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Monday, February 3, 2020

Notebooks - Mom's Families No. 4, Part 1


Brooks, Robert. Timothy Brooks of Massachusetts & His Descendants, Pompton, Lakes, NJ: Biblio Company, 1927
Kahn, Edythe. Jacob & Sarah Wolf Lotz: Their Ancestry & Descendants 1760-1994, no imprint, 1994.
Gen. Jacob Lots/Louts/Lotts, the third child of Jonas Lotz was born 21 Dec. 1760 in Stoverstown (now Strausburg), Virginia, in that part of Frederick County that became Shenandoah County in 1772.  He died 12 Oct. 1839 in Wilkesville Township, in that part of Gallia County [Ohio] that became Vinton County in 1850. He served in the American Revolution.  Soon after Jacob was released from service, he was married to Sarah Wolf/Wolfe, otherwise known as Sarey.  Sarah's mother, Mari (sic) posted marriage bonds for Sarey Wolf to Jacob Loots (sic) on 22 Dec. 1782 in Shenandoah County, Virginia.
Sarah was born 17 Oct. 1761 in Frederick Co., VA. Some records say she was born in Staunton, VA. She died 6 Oct. 1837 in Wilkesville Twp.
Sarah's mother, Maria Gertrude (Brumback) Nisewanger Wolf otherwise known as the widow, Mary Wolf, was the daughter of Melchior & Mary Elizabeth (Fishback) Brumback of Prince William Co., VA. Melchior emigrated from
Muesen, Germany to Virginia in 1714.
Mary was married 5 June 1738 to Jacob Nisewanger by John Casper Stoever, in a Lutheran Church ceremony at Opequon, Orange Co., VA. They had three children, John, Christian & Abraham (?).  Jacob Nisewanger died in 1754 and some time afterward Mary married Michael Wolf.
Sarah was the third of the five daughters born to Michael & Mary (Brumbach) Nisewanger Wolf. The will of Michael Wolf, written 27 Nov. 1765, probated in June of 1766, named his wife, Mary Wolf, children: Rebecca, Elizabeth, Sarah, Rachel and unborn child.  Mary's son John Nisewanger and Michael's brother Lewis Woolfe were named executors.  Lewis Woolfe declined. (Frederick Co., Will Book 3 pages 338-339).
We learn that the name of the unborn child was Mary when the oldest sister, Rebecca and her husband Philip Helphinstine, sued members of the Wolf-Nisewanger family as related in the following suit.
On 7 May 1778 Philip Helphinstine & Rebecca his wife, complainants, sued Mary Wolfe, Christian Nisewanger, Elizabeth Wolfe, Sarah Wolfe, Rachel Wolfe & Mary Wolfe, defendants. The suit was in Chancery and was dismissed having been agreed by the parties to it (Frederick Co. Order Book 17, page 6.)  Some time later, Philip & Rebecca (Wolfe) Helphinstine settled in Fleming Co., Kentucky.
On 6 Oct. 1777, Mary Nisewanger, relict of Jacob Nisewanger, now relict of Michael Wolf, and her son Christian Nisewanger and his wife, Barbara, all of the county of Frederick, grant, bargain and sell to Major Lewis Stephens of the same county, 136 acres, being part of the 323 acres granted by the Rt. Hon. Lord Fairfax proprietor to the said Mary & Christian Nicewanger, her son, as tenants in common. (Frederick Co., Deed Book 17, pp. 400-403, 6 Oct. 1777, recorded 8 Oct. 1778.)
The sale of the property in the above deed may have been the cause of the Helphinstine vs. Wolf lawsuit. The sale occurred before the lawsuit - at least before it was dismissed, but not recorded until after the lawsuit was concluded.
From the marriage of Jacob & Sarah (Wolf) Lotz, nine children were born:
  • Mary 
  • Clara
  • Margaret md. Isaac Hawk, Jr. 
  • Isaac
  • Sarah
  • Abraham
  • Susan md. Renick Brown
  • Catharine
  • Rachel
The children were born in various parts of Virginia as jacob moved his family several times before moving west. 
Jacob had a trade, that of a cabinet maker, which he most probably learned from his father. Therefore, he did not depend entirely on farming as a livelihood which explains why he never owned large amounts of farmland. 
While living in Greenbriar Co., Jacob & Sarah sold two parcels of land as seen in the General Index to Deeds, Greenbriar Co., WV. . . . 
About 1806, the Jacob & Sarah Lotz family left the west part of Bath County (in 1822 Pocahontes County) and made the ardous trip over the Wilderness Trail of the Allegheny Mountains to the Northwest Territory of Gallia County, Ohio. The older children were married and probably traveled in the same party. They transported their belongings in covered wagons, the men riding along side while herding livestock. When they reached the Ohio River, they built a raft and ferried their belongings and animals across. Family records relate that they crossed the river near Swan Creek. They lived for some time in Gallipolis.
In 1800, Sarah's half brother, John Nisewanger and his wife, Margaret and their children except for a son, Jacob migrated to the Northwest Territories and they were well established in parts of Gallia County by the time the Lotzes arrived.  However that relationship was marred because of the lawsuit.
