Historical and Genealogical Notes and QueriesSource: The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 7, No. 3 (Jan., 1899), pp. 200-203Published by: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and CultureStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1923253 .

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200 WILIAM AND MARY COLLEGE QUARTERLY.

December 14, 1784. Wm. Johnson to Elizabeth Woodson; sec., Perrian Redford; Mary Woodson consents for dau.

December 11, '88. James Ryan X to Lucy Alvis; sec., John Alvis.

December 15, 1781. William Johnson to Nancy Johnson; sec., Benjamin Johnson.

September 17, 1781. William Carroll to Nancy Strong; sec., Roger Carroll; Ann Strong consents for dau.

October 11, 1784. Rice Ennis to Francis Mullins; sec., Jesse Mullins.

March 30, 1789. James Turner to PatLy M. Cosby; sec., James Watkins; Samuel Cosby consents for dau.

May 2, 1785. Robert Blanks to Jane Pleasants; sec., Henry Gray.

March 21, 1785. Henry Hines to Nancy Bullock; sec., Tarleton Hines.

July 27, 1784. John Boudre to Molly Layne; sec., Henry Groom July 27, 1784. Wm. Smith to Sarah Payne; sec., Samuel Pryor. September 22, 1784. Wm. Britt, Jr., to Sarah Poor; see.,

Stephen Samson. October 15, 1784. Elijah Aldis X to Eliza Clarke; sec., Shad-

rach Aldis X. June 14, '84. William Hughes to Sarah Harding; see., Thomas

Harding. June 16, '84. John Redford to Ursula Pledge; sec., Wm. Red-

ford. June 21, '84. Wm. Adkins to Winifred Clark; sec., James

Shelton; John Clark consents to dau's m'ge. (To be continued,)

HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND

QUERIES.

COURTNEY, PARKER, TAYLOR.-Who were the father, mother and wife of Thomas Courtney, of Black Creek Church? He was born about 1743, and went from King William county to Richmond in 1795, and died of small-pox in 1809. He was a brother of elder John Courtney, of the First Baptist Church, Richmond. His father and eldest brother were influential members of the Church of England, but John and Thomas were converted during Whit-

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field's revival. Would like any information concerning the early history of this family.

Also of Samuel Parker, of Charles City, whose daughters were Maria (married Col. Thomas Taylor, born in Prince William or New Kent about 1795, but long and well known as the Colonel of the "G Goochland Troop "), and Fannie Parker (married John Mars- ton, father of Dr. Thomas Marston, of James City).

Also the ancestry of Richard Taylor (father of the Col. Thomas Taylor) who married a daughter of Thomas Courtney above men- tioned. Answers to the above questions will be gratefully received through this magazine, or suitably paid for through the medium of private correspondence. Address: M/aria Parker Taylor Beale, Arden, Buncombe County, North Carolina.

DEATH NOTICES in Richmond newspapers: Stewart Bankhead, of Westmoreland, died May 14, 1805; Capt. John Dixon, of this city, printer, May 24, 1805; at Williamsburg, July 13, 1805, Jane Cary, in the 14th year of her age, daughter of Mrs. Jane Cary and grand-daughter of Col. Wilson Miles Cary; Charles Carter, Esq., in his 74th year, died July 2, 1806; Col. James Upshaw, aged 76 years, on July 22, 1806; Alexander White, aged 65 years, member of the Convention and of the 1st and 2d Congress, on October 17, 1804; Joseph Shelton Watson, "the contemporary and rival of a Johnson and a Leigh," died September 23, 1805, aged 26; Hon. Joseph Jones, aged 78, died at Fredericksburg, October 28, 1805; Meriwether Jones died August 9, 1806; Gabriel Jones, in his 85th year, October 19, 1806.

BARRETT FAmImy.-Rev. Robert Rose, who died in 1751, mentions Rev. Robert Barrett, who preached at Hanover and Fork Chute Churches. Can any one give information as to the parentage, date of birth, marriage, death, or burial place of this Rev. Robert Barrett, and also if he left children. The Rev. Robert Barrett, of St. Mar- tin's Parish, was rector from 1754 to 1785, and might have been a son of the one mentioned by Rev. Robert Rose.-ZXrs. Theodore Ki. Gibbes, Newport, R. I.

There is a deed in Goochland which shows that Rev. Robert Barrett married Elizabeth, the daughter of Col. Robert Lewis, of Louisa, whose will recorded in 1751 names her as deceased.

