drury
Wood now resides, in 1831 bought from W. B. Phillips the-brick

house and lot at the west end of Jefferson Street, where
John C. Patterson lives, and in 1836 purchased from John
W. Davis the property on the hill recently occupied by John
T. Antrim. G. Christopher married first Leana Lewis, of the
Scottsville neighborhood, and secondly Mildred, daughter of
Richard Duke. He died in 1887.

Peachy was admitted to the bar, and practised in Bedford
County. He and Lucy were two of the devisees of the Farmington
estate, Mrs. George Divers being their mother's sister.
Peachy died in 1836. John was a physician, married Sarah
Gilmer, a distant kinswoman, and lived at Edgemont, where
he died in 1835. Francis adopted the profession of law, but
was cut off in early life. He was a young man of fine
endowments and rare culture, and gave promise of filling a
distinguished position in his generation. He was a close
friend of Mr. Wirt and Judge Dabney Carr, and a great
favorite of Mr. Jefferson. The implicit reliance Mr. Jefferson
had in his penetration and judgment, was manifested in
his being entrusted with the selection of the first professors
of the University. He himself was designed for the professorship
of law. In his modesty, which was as great as his
ability, he thrice declined the place. At length he accepted,
but before entering upon its labors, was removed from the
scene of all earthly activities in 1826.

GOOCH.

William Gooch, written in the early records Gouge, came to
the county from Hanover. In 1751 he bought land from John
Graves in the Everettsville neighborhood, which nine years
after he sold to Benjamin Sneed, and it is believed, removed
to Amherst. Another William, who, from being denominated
Junior, is presumed to be his son, purchased land on the
south fork of Hardware in 1764, but in 1770 began buying in
the Ragged Mountains south of Ivy Depot, and in that vicinity
fixed his residence. His dwelling stood where his son Dabney
afterwards lived, and where still later W. O. English
taught school. He died in 1796. He and his wife Lucy had
ten children, Matthew, Philip, Dabney C., Nicholas L., William,

Thomas W., Elizabeth, the wife of Nathan Dedman,
Martha, the wife of William Thurmond, Susan, and Mary,
the wife of William Moore. Matthew, who was admitted to
the Albemarle bar in 1796, and Nicholas removed to Kentucky.
Philip removed to Amherst, and to him his father transferred
the land which he first bought on the Ragged Mountains, and
which somehow acquired the name of Little Egypt, included
the present reservoir, and was sold by his son Claiborne to
the Houchens and Mayo families that still live on it. Claiborne
Gooch removed to Richmond, became Adjutant General
of the State, and was associated with Thomas Ritchie in
publishing the Richmond Enquirer.

Dabney married Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. William Irvin,
of the South Garden, and had a daughter Mary, the wife of
her cousin, Dr. William F. Gooch. He died in 1844.
Thomas W. married Nancy, another daughter of Mr. Irvin,
and for many years kept a tavern at the D. S. He died in
1838. His children were Alonzo, Edwin, Meade, Angelina
and Elizabeth, the wife of John Fray Jr. Alonzo was for
some years a merchant in Charlottesville, and a magistrate
of the county, and lived on the lot west of the Episcopal
Church, now occupied by Capt. H. Robertson. His wife
was a daughter of B. F. Porter, of Orange, and died in 1897
in Bluefield, W. Va.

Dr. William F. Gooch was a grandson of William Jr., and
came to Charlottesville from Amherst about 1823. The next
year he married his cousin Mary, the only child of Dabney C.
For many years he practised his profession actively both in
town and country. His town residence was the house now
occupied by James F. Burnley on High Street. He was
appointed a magistrate in 1843. Not long before the war
he removed to his farm south of Ivy, where he died at an
advanced age in 1881. He had two daughters, Maria, the
wife of Paul H. Goodloe, and Elizabeth, the wife of W. O.
English.

Another person bearing the name of Gooch belonged to
the county in former times. He married Sarah, daughter of
David Wood, and sister of the elder Drury. He had four

sons and five daughters. Two of the sons, John and Roland,
appear to have owned land on Rough Run, a branch of
Moorman's River. They all removed to Lincoln County,
Kentucky, probably in the closing years of the last century.

GOODMAN.

The first of the Goodman family was Charles. He is
noticed as early as 1761 as having married Elizabeth, daughter
of Roland Horsley. He began the purchase of land where
he continued to live until his death, on the south fork of the
Rivanna, west of the mouth of Ivy Creek. In the course of
years he acquired considerably more than a thousand acres.
His dwelling stood where Edward Wingfield now lives.
He was appointed a magistrate in 1794, but apparently
averse to the publicity of office soon resigned. He seems to
have been a quiet, industrious man, notably upright in all
his dealings. When in his will he made bequests of negroes
to his children, he required a certain proportion of the value
of their labor to be paid them year by year; and it is probable
he did himself what he enjoined upon others. He died
in 1827. His children were William, Joseph, Nathan, John,
Susan, the wife of John Rogers, Roland Horsley, Jeremiah
A., and Elizabeth, the wife of an Anderson. William married
Elizabeth Gentry, Joseph married Nancy, daughter of Patrick
Michie, Nathan married Mildred, daughter of Manoah
Clarkson, and emigrated to Kentucky. John was one of the
early Methodist preachers, and his wife was Frances, daughter
of Thomas Dickerson. Jeremiah A. married Mary Clarkson,
sister of Nathan's wife, and lived until his death in 1857
four or five miles south of Charlottesville.

Horsley Goodman married Elizabeth, daughter of David
Rodes, and his children were D. Rodes, who was a deputy
Surveyor of the county, Nathan C., who married Sarah,
daughter of Joel Terrell, William, Horsley, who married
Sarah, daughter of James Durrett, of the Batesville neighborhood,
Susan, the wife of James Durrett, brother of Horsley's
wife, Ann, the wife of Seth Burnley, and Lucy, the second
wife of Thomas H. Brown. Horsley Sr., died the same year
as his father.

GOOLSBY.

Thomas Goolsby was one of the earliest settlers within the
present bounds of the county. In 1732, thirteen years before
its organization, he patented twelve hundred acres on James
River. In 1745 he sold more than five hundred acres to
Samuel Shelton, and in the description of the deed are
mentioned two tributaries of the James, called Holmans and
Goolsby's Creeks. This deed is noteworthy also from a
memorandum inscribed on it in 1788, showing that it had
been previously recorded, but the record had been destroyed
by the British in 1781. Thomas Goolsby died in 1774.
He was twice married, his last wife being Lucy Bryant.
His children were William, Thomas, Susan, the wife of a
Childress, Ann, the wife of a Nowling, Lucy, the wife of a
Saunders, and Elizabeth. William owned land on the waters
of the south fork of Hardware. He died in 1819, and his
children were William, Tabitha, the wife of Joseph Harlan,
Tarleton, who married Mildred, daughter of Thomas
Walker Jr., Sarah, the wife of a Thurmond, Susan, the wife
of a Davis, Fleming, Jane, the wife of Samuel Harlan, Arthur,
Mary, the wife of a Samuel Richardson, and Nancy, the
wife of a Phillips.

Charles, James and John Goolsby, of Albemarle, were
Revolutionary soldiers, members of the Ninth Virginia
Regiment. Charles, who was a non-commissioned officer,
and James were taken prisoners at Germantown; all three
died in the service. They were beyond doubt sons of
Thomas Sr., as William was stated to be their heir.

GORDON.

Before the middle of the last century two brothers named
Gordon, natives of Scotland, were settled on opposite sides of
the Rappahannock River as merchants, plying a thriving
trade with the old country. James resided in Lancaster
County, and John at Tappahannock in Essex. James's
wife was Mary Harrison, of the Harrisons of Surry, and the
wife of John was Lucy Churchill. Descendants of both
became inhabitants of Albemarle. Rev. James Waddell,

who preached and taught school near Gordonsville, married
a daughter of James, and William F. Gordon, who acted
a leading part in the affairs of the county in the first half of
the present century, traced his lineage to John, or rather to
both brothers at once. His father, James Gordon, was the
son of John, and his mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of
James. William F. was admitted to the Albemarle bar in
1809. In 1812 he succeeded Joseph J. Monroe as Attorney
of the Commonwealth, but resigned the next year, giving
place to Jesse W. Garth. From 1818 to 1829 he was almost
continuously a member of the House of Delegates, and in 1830
a member of the State Senate. He also represented the
district in Congress. The title of General by which he was
commonly known, he derived from his appointment in 1829
as Brigadier General of the Third Brigade, Second Division
of the Virginia militia, and in 1840 of Major General of the
Second Division. His home was at Spring Hill, at the
eastern base of the South West Mountain, not far from
Gordonsville. He died in 1858. His wife was Elizabeth,
daughter of Reuben Lindsay, and his children, James, George,
Hannah, the wife of W. J. Robertson, Reuben, William F.,
Charles, Dr. John C., Alexander and Mason.

In the last century there came to the county an Alexander
Gordon, who seems to have been of kindred with the noble
Scottish family of Gordon, of Huntly. He lived on Sowell's
Branch near Carter's Bridge, where he obtained a patent for
a small tract of land in 1785. He sued Humphrey Gaines
for a piece of vacant land on Buck Island Creek to which
they both laid claim, his counsel being Walter Leake, while
Mr. Wirt appeared for Gaines. He was not an ornament to
the county. He died in 1805, leaving a son, Alexander Duff
Gordon, who two years after removed to Tennessee.

GOSS.

The first known settlement of the Goss family was in that
part of Albemarle, which in its division in 1761 was erected
into Buckingham. A James Goss was witness to a deed,

conveying land on a branch of Slate River, in 1749. The
head of the family now living in the county was Benjamin,
who with a large household emigrated to Georgia. In process
of time two of his sons, Jesse and John, returned to
Virginia.

John soon became a teacher in the family of Governor James
Barbour. He married Jane, daughter of James Walker, of
Madison, and for a time had his residence in that county.
He, as well as Jesse, entered the ministry of the Baptist
Church. In 1803 he settled in Albemarle in the Priddy's
Creek neighborhood, where he passed the remainder of his
days, preaching for the most part to the church of that
name. In 1816 he was appointed a magistrate. His death
occurred in 1838, at the age of sixty-three. His children
were Harriet, Sarah, the wife of Nimrod Bramham Jr., James
W., John W., William, and Ebenezer, who died some years
ago near Somerset in Orange.

James, when a young man, was engaged in the drug business
on the public square in Charlottesville, in partnership
with John Field Jr. In 1836 he took a leading part in establishing
the Disciples' Church on Market Street, becoming a
minister in that denomination, and publishing for a short
period one of its organs, the Christian Intelligencer. He
was appointed a magistrate in 1841. He was afterwards
successfully employed in educational work, founding the
Piedmont Female Academy near Priddy's Creek, and at the
time of his death in 1870, filling the presidency of a similar
institution in Hopkinsville, Ky. His wife was Jane A.
Grigsby, of Rockbridge county.

John was in early life a merchant in Charlottesville in
partnership with Christopher Hornsey. He married Polydora,
daughter of Major John Lewis, of the Sweet Springs,
and sister of Mrs. John Cochran. In 1838 he succeeded his
father as a magistrate, and in 1854 and 1855 represented the
county in the Legislature. Since the war he occupied the
offices both of Sheriff and County Clerk. He died in 1883,
aged sixty-eight.

GRAYSON.

William Grayson was a native of Spotsylvania, and came
to Albemarle some time before the Revolutionary War. In
1764 he bought land on the head of Mechum's River from
Speaker John Robinson, who was then selling off the immense
tracts in Rockfish valley, patented by his brother-in-law,
John Chiswell. Having sold this property a few years
after, he purchased from Gamaliel Bailey and Obadiah
Martin at what was then known as the Little D. S., where
the old Richard Woods Road forks with that passing through
Batesville, and where his descendants have been living ever
since. In 1804 he sold a small parcel at this place to William
Simpson, who there established a tanyard that for
many years went by his name, and afterwards by the name
of Grayson, and that was one of the most noted landmarks
in that neighborhood. Simpson in 1818 sold it to Joseph
Grayson, a grandson of William. William died in 1829,
having attained the remarkable age of ninety-seven years.
His wife was Ann, daughter of Thomas Smith, and his
children were John, Thomas, Martha, Elizabeth, the wife of
Joseph Sutherland, and Susan, the wife first of Isaac Wood,
and secondly of a Tomlin. Joseph Grayson married Rhoda,
daughter of Daniel White, and died in 1867. His children
were Thomas, who married Mary, daughter of John Jones,
Ann, the wife of James H. Shelton, Frances, Elizabeth, the
wife of Benjamin F. Abell, John and William.

HAMNER.

Tradition relates, that the immigrant Hamner bore the
name of Nicholas, that he came from Wales and settled in
Middlesex County, and that he had six or seven sons. Three
of them fixed their homes in Albemarle. The first who
appears on the records was William. In 1759 he bought
from Thomas Fitzpatrick nearly five hundred acres on the
south fork of Hardware, not far from Jumping Hill. The
same year he obtained a patent for nearly two hundred acres
on the north fork of Hardware, and acquired near by upwards
of seven hundred more, all of which he sold in 1782

to Colonel John Old. In 1777 he purchased from Dr. James
Hopkins about fifteen hundred acres on the waters of Totier.
He died in 1785. He and his wife Elizabeth had eleven
children, Jeremiah, Turner, Richardson, Henley, Samuel,
Mildred, the wife of Jacob Moon, Elizabeth, the wife of
Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mary, the wife of a Perry, Susan, the
wife of Reuben Turner, Rebecca, the wife of James Turner,
and the wife of David Strange. Jeremiah and Henley lived
in the Biscuit Run valley, Turner at the mouth of Eppes
Creek, Samuel near Jumping Hill, Jacob Moon, the Turners
and Strange on Totier, though the Turners soon removed to
Amherst. Jeremiah married Rebecca, daughter of Castleton
Harper, and died in 1815. Most of his children emigrated
to Georgia and Alabama, but his daughter Mary remained
in Albemarle as the first wife of Samuel Barksdale. Samuel,
who died in 1817, married, it is believed, a Morris, probably
a daughter of Hugh Rice Morris, of the Totier region, and
his children were William, Elizabeth, the wife of Rice Garland,
Henley, Morris, Samuel, Jane, the wife of a Thomas,
and Rhoda, the wife of James Nimmo. William died in
1831, and his children were John T., Jesse B., Susan, the
wife of a Rice, Martha, the wife of Jacob Waltman, Austin
and Samuel, who emigrated to Tennessee, and William,
Morris and Samuel married sisters named Lucas, and about
the beginning of the century removed to Charlotte County.
The latter was the father of James G. and Thomas L., ministers
in the Presbyterian Church.

The second of the brothers was Robert, who died in 1750.
In 1772 his son Nicholas conveyed to William Hamner
two hundred and seventy acres at the mouth of Eppes Creek,
which had been devised to him by his father. In 1784 he
purchased land north of Glendower, which is still the residence
of his grandson. In 1794 he was associated in business
with Samuel Dyer at Warren, where he died soon after. His
wife was Agnes, daughter of Giles Tompkins, and his children
Susan, the wife of John L. Cobb, of Bedford, and
mother of Nicholas Hamner Cobb, a former Chaplain of the
University, and the first Episcopal Bishop of Alabama, Nicholas,

who married Mary, daughter of Edward Garland,
Edmund, who married Charlotte, daughter of Manoah Clarkson,
James, who married Isabel Maxwell, Elizabeth, the wife
of a Scruggs, of Buckingham, and Nancy, the wife of Samuel
Childress.

The third of the brothers is believed to have been John,
who lived in the Biscuit Run valley, and first appears as a
purchaser of land in 1778. He married Mary, daughter of
Charles and Rachel Wingfield, and his children were Charles
W., of Buckingham, from whom descended James and Wade
Hamner, of Lynchburg, John, who married Susan Fretwell,
Francis, who married Sarah Eubank, Thomas, who married
Maria, daughter of Edward Garland, and removed to Lewis
County, West Virginia, Mary and Susan, the wives respectively
of Meekins and John B. Carr, who emigrated to Dickson
County, Tennessee, Elizabeth, the wife of Samuel S. Gay,
and Sarah, the wife of David Gentry.

HANCOCK.

One of the original patentees of land in the county was
Solomon Hancock. In 1756 he obtained the grant of four
hundred acres between the Hardware and Totier Creek,
Four years after he sold part of it to Giles Tompkins, and
removed to Halifax County. In 1777 he sold the remainder
to William Tompkins, son of Giles.

David Hancock in 1834 purchased from John R. Campbell
eleven hundred acres on both sides of the Rivanna, above the
mouth of Buck Island Creek. He died in 1858. His children
were David, who married Janetta Thurman, Dr. Charles,
who married Catharine Thurman, Gustavus, who married
Lily Wimbert, and lived on James River below Howardsville,
and Virginia, the wife of Dr. Francis Hancock, of Richmond.
David died in 1872, Mrs. Virginia in 1884, Dr. Charles in
1885, and Gustavus 1898. All left families.

Richard J. Hancock was a native of Alabama, and came to
Virginia during the civil war with the troops of Louisiana.
Sojourning in Albemarle while recovering from wounds received
in battle, he married Thomasia, daughter of John O.

Harris. He succeeded his father-in-law at Ellerslie, which
is a part of the old Indian Camp plantation, once the estate
of William Short, Washington's Minister to the Hague, and
the fame of which as a stock farm he has spread abroad
throughout the land.

HARDIN.

The family of Hardin occupied a position of some prominence
in the county at the beginning of the century. Its
head was Isaac, who, after living on different places, finally
settled about 1785 on the plantation near Greenwood Depot,
recently owned by Thomas C. Bowen. Here he resided until
his death in 1820, at the age of eighty-four. His wife was
Elizabeth, daughter of William Brown, and his children
Mary, the wife of Samuel B. Smith, whose sons removed to
Tennessee, Benjamin, Elizabeth, the wife of Gideon Morgan,
Sarah, the wife of Nathaniel Landcraft, Nelson, Isaac B.,
Lucinda, the wife of William Scott, Berry M., and John.
About 1808 Nelson emigrated to Mississippi Territory, and
Isaac to Tennessee. Berry M. died in 1826.

For many years Benjamin was a conspicuous figure in the
western part of the county. He bought in 1805 the brick
house about a mile west of Ivy Depot, which was at first the
nucleus, and soon the whole, of the town of Morgantown.
Here he kept a tavern having the name of Albemarle Hotel
until 1826. From time to time he bought up a few lots of the
projected town, as their owners endeavored to realize a return
from their investment; but as they lay unmarked amidst the
trees and bushes of the forest, it is surmised the great mass
of them quietly lapsed in his hands, totally forgotten by
those who held the title. Hardin was a fancier of fine horses,
and kept a number of racers. It is likely the temptations
connected with such pursuits involved him in undue expense,
and led to a neglect of his proper business; at all events in
1827 all his property was sold under deeds of trust. He
then removed to Nelson County. In January 1899, his son,
Dr. Charles W. Hardin, died near Longwood, Rockbridge
County, in the eighty-fifth year of his age.

HARPER.

Castleton Harper was a deputy of Joseph Thompson, the
first Sheriff of the county. His home was on the north
fork of Hardware, near the mouth of Sowell's Branch. His
death occurred about 1799. His children were Richard, Castleton,
Henry, Rebecca, the wife of Jeremiah Hamner, Mary,
the wife of Reuben White, Jemima, the wife of Edward
Lyon, and Ellinda, believed to have been the wife of Thomas
Staples.

Charles Harper came to Albemarle from Culpeper about
1814. In that year he bought from Thomas Wells eight
hundred acres south of Ivy Depot. By continued purchases
he became the owner of more than twelve hundred acres in
that vicinity. In 1817 he disposed of three hundred acres,
and half of the mill on Ivy Creek, to his son Joseph. He
died in 1848. His wife was Lucy Smithers, and his children
Joseph, Sarah, the wife of John Slaughter, Mary, the wife of
William H. Glasscock, William, Charles, Gabriel, Lydia,
the wife of Stephen C. Price, Robert, Lucy, the wife of Dr.
M. L. Anderson, Nancy, the wife of Uriah P. Bennett, and
Eliza Jane, the wife of John Wood Jr.

Joseph in 1826 sold to Benjamin Wood a tract of fifty acres,
which acquired the name of Woodville, but has since been
called Ivy Depot. In 1832 he sold his property, and removed
to Daviess County, Missouri, where he died the same year
as his father. He was twice married, first to Eliza Ann
Green, and secondly to Mary Ann Miller, the widow of
Robert W. Wood. His children were Twyman W., William,
Mary, the wife of — Martin, Lucy Ann, the wife of Norborne
T. Martin, a former merchant of Charlottesville,
Charles and John. Gabriel married Sarah, daughter of
Edmund Anderson and Jane Lewis. He was appointed a
magistrate of the county in 1838. Some years before the war
he removed to Appomattox County, and later to Prince
Edward. When the war closed, he settled on James River
below Richmond, where not long after he died.

HARRIS.

Matthew Harris in 1741 patented four hundred acres on
the waters of Totier, which he afterwards sold to John
Harris. It is believed he soon removed to the present territory
of Nelson. He married Miss Lee, and had two sons,
William and Lee. Lee married Miss Philips, and his son,
William Lee Harris, who married Elizabeth, daughter of
Clayton Coleman, was admitted to the Albemarle bar in
1798, but probably lived in the present bounds of Nelson.

William Harris, in all likelihood a brother of Matthew, was
long one of the early and leading citizens of Albemarle.
His first patent was located on Beaverdam of Hardware in
1739. He also made entries on Totier and Green Creeks,
until during the next forty years he possessed more than two
thousand acres. He was evidently a man of fine judgment
and great energy. He established on Green Creek one of
the first mills erected in that part of the county, and it has
ever since been an important centre to the surrounding
country. In 1746, the year after the county was organized,
he was appointed one of its magistrates. He died in 1788.
His wife was Mary Netherland, and his children, Matthew,
Sarah, the wife of a Mosby, Elizabeth, the wife of John
Digges, Catharine, the wife of a Steger, John, William, Mary,
the wife of a Woodfolk, Benjamin, Ann, the wife of Hawes
Coleman, and Judith, the wife of George Coleman. From
this stem has sprung a greater number of families perhaps
than from any other ever domiciled in the county.

Matthew married Miss Tate, and had fifteen children.
Among them were Schuyler, who married Frances Blades,
lived two miles north of Covesville, and died in 1803, and
whose son, William B., married Elizabeth, daughter of
Andrew Hart, was the father of Alfred and William Henry,
was a magistrate of the county, and a ruling elder in the
Cove Church, and died in 1862; Matthew, who married Miss
Blades, and had a large family, of which the only one
remaining is venerable Lloyd Harris, now living near Warren;
Henry T., who became a member of the Albemarle bar
in 1808, lived south of Covesville, married his cousin Mary,

daughter of Benjamin Harris, and died in 1845, and whose
daughters, Mary and Cornelia, were the wives respectively
of Dr. Daniel E. Watson, and Dr. William D. Boaz; and
Mary, the wife of a Barnett, and mother of Nathan J., who
lived near Covesville, and was for many years Surveyor of
the county.

Sarah Mosby was the grandmother of Alfred, the father
of Colonel John S. Mosby, of Confederate fame. Elizabeth,
the wife of John Digges, was the mother of nine children, of
whom Elizabeth became the wife of Rev. Isaac Darneille, an
Episcopal clergyman, Charlotte, the wife of William Moon,
Dorothy, the wife of Marshall Durrett, Nancy, the wife of
James Durrett, of Batesville, and Lucy, the wife of Dabney
Carr, of North Garden.

John Harris was at the time of his death in 1832 the
wealthiest man in the county. His home was at Viewmont,
south of Carter's Bridge, which he purchased in 1803 from
Tucker Moore Woodson. It is said, he added largely to his
estate by his business operations during the war of 1812.
He was appointed a magistrate in 1807. He was twice married,
first to Frances Rowzy, and secondly to Sarah, widow of
Robert Barclay. He left no children of his own, but devised
a large portion of his estate to the children of his second wife,
two of whom were married to the brothers, John D. and
Edward H. Moon. His will was contested, and a long litigation
ensued before it was finally established in 1838.

William married Miss Wagstaff, and had eight children.
Among them were William B., and Frances, the wife of
Lewis Nicholas. William B. married Elizabeth, daughter
of Samuel Woods, and was the father of William H., who
married Mary J. Wayland, lived on the old Field place near
Batesville, was appointed a magistrate in 1838, and died in
1887.

Benjamin was a man of great wealth, was appointed a
magistrate in 1791, and served as Sheriff in 1815. He married
Mary, daughter of Samuel Woods, and had eleven children.
Among them were Dr. William A., who married his
cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Schuyler Harris, was a magistrate

of the county, and a ruling elder in the Cove Church,
and in 1837 removed to Illinois; and Colonel George W., who
died in 1877, and whose children still occupy the old homestead
on the old Irish Road, west of Porter's Precinct.
Ann, wife of Hawes Coleman, was the grandmother of Mary,
the wife of Dr. Charles D. Everett.

One of the early settlers on Doyle's River was Robert Harris.
He obtained patents for nearly three thousand acres in that
vicinity, his first entry having been made in 1750. His death
took place in 1765. He and his wife Mourning had ten children,
Christopher, Robert, Tyree, James, William, Lucy, the
wife of William Shelton, Sarah, the wife of John Rodes, the
wife of William Dalton, Mourning, the wife of John Jouett,
and Elizabeth, the wife of William Crawford, and mother of
William H. Crawford, United States Senator from Georgia,
Minister to France, Secretary of the Treasury under Mr. Monroe,
and a prominent candidate for the Presidency in 1824.
Robert was a Captain in the Revolutionary service, and
removed to Surry County, North Carolina. William died
early in 1776, and Christopher in 1794.

James died in 1792. He and his wife Mary had ten children,
Thomas, Joel, Nathan, James, Lucy, the wife of Thomas
Grubbs, Mourning, the wife of Cornelius Maupin, Sarah, the
wife of James Harrison, Susan, the wife of Nicholas Burnley,
Ann, the wife of a Haden, and Jane, the wife of a Dabney. Joel
was appointed a magistrate in 1801, and about 1811 Commissioner
of the Revenue for Fredericksville parish, which office
he held until his death in 1826. He and his wife Anna had
three sons, Ira, Joel and Clifton. Ira succeeded his father
in the Commissionership, as well as in the old home, the
place where Jeremiah A. Early now resides, and died in 1863.
He married Sarah, and his brother Clifton, Mary, daughters
of Howell Lewis, of North Garden. Nathan removed to
Lexington, Va., where he resided till his death. He was the
father of the Hon. John T. Harris, and Rev. William A.
Harris, for many years Principal of the Female Seminary in
Staunton. James was appointed a magistrate in 1807. He
married Mary, daughter of John and Mary McCulloch, and

was associated with his brothers-in-law, Robert and James
McCulloch, in conducting the mill at Millington. In 1822 he
sold his property, and removed to another part of the country.

Another family of this name lived near Free Union. Its
head was James, who died in 1797. He and his wife Elizabeth
had six sons and five daughters. One of his sons, Blake,
married Mary, daughter of John Alphin, and from another
was descended Randolph Frank Harris, who was for some
years the mayor of Charlottesville.

At a later date John O. Harris came to the county from
Louisa. He purchased part of the old Indian Camp place,
which William Short sold in 1813 to David Higginbotham.
His wife was Barbara Terrell, and his daughters, Ann and
Thomasia, became the wives respectively of John O. Pendleton
and R. J. Hancock. Mr. Harris died in 1877, and his
wife in 1882.

HARRISON.

Richard Harrison in 1789 purchased from James Overstreet,
of Bedford, a tract of two hundred acres on the Martin King
Road, between the waters of Buck Island and Hardware,
which he sold four years later to Charles McGehee. One
of the same name, and in all probability the same person,
married Mary, daughter of Peter Clarkson. He resided in
the Whitehall neighborhood, and was the father of a large
family. His children were Elizabeth, the wife of Weatherston
Shelton, Ann, the wife of John Clarkson, Mary, the wife
of Charles W. Maupin, who removed to St. Louis, Peter C.,
Charles, John C., who married Frances Rodes, Julius C.,
who married Elizabeth Strange, Richard, David, James, who
married Sarah Harris, and William.

In 1829 Dr. Charles Cocke and George M. Payne, as trustees
of William Moon, sold Belle Grove, the seat of Old Albemarle
Court House on James River, to Peyton Harrison.
Mr. Harrison was a son of Randolph Harrison, of Clifton in
Cumberland County, and a grandnephew of Benjamin, the
signer of the Declaration of Independence. He married Jane,
daughter of Judge Dabney Carr. Settling on his plantation
near Scottsville, he practiced law for three or four years, but

abandoning that profession he entered the Presbyterian ministry.
After making this change of vocation, he returned to
Scottsville, and became pastor of the Presbyterian Church.
Near the close of 1833 he sold Belle Grove to his brother,
Carter H. Harrison. Here Carter resided until his death in
1844. He was appointed a magistrate of the county in 1835.
His wife was Jeanette Fisher, and his sons were George
Fisher, Henry, Edward Jacquelin, and Carter. Henry was
the father of George M. Harrison, Judge of the present Court
of appeals.

HART.

Andrew Hart was a Scotchman by birth, and was established
as a merchant in the southern part of the county as
early as 1786. His store was on Jumping Hill, at the south
end of Gay's Mountain. At that time the road from Staunton
to Scott's Landing passed immediately in its front, so
that it was a point of public concourse. Mr. Hart was eminently
successful in his business operations, and attained a
high reputation for integrity and worth. Besides the management
of his private interests, he was frequently engaged
in public affairs, devoting much time to the execution of
trusts devolved upon him by the County Court. He was for
many years a ruling elder in the Cove Church, and one of its
main supporters. His home was at Sunny Bank, the present
residence of his great-grandson, Andrew Hart. He was
twice married, first to Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Samuel
Leake, and secondly to Elizabeth Bickley, sister of the wife
of Samuel Dyer. He died in 1832.

His children by the first marriage were Samuel L. and
Mary, the wife of David Young. These brothers-in-law were
in the early part of the century associated as merchants, and
prosecuted an active business in North Garden. Samuel
Hart was exceedingly popular, and a wide circle of friends
availed themselves of his rare executive gifts. About 1829
he removed to Missouri. By the second marriage Mr. Hart's
children were James, Andrew, John B., Francis, William D.,
Eliza, the wife of William B. Harris, Margaret, the wife of

Rev. Thornton Rogers, and Celia, the wife of Dr. Jacob Snider,
who removed to Mississippi.

James was twice married, first to Sophia, daughter of
Schuyler Harris, and secondly to Frances Thomas, widow of
Dr. Charles H. Meriwether. His home was in North Garden
where H. Carter Moore afterwards lived, but he subsequently
removed to Fruitland near Keswick, the present residence of
his son-in-law, A. P. Fox. He died in 1874. Andrew was
a Presbyterian minister, and died a few years ago at Buchanan,
the place of his last pastorate. John B. was appointed
a magistrate in 1824, did business in Scottsville and Mississippi
successfully for a time, but at length overtaken by commercial
disaster, removed to Alexandria where he died.
Francis received from his father a plantation near Covesville,
sold it in 1837 to Dr. Daniel E. Watson, and removed to
Richmond. William D. was a man of much energy and vivacity,
studied law, was a magistrate, represented the county
both in the House of Delegates and State Senate, and was a
Director of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. He succeeded
his father both in the old homestead and the eldership
of the Cove Church. He married Elizabeth De Jarnette,
and had one daughter Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas R. Dew.
He departed this life in 1877.

John Hart, a brother of Andrew, settled in Richmond,
where he died unmarried in 1796. He managed his affairs
prosperously, and acquired considerable property. By his
will he bequeathed a thousand pounds to a sister in Linlithgow,
Scotland, and the residue of his estate to his brother
in Albemarle.

HARVIE.

John Harvie was a native of Stirlingshire, Scotland, and
at the time Albemarle was organized, was living at Belmont
near Keswick, a place he bought from Matthew Graves.
He was the guardian of Mr. Jefferson, and one of the
earliest efforts of the great statesman's pen, was an inquiry
addressed to Mr. Harvie respecting the method of his education.
He died in 1767. His wife was Martha Gaines, and
his children Richard, John, Daniel, who married Sarah

Taliaferro, William, who married Judith Cosby, Martha,
the wife of John Moore, Margaret, the wife of John Davenport,
Elizabeth, the wife of James Marks, Janet, the wife of
Reuben Jordan, and Mary, the wife of David Meriwether.
Some of these families resided for a time in Amherst, but
all except John emigrated to Wilkes County, Georgia, in
the decade of 1780.

John was a prominent man in his generation. He was
one of the first lawyers in point of time who practiced at the
Albemarle bar. He was a member of the House of Burgesses,
and of the Continental Congress. He owned large
tracts of land in the county, among them Belmont, the Barracks
and Pen Park. By his influence as a Congressman,
he procured the establishment of the Prison Camp at the
Barracks. He made his home for some years at Belmont,
but on receiving from Mr. Jefferson the appointment of
Register of the Land Office he removed to Richmond, and
continued in the discharge of its duties during the remainder
of his life. He died at Belvidere, his country seat near
Richmond, in 1807. He was a public spirited man, and did
much to improve his city property, building among other
houses what was afterwards known as the Gamble mansion,
in the erection of which his death was caused by falling
from a ladder. His wife was Margaret, daughter of Gabriel
Jones, the distinguished Valley lawyer. His son Jacquelin
married Mary, the only daughter of Chief Justice Marshall,
and his daughter Gabrielle, a great beauty and wit, became
the wife of the elder Thomas Mann Randolph in his old age,
a marriage which produced a prodigious sensation at the
time, and which occasioned some prudent advice on the part
of Mr. Jefferson to his daughter, the wife of Mr. Randolph's
son, in accordance with the wonderful practical wisdom that
dwelt in the man. After the death of her husband, Gabrielle
was married to Dr. John W. Brockenbrough, of Richmond
and the Warm Springs.

HAYS.

Four persons named Hays came to the county from
Augusta about 1780, William, James, David and John. It

is likely they were brothers; James and David certainly
were. William bought land from Thomas Smith on the
head waters of Mechum's River. He married Charity, a
sister of Rev. Benjamin Burgher, and in 1795 sold out and
removed to Kentucky. James at first settled in the same
vicinity, but afterwards purchased from John Mills a tract
that included the present farm of Brooksville. There just
before the close of the last century he laid out the town of
New York, and disposed of a number of lots. For many
years he kept a tavern, a well known stand in its day, which
after his death was carried on by his widow. He displayed
such prudent skill in the management of his affairs, that he
was able to devise to his three sons a thousand acres of
land. He died in 1813. His wife was Mary, daughter of
Claudius Buster, who was married a second time to John
Morrison. His children were James, Nathaniel, Thomas,
and Elizabeth, the wife of Robert Brooks. James purchased
the portions of his brothers, who seem to have removed to
Monroe County. He married Margaret Yancey, a daughter
probably of Colonel Charles Yancey. He gradually sold off
his property, and appears to have emigrated to another part
of the country about 1830.

John Hays conducted a public house in the same section,
and died in 1826. David owned land near the foot of Yellow
Mountain, a short distance north of Batesville. He was a
farmer, a storekeeper, a ruling elder in the Lebanon Church,
and for a time Colonel of the Forty-Seventh Regiment. He
died about 1856. Shortly after that time, a son, David T.,
sold his land in that neighborhood, and removed elsewhere.
William, another son as is supposed, married Mary, daughter
of John Dettor, and died not long before, or during, the
war.

HENDERSON.

At an early day the family of Henderson owned land near
Milton, both on the north and south sides of the Rivanna.
A stream which empties into the river below Milton, and
which rises not far from Colle, was for many years known as
Henderson's Branch. John Henderson bought the land on

which Milton stands from Dr. Arthur Hopkins, who entered
it in 1732. He died in 1786. It is conjectured his wife was
a Bennett, as that was a given name in the family from generation
to generation. His children were John, Bennett,
William, Elizabeth, the wife of David Crawford, Susan, the
wife of John Clark, Mary and Hannah, both married to Bullocks,
and Frances, the first wife of John Thomas, of Amherst.

