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THE
VIIZGINIA MAGAZINE/II
OF
I-IISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY
THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FOR
THE YEAJ{ ENDING DECE?\IBER, 1909.
VOLUME XVII.r r -'.,
RICHMOND, VA.
HOUSE OF THE SOCIETY.707 EAST FRANKLlN ST.
[The "Gleanings" will be continued more fully in future J\bgazines.]
Lee, J 69.
(ro BE CO!\'TIX'L'EO)
about 1657. See this nnmber of this :--Iagazine, under title "FrancisLovelace," and also Vol. 1[1, 8r-83. There is a pedigree of this familyin the dsitation of London, 1633-35 Ularle;all SocicIcJ',p. 32j). It beginswith \Villiam Gorsuch, merchant, of London, "descended out of Lancashire from Gorsuch nigh Ormschllrch," who married Amice, daughterof --- Hillson. and neice of Robert Hillson, merchant, of London.They had a son, the testator, Daniel Gorsuch, merchant, of London, andAlderman's deputy for Bishopsgate \Vard, who married Alice. daughterof John Hall, of London, merchant, and sometime one of the Bridgemasters. Daniel Gorsuch had two children, Rev. John (above) andKatherine, wife of Thomas Haynes, of Auborne, Wiltshire.]
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PAY ROLL OF CAPTAIN JOHN MORTON'SCOMPANY OF REGULARS, FOURTH
VIRGINIA, 17]6.
PAY ROLL CAPT. JOHN MORTON'S COMPANY.
(From Original at U. S. Pension Oltice.)-[The 1\1S book containing this list is filed at the Pension Office
in \t\Tashington. Besides the pay ro]], there are in this book the
su bsistence accounts of the men of Capt. 1\Iorton's Company;the aCCOunts of Capt. Morton for subsistence coIlected during'1781; entries showing the amount of "Public grain" collected inPrince Edward County, 1780 and 1782, and in Cumberland andLunenburg counties, 1782; accounts of flour recei\'ed of several
manuJ;tcturing mills in Prince Edward and adjoinil11rcollntie~,1780 and 1781; Nathaniel Venable's account with the Common_
wealth, December, 1782; Johl).Morton's aCCOuntwith the,public,as Deputy Commissioner for Prince Edward coun ty, Nov. I,1781, Nov. 3°. 17SI, Dec. 5, 1782, Dec. 9, 1782. Total,£63,489; Sheriff's aCCOunts (Thomas Flournoy and \VilJiamBibb), Prince Edward County, [788; private accounts (in which
OCCurs the name of the celebrated Dr. John Peter Mettauer)from 1793 intermittently as late as 18.p; the record of birth ofObadiah Morton (b. Dec. 22, 1778), his wife Eliza, and theirtwo children. One page of this r.JS is covered with "Mr.Thomson 1\Jason' s Recipe for the Pleurisr."
Captain John Morton was one of the' Charter Trustees, in
1783, of Hampden Sidney College.-ALFRED J. J\JORRJSON.]MENS' NAMES.
From 20th June to 28th July.£.
S.D.John,Morton, Capl.,I month,
800John Holcombe, 1st Lt.do5
8°Obadiah '''!oodson, 2nd Lt.do5 -8----0Ed ward-W ood;-EliSign. do4
0°J;unes ]\forton, Serg't,do3
0°Sam'! Anderson, dodo3
00Charles Stagg, dodo300
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JOliN STEELE, 1\Iarchand of London. 'Will 16 August 1638;proved 21 December 1638. Lately arrived from Virginia w'thgod shipp Anna and Sara. To poor of English Church of thiscity tenn gouldens. To Mary Gos for service tenn g'ouIc!ens.To Hester Desmeker, Mary Tielroos and John ystele amongstthem twenty guldens. Residue to Amye Chatfield his loved wife.\'Vhereas he hath store of tobacco to sell that belongeth to Mr.Joseph Hase, 1\Iarchand in London and others same shall he soldby John Desmeccker and reckon to the owners. Executrix his
said wife and heire. Adam BorceI and James Gage appearedbefore Adrian Pulinge Notarius Publicus at Middelbourg aswitnesses who together with said testator and me said NotariuspubJicus have signed and subscribed. Probate to Anile (sic)Steele relicit at London.
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VIRGINIA HISTOIUCAL MAGAZINE. PAY ROLL CAPT. JOHN MORTON'S COMPANY.3(}7
Charles Anderson, Serg't,
do30I
0Robert Lorton, Corp'P
do2100 Archebald Wright,'do200
Thomas Hastie, Corp' I,
do2100 Jasper Pillow, do200
"Vm. Wright,
dodo2100 IJulius Newcum, do200
"VIIl. Chambers,
dodo2100 George Taylor,·do200
Thomas Morton,
do200 Alexander Smith,do200
\VI11. Johnson,
do200 J ol.n Fraser,' do200
Rob't P. Smith,
do200 Thomas Fraser,do200
.j Isham Chaffin,
do200 \-Vm. Davidson,do200
VVm. Ascue,
do200 Michael Boas,do200
Juhn Smith.
do200 Aaron Peak,do200
Benjamin Tuggle, Jdo200 Sandy Holman,do200
Thomas Tuggle, ,./
do200 Anderson Cocke,'do200
George Daniel,
do200 Stephen Collins,do200
Isham Jennings,
do200David Robertson,
do200
\V m. Gillespie,
do200 Thomas Baldwin,do200
Philemon Southerland,
do200 Thomas King,do200
Glover Baker,
do200 Abner Watkins,do200
V,r m. Southerland,
do200 Francis Fore,do2a0
James Jennings,
do Wm. Bigger,, do2
00,200
Edward Davidson,
do200 Wm. Fuqua,do.,200--
Thomas Peirce,
do200 Parsons Anderson, Id~200
Isham Brown,
do200 Christopher Chaffin;do200
Anderson Woodson,
do200 John Spaulding,do200
David Davidson,
do20a Moses Sharp,\do200
...__"John Lee,
do200 Peter Hales, \.do200
Thomas Walker,
do200 Archebald Lee,do200
"V 111. \Va!ker,
do20a 7-Jonah Whitlock, do200
Nath'J Rain,
do200 John Cunningham,do2(I(> •Nathan Hampton,
do200 Joshua Foster,do2(I0
John Webster,
do200 John Foster, do200
John Thompson,
do2O.0 Duelley Rut!edge,do200
Thomas Byrk,
do200 \-Vm. Walker,do200
Nathaniel Durham,
do200 Wm. McGehee,do200
ISergcant 20 clays, during month July 28-August 28. There are few
~Ther~-8 ppears-on- the -cover - of- the~MS :-' IFrom- J:-B:-Beaford
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Charlotte C. H., Va. Filed in the case of Mary. Wright, widow of
differences in the roll for the second month for which a iist was
Archebalcl \Vright."
made up.
'Corporal, 20days, July 28, August 2H.
'Fifer, July 28, August 28.
£2.10.