Mrs. Jane B. Ridgeley, of 631 south Fourth street, Springfield, Ill., furnishes the following record: Charles Barrett, of Hanover county, and Mary (Leigh) his wife. They died respectively in March, 1771, and November, 1784, and had issue: (1), Charles,

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born February 5, 1742, died 1814; (2), Robert, born October 2, 1743; (3), Ann, born December 12, 1744, died April 13, 1806; (4), John, born May 19, 1748; (5), Mary, born September 14, 1750, died October 20, 1835; (6), William, born February 7, 1753, died January 13, 1792; (7), James, born December 18, 1754, died March 17, 1789; (8), Chiswell, born December 21, 1756, died July 5, 1790; (9), Elizabeth, born December 8, 1759; (10), Thomas, born December 7, 1761. John Barrett, the fourth named, married Mary Strachan, daughter of Dr. Peter Strachan, of Scotland. They had issue, John Barrett; died June 4, 1830.

The Louisa records show that Charles Barrett, Jr., married Elizabeth Cluff, November 5, 1770. The will of James Barrett was proved in Albemarle in September, 1789; it names nephew James Barrett, son of Thomas Barrett, and James Barrett, son of John Barrett; brothers John Barrett and William Barrett and George Divvers.

Rev. Robert Barrett may have been a brother of Charles Barrett, first named, and they may have been descended from the Barrett family of James City county, who lived for many years at Barrett's Ferry on the Chickahominy. Thus William Barrett was burgess for James City, 1644, 1646, 1649. (Hening.) Then there was Capt. Wiliam Barrett, of James City county, dead before 1677 when his "son and heir," James Barrett (and Mary his wife) made a deed to Major William White of said county. (Surry county records.) In 1718 William Barrett was churchwarden of Wilming- ton Parish, James City. (Hening.) Then there was William Bar- rett, a student at William and Mary in 1755, "son of William Barrett of the Ferry." (College records.) Chancery papers in Williamsburg shows that this last William died in 1789, leaving a son, William E. Barrett, and a number of daughters. In these papers it is stated that the "Ferry plantation" had been in the Barrett family for generations. Then there was Charles Barrett, of Barrett's Neck, in James City, living there in the early part of the eighteenth century.

ROOTES.-A recent visit to the clerk's office of Middlesex county proves that Thomas Reade Rootes married Martha Jaquelin, daugh- ter of Capt. John Smith, of "Shooter's Hill," about February 8, 1763. So the correction on page 130 has itself to be corrected. Her sister, Mary Smith, married Rev. Thos. Smith. See also page 192.

REBELS AND TRAITORS.-Some people cannot refer to the late war

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(1861'65) without using the word "rebel." There are the "Re- bellion records," and even President Cleveland in one of his mes- sages spoke of the "Rebellion." The commissioners sent over by thQ English Government in 1676 to enquire into Bacon's disturb- ances, showed a higher order of statesmanship. A petition from one of the counties prayed that "the present grand Assembly would make an act of oblivion, so that no person may be injured by the provoking names of Rebells and traitors," to which Sir John Berry, Col. Herbert Jeifreys and Col. Francis Moryson, the commissioners, added: "We joyne with the Petitioners herein to his Majesty." And under their patriotic influence the General Assembly, though composed of the friends of Sir William Berkeley, passed an act imposing a fine of 400 pounds of tobacco upon any persons who should "renew the breaches, quarrels and heart- burnings amongst us" by the use of such terms as "traitors and ~ebels."

THOMiS LEE. (See page 4.) Dr. Edmund Jennings Lee, in his Lee, of Virginia, page 124, shows that the inscription given in the last magazine is incorrect. Mr. Beale must have obtained his copy from Bishop Meade's book, which has many mistakes. The inscription on the tombstone at Stratford really reads: "Here lies the Hon'ble Col. Thomas Lee, who dyed 14 November 1750, aged 60 years; and his beloved wife Mrs. Hannah Lee. She departed this Life 25 Jan. 1749-50. Their monument is erected in the lower church of Washington Parish, in this county, five miles above their country seat, Stratford Hall." The stone itself was originally in the family burying place at "Mt. Pleasant." Col. Lee did not die in 1756, but in 1750.

MOSBY AND NETHERLAND. In the October number of the Amer- ican Historical Maagazine, edited by Dr. W. R. Garrett, of Nash- ville, Tenn., Mr. Flournoy Rivers publishes a great many interesting memoranda from the records of the Mosby and Netherland fami- lies. The will of Benjamin Mosby is given in full, and there are many data regarding Col. Littleberry Mosby, of the Revolution. Dr. Garrett is doing an excellent work; but is not "Tennessee Historical Magazine" a better name for the work proposed than the present title, The American lagazine? Tennessee history needs a magazine of itself, and the other title seems a little pre- tentious.

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