John Jr., was the owner, by gift from his father and father-in-law,
of a large quantity of land lying below Milton, and
in the Biscuit Run Valley. He was manifestly a man of influence
on his own account. He was a magistrate, and filled
the office of Sheriff, though in consequence of the loss of the
early records the time is not known. He died in 1790, only
four years after the death of his father. His wife was Frances,
daughter of John Moore, and his children Bennett, Matthew,
William, Mary, the wife of Hopkins Lewis, Frances, the
wife of John Hines, Sarah, the wife of Micajah Clark, and
Elizabeth, the wife of Peter Martin. Bennett emigrated to Jessamine
County, Kentucky, about 1800, and Matthew followed
him a few years later. William, who married Rebecca,
daughter of John Hudson, conveyed six hundred acres on Biscuit
Run to Walter Coles in 1806, when he presumably joined
his kindred in the West. John Hines lived at the Pillars of
Hercules, now known as Millington, sold the place in 1807 to
Thomas Ellis, and removed to Kentucky, where after his decease
his widow became the wife of John Nicoll, of Allen
County. Hopkins Lewis lived on a farm on Biscuit Run
given his wife by her father, but his management of it was so
intolerable, that in 1801 the court took it from his control,
and in 1827 his seven children, scattered over Kentucky and
Tennessee, appointed attorneys to dispose of it.

Bennett, the second son of John Sr., was a man of much
consideration. He was a magistrate of the county. It was on
his land Milton was built. He resided there, and in the
exercise of a liberal, enterprising spirit erected a large flouring
mill, and a tobacco warehouse, that during the next
thirty years preserved the name of Henderson in the community.

He married Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Charles
Lewis Jr., of Buck Island, and had twelve children, John,
who married Ann B. Hudson, sister of his cousin William's
wife, William, Sarah, the wife of John R. Kerr, James,
Charles, Isham, Bennett, Hillsborough, Eliza, the wife of
John H. Bullock, Frances, the wife of Thomas Hornsby,
Lucy, the wife of John Wood, and Nancy Crawford, the wife
of Matthew Nelson. Bennett Henderson died comparatively
young in 1793, and within the next fifteen years his widow
and all her children had removed to Kentucky. Their land
around Milton, which was sold to Craven Peyton, came into
Mr. Jefferson's hands in 1811; and in the deed to Mr. Jefferson,
evidently written by his own hand in the precise language
which marks all his writings, there is a full account
of Bennett Henderson's family.

James P. Henderson was a grandson of Justice John Blair,
of the United States Supreme Court, and one of the heirs of
Blair Park. By purchasing the interest of John Blair Peachy,
the other heir, in 1831, he became the sole owner. He married
Margaret C., daughter of Richard Pollard, and granddaughter
of Robert Rives, and had one child, Pauline, who
became the wife of David M. Clarkson, of New York. He put
an end to his own life at Cocke's Tavern in 1835.

HENING.

William Waller Hening, the compiler of the Statutes at
Large of Virginia, was at one time a resident of Charlottesville,
and a regular practitioner at its bar. He settled in the
town in 1793, and seems to have come from Spotsylvania.
His place of residence was first on the southern boundary
of the place, near where Vandegrift's Planing Mill recently
stood, and subsequently on the south side of University Street,
not far from the Delavan Church. He dealt somewhat in
real estate, but apparently not with much success. He was
the owner of a Distillery which was once located beside the
spring on the west side of the old Lynchburg Road, a little
northeast of Orangedale, and with which his name was associated
long after his removal from the county. This event

occurred in 1805, when he went to Richmond to engage in
the useful work of collecting and publishing the Laws of
Virginia. He was unquestionably induced to undertake this
task by Mr. Jefferson, to whom it had been a matter of deep
interest and great labor for many years. He was also associated
with William Munford in publishing Hening & Munford's
Reports. His wife was Agatha, daughter of Henry
Banks. Mr. Hening continued to hold the ownership of
some lots in the southern portion of the town, and of some
land near Moore's Creek, which was finally closed out in 1830
by his son-in-law, Robert G. W. Spotswood. He died in
Richmond in 1828.

HOPKINS.

As early as 1732, Dr. Arthur Hopkins, who resided on one
of the branches of Byrd Creek in Goochland, obtained a
patent for four hundred acres where Milton now stands, another
in 1748 for nearly twenty-three hundred on Totier Creek,
and a third in 1765 for fourteen hundred and seventeen between
Hardware and Totier, which had been granted to Hardin
Burnley, but forfeited for failure to pay the quit rents.
He died in 1766. He and his wife Elizabeth had eight children,
Samuel, John, Arthur, William, James, Lucy, the wife
of George Robinson, of Pittsylvania, Mary, the wife of
Joseph Cabell, and Isabel.

Samuel married Isabella Taylor, a cousin of President
Madison's grandmother, and of President Taylor's grandfather,
and an aunt of John Taylor, of Caroline. Their son
Samuel was Lieutenant Colonel of the Tenth Virginia in the
Revolution, and General in Kentucky in the war of 1812, for
whom Hopkins County and Hopkinsville in that State were
named. Arthur went to Kentucky, and died unmarried.
William lived in Albemarle on Totier. He married Elizabeth
daughter of Jacob Moon, and died in 1820. His
children were Ann, the wife of Peter Porter, who removed to
Missouri, Mildred, the wife of James Thomas, Jane, the
wife of Littleberry Moon, and mother of Samuel O. Moon,
Mary, Margaret, Isabel, the wife of Henry Turner, and
mother of the venerable William H. Turner, Elizabeth, the

wife of Jesse Haden, Samuel—the last two emigrated to
Kentucky—and William. William had his home in the
vicinity of Scottsville, married Rebecca Estis, and died in
1832. His children were Mary, the wife of Lain B. Jones,
Martha, the wife of John H. Henderson, James, and Margaret,
the wife of Moses Arnold.

James, the son of Dr. Arthur, was the accomplished physician
who settled in Nelson County, and as already narrated,
was basely murdered in 1803.

Mary, daughter of Mary Hopkins and Joseph Cabell, became
the wife of John Breckinridge, then of Botetourt County,
but subsequently United States Senator from Kentucky, and
Mr. Jefferson's Attorney General. Mr. Cabell, who had
bought the glebe of St. Anne's on the south fork of Totier,
presented it to his daughter, and there Mr. Breckinridge
made his residence from 1785 to 1793, when he removed to
Kentucky. During that time he was a member of the
Albemarle bar, and in 1792 in the interval between the
resignation of the first John Nicholas, and the appointment
of the second, as Clerk of the county, he acted as Clerk pro
tem. His two eldest children were born in Albemarle, one
of whom was the father of the Vice President.

HUDSON.

One of the earliest patentees of land in the wilds of Albemarle
was Charles Hudson, of Hanover. His first entry was
made in 1730 on the Hardware, below Carter's Bridge. It
was for two thousand acres, and within the next three
years he obtained grants for sixteen hundred more in the
same locality. It embraced Mount Air, which was one of
the seats of the Hudson family for more than a hundred years.
The stream entering the south side of the Hardware below
Mount Air, was formerly known as Hudson's Creek. Charles
Hudson also took out a patent in 1735 for two thousand acres
on Ivy Creek, southwest of Ivy Depot, which he sold two
years later to the elder Michael Woods. It is almost certain
he never lived in Albemarle himself. He died in 1748, and
the executor of his estate was his son-in-law, John Wingfield.

His wife was probably a Royall, and his children were William,
John, Christopher, Mary, the wife of John Wingfield,
Elizabeth, the wife of Nicholas Johnson, Rebecca, the wife
of Robert Wathen, Sarah, the wife of Richard Holland, and
Ann, the wife of Joseph Lewis. In 1762 Mary Wingfield,
still living in Hanover, conveyed to her son Charles part of
five hundred acres in Albemarle given her by her father, and
named Prospect, where Charles was living at the time. This
Charles was the forefather of most of the Wingfields, who
have since resided in the county.

John Hudson had his residence on the lower Hardware.
He died in 1768. He and his wife Ann had four children,
Charles, John, Christopher, and Mary, the wife of a Gaines,
Charles married Jane, daughter of Colonel Charles Lewis Jr.,
of Buck Island. Their daughter, Martha Eppes, was the
wife of Tucker Moore Woodson, who about 1804 removed to
Kentucky. Charles Hudson seems not to have been prosperous
in his affairs. In 1807 he exchanged with Samuel
Dyer the place on Hardware where he lived, for a tract of land
in Barren County, Kentucky, to which he probably removed.
John, whose residence was on the Hardware, died in 1801.
His children were John, who died in 1827, Charles, who died
in 1837, and whose daughter Isaetta became the wife of Isaac
R. Barksdale, Elizabeth, the wife of Charles A. Scott,
Rebecca, the wife of William Henderson, Sarah, Mary, the
wife of a Cobbs, and Ann Barber, the wife of John Henderson.

Christopher, the son of the first Charles, displayed more of
the ability and thrift of his father than any other of his descendants.
At the time of his death, which took place in 1825,
he was the possessor of more than five thousand acres of
land. He was appointed a magistrate in 1800, but four
years after resigned. His home was at Mount Air. He
married Sarah, daughter of David Anderson, and his children
were Elizabeth, the wife of George Gilmer, and Ann,
the wife of William Tompkins. His grandson, Thomas W.
Gilmer, had charge of the administration of his large estate.

HUGHES.

Thomas Hughes, who came from Buckingham, and lived
on James River, died in 1779. His children were William,
Moses, Mary, the wife of a Jude, and Rebecca, the wife of a
Ball. William was a man of some prominence. He was
acting as a magistrate of the county in 1783, and served as
Sheriff in 1797. He and his wife Mary had five children,
Rebecca, Robert, Jane, the wife of Alexander Fretwell,
Hannah, the wife of Edward Thomas, and Sarah, the wife of
Samuel Irvin. He died in 1813.

Stephen Hughes was a large landholder near Charlottesville
at the time the town was established. In 1764 he purchased
from John Grills nearly a thousand acres on Moore's
Creek, including the mouth of Biscuit Run. In June 1762
he bought from Colonel Richard Randolph, of Henrico, five
hundred and fifty-eight acres lying mainly on the east side
of the present Scottsville Road, and extending from the
limits of the town beyond Moore's Creek; this tract, except
a few acres, he sold in 1765 to Creed Childress, who the
same year sold it to Nicholas Lewis. His dwelling was not
far from where the old Lynchburg Road crosses Moore's
Creek. He died in 1793. He was twice married, and his
children were Stephen, Mary, the wife of James Mayo, Edward,
Sarah, and Letitia, the wife of Francis Taliaferro.
Stephen about 1810 built a mill on Moore's Creek, which
occupied the site of that which now belongs to Jesse L.
Maury. He disposed of it to John Wheeler, who in 1820
sold it to Reuben Maury and John M. Perry. Edward died
about 1826. His wife was Elizabeth Chisholm, and his
children Nancy, Mary, Martha, Susan, Sarah, William
and John. Mary became the wife of Washington Chiles, who
was for many years one of the cabinet makers of the town,
and lived on the south side of Main Street, east of the Perley
Building.

IRVIN.

Rev. William Irvin was one of the early Presbyterian
ministers of the county. He received his education in part
at the school of Rev. John Todd in Louisa. He was received

by the Presbytery of Hanover in 1769, and settled as pastor
of the Cove and Rockfish Churches in 1771. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Holt, who served in the Revolution
as First Lieutenant in the Fourth Virginia, and who
purchased land from Colonel Charles Lewis on the Staunton
Road west of Ivy Depot, where he resided until 1794. Mr.
Irvin bought part of this land from his father-in-law, but
sold it in 1783, and the same year purchased from Charles
Martin a farm on the south fork of Hardware, where J.
Goulet Martin now lives, and where he made his home until
his death in 1809. His relation to Rockfish Church was
dissolved in 1776, and he then devoted his time to preaching
at the Cove, D. S., and Mountain Plains. In July 1793 his
old preceptor, Rev. John Todd, met with a tragic death on
his return from a meeting of Presbytery at the Cove. The
road on the east side of Persimmon Mountain passed then,
as it does still, along the bed of the South Hardware for a
short distance; there the venerable minister was found, lying
in the stream with life extinct. Whether he was smitten
with an apoplectic stroke, or whether his horse took fright,
and starting suddenly threw him, was not known. It is said,
he was accustomed to ride a spirited horse.

Mr. Irvin had ten children, some of whom attained a
degree of eminence in the world; Joseph Holt, Margaret,
Elizabeth, the wife of Dabney C. Gooch, Nancy, the wife of
Thomas W. Gooch, Sarah, the wife of Robert Sangster, John,
William W., James, Thomas and David. Joseph was admitted
to the Albemarle bar in 1796, married Elizabeth,
daughter of William Cole of North Garden, and died in 1805,
leaving two daughters, one of whom, Susan, was married
first to Colonel Thomas Wood, and was the mother of Dr.
Alfred Wood and Mrs. Jeremiah A. Early, and secondly to
John Fray. John lived on the old place, was a magistrate
of the county, and died in 1828, leaving a number of children,
all of whom removed to Campbell and Prince Edward
Counties. William became a member of the Albemarle bar,
but emigrated to Lancaster, Ohio, where he was appointed
a Judge of the Supreme Court, and elected to Congress in

1828. Thomas joined his brother William in Ohio, and became
Judge of the Lancaster Circuit. David was also a
lawyer, received the appointment of Governor of Wisconsin
Territory, and afterwards settled in Texas, where he was
left by the war with only the shreds of a large fortune, and
where he shortly after died.

JAMESON.

The Jamesons were settled at an early day on Moorman's
River, both above and below Whitehall. John Jameson took
out a patent for land on the north side of that stream in 1741,
and Samuel, his brother or son, on the branches of Spring
Creek in 1747. In 1765 Samuel purchased the land in the
old Woods Gap from Archibald Woods, who had entered it
in 1756. His son Alexander sold it in 1809 to David Stephenson,
of Augusta. Samuel died in 1788. He and his wife
Jean had nine children, four of whom were Alexander,
Thomas, John and Samuel. Samuel Jr., died about 1805.
His wife's name was Margaret, and his children were Hannah,
the wife of William Harris, Jane, the wife of William
Maupin, Elizabeth, the wife of a Harris, Catharine, the wife
of Nathan Mills, Mary, the wife of Nehemiah Birckhead,
William and Samuel. Some of the sons of this family were
mighty hunters, as is manifest from their frequent reports of
wolf scalps to the County Court.

It is supposed that Thomas Jameson, who was a physician
in busy practice in Charlottesville the early part of the century,
was a scion of this stock. In 1806 he lived on the lot
on which the family of J. J. Conner resides at present, and
which he purchased from William G. Garner. In one of his
conveyances it is described as being "on the upper street
leading out to Jameson's Gap," that being evidently the
name of what is now called Turk's Gap. He married Evalina,
daughter of William Alcock, and sister of the second
wife of John Kelly. In 1815 he sold his residence to Mr.
Kelly, and it is believed emigrated to the West.

JARMAN.

The first of the Jarman name settled in the county was
Thomas, who obtained a grant of land on Moorman's River
in 1762. His children were Elizabeth, the wife of Zachariah
Maupin, Mary, the wife of Benajah Brown, William,
Martha, the wife of Daniel Maupin, Frances, the wife of John
A. Michie, and James. James had his residence on the east
side of the road in Brown's Cove, about a mile south of
Doylesville. He was appointed a magistrate in 1819, and
was frequently employed in the county business of his district.
He died in 1847, and was succeeded in the homestead
by his son, Miletus, who departed this life in 1874.

William established himself in 1790 near the present
Mechum's Depot. He soon after built the mill at that place,
which was for many years known by his name, and on the
site of which one has existed ever since. In 1805 he and
Brightberry Brown undertook the construction of Brown's
Turnpike, beginning at a point called Camping Rock, crossing
the Ridge at Brown's Gap, descending through Brown's
Cove, and terminating at Mechum's Depot. A formal acceptance
of it took place the next year by Commissioners
appointed from both sides of the mountain. William Jarman
died in 1813. He married Sarah, daughter of John Maupin,
and had five sons and six daughters. In 1819 James, his
eldest son, sold his half of the Turnpike to Ira Harris for one
hundred dollars. His son Thomas bought the land on the
summit of the Ridge at the old Woods Gap, and since his
purchase the Gap has generally gone by his name. His
daughter Mary became the wife of the younger William
Woods, of Beaver Creek, and mother of Peter A. Woods,
formerly one of the merchants of Charlottesville.

JEFFERSON.

Peter Jefferson, the father of the President, was a native
of Chesterfield, and removed to the present limits of Albemarle
in 1737. He entered the wilderness literally, as when
he first came there were but three or four persons living in
the neighborhood. His first entry was that of a thousand

acres on the south side of the Rivanna, between Monticello
Mountain and the Henderson land above Milton. Wishing
a more eligible site for his house, he bought from his friend
William Randolph, of Tuckahoe, the Shadwell tract of four
hundred acres, where his distinguished son was born. He
had been a magistrate and Sheriff in Goochland, and when
Albemarle was formed, was one of its original magistrates, and
its Lieutenant Colonel. He also represented the county in the
House of Burgesses. He was employed with Colonel Joshua
Fry to run the boundary line between Virginia and North
Carolina, and to make the first map of Virginia ever drafted.
When William Randolph died in 1747, leaving a son of tender
age, he committed him to Mr. Jefferson's care, and more
efficiently to discharge this trust Mr. Jefferson removed to
Tuckahoe, where he resided seven years. This circumstance
explains the difficulty in Mr. Waddell's mind, when in his
Annals of Augusta County, he wondered how Thomas Lewis
and his friends, who had gone to Mr. Jefferson's to make a
map of the survey of the Northern Neck line, could ride from
his house to Richmond to hear preaching on Sunday. He
returned to Albemarle in 1755, and died in 1757. His wife
was Jane, daughter of Isham Randolph, of Dungeness, and
his children Jane, who died unmarried, Thomas, Randolph,
Mary, the wife of Thomas Bolling, Martha, the wife of Dabney
Carr, Lucy, the wife of Charles Lilburn Lewis, and Ann,
the wife of Hastings Marks.

Thomas was born in 1743, married in 1771 Martha, daughter
of John Wayles, of Charles City, and widow of Bathurst
Skelton, and died July 4, 1826. He had two daughters,
Martha, the wife of Governor Thomas Mann Randolph, and
Mary, the wife of John W. Eppes. He was one of the largest
landholders in the county, being assessed in 1820 with four
thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine acres. Soon after
attaining his majority, he was appointed a magistrate of the
county, and at the first session of the County Court after
his decease, the following memorial was entered upon its
records:

"As a testimonial of respect for the memory of Thomas
Jefferson, who devoted a long life to the service of his country,

the principles of liberty, and the happiness of mankind;
who aided conspicuously in the cause of the American Revolution;
who drafted the Declaration of the principles, on which
the Independence of these States was declared; who uniformly
exerted his great talents to aid both the civil and
religious liberties of his countrymen, and by whose practical
administration of the principles he had promulgated in many
stations, legislative, diplomatic and executive, in which he
had acted as a public functionary, the equal rights of his
countrymen were promoted, and secured at home and abroad;
who, uniting to a native benevolence a cultivated philanthropy,
was peculiarly endeared to his countrymen and
neighbors, who were witnesses of his virtue:

Resolved therefore that this testimonial be recorded as a
perpetual memorial of respect and affection of his countrymen,
and of the Court of Albemarle, of which he was once a
member; and

Resolved that this Court and its officers, as a testimony of
public respect, will wear crape on the left arm for thirty days,
and will now adjourn."

Randolph Jefferson in 1781 married Ann, daughter of
Charles Lewis Jr., of Buck Island. He had his residence in
Fluvanna County. He had two sons, Thomas and Isham
R. Thomas was twice married, first to his cousin Mary R.,
daughter of Charles Lilburn Lewis, and secondly in 1858 to
Mrs. Elizabeth Barker, daughter of Henry Siegfried. His
children were Peter Field and Robert L. Peter Field lived
in Scottsville, and by his shrewdness and frugality amassed
a large fortune. He died in 1861, leaving a son bearing his
own name, and a daughter, the wife of Peter Foland. Peter
Field Jr., died in 1867. Robert L. married Elizabeth, daughter
of Robert Moorman, lived near Porter's Precinct, and
died in 1858. His children were Eldridge, who lived in the
same section of the county till after the war, and Mary, the
wife of Albert W. Gantt.

A story is told of Randolph, that one day he came to his
brother to unburden his mind of a weighty idea that had
struck him, and announced himself thus: "Tom, I'll tell you

how to keep the squirrels from pillaging the corn. You see
they always get on the outside row. Well then, don't plant
any outside row"—which, if true, well illustrates a reflection
of Miss Sarah Randolph, "It is curious to remark the unequal
distribution of talent in this family, each gifted member seeming
to have been made so at the expense of one of the others."

A Thomas Jefferson, who in the first days of the county
was one of its deputy Surveyors, was no doubt a brother of
Peter, the President's father.

JONES.

Many persons named Jones have lived in Albemarle.
Orlando Jones appears at the earliest date. In 1760 he bought
four hundred acres from John Scott, and fourteen years later
four hundred more from Joseph Anthony, both tracts being
on the waters of Totier. It was unquestionably at his place
that Major Anbury, and others of the Saratoga prisoners,
were quartered, while in the county; and there is as little question
that it is the same place near Glendower, that was recently
occupied by the late R. J. Lecky. Jones married as his second
wife Elizabeth Clayton, sister of Edith, wife of Rev.
Charles Clay, and daughter or niece of John Clayton, the
celebrated botanist of Virginia. He died in 1793. His
widow was subsequently married to William Walker, and his
son, Lain, succeeded to the homestead, which then went by
the name of Mount Gallant. In 1800 Lain was the bearer of
a challenge from George Carter to James Lewis, and together
with his principal was placed under bonds. He died in
1805, leaving three sons, Orlando, Lain B., and William.
Lain B. in 1825 married Mary, daughter of Captain William
Hopkins. His mode of living led to the incumbering of his
estate, and in 1824 it was sold under a deed of trust to John
Neilson, one of the builders of the University. When after
the death of Neilson the place was sold by Andrew Leitch,
his executor, it was purchased by James Jones, a gentleman
of considerable wealth. He made it his residence until his
death in 1838. He and his wife Margaret had six children,
James, William, Ann, Sarah, Lucy, the wife of a Moseley,

and Virginia. The next year the plantation was sold to
John H. Coleman and Dr. Samuel W. Tompkins.

In 1762 a James Jones bought eight hundred acres from
Joseph Anthony at the northeast corner of Dudley's Mountain.
His home was on the old Lynchburg Road, and Jones's
Still House, and Jones's Branch constantly occur in the
early records as marking the lines of the road precincts.
He had a son, James Jr., who lived on part of the estate.
It is believed that Allen Jones, who resided in the same
vicinity, was also a descendant. Allen married Nancy,
daughter of John Carr. In 1821 he was desirous of removing
South, and advertised his place for sale. He finally
sold in 1833 to John H. Maddox, and presumably accomplished
his purpose.

In 1765, John Jones, of Louisa, bought from Henry Terrell
more than eight hundred acres adjoining Batesville, and
including Castle Mountain. During the next eight years he
purchased from William Garrett upwards of thirteen hundred
in North Garden, on the north side of Tom's Mountain.
He sold in 1778 a thousand and eighty-one acres of that
lying east of Israel's Gap to William Cole, of Charles City,
and a portion of that lying west to Robert Field in 1782.
He died in 1793. His wife's name was Frances, and his son
John in 1806 married Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel White.
The son's home was on Beaver Creek, where his grandson,
James Rea, now resides, and he died in 1868. His children
were Nancy, the wife of William Woods, Mary, the wife of
Thomas Grayson, Elizabeth, the wife of Bland Rea, and
Sarah Jane, the wife of John M. Godwin.

Thomas Jones, who commenced his purchase of land in
1767, became the owner of more than twelve hundred acres
on Blue Run, and the Orange line. The most of it was
acquired from Thomas Garth, and his son John. Jones sold
the larger portion of it to Francis Gray. He died in 1799.

Later appeared on the scene John R. Jones, a name well
remembered by many. Perhaps no man in the county ever
led a more energetic and industrious life. He was at first
connected in business with his brother-in-law, Nimrod

Bramham, with whom he subsequently entered into partnership.
This was dissolved in 1821, when Mr. Jones became
a merchant on his own account. In 1819 he was appointed
a magistrate, and was active in performing the duties of
that office. He was constantly called upon to act as trustee,
or administrator, in managing the affairs of others. Particularly
as trustee of Edmund Anderson, he took charge of
his property in this county in 1829, and sold off the remaining
lots in Anderson's Addition to Charlottesville. He was
the first President of the Branch of the Farmers' Bank of
Virginia established in Albemarle. In 1814 he purchased
the square west of the Baptist Church, and built the brick
mansion which was some time his residence. In his latter
years he was embarrassed by financial troubles, and died in
1868. His wife was Gilly Marshall, and his children
William, the father of Rev. J. William Jones, Dr. James L.,
Gen. John M., who fell in 1864 at Spotsylvania C. H.,
Thomas, Mary, the wife of James M. Daniel, Ariadne, the
wife of T. T. Hill, Georgiana and Gilly.

Still later Dr. Basil Jones, the father of James D. and
Major Horace, was for a time a citizen of Charlottesville.

JOUETT.

Among the earliest entries on the Court records of Albemarle
in 1745, is a notice of the death of Matthew Jouett, and
the appointment of John Moore as his executor. It can
scarcely be doubted that John Jouett, who was for many years
a prominent citizen of Charlottesville, was a son of this
Matthew. In 1773 John purchased from John Moore one hundred
acres adjoining the town on the east and north, and at
that time most likely erected the Swan Tavern, of famous
memory. Three years later he bought from the same gentleman
three hundred acres south of the town, including the
mill now owned by Hartman. In 1790 he laid out High
Street, with the row of lots on either side, and by an act of
the Legislature they were vested in trustees to sell at auction,
after giving three weeks' notice in the Virginia Gazette. He
kept the Swan until his death in 1802. In the Central Gazette

of October 8th, 1824, there appeared an earnest appeal
to the citizens of Charlottesville to erect a stone over his grave,
but the voice died away unheeded, and the grave is now unknown.
At the time of his death, and for many years after,
no public place of burial in the town existed. According to
the custom of that day, he was most probably buried in the
yard in the rear of his house, and his remains lie somewhere
in the square on which the old Town Hall is situated. His
wife was Mourning, daughter of Robert Harris, of Brown's
Cove, and his children Matthew, John, Robert, Margaret, the
wife of Nathan Crawford, Mary, the wife of Thomas Allen,
Frances, the wife of Menan Mills, Elizabeth, the wife of
Clifton Rodes, Charles, and Susan, the wife of Thomas C.
Fletcher.

Matthew was a Captain in the Revolutionary army, and
fell in the battle of Brandywine. John succeeded his father
in conducting the Swan, but shortly after removed to Bath
County, Kentucky. His wife was Sarah Robards, a sister of
the first husband of President Jackson's wife. Robert was
also a Captain in the war of the Revolution, and afterwards a
member of the Albemarle bar. He owned and resided on
the lot on the Square where the Saunders House now stands.
He died in 1796, leaving a daughter Alice, who became the
wife of James W. Bouldin, of Charlotte County. She and
her husband in 1818 conveyed this lot, and the square on
High Street on which Dr. Hugh Nelson lives, to John Winn.
Charles Jouett removed to the West. In the latter part of
1804 he was in Detroit, but whether he settled there is not
known. His father devised to him the tract of land south of
Charlottesville, and in 1813 he and his wife Susan conveyed
it to William D. Meriwether. This explains why the mill
was known as Meriwether's for many years. Most of the
daughters removed with their husbands to Kentucky.

The general tradition about Charlottesville has always
been, that it was John Jouett Sr. who performed the exploit
of outstripping Tarleton, and apprising Mr. Jefferson and the
Legislature of his approach in 1781. It was supposed that
the appeal for a monument to be raised to his memory already

alluded to, was based upon the recognition of the
splendid act, by which he honored the town of his residence,
and conferred one of the greatest benefits on the State and
country; but unfortunately the file of papers which contained
the appeal, was consumed in 1895 by the fire at the University
where it was deposited. It has recently been learned
from Thomas M. Green, of Kentucky, that the descendants
of the family residing in that State, claim that the bold and
opportune ride from Louisa C. H. was made by John Jouett
Jr., that the Legislature of Virginia presented him with a
sword in commemoration of the deed, and that the sword
still remains in the family as a testimonial of the fact. If
the sword was given by the Legislature, the act, or resolution,
directing the presentation ought to appear in its proceedings;
but Hening's Statutes for the period have been
searched for it in vain. As the father and son bore the same
name, might it not be that the achievement belonged to the
father, and the sword of acknowledgment descended by gift
or inheritance to the son?

KELLY.

John Kelly was already engaged in business in Charlottesville
under the firm of John Kelly & Co. in 1795. He had
previously been a citizen of Lancaster County, Virginia, and
from that county was accompanied by his first wife, Sarah
Norris, the daughter of his uncle. She died a few years after,
and in 1802 he married Mary, daughter of William Alcock.
For many years he transacted business as a merchant with
great success. About the beginning of the century, he
received into partnership his nephew, Opie Norris, of Lancaster,
who married his daughter Cynthia. His other daughter,
Eliza, became the wife of Dr. John C. Ragland. In 1803 he
purchased from Hudson Martin Lot No. Three, on the west
corner of Fifth Street and the Square, where his store was
located. In 1814 he bought from John Nicholas, who then
resigned the County Clerkship, four hundred and forty acres,
extending from near the western boundary of the town across
Preston Heights to Meadow Creek. In 1816 he gave to Mrs.
Norris Lot No. Four, running from Jefferson Street to the

old People's Bank, which he had acquired in 1809 from Edward
Butler, and to Mrs. Ragland the north half of Lot Fifty-Nine,
and Lot Sixty, at present occupied by the family of J. J. Connor,
and Dr. Joseph Norris. In 1821 he contemplated removing
to another part of the country, and advertised for sale
his land west of the town; and in 1824 he sold to Rev. John
D. Paxton thirty-three acres on the north side of University
Street, reaching from Harris's Warehouse to the Junction.
In 1828 he purchased from Rice Wood the property on
Park Street, where he built the large brick in which he
resided till his death, and which his widow occupied till her
death during the war. Mr. Kelly was often employed in the
general affairs of the town, discharging many responsibilities
as administrator, trustee, and offices of a similar kind. He was
a man of earnest piety, assisting in the founding of the South
Plains Presbyterian Church, in which he was a ruling elder,
and in the erection of the old Presbyterian house of worship
in town. He died in Staunton in 1830, on his way to or from
the Virginia Springs.

His son-in-law, Dr. Ragland, died in 1821. He was
exceedingly popular both as a man, and as a physician. His
death was greatly lamented, and his remains were followed by
a large concourse of friends and Masons to the family burying
ground in Louisa. Four or five physicians at once settled in
Charlottesville, to fill the gap occasioned by his decease.
His widow was some years after married to Talbot Bragg, and
subsequently removed with him and her children to Missouri.

Opie Norris, his other son-in-law, was an enterprising and
prosperous man. He was concerned in many other engagements,
in addition to his stated business as a merchant. For
many years he was one of the town trustees, sometimes acting
as their president. In 1819 he was appointed a magistrate
of the county, and filled the office with much diligence.
He was Secretary and Treasurer of the Rivanna and Rockfish
Gap Turnpike Co., and awarded the contracts for the
construction of that road. At one time he owned the Swan,
and half of the Eagle Tavern. With Dr. Charles Everett he

was largely interested in the real estate of Anderson's Addition
to the town. He departed this life in 1839.

KERR.

James Kerr, an emigrant from Scotland, came to the county
about 1762, and soon after bought a small place at the head
of Ivy Creek. He subsequently leased the present Birdwood
plantation, in 1773 purchased it from the trustees of John
Dabney, and made it his residence for twenty-seven years.
During this time he became a man of no little note and consideration
in the community. When the records made a second
beginning in 1783, he was one of the acting magistrates, and
frequently participated in the deliberations of the County
Court. He was appointed Sheriff in 1793. He was a ruling
elder in the D. S. Church. In 1800 he sold the Birdwood
place to Hore Brouse Trist, and bought from Michael
Woods, son of Colonel John, a farm on Mechum's River, not
far above the Depot of that name. From increasing age, or
because of the distance from the county seat, he took no further
part in public business. In 1808 he sold his property
to James Kinsolving Sr., and removed to Kentucky. After
the death of Sarah, his first wife, he married Susan, widow
of David Rodes. This union was a brief one, as Mrs. Kerr
died in 1798. She left a will, which for want of proof was
not recorded; and it was not till 1826 that it was sent to
Georgetown, Ky., to procure the depositions of William
Rodes, and Milton and Rodes Burch, to prove the handwriting
of David Kerr, a deceased witness to the document.

The children of James Kerr, as far as known, were James,
John Rice, David, Mary, the wife of Samuel Burch, and Elizabeth,
the wife of Joseph J. Monroe, a brother of the President.
James seems to have been a young man of tact and sprightliness,
but of prodigal life. He once owned the lots on which
the Farish House, and the old Presbyterian Church, now
stand. He died in Richmond in 1788, leaving a short will
written in a light, sceptical tone; and when it was presented
for probate, until his father gave his consent, his brother
magistrates declined admitting it to record. John Rice was
admitted to the Albemarle bar, but appears not to have practised.

In 1807 he was appointed a magistrate, and with his
father served as an elder in the D. S. Church. He married
Sarah, daughter of Bennett Henderson, and lived for a time
on the south side of the Staunton Road, where it crosses
Ivy Creek, on land that belonged to his brother-in-law, Samuel
Burch. He accompanied, or followed, his father to
Kentucky, and there entered the Presbyterian ministry. A
son named for Andrew Hart lived near Memphis, Tenn., and
was Moderator of the Southern General Assembly, when it
convened in that city in 1868. David Kerr married Dorothy,
daughter of the elder Clifton Rodes, and by many years preceded
the rest of his family in removing to Kentucky.

KEY.

John Key was one of the pioneers who fixed their abodes
within the present limits of the county. He made his first
entry of land in 1732, and up to 1741 had obtained patents
for nearly twelve hundred acres on the west side of the South
West Mountain. His home was where William W. Minor
now resides. His children were Martin, John, and Mary,
the wife of a Dalton. Martin succeeded to the home and
estate of his father, and by repeated purchases became the
owner of all the land reaching from Edgemont, the place of
the late Henry Magruder, down to the bend of the river on
the farm of the late R. F. Omohundro. He died in 1791.
He and his wife Ann had twelve children, Thomas, John,
Martin, Tandy, Joshua, William Bibb, Henry, Jesse, James,
Walter, Elizabeth, the wife of James Daniel, and Martha, the
wife of John White. Each of the sons was comfortably provided
for by their father's will, though intimations are there
given that the habits of some unfitted them for the proper
management of their affairs.

Within the first score of years in the present century, the
members of this household were for the most part scattered
over the South and West. Thomas removed to South Carolina,
where he invented some contrivance for the more effective
action of water wheels. The families of John, James
and Martha emigrated to Kentucky and Tennessee, and that
of Elizabeth, to North Carolina. Tandy lived for many years

in the southern part of the county near Covesville, but is
said to have removed eventually to Fluvanna County. Jesse
P., a son of Tandy, married Sarah, daughter of the younger
William Woods, of Beaver Creek, and lived for some time
near Mechum's Depot. William Bibb married Mourning,
daughter of Christopher Clark, and went to Elbert County,
Georgia. Henry settled in Bedford County, and Jesse died
in Richmond in 1826. Walter appears to have been the only
one who spent his whole life in the county, and his death
occurred in 1834. John, Tandy and Joshua were all magistrates
of the county, and Walter was appointed to the office,
but declined to accept. John served as Sheriff in 1795, and
Tandy in 1809. John was an Ensign in the Eighth Virginia,
and Henry a soldier in the army of the Revolution.

KINKEAD.

The Kinkeads were early settlers in the western part of
the county. As far as can be made out, there were three
brothers of the name, David, Joseph and James. In 1746
David patented nearly eight hundred acres on the north fork
of Rockfish, and the next year four hundred more on Stockton's
Creek. By entry and purchase together, the family
connection became the owners of not far from three thousand
acres in that vicinity. Joseph, James and John, probably
the son of Joseph, appear as subscribers to the call of Rev.
Samuel Black in 1747. The homes of Joseph and James
were situated about half a mile west of Immanuel Church,
on the place now owned by Rev. Dabney Davis. An old
graveyard, a few hundred yards south of Mr. Davis's house,
is still known in the neighborhood as the Kinkead burying
ground; a broken down wall, and a few rough stones, are all
that mark the spot. James died in 1762, leaving three sons,
Thomas, John and James, and probably two more, Matthew
and Andrew, and a daughter, the wife of Ninian Clyde.
Joseph died in 1774. His children were Jean, the wife of
Hugh Alexander, John, and Ruth, the wife of Andrew Grier.

Hugh Alexander had a mill, which at one time was a noted
centre in that section; roads were made to it from every quarter.
It was built on Stockton's Creek, not far from the foot of

the hill west of Hillsboro. In subsequent years it was known
as Keyes's, and still later as Humphrey's Mill. It is supposed
Andrew Grier was one of the early merchants of that vicinity.
He was the owner of nearly six hundred acres adjoining Yellow
Mountain, which, likely in liquidation of his debts, he
conveyed in 1766 to Jeremiah Parker and Richard Warden,
merchants of Philadelphia. In the course of years part of
this land passed into the hands of John Lobban Jr., and part
into the hands of Dr. Peter B. Bowen. A grandson of Joseph
Kinkead married a daughter of Adam Dean, another early
settler on Stockton's Creek, and in December 1898, there died
in Greenbrier County, Adam Dean Kinkead, doubtless their
son, at the age of ninety-two. All of the kindred bearing
the name, seem to have removed from the county before
the close of the last century. Its latest appearance on the
records occurs in 1784, when Jean, the widow of James, sold
to Abner Wood a parcel of land in what is known as the
Piper and Patrick neighborhood. She was at that time a resident
of Rockbridge County. In the Black call the name is
spelled Kincaid.

KINSOLVING.

In 1788 James Kinsolving began to purchase land near
Mechum's River Depot. The name was variously written in
the early records, Consolver, Kingsolaver, Kinsolving. At
that date a Martin Kinsolving lived near the Burnt Mills.
James Kinsolving was successful in his business pursuits,
and at the time of his death in 1829 owned upwards of fourteen
hundred acres on both sides of Mechum's River. His
home was near the Depot, and bore the name of Temple Hill.
He and his wife Elizabeth were the parents of twelve children,
George W., Diana, Mary, Ann, Elizabeth, Jefferson, Lucy
Jane, Madison, Napoleon, James, Martha and Amanda.
None bearing this name have for years been resident in the
county, but it has attained a high distinction in the annals
of the Episcopal Church.

George W. married Nancy, daughter of Jonathan Barksdale.
For some time previous to 1822 he was the proprietor
of the Central Hotel in Charlottesville, but in that year he

retired to his farm near Mechum's Depot. In 1830 he was
appointed Colonel of the Forty-Seventh Regiment. He was
an earnest Episcopalian, and a vestryman in the North
Garden Church. He died in 1856, leaving one son and
seven daughters. The tendency in the family to remarkable
names was especially apparent in his household. His son,
Ovid Alexander, became an Episcopal clergyman, and
passed his ministerial life mainly near Leesburg and Danville,
Va. Three of his sons entered the Episcopal ministry,
George Herbert, Bishop of Texas, Arthur Barksdale,
a prominent rector in Brooklyn, N. Y., and Lucien Lee,
recently consecrated Bishop of Brazil. The names of the
seven daughters were selected with a view to having V as
the initial, and A as the final letter—Virginia, the wife of
William A. Abney, Vienna, the wife of William C. Fretwell,
Veturia, the wife of Thomas Clark, Volusia, Verona,
Verbelina, and Vermelia.

Diana was the wife of Clifton Garland Jr., and a grandson
of hers was Rev. Howard McQuary, who, because of his
extreme views on Evolution, was a few years ago deposed
from the Episcopal ministry by the Bishop of Northern
Ohio. Mary was the wife of James W. Leigh, Ann, the
wife of William B. Wood, and removed to Washington
County, Illinois, Elizabeth, the wife of William M. Brander,
and Martha, the wife of Reuben Wood. Lucy Jane was twice
married, first to Achilles Barksdale, and secondly to Valentine
Head. Madison married America, daughter of Philip
Watts, James married Margaret, daughter of Andrew Brown,
of North Garden, and made his home for many years near
the Cross Roads. He became a Baptist minister, was
Treasurer of the County School Commissioners, and about
1835 emigrated to western Kentucky. Most of the children
of this family finally removed to Kentucky, or Mississippi.

LEAKE.

The Leakes have been domiciled in the county since its
formation. Walter Leake Jr., patented land on the south
fork of Hardware in 1746, and John on Green Creek in 1748.

It is believed these two were brothers. Data for accurately
tracing the early relations of this family are wanting, but it
is probable that John Leake and his wife Ann were the
parents of Samuel and Mask. Samuel was one of the first
Presbyterian ministers, who were natives of Virginia. In 1770
he was installed pastor of the Cove and D. S. Churches, and his
home was four or five miles northeast of Covesville. He
died young in 1775. He and his wife Elizabeth had three
children, Elizabeth, the first wife of Andrew Hart, Sarah,
the wife of Rev. James Robinson, one of Mr Leake's successors
in the Cove pastorate, and Mary. His widow died in
1799.

Mask Leake lived in the same section of the county, not
far from the South Garden Thoroughfare. He was a ruling
elder in the Cove Church, and frequently represented it in
the Presbytery of Hanover. He died in 1813. His wife
was Patience Morris, and his children William, Walter,
Austin, Samuel, and Lucy, the wife of John Buster. William
succeeded his father at the homestead, and died in 1833. He
and his wife Caroline had five children, Elizabeth, the wife
of an Anderson, Samuel, Walter, William M., and Josiah.
Walter, son of Mask, was deputy Surveyor of the county in
1784, and was admitted to the Albemarle bar in 1793. It is
believed he was the Walter Leake who emigrated to Mississippi,
and rose to prominence in the legal and political affairs
of that State. He was elected United States Senator in 1817,
and resigning soon after was appointed to the State bench.
He died in Hinds County in 1825. Austin was also a member
of the Albemarle bar, and died before his father, leaving
two sons, Joseph and Philip Jefferson. Samuel, son of
Mask, was a physician, and practised in the southern part
of the county, and also in Nelson. His wife was Sophia, a
daughter of Richard Farrar, and his children William, Philip,
Samuel, Shelton F., Eliza, and Lucy, the wife of Addison
Gentry, who at one time conducted a school for young ladies
near Hillsboro. The career of Shelton F. is well known,
not only in the county, but in the State. His natural gifts
were unusually brilliant. He settled in Charlottesville, was

admitted to the bar in 1838, easily attained a place in its
front rank, was a member of the House of Delegates, was
Lieutenant Governor of the State, and for a term represented
the district in Congress. He married Rebecca Gray, and
departed this life in 1884. Samuel in 1836 married M. A.
Boyd of the Cove neighborhood, and finished his course a
few years ago near Hillsboro, where his son William now
resides.

LEVY.

In 1836 Uriah P. Levy, Commodore of the United States
Navy, became a citizen of Albemarle by the purchase of
Monticello. He bought the place from James T. Barclay.
It is commonly understood, that it was owing to his exalted
estimation of Mr. Jefferson's political wisdom and conduct
he was led to become the possessor of his home, and thereby
to identify his name with that of the President. He died in
1862, and having no family of his own, and cherishing the
desire to make the place a permanent memorial of the great
statesman, the Commodore devised Monticello to the United
States as a Hospital for the worn-out tars of the navy; and
that arrangement failing, to the State of Virginia, to be used
as a sort of naval school. By the decisions of the courts,
both dispositions were declared invalid. During the Civil
War the property was confiscated. It was placed for the
time in the hands of care-takers, who took no care of it further
than to extort as large gratuities as possible from those
who still resorted to it from admiration of its former presiding
genius. The whole establishment was greatly injured,
and the monument in its burial place, by the chipping of
relic hunters, was literally reduced to a shapeless block.
When public affairs resumed their usual course, the Commodore's
nephew, Jefferson M. Levy, of New York, purchased
the interests of the other heirs, and devoted himself to the
improvement of the estate. Congress also handsomely
enclosed the cemetery, and erected a noble shaft to Jefferson's
memory. Filled with the spirit of his distinguished
kinsman, Mr. Levy has been at much pains and expense to
restore things to the same condition in which Mr. Jefferson

left them; and appreciating the sentiment which impels
multitudes to visit it as a place of pilgrimage, he allows
them entire freedom in repairing to the spot, and surveying
its interesting scenes.

LEWIS.

Three families named Lewis, apparently not related, have
lived in Albemarle. The first of the name entering lands
within its present limits was Charles, of Goochland, who in
1731 obtained a patent for twelve hundred acres on both sides
of the Rivanna, at the mouth of Buck Island. He also entered
nearly three thousand acres in the Rich Cove. As
nearly as can be ascertained, this Charles was the son of
John Lewis and Isabel Warner. In 1717 he married Mary
Howell, and his children were John, Charles, Elizabeth, the
wife of William Kennon, James, Mary, Howell and Ann.
His home was the place that has since borne the name of
Monteagle. To his son, Charles, he transferred his land on
Buck Island in 1766, the son reconveying it to his father and
mother, and the survivor, for life. Charles Jr., purchased,
chiefly from his cousin Robert Lewis, more than eighteen acres
on the north fork of the Hardware, including what is now
Red Hill Depot, which he gave to his son, Isham. He died
in 1782. His wife was Mary, daughter of Isham Randolph,
of Dungeness, and sister of Peter Jefferson's wife, and his
children were Charles Lilburn, Isham, Mary, the wife first
of Colonel Charles Lewis, of North Garden, and secondly of
Charles Wingfield Jr., Jane, the wife of Charles Hudson, Elizabeth,
the wife of Bennett Henderson, Ann, the wife of Randolph
Jefferson, Frances, the second wife of John Thomas,
and Mildred, the wife of Edward Moore. Isham Lewis
died unmarried in 1790, leaving his estate to his two nephews,
John Lewis Moore and Charles Lewis Thomas. Charles
Lilburn married Lucy Jefferson, sister of the President, and
his children were Randolph, Isham, Lilburn, Jane, the wife
of Craven Peyton, Mary R., the wife of Thomas Jefferson Jr.,
Lucy, the wife of Washington Griffin, Martha and Ann M.
Randolph lived on his plantation, Buck Island, on the north
side of the Rivanna, but in 1805 sold it to David Michie, and

moved to Goochland. Lilburn also lived on the north side
of the river, and in 1806 disposed of his place to Hugh Nelson.
His wife was Jane Woodson, by whom he had five
children, among them Mary H., the wife of Charles Palmer,
and mother of Dr. William Palmer, the compiler of the Calendar
of the State Papers of Virginia. All the daughters of
Charles Lilburn Lewis except Jane and Mary, emigrated to
Livingston County, Kentucky.

Robert Lewis, a nephew of the first Charles above mentioned,
lived at Belvoir, on the east side of the South West
Mountain. He was the son of John Lewis and Frances
Fielding, and a brother of Fielding, Washington's brother-in-law.
He married Jane, daughter of Nicholas Meriwether,
the large landholder, and he was himself one of the largest
landholders in the county. In 1736 he entered upwards of
four thousand acres in North Garden, and in 1740 nearly
sixty-five hundred near Ivy Depot. He died in 1765. His
children were John, Nicholas, Robert, Charles, William,
Jane, the wife of Thomas Meriwether, Mary, the wife first of
Samuel Cobb, and secondly of Waddy Thomson, Mildred,
the wife of Major John Lewis, Ann, the wife of another John
Lewis—both of these gentlemen of Spotsylvania and kinsmen
—Elizabeth, the wife of William Barrett, and Sarah, the wife
of Dr. Waller Lewis, of Spotsylvania, son of Zachary Lewis,
and brother of Mildred's husband. John, the eldest son,
received the main portion of his estate in Gloucester.

Nicholas lived at the Farm, adjoining Charlottesville on the
east, a gift from his grandfather, Nicholas Meriwether. He
was a public spirited man, a Captain in the Revolution, a
magistrate, Surveyor and Sheriff of the county, possessed of a
sound judgment and kindly spirit, appealed to on all occasions
to compose the strifes of the neighborhood, the trusted friend
of Mr. Jefferson, and the adviser of his family during his long
absences from home. He married Mary, eldest daughter of
Dr. Thomas Walker, and died in 1808. His children were
Nicholas M., Thomas W., Robert Warner, Jane, the wife of
Hudson Martin, Elizabeth, the wife of William D. Meriwether,
Mildred, the wife of David Wood, Mary, the wife of Isaac

Miller, and Margaret, the wife of Charles L. Thomas. Nicholas
married his cousin, Mildred Hornsby, of Kentucky, and
doubtless emigrated to that State. Robert married Elizabeth
Wood, and removed from the county. Thomas W. lived at
Locust Grove, the northern part of his father's farm. He
was appointed a magistrate in 1791, and died in 1807. In
his will he directed that the families of his servants should
not be separated, and expressed the wish that circumstances
had permitted their emancipation, as according to his view
all men were born free and equal. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of Nicholas Meriwether, and sister of his brother-in-law,
William D., and his children were Nicholas H.
Margaret, the wife of James Clark, Mary, the wife first of
James Leitch, and secondly of David Anderson, Lydia, the
wife of Samuel O. Minor, Thomas, Charles, Elizabeth,
the wife of John C. Wells, Alice, the wife first of George D.
Meriwether, and secondly of John W. Davis, Jane, the wife
first of Walker Meriwether, and secondly of Dr. Richard
Anderson, and Robert W., of Castalia. By far the greater
number of this family emigrated in 1837 to Pike County,
Missouri. In 1804 Mary removed with her husband, Isaac
Miller, to Louisville Ky.

Robert, son of Robert, married a Miss Fauntleroy, and
removed to Halifax County. Charles lived in the North
Garden, where James G. White now resides. He was one
of the first to offer his services at the outbreak of the Revolutionary
War. He was Captain of the first volunteer company
raised in Albemarle, Lieutenant Colonel of the first regiment
formed, and afterwards Colonel of the Fourteenth Virginia.
He died in 1779, while in command of the Guards at the
Barracks near Charlottesville. His wife was Mary, daughter
of Charles Lewis Jr., of Buck Island, and his children Howell,
Charles Warner, who died young, Mary R., the wife of Edward
Carter, Jane, the wife of John Carr, Sarah, the wife of
Benjamin Brown, Ann, the wife of Matthew Brown, and
Susan, the wife of Joel Franklin. Mrs. Lewis was married
the second time to Charles Wingfield Jr., and died in 1807.
Howell lived at the old homestead, and died in 1845. His

wife was Mary, daughter of Thomas Carr, and his children
Thomas Fielding, Howell, of Mechunk, Mary, the wife of
Clifton Harris, and Sarah, the wife of Ira Harris.

William Lewis, son of Robert, lived at Locust Hill, near
Ivy Depot. He was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary army.
He died in 1780. His wife was Lucy, daughter of Thomas
Meriwether, and his children, Meriwether, Reuben and Jane,
the wife of Edmund Anderson. Meriwether was the famous
explorer of the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific Coast, and
while acting as Governor of Missouri Territory, died by his
own hand near Nashville, Tenn., in 1809. Reuben studied
medicine, lived on a part of his father's place, married his
cousin, Mildred Dabney, and died without children in 1844.
Mrs. Lucy Lewis was married the second time to Colonel John
Marks, and with him removed to Wilkes County, Georgia, in
1787. On the death of Colonel Marks, she returned to Locust
Hill, where she departed this life in 1836. By her last marriage
she had one son, John Hastings, who died in Baltimore,
and one daughter, Mary, who became the wife of William
Moore, and lived in Georgia.

The second family of this name sprang from David Lewis,
who, with his brother-in-law, Joel Terrell, in 1734 entered
three thousand acres just west of the University. The next
year his brother, Abraham Lewis entered eight hundred acres,
including the land the University now occupies. These
brothers belonged to Hanover County. Abraham never lived
in Albemarle, but David at once settled on the hinder part of
the present Birdwood farm, so that when the county was organized,
his residence was a well known place in the country.
He was an active man, a captain in the militia, one of the
early magistrates, and bore his part in clearing the roads,
and executing other works of public convenience. He died
in 1779, at the great age of ninety-four. He was married
three times, his first wife being a sister of Joel Terrell, and
his third, Mary McGrath, widow of Dr. Hart, of Philadelphia.
By the first marriage he had eight children, and by
the third three, William Terrell, Susan, the wife of Alexander
Mackey, who lived for a time on Ivy Creek, near the

crossing of the Whitehall Road, Hannah, the wife of James
Hickman, probably the son of Edwin Hickman, second Sheriff
of the county, Sarah, the wife of Abraham Musick, who
lived in the Mechum's Depot vicinity, where his son Ephraim
also lived, and thence emigrated to Kentucky, David, John,
Joel, Ann, the wife first of Joel Terrell Jr., and secondly of
Stephen Willis, Elizabeth, the wife of John Martin, James,
and Miriam, the wife of Gabriel Madison.

William Terrell Lewis kept a tavern on the Staunton Road,
about three miles west of Charlottesville, called at first Terrell's
and subsequently Lewis's Ordinary. He married Sarah
Martin, and had eleven children. All the family emigrated
to North Carolina, and later he himself went to Nashville,
where he died in 1802. Three of his sons, Micajah, Joel
and James, were in the battle of Kings Mountain, and Micajah
was killed at Guilford C. H. A great, great granddaughter,
Mrs. Patty L. Collins, has in these last days been in the
Dead Letter Office at Washington, where she is held in high
repute for her marvellous skill in deciphering bad chirography.
David Jr., was a man of great enterprise and ability.
He owned numerous parcels of land in the Mechum's Depot
section, and carried on a brisk mercantile business in that
vicinity. He also removed to North Carolina just before the
Revolution. Though twice married, he seems to have left
no sons, as in the final settlement of his affairs in Albemarle
in 1794, his legatees all bore other names. John was twice
married, first to Sarah Taliaferro, and secondly to Susan
Clarkson, no doubt a sister of Peter Clarkson. He had
twelve children, among whom were Taliaferro, a brave soldier
of the Revolution, Charles C., whose descendant, William
T., a resident of Louisville, Miss., compiled a history
of the family, Jesse P., and David Jackson, who was a man
of commanding presence, measuring six feet, four inches, was
a soldier in the Whiskey Insurrection of 1794, an active magistrate
of the county, and the father of eleven children, lived
north of the Rivanna, on the Hydraulic Road, and in
1818 removed to Breckinridge County, Kentucky.

Jesse Pitman was also a soldier of the Revolution. His

wife was Nancy, daughter of Manoah Clarkson. His home
was on the Staunton Road, above the University. He died
in 1849, and with him the name of old David Lewis's line in
the county passed away, as he left only daughters. These
were Jane, the wife of Nelson Barksdale, Mary, the wife
first of Julius Clarkson, and secondly of John H. Craven,
Elizabeth, the wife of Reuben Maury, Sophia, the wife of
Michael Johnson, and Sarah, the wife of Alexander St. C.
Heiskell.

James Lewis, son of David Sr., was in his day a figure of
great prominence in the county. He was a gallant soldier of
the Revolution, a magistrate, a contractor, a large landholder,
the owner and keeper for some years of the old Stone Tavern
in Charlottesville, the agent of President Monroe, and much
employed both by the Courts and his fellow citizens in the
appraisement and division of estates. His first residence
was doubtless the homestead, the home of old David. He
married Lucy, daughter of John Thomas, by whom he had
eleven children. In 1818 he emigrated to Franklin County,
Tennessee. In 1826 he returned on a visit to Albemarle, and
married the second time Mary, daughter of Peter Marks, and
at last finished his course in Tennessee at the advanced age
of ninety-three.

The head of the third family of the name was John, who
was one of the earliest settlers in the county. He entered
land on Totier Creek in 1741. When the location of the old
courthouse was fixed, he obtained a license to conduct an
ordinary at the place. He seems to have married a daughter
of Samuel Shelton, and had two sons, and a daughter, Jane,
who became the wife of Richard Davenport, and removed to
Georgia. John, the elder son, died in 1804, and left three
children, Sarah, John Waddy, who died in 1824, and Elizabeth.
Owen, the other son, died in 1805, and his children
were William, John, Hardin P., Howell, Robert, Nicholas,
Daniel P., Zachariah, and Sarah, who was the wife of Jacob
Tilman, and removed to Tennessee. Most of the sons were
considerable land owners in the southern part of the county,
particularly on the lower Hardware. Some of them also

transacted a lucrative business in transporting freight on
James River, and the canal. Hardin P. emigrated to Alabama.
In 1821 Robert in a quarrel fatally stabbed Thompson
Noel, a tavern keeper in Scottsville, and fled the country.
It is said he went to Memphis, Tenn., and in course of
time acquired a large fortune. A great granddaughter of the
first John Lewis was the first wife of the late Christopher
Gilmer, and a great grandson, Zachariah, recently died in
Nelson County, immediately above the mouth of Rockfish
River. A similarity of names suggests a relationship between
this family and that first mentioned.

LINDSAY.

Reuben Lindsay came to Albemarle from Westmoreland
about 1776. In that year he purchased from John Clark
seven hundred and fifty acres on the east side of the South
West Mountain, where he made his home. During the ensuing
twenty years he had purchased upwards of two thousand
acres. He was already a magistrate at the close of the Revolutionary
War, frequently sat on the County bench, and was
otherwise often engaged in the duties of that office. He
departed this life in 1831. He was twice married, first to
Sarah, daughter of Dr. Thomas Walker, by whom he had no
children, and secondly to Miss Tidwell. By the last marriage
he had three daughters, Sarah, the wife of James Lindsay,
his nephew, whose home was at the Meadows, a short distance
southwest of Gordonsville, and whose daughter became
the wife of John M. Patton Jr., Elizabeth, the wife of General
William F. Gordon, and Maria, the wife of M. L.
Walker, son of Captain Thomas Walker Jr.

Another nephew bearing his own name, Reuben, lived on
the Rivanna, near the mouth of Limestone. His wife was
Mary Goodman, and his children were Susan, the wife of
John G. Gray, Mary, the wife of Albert G. Watkins, Ann,
the wife of Stephen F. Sampson, James, William and Reuben.
He died in 1837, and his wife in 1841. His son Reuben was
a physician, practised his profession with much success at
Scottsville, and died in 1881.

LYNCH.

Charles Lynch, it is said, was a native of Ireland. Taking
offence while a mere youth at some ill-treatment, he
determined to quit home and country, and with this purpose
took passage on a vessel bound for America. As the ship was
leaving her moorings, he repented the step, and leaping into
the sea, struck out for land. He was however rescued by the
sailors from his perilous position, and after the usual voyage
of those days, safely reached the shores of the new world.
Coming to Virginia, and exerting the energy and perseverance
that belonged to his nature, he soon began a successful
career. He commenced entering land within the present
county in 1733, and in the next seventeen years had obtained
patents for sixty-five hundred acres in different sections, on
Hardware, on the Rivanna, on Moore's Creek, and on the
waters of Mechum's, not far from the Blue Ridge. He established
his home on the Rivanna, on the place now known as
Pen Park. The ripple in the river at that point was beyond
question Lynch's Ferry, or Ford, which is often mentioned
in the early records. He was one of the original magistrates
of Albemarle, and had previously been one in Goochland.
He served as Sheriff in 1749, and was a representative of the
county in the House of Burgesses. His last entry of land was
made in 1750, and embraced sixteen hundred acres on the
James, opposite Lynchburg. To this land he removed at
that time, but did not long survive the change. He died in
1753.

His wife was Sarah, daughter of Christopher and Penelope
Clark. She joined the Friends about the time of their
removal from Lynch's Ferry on the Rivanna to Lynch's Ferry
on the James. A Quaker Meeting House called South River,
was built in 1754 on her land on Lynch's Creek, a branch of
the Blackwater, three or four miles south of Lynchburg.
Her children were Charles, John, Christopher, and Sarah,
the wife of Micajah Terrell. John was the founder of Lynchburg.
Charles was the clerk of South River Meeting till the
beginning of the political ferment prior to the Revolution,
when the warmth of his patriotism surmounted the pacific

principles he had espoused, and he became a Colonel in the
Revolutionary army. His busy promptitude in dealing with
outlaws and violent Tories during those disturbed times, gave
rise to Lynch law. Mrs. Lynch was married the second time
to John Ward, of Bedford. Besides the imprints of this family
about Lynchburg, they have left their memorial in the names
of this county, Lynch's River, and Lynch's Creek, a tributary
of the Rockfish.

MCGEHEE.

James McGehee obtained a patent for four hundred acres
of land on Little Mechunk in 1747. In 1768 William McGehee
patented nearly two hundred acres on Henderson's
Branch, and near the Secretary's Road, a description, which
indicates that the place was not far from Colle, especially as
in 1774 it came into Mr. Jefferson's hands. William was
probably a son of James, and it was he who gave name to the
ford at Milton, that passage of the river being known in early
times as McGehee's Ford. The family seems subsequently
to have been settled near the present Woodridge, as the forks
of the roads at that place went for a long period by the name
of McGehee's Old Field. William died in 1815. He and
his wife Elizabeth had eight children, William, Elizabeth,
Joseph, Nancy, the wife of William Adcock, Sarah, the wife
of William Campbell, Mary, the wife of James Martin, Lively
and Charles. After the death of the father, most of the family
removed, some to Franklin County, Virginia, and some to
Kentucky.

Whether Francis McGee was related to this family, is not
known. He appears early in the century as having married
Martha, daughter of Peter Marks. He purchased the interests
of some of the Marks heirs in Lots Seventeen and Eighteen
in Charlottesville, on which the old Stone House stood, and
exchanged them with James Lewis for the place on Moore's
Creek, which has long been the home of the Teels. In 1817
he bought from Dabney and Thomas Shelton the farm between
Ivy and Mechum's Depot, which is still owned by his descendants.
For some years he conducted the old Hardin Tavern
on the Staunton Road. He died in 1846. His children were

Ann, Peter, Mary, the wife of James Lobban, Martha, the
wife of John J. Woods, Lewis and Joanna. Lewis died in
1858. Peter in his youth was a merchant at Hillsboro, and
subsequently County Surveyor. He died on his farm south
of Ivy Depot in 1888.

MCKENNIE.

Clement P. McKennie deserves commemoration among the
people of Albemarle for being the publisher of the first newspaper
ever issued in the county. On the twenty-ninth of
January 1820, appeared the first number of the Central
Gazette. He and his brother, J. H. McKennie, were associated
in the enterprise. It is said the office of publication
stood on the northwest corner of Jefferson and Third Streets.
By the withdrawal of J. H. McKennie at the close of the
first year, his brother became the sole publisher. The paper
was issued weekly until about 1828, when on account of the
appearance of the Virginia Advocate, it was discontinued.
About 1834 Mr. McKennie purchased from the heirs of W.
G. Garner the property adjoining the University, where he
established the book store so long conducted by himself and
his son, Marcellus. In 1822 he married Henrietta, daughter
of Matthew Rodes, and departed this life in 1856. In 1821
J. H. McKennie married Mary, daughter of Jesse Garth, and
soon after removed to Nelson County.

MACON.

Thomas Macon came to the county from New Kent in 1833.
In that year he purchased from John Price Sampson Tufton,
a plantation, which contained a thousand and forty acres,
had once belonged to Mr. Jefferson, and which has since
been the home of the Macon family. Mr. Macon was an earnest
member of the Episcopal Church. On account of his
intelligence and high character, he was soon appointed a
magistrate of the county, in which office he served until his
decease. He died in 1851.

MAGRUDER.

John B. Magruder came to Albemarle from Maryland in
the early years of the century. With him from the same

State came George Jones, the father of Robert S., Jesse and
Thomas. They were friends, both good men, and local
preachers of the Methodist Church. They settled in the
eastern part of the county, on the borders of Fluvanna. Mr.
Magruder died in 1812. He and his wife Sarah had nine
children, Sarah, the wife of John Timberlake, Mildred, the
wife of Gideon A. Strange, Elizabeth, the first wife of Dr.
Basil Jones, James, Horatio, Benjamin H., William, Hilary
and John B.

The family were largely engaged in the improvements of
the Rivanna Navigation Company. Besides founding the
Union Mills in Fluvanna, John B. Magruder and John Timberlake
in 1829 bought the Shadwell Mills from the Jefferson
estate, and in addition to the grist mills already existing,
established cotton and woolen factories, which continued in
operation until swept away by the disasters of the war. In
1833 they purchased from a family named Scholfield, of
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a large body of timber
land in the Buck Island section, which had lain in its virgin
state from time immemorial. James Magruder after the war
purchased Frascati, the former home of Judge Philip Barbour
near Gordonsville, where he resided until his death.
Benjamin H. was admitted a member of the Albemarle bar in
1829, and lived for some years in Scottsville. He subsequently
bought Glenmore, opposite Milton, which he made
his home until his death in 1885. Both before and since the
war he represented the county in the Legislature. He was
twice married, first to a daughter of James Minor, of Sunning
Hill, Louisa, and secondly to Evalina, daughter of Opie
Norris. Mildred and her husband, Gideon A. Strange, were
the parents of Sarah, the wife of William Stockton, a brother
of John N. C. Stockton, who emigrated to Florida, John B.,
Colonel of the Nineteenth Virginia in the late war, and Mary,
the wife of John W. Chewning.

Mary, the sister of John B. Magruder Sr., was the wife of
Thomas D. Boyd. At the beginning of the century he conducted
a public house at the junction of the Three Notched and
River Roads, the locality still known as Boyd's Tavern.

He had six children, John H., who went to Richmond,
Charity, the wife of James Thrift, of Montgomery County,
Maryland, James M., Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas A.
Woodson, Mary, the wife of Bartley Herndon, of Shenandoah
County, and Thomas J. The last was admitted to the
Albemarle bar in 1829, and removed to Wytheville, where
he recently died at an advanced age.

Allan B. Magruder, a nephew of John B., and brother of
General John Bankhead, became a member of the Albemarle
bar in 1838. He resided in Charlottesville in the house at
the rear of the late Thomas Wood's until a short time before
the war, when he removed to Washington City, and subsequently
to Frederick County, Virginia. His daughter Janet
became the wife of Major Robert H. Poore, who fell in the
battle of Gettysburg, and his daughter Julia, by the productions
of her pen, has attained quite a position of note in the
literary world.

MARKS.

An Englishman named Marks married Elizabeth Hastings,
and emigrated to Virginia. They had five sons and a
daughter, Peter, John, James, Hastings, Thomas, and
Sarah, who in 1782 became the wife of James Winston, of
Louisa. The children were all settled in Albemarle prior to
the Revolution. Peter probably lived in Charlottesville, as
his business operations were mainly connected with the real
estate of the town. He was Escheator for the county, and
during the Revolution superintended several inquisitions,
for the confiscation of the property of those who took sides
with the British. In 1791 he bought from Mr. Monroe the
square on which the Stone House stood, and from Dr. Gilmer
part of Lot Thirty-Two, on which stands the store of
T. T. Norman. His death occurred in 1795, and gave rise to
complications in his affairs that were not fully straightened
for many years; in fact, the part of lot Thirty-Two was not
finally disposed of till 1830. His wife was Joanna Sydnor,
and his children Sarah, the wife of Joshua Nicholas, Martha,
the wife of Francis McGee, Mary, the second wife of James
Lewis, Sophia, the wife of Russell Brown, Elizabeth, the

wife of John W. Hinde, Nancy, the wife of Temple Gwathmey,
a nephew of George Rogers Clark, Hastings and Peter.
The most of the children removed to Kentucky. The only
one who spent her entire life in the county, was Mrs. McGee.
Her sister Mary seems to have made her home with her,
but in 1826 James Lewis returned from Tennessee, and took
her back as his wife.

John Marks was a Captain in the Revolutionary War, and
for this service received a grant of four thousand acres of land
on Brush Creek, Ross County, Ohio. After the death of
William Lewis, he married his widow, Lucy. He was a
magistrate of the county, and was appointed Sheriff in 1785.
During his incumbency of the office, he removed with the
Gilmer emigration to Georgia, where he died shortly after.
James was also a magistrate. He lived on a farm consisting
of eight hundred acres near Keswick Depot, and likely including
it. He emigrated to Georgia, and when taking this step
sold his plantation to John Harvie, whose sister Elizabeth
was his wife. Hastings owned a place in the Ragged Mountains,
not far from the D. S. In 1785 he married Ann Scott,
sister of Mr. Jefferson, and removed to the tidewater district
of the State. The kind and considerate disposition of the
President, who at the time was Minister to France, was shown
in the letters he addressed to each of the parties, on the occasion
of this union.

MARTIN.

The name of Martin has belonged to a number of families
in the county. The year it was organized, 1745, Captain
Joseph Martin, as he was called in the patents, obtained
grants of more than fourteen hundred acres on Priddy's Creek,
and eight hundred on Piney Run. His will disposing of land
in Essex County, it is surmised he came from that part of the
State. He and his wife Ann had eleven children, Brice,
William, Joseph, John, George, Sarah, the wife of John Burrus,
Mary, the wife of a Hammock, Susan, Martha, Ann, and
Olive, the wife probably of Ambrose Edwards. The Captain
died in 1761.

James Martin owned at an early date a considerable tract
of land that now belongs to the Grayson family, near the
present site of the Miller School. In 1759 he gave two hundred
acres to each of his six sons, Stephen, John, James,
Obadiah, William and David. These sons, or the most of
them, it is believed, emigrated to North Carolina, about the
time of the Revolution. It is possible the John just mentioned
was the John Martin who lived in the western part of
the North Garden. His place was formerly known as the
Pocket Plantation. He was a prosperous man, and became
the owner of upwards of fifteen hundred acres. He died in
1812. His wife's name was Elizabeth, believed to have been
a Wheeler, and his children were Benjamin, Sarah, the wife
of John Watson, Mary, the wife of William Wood, Susan,
the wife of Hickerson Jacob, and Clarissa. Benjamin succeeded
to his father's place, and died in 1821. His wife's
name was Catharine, and his children were Ann, the wife of
Augustine Woodson, Lindsay, John, Caroline, the wife of
Joshua W. Abell, Julia, the wife of Micajah Wheeler, Benjamin,
Emily, the wife of Richard Abell, James, Elizabeth,
the wife first of Peter Garland, and secondly of Daniel Martin,
and Jane, the wife of Samuel M. Powell.

A John Martin in 1762 purchased from Joseph Thomas
upwards of six hundred acres in the southern part of the
county, on Ballenger's Creek. He died in 1810. He married
Ann, daughter of James Tooley, and his children were
Sarah, the wife of James Wood, Ann, the wife of John
Dawson, Dabney, James, Celia, Alice, Simeon, Massey and
Lindsay.

Thomas Martin was already settled on the south fork of
Hardware in 1764, where his descendants have been resident
ever since. He seems not to have been a patentee, and
when he purchased does not appear. He died in 1792. He
and his wife Mary had ten children, Abraham, George,
Thomas, Charles, John, Pleasant, Letitia, the wife of Richard
Moore, Mildred, the wife of an Oglesby, Ann, the wife
of a Blain, and Mary, the wife of Benjamin Dawson. Pleasant
removed to Amherst. John married Elizabeth, daughter

of David Lewis, was a Captain in the Revolutionary army,
had charge of the troops that in 1780 guarded as far as
Frederick, Md., the British prisoners, on their removal from
the Barracks, and of those stationed in Charlottesville at the
time of the Tarleton Raid, and in 1786 emigrated to Fayette
County, Kentucky. Charles lived on the place where J. Goulet
Martin now resides, and sold it in 1783 to Rev. William Irvin.
His wife's name was Patty, and he had two daughters,
Elizabeth and Martha, who became the wives of brothers,
Thomas and James Cobbs, of Halifax County; and selling
the remainder of his land the next year, he probably followed
them to that county. George married Barbara, daughter
of Samuel Woods, and died in 1799. His children were
Malinda, the wife of Lewis Teel, Samuel W., and Elizabeth,
the wife of William Garth. Samuel W. married Sarah,
daughter of Garrett White, and died in 1857. His children
were Garrett W., George, Thomas, John A., Samuel W.,
Jeremiah, and Eleanora, the wife of Jesse L. Heiskell.

Hudson Martin was a Second Lieutenant in the Ninth
Virginia, during the Revolution. For a number of years he
was deputy Clerk of the county, and subsequently a magistrate.
He married Jane, the eldest daughter of Nicholas
Lewis. Near the beginning of the century he removed to
Amherst, in the vicinity of Faber's Mills, where his descendants
still live. In 1834 Captain John Thomas testified
before the County Court in behalf of his heirs, to the fact of
his having served in the Revolutionary army. A son John
M. Martin became a member of the Albemarle bar in 1809.
Another son, Hudson, married Mildred, daughter of Dabney
Minor, and at one time lived in Arkansas.

In the early years of the century, a Thomas Martin married
Mary Ann, daughter of Daniel White. His home was
west of Batesville, north of the place now occupied by William
H. Turner Jr. He died in 1827. His children were
Ann, the wife of John L. White, Azariah, Diana, the wife of
James Lobban, Thomas, Mary, the wife of William Stone,
Charles, Elizabeth, Daniel, Henry, Barbara, the wife of John
Lobban, and Lucy, the wife of William H. Garland.

MASSIE.

The Massie family was a numerous one which in early
times migrated from New Kent, and was widely scattered over
Albemarle, Nelson and Amherst. The first of the name that
settled in Albemarle was Charles. His home was in the southwest
part of the county on the waters of Lynch's Creek, on
what was long known as the Wakefield Entry. The plantation,
Spring Valley, became noted from the perfection of
its Albemarle Pippins, and though now held by other hands,
it is still designated by the Massie name. Charles Massie
commenced the purchase of this place in 1768. He died in
1817. His children were Thomas, Charles, John, Elizabeth,
the wife of a Smith, and Mary, the wife first of Robert Ware,
and secondly of William Lobban. His son Charles succeeded
to the place, and died in 1830. His wife's name was Nancy,
and his children were Hardin, Nathaniel, Charles G., Sarah,
the wife of a Ragland, Elizabeth, the wife of a Bailey, and
Nancy.

Hardin was a physician, who came to Charlottesville in
1824, and for many years practised in partnership with Dr.
Charles Carter. He was largely interested in the real estate
of the town. He lived on Fourth Street next to the old Baptist
Church, the site of which he sold to that congregation.
He was himself an earnest member of that Church, and for a
time acted as its Clerk. He never married, and died in 1848.
Nathaniel was for a considerable period of his life a successful
merchant in Waynesboro, but as his years increased, he returned
to the old homestead on the borders of Nelson, where
he died in 1871. He was twice married, first to Susan, daughter
of Michael Woods, son of Colonel John, and secondly to
Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew Rodes. His children by the
first marriage were James, Professor in the Virginia Military
Institute, N. Hardin, of Charlottesville, Susan, the wife of
Robert B. Moon, and Hetty, the wife of William Patrick;
and of those by the second marriage were Rodes and Edwin.
Charles G. died in 1857.

An Edmund Massie lived in the county the same time
with the first Charles. His home was in the vicinity of

Brown's Cove. He died in 1782. He and his wife Judith
had several children, of whom the only one mentioned was
Thomas. It may be he was the Thomas Massie, who in 1792
rented from the representatives of Hugh Moss a large tract
of land on the Rivanna, in the Buck Island neighborhood.
In that neighborhood he died in 1799, leaving six children,
Martha, the wife of Hugh Pettit, Nancy, the wife of Reuben
Mansfield, Susan, James, Thomas and John.

MAUPIN.

Two brothers, Daniel and Gabriel Maupin, came to the
county just before the middle of the last century. From the
name it may be inferred they were of French extraction. The
idea has been entertained that they were French soldiers,
who crossed the ocean with Lafayette at the time of the Revolution;
but Daniel obtained a patent for land on Moorman's
River in 1748, twenty-seven years before that event. The
name however was represented in the Revolutionary army,
Daniel, William and Cornelius appearing on the pension list;
these in all probability were brothers, sons of John Maupin,
and grandsons of Daniel. Daniel entered more than fifteen
hundred acres in the Whitehall neighborhood. He died in
1788. He and his wife Margaret had seven sons and three
daughters, Thomas, Gabriel, Daniel, John, Margaret, the
wife of Robert Miller, William, Zachariah, Jesse, Jane, the
wife of Samuel Rea and Mary, the wife of Matthew Mullins.

Gabriel died in 1794. He seems to have lived in the vicinity
of Free Union. His wife's name was Marah, and Thomas,
Bland, Daniel and Gabriel were names of his sons. The
truth is, the families of this stock were generally so numerous,
containing hardly ever less than ten, and sometimes
thirteen children, and the same names were so often repeated
in the different households, that it would be well nigh impossible
at this date to make out an accurate statement of their
lines of descent. They frequently intermarried among themselves,
and with the Harrises, Jarmans and Vias, and their
descendants are widely scattered over the West, particularly
in Kentucky and Missouri. They seem to have been in their
generations an industrious, quiet, unambitious people. They

have usually been attached to the Methodist Church, a Daniel
Maupin being an original trustee of Austin's, or Bingham's,
Meeting House, and another Daniel and his wife Hannah in
1834 giving the ground for Mount Moriah near Whitehall,
which indeed for many years commonly went by the name of
Maupin's Meeting House.

Dr. Socrates Maupin, who was Professor of Chemistry first
in Hampden-Sidney College, and afterwards in the University
of Virginia, was one of this family. He died from injuries
in consequence of a runaway accident in Lynchburg,
in 1871. He was the son of Chapman W. Maupin, who was
third in descent from the first Daniel, was appointed a magistrate
of the county in 1835, and died in 1861. Addison, another
son of Chapman W., had his residence before the war on
Carr's Hill, adjoining the University. J. Addison Maupin,
of Richmond, author of the Maupin bill of recent notoriety,
was Addison's son.

MAURY.

In the last century Rev. James Maury was the rector of
Fredericksville parish. His parents, Matthew Maury and
Mary Ann Fontaine, were Huguenot exiles, and were residents
of King William. Instead of occupying the glebe, he
resided on his own farm, which lay on the borders of Albemarle
and Louisa. He attained great notoriety as suitor in
the famous case under the Two Penny Act, in which Patrick
Henry first displayed his marvellous powers of eloquence.
In addition to his clerical duties, he taught on his plantation
a classical school in which Mr. Jefferson was one of his pupils.
In 1767 he purchased nearly seven hundred acres
southwest of Ivy Depot from the executors of old Michael
Woods, which his son Matthew sold in 1797 to Rev. William
Woods and Richard Woods. He married Mary Walker, a
cousin it is said of Dr. Thomas Walker, and died in 1769.
His children were Matthew, James, Ann, Mary, Walker,
Catharine, the wife of James Barrett, Elizabeth, the wife of
James Lewis, of Spotsylvania, Abraham, Fontaine, Benjamin
and Richard. James was appointed by Washington in
1789 Consul to Liverpool, which office he continued to fill

till 1837. Richard, who married Diana, daughter of Major
John Minor, of Spotsylvania, and removed to Franklin,
Tenn., was the father of Commodore Matthew F. Maury, and
the grandfather of General Dabney Maury, of the Confederate
army.

Matthew was an Episcopal minister, and succeeded his
father both at the homestead, and in the parish. He also
taught school. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Dr.
Thomas Walker, and died in 1808. His children were
Matthew, Thomas Walker, Francis, Mary Ann, the wife of
William Michie, Mildred, the wife of Henry Fry Jr., Reuben,
Elizabeth, Catharine, the wife of Francis Lightfoot, and
John. Thomas W. was a member of the Albemarle bar,
was appointed a magistrate in 1816, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Julius Clarkson, and granddaughter of Jesse
Lewis, taught school in the small brick at the east end of
Main Street, and afterwards at his own place above the University,
now occupied by Samuel Emerson, and died in 1842.
Reuben married Elizabeth, daughter of Jesse Lewis, and died
in 1869. His son, Jesse L., succeeded to the home of his
father, and still lives in a green old age, a link between the
present and the past. Mildred was the mother of J. Frank
Fry, long the Commissioner of the Revenue for St. Anne's.
James S. Maury, son of the Consul, lived at one time on a
place near the north end of Dudley's Mountain, and in 1833
sold it to Jesse L. John, son of Rev. Matthew, also once
lived in the same vicinity.

MAYO.

The Mayos have had a name and place in Albemarle from
the beginning. Colonel William Mayo, the County Surveyor
of Goochland, obtained a patent for eight hundred acres on
the branches of Rockfish, near the Blue Mountains, in 1738.
The patent of Dr. William Cabell for forty-eight hundred
acres on both sides of the Fluvanna, obtained the same year,
adjoined this entry of Mayo. Among the first deeds recorded
in Albemarle, is one from Ann Mayo, conveying this land to
Robert Barnett in 1748.

In 1749 Philip Mayo, of Henrico, entered four hundred
acres on the branches of Hardware, situated in the limestone
belt, and long known as the Limestone Survey. In 1752 he
sold it to Peter Jefferson, Joshua Fry, Arthur Hopkins,
Thomas Meriwether, Daniel Scott, and William Stith, President
of William and Mary College. It is presumed that in
making this purchase, these gentlemen had in mind some
project for utilizing the mineral it contained.

The original record of the deed having been destroyed, it
was restored in 1802. As late as 1830 these separate interests
were not all united, as in that year Governor Gilmer, as executor
of Christopher Hudson, sold to George Gilmer, his
father, one-sixth of the tract.

James Mayo died in 1777, leaving eleven sons and two
daughters. The most of them no doubt lived in Goochland.
One of them, Thomas, who belonged to that county, bought in
1779 from Thomas Collins four hundred acres on Edge Creek,
the small branch of Moore's Creek that runs on the east side
of the Teel place. Four years later Thomas sold part of this
tract to his brother, Richard George Mayo. If Richard George
ever lived on it, he removed elsewhere, as in 1809 his brother
Joseph, as his attorney, sold it to another brother, James.
James died in 1821, in his eighty-third year. His wife was
Mary, daughter of Stephen Hughes, and his children John
W., Stephen, Claudius, James E., Catharine, the wife of William
Thompson, and Nancy, the wife of John Harris.

MERIWETHER.

The progenitor of the Meriwethers was Nicholas, an
emigrant from Wales, who died in 1678. He had three sons,
Francis, who married Mary Bathurst, and from whom
descended Governor George W. Smith, who perished in the
burning of the Richmond theatre in 1811, David and
Nicholas. Nicholas was the large landholder. Besides
obtaining grants of extensive tracts in several of the
counties of eastern Virginia, he entered in one body
seventeen thousand, nine hundred and fifty-two acres
on the east side of the South West Mountain in Albemarle.
He also entered in 1735 one thousand and twenty

acres on the Rivanna, extending from Moore's Creek
to Meadow Creek. This was the place on which he lived,
and which he devised to his grandson, Nicholas Lewis. He
died in 1744, and it is said he and his grandson, Richard
Meriwether, son of William, were buried on the east side of
the Rivanna, most probably on the summit of the hill north
of Mrs. Crockford's residence, on the parcel of land which
Richard purchased from Thomas Graves. His wife was
Elizabeth Crawford, and his children Jane, the wife of Robert
Lewis, Thomas, Nicholas, William, David, Elizabeth, the
wife of Thomas Bray, Ann, the wife of Thomas Johnson,
the colleague of Patrick Henry from Louisa in the House
of Burgesses, and the grandfather of the eminent lawyer,
Chapman Johnson, Sarah, the wife of William Littlepage,
and Mary, the wife of John Aylett.

Nicholas received from his father a share of the lands east
of the South West Mountain, of which Castle Hill was the
seat. He married Mildred Thornton, and died in 1739, leaving
one child, Mildred. About 1741 his widow became the
wife of Dr. Thomas Walker, and in due time Mildred, his
daughter, became the wife of John Syme, of Hanover, the
half-brother of Patrick Henry. In 1741 and 1746 there were
entered in the daughter Mildred's name, two tracts of sixteen
hundred, and nineteen hundred acres, lying near the gorge of
the South Hardware between Gay's and Fan's Mountains,
and extending up the road towards Batesville; and for many
years her lines frequently figure in the descriptions of lands
sold in that neighborhood. Both tracts were sold by Mildred's
son, John Syme Jr., to President William Nelson, but
the deed was never recorded. President Nelson devised them
to his son Robert, who sold the sixteen hundred tract to
James Powell Cocke, and the other in parcels to different
purchasers. A chancery suit instituted against the children
of John Syme Jr., then living in Nelson County, to make
title to these lands, was decided in 1809; and a considerable
part of Deed Book Sixteen is occupied with the deeds of
these parties to the vendees.

David Meriwether married Ann Holmes, and had six sons
and two daughters. Thomas, the eldest, married Elizabeth
Thornton, and his children were Nicholas, Francis, David,
Mary, the wife of Peachy R. Gilmer, Elizabeth, the wife of
Thomas Johnson, Sarah, the wife of Michael Anderson, Ann,
the wife of Richard Anderson, and mother of David Anderson,
of Milton and Pantops, Lucy, the wife of William Lewis,
and afterwards of John Marks, Mildred, the wife of John Gilmer,
and Jane, the wife of Samuel Dabney, mother of Mildred,
Reuben Lewis's wife, and grandmother of Rev. Robert Lewis
Dabney, the eminent theologian. Nicholas, the eldest of this
family, married Margaret, daughter of Rev. William Douglass,
a native of Scotland, rector of the parish of St. James,
Northam, Goochland, who added teaching to his ministerial
duties, and was the preceptor of Presidents Monroe and Jefferson,
and who spent his last days at his plantation of
Ducking Hole, Louisa. The children of Nicholas and Margaret
Douglass Meriwether were William Douglass, Thomas,
Nicholas H., Charles, Francis T., and Elizabeth, the wife
of Thomas W. Lewis. Mrs. Margaret D. Meriwether was
married the second time to Chiles Terrell.

William Douglass lived at Clover Fields, on the east side
of the South West Mountain. He was a man of fine sense
and great wealth. He was a magistrate of the county for
fifty years, and the only one of the whole body of magistrates
that filled the office of Sheriff twice, in 1801 and 1828. His
wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Lewis, and through
her he inherited the part of the Farm nearest Charlottesville,
which in 1825 he sold to John A. G. Davis, who built on it
the brick house, the present residence of Mrs. Thomas Farish.
He died in 1845. His children were William H.,
Charles J., Mary, the wife of Peter Meriwether, Margaret D.,
the wife first of Dr. Francis Meriwether, and secondly of
Francis K. Nelson, and Thomas W. William H., a man of
incessant activity, was admitted to the bar, built the first mill
at Rio, and a bridge across the Rivanna at the Woolen Mills,
sold his land in 1835 to George L. Craven, and went to
Texas. He was twice married, first to Frances Poindexter,

and secondly to Kate W. Meriwether, who after his death
was married to Dr. Prior, of Memphis, Tenn. Charles
J. received from his father Mooresbrook, the present residence
of Mr. Newman, but being impoverished by the war, he and
his wife Louisa Miller, a sister of President Tyler's first wife,
passed their remaining days under the hospitable roof of
Mrs. Harper and her son, Warner Wood, at Farmington.
Thomas W. was a physician, succeeded to the homestead,
was a ruling elder in South Plains Church, and died in 1863.
His wife was Ann, daughter of Hugh Nelson, and his children
William D., also a physician, Mildred, the wife of George
Macon, Ann, the wife of Frederick W. Page, Eliza, the wife
of N. H. Massie, and Charlotte, the second wife of T. J.
Randolph Jr.

Thomas, second son of Nicholas and Margaret D. Meriwether,
married Ann, daughter of Garrett Minor, of Louisa.
They had four children, among whom was Peter N., who
resided at Cismont, married first his cousin Mary, as already
noted, and secondly Mrs. Frances Tapp, and died in 1851.

Nicholas H., third son of Nicholas and Margaret, married
Rebecca Terrell. They had six children, among whom were
Dr. Charles H., who married first Ann E. Anderson, and
secondly Frances E. Thomas, lived at the present station of
Arrowhead, and died in 1843, Ann T., the wife of Nicholas
H. Lewis, and mother of Lydia L., the wife of Peter, son of
Dr. Frank Carr, and Walker G., who married first his cousin
Elizabeth Meriwether, and secondly his cousin Jane W.
Lewis.

Charles, fourth son of Nicholas and Margaret, studied
medicine in Scotland, and while visiting his Douglass kin
in that country, married a young lady named Lydia Laurie.
On his return he settled in Tennessee. Lydia Laurie died,
and he married twice afterwards; but her sweet-sounding
name has ever since been a favorite in all branches of the
connection.

Francis T., fifth son of Nicholas and Margaret, married
Catharine Davis, and had six children. Among them were

Elizabeth, the wife of her cousin Walker G., George D., who
married his cousin Alice Lewis, and Dr. Francis, who married
his cousin Margaret D., and whose daughter, Mary W.,
was the first wife of T. J. Randolph Jr.

Of all this numerous family, there is not one now living in
Albemarle who bears the name. Their descendants however
are scattered in every part of the West and South.

MICHIE.

The first Michie who settled in the county was John, who
bought land near the Horse Shoe of the Rivanna from John
Henry, father of the great orator. When the purchase was
made does not appear, but he sold to Hezekiah Rice, and
repurchased from him in 1763. He died in 1777. His children
were John, who died before his father, Robert, James,
Patrick, William, Sarah, the wife of Christopher Wood, and
Mary, the wife also of a Wood. Robert and his sisters seem
to have lived in Louisa.

Patrick had his home southwest of Earlysville, between
the Buck Mountain Road and the south fork of the Rivanna.
He died in 1799. His wife's name was Frances, and his
children were Nancy, the wife of Joseph Goodman, James,
Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Maupin, Sarah, the wife of
William G. Martin, Martha, the wife of Richard Davis,
Susan, the wife of William Michie, Mary, the wife of John
Maupin, and David.

William became a large landholder in the same section.
He purchased in 1793 from Lewis Webb, of New Kent, two
thousand and ninety acres in one tract. On the Buck Mountain
Road he established the public house, which has since
been known as Michie's Old Tavern. He was appointed a
magistrate in 1791, served as Sheriff in 1803, and died in
1811. He was twice married; one of his wives, it is believed,
being Ann, daughter of David Mills. His children by the
first marriage were John A., and Mary, the wife of John
Mullins, and by the second William, David and Lucy, the
wife of Benjamin Richards.

John A. was appointed a magistrate of the county in 1807.
His wife was Frances, daughter of Thomas Jarman. He

died in 1827. His children were Frances J., Ann, Sarah,
Elizabeth, the wife of Bezaleel G. Brown, Theodosia, the
wife of Edmund Brown, John E., James, William, Robert
J., Jonathan, Mary and Martha. Of these James attained a
prominent position in the affairs of the county. He was a
successful business man, was appointed a magistrate in
1816, and served as Sheriff in 1843. He was an earnest
Episcopalian, and displayed his zeal in active efforts to rebuild
the ruins of the old Buck Mountain Church. His
home was on the north fork of the Rivanna, south of Piney
Mountain. He died in 1850. His wife was Frances, daughter
of Thomas Garth Jr., and his children Mary Elizabeth,
the wife of William T. Early, Virginia, Susan, Adeline,
Dr. J. Augustus, Thomas, Theresa, the wife of Lucian
Michie, Alexander H., and Henry Clay. Jonathan married
a sister of Thomas J. Michie, of Staunton, and his children
were John P., Margaret, the wife of Dr. Theodore Michie,
Frances, the wife of Dr. R. N. Hewitt, of Campbell County,
Thomas, Chapman and Franklin.

William Michie, son of William, married, it is believed,
Susan, daughter of his uncle Patrick. His children were
Dr. James W., David and Frances. His brother David was a
man of great enterprise and thrift. In early life he was a
merchant first in the Michie Tavern neighborhood, and afterwards
at Milton. He invested in real estate in different parts
of the county, purchasing in 1805 from Randolph Lewis his
plantation Buck Island on the north side of the Rivanna,
which he seems to have made his home till 1837. In that
year he bought the brick house on the northeast corner of
Market and Seventh Streets in Charlottesville, where he
resided until his death in 1850. He left no children, and his
large estate was divided among his numerous relatives, under
the direction of George Carr, as administrator.

James Michie Jr., or Beau Jim, as he was commonly called,
was the son of a William Michie. His residence was at
Longwood, west of Earlysville. His death occurred in 1847.
He married Eliza Graves, of Rockingham, and his children
were Dr. Theodore, Octavius, Joseph P., Lucian, Oran,

Claudius N., Eugene, Catharine, the wife of William A.
Rogers, Cornelia and Virginia.

MILLS.

In early times three large entries of lands were made within
the county by persons named Mills. Between 1737 and 1759
Matthew Mills obtained grants for seventeen hundred acres on
the south side of Mechum's River, east of the Miller School.
After his death it was divided among three sons, Matthew,
Charles and Menan. In 1782 Matthew, who at the time was
living in Guilford County, North Carolina, sold his share to
William Leigh, who came to take possession of it from Caswell
County, North Carolina. The same year Charles and his wife
Mary, who were residents of Buckingham, sold five hundred
and sixty-seven acres to Richard Woods, the same land that
descended to his son Richard, that after his death was sold
to James Michie, and that is still in the possession of his
son, Thomas Michie. The other portion, five hundred and
sixty-seven acres, fell to Menan, who lived on it till 1800.
He then bought from the executors of Micajah Chiles the old
Joel Terrell property in Charlottesville, the square on which
the present City Hall stands. He married Frances, daughter
of John Jouett. He was not a prosperous man, and in 1811
all his possessions were sold under deeds of trust, his share
of his father's estate being purchased by Daniel White, and
now owned by his grandson, Samuel G. White. Menan
Mills removed elsewhere, probably to Kentucky, leaving
four children, John, Frances and Margaret, who were placed
under the guardianship of Micajah Woods, and William,
who was placed under that of Clifton Rodes.

Charles Mills between 1744 and 1756 took out patents for
three thousand acres along the foot of Buck's Elbow, between
Crozet and Whitehall. It is probable Charles was a brother
of the elder Matthew, as both belonged to Hanover, and some
of their patents were taken out the same day. Charles's land
was inherited by his son Nicholas, who lived in Hanover,
and who, after selling a portion of it, conveyed the remainder
in 1786 to his sons, Joseph and William Mills, and his son-in-law,
James Burnley, of Louisa. In 1790 Joseph sold his

share to William, who lived in Spotsylvania, and in 1793
William sold to John Burnley, the son of James.

The third series of entries was made by David Mills. They
ran from 1738 to 1755, and amounted to more than eleven
thousand acres. They were located south of Earlysville, on
Buck Mountain and Beaverdam Creeks, and in the Brown's
Cove district. David Mills died in 1764. He and his wife Lucy
had eight children, Zachariah, David, Wyatt, Joseph, Ann,
the wife of William Michie, Elizabeth, the wife of William
Doswell, of Nottoway, Mary, the wife of William S. Lane,
and Lucy, the wife of Philip White, of Hanover. David sold
out to his brother Wyatt in 1786, and emigrated to South
Carolina. Wyatt died in 1808. He and his wife Sarah had
four children, Elizabeth, the wife of James Beazley, Wilson,
John S., and Sophia, the wife of Fontaine Richards. Joseph
Mills Jr., probably the son of Joseph, taught school in the
Buck Mountain neighborhood, was admitted to the bar in
1823, and soon after removed to Harrisonburg.

A John Mills—whether related to any of those before mentioned,
is not known—in 1782 married Elizabeth, daughter of
Robert Field, and was owner of the land which is now
known as Brooksville. In 1795 he sold it to James Hays, and
probably left the county.

MINOR.

John Minor, of Topping Castle, Caroline County, was the
patentee of land on the north fork of the Rivanna as early as
1735. Of the eleven children of himself and his wife, Sarah,
daughter of Thomas Carr, three have been represented in
Albemarle. His son James came to the county from Spotsylvania
not far from 1770, and lived on the land entered by
his father east of the Burnt Mills, which he beyond all question
first built. He was a man of energy and industry, and
a public spirited magistrate, but died in 1791, at the age of
forty-five. His wife was Mary Carr, and his children Dabney,
James, John, Sarah, the wife of William Wardlaw,
Mary, the wife of Richard H. Allen, Nancy, the wife of Dr.
Thomas Yancey, and Elizabeth, the wife of Alexander Garrett.
Dabney resembled his father in capacity for business, became

a large landholder in this and other counties, and for a number
of years served as a magistrate. He resided at first at
the home of his father, but subsequently purchased Carrsbrook,
and there spent his last years. He died in 1824, about
fifty years of age. He was twice married, first to Eliza
Johnson, a niece of William Wirt, and secondly to Martha
J., daughter of Richard Terrell, and granddaughter of Mr.
Jefferson's sister, Martha. By the first marriage his children
were Mildred, the wife of Hudson Martin, Catharine, the
wife of E. W. Reinhart, Sarah, the wife of James Tompkins,
and William W., of Gale Hill, and by the second Lucy J.,
the wife of Robert N. Trice. James lived at Brookhill, on
the south fork of the Rivanna. His wife was Catharine Tompkins,
and his children Dabney, John, James, Elizabeth, the
wife of Samuel Moore, Ann, the wife of Rev. Albert Holladay,
missionary to Persia, and President-Elect of Hampden-Sidney
College, Catharine, the wife of Rev. Luther Emerson, and
Martha, the wife of Lafayette Harris. He departed this life
in 1848. John was a physician, and married Jane Bell, a
Scotch lady, who was a resident of Lynchburg. He resided
at Gale Hill, which at his death in 1841 he devised to his
nephew, William W. Minor.

Another son of John Minor, of Topping Castle, was Garrett,
of Louisa, who married Mary O. Terrell. Their son
Peter came to the county early in the century, and married
Lucy, daughter of Dr. George Gilmer, of Pen Park. In 1809
he purchased from Jesse and John Key the present farm of
Ridgeway, and in 1811 was appointed Treasurer of the Rivanna
Navigation Company. He was for many years Secretary
of the County Agricultural Society, in the great objects
of which he was deeply interested. To his wife George
Divers at his death in 1830 left one-third of his estate. He
died in 1835, and his children were Hugh, Franklin, Peter
C., George, John S., James E., Martha, the wife of Robert
Grattan, Lucy, the wife of Dr. Charles Minor, and Mary, the
wife of R. W. N. Noland. Hugh married first a Fry, and
secondly Mary Ann, daughter of J. Boucher Carr, and lived
at Ridgeway; but exchanging it with his brother Franklin

for the Rigory, he resided there until his death in 1858.
Franklin married Lucy Ann, daughter of Dr. John Gilmer,
of Edgemont, and established a classical school at the Rigory,
but afterwards removed it to Ridgeway, where it attained a
wide-spread reputation. He died in 1867, but owing to ill
health, and the interruption of the war, the school had been
relinquished some years before. Samuel O., another son of
Garrett, married Lydia Laurie, daughter of Thomas W.
Lewis, of Locust Grove. In 1817 he bought from Martin
Dawson upwards of six hundred acres on the north side of
the Rivanna, below Milton. He afterwards lived and conducted
a school at the Farm. Dr. James H. Minor, of Music
Hall, and Elizabeth, the wife of Andrew Brown, were his
children.

Another son of John Minor, of Topping Castle, was Major
John, whose son Launcelot, of Minor's Folly in Louisa,
married Mary O. Tompkins. Several of their children resided
in Albemarle. Lucian was admitted to the bar in 1830,
practised for a time in Charlottesville, and subsequently
became Professor of Law in William and Mary. John B.,
after practising law for a brief period in Buchanan on James
River, settled in Charlottesville, erected as his home the house
at Northwood, the present residence of Charles Benson, and
in 1845 entered upon his distinguished career as Professor of
Law in the University of Virginia, where he died in 1896.
Dr. Charles, who married Lucy, daughter of Peter Minor,
taught a classical school at Brookhill, and afterwards lived
until his death in 1862 at Land's End, near Stony Point.
George W. Trueheart, a son of Ann Minor, daughter of
Launcelot, and wife of Overton Trueheart, was for a time a
member of the Albemarle bar.

MONROE.

President James Monroe was for many years a citizen of
Albemarle. Being a great admirer as well as a special favorite
of Mr. Jefferson, he was attracted to the county by his
influence. His first purchase of real estate was made from
George Nicholas in 1790. He then bought from him Lots
Seventeen and Eighteen in Charlottesville, with the Stone

House which Nicholas had erected thereon. That was his
first residence. At the same time he purchased the farm on
which the University stands. In the conveyance of his town
property to Peter Marks in September 1790, it is recited that
he sold to him "the pine plank and materials deposited
thereon, except that which was planed, and the walnut
plank," and reserved in the house "room for his furniture and
family, until his houses were ready to receive them on his
farm." This farm he also bought from George Nicholas,
who, having purchased more than two thousand acres in
different parts of the county, sold them, and removed without
making conveyances for any of them; and it was not until
nearly twenty years after his death, that James Morrison,
his executor, gave title to the heirs of his vendees. For the
land he sold Mr. Monroe, no deed was ever made, or at least
was ever recorded; on account of Mr. Monroe's celebrity,
and the property having changed hands several times, perhaps
it was deemed unnecessary. The house Mr. Monroe
was getting ready on his farm, was part of that now occupied
by Professor Thornton, situated on what is still called Monroe
Hill.

But he did not reside there long. In 1793 he purchased on
the east side of Carter's Mountain, where he was a still closer
neighbor to Mr. Jefferson. Part of this land he bought from
Mr. Jefferson, and part from William C. Carter. His home
was Ash Lawn, now owned by Rev. John E. Massey. Here
he lived till the termination of his presidency, when all his
lands in the county, amounting to between four and five
thousand acres, were sold, or transferred to the United States
Bank, in payment of his debts. Like Mr. Jefferson, he was
so completely absorbed in his public engagements, and so
frequently and long absent from home, that his private affairs
suffered from neglect. When a man's mind is accustomed to
dwell upon the broad expanse of a nation's interests, it is not
unnatural perhaps that he should insensibly contract a sort
of sublime indifference to the petty range of his mere personal
concerns. As already stated, Mr. Monroe never did
get a deed for his University land, and that which he bought

from William C. Carter in 1793, was not conveyed to him
till 1827. He was appointed a magistrate in 1798, and the
latter half of the next year he sat regularly on the bench.
His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Lawrence Kortright, a
captain in the British army, and his children Eliza and Maria.
Eliza was married to George Hay, United States Attorney
for the District of Virginia, at his home in the county in
1808, and Maria to Samuel L. Governeur, of New York, in
Washington, while he was President. At the expiration of
his second term, he removed to Oak Hill, a farm he had purchased
in Loudoun.

The President had an elder brother, Andrew, who, it is
believed, in 1781 purchased a farm near Batesville, where he
resided for four years. In 1816 he was living on a farm
which the President purchased on Limestone, below Milton.
He died in 1828. A son, Augustine G., was admitted to the
Albemarle bar in 1815. Another son, James, born in the
county, was an officer in the United Stated army, acted as
the President's private secretary, married a daughter of James
Douglass, an adopted son of Rev. William Douglass, of
Ducking Hole, Louisa, and settled in New York City, where
he was active in political affairs, and where he was appointed
to perform his last public service as a member of the Peace
Convention in 1861.

Joseph Jones Monroe, another brother of the President,
became a member of the Albemarle bar, married Elizabeth,
daughter of James Kerr, was appointed Commonwealth's
Attorney in 1811 as successor to Judge Dabney Carr, and
the next year gave place to William F. Gordon. In 1812
his daughter Harriet was married in Charlottesville to
Edward Blair Cabell, and removed to Keytesville, Mo. He
himself subsequently removed to Missouri, where he died in
Franklin County in 1824.

MOON.

The genealogy of the Moons is somewhat difficult to trace.
It seems however that two brothers, Jacob and William,
settled in the county in early times. In 1750 Jacob purchased

land from Thomas Fitzpatrick in the gorge of the
south fork of Hardware. He also entered a small tract in
the same vicinity. He sold out in 1777, and removed to
Bedford County.

William bought a thousand acres from Hardin Burnley on
the lower Hardware. When this purchase was made is not
known, but the fact is stated in a conveyance of part of the
land made by Moon to John Lewis in 1760. He died in
1800. His wife's name was Elizabeth, and his children
were William, Richard, Littlebury, Jacob, Judith, the wife
of Charles Moorman, Susan, the wife of Thomas Tilman,
Martha, the wife of William Viers, who removed to Mason
County, Kentucky, Elizabeth, the wife of Henry A. Bryant,
Lucy, the wife of John Steele, and Sarah, the wife of Robert
Moorman.

William married Charlotte, daughter of John Digges and
Elizabeth Harris, of Nelson County. Their children were
John Digges, Robert, Richard, Elizabeth, the wife of John
Steele, Edward H., and Mildred, the wife of Nathaniel
Anderson. He was at one time the owner of Belle Grove,
the plantation above Scottsville on which the old courthouse
stood. In 1819 he was appointed a magistrate of the
county, and died in 1833. John D., who was called Senior
to distinguish him from a cousin of the same name, married
Mary E. Barclay, step-daughter of John Harris, and his
home was at Mount Air. He became a magistrate in 1835,
and died in 1869. His children were Robert B., who was
appointed a magistrate in 1846, served as County Surveyor,
married Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Massie, and died in
1891, Sarah, William F., who married Marietta Appling,
and removed to Tennessee, and whose son, Judge John A.
Moon represents the Chattanooga district in Congress, Ann,
J. Schuyler, James N., Mary and J. Luther. Richard lived
for a time in Tennessee, and as a mark of distinction bore
the addition of T. to his name. Edward H. married Ann
Maria Barclay, another step-daughter of John Harris, and
lived at Viewmont, the old Fry homestead. He died in 1853.
His children were Thomas B., Oriana, the wife of Dr. John

S. Andrews, Charlotte, Isaac A., Sarah, Mary and Edmonia.

Richard, son of the first William, died in 1819. His wife's
name was Winifred, and his children were Thomas, Richard,
who lived on Briery Creek, and hence had the affix B. to distinguish
him from Richard T., William, Nathaniel, who married
his cousin Roxana Moon, and removed to Upshur County,
Elizabeth, the wife of Jeremiah Cleveland, Sarah, the wife
of William Cleveland, Lucy, Fleming, Jacob, Martha and
Samuel W. William married Elizabeth Hamner, and his
children were John, William, Roxana, the wife of Henry
Boatright, Archer, Martha, Elizabeth, Judith, Sarah, Pleasant,
and Mildred, the wife of Thomas Garland. Jacob
married Elizabeth Darneille, and his children were John
D. Jr., Isaac D., Elizabeth, Mary, the wife of Thomas N.
Trice, Charlotte, Anna, and Martha Louisa.

Littlebury married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Staples,
and died in 1827. His children were Maria, the wife of Samuel
O. Moon, son of Littlebury Moon, of Buckingham County,
and Jane Hopkins, Martha, the wife of Littlebury Moon, a
brother of Samuel O., Mary, the wife of William H. Turner,
and Mildred, the wife of Rev. Thomas J. Deyerle.

Jacob, son of the first William, married Mildred Hamner,
and died in 1811. His children were Samuel, Schuyler, Mary,
Roxana, the wife of Nathaniel Moon, Susan, Turner, and
Elizabeth, the wife of William Hopkins.

It is said the early Moons, like the Lewises of the same
part of the county, were largely engaged in the business of
transportation on James River, and after its construction, on
the canal.

MOORE.

John Moore was appointed the executor of Matthew Jouett
in 1745, the same year the county of Albemarle was organized.
It is likely his first wife was Matthew Jouett's
daughter. He was evidently a man of means and fine business
capacity. At different times he owned more than five
thousand acres in the county, including Lot No. Three, on
which the first court at the new county seat was held,
several of the outlots around Charlottesville, a thousand

acres on Meadow Creek, and more than thirteen hundred east
of the South West Mountain, on part of which stood his
home, subsequently the home of Reuben Lindsay. From the
fact that it was through his land east of the town the road to
the river was made, it is surmised the name of Moore's was
given to the ford, which crossed just below the site of the
Free Bridge. He was a large landholder also in Louisa, to
which county he removed after selling his residence in Albemarle.
He died in 1785. He appears to have been joined
in matrimony the second time with Martha, daughter of the
elder John Harvie. His children were John, Edward, James,
Matthew, Frances, the wife of John Henderson Jr., and Elizabeth,
the wife first of Tucker Woodson, and secondly of
Major Joseph Crockett. It is thought that William Moore,
who married Mary, daughter of Colonel John Marks and
Mrs. Lucy Lewis, and lived in Georgia, was also his son by
the last marriage.

John was one of his father's executors, and probably lived
in Louisa. Matthew received from his father a farm on the
borders of Louisa, which he and his wife Letitia sold in 1774
to Rev. Matthew Maury, and removed South. Edward
occupied a position of considerable prominence, but unfortunate
habits seem to have ruined both him and his estate.
He was a magistrate, and in the decade of 1790 represented
the county in the House of Delegates. His plantation of five
hundred acres, which he bought from John Harvie, lay on
the Gordonsville Road below Keswick, and in 1805 was sold
under deed of trust to William D. Meriwether. Overwhelmed
with debt, stripped of his property, and declared insane in
1807, he was by order of Court placed in the Asylum, where
he died the next year. His wife was Mildred, daughter of
Colonel Charles Lewis Jr., of Buck Island. His son, John
Lewis, was left by his uncle Isham Lewis, a thousand acres
of land on Blue Run, on the Barboursville Road, which he
sold in 1807 to James Barbour. A daughter Ann is mentioned,
to whom her brother John Lewis was appointed
guardian, and a son Charles, who was bound as apprentice
for four years to William Watson.

Another family named Moore resided in the county, the
descendants of which still remain in considerable numbers,
though bearing different names. Contrary to the usual
course of emigration, three brothers, Richard, William and
Stephen, came to Albemarle from Person County, North Carolina,
sometime before the Revolutionary War; yet it is said by
relatives now living in North Carolina, that the family first
emigrated thither from Albemarle. Richard lived on the
head waters of the south fork of Hardware, not far from the
Cove. He was twice married, first to Letitia Martin, and
secondly to Keturah, daughter of William Austin, and died
in 1809. He had twelve children, the most of whom, it is
believed, removed to Tennessee. William lived at first near
Richard, but afterwards in the North Garden, on the place
recently owned by the late Garrett White. He married Mary,
daughter of William Gooch, and died in 1818. His son,
Dyer, was a captain in the war of 1812, and removed to Tennessee,
where he married Mary, daughter of James Lewis.
Stephen was a man of industry and sound judgment, acquired
a large estate, and died in 1833. His home was in North
Garden, the same place recently occupied by his grandson,
William Durrett. His wife, it is said, was a Miss Royster,
and his children Sarah, the wife of Marcus Durrett, Caroline,
the wife of John White, and Eliza, the wife of Henry Carter
Moore, a kinsman also from North Carolina. H. Carter
Moore resided where Anderson Rothwell now lives, and died
in 1867. The only son in his large family, Shepherd, died
without children in 1871.

MOORMAN.

Charles Moorman came from the Isle of Wight, England,
and in 1744 was living in Louisa, not far from the Green
Spring. He was a leading Quaker, and at that time he and
his son Thomas were overseers of the Friends' Meeting House
on Camp Creek, in Louisa. As early as 1735 they were both
patentees of land within the present bounds of Albemarle.
Charles entered four hundred acres "at the forks of the Rivanna,
near the Blue Mountains"—the junction of Mechum's
and Moorman's Rivers—and the entry of Thomas comprehended

the present Carrsbrook, and was described as "including
the Indian Grave low grounds." Seven years later
Thomas entered a larger tract further up the Moorman's, and
thus gave his name to that stream. Charles also purchased
land on Totier Creek, where two of his sons, Thomas and
Robert, afterwards lived. He himself appears never to have
resided in the county. He married Mary, daughter of Abraham
Venable, whose home was on Byrd Creek in Goochland,
and his children were Thomas, Charles, Robert, Achilles,
James, Judith, the wife of Christopher Anthony, Elizabeth,
the wife of Christopher Johnson, Agnes, the wife of John
Venable, and Mary, the wife of a Taylor.

Thomas Moorman was married twice, first to Rachel,
daughter of Christopher Clark, and secondly to Elizabeth,
daughter of Robert and Mourning Adams. He died in 1787,
and left one son, Robert, who died in 1813, whose widow,
Dorothy, became the wife of John T. Holman, and whose
children were Dorothy, the wife of James L. Neville, Mary,
the wife of Eli Tutwiler, Elizabeth Ann, the wife of Robert
L. Jefferson, and Robert J. Charles married Judith, daughter
of William Moon. Robert married Sarah, another daughter
of William Moon, and had eight children, of whom Mary was
the wife of William Roper, and Elizabeth the wife of Benjamin
Johnson, of Locust Hill on James River; these last
were the parents of Janet, the wife of Austin M. Appling,
Sarah, the wife of John Darneille, Louisiana, the wife of
Edwin H. Gooch, and Dorothy, the wife of William A. Turner.
Robert Moorman sold his land on Totier Creek to John
Harris in 1792, and with the view of emigrating to South
Carolina, appointed John Hudson and William Roper his
attorneys in fact. Achilles married Mary, daughter of
Robert and Mourning Adams, and removed to Bedford
County. The land on Mechunk, which came to the wives of
Thomas and Achilles from their father, Robert Adams, was
purchased by Dr. George Gilmer, of Pen Park.

MORRIS.

Two persons named Morris obtained patents for land in
1743, Hugh on the lower Hardware, and Jacob on Totier

Creek. They were, as their names indicate, of Welsh origin,
and the strong probability is they were brothers. Jacob's
daughter Ann became the wife of Jacob Kinney, subsequently
a citizen of Staunton. Kinney owned the Stone
Tavern in Warren, and Lots Seven and Eight in Charlottesville.
His widow and daughter, Mrs. Matilda Stribling,
sold the property in Warren to William Brown in 1812, and
the lots to Twyman Wayt in 1815. It may be stated, that
the Kinney family were residents of Albemarle at an early
date. In 1779 the father, William Kinney, bought a tract of
land on the lower Hardware from William Moon Sr., which
his heirs, Chesley, Jacob, William and Nancy Whitesides,
then of Amherst, sold in 1795 to William Moon Jr.

Hugh Morris, sometime previous to 1769, purchased land
in the North Garden, contiguous to the Cross Roads. An
Episcopal Church was built on this land, on the hill south
of the village, and in the conveyance of the land to his son
in 1772, Hugh recites that he never gave the land the church
occupied, but invests his son with power to act as it seemed
best. He died in 1774. His son, Hugh Rice Morris, resided
on the land in North Garden, and died in 1820. It is said he
was an Episcopal clergyman. In the notice of his death it was
stated, that he was present at the first court held in the county,
and witnessed the proceedings attending its organization.
About 1817 he built the mill below the Cross Roads, now
known as Kidd's Mill. His wife's name was Ann, and his children
Henry, Samuel, Rice, William, Tandy and Elizabeth.
Rice removed to Augusta County, but returned to Albemarle,
and resided in the neighborhood of Scottsville; his daughter
Sarah became the wife of Robert Dyer. Tandy was a
physician, and practised in the vicinity of Warren. William
married Ann, daughter of Marshall Durrett, bought
from Howell Lewis the farm, with the large brick house, on
which Stephen Carpenter now resides, and died in 1832.
His son William married Helen, daughter of James Alexander,
and removed to Mississippi. Henry continued to live
near the Cross Roads. The old church, a wooden structure,
becoming dilapidated by the ravages of time, he gave the

ground in the village, on which the brick edifice was erected.
He departed this life in 1859.

NEILSON.

John Neilson, a native of Ireland, a carpenter by trade,
was attracted to Albemarle by the erection of the University
buildings. While engaged in this work, he prospered in his
affairs. He bought from Joseph Bishop several acres
between Vinegar Hill and the Whitehall Road, and built
one or two of the brick houses in Random Row. He also
built the large brick near the forks of the Lynchburg Road,
which afterwards became the property of Professor Blaetterman,
in which his wife for a time conducted a seminary for
young ladies, and which is now owned by G. L. Bruffey.
He purchased the Refuge, the old Jones plantation in the
southern part of the county, where Major Anbury, the Revolutionary
prisoner, indited a number of his letters. He died
in 1827, devising his property to his family still residing in
Ireland. Andrew Leitch, as his executor, carried out the
provisions of his will.

NELSON.

Solomon Nelson in 1759 bought from John Grills two
hundred acres on Moore's Creek, and built the first mill that
occupied the site of that now owned by Hartman. This
tract he sold in 1764 to John Moore, and bought from Edward
Carter a parcel of land in the Ragged Mountains, not far
from Batesville. He sold this place in 1773, and no doubt
removed from the county.

The large tracts in North and South Garden, patented in
the name of Mildred Meriwether, were sold by her and her
husband, John Syme, to President William Nelson, of Yorktown,
and by him devised to his son Robert. Robert and
his wife Susan sold them in course of time to different parties.
In reference to these interests in North and South Garden,
Samuel Murrell acted as Mr. Nelson's agent. He was also
the owner of a tract of upwards of two thousand acres on
Mechunk, which was patented by Thomas Darsie in 1733,
descended to his son Thomas, and by him sold in 1748 to

James Power. How, or when, it came into the hands of
Robert Nelson, is not known, but in 1778 he sold it to John
Clark.

Hugh Nelson, son of Governor Thomas, and grandson of
President William, became a citizen of Albemarle in 1802.
In that year he was admitted a member of its bar. He
married Eliza, daughter of Francis Kinloch, of South Carolina,
and Mildred, only daughter of John Walker, eldest son
of Dr. Thomas Walker. His home was at Belvoir, on the
east side of the South West Mountain. In 1803 he purchased
from Lilburn Lewis his plantation of nearly nine hundred
acres on the north side of the Rivanna, which in 1815 he sold
to John R. Campbell, and which is now in part the property
of David Hancock's heirs. He represented the county in the
House of Delegates, of which he was Speaker, and was a
member of Congress from 1811 to 1823, when he resigned to
accept the appointment of Minister to Spain. In 1819 he
became a magistrate of the county. He died in 1836. His
children were Francis K., Mildred, the wife of Thomas Nelson,
of Clark, Ann, the wife of Dr. Thomas Meriwether, Dr.
Thomas, of Elk Hill, Rev. Cleland K., Keating, and Dr.
Robert W., who still lives to represent the name in Albemarle.

NICHOLAS.

The first patentee of land on James River within the
present county was George Nicholas, of Williamsburg. He
made the entry—the third in the county—of twenty-six hundred
acres in 1729. This was Dr. George Nicholas, the
immigrant, as the same land descended to his eldest son,
Robert Carter Nicholas, Treasurer of the colony. Robert
Carter never lived in Albemarle. John, Dr. George's second
son, became its Clerk in 1750, and continued to hold the
office till 1792. In that year he resigned, and spent the
remainder of his life in the southern part of the county, or
in Buckingham. His wife was Martha, daughter of Colonel
Joshua Fry, and his children John, Robert, George, Joshua,
Elizabeth, and another daughter, the wife of a Scott. John

succeeded his father as Clerk. He was an extensive dealer
in the real estate of the county. He purchased a large plantation
near Ivy Depot, on which he lived for some years,
and which he sold to Dabney and Thomas Gooch. He
became the owner of all the land surrounding Charlottesville
on the south and west, extending from the Scottsville Road
to Meadow Creek. His last residence was at Hor de Ville,
where James D. Goodman now lives. In 1815 he resigned
his office, and removed to Buckingham. His wife was
Louisa Howe Carter, of Williamsburg. His brother Joshua,
who was for a time his deputy, married Sarah, daughter of
Peter Marks, and removed to Charlotte County.

Three of Robert Carter Nicholas's sons, George, Wilson
Cary and Lewis, were residents of Albemarle. George was
Captain, Major and Colonel in the Revolutionary army.
After the war he practised law in Charlottesville, and in 1788
was a member of the House of Delegates, and of the Convention
to ratify the United States Constitution. He owned the
square on which Lipscomb's Stable stands, and built as his
residence the stone house, which was long known as the
Stone Tavern. He purchased about two thousand acres of
land in the county, part of it that on which the University
stands, part on Moore's Creek, and part in the western section
on Ivy Creek and Lickinghole. He married Mary, sister
of General Samuel Smith, of Baltimore. In 1790 he
removed to Kentucky, was active in its formation as a State,
and was its first Attorney General. At the time of his
removal, he sold most of his lands to Samuel Beale, of James
City, but died in 1799 before they were transferred; and this
act was not accomplished till 1818, when James Morrison,
his executor, conveyed them to Beale's heirs.

Wilson Cary was also a soldier of the Revolution, the
commander of Washington's Life Guards. He filled the
offices of magistrate of the county, member of the Legislature,
United States Senator, and Governor of Virginia. His
home was on his plantation on James River, including Warren,
which he laid out as a town in 1794. His desire for
acquiring the broad acres amounted to a passion. Besides

his possessions in the southern part of the county, he owned
about two thousand acres at the Barracks, more than a thousand
on both sides of the Rivanna, including Carrsbrook,
and tens of thousands of acres in Bedford and Botetourt,
and on the Ohio River. He was in consequence greatly
oppressed with burdensome debts, which no doubt contributed
to the shortening of his days. Being advised to
travel on account of ill health, he set out for the North; but
unable to continue his journey, he returned on his way home
as far as Tufton, then the residence of his son-in-law, Colonel
T. J. Randolph, where he died in 1820. His wife was
Margaret, sister of his brother George's wife, and his children
Mary, the wife of John Patterson, Cary Ann, the wife
of John Smith, and mother of Margaret, Robert Hill Carter's
wife, Robert C., Wilson C., Margaret, Jane, the wife of T.
J. Randolph, John S., Sarah, and Sidney, the wife of Dabney
Carr, Minister to Constantinople.

Lewis had his home at Alta Vista, a fine plantation west
of Green Mountain. He became involved in his brother
Wilson's embarrassments, and was thereby seriously broken
in fortune. He married Frances, daughter of William Harris,
and his children were John S., Wilson C., Robert, Cary Ann,
the wife of Rev. Charles Wingfield, and Sarah, the wife of
John H. Coleman. John S. and Wilson C. were appointed
magistrates of the county in 1838.

OLD.

John Old came to Albemarle from Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, in 1769, and engaged with John Wilkinson in
establishing a forge for the manufacture of iron. This
was erected in the gorge of the south fork of Hardware,
a short distance south of Garland's Store. In 1782
he bought from William Hamner nine hundred acres
on the north fork of Hardware, at the crossing of the
old Lynchburg Road, and there built another forge.
This was a widely known point in its day. Mr. Jefferson
mentions it in his Notes. The road to it was spoken of
as the road to Old's Forge oftener perhaps than as the Lynchburg
Road. This property he sold in 1793 to Henry Weaver

and his brother James. He died in 1809. He and his wife
Sarah had a son John, and a daughter Sarah, the wife of
Edward Garland. John married in 1785 Elizabeth, daughter
of Benjamin Dod Wheeler, and died in 1812. His children
were Nancy, the wife of Thomas Eubank, who removed to
Monroe County, Kentucky, Elizabeth, the wife of Reuben
Eubank, Ann, the wife of Joseph F. Wingfield, Thomas J.,
George W., and probably Abijah. Thomas and George
removed to Campbell County. Abijah married Sarah Fretwell,
lived in the neighborhood of Old's Forge, and died in
1840. His children were James A., John, William, Martha,
Mary, the wife of John B. Douglass, and Sarah, the wife of
Samuel Norvell. The most of the last family removed to
Missouri.

James Old, brother of the first John, came to Albemarle
several years after his brother. He had been a Revolutionary
soldier, was in the unfortunate expedition against Quebec,
and fought in the battle of Long Island. His home was on
Black Walnut Branch, between Mount Olivet Church and
Garland's Store. He built the mill two miles east of Red
Hill Depot about 1804. He died unmarried in 1821, devising
the mill to George M. Woods and James Old Walters.

OLDHAM.

James Oldham was one of the contractors for erecting the
buildings of the University. This work most probably
allured him to the county, and its profits induced him to settle
in it. In 1828 he purchased from the trustees of Benjamin
Hardin the land on the Staunton Road, immediately
east of Mechum's River Depot. There he kept for some
years a house of public entertainment. He seems to have
been of an irascible temper. In such a state of mind he shot
Archelaus Robertson, the son of a neighbor about Christmas
1834. As the grand jury declined to indict him, there
must have been but slight injury, and likely some provocation.
His wife was Mary, daughter of Henry Gambell. He
died in 1843.

PAGE.

In former times several Pages lived in Albemarle. In
1770 Robert Page purchased from Hezekiah Inman four
hundred acres on Taylor's Creek, near the border of what is
now Nelson. His children were James, William, Robert,
George, Samuel, Nicholas, Jane, the wife of Burgess Griffin,
Mary, the wife of Sherrard Griffin, and Elizabeth, the wife of
Peter Davis, of Hanover. All of these emigrated to Adair
County, Kentucky, except William, and Nicholas, who died
in 1817. In 1829 Nicholas M. Page, son of the younger
Robert, returned to Albemarle, where for some years he prosecuted
business as a merchant in Batesville, and achieved the
notable task of administering the great estate of Samuel Miller.
He was a magistrate under the old regime, having been
appointed in 1841. He still lives, a venerable memorial of a
former generation. A William Page was the owner of land
below Milton, and of Lot Forty in Charlottesville, in the
early part of the century. When he sold the lot in 1815, he
was described as a citizen of Nelson. He may have been the
William mentioned above.

Dr. Mann Page, son of Major Carter Page, of Cumberland,
came to the county about 1815. In that year he was united
in marriage to Jane Frances, daughter of Francis Walker.
His home was at Turkey Hill, a part of the Castle Hill place,
which his wife inherited from her father. Dr. Page was appointed
a magistrate of the county in 1824, and died in 1850.
His children were Maria, Ella, Jane, Charlotte, William,
Francis W., Carter H., Frederick W., Mann, Thomas W.,
and Dr. R. Channing, of New York.

PATRICK.

John Patrick, of Augusta, bought nearly a thousand acres
in the western part of the county, most, if not all, being a
portion of the immense Chiswell patent. His purchase commenced
in 1765. Two years after he conveyed three hundred
acres to his son Charles; the remainder he appears to have
sold to other persons. Charles died in 1797. His children
were John, Charles, Mary, the wife of Joseph Burgher,

Rachel, the wife of Thomas Smith, Martha, the wife of Joel
Smith, and Margaret. Charles married Dorcas, daughter of
Samuel Black, and removed to Fayette County, Kentucky.
John succeeded to his father's place, and died in 1832. He
was twice married, and his children were John M., Mary
Susan, the wife of Thomas O. Carr, and—the wife of
James Lobban. The old homestead is still in the possession
of one of the descendants, Sarah A. Patrick, who became the
wife of James W. Timberlake.

PERRY.

George Perry was the owner of nearly five hundred acres
on Shepherd's Creek, a tributary of the lower Hardware, just
before the Revolutionary War. It is likely he was the father
of John M. Perry, the most noted of the name resident in
Albemarle. Countenance is given to this view by the fact,
that John M. first appears in the same section of the county,
purchasing in 1804 from Henry Wood a parcel of land on Buck
Island, which two years later he sold to Martin Railey.
About the same time a brother, Reuben, bought from Whitaker
Carter his interest in his father's lands in Kentucky, and
in all probability removed to that State. George Perry, who
owned a tract of more than three hundred acres on Moore's
Creek, and in 1817 sold it to Nelson Barksdale, was perhaps
another brother.

John M. in 1814 purchased from John Nicholas, the County
Clerk, a tract of land including that on which the University
stands, and three years after sold that part of it to Alexander
Garrett, as Proctor of the Central University. In 1818
he bought from James Scott the Hydraulic Mills, and from
David J. Lewis a large plantation in the same neighborhood.
At the same time he was busily engaged as a contractor in the
erection of buildings. He constructed a number of the edifices
connected with the University, and built as his own residence
the brick house near by, known as Montebello. He
also built the mansion of Judge Philip Barbour on his place
Frascati, not far from Gordonsville. He was appointed a
magistrate in 1816, and for some years took an active part in
the business of the county. In 1829 he began selling off his

property, in 1834 disposing of the Hydraulic Mills to Nathaniel
Burnley and Rice Wood, and his land in that vicinity to
William P. Farish. A year or two later he removed to Missouri,
and subsequently to Mississippi, where he soon after
died. His wife's name was Frances — and his children
were Ann, the wife of Samuel Campbell, Elizabeth, the wife
of George W. Spooner, who was associated with him in his
work at the University, and Calvin L., who was admitted to
the bar in 1828, and married Mary Tutt, a sister of Professor
Bonnycastle's wife.

PEYTON.

John Peyton, son of Craven Peyton, of Loudoun County,
was an officer in the Revolutionary army, and during the war
was sent to Fluvanna County to purchase supplies. Three
nephews, sons of his brother Valentine, joined him there,
Craven, Robert and John. The nephews settled in Milton,
and Robert and John died unmarried at an early age. Craven,
inheriting the property of his brothers, and likely that
of his uncle, who also died unmarried, became the possessor
of a large estate. He purchased from the family of Bennett
Henderson more than eleven hundred acres surrounding Milton,
which in 1811 he sold to Mr. Jefferson. He also acquired
from his father-in-law nearly a thousand acres on both
sides of the Rivanna, including the old Lewis homestead of
Monteagle, which he made his home. He married Jane Jefferson,
daughter of Charles Lilburn Lewis and his wife Lucy,
a sister of Mr. Jefferson. He died in 1837. His children
were Margaret, the second wife of Isham R. Jefferson, Valentine,
Lucy, the wife of James W. Eskridge, Mary, the wife
of William C. Eskridge, and Charles Lewis. The family
removing to other places, most of them to the Valley, the
estate passed into other hands. Charles Lewis settled at
Richlands, Greenbrier County, where he died a few years
ago, and his son, Rev. Charles W. Peyton is preaching as a
Presbyterian minister in Texas.

Bernard Peyton, a merchant of Richmond, about 1850
bought Farmington from John Coles Carter, when he removed
to Missouri. He made it his home, and died there suddenly

in 1854. He was the father of Major Green Peyton, Proctor
of the University, and a second cousin of Craven before mentioned,
and of John Howe Peyton, the distinguished lawyer
of Staunton.

Another family of the name was settled in the county.
Henry Peyton became the owner of Park Hill, the old Drury
Wood place near Stony Point, where he resided until his death.
His wife was a sister of William P. Farish, and his sons were
William, Benjamin, George L., Dr. E. O., Bernard and Eugene,
all of whom exhibited a marked degree of enterprise,
some in conducting lines of Stages, and some in hotel keeping.
They removed for the most part to West Virginia.

PHILLIPS.

In 1746 Joseph Phillips obtained a grant of land on Buck
Mountain Creek, and removing to North Carolina in 1778,
sold it to John Phillips, who by further purchases acquired a
considerable landed estate. From 1750 to 1760 Leonard
Phillips patented nearly a thousand acres in the southern
part of the county on Ivy and Green Creeks, portions of
which he sold to George Blain, and to Peter and William
Farrar.

William B. Phillips came to the county at the time the
University buildings were projected, and was engaged in the
work of their construction. He was afterwards active in his
dealings in real estate, both in town and country. In 1823
he bought Lots Thirteen and Seventy-Seven, and built upon
them the brick houses, the former of which he sold to Governor
Gilmer in 1831, and the latter to Dr. James A. Leitch.
He purchased in 1833 from Eli Alexander nearly five hundred
acres of the Colle estate, and built thereon the large
brick mansion, which was subsequently the residence of Dr.
George M. Bowen, and more recently of Hamilton Potts.
His busy career terminated in Charlottesville in 1861.

PILSON.

It is probable the Pilson family originally belonged to
Augusta County. In 1760 Richard of that name purchased
from Jean Kinkead two hundred and twenty-four acres lying

at the foot of the Blue Ridge. He appears to have died not
long after, and the property descended to his son Samuel.
In 1778 Samuel was living in Augusta, and in that year sold
the land to William Pilson. William sold it to Nathaniel
Harlow in 1783, and five years later it was the first purchase
of John Dettor, of York County, Pennsylvania. It is likely
that Samuel and William were brothers, and that Mary
Pilson, who became the wife of William Wallace in 1771,
was their sister.

John Pilson next appears, and was the son of Samuel.
He was a man of sterling character, sincere piety, and the
strictest integrity. He carried on the mercantile business in
partnership with his cousin William Wallace until the death
of William in 1809, and then conducted it alone for many
years. The store stood on the old Staunton Road on the
north side of the branch, opposite the house now owned by
Rev. Dabney Davis. He invested the earnings of his business
in the old Hardin property, which in 1837 he sold to
Thomas C. Bowen. He was appointed a magistrate in 1824,
and served for a time as ruling elder in the Mountain Plains
Church. He never married, but was once engaged to his
cousin Polly Wallace. Their union being opposed by friends
because of relationship, they quietly acquiesced, but withal
still loved and lived in each other's eyes until her death in
1845; and to her memory he remained constant until his own
death, which occurred ten years later. A nephew, Matthew
Pilson, from Augusta County, was for some years an assistant
in the store. After John's death he returned to Augusta,
where he died not long ago at an advanced age.

PIPER.

John Piper first purchased land in Albemarle in 1779. He
then bought from Alexander Henderson four hundred acres
on Lickinghole, which he sold to John Buster in 1792. In
the meantime, in 1783, he bought from Charles Wingfield a
place between Batesville and the Nelson line, which he made
his home. When the records begin again in 1783, he was an
acting magistrate of the county. In 1815 he conveyed nearly
five hundred acres of his land to his son. His wife's name

was Ann, and his children William and Elizabeth, the wife
of Garrett White, of North Garden. William, who succeeded
to the homestead, died in 1835. He and his wife Elizabeth
had eleven children, Mary Ann, Garrett W., William, Nancy,
the wife of Robert Field, Marshall, Willis, Jeremiah, Elizabeth,
the wife of Richard M. Durrett, Richard, Frances and
John. Some years after the death of the father, the place
was sold to William H. Turner, and those of the family still
living removed to Missouri.

PRICE.

Edmund Price owned land for a short time in the neighborhood
of Scott's Landing prior to 1770. John Price
married Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Brown, of Brown's
Cove, and in 1777 seems to have been a resident of Augusta
County.

Richard Price was one of the earliest inhabitants of Milton,
and there spent his life. He died in 1827. He was twice
married. His children by his first wife were Jane, the wife
of John Watson, Isabel, the wife of Edmund Read, and
Lucy, the wife of John Burks, and mother of Lucy Jane, the
wife of Lilburn R. Railey. His second wife, Frances, had a
daughter, Sarah, who became the wife of Robert C. Scott, of
Lynchburg.

In the early years of the century, John Price lived in the
northeast part of the county. His wife was Sarah, daughter
of Abraham Munday, and his children John, Henry, Matilda,
the wife of William Marshall, Amanda, the wife of Nimrod
Herring, Louisa, the wife of Thomas Harlow, Harriet, the
wife of Thomas Salmon, Daniel and Nimrod.

Henry Price about 1823 came to Charlottesville from
Mecklenburg County. He was a native of Stockport, England,
and a tailor by trade. He owned at one time the
house on the corner of the west side of the Square and High
Street, and the house in the rear of the late Thomas Wood's.
The latter he sold in 1829 to Dr. Frank Carr. He died in
1835. The next year his widow Nancy bought the lot on
Park Street, north of Thomas Wood's, and built the brick
house, which in comparatively recent years was enlarged by

R. R. Prentis. He had a daughter Rebecca, who became the
wife of Christopher Hornsey, and a son Henry, who lately
acquired some notoriety, by exploiting a patent for an
immense tract of land in the disputed zone between Venezuela
and British Guiana.

Stephen C. Price in 1826 married Lydia Ann, daughter of
Charles Harper. He lived on a farm on the south side of the
old Richard Woods Road, southwest of Ivy Depot. He acted
for a time as Treasurer of the County School Commissioners.
He died in 1845. His children were Lucy, the wife of Jesse
L. Maury, Charles H., Daniel, Robert, Elizabeth, and Sarah,
the wife of James E. Pride.

QUARLES.

Roger Quarles in 1741 obtained a grant of four hundred
acres on both sides of Priddy's Creek, which William Quarles,
who was no doubt Roger's son, and who was described as of
Orange County, sold to Richard Durrett in 1763. Whether
any of the family ever lived on the land, is not known; it was
however sufficiently recognized by the public, to give the
name of Quarles's Creek to a branch of Priddy's Creek passing
through it, and crossing the Barboursville Road.

In 1767 James Quarles, of King William, purchased from
John Walker a plantation called Rock Hall, and containing
nearly nine hundred acres, originally a part of the large
Meriwether grant. He sold it in 1776 to Cornelius Ruddell,
who two years after sold it to John Hunton, of Augusta. It
remained in the Hunton family many years, Charles B. Hunton,
a son of John, being appointed a magistrate in 1791,
serving as Sheriff in 1813, and dying in 1818. James Quarles
in 1778 bought from John Clark nearly thirteen hundred
acres on Mechunk, which four years later he sold to Francis
Kinloch, of South Carolina. He was appointed a magistrate,
and was occupying the office of Sheriff in 1783, when the
records again begin. He had a daughter Ann, who in 1785
became the wife of Henry Washington, of King George.
Washington died in 1788, leaving two children, Frances
Maria, and Ann Catharine, and in 1791 his widow was married
to John Tinsley. Whether Quarles continued to reside

in Albemarle till his death, or removed elsewhere, does not
appear.

A tract of seventeen hundred acres lying on the waters of
Buck Island and Hardware, was purchased from Duncan
McLaughlin by a company consisting of Benjamin Fitzpatrick,
Robert Wright, Robert French, and John Quarles of
Louisa. In connection with the final disposition of this
land, it appeared that John Quarles had six children, two of
whom were Albert G. and Garrett Minor. Garrett became
a member of the Albemarle bar in 1813. Albert G. married
Mary, daughter of Dabney Minor, and his children were
Matilda, Lucy, Henry, and Albert, who removed with their
parents to Kentucky.

RAILEY.

Martin Railey came to Albemarle from Chesterfield in 1806.
He lived on Buck Island, on a farm he purchased from John
M. Perry. He died in 1814. His wife was Elizabeth Mayo,
and his children Daniel M., John M., Lilburn R., and
Catharine, the wife of Anderson Shiflett. Daniel succeeded
to the homestead, Woodbourne, married Lucy Jane, daughter
of John Watson, of Milton, was appointed a magistrate
in 1830, and not long after sold his place, and removed to
Southwest Virginia. His descendants continued still further
West, and some are now living in Missouri. John married
Mary, daughter of William Watson. He died early about
1833. After his death his widow built the brick house on the
north end of Second Street, now the residence of Mrs. J. W.
Lipop. He had four children, all of whom removed from the
county. Lilburn R. was educated at Washington College in
Lexington, married Lucy Jane Burks, niece of John Watson,
was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church, and was
appointed a magistrate of the county in 1838. His home
was on his farm near the Hydraulic Mills, recently owned by
William Nuttycomb. After the war he resided in Charlottesville.
He died in 1893.

RAMSAY.

Rev. John Ramsay was the rector of St. Anne's parish,
lived in the southern part of the county, and died in 1770.

In 1772 John Ramsay, of Augusta, purchased from Archibald
Woods nearly four hundred acres on Stockton's Creek,
and five years later sold them to Alexander Ramsay, in all
probability a brother. In 1774 William, another brother as
is supposed, bought from Adam Dean in the same vicinity
more than four hundred acres, and ten years after from Alexander
all that belonged to him.

William married Margaret, daughter of Andrew Wallace,
and granddaughter of old Michael Woods. His home was on
the place where James M. Bowen resided. He first built the
mill on the place, which in early times went by the name of
Ramsay's Mill. The old dwelling still stands near the head
of the mill pond. He died in 1825. He had three sons,
Andrew, John and William. In 1814 Andrew was living on
a farm on the Staunton Road, adjoining the lands of G. W.
Kinsolving, William Fretwell and John Dettor. His children
were Thomas, Higginbotham, Margaret, William Albert,
Mary J., and Andrew W. John married Mary, daughter of
Samuel Black. His home was where Dr. John R. Baylor
lived. His children were William, Jane, the wife of John G.
Lobban, Catharine, Joseph T., Mary, the wife of James C.
Rothwell, and Dorcas. William, son of William, succeeded
to the home of his father, and died in 1832. His children
were Jane, the wife of Jarrett Harris, William S., Margaret,
the wife of Meredith Martin, and Mary, the wife of Jeremiah
Wayland. All the descendants of these families, bearing
the name, removed to different parts of the West.

RANDOLPH.

William Randolph, of Tuckahoe, was the first of the name
to enter land within the present limits of Albemarle. In
1735 he was granted twenty-four hundred acres "on the north
side of the Rivanna near the mountains, a little below Mountain
Falls." On the organization of the county, he was
appointed its Clerk. At his death his land passed to his
son, Thomas Mann Randolph, of Tuckahoe. Neither William
nor Thomas ever resided in the county, but soon after the
marriage of Thomas Mann's son, bearing the same name,
with Martha Jefferson, and his own second marriage with

Gabriella, daughter of John Harvie, the land was transferred
by the father to the son. The latter then made Edgehill his
home. He engaged with much activity in public affairs.
He was appointed a magistrate in 1794, elected to Congress
in 1801, and chosen Governor of Virginia in 1819. He displayed
a lively zeal in promoting the interests of agriculture
in the county. He died in 1828. His children were Ann,
the wife of Charles L. Bankhead, Thomas J., Ellen, the wife
of Joseph Coolidge, of Boston, Cornelia, Virginia, the wife
of Nicholas P. Trist, Dr. Benjamin F., and George Wythe.

The home of Charles L. Bankhead was Carlton. He was
twice married. His children by his first wife were John W.,
who recently died in Missouri, Ellen Monroe, the wife of
John Coles Carter, and Thomas Mann, who settled in Arkansas.
His second wife was Mary Carthrae, a granddaughter
of General Samuel H. Lewis, of Rockingham. He died
about 1833, leaving one son, Charles L., by the last marriage.
The stalwart and venerable figure of Colonel Thomas J. is
familiar to many still living. For many years he took a
leading part in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the
county. He was a magistrate, a member of the Legislature,
a devoted member of the County Agricultural Society, and
President of the Farmers' Bank. He married Jane, daughter
of Governor W. C. Nicholas. Benjamin F. was a physician,
and lived at the south end of Carter's Mountain. He married
Sarah, daughter of Robert H. Carter. In addition to
his professional labors, he was appointed a magistrate in
1846, and for several terms was a member of the State Senate.
George W. was admitted to the Albemarle bar in 1840, and
a few years after removed, to Richmond. In the days of the
Confederacy, he was its last Secretary of War.

Colonel Richard Randolph, of Henrico, owned land in
Albemarle. In 1760 he obtained a grant of two hundred and
forty acres on Moore's Creek. At some time he purchased
twelve hundred acres adjoining the tract just mentioned from
some one, perhaps from William Taylor, who seems to have
entered it in 1737. To Dr. Thomas Walker, as trustee of
the county, he sold a thousand acres of this land, on which

in 1762, Charlottesville, the new courthouse, was established.
He also entered nearly fifteen hundred acres in the
southern part of the county on Green Creek. He probably
never resided on this land, but managed it through the
agency of overseers.

Governor Edmund Randolph was also a landholder in
Albemarle. In 1786 he purchased from John Fry twenty-five
hundred acres on Green Mountain, including the Viewmont
estate. For some years he sought relaxation from his
professional and official cares in looking after this property.
In 1793 he petitioned for the right to erect a mill on Hardware,
where Colonel Fry had had one before. He sold this
land to William C. Carter in 1798.

In 1805 Dr. Thomas Eston Randolph bought from Johnson
Rowe the land opposite Milton, on which is situated the
estate of Glenmore. His wife was Jane Cary, sister of
Governor Thomas Mann Randolph. He was appointed a
magistrate of the county in 1807. In 1813 he sold Glenmore
to Louis H. Girardin, the continuator of Burk's History of
Virginia, and purchased a plantation further down the river
on Carroll's Creek, called Ashton. This place he sold in
1826 to Joel W. Brown, and removed to Campbell County.
His daughter, Elizabeth, became the wife of Francis Eppes
Jr., the grandson of Mr. Jefferson.

In the decade of 1840, John T. Randolph came to the
county from the Valley, and married Ann, daughter of William
P. Farish. In 1862 he entered the Baptist ministry.

REA.

The name of Rea is found in the county at the time of its
formation. In 1747 Fergus Rea bought a portion of the Chiswell
patent on Rockfish. About the same time John Rea was
the owner of land on the Rivanna near Martin King's Ford,
the present Union Mills. Whether these persons were related
to those hereafter mentioned, does not appear.

Andrew, Thomas and Samuel Rea were considerably interested
in real estate during a period extending from 1744 to
1788. At the first of these dates, Andrew entered a small
tract on the south side of the Rivanna, a short distance above

the mouth of Ivy Creek, and at the time was the owner of
land adjoining. Beyond doubt he gave name to the ford so
called, though it should be written Rea, not Ray; in the patent
it is written Reay. Thomas owned land on the head waters
of Mechum's near Round Mountain, and subsequently purchased
in the vicinity of Rea's Ford, and on Meadow Creek,
not far from the old Poor House. Samuel also had a place
near Rea's Ford, and in 1788 bought on Beaver Creek between
Crozet and Whitehall. All three were married, the name of
Andrew's wife being Mary, that of Thomas's Ursula, and
that of Samuel's Jane, daughter of Daniel Maupin and his
wife, Margaret Via. These persons, it is likely, were brothers.
Samuel's children were Daniel, Andrew, Thomas, Robert,
and Margaret, the wife of Ezekiel McCauley. Robert
married Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Maupin and his wife,
Mary Elizabeth Dabney, lived in the Beaver Creek neighborhood,
and died in 1831. In a report of Bernard Brown of
persons listed to work on the roads near the foot of Buck's
Elbow in 1792, Andrew and Thomas Rea are mentioned;
and in an order of Court on the same subject made in 1823,
occur the names of Robert, Thomas and Bland.

Thomas, the third son of Samuel, lived beneath Buck's
Elbow, and died in 1850. His wife was Ann, daughter of
Bland Ballard, and his children Daniel, Jane, the wife of Garland
Maury, Bland, Jemima, the wife of Richard Beckett,
Ann, the wife of John Bales, Samuel, and Margaret, the wife
of George Wolfe. Bland married Sarah Alexander, and secondly
Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel John Jones. In his
youth he was associated with Benjamin Ficklin in the manufacture
of tobacco, but afterwards settled as a farmer near
the old homestead, and died in 1868. His children were
John A., Joseph, William, James, Mary, the wife of Bernard
Tilman, and Maria, the wife of Oscar Lipscomb.

RIVES.

In the latter part of the last century, Robert Rives, who
married Margaret, daughter of Colonel William Cabell, transacted
an extensive business at Warminster, Nelson County.
In the enterprising spirit which inspired his undertakings, he

established a branch house in Milton, soon after the founding
of that town, under the firm of Brown, Rives & Co. The
partners were James Brown, of Richmond, Robert Rives, and
Robert Burton. He also became the owner of large and valuable
tracts of land in Albemarle. For the Boiling Spring
plantation, which he bought from John Patterson, of Baltimore,
in 1818, he gave sixty thousand dollars, the largest
sum perhaps ever paid for any farm in this region. His sons,
William C., George, Henry, Robert and Alexander, all resided
in Albemarle.

William C. in 1819 married Judith, daughter of Francis
Walker, who inherited Castle Hill as her portion of her father's
estate. About the same time he became a member of
the Albemarle bar. His career in public is a matter of history.
He did service in the Legislature, in the United States
Senate, and as Minister to France. He was regarded as one
of the most finished orators of his day. After his retirement
he was occupied in writing a history of the Life and Times of
James Madison. He died in 1868. George married Mary
Eliza, daughter of Robert Carter. His home was at Sherwood,
on the north side of the Hardware, below Carter's Bridge.
He married a second time Maria, daughter of Professor George
Tucker, and died in 1874. Henry received from his father a
plantation on Green Mountain in 1827. Robert married Elizabeth
Pennill, and resided at the old Nicholas place near
Warren. He died in 1867. Alexander was admitted to the
bar in 1829, and made his home for many years at Carleton,
which he purchased in 1833 from the trustees of Charles L.
Bankhead. He was a member of both houses of the Legislature,
and of Congress, and soon after the war was appointed
Judge of the United States Court for the western District of
Virginia. He was twice married, first to Isabel Wydown,
and secondly to Sarah Watson, of Louisa, and died in 1885.

Paulina, a daughter of Robert Rives, was the wife of Richard
Pollard, who lived in the southern part of the county.
Their children were Margaret, the wife of James P. Henderson,
Virginia, Rosalie, James R., Lucy, Richard, Edward
A., and Henry Rives. Edward and Henry were both journalists.

Besides his editorial labors on the Richmond Examiner,
Edward published a number of works, and died in
Lynchburg in 1772. On account of an article which appeared
in the Southern Opinion, of which he was one of the editors,
Henry was shot by James Grant in Richmond in November
1868, and his remains were brought for interment in the
family burying ground in Albemarle.

RODES.

The first of the Rodes name to settle in Albemarle was
John, and his coming occurred in 1749. In that year he
bought from James Armor four hundred acres on the north
fork of Rockfish, and in the conveyance was described as of
St. Martin's parish, Louisa. He also purchased land on
Moorman's River. He died in 1775. His wife was Mary
Crawford, and he left five daughters and four sons, David,
Clifton, Charles and John.

David came to the county in 1756, and lived on the north
side of Moorman's River. Besides managing his plantation,
he conducted a store. He was appointed a magistrate, and
served as Sheriff, probably in 1776 and 1777. He was twice
married, first as is believed to Mary, daughter of Matthew
Mills, and secondly to Susan, daughter of Nelson Anderson.
He died in 1794, and his widow became the wife of James
Kerr. His children, all of whom were born of the first marriage,
were John, Matthew, Charles, Mary, the wife of
Robert Douglass, Elizabeth, the wife of Horsley Goodman,
Nancy, the wife of William Dulaney, Ann, the wife of James
Ballard, Lucy, the wife of Joseph Twyman, Martha, the
wife of Joel Yancey, and Mildred, the wife of William Walden.
The Douglass, Yancey, Walden, and probably Dulaney,
families removed to Kentucky. John died unmarried
in 1823. Matthew succeeded to his father's place. He was
appointed a magistrate in 1816. By becoming security, he
was involved in financial difficulties, and his property was
sold to pay his debts; it was however redeemed by his son
David. He died in 1834. His wife was Nancy Blackwell,
and his children David, Mary, Robert, Henrietta, the wife of
Clement P. McKennie, Gilly, the wife of Robert Guy, Ann,

the wife of Daniel Fishburne, Elizabeth, the second wife of
Nathaniel Massie, Mildred and Judith. David about 1816
was deputy Clerk of the county, and afterward removed to
Lynchburg. In 1822 he married Martha, daughter of Joel
Yancey, of Bedford. General Robert E. Rodes, of the Confederate
army, who fell at Winchester in 1864, was his son.
Robert succeeded to the homestead, was twice married, first
to Margaret, daughter of Richard Duke, and secondly to
Hardenia Williams, of Nelson, and died in 1874.

Clifton first lived at the foot of Buck's Elbow, on a place
he bought in 1769 from Matthew Mullins, and afterward sold
to Cornelius Maupin. In 1773 he purchased from William
Lewis a plantation near Ivy Depot, which he made his home
until 1788, when he sold it to George Nicholas, and not long
after removed to Kentucky. He was a magistrate of the
county, and served as Sheriff in 1783. His wife was Sarah
Waller, and three of his children were married in Albemarle,
John to Jean Stapleton, daughter of Thomas Burch, Dorothy
to David Kerr, and Mary to Joseph Burch, brother of John's
wife, and grandfather of Rev. Dr. J. J. Bullock, and the wife
of Vice-President Breckinridge.

Charles resided where his father first bought, on the
waters of Rockfish. The land now lies in Nelson County.
From his family the Methodist Church in that vicinity is
commonly spoken of as Rodes's Church. He died in 1798.
Mrs. McClunn, who resides near Batesville, is his granddaughter,
and William Rodes, who lives at Brooksville, his
great grandson.

John lived on the south side of Moorman's River, and died
in 1810. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Robert Harris,
and his children Robert, Tyree, Clifton, John, Charles, Mary,
Ann, the wife of John Garth, Henrietta, the wife of Rev.
Bernis Brown, and Sarah, the wife first of William Davenport,
and secondly of Micajah Woods. Robert was a Captain
in the Revolutionary army, and made prisoner at the capture
of Charleston, S. C. He married Eliza Dulaney, and removed
to Madison County, Kentucky. Tyree emigrated to Giles
County, Tennessee. Clifton lived near Ivy Depot on a farm,

which was given him by his father, and which he sold in
1810 to George Pickett, of Richmond. In 1807 he was
appointed a magistrate of the county. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of John Jouett, and was the administrator of the
Jouett estate. After the sale of his property he removed to
Kentucky. John succeeded to the paternal estate south of
Moorman's River. He was also appointed a magistrate in
1807, and served as Sheriff in 1832. He died in 1839. His
wife was Francina, daughter of Bernard Brown, and his
children Sidney, wife of Powhatan Jones, of Buckingham,
Ryland, John D., William, Sarah, wife of Samuel C. Woods,
who emigrated to Missouri, Tyree, Virginia, the wife of
W. C. Smith, Jacintha, the wife of J. Smith, Frances, the
wife of Garland Brown, and Lucy Ann, the wife of James
Payne. Ryland married Sarah Woods, and lived and died
in Nelson. John D. married Mrs. Ann Durrett Morris, and
died without children. William married E. C. Yancey, of
Rockingham, and lived on the old home place, which after
his death in 1882 devolved on his sons Thomas and John
William. Tyree removed to Tennessee.

ROGERS.

In 1748 John Rogers, of King William, obtained grants of
four hundred acres on Naked Creek, and of four hundred on
Buck Mountain Creek. At the same time his son George
was granted four hundred acres on Piney Run. John further
patented upwards of six hundred more on Naked Creek in
1761. Neither of them however ever lived in the county.
John died about 1768.

Giles, a son of John, came to the county anterior to 1765.
He purchased the interest of his brother George in 1775. His
home was on the waters of Buck Mountain Creek. He died
in 1794. His wife was Ann, daughter of John Lewis, of
Spotsylvania, and his children Achilles, Parmenas, Ann, the
wife of Robert Davis, Lucy, the wife of Jonathan Barksdale,
Frances, the wife of Samuel Twyman, and Rachel. Achilles
married his cousin Mary George, lived on Ivy Creek, near
the crossing of the Whitehall Road, and died about 1820.
Parmenas succeeded to the home of his father, was appointed

a magistrate in 1807, became Sheriff in 1834, and died in 1836.
He was twice married, first to a Miss Baber, and secondly
to Elizabeth Ferguson. He had a large family, William,
Joseph, Ralph, James B., George, Parmenas, Permelia, Giles,
Frances, Orville, Catharine, Thomas, Jonathan, Elizabeth,
the wife of Nathan Barksdale, and Ann. James B. was a
physician, lived west of Earlysville, married Margaret,
daughter of David Wood and Mildred Lewis, was the father
of Martha, the wife of her cousin, Dr. Alfred Wood, and Dr.
W. G. Rogers, of Charlottesville, and died in 1863. Frances
is the sole member of this numerous household still living in
Albemarle.

Byrd, another son of John, was for a time a resident of the
county. He was twice married to sisters, Mary and Martha
Trice, and had by the first two sons, John and Philip, and
by the second one, George. He emigrated to Kentucky
about the beginning of the century, and died shortly after.
George accompanied his father to the West. Philip spent
his youth in Albemarle, contracted roving habits, owned an
interest at one time in the Red Sweet Springs, and died
in Louisville, Ky. John, familiarly known in his day as
Farmer John, passed his life on his plantation in the county,
near Keswick Depot. He and his son-in-law, Richard Sampson,
were regarded as occupying the front rank among the
sagacious and successful planters of the State. About 1820
the Albemarle Agricultural Society awarded to John Rogers
the premium for having the best tilled farm in the county.
He died in 1838. His wife was Susan, daughter of Charles
Goodman, and his children John, Thornton, Mary, the wife
of Richard Sampson, and Janetta, the wife of J. Price Sampson.
John married Agnes, sister of Stephen Sampson,
succeeded to the homestead, and died in 1841. Thornton
resided at Keswick, a part of his father's place, on which for
some years he conducted a classical school, and which gave
name to the neighboring Depot. A few years before his
death he entered the Presbyterian ministry. His wife was
Margaret, daughter of Andrew Hart, and his children
Adeline, the wife of Rev. E. L. Cochran, Susan, the wife of

Rev. Joseph Baxter, Dr. A. Hamilton, Oscar, William A.,
Julia, the wife of Keating Nelson, Celia, the wife of Rev.
James M. Wilson, and John. He departed this life in 1834.

In the decade of 1790, a John Rogers, whose wife's name
was Mary, came from Stafford, and bought land in the neighborhood
of Earlysville; nothing further is known of him.
Some years later another John Rogers came from Lancaster
County, and lived on the east side of the South West Mountain.
To distinguish him from Farmer John, the syllable
Lan. was affixed to his name, while to Farmer John's was
appended the letter M. He died in 1851.

SAMPSON.

Richard Sampson was the descendant of a family that settled
in Goochland, in the early part of the eighteenth century.
He became a citizen of Albemarle in 1804. In that year he
purchased from Thomas M. Randolph, trustee of Dr. William
Bache, Benjamin Franklin's grandson, the plantation Franklin,
containing six hundred acres. In 1812 he bought from
Francis Gilmer the Pen Park place, containing four hundred.
The latter he sold to John H. Craven in 1819, and the former
to John H. Craven and N. H. Lewis in 1821. He returned
to Goochland, and resided near Dover Mills until his death
in 1862, at the great age of ninety-two. His wife was Mary,
daughter of John Rogers. Rev. Francis S. Sampson, who
studied at Keswick with his uncle Thornton Rogers, was one
of the early students of the University, and was Professor in
the Union Theological Seminary, was his son.

John Price Sampson, Richard's brother, married Janetta,
another daughter of John Rogers. He lived for some years
on part of the Rogers place near Keswick, and for a time kept
a public house at Everettsville. In 1829 he bought Tufton
from the Jefferson estate, which he sold in 1833 to Thomas
Macon, of New Kent. The next year he purchased Colle
from Eli Alexander. Not long after he removed to the old
Meredith place near New Glasgow, Amherst, where he died
in 1842. His children were Edward, Thornton, Margaret,
the wife of Micajah Clark, Elizabeth, and the wife of a Mantaprise.

Stephen Sampson was a son of Robert, brother of Richard
and Price. He was twice married, first to Ann, daughter of
Reuben Lindsay, and secondly to Sarah, daughter of Joseph
Campbell. His home was on the old Campbell place on
Mechunk, where he died a few years ago.

SCHENK.

Cornelius Schenk was one of the early merchants of Charlottesville.
Coming to the place soon after the Revolutionary
War, he carried on the business of general merchandising in
partnership with Peter Lott, until the death of Lott in 1803.
He was also a partner with Isaac Miller and Daniel Culp in
other enterprises, particularly in establishing a tannery in
the southern part of the town, which in later years was owned
by John Pollock. He first lived not far from Ira Garrett's
old home, but in 1792 bought the lots just west of the Episcopal
Church, and there resided until his death in 1810. He
purchased from the Woodsons the land north and northwest
of the town, and from the fact that a tributary of Meadow
Creek flowed through it, arose the name of Schenk's Branch,
which remains to this day. For many years he was active
in performing useful public services in town and county, but
for some reason he declined in standing and influence, pecuniary
troubles overtook him, and all his property was sold
to clear off the liens with which it was encumbered.

His wife was Rebecca Winston, of Hanover, who survived
him a little more than a year, and his children Peter Lott,
Eleanor Winston, Mary, John W., and Richard F. Dr. Frank
Carr, whose mother was a Winston, became the guardian of
the younger children. Peter Lott lived on the northwest corner
of Market and Fourth Streets, and owned the square on
which the house stood; and though he died in 1815, his
interest in the property was not finally disposed of, till commissioners
appointed by Court conveyed it to Dr. Hardin
Massie and John Cochran in 1828. The other members of
the family removed from the county, and all trace of them
seems lost to the memory of the oldest inhabitants.

SCOTT.

Edward Scott in 1732 obtained a patent for five hundred
and fifty acres "on the north side of the Fluvanna, at a place
called Totier." When the county was organized in 1745,
Samuel Scott gave bond for erecting the public buildings on
the land of his brother Daniel. These were both sons of
Edward, who it is likely was dead at the latter date, as the
County Court, at its first adjournment, appointed its next
meeting to be held on Mrs. Scott's plantation. The same
date John Scott, who is subsequently mentioned as of Cumberland
County, patented four hundred acres on Totier Creek.
Whether he was also a son of Edward, does not appear, but
the strong probability is that he was. Ann Scott, the wife
of George Nicholas, of Dinwiddie, a brother of Robert Carter
Nicholas, was also a member of this family. Samuel, the
contractor, died in 1801.

In 1764 John Scott purchased seventeen hundred and fifty
acres on Totier from David Meriwether, the patentee. His
wife was Margaret, daughter of Colonel Joshua Fry. He
died in 1798, and his wife in 1811. His children were Edward,
John, Charles Alexander, Daniel and Frances. Daniel
lived on his farm on Green Mountain, and died in 1851. He
never married, and for want of other objects of affection, he
surrounded himself with great numbers of wild geese. His
fascination over these winged coursers of the air was so remarkable,
that in their flights to and fro they made his plantation
their stopping place, and some that remained the year
round, he carefully nurtured and jealously protected. John
married Elizabeth, daughter of John Bolling, of North Garden,
and died before his father, leaving a son John. This
John inherited the land about Scottsville, and was the
founder of that town in 1818. He married Susan B. Woods,
and his children were Elizabeth, Pocahontas and Mary.

Charles Alexander married Elizabeth, daughter of John
Hudson. He was appointed a magistrate of the county in
1801. His children were Edward, William, Samuel, Charles
A., John, and Martha, the wife of William M. Woods. Edward
settled in Powhatan, and married Elizabeth and Mary,

daughters of his cousin John. William married Elizabeth
Powell, of Amherst, and lived in Buckingham. Samuel
became a physician, practised in Albemarle and Amherst,
and recently died near Howardsville at an advanced age.
His wife was Ann, daughter of Landon Davies, of Amherst,
and his children Elizabeth, the wife of Charles Scott, son of
her uncle William, and Landon, who married Louisa, daughter
of Dr. Charles D. Everett. Charles A. purchased from
his cousin John the plantation on James River, on the upper
side of Totier, which in 1835 he sold to Dr. John W. Gantt.
He subsequently lived on the farm of his uncle Daniel on
Green Mountain. He was twice married, first to Ann—,
and secondly to Pocahontas, daughter of his cousin John.
His house was burned to the ground by the soldiers of Sheridan
in the spring of 1865; and being out on his farm at the
time, and suddenly hearing of the calamity, he fell dead on
the spot. His brother John made his home in Fluvanna.

SHELTON.

Samuel Shelton was settled in the county from the beginning.
In 1745 he purchased five hundred and fifty acres of
the twelve hundred acre tract on James River, granted to
Thomas Goolsby in 1732; the endorsement on the conveyance
of this land made in 1788, expressly mentions the
destruction of the records by the British in 1781. Samuel
Shelton died in 1793. His wife's name was Judith, and his
children were Clough, Joseph, Samuel, David, Elizabeth,
the wife of John Tindall, and the wife of John Lewis, who
lived near Scott's Landing. Clough was a Captain in the
Revolutionary army, and was taken prisoner at the surrender
of Charleston. He died about 1833. His children were
Nelson, Maria, the wife of Robert Anderson, Cicely, the
wife of a Walker, and William A. Samuel in the early part
of the century was engaged in business in Warren. In
partnership with William Walker and John Staples, under
the style of Samuel Shelton & Co., he conducted a large mill
and distillery at that place. In 1810 he purchased from Governor
W. C. Nicholas the Boiling Spring plantation, which

he soon after sold to John Patterson, the Governor's son-in-law.
He died in 1826.

A William Shelton, who died in 1789, lived on Mechum's
River, not far from the present Depot. His wife's name was
Elizabeth, and his children were John, Gideon and Thomas.
In 1794 Thomas, his wife Mary, and his mother Elizabeth,
conveyed what seemed to be Thomas's portion of the estate
to Tarleton Woodson, and likely removed from the county.
The relation of this family with others of the name cannot
be ascertained.

In 1749 William Shelton, of St. David's parish, King and
Queen, purchased land on Byrd Creek, in what is now
Fluvanna County. His wife's name was Patience, and he
had a daughter Sarah, who was the wife of Augustine
Shepherd. It is thought he was also the father of Henry
and William. Henry lived in the northeast part of the
county, on the Barboursville Road. He died in 1799. It is
said his wife was a Long, a sister of the wife of Thomas
Garth Sr., and his children were Susan, the wife of Thomas
Smith, Ann, the wife of Jacob Powers, who removed to
Harrison County, Kentucky, Jane, the wife of Jeremiah White,
Martha, the wife of Samuel Mansfield, Mourning, the wife of
John White, Ann, the wife of Achilles Barksdale, Thomas
L., Mildred, William and Austin. Austin settled on
Mechum's River, above the Depot, and died unmarried in
1806. He was succeeded by his brother Thomas L., who
also purchased in 1812 from the trustees of Menan Mills his
mill, and the tract belonging to it, which he bought in 1789
from John Black. Thomas L. died in 1859. He married
Susan, daughter of James Ballard, and his children were
Martha, the wife of Martin Baker, Stapleton, Austin G.,
Dr. Thomas W., who recently died in Augusta County,
Mary, the wife of David Jeffries, James H., and Lucy, the
wife of George C. Omohundro.

William, son of William, owned land on both sides of
Mechum's, near the Depot. His home was on the north side
of the Staunton Road, on the place now owned by Charles
H. Price. He died in 1815. He was twice married, first to

Lucy, daughter of Robert Harris, and secondly to Sarah
—. His children were William Harris, Mourning, the
wife of Archibald Woods, Elizabeth, the wife of Richard
Mobbery, Dabney, Sarah, Lucy, the wife of Elliott Brown,
Agnes, Weatherston and Thomas. The first three emigrated
to Kentucky. Dabney and Thomas, who sold their part of
the estate in 1817 to Francis McGee, were living at the time
in Augusta County. Weatherston, who married Elizabeth,
daughter of Richard Harrison, sold the same year to Benjamin
Hardin the interests of himself and his deceased sisters,
Sarah and Agnes, and removed to Mason County,
Virginia.

SIMMS.

William Simms lived in the northeast part of the county,
on the waters of Priddy's Creek and Blue Run. The first
mention of his name occurs in 1779, when he bought land in
that neighborhood from Josiah Bush. He was Captain of a
militia company in the war of the Revolution. He built one
of the first mills on Priddy's Creek, and for many years it
was a noted point in that vicinity. He died in 1797. He
and his wife Agatha had nine daughters and two sons, Mary,
the wife of John During, Elizabeth, the wife of John McCann,
Lucy, the wife of John Dalton, Joanna, the wife of James
Ownsley, Ann, the wife of Samuel Brockman, Nancy, the
wife of Ambrose Brockman, Agatha, the wife of William
Catterton, Frances, the wife of Richard Flint, Rosamond,
the wife of Joseph Williams, Richard and John. James
Simms, who lived in the same section, was probably a
brother of William, certainly the guardian of his younger
children. He was twice married, first to Mildred, daughter
of Richard Durrett, and secondly to Lucy, daughter of James
Early. He had two sons, Richard D. and Isaac.

Richard D. married Elizabeth, daughter of David Clarkson,
and his children were Eliza, the wife of Edward Wingfield,
Jane, the wife of Tandy Brockman, Cornelia, the wife of
Rev. Robert Watts, and Lucy Ann, the wife of James D.
Watts, and William J. His home was near the mouth of
Priddy's Creek, and he died in 1862. Isaac lived in the Buck

Mountain district, and died in 1836. His wife was Nancy
Catterton, and his children Mary, the wife of William Blackwell,
Eliza, the wife of Logan Maupin, Permelia, the wife of
Samuel Crawford, of the Valley, Agnes, the wife of John D.
Carr, Julia and Richard D.

John Sims lived in the Buck Mountain neighborhood, and
died in 1798. His wife's name was Mary, and his children
John, Francis, Nathaniel, and a daughter, who was the wife
of Ison Walton.

SMITH.

Joseph Smith in 1734 joined with Edwin Hickman,
Thomas Graves, and Jonathan Clark in entering thirty-two
hundred and seventy-seven acres on the north side of the
Rivanna, where it is crossed by the South West Mountain.
In the partition of the tract, the portion of Smith coincided
with the Pantops plantation. He devised it to his sons,
John, Larkin, Philip and Thomas. In the interval from
1746 to 1765, they sold their shares, and eventually they all
came into the possession of Mr. Jefferson. What became of
the brothers, is not known. It is probable Larkin died in
the county in 1763, and Larkin Smith, doubtless a son of
his, or of one of his brothers, was a Captain in the Fourth
Dragoons in the Revolutionary army.

About 1766, William, John and Charles Smith, of Hanover,
purchased land on the head waters of Mechum's and
Rockfish. They were probably brothers. Charles settled
on Taylor's Creek, and William and John on Whitesides,
where they both bought from Morans, William from Nicholas,
and John from John Moran. Charles died in 1771,
William in 1801, and John in 1808. The name of John's
wife was Elizabeth, and his children were Thomas, William,
Mary, the wife of Francis Montgomery, Nancy, the wife of
David Burgher, Joel, Martha, Elizabeth, the wife of Robert
Page, and Charles. Joel married Martha, daughter of
Charles Patrick, and his children were Mary, the wife of
John Massie, John P., Elizabeth, the wife of John Wallace,
Harriet and Thomas J. All this family except Mrs. Wallace
and her husband, removed to Kentucky. Charles lived

at the foot of Armor's Mountain on the border of Nelson,
and died in 1842. His wife was Mary Bailey, and his children
William, Joel, Robert P., Frances and Jane.

In 1769 Thomas Smith purchased a part of the Chiswell
patent on the head waters of Mechum's. He died in 1783.
His children were Thomas, John, Ann, the wife of William
Grayson, Sarah, the wife of Nathan Crawford, Lawrence,
Mary, the wife of (David?) Buster, Susan, and another
daughter (Ursula?), the wife of a Ray. His son Thomas
died in 1791. His wife's name was Susan, and his children
were Nancy, the wife of James Lobban, Bolling, who removed
to Lincoln County, Missouri, Elizabeth, the wife of
Nicholas Merritt, Mary, Martha and Sebanah. The children
of Nicholas and Elizabeth Merritt were Rhoda, the wife of
Thomas Grayson, Thomas, Susan, the wife of Robert
Haislip, Sarah, the wife of Andrew Black, Markwood,
Rosanna, the wife of James Black, James and Retta, the wife
of Jeremiah Dollins.

SOUTHALL.

Valentine Wood Southall, during a long and busy
career, was one of the most prominent men of the county.
He was the son of Stephen Southall and Martha Wood, and
the grandson of Valentine Wood and Lucy Henry, a sister
of the renowned orator. In early life he was engaged in business
in Washington City, but afterwards studied law, and
was admitted to the Albemarle bar in 1813. By his
thoroughness and impressive elocution he soon attained a
place in the front rank of the profession. In 1829 he was
appointed Commonwealth's Attorney, and held the office till
it became elective under the Constitution of 1850. He was
a member of the Convention that formed that Constitution,
and also of that of 1861, acting as the President of the latter
during the sickness of its presiding officer. Though devoted
to his legal duties, he took an active part in politics, and for
a number of terms was a member of the House of Delegates,
and also its Speaker. He died suddenly in the latter part
of 1861. He was twice married, first to Mary, the daughter
of Alexander Garrett, and secondly to Martha, daughter of

James P. Cocke. The home of his early married life was on
the northwest corner of High and Fourth Streets, the present
residence of Dr. W. G. Rogers, but about 1829 he removed to
the brick mansion near the corner of Jefferson and Second,
which he built.

SOWELL.

Thomas Sowell made one of the earliest entries of land
within the bounds of Albemarle. In 1734 he obtained a grant
of five hundred and fifty acres west of the southern end of
Carter's Mountain. His name still distinguishes Sowell's
Branch, a stream which passes through the land into the
north fork of Hardware. He died in 1763. His wife's name
was Martha, and his children were John, William, Joseph
and Thomas. Thomas died unmarried three years after his
father. The name of John's wife was also Martha, and his
children were Thomas, Benjamin, Edmund, Elijah, Elisha,
and Keziah, the wife of William Perry. Elisha Sowell married
Elizabeth Gilliam in 1808. In 1834 Lewis and Nimrod,
sons of one of the brothers above mentioned, purchased from
William Garland the lot on University Street east of R. F.
Harris's Warehouse, where for many years they conducted
the wheelwright business. Lewis married Mary Ann, daughter
of William Dunkum, and his children were William, Mary,
the wife of Albert Gentry, and Benjamin. Pleasant, another
descendant of the family, married Sarah, daughter of Edward
Garland.

STAPLES.

Thomas Staples during 1783 and the next year took out
patents for more than eight hundred acres on Hudson and
Totier Creeks, and for one hundred and fifty in North Garden.
He purchased more than four hundred more on Totier.
Before the close of the century he sold most of this land to
Samuel Dyer, much of it lying contiguous to Glendower. It
is believed his wife was Ellinda, daughter of Castleton Harper,
and his children Thomas, Beverly, and Sarah, the wife
of Littlebury Moon. Thomas was for years a leading merchant
in Scottsville, and died in 1868. His wife was Ann,
daughter of William Tompkins, and his children Sarah, the

wife of D. P. Powers, Martha, the wife of John S. Martin,
Olivia, the wife of — Spencer, Phaniel, the wife of W. D.
Davis, Susan, Catharine, Marietta, Silas, William T., and
John. Beverly died in 1865. He married Judith White, and
his children were William G., Elmira, Maria, the wife of
— Chambers, Ann, the wife of John Tyler, Minerva, the
wife of Alfred Flippin, Addison, and Emily, the wife of Madison
Porter.

STEVENSON.

Andrew Stevenson, born in Culpeper in 1785, was the son
of Rev. James Stevenson, rector of St. Mark's, Culpeper, and
St. George's, Fredericksburg, and his wife, Frances A. Littlepage.
He was a lawyer by profession, member of Congress,
Minister to England, and Rector of the University of
Virginia. In 1816 he married Sarah, daughter of John Coles.
The next year he purchased upwards of seven hundred acres
on Totier Creek from William Watkins, a descendant of William
Battersby, one of the original lawyers of the county. A
stream passing through the place went for many years by the
name of Stevenson's Creek. This plantation he sold to
Tucker Coles in 1833, and in 1836 he bought Blenheim, the
old seat of the Carters, which he made his home till his death
in 1857. He was buried in the Coles cemetery at Enniscorthy.
He married a second time, and his widow after his
death resided in Washington City. His son, John W., was
admitted to the Albemarle bar in 1834, settled in Covington,
Ky., was elected Governor of that State in 1867, and represented
it in the United States Senate in 1871.

STOCKTON.

Among the earliest settlers in the western part of the county,
who came as is said under the leadership of Michael Woods,
was a family named Stockton. Though their name has
entirely disappeared, they have in a number of ways left their
mark behind. They consisted of several branches. They
erected perhaps the first mill in that section of the county.
The north fork of Mechum's River still bears the name of
Stockton's Creek, the south fork in early times was called
Stockton's Mill Creek, and the first name by which Israel's

Gap was known was Stockton's Thoroughfare. The famous
abbreviation of D. S. is also ascribed to the head of the family.
One story recites that Michael Woods and Davis Stockton
landed at Williamsburg, and came to the wilds of
Goochland together, that arriving at D. S., they advanced in
different directions, Woods continuing straight forward to
Woods's Gap, and Stockton bearing to the left along the foot
of the mountain towards Batesville, and that as a memorial
of the place where they separated, Stockton carved his initials
on a tree. While their landing on the eastern shores of Virginia
is contrary to all the best established traditions, there
may be truth in the rest of the narration. Both were patentees
of land, and they may have gone from the foot of the
Ridge to Williamsburg on business; on their return, the separation
would naturally have taken place at the point mentioned,
as Woods's home lay at the mouth of Woods's Gap,
and the Stocktons were settled along Mechum's River, the
south fork as well as the north.

As already intimated, the head of the family was Davis
Stockton. His first entry of four hundred acres on Ivy
Creek was made in 1739, and in 1741 he patented eight hundred
more on both forks of Mechum's. Altogether the family
connection obtained grants of nearly four thousand acres
in that section. Davis died in 1760. His widow Martha
seems afterwards to have been married to Samuel Arnold,
who lived on Ivy Creek. Davis's children were Richard,
Samuel, William and Thomas. Samuel and William had a
mill on the south fork of Mechum's, not far from Batesville,
the same no doubt their father built, which in 1767 they sold
to James Garland. Prior to 1780 Samuel emigrated to
Rutherford County, North Carolina, and was probably accompanied
by William. Richard lived in the fork of Mechum's,
near the old Black place; in fact, that place was a
part of his land, he and his wife Agnes having sold four
hundred acres to Rev. Samuel Black in 1751. He died in
1775, leaving five sons, Richard, Thomas, John, Robert and
Davis. The name of John appears among the subscribers
to the Albemarle Declaration of Independence, made in 1779.

Previous to 1791 Richard and Robert removed to Henry
County. Richard became Clerk of the Strawberry Baptist
Association, and Robert entered the Baptist ministry, and
subsequently went to Kentucky, where he died about 1837.
Thomas, probably the son of Davis, died in 1783. He and
his wife Rachel had six sons and two daughters, some of
whom were still in the county as late as 1805.

In later years John N. C. Stockton came to the county
from Pennsylvania. He was a proprietor of the Stage lines
running in Virginia, and made Charlottesville his headquarters.
He became a large landholder in the neighborhood.
In 1830 he purchased from Andrew Leitch the old Stage lot
on the corner of Market and Seventh Streets, in 1832 Carrsbrook
from Alexander Garrett, as executor of Dabney Minor,
and in 1835 Retreat from Jonathan B. Carr. He was also
the owner of Camp Holly, on the Barboursville Road. He
married Emily Bernard, a niece of William D. Fitch. In 1837
he came to an untimely end, by drowning in Mobile Bay.
William P. Farish became the administrator of his estate,
and ultimately one of his successors in the ownership of the
Stage lines. William Stockton, brother of John N. C., married
Sarah, daughter of Gideon Strange and Mildred Magruder,
and emigrated to Florida.

SUDDARTH.

William and James Suddarth were early settlers in the
county. They were undoubtedly brothers. They and their
descendants were located on the south fork of Hardware,
between the Cross Roads and Covesville. Previous to 1750,
William bought from Abraham Venable three hundred acres
of a tract of fifteen hundred which Venable had patented in
1735 in that vicinity. In the year first named, William
exchanged two hundred acres with James, for the same quantity
which James had purchased from the same tract. William
seems to have died before 1768, as at that time Lawrence
Suddarth, apparently his son and representative, conveyed to
James the other hundred acres of William's purchase from
Venable. Lawrence was a resident of Amherst, but subsequently

settled in Albemarle, on Green Creek. His wife's
name was Martha, and he died in 1815.

James died in 1800, and left at least three children, William,
James, and Mildred, the wife of John Turner. These
brothers lived near where the present Lynchburg Road
crosses the south fork of Hardware, a mill known as Suddarth's
Mill having conspicuously marked that locality for
many years. In 1830 William was assessed with more than
thirteen hundred acres of land. He died in 1832. It is said
his wife was Martha Sumter, and his children were William
H., James, Sarah, the wife of Robert Porterfield, Martha, the
wife of Richard Littleford, Richard P., who married Martha
Morris, and whose daughter Sarah was the wife of Henry
Darrow, Nancy, the wife of George Paris, Elizabeth, the
wife of John W. Dettor, and Mildred, the wife of William
Page. His brother James married Jane, daughter of John
Randolph. He died about 1850, and his children were
James, Randolph, William T., Mary, the wife of David
Hicks, Patience, the wife of Rice Oaks, Thomas, John and
Benjamin.

SUMTER.

The first mention of the Sumter name occurs in 1763,
when William Sumter bought from Thomas Land one hundred
acres on Priddy's Creek, which had been patented in
1739 by Major John Henry, the orator's father, and which
Land had purchased from his son, William Henry. Sumter's
next purchase was made in 1770 on the north fork of the
Rivanna, at the south end of Piney Mountain. This land
was conveyed by John Poindexter, who obtained the grant
of it in 1738, and from whom the mountain was originally
called Poindexter's Mountain, and the creek running through
it (no doubt Herring's Creek at present), Poindexter's Creek.
William Sumter continued his purchases, till he owned
between six and seven hundred acres. In 1776 he and his
wife Judith sold off all his property. One of the sales was
made to John Sumter, probably a brother, and the land John
then bought he and his wife Catharine conveyed in 1779 to
Charles Bush. In all probability they sold to go elsewhere.

No intimation appears as to the place of their removal; but
as their kinsman, General Thomas Sumter, had already
attained a distinguished name, it is almost certain they emigrated
to South Carolina, the theatre of his gallant achievements.

A well founded tradition exists, that General Sumter was
born in Albemarle, and in the section referred to as the home
of William and John. It rests particularly on the testimony
of Dr. Charles Brown, who was born just after the Revolution.
The Doctor was familiarly acquainted with a sister of the
General, Mrs. Martha Suddarth, the wife of William Suddarth,
who lived and died in the county. Mrs. Suddarth
was well know in her day throughout the community, because
of her intelligence and skill as a nurse. Mr. Jefferson, in one
of his letters to his daughter, Mrs. Eppes, when in declining
health, recommended her to seek the advice of Mrs. Suddarth,
as one whose experience and judgment were worthy of
the highest regard. It may be that she and her eminent
brother were children of one of the couples mentioned above.

SUTILERLAND.

In 1774 Joseph Sutherland bought from Gamaliel Bailey
nearly three hundred acres a short distance east of the Miller
School. This place he sold three years after to Thomas
Harlow, and purchased in the South Garden, near the gorge
of the south fork of Hardware. He died in 1801. His first
wife's name was Judith, and he married again Elizabeth,
daughter of William Grayson. His children were Joseph,
and Susan, the wife of Christopher Myers. Joseph married
Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Garland, and in 1817 bought
from him part of the old James Garland place about
two miles southwest of the Cross Roads, which in those days
went by the name of the Head of the Creek Plantation. He
died in 1818, leaving four sons, Clifton G., Joseph, William
and Edward. Clifton married Mary Ammonett, lived at the
Cross Roads, had a large family, and died in 1868. Joseph
in 1837 purchased from Dr. John W. Gantt the place adjoining
the Cross Roads on the southwest, where he lived until

his death in 1866. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of
Richard G. Anderson. William married Lucy, daughter of
Roland H. Bates, and lived on the Head of the Creek Plantation,
where he recently departed this life. Edward lived on the
Batesville Road, west of the Cross Roads. He married Ann
Shepherd, who after his death became the wife of John P.
Mann.

TAYLOR.

William Taylor in 1737 obtained a grant of twelve hundred
acres on Moore's Creek, which is believed to include the land
whereon Charlottesville is situated. He also patented the
same quantity on the north fork of Hardware in 1741. It
must have been a part of this tract, nearly eight hundred
acres, which James Taylor, most probably a son, sold to
James Buchanan in 1765. The same year James sold to
James Buchanan part of a patent of his own, which was located
on Hardware and Murphy's Run in 1750, and on which
he was then living. Nothing further is known of these persons,
except that Nancy, a daughter of James, was the wife
of John Eaves.

During 1760 and some years after, Benjamin Taylor became
the owner by patent and purchase of more than seven
hundred acres on Broadaxe Creek and Mechum's River.
Part of this land he sold in 1772 to Micajah Chiles. He died
in 1809. His wife's name was Mary, and he had three sons,
Fleming, Winston and Benjamin. In 1811 the widow, being
about to remove to Georgia, appointed George M. Woods
her attorney, to transact any of her unfinished business.
Her sons may possibly have preceded her to that State; but
though none of the family remain, they have left behind a
memorial of their name in the passage through the mountain
near their old place, which is still known as Taylor's Gap.

At a much later period, J. C. R. Taylor came to the county
from Jefferson. He married Martha J., daughter of Colonel
T. J. Randolph, and resided at Lego. He died in 1875.

TERRELL.

In 1734 Joel Terrell, of Hanover, and his brother-in-law,
David Lewis, patented three thousand acres north and west

of what is now called Lewis's Mountain, sixteen hundred
belonging to Joel. He died about 1758, devising the land to
his sons, William and Joel, though all eventually came into
the possession of Joel. Joel became a dealer in real estate
in many parts of the county, and owned considerable property
in and around Charlottesville. His home was in town,
on the corner of Market and Fifth Streets, where the City
Hall now stands, and where he resided till his death in 1773.
He married his cousin Ann, daughter of David Lewis.
After his decease she became the wife of Stephen Willis,
and removed to Rutherford County, North Carolina, where
she died at the great age of more than a hundred years. Her
husband's large estate was sold off in subsequent years by
his executors, herself, William Terrell, and James Kerr.

Henry Terrell, of Caroline, in 1737 entered seventeen hundred
and fifty acres on the south fork of Mechum's and
Whitesides Creek, including the site of Batesville. He died
prior to 1764. The land descended to his sons, Henry and
Thomas. In the year last named, Henry, who lived in Caroline,
sold to Solomon Israel twenty acres near Stockton's
Thoroughfare, which in time took the name of the new purchaser
as Israel's Gap. The next year he closed out the
remainder of his share to John Jones, of Louisa. Thomas
and his wife Rebecca sold his share in 1768 to Reuben Terrell,
of Orange. In 1770 Robert Terrell, of Orange, bought
from Thomas McCulloch upwards of three hundred acres in
the same vicinity, which in 1783 he and his wife Mary Lacy
sold to Marshall Durrett. Reuben died in 1776. His wife's
name was Mildred, and his children were Mary, the wife of
John Wood, son of Isaac, and John. His widow became
the wife of Jesse Wood, to whom the step-son sold the
larger part of his father's land. John Terrell married Lucy,
daughter of David Burgher, and died without children in
1857. By his will he manumitted his negroes, and directed
his executors, Reuben Wood, his nephew (to whom he
devised his land), and John B. Spiece, to send them to
Liberia.

John Terrell, who it is believed was a brother of Reuben

and Robert, and a son of Edmund Terrell and Margaret
Willis, purchased in 1799 from Robert Carter more than
twelve hundred acres in the Biscuit Run Valley. In the
first years of the century, Terrell's Shop was a familiar
waymark on the road from Charlottesville to Carter's Bridge.
He and his wife Rebecca sold his property in Albemarle,
and about 1806 removed to Greenup County, Kentucky. His
mother died in 1812, and his sisters were Nancy, the wife of
Thomas Henderson, Jane, the wife of Joseph Bishop, Frances,
the wife of Charles C. Lacy, and Lucy.

Chiles Terrell lived at Music Hall, on the east side of the
South West Mountain. In 1783 he married Margaret Douglass,
the widow of Nicholas Meriwether. During the war of
the Revolution, he was regarded as leaning strongly to the
Tory side. In 1777 the County Court refused to allow a
deed to him from David Meriwether to go to record, because
of their suspicion that he had not taken the oath of allegiance
to the States. He was the acting executor of Micajah Chiles.
His son, James Hunter Terrell, who succeeded him at Music
Hall, married Susan Vibert, and died in 1856.

The family of Captain William Terrell, of Louisa, resided
in Albemarle. In 1825 his widow, Martha, purchased from
Dr. Frank Carr Hors de Ville, the place near the Chesapeake
and Ohio Depot now occupied by James D. Goodman. She
died in 1830. Her children were Richmond, the father of
Mrs. William W. Minor, Eleanor, Rebecca, Nancy, Emily,
the wife of Daniel F. Carr, Lucy, Mary, Martha, the wife of
Samuel H. Royall, Dorothy and Malvina. These ladies,
because of their eminent culture and accomplishments, were
known in the community as the Nine Muses.

Joel Terrell, who was the son of Christopher, came to the
county about 1828. In that year he bought from Dabney
Minor's executor a part of the Carrsbrook estate, where he
lived until his death in 1851. He married Lucy Marshall, a
sister of the wives of Nimrod Bramham and John R. Jones.
His children were Sarah, the wife of Nathan C. Goodman,
Agnes, the wife of Charles Wright, Eliza, the wife of Stapleton
C. Shelton, Mary, the third wife of Fontaine D.

Brockman, Albert, George, Lucy, Almira, Clementina, the
wife of Nelson Elsom, Virginia, the wife of Peter V. Phillips,
Harriet, and Hardenia, the wife of William Beck.

THOMAS.

Michael Thomas in 1745 and 1748 patented six hundred
acres on Hog Creek and Rockfish River. He seems however
to have resided on James River. At the resumption of the
records in 1783, he was active as a magistrate of the county,
and was appointed Sheriff in 1789. He was greatly harrassed
by suits brought against him as incumbent of that office,
owing to the maladministration of his deputies, Edward
Moore and Menan Mills. Perhaps these annoyances incited
the old gentleman to seek the balmy consolations of matrimony
a second time. At all events he entered into those
bonds with Elizabeth Staton in 1792; and in writing to the
Clerk for a license, he stated that he was unable to visit the
county seat himself, but sent his son Ralph, and his grandson
John Carroll, to act in his behalf. He died in 1802. His
children appear to have been Michael, Joseph, Jesse, Ralph,
Edward, James, and a daughter, who was the wife of a Carroll.
The future of the family is unknown, except that
Joseph died in 1797, and Michael in 1826.

John Thomas came to the county from Amherst. He was
twice married, first to Frances, daughter of the elder John
Henderson, and secondly to Frances, daughter of Charles
Lewis Jr., of Buck Island. He lived for a time on a tract of
land which he received from his second father-in-law on Ivy
Creek, and which he sold in 1788 to Robert Draffen, and
afterwards on the land of his son Charles L. Thomas near
Red Hill. He died in 1847. His children by the first marriage
were Warner, Norborne K., James, Elizabeth, the wife
of a Wood, and Lucy, the wife of James Lewis; those by
the second were Charles L., John L., Virginia, and Margaret,
the wife first of Julius Clarkson, and secondly of
Robert Cashmere. In the early part of the century, Warner,
Norborne and John L. did business in Richmond as commission
merchants, under the firm of N. K. Thomas & Co.

About 1815 they purchased the Cole land on the north side
of Tom's Mountain, a thousand and twenty-eight acres;
three hundred they sold to Stephen Moore, and the remainder
was assigned to John L. Thomas, when he retired from
the firm in 1818.

By the will of his uncle Isham Lewis, who died in 1790,
Charles L. Thomas became the owner of more than eighteen
hundred acres on the north fork of Hardware, where Red
Hill Depot now stands. His home was where the family of
John B. Townley now reside. Before his death in 1815, he
leased the eastern part of the place to his brother John L.
during the lives of his parents, for their support, and that
of his sisters. His wife was Margaret, the youngest daughter
of Nicholas Lewis, of the Farm, and his children were
Mary Walker, the wife of Alexander Clayton, Nicholas L.,
Charles, Robert Warner, Frances Elizabeth, the wife first of
Dr. Charles H. Meriwether, and secondly of James Hart,
and John J. The western part of the place was divided
among the children, who in 1830, and some years following,
sold their portions, and emigrated to Montgomery County,
Tennessee. John L. passed his life on the place leased him
by his brother. He was appointed a magistrate in 1838, and
died unmarried in 1846.

THOMPSON.

Joseph Thompson was one of the original magistrates of
the county, and its first Sheriff. He resided in the bounds
of Fluvanna, not far from Palmyra. He died in 1765. His
wife's name was Sarah, and his children were Roger,
George, Leonard, John, and Frances, the wife of a Woodson.
The family was well represented in the Revolutionary army.
Roger was a Captain in the Second Virginia, and John, First
Lieutenant in the Seventh, while George and Leonard were
Lieutenants in the State militia. In 1737 Roger Thompson
Jr., patented nearly three hundred acres on Foster's Creek in
the Stony Point neighborhood; it is probable he was the
same as Captain Roger. The same year John Thompson
entered more than five hundred acres on the south fork of the

Rivanna, and in 1759 one hundred and twenty more a short
distance above on Moorman's. It is believed he was the
brother of Roger, and the father, or more likely the grandfather,
of Roger and Nathaniel, who lived on or near the
land which he entered. The last mentioned Roger died in
1838. He married — and his children were William,
Nicholas, Nathaniel, Mary, the wife of Richard Franklin,
Elizabeth, the wife of a Ballard, Sarah, the wife of Samuel
Ward, and Susan, the wife of William Ward. His son
Nathaniel married Temperance, daughter of William Crenshaw,
gave the land on which Wesley Chapel was built, and
died about 1835. Nathaniel Sr. married Lucy, daughter of
Bernard Brown, and died in 1874. His children were
Edmund I., who died in 1868, Bernard, and Mary, the wife
of James E. Chapman.

In 1766 Waddy Thompson, of Louisa, came to the county,
and married Mary, daughter of Robert Lewis, and widow of
Samuel Cobb. He had previously married Elizabeth, daughter
of Nelson Anderson, of Hanover. His children by the
first marriage were Nelson, Anderson, David, who removed
to Woodford County, Kentucky, Waddy, who removed to
Rockingham, Susan, the second wife of David Rodes, and
afterwards of James Kerr, and Lucy. Nelson received from
his father two hundred and fifty acres southwest of Still House
Mountain, which he sold in 1794 to Thomas Garth Sr. He
then bought on Beaverdam of Hardware, where he died in
1798. The children by the second marriage were Ann, the wife
first of John Slaughter, and secondly of Philip Grafton, Mary,
the wife of James Poindexter, Susan, the wife of Jesse Davenport,
Mildred, the wife of James Scott, and Judith, the wife
of William Poindexter. John Slaughter was Surveyor of the
county, and died in 1797. His children were Mary L.,
Waddy T., and Robert L. Waddy T. married Frances
Ballard, and in 1823 was living in New York, where he was
Postmaster, and owner of the tanyard, the most lasting
monument of the place, which he bought from Nathaniel
Landcraft, and sold to James Lobban. Waddy Thomson
died in 1801, and his wife in 1813. All their children appear

to have removed from the county except Susan and her husband.
For a time he kept the Swan Tavern. He died in
1822, and she in 1847.

THURMAN.

The names of Thurman and Thurmond in the early records
were interchangeable. John Thurman began to purchase
land on Cove Creek in 1761. William on Green Creek in 1774,
and Richard and Philip on Buck Mountain Creek and Doyle's
River in 1776. Those of the name in the Buck Mountain
region, seem to have disposed of their property, and removed
from the county about 1790.

Previous to the latter date Benjamin Thurman was settled
on the west side of the South West Mountain, near Hammock's
Gap, which is now generally called after this family
Thurman's Gap. Benjamin married Nancy, daughter of
Gideon Carr, and his children were Fendall C., Susan, the
wife of John Rothwell, Sarah, the wife of Austin Sandridge,
Mary, the wife of John Gentry, Ann, the wife of Micajah W.
Carr, Elisha and Lucy. Fendall married Ann Royster, of
Goochland, sold his land to his brother Elisha, and in 1827
emigrated to west Tennessee. He was the father of Edward
Thurman, Janetta, the wife of David Hancock, and Catharine,
the wife of Dr. Charles Hancock. Elisha married Mary
Dickerson, and his children were Fendall D., William, Ann,
the wife of James Wheeler, Mary, the wife of John Carr,
Thomas Lindsay, Caroline, the wife of William H. Peyton,
Benjamin and Theodore.

TIMBERLAKE.

John Timberlake was the first clerk of Fluvanna County.
He died in 1820, at the age of eighty-nine. His sons, Walker,
John and Horace, lived in Albemarle. Walker was a Methodist
minister, and withal an active man of business. He
resided for a time at Glenmore, and subsequently at Bellair,
below Carter's Bridge. He died in 1864. His children were
Gideon, Clark, John W., William, Ann, the wife of B. C.
Flannagan, Elizabeth, the wife of John H. Timberlake,

Sarah, the wife of H. H. Gary, Mary, the wife of Abraham
Shepherd, and Christiana. Gideon, who lived on the east
side of Dudley's Mountain where it abuts on the north fork of
Hardware, and Clark married respectively Lucy and Letitia,
daughters of Nathan C. Goodman. John was admitted to
the Albemarle bar in 1812, and was associated with James
and John B. Magruder in the purchase of the Shadwell Mills,
and a large tract of timber land in the Buck Island section.
He died in 1862. His wife was Sarah, daughter of John B.
Magruder, and his children were Wilhelmina, Edward J.,
Ann, the wife of Dr. John C. Hughes, and Henry. Horace
had two sons, John H. and Horace. John H. was appointed
a magistrate of the county, lived at Greenwood Depot and
Brownsville, built at the former place a large edifice in which
Rev. William Dinwiddie conducted a flourishing school before
the war, and died in 1881. His wife was his cousin
Elizabeth, daughter of Walker, and his children were Virgilia,
the wife of Rev. Paul Whitehead, John H., who was
killed in 1876 by a fall from his horse above Mechum's
Depot, and James W., who married Sarah Patrick, and lives
on the old Patrick place west of Batesville. Horace lived in
the Buck Island neighborhood.

A brother of the first John Timberlake was Lewis, one of
whose daughters was the wife of Warner Minor, an original
hotel keeper at the University. Another daughter, Louisa,
while visiting in her sister's family, became the wife of William
Wertenbaker.

Another brother of the first John was James, a purser in
the United States Navy. He married Peggy O'Neal, daughter
of an Irish hotel keeper in Washington City, a woman of
great beauty and brilliant natural gifts. After Timberlake's
death, she became the wife of John H. Eaton, General Jackson's
Secretary of War, and by her elevation to the cabinet
circle occasioned such violent social disturbances as eventually
produced the disruption of that body.

TOMPKINS.

Giles Tompkins was the first of the name that appeared in
the county. He purchased land on Totier Creek in 1765.

He died in 1795, leaving at least three children, William, Elizabeth
and Sarah. William lived in the same neighborhood
on an estate called Whitehall. He died in 1824. His wife's
name was Elizabeth, and his children were John, William,
Elizabeth, the wife of Peter White, Catharine, the wife of
James Minor, Samuel W., Ann, the wife of Thomas Staples,
Edmund, Robert and James. Samuel was a physician, and
practised in the vicinity of Earlysville, and afterwards near
Scottsville. He married Sarah, daughter of George Gilmer,
and his children were Elizabeth, the wife of J. Schuyler Moon,
Jane, George, Junius, Samuel, Martha, Charles, Lucy and
Catharine. James married Sarah, daughter of Dabney Minor,
and his children were William D., James E., and Eliza, the
wife of John L. Coleman. William D. and James E. were for
many years well known commission merchants in Richmond.
James E. married Frances, daughter of John H. Coleman.

TOOLEY.

In 1741 James Tooley obtained a patent for four hundred
acres on Totier Creek, and two years later John took out one
for two hundred and fifty in the same vicinity. They were
most probably brothers. John died in 1750, and James in
1781. The name of James's wife was Judith, and his children
were John, James, Sarah, the wife of Edmund New,
Ann, the wife of John Martin, Charles, William, Arthur,
Elizabeth, Mary, the wife of John Gilliam, and Judith, the
wife of Archelaus Gilliam. William died about 1830. His
children were Mary, William, John, Charles, Nancy, Elizabeth,
the wife of James Gentry, and Arthur. In 1815 John,
the son of William, married Mary Gilmore, and his children
were James and Joshua. The most of this family seem to
have removed to Monroe County, Kentucky. Totier was
sometimes called Tooley's Creek, and it is so designated on
some of the maps of Virginia. At the beginning of the century,
an eminence on the old Irish Road, where it was
intersected by a road from Cocke's Mill, went by the name
of Tooley's Hill.

TURNER.

Terisha Turner was granted one hundred and thirty-six
acres on the south branches of Hardware in 1760, and this
tract he and his wife Sarah sold to Peter Cheatham in 1777.
At that time he was described as a citizen of Amherst. He
was also the owner of several hundred acres on Green Creek,
which in 1790 he sold for the most part to Benjamin Harris.

In 1788 Charles Turner bought from Solomon Ballou nearly
two hundred acres lying to the northwest of Ivy Depot. He
died in 1789. His wife's name was Mary Ann, and his
children were Robert, George, Reuben, William, Matthew,
Keziah, Mary and Judith. George in 1791 married Ann,
daughter of Gabriel and Ann Maupin. A number of the
children in 1815 sold their land to Charles Harper, and removed
to Pendleton County, Kentucky. The small mountain
at the foot of which their land lay is still known as
Turner's Mountain.

James Turner, described as belonging to Amherst, was a
considerable land owner on the lower Hardware. His wife
was Rebecca, daughter of William Hamner. He sold his
property in the county before the end of the last century,
part to Samuel Dyer, and much the larger part to Pleasant
Dawson.

TWYMAN.

George and William Twyman, in all likelihood brothers,
were citizens of Culpeper. George began to purchase land
in Albemarle on the Buck Mountain Road near Earlysville
in 1765. In 1791 and 1804 he divided nearly six hundred
acres between his sons, George and Joseph. He died in
1822, at the age of eighty-nine. His wife's name was Mary,
and his children were George, Joseph, Samuel, Sarah, the
wife of a Sanford, William, Abraham, Elizabeth, the wife of
William J. Wood, Agatha, the wife of Robert Dearing, Ruth,
the wife of David Watts, and James. A number of this family
removed to Kentucky, and as none of them bearing the name
now reside in the county, it is probable they all emigrated to
the West.

William in 1770 bought more than five hundred acres on

the head waters of Mechum's, which he sold in 1778 to William
Wood and Francis Weathered. In 1771 he purchased
from Jacob Snead three hundred acres on Ivy Creek, at the
crossing of the Whitehall Road. This place he sold two
years after to George Wayt. From the fact that the eldest
son of Wayt was named Twyman, his wife was no doubt a
daughter of William. William Twyman, whose wife's name
was Winifred, appears never to have lived in Albemarle.

WADDELL.

Rev. James Waddell, the blind preacher, resided on the
borders of Albemarle and Louisa, the latter part of his life.
His first home in Virginia was in Lancaster County, where
he married Mary, daughter of James Gordon. To avoid the
troubles incident to the exposed state of that part of the country
during the Revolution, he removed to Augusta County,
where he took charge of the Tinkling Spring Church, and
where he purchased from James P. Cocke, Springhill, the old
Patton place. When the war ended, he fixed his residence
on his place called Hopewell, about a mile southwest of Gordonsville.
There he died in 1805, and there his remains lay
till 1871, when by the permission of friends they were transferred
to the yard of the Presbyterian Church at Rapidan,
which was called by his name. His children were Nathaniel,
James G., Elizabeth, the wife of Rev. William Calhoun,
Janetta, the wife of Dr. Archibald Alexander, Ann, Dr. Addison,
Sarah and Littleton. James G. became a member of
the Albemarle bar in 1800, but for the most of his life pursued
the calling of a teacher. He married first Mary T., daughter
of Reuben Lindsay, and secondly his cousin Lucy, daughter
of John Gordon. His home was at Springhill, on the west
side of the Gordonsville Road opposite the residence of his
father. In 1823 he sold his place to William T. Davis, and
removed to Waynesboro. The most of the family became
residents of the Valley.

WALKER.

Thomas Walker was born in King and Queen in 1715,
was a student of William and Mary, and about 1741 married

Mildred, the widow of Nicholas Meriwether. Through her
he came into the possession of Castle Hill. By profession
he was a physician, but possessed too bold and energetic a
nature to be contented with the ordinary routine of a country
doctor. In his younger years he occupied with signal
efficiency a number of public positions. It is believed that
notwithstanding the claims in behalf of Finley and Daniel
Boone, he led the first expedition that ever traversed the
mountains, and stood upon the famous hunting grounds of
Kentucky. In 1748, and again in 1750, he visited Southwest
Virginia and Kentucky, and to this day has left his memorial
in the former region, in the names of Walker's Mountain
and Walker's Creek on the confines of Giles and Pulaski
Counties, and in the latter, in the name of Cumberland
which he gave to the mountains, gap and river so called,
in commemoration of the Duke of Cumberland, who had
recently crushed the rebellion of 1745 on the field of Culloden.
He was Commissary of the Virginia troops under
Braddock, and was at that general's defeat in 1755. More
than once he was appointed to treat with the Indians in
New York and Pennsylvania, and in 1778 was one of the
Commission selected to fix the boundary between Virginia
and North Carolina. Without any change of residence, he
successively represented the counties of Hanover, Louisa
and Albemarle in the House of Burgesses, and in 1763 was
the trustee of Albemarle to sell and convey the lots and outlots
of Charlottesville, the new county seat. He died in
1794. His children were Mary, the wife of Nicholas Lewis,
John, Susan, the wife of Henry Fry, Thomas, Lucy, the wife
of Dr. George Gilmer, Elizabeth, the wife of Rev. Matthew
Maury, Mildred, the wife of Joseph Hornsby, who removed
to Shelby County, Kentucky, Sarah, the wife of Reuben
Lindsay, Martha, the wife of George Divers, Reuben, Francis,
and Peachy, the wife of Joshua Fry.

John lived at Belvoir, the old home of Robert Lewis, was
aide to Washington in the Revolution, member of the House of
Burgesses, United States Senator to fill the vacancy occasioned
by the death of William Grayson, for many years Commonwealth's

Attorney for the county, and died in 1809. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of Bernard Moore, and granddaughter
of Governor Spotswood, and his only child Mildred became
the wife of Francis Kinloch, of South Carolina.

Thomas was a Captain in the Ninth Virginia Regiment of
the Revolutionary army, and died in 1798. His home was on
the plantation of Indian Fields. His wife was Margaret
Hoops, and his children M. L., Elizabeth, the wife of Robert
Michie, Maria, the wife of Richard Duke, Jane, the wife of
William Rice, of Halifax, Mildred, the wife of Tarleton
Goolsby, John, Thomas and Martha.

Francis succeeded his father at Castle Hill, was a magistrate
of the county, Colonel of the Eighty-Eighth Regiment,
member of the House of Delegates, and Representative in
Congress, and died in 1806. He married Jane Byrd, daughter
of General Hugh Nelson, and granddaughter of President
William Nelson, and his children were Jane Frances, the
wife of Dr. Mann Page, and Judith, the wife of William C.
Rives.

WALLACE.

Three brothers named Wallace came to Virginia with
Michael Woods as his sons-in-law about 1734, Peter, Andrew
and William. Peter married Martha Woods, and settled in
Rockbridge County. He was the father of Adam and Andrew
Wallace, who displayed great gallantry in the battle of
Guilford C. H., the latter yielding up his life on that field.
The other brothers remained in Albemarle. Andrew Wallace
married Margaret Woods. His home was near Ivy
Depot, on part of the Charles Hudson entry, where Charles
Harper afterwards resided. He died in 1785. His children
were Michael, Samuel, Elizabeth, the wife of William Briscoe,
Mary, the wife of Alexander Henderson, Hannah,
Susan, the wife of Thomas Collins, Margaret, the wife
of William Ramsay, and Jean, the wife of a Wilson. All
these families except the Ramsays emigrated to the West,
some probably to western Virginia, but most of them to Kentucky.

William Wallace married Hannah Woods. His home was

on land at the foot of the Blue Ridge near Greenwood Depot,
which he bought from Andrew Woods, and on which some
of his descendants still reside. His children were Michael,
John, Jean, the wife of Robert Poage, William, Sarah,
Hannah and Josiah. Michael lived on Lickinghole, was
Captain of a military company during the Revolution, and a
ruling elder in Mountain Plains Church, with his wife Ann
sold his place to George Conner in 1786, and emigrated to
Kentucky. John lived near Greenwood, with his wife Mary
sold out to his brother William, and in 1780 removed to
Washington County, Virginia. Josiah lived at Mechum's
Depot, with his wife Hannah sold his plantation to Edward
Broadus in 1796, and removed to Kentucky.

William continued in Albemarle, and resided at the old
home near Greenwood. He died in 1809. His wife was
Mary Pilson, and his children William, Richard, Hannah,
the wife of John Lobban, Samuel, Mary, Michael, Elizabeth
and John. William was associated with John Pilson in the
mercantile business, but died young and unmarried in 1812.
His business was continued by his brother Richard, who died
unmarried in 1832. Michael lived at the old homestead,
married Lavinia Lobban, was a ruling elder in Mountain
Plains Church, and died in 1845. His children were Samuel,
who emigrated to Texas, Mary, William, Martha, the wife
of Peter Le Neve, Michael W., Lavinia, the wife of Dr. A.
Hamilton Rogers, J. Hervey, Sarah, the wife of Thomas L.
Courtney, John R. and Charles. John married Elizabeth,
daughter of Joel Smith, and lived in Nelson. His children
were Jesse, Samuel, William W., Mary, the wife of William
Smith, and John Pilson.

WATSON.

William Watson came from Charles City County, and
resided on land east of North Garden Depot, which in 1762
he purchased from John Leake and William and Joseph
Fitzpatrick. He died in 1784. His children were John P.,
Richard P., Joseph and Nancy, the wife of Thomas Cobbs.
John P. died in 1812, and his widow Martha, to whom he

devised his estate, became the wife of John Brown in 1816.
Richard also died in 1812. His wife was Ann Anderson,
and his children William, Lucinda and Ann, the wives
respectively of Wilson Gregory and Francis Staples, both of
Henrico. Richard's widow was subsequently married to
Dr. C. Lewis Carr. The lands of this family have passed
into other hands, though their name is still remembered in
the neighborhood.

Another William Watson married Susan, daughter of
David Watts, and in 1767 received from his father-in-law a
portion of his estate on the west side of the South West
Mountain, not far from Stony Point. His children were
John, Matthew, Elizabeth, Sarah, Lucy, the wife of Thomas
Johnson, Mildred, Ann and Mary. John succeeded to his
father's place. In 1804 he bought from Thomas Wells
nearly five hundred acres of the Carter land south of Charlottesville,
part of which was sold in 1818 by Matthew and
his wife Lucy to William Dunkum, and part in 1836 by John
and his wife Mary to Samuel Mitchell, of North Carolina.
There being for many years simultaneously three John Watsons
in the county, this John was described as of the Little
Mountain.

William Watson, son of Little Mountain John, had for a
long period charge of the county jail. He was a saddler by
trade, and in the early years of the century was associated in
business with Edward Stone, who removed to Davidson
County, Tennessee. They owned the north end of the lot on
the west side of the Square. In 1819 Watson bought from Edmund
Anderson the lot on the west side of Park Street, where
he built the brick house which was long the residence of the
late Thomas Wood. He was Jailor from 1811 to 1828, and
again from 1832 to 1841, when during the imprisonment of
Joseph E. Semmes, he was succeeded by his son, James A.
Watson. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Barksdale,
and his children were James Albert, who married Mary,
daughter of Anderson Brown, and Mildred, the wife of a
Jones. He died in 1853, and his son James A. in 1857.

In 1779 John Watson purchased land in the northwestern

part of the county on Rocky Creek. He was succeeded by
his son John, who was distinguished as John Watson, of
High Top. The latter died in 1833.

About 1790 John Watson, known as of Milton, came to
the county from Amherst. He was the son of James Watson,
formerly of James City County. He settled in Milton,
and was closely identified with its interests from its foundation.
He was appointed a magistrate in 1800, and served as
Sheriff in 1825. In 1813 he purchased from Brown, Rives
& Co. Forest Hill, a plantation on the south side of the
Rivanna below Milton, containing upwards of a thousand
acres. He made this his residence until his death in 1841.
His wife was Jane, daughter of Richard Price, and his children
Eliza, the wife of Ira Garrett, James Richard, John W.
C., Isabella, the wife of Charles B. Shaw, Matthew P.,
Egbert R., and Ellen, the wife of John C. Sinton. J. Richard
married Ann, daughter of James Clark, was a merchant in
Charlottesville, and a hotel keeper at the University, and
died at Forest Hill in 1867. John W. C. was admitted to
the Albemarle bar in 1830, married Catharine, sister of professor
John A. G. Davis, and removed to Holly Springs,
Miss. He represented that State in the Confederate Senate
during the war. Matthew P. married Eliza, daughter
of Opie Norris, and removed to Southwest Virginia.
Egbert spent his life in Charlottesville, as one of the leading
lawyers at its bar, and Judge of the Circuit Court at the close
of the war. He was thrice married, first to Mary, daughter
of Opie Norris, secondly to Jane Creigh, of Greenbrier, and
thirdly to Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac White. He died in
1887. Dr. Daniel E. Watson, a kinsman of this family,
came to the county from Amherst, and in 1837 bought from
Francis B. Hart the plantation in the Rich Cove, on which
he resided till his death in 1882. He was appointed a magistrate
in 1838. He married Mary, daughter of Henry T.
Harris.

Joseph Watson, an immigrant from Ireland, in 1832
bought from Andrew Leitch, agent of the Dinsmore estate,
Orange Dale, where he lived until his death several years

ago. His wife was Ellen Leitch, a sister of Samuel
Leitch Jr.

WATTS.

Jacob Watts became the owner of more than eleven hundred
acres on the north fork of the Rivanna, near Piney
Mountain. He was one of the early Methodist ministers of
the county. He died in 1821, at the age of ninety years.
His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of the first Richard Durrett,
and his children William, John, Elijah, Fielding, Mildred,
the wife of a Bruce, Mary, the wife of Hezekiah Rodes, Frances,
the wife of Joseph Edmondson, Nancy, the wife of Henry
Austin, and Agnes, the wife of John Huckstep. The children
of Elijah were Sarah, the wife of Kenza Stone, who
removed to Bourbon County, Kentucky, Mildred, the wife of
James Dickerson, Elizabeth, the wife of John O. Padgett,
Nancy, the wife of Wiley Dickerson, and Frances, the wife
of James Malone.

David Watts, possibly a brother of Jacob, lived on the west
side of the South West Mountain, south of Stony Point. He
died in 1767. His children were John, David, Nathan, and
Susan, the wife of William Watson. David lived in the same
neighborhood, and died in 1817. His wife's name was Sarah,
and his children were Charles, who married Elizabeth Buckner,
John, Philip, David, who married Ruth, daughter of
George Twyman, Susan, the wife of Carver Thomas, Mary,
the wife of William Breedlove, Mildred, the wife of Richard
Breedlove, Frances and Nancy. Philip married a daughter
of John Brown, and lived west of Mechum's Depot. His
daughter America was the wife of Madison Kinsolving.

WAYT.

George Wayt in 1773 purchased from William Twyman
the plantation on Ivy Creek, on the north side of the Whitehall
Road, which long continued in the possession of the
family. It is believed his wife Catharine was the daughter
of Twyman. It is said that after his death, she became the
wife of Elijah Garth. His children were Twyman, Tabitha,
the wife of a Kennerly, of Augusta, Catharine, the wife of

Paschal Garth, who removed to Todd County, Kentucky,
Frances, Sarah, Judith and Elizabeth. Twyman was for
many years associated in business with his brother-in-law,
John Winn, under the firm of Wayt & Winn. He was also
Mr. Winn's successor as Postmaster of the town. His home
was on the northeast corner of Jefferson and Second Streets,
the square on which it stood having been bought by him in
1815 from the executors of Jacob Kinney. He married Mary
Johnson, of Fluvanna, and his children were Charles, John,
James M., Mary, the wife of Dr. J. W. Poindexter, and Twymonia,
the wife of Peter A. Woods. He died in 1861.

WERTENBAKER.

Christian Wertenbaker was of German extraction. His
first home was in Columbia, Fluvanna County, but he removed
to Milton, when that town was established. Subsequently
he became a citizen of Charlottesville, and in 1814
purchased from his brother-in-law, Joshua Grady, the farm
on the old Barracks Road, east of Ivy Creek, where he spent
the remainder of his days. He died in 1833. He married
Mary, daughter of Joshua Grady, and his children were William,
Edward, Thomas Jefferson, Elizabeth, the wife of John
Walker, who removed to Pickaway County, Ohio, Susan, the
wife of Patrick Martin, and Sarah Ann, the wife of David
Vandegrift.

William in his youth acted as deputy Clerk and deputy
Sheriff of the county, and was admitted to the bar in 1824.
Soon after he was chosen Librarian of the University,
and continued to be connected with the affairs of that institution
until his death in 1882. He possessed a marvellously
accurate recollection of all the students who had during his
time frequented its halls, and no figure associated with its
scenes dwelt more familiarly in their memory than his. He
retained much of the manners of the old school, and the
offer of his snuffbox was one of the acts of his stately courtesy
to the last. For many years he was a ruling elder in the
Presbyterian Church of Charlottesville. His wife was Louisa,
daughter of Lewis Timberlake, of Caroline.

WHEELER.

Benjamin Wheeler was one of the early patentees of land
within the present limits of Albemarle. In 1734 he obtained
the grant of six hundred acres on Mechunk, and in 1740 two
hundred on Moore's Creek. He conveyed three hundred
acres of his Mechunk land to Giles Allegre in 1748, and the
remainder in 1768 to his grandson Benjamin Burgher. In
1764 he conveyed his land on Moore's Creek to his son-in-law,
Micajah Spradling. His children were Benjamin, Micajah,
and the wives of Micajah Spradling and Manus Burgher.
Micajah married Susan, daughter of John Woodson, and died
about 1832. His children were John, Robert, who married
Frances, daughter of Callum Bailey, — the wife of John
Woodson, and Mary, the wife of Tucker Page.

Benjamin Dod Wheeler was contemporaneous with the first
Benjamin; whether he was the son of that name, is not
known. He became the owner of more than eight hundred
acres on the upper waters of Moore's Creek, the greater portion
of which he and his wife Ann sold to George Nicholas
in 1788. He appears then to have removed from the county.
A daughter Elizabeth became the wife of John Old Jr., in
1785.

Micajah Wheeler, probably a brother of the first Benjamin,
also bought land on Moore's Creek. He died in 1809. His
wife's name was Sarah, and his children were Joshua, John,
Micajah, Benjamin, Joel, Elizabeth, Sarah, the wife of Obadiah
Britt, and Ann, the wife of Hezekiah Collins. John in
1814 purchased from Stephen Hughes the mill now known as
Maury's, which he and his wife Ann sold in 1820 to John M.
Perry and Reuben Maury. Micajah married Mary Emerson,
bought in 1800 a parcel of land on Mechum's, west of Batesville,
which in 1815 he sold to Ralph Field, and died in 1836.
Benjamin also died in 1836. His children were Sarah, Susan,
the wife of a Holson, Mary, the wife of Overton Lowry, Mildred,
the wife of a Wood, and a son, who was the father of Bennett
and Joel. Joshua died in 1838. His wife's name was
Mary, and his children were John D., who died in 1844, Micajah,
who married Julia, daughter of Benjamin Martin, and

died in 1841, Joshua N., who married Rebecca Pollock, and
died in 1858, Sarah, the wife of John Bailey, Eliza, the wife
of Goodrich Garland, Matilda, the wife of James Garland,
Elizabeth, the wife of John Martin, and James.

WHITE.

John White, a native of Scotland, bought land from the
Brockmans and Dowells on the west side of the South West
Mountain, beginning his purchases in 1772. He married
Mourning, daughter of Henry Shelton, and died without
children in 1807. By his will he emancipated forty-seven
negroes, and made provision for their removal to a free State,
John Walker and Chiles Terrell being appointed his executors.
Jeremiah, doubtless a brother, married Jane Shelton,
a sister of his wife.

Conyers White came to the county from Orange in 1776,
and purchased more than fifteen hundred acres on Buck Mountain
Creek. He was succeeded by his son Crenshaw, who
married Sarah Austin, sold his property about 1825, and emigrated
to Missouri.

In 1779 Daniel White bought from William Wood the plantation
on which he was living at the time, lying southwest of
Batesville. This place he subsequently sold to Benjamin
Ficklin. In 1812 he purchased from the trustee of Menan
Mills the farm at the bend of Mechum's River on Broadaxe,
which has been in the possession of the family ever since.
He died in 1818. His wife's name was Elizabeth, and his
children were Mary, the wife of Thomas Martin, Elizabeth,
the wife of John Jones, Margaret, the wife of Thomas Jackson,
Nancy, the wife of Overton Garland, John, Henry, William,
who died in New Orleans in 1817, Rhoda, the wife of
Joseph Grayson, and Felicia. Henry succeeded his father
at the home place. He was appointed a magistrate in 1830,
and died in 1850. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Rice
Garland, and his children were Samuel G., and Elizabeth,
the wife of Edward C. Hamner.

Near the close of the last century Garrett White came to
the county from Madison, and established his home in the

North Garden, southwest of the Cross Roads. By his sagacity
and industry he acquired a large estate, becoming the
owner of more than two thousand acres in the North and
South Gardens. He was appointed a magistrate in 1806, and
served as Sheriff in 1830. He died in 1843. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of John Piper, and his children were
John, Jeremiah, who died young and unmarried, and Sarah,
the wife of Samuel W. Martin. John displayed the energy
and thrift of his father. He died in 1866. His wife was
Caroline, daughter of Stephen Moore, and his children were
Garrett, John S., Jeremiah, Frances, the wife of Alfred
Carpenter, Mary, the wife of Nicholas M. Page, and Sarah,
the wife of Samuel G. White.

WILKINSON.

John Wilkinson deserves mention as one who early sought
to develop the natural resources of the county. He came,
it is likely, from Baltimore in 1768, and at first with Nathaniel
Giles and John Lee Webster, and afterwards with John
Old, made several purchases of land supposed to contain
iron ore. In pursuance of the same end, he took out patents
in 1770 for large tracts of land in the Ragged Mountains,
and along the Hardware River. Ore was mined on Cook's
Mountain, on Appleberry Mountain near the Cove, and on
the north fork of Hardware, and furnaces were built on both
the north and south forks of that stream. The business was
not attended with success. Litigation arose, and the lands
of Wilkinson having been mortgaged to carry on the enterprise,
were sold by order of Court in 1796. Nothing is known
of his subsequent life. He seems however to have lived in
the southern part of the county, and died in 1813.

WINGFIELD.

The first appearance of the Wingfield name in Albemarle
occurred in 1762. At that time Mary, the wife of John
Wingfield, and daughter of Charles Hudson, conveyed to her
son Charles a part of five hundred acres named Prospect, on
which he was then living, and which she had received from

her father. This place was manifestly situated in the Biscuit
Run Valley, near the north fork of Hardware, a locality
for a long period largely occupied by the Wingfield family.
In 1772 Charles bought from David Glenn upwards of three
hundred acres on the head waters of Mechum's, which in
1783 he sold to John Piper. He died in 1803. His wife's
name was Rachel, and his children were John, Charles,
William, Christopher, Joseph, Francis, Mary, the wife of
John Hamner, Ann, the wife of John Harrison, Sarah, the
wife of a Martin, Jemima, the wife of Samuel Barksdale, and
Elizabeth, the wife of Henley Hamner.

John died in 1814. His wife's name was Robina, and his
children were John, Robert, Matthew, Rebecca, the wife of a
Gilham, Mary and Martha. John married Ann, daughter of
John Buster, lived west of Batesville, and died in 1859. His
children were Richard, Edward, Robert, John, and Mildred,
the wife of a Herndon. Robert, his brother, died in 1825, and
his children were Thomas F., Mary Ann, and John M.
Matthew married Martha, another daughter of John Buster,
and his children were Ann and Martha.

Charles, long known as Charles Wingfield Jr., was appointed
a magistrate in 1794, and served as Sheriff in 1819,
but died in one month after entering upon the office. His
home was at Bellair, on the Hardware. In 1783 he married
Mary, daughter of Charles Lewis Jr., of Buck Island, and
widow of Colonel Charles Lewis, of North Garden, but had
no children. In his will he mentions generally the relations
of his wife, as well as his own. There is a tradition in the
family that he was an Episcopal minister, but no other evidence
of the fact can be found.

Christopher lived on the Plum Orchard branch of Biscuit
Run. He died in 1821. His wife's name was Elizabeth, and
his children were John H., Lucy, the wife of Allen Dawson,
Ann Eliza, the wife of James Rosson, Charles, who married
Margaret Rosson, and after whose death the widow became
the wife of William Summerson, whom many remember as
the aged page of the County Court, and William. John H.
and William removed to Nelson County.

Francis lived in the Biscuit Run valley, at the foot of Carter's
Mountain. His children were Mary, the wife of Robert
Gentry, Thomas, Francis, Charles M., Ann, the wife of
Littleton Chick, and John. John removed to Hanover.
His children were Alonzo, Chastain, Henrietta, Agnes, Elizabeth
and Charles.

Other members of the family who came to the county besides
Charles, were Edward and Reuben. Edward died in
1806. His wife was Nancy Hazelrig, and his children Joseph
F., John, Mary, the wife of Larkin Hudson, Amanda, the
wife of Rice Bailey, Sarah, the wife of William Stewardson,
Edward W. G., Robina, the wife of James Martin, and
Matthew. The children of Reuben, who died in 1842, were
Sarah, Mary R., Lucetta, John O., Anderson and Edward.

Charles Wingfield, no doubt of the same stem, but of a
different branch, came to the county from Hanover in the
early part of the century, married Cary Ann, daughter of
Lewis Nicholas, became a Baptist minister, and died in 1864.
His children were Frances, the wife of Waddy Roberts,
Mary, the wife of John A. Mosby, Sarah, the wife of John
Morris, Maria, the wife of Robert Thornton, Julia, the
wife of John P. Roberts, Edmonia, John, George and
Dr. Charles L.

WINN.

John Winn came from Fluvanna, and settled in Charlottesville
in the early part of the century. As the partner of
Twyman Wayt, he was for a long time one of the principal
merchants of the town, and its Postmaster. He also dealt
considerably in real estate. In 1813 he purchased from John
Carr his seat of Belmont, where he resided until his death
in 1835. His wife was Miss Johnson, a sister of Mrs. Wayt,
and of Michael Johnson, who married Sophia, daughter of
Jesse Lewis, and whose home was about a mile south of
Jesse L. Maury's residence. His children were Benjamin,
John J., William, Thomas, Elizabeth, the wife of George R.
King, of Louisiana, Mary, the wife of John A. Gretter, Martha,
the wife of David Gretter—these gentlemen were brothers
from North Carolina—and Sarah, the wife of John Y. Barrett,

who was a partner of George M. McIntire in the drug
business, and eventually removed to Amherst. Benjamin
married Mary J., daughter of Ira Garrett, and removed to
Amherst, near Pedlar Mills. John J. married Alice, daughter
of Rice W. Wood, and lived the latter part of his life in Hillsboro,
where he died in 1885.

WOOD.

Henry Wood, the first Clerk of Goochland, was one of the
earliest patentees of land within the present limits of Albemarle.
In 1734 and 1739 he was granted twenty-six hundred
and fifty acres on Buck Island, part at its mouth, and part
where the late Christopher Gilmer lived, called the Upper
Plantation. His son Valentine became a resident of the county,
and was appointed one of its magistrates in 1746. When his
father died in 1757, he returned to Goochland, and succeeded
him in the Clerk's office. After his death his family again fixed
their residence in Albemarle. His wife was Lucy Henry, a
sister of the great orator, and his children Henry, Martha, the
wife of Stephen Southall, Mary, the wife of Judge Peter Johnston,
and mother of General Joseph E. Johnston, Lucy, the
second wife of Edward Carter, John H., William and Jane.
Their land in Albemarle was sold, the largest portion, nearly
twelve hundred acres, to John R. Campbell in 1815, when
the family transferred their residence to Fluvanna. Mrs.
Lucy Wood died there about 1826. John H. was the only
son who married. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of
Charles Spencer. A son, Valentine, died in infancy in 1822,
and a daughter, Mary, survived him, Richard Duke being
appointed her guardian in 1827.

Josiah Wood in 1741 patented four hundred acres on Buck
Mountain Creek. In 1769 he bought land on the west side
of the South West Mountain, which in 1787 he and his wife
Mary sold to Claiborne Rothwell. He also purchased a
tract of more than fifteen hundred acres which lay at the
junction of the Buck Mountain and Hydraulic Mills Roads,
which had been apparently entered by Major John Henry,
father of the orator, and which in later times came into the

possession of Nelson Barksdale and George Crank. This
land in 1792 he divided between his sons David and John.
John in 1801 was succeeded by Horsley Goodman as Major
of the Second Battalion of the Eighty-Eighth Regiment, sold
his land to John Clarkson, and probably removed from the
county. David in 1781 married Mildred, daughter of Colonel
Nicholas Lewis, of the Farm. His home was on Buck
Mountain Creek, not far from Webb's Mountain. He was
appointed a magistrate in 1801, and died in 1816. His
children were Thomas W., Nicholas L., Robert W., William
L., John W., David, Maria, the wife of James Clarkson,
who removed to Kanawha, and Margaret, the wife of Dr.
James B. Rogers. Thomas lived adjacent to his father's place,
was appointed Colonel of the Eighty-Eighth Regiment in 1814,
and a magistrate in 1816, and died in 1831. His wife was Susan,
daughter of Joseph H. Irvin, who after his death was married
to John Fray. His children were Dr. Alfred, Mildred, the
wife of Jeremiah A. Early, and Mary Ann. Nicholas lived
near his brother, married Nancy —, and removed to
Tipton County, Tennessee. Robert married Mary Ann Miller,
lived south of Ivy Depot, and afterwards on the north
side of Moorman's River, and died in 1839. William married
Pamela, daughter of John Dickerson, and emigrated to
Missouri. John married Amelia Harris, and removed to
Richmond. David died young.

The name of Wood in the vicinity of Batesville was represented
by a number of different families, and it is somewhat
difficult to trace their respective lines. William Wood
first appears, who about 1760 bought land from John Leake
and others on the head waters of Mechum's. He seems to
have had five sons, John, William, Isaac, Abner and Jesse.
In 1801 he purchased from the trustees of Edward Broadus
the old Josiah Wallace place, which included Mechum's
Depot. He died in 1808. His son John in 1813 sold the
Wallace place to George Price, of Orange, who two years
later sold it to James Kinsolving. The name of John's wife
was Elizabeth, and she was probably the daughter of Jeremiah
Yancey. William dealt quite actively in real estate.

It was he who in 1779 sold to Daniel White the plantation
near Mount Ed Church, on which the latter resided for more
than thirty years. He was much concerned in military
matters, was for many years Captain of his neighborhood
company of militia, and was appointed Major of the Second
Battalion of the Forty-Seventh Regiment. He died in 1820.
He was probably twice married, first to Martha, daughter of
David Glenn, and secondly to Elizabeth —. His children
were Rice, Jesse, Elizabeth, the wife of John Brown,
David, Nancy, the wife of Joseph Watson, William, Milton,
John and Clifton. Rice, whose wife's name was Elizabeth,
daughter of David Burgher, and perhaps others of this family
emigrated to Missouri. Isaac seems to have lived in the
fork of Mechum's, east of Yellow Mountain. He married
Susan, daughter of Captain William Grayson. His son John
was the owner of eleven hundred acres near Batesville. John
in 1788 married Mary, daughter of Reuben Terrell, and died
in 1843. His children were Mildred, the wife of Henry Pemberton,
Sarah, the wife of Hudson Barksdale, Elmira, the
wife of William G. Barksdale, Mary, the wife of Lewis Poates,
Lucy, the wife of Elijah Brown, Reuben, Isaac, John T.,
James M., Susan, Jerome B., Richard and William L. Abner
and his wife Mary sold their property in 1795, and apparently
removed from the county. Jesse married Mildred, the
widow of Reuben Terrell, and died in 1824. His children
were William, Mildred, the wife of Ralph Field, Sarah, the
wife of John Field, Elmira, the wife of Joseph Field, and
afterwards of John Robinson, Jesse and Richard. William
married Nancy, daughter of Robert Field, and died in 1833.
His children were Nancy, the wife of John Dollins, William,
Mary, Elizabeth, the wife of a Stone and Edward. Jesse
Jr. died in 1829. His children were Thomas G., Mildred,
Jane, and Richard Walker. His wife, whose name was Lucy
Wood, was subsequently married to Hudson Oaks.

A John Wood, who lived in the same section, and died
about 1792, married Eleanor, daughter of Solomon Israel.
His children were Solomon, William J., Sarah, Mary Ann,
the wife of Reuben Woody, Susan, the wife of Jonathan

Bolling, Elizabeth, the wife of John Clack, and Mildred, the
wife of Reuben Mitchell. Many of this family removed to
Barren County, Kentucky. A William Wood also lived in
the same section. His wife's name was Mildred, and his
children were Jesse, who was distinguished by the affix of
Cull—whether because he came from Culpeper, or for another
reason, is not known—and Mildred, the wife of Jechonias
Yancey.

In 1774 David Wood came from Louisa, and purchased
land from David Watts, on the west side of the South West
Mountain. In that section he established his home. He
died in 1813. His wife was a Watson of the Green Spring
family, and his children Martha, the wife of Nathaniel
Thomason, Elizabeth, the wife of Micajah Carr, Mary, the
wife of John Sandridge, who emigrated to Green County,
Kentucky, Drury, Lucy, the wife of Elisha D. Gilliam, who
removed to Christian County, Kentucky, Henrietta, the
wife of James Jeffries, Nancy, the wife of Meekins Carr,
James, Sarah, the wife of a Gooch, who emigrated to Lincoln
County, Kentucky, and Ann, the wife of Barnett Smith.
Drury resided at Park Hill, opposite the bend of the north
fork of the Rivanna, near Stony Point. As a man of business
he was judicious and energetic, and acquired a large
estate. He died in 1841. He married Malinda, daughter of
John Carr, and his children were Sarah, the wife of Nathaniel
Burnley, James, who married Frances, daughter of Hancock
Allen, David, who married Lucy, daughter of Richard
Duke, William, George, Fendall—these five brothers emigrated
to West Tennessee—Rice W., Thomas, Drury, Mary,
the wife of Robert Durrett, Martha, the wife of James D.
Allen, and Caroline, the wife of Thomas J. Early. Rice
was admitted to the bar in 1821, and represented the county
in the House of Delegates. He died in 1831, on the threshold
of a promising career. His wife was Sarah Donahoe,
of Staunton, and his children Cornelia, the wife of George
D. Brent, Alice, the wife of John J. Winn, Mary and Antoinette.
Thomas was admitted to the bar in 1830—at the time
of his death its oldest member—and was also a member of

the Legislature. He was twice married, first to Mary Morton,
of Prince Edward, and secondly to Mrs. Sturdivant, of Washington
City. He died without children in 1895. Drury also
became a member of the bar in 1842.

In 1779 William Wood came from Maryland, and bought
land on the west fork of Priddy's Creek. He was the ancestor
of nearly all the families of the name who have resided in
the northern part of the county. About the same period there
came from the same State, and settled in the same neighborhood,
Thomas Wills and John Turner, and a few years later
Michael Catterton, Samuel Wills, John Ward and John
Elliott.

WOODS.

The first Woods who settled in Albemarle was Michael, who
was born in the north of Ireland in 1684, and with his wife
Mary Campbell, and most of his children, came to this country
sometime in the decade of 1720. Landing on the banks of
the Delaware, he spent some years in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
thence ascended the Valley of Virginia, and crossed
the Blue Ridge by Woods's Gap in 1734. In 1737 he entered
more than thirteen hundred acres on Mechum's River and
Lickinghole, and the same day purchased two thousand acres
patented two years before by Charles Hudson, and situated
on the head waters of Ivy Creek. It is believed he was the
first settler in western Albemarle, and perhaps anywhere
along the east foot of the Blue Ridge in Virginia. His home
was near the mouth of Woods's Gap. He died in 1762, and
was interred in the family burying ground about a hundred
yards from the dwelling. His tombstone was standing just
after the Civil War, when it was broken to pieces and disappeared;
but a fragment discovered a few years ago indicated
the year of his birth. His will is on record, in which are
mentioned three sons and three daughters, Archibald, John,
William, Sarah, the wife of Joseph Lapsley, of Rockbridge,
Hannah, the wife of William Wallace, and Margaret, the
wife of Andrew Wallace.

Archibald, whose wife's name was Isabella, was one of his
father's executors, and in 1767 joined with John, his co-executor,

in conveying nearly seven hundred acres of the land on
Ivy Creek to Rev. James Maury. In 1771 he purchased land
on Catawba Creek in Botetourt County, now Roanoke, and
removed thither about that time. He died in 1783. His children
were James, who removed to Fayette County, Kentucky,
John, Archibald, Andrew and Joseph. Joseph died in Roanoke
about 1840, devising half of his property to the Presbytery
of Montgomery. The descendants of John are still
citizens of that county, his grandsons John W. being the
present Judge of Roanoke City, and James P. its present
Mayor.

John lived on Mechum's River, not far above the Depot of
that name. In 1745 he was sent as a Commissioner to prosecute
before the Presbytery of Donegal in Pennsylvania, a
call which the churches of Rockfish and Mountain Plains
had given to Rev. John Hindman. He is the only one of the
original family, the dates of whose life are certainly known.
He was born February 19th, 1712, and died October 14th,
1791. He married Susanna, daughter of Rev. James Anderson,
whom he knew as a child in Pennsylvania, and whom years
later he returned to woo as his wife. His children were
Michael, James, Susan, Mary, Luta and Ann. Michael
lived on his father's place on Mechum's till about 1801, when
he removed to a farm in Nelson on the south fork of Rockfish,
recently occupied by Charles Harris. His wife was
Esther Carothers, of Rockbridge, and his children were William
M., Mary, the wife of Hugh Barclay, Susan, the wife of
Nathaniel Massie, John, James and Samuel. William M.
was twice married, first to Louisa, daughter of William S.
Dabney Sr., and secondly to Martha, daughter of Charles A.
Scott. He left eight children, who removed to Mississippi.
His brothers, John, James, and Samuel, who married Sarah,
daughter of John Rodes, emigrated to Marion County, Missouri.
James (1748-1823) was an officer in the Revolutionary
army, married Mary, daughter of James Garland, of
North Garden, and removed to Garrard County, Kentucky,
where he had a family of twelve children. Susan became
the wife of Daniel Miller, who removed to Kentucky, and

from whom descended General John Miller, who fell at Perryville
on the Federal side, Mary, the wife of John Reid,
Luta, of Samuel Reid, and Ann, of James Reid and afterwards
the second wife of her cousin William Woods.

William, no doubt the oldest of the family and born in
1706, succeeded his father at Mountain Plains, the old homestead.
He seems to have been unfortunate in his business
affairs. Twice he mortgaged his property, first to Thomas
Walker, and then to a number of Valley men, among whom
were his brother-in-law, John Bowyer, and his nephew, Samuel
McDowell. At length in 1774 he made sale of it to Thomas
Adams, of Augusta. At that time he was living in Fincastle
County. His wife was Susanna, a sister of his brother-in-law,
William Wallace, and his children, Adam, Michael,
Peter, John, Andrew, Archibald, William, Sarah, the wife of
a Shirkey, Susan, and Mary, the wife of George Davidson.
All the children except William emigrated to Kentucky, and
from there some went to Tennessee, and some to Missouri.
Adam, Peter and Andrew became Baptist preachers. Archibald
is mentioned in Hening's Statutes as a trustee of the
the towns of Boonesboro and Milford, Ky., and in that State
he died in 1838, at the age of eighty-nine. William remained
in Albemarle. He lived on Beaver Creek, about a mile north
of Crozet; on this account, as there were two other William
Woodses contemporaneous, he was commonly known as
Beaver Creek Billy. In many respects he was a remarkable
man, in his sphere somewhat of a born ruler, of fine sense,
and great decision. Many amusing stories have been told of
his management of men and things, particularly of his fostering
care over Mountain Plains Church. He died in 1836,
ninety-two years of age. He was married three times, first
to his cousin Sarah Wallace, next to his cousin Ann Reid,
and thirdly to Mrs. Nancy Richardson. He had one son,
William, who married Mary, daughter of William Jarman,
and died in 1829. Their children were James, who lived on
Beaver Creek, married Ann Jones, of Bedford, and died in
1868, William, who lived near Crozet, married Nancy, the
daughter of John Jones, and died in 1850, Peter A., who was

a merchant in Charlottesville and Richmond, married Twymonia
Wayt, and afterwards Mrs. Mary Poage Bourland, of
Augusta, and died in 1870, Thomas D., who married Miss
Hagan, lived near Pedlar Mills in Amherst, and died in 1894,
and Sarah J., the wife of Jesse P. Key.

According to credible evidence, Michael Woods and his
wife Mary Campbell had two sons and two daughters in addition
to those just mentioned, Michael, Andrew, Magdalen
and Martha. Michael lived southwest of Ivy Depot till 1773,
when with his wife Ann he removed to a plantation in Botetourt,
on the south side of James River, a few miles below
Buchanan. He died in 1777, leaving eleven children, among
whom were Samuel, from whom descended Rev. Neander M.
Woods, of Memphis, and Rev. William H. Woods, of Baltimore,
and William. William remained in Albemarle, and
became a Baptist minister, on which account he was known
as Baptist Billy. His home was also southwest of Ivy. He
represented the county in the House of Delegates in 1799, and
in 1810 removed to Livingston County, Kentucky, where he
died in 1819. His wife was Joanna, daughter of Christopher
Shepherd, and his children Micajah, David, Mary, John, and
Susan, the wife of Henry Williams. Micajah resided in Albemarle,
was appointed a magistrate in 1816, served as Sheriff
in 1836, and while filling that office died at his country
seat near Ivy in 1837. He was twice married, first to Lucy
Walker, and secondly to Sarah, daughter of John Rodes, and
widow of William Davenport. His children by the first marriage
were Martha, the wife of John Wilson, Mary, the wife
of James Garth, Elizabeth, the wife of John Humphreys, and
Henry, who died young, and by the second William S., who
died unmarried, and Dr. John R., still pleasantly remembered
in the community.

Andrew lived at the foot of the Blue Ridge near Greenwood
Depot, a few hundred yards south of the brick mansion,
long the home of Michael Wallace's family. He owned
nearly five hundred acres in that vicinity, and nearly nine
hundred at the foot of Armor's Mountain. He sold his property
in 1765, and removed to Botetourt. He was one of the

first magistrates of that county, and was appointed its Sheriff
in 1777. His home was about nine miles south of Buchanan,
not far from the Mill Creek Church. He died in 1781.
His wife was Martha, daughter of Robert Poage, of Augusta,
and his children James, who lived and died in Montgomery
County, on the north fork of Roanoke, and whose descendants
removed to Nashville, Tenn., Robert, Andrew, Archibald,
who all removed to the vicinity of Wheeling in Ohio
County, Elizabeth, the wife of David Cloyd, of Rockbridge,
Rebecca, the wife of Isaac Kelly, of Bedford, Mary, the wife
of James Poage, who removed to Mason County, Kentucky,
and then to Ripley, Ohio, and Martha, the wife of Henry
Walker, of Botetourt. Archibald married his cousin Ann,
daughter of Thomas Poage, of Augusta, represented Ohio
County in the House of Delegates, and the Constitutional
Convention of 1788, and when he died in 1846, had been for
many years the senior magistrate of that county. The writer
of these notes is his grandson.

Magdalen Woods was married successively to John McDowell,
Benjamin Burden Jr., and John Bowyer. She is said
to have lived to the age of one hundred and four years. Her
children were Samuel, James, and Sarah McDowell, the latter
the wife of George Moffett, and Martha Burden, the wife of
Benjamin Hawkins. Martha Woods was the wife of Peter
Wallace.

Another branch of the Woodses, though beyond question
of the same stock, came to the county a few years later.
James, Samuel and Richard Woods were most probably
brothers. James first appears in 1749, when he patented
two hundred acres on Stockton's Creek. He lived on the
north fork of Rockfish, and at his house the District Committee
met in 1775 to devise measures in furtherance of the
Revolution. Samuel lived in the same section. He was one
of the original purchasers of lots in Charlottesville. He died
in 1784. His children were Barbara, the wife of George
Martin, Margaret, the wife of Richard Netherland, who removed
to Sullivan County, Tennessee, John B., Mary, the
wife of Benjamin Harris, Jane, the wife of Joseph Montgomery,

and Elizabeth, the wife of William B. Harris. Richard
lived north of Taylor's Gap, on the road from D. S. to Rockfish
Gap by way of the Miller School, a road which he is
said to have laid out, and which is still called by his name.
He dealt largely in real estate both in Charlottesville and the
county. He was twice married, first to Margaret —, and
secondly to Eliza Ann, a sister of Colonel John Stuart, of
Greenbrier. His children were William, George Matthews,
Richard, and Elizabeth, the wife of James Brooks. He died
in 1801. William succeeded his father at the homestead near
Taylor's Gap. He was the County Surveyor from 1796 to
1828, whence he was generally known as Surveyor Billy.
He was appointed a magistrate in 1816, succeeded Micajah
Woods in the Sheriffalty, and was a ruling elder in Mountain
Plains Church. He and his brother George gave much attention
to improving the breed of horses, bringing to the county
a number of sires from the stud of John Randolph of Roanoke.
His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Warwick,
of Bath, but he died without children in 1850. George lived
on the opposite side of the road from his brother, filled for
many years the office of Commissioner of the Revenue for St.
Anne's, and died in 1847. He married Jane, daughter of
Sampson Matthews, of Bath, and his children were John,
Sampson L., William, Andrew, J. Warwick, George, Mary,
the wife of Tillotson Janney, and Martha, the wife of Dr.
Day. The daughters and their husbands removed to Lewis
County. Richard was deputy Surveyor under his brother,
and died unmarried in 1822. His place was near the Miller
School, and is now in the possession of Thomas G. Michie.

WOODSON.

In 1769 Tucker Woodson became the deputy Clerk of
Albemarle. He was the son of Tucker Woodson, of Goochland,
and his wife Sarah Hughes. He married Elizabeth,
daughter of John Moore, and his home was on the land just
north and west of Charlottesville, given to his wife by her
father. He died in 1779; and in 1782 his widow became the
wife of Major Joseph Crockett, an officer of the Revolutionary

army, who soon after removed to Kentucky. Tucker
Woodson left two sons, Tucker Moore and Samuel Hughes.
Tucker M. about the beginning of the century purchased a
considerable amount of real estate in town and county,
among other places the plantation of Viewmont, which in
1803 he sold to Captain John Harris. The next year he
removed to Kentucky. His wife was Martha Eppes, daughter
of Charles Hudson. Samuel had emigrated to Kentucky
some years before. He received from his mother her land
adjoining Charlottesville, and part of it he sold to Charles
Jouett in 1799, and the remainder to Alexander Garrett in
1808. He became Clerk of Jessamine County, Kentucky,
and in 1821 represented his district in Congress.

In 1769 John Woodson, of Goochland, most probably a
half-brother of Tucker, bought land on the head waters of
Ivy Creek. He departed this life in 1779. His wife's
name was Elizabeth, and his children were Tarleton, Susan,
the wife of Micajah Wheeler, and Sarah, the wife of John
Everett. Tarleton is believed to have married Annis,
daughter of Augustine Shepherd, and his children were
Tarleton, Augustine and Prior. Prior married Josephine
Abell, and was the father of John, who recently died on or
near the same land his ancestor had purchased more than a
century and a quarter before.

In later years, about 1835, Thomas Woodson came to
Charlottesville from Goochland. He was for many years one
of the teachers of the town, and a ruling elder in the Presbyterian
Church. He died in 1862. He was twice married,
first to a sister of James C. Halsall, a member of the Albemarle
bar, and secondly to Clarissa, daughter of D. Ferrell
Carr. His daughter Mary became the wife of Charles C.
Preston, of Southwest Virginia.

YANCEY.

Jeremiah Yancey was the first of the name who settled in
Albemarle. He purchased land on Moorman's River in
1765, and during the next few years patented several small
tracts on Buck's Elbow. He died in 1789. His wife's name

was Margaret, and his children were Robert, Charles, Mary,
the wife of David Rodes, Elizabeth, the wife of John Wood,
Jechonias and Joel. Jechonias married Mildred, a sister of
Jesse Wood, Cull, was appointed a magistrate in 1807, and
died in 1820. His children were Jeremiah, a soldier of the
United States army, who died in 1828, William, Charles,
David, Martha and Joel. Joel, the brother of Jechonias,
married Martha, daughter of David Rodes, and in 1811
removed to Barren County, Kentucky.

Charles Yancey, who was a prominent man in the early
part of the century, was the son of Robert Yancey, of Buckingham.
An energetic man of business, he conducted a
tavern, store, mill and distillery at what was afterwards
May's, and still later Cocke's, Tavern. This was originally
the location of the postoffice called Yancey's Mills, and
though transferred to the more important centre of Hillsboro,
the old name is retained. Mr. Yancey was appointed
a magistrate in 1796, became Colonel of the Forty-Seventh
Regiment in 1806, and served as Sheriff in 1821. He was
twice married, first to Sarah, daughter of Robert Field, and
secondly to Jane Alexander. His children by the first marriage
were Jeremiah, Joel, Charles and Robert, and by the
second Jechonias, Sarah, the wife of J. W. Ralls, Alexander
K. and Jane. Jeremiah married Sarah, daughter of Claiborne
Rothwell. He and his brother Joel built the mill on
Lickinghole near Crozet about 1820, and sold it in 1822 to
Philip S. Pleasants. Alexander K. married Sarah, daughter
of Col. John S. Farrar, transacted business as a merchant
in Hillsboro, and died in 1889.

YERGAIN.

John Yergain came to the county in the latter part of the
last century, probably from Tidewater Virginia. He was a
resident of Charlottesville in 1796, and in that year obtained
a license for keeping an ordinary. He subsequently bought
one of the houses that are situated to the east of the Farish
House, and there for many years kept a store, chiefly for
the sale of liquor. He never married, and lived alone.

Hard and parsimonious, he hoarded his earnings, and was
reputed to be rich; and this impression was strengthened
by his mode of living, and the jealous care he took in his
latter years to barricade his door against all who approached.
A report prevailed that he had a large amount of specie
buried in his cellar. Altogether from his peculiar habits,
his solitary life, and the rumors of his hidden wealth, he
was an object of great curiosity in the community. He died
in 1837. The reports of his concealed treasure were verified
after his death, but its amount fell far short of the general
supposition. A relative named William Lee appeared from
New Kent, and administered on his estate.

HEBREWS.

The people destined to be "wanderers among the nations,"
have been represented in Albemarle from the earliest times.
In 1757 Michael Israel patented eighty acres in North Garden
near Stockton's Thoroughfare, which he and his wife Sarah
sold in 1770 to William Williams, of Goochland. It will be
seen he was one of the Border Rangers. In 1772 he purchased
more than three hundred acres on Mechum's River in the
same section, which he sold in 1779. Solomon Israel, a
brother or son, bought in the same neighborhood in 1764.
Eleanor, a daughter of Solomon, was the wife of John Wood,
and in 1783 Solomon gave his land to his grandson, Solomon
Wood. Whether the Israels died in the county, or removed
elsewhere, is not known, but their name has been left as a
permanent memorial. The conspicuous pass through the
mountains between North Garden and Batesville, is no
longer Stockton's Thoroughfare, but Israel's Gap.

Isaiah Isaacs died in Charlottesville in 1806, leaving six
children, Frances, Isaiah, Henrietta, David, Martha and
Hays. They for the most part removed to Richmond.
David remained in Charlottesville, was one of its merchants
in the decade of 1820, was the owner of a number of lots on
Main Street, and died in 1837. One of his sisters was a
milliner of the place at the same date. Jacob and Raphael
were also Jewish merchants in Charlottesville at that period,

and besides their business there, they at the same time conducted
stores at Stony Point and Port Republic.

ITALIANS AND FRENCH.

In early times a number of persons came to the county
from Italy and France. They were induced to this step by
the influence of Mr. Jefferson, who in his comprehensive
views of things sought to promote in this country the cultivation
of the vine. Foremost among them was Dr. Philip
Mazzei. He settled here in 1774, and to be a neighbor of
Mr. Jefferson fixed his residence at Colle. He was warmly
interested in the American cause during the Revolution, and
to promote its interests went back to Europe in 1779. He
visited this country again in 1785, presumably to dispose of
his property, but soon returned permanently to his former
home, where he died in 1816.

About the same time came the family of Gianniny, descendants
of which are still living in the county. In 1784 Anthony
Gianniny bought land on Buck Island Creek. In 1792 he
petitioned for liberty to build a mill on that stream. One of
the same name, no doubt a son, became a Baptist minister,
and was licensed to celebrate the rites of matrimony in 1807.
A Nicholas Gianniny was one of his sureties.

Peter Plumard de Rieux bought a hundred and fifty acres
south of Milton, which in 1790 he sold to Anthony Mullins,
and which afterwards became a part of Mr. Monroe's estate.
He then purchased a house and one hundred and thirty acres
on the west side of Charlottesville, which in 1795 he conveyed
to Colonel Thomas Bell to pay his debts. His daughter
Sarah was bound in 1801 to Mrs. Samuel Taliaferro. Claude
de La Cour died in the county in 1789. His will written in
French is on record. In 1809 Charles Elvy Bezet was the
owner of a parcel of ground west of Charlottesville, extending
from the Staunton to the Barracks Road. There appear
also the names of De Prado, Colecassieu, La Porte and
Modena. In 1820 Francis Modena, who was a carriage
maker by trade, became the owner of Lot Forty on Main

Street, which he and his wife Mary subsequently sold to
Dabney Minor.

In later times D'Alphonse came to the county as Instructor
in Gymnastics at the University. He purchased the tract of
land which is still known to the older citizens as D'Alphonse's
Garden. It lies in the southwest angle of the intersection
of the Whitehall Road and the Southern Railroad. During
his residence he was popular among the students. When the
war broke out, he went North and joined the Federal army.
He came back to Charlottesville with Sheridan as a Captain
of cavalry. When hostilities were past he returned, proposing
to occupy his old place at the University; but the countenances
of students and people were turned on him so coldly,
that he shook off the dust of his feet, and quit Virginia in
disgust.

Another distinguished foreigner was connected with Albemarle.
Thaddeus Kosciusko, the illustrious Pole, who performed
so gallant a part in the war of the Revolution, made
his will while in this country. On returning to Europe, he
left it with Mr. Jefferson, whom he had appointed his executor.
When Mr. Jefferson heard of his death in 1817, he had
it recorded in the office of the Albemarle Circuit Court, where
the original document remained on file until May, 1875. At
that time, in response to a resolution of the General Assembly,
the Court ordered it to be transmitted to the Secretary
of the Commonwealth, to be deposited for preservation in
the State Library.