At Gallipolis, Ohio in 1809, the power of attorney was given to Jacob Lotz from his wife, Sarah's sisters and their spouses: Peter & Rachel Windle, Peter & Mary Hoffman & Elizabeth, represented by Peter Windle of Shenandoah Co., VA in an intended lawsuit by Michael Wolf's heirs. Since Philip & Rachel Helphinstine were not named in the suit, the family may have lost touch with her.  [She may have been dead.]
The intended lawsuit was against John Nisewanger, otherwise known as Colonel John, executor of the said Michael Woolf's (sic) estate, for their shares of the legacy of the estate of the said Michael Wolf, deceased (1765). . . . Eight years later, on 2 June 1817 the complainants sued John Nisewanger and heirs: John & Christina Kerr, Hamilton & Susannah Kerr, Charles & Sarah Mills, James & Rachel McCormick & Jacob Nisewanger. John Nisewanger's wife, Margaret had died and his son John Nisewanger, Jr. had died so they were not named in the suit. Also John Nisewanger's son Jacob's wife, Sarah (Wright) Nisewanger, had died so she was not named the suit. On 27 July 1819, the Bill of Complaint was dismissed and the court ruled against the complainants, ordering them to pay $64 dollars and 39 cents court costs. 
Jacob & Sarah lived in the area of Gallipolis, until sometime after the Ohio Company land purchased property, owned by Mr. Wilkes of New York, was offered for sale in Wilkesville Township. . . . 
In June of 1812, Congress declared War against Great Britain at the request of President Monroe . . . Jacob & Sarah Lotz's son Abraham Lotz and two of their sons-in-law, William Humphreys and Isaac Hawk, Jr. served in the War of 1812. All three were residents of Wilkesville Township, Gallia County, Ohio.
Jacob Lotz remained in Wilkesville Township for the rest of his life with the occupation of farming. . . . Sarah (Wolf) Lotz died in 1837, at the age of seventy-six. Jacob lived on for two more years. He was cared for by his daughter Susan & his son-in-law Renick Brown. 
McLean, William. Alexander Beall - 1649-1744 of Maryland: One Line of Descent in America, Ft. Worth, TX: Ft. Worth Genealogical Society, 1977.
Alexander Beall, progenitor of this Beall line in America, was born in 1649 to Scottish parents who spelled their names Bell, in St. Andrews parish, Fife County, Scotland. . . .
The name Beall, spelled as often Bell, Beal, Beale, Bale and Behil, had several origins:
  • Baal - Phoenician pagan deity became Beal, god of the Druids
  • Beul - Gaelic became beal, a pass between hills or within a valley
  • Bele - Old French meaning beautiful
  • Bee Hill - Old English for a Bee Hill - a place where honey was farmed (and still is farmed at Beal today to make the drink mead, which is sold on nearby Lindisfarne Island; where the monks once had cross connections with those on the Isle of Iona).  
For the reason that Fife County, birthplace of Alexander Beall, is not far distant from Bee Hill and its hillside hamlet of Beal, that origin of the name is likely for this Beall family . . . 
The City of St. Andrews in 1649, the year of birth of Alexander Bell, had a population estimated at 350  persons. Parochial registers of St. Andrews record the birth of Alexander Bell as follows:
1649. 11th October. Alexr. Bell and Margaret Ramsay had ane sone called Alexr. Witnesses Alexr. Young and John Gibsone.
Ministers of the Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, the Church of Scotland, founded in St. Andrews circa 1140 and removed in the year 1412 to its 1973 site, have stated that given the known facts of Alexander Bell and the few people of the village, he was baptized in that Church, on the site it occupies today, fronting on South Street in the center of the City of St. Andrews. 
Histories of St. Andrews say that, after the depopulating effects of the Reformation, the population increased until 1585, when it was terribly reduced by pestilence. By the middle of the seventeenth century, however, the merchants appear to have been fairly prosperous, and some of them were comparatively wealthy. It was during this period that Alexander was born.  . . . 
Some American genealogies state that Alexander Bell reached America in 1666, after collapse of Cromwellian rule. The continuing oppressive military rule of Charles II in Scotland, however, was ample cause to seek a life elsewhere. It is not known whether Alexander arrived with his parents or alone or indentured or via the Caribbean as a released military prisoner, as is said of his contemporary Ninian Beall.
Alexander Bell, father of Alexander b. 1649, is described in parochial registers as a "brabener" or "braboner." The word stems from the weaving craft, i.e. a weaver. Fife County's chief industry was the weaving of linen flax grown by county farmers. Most village houses possessed a loom.  A great number of Fife's people engaged in weaving crafts. . . . 
Largo of Fife County is of more specific interest to descendants of Alexander Beall 1649-1744. his will disposes of a Maryland tract of land called "Largoe."  His means of acquiring the tract was not determined, but some genealogists attribute its source to Enoch Coombes, father of Elizabeth Coombes, asserted to be the wife of Alexander.  Because of conflicting data on the identity of Elizabeth (Virkus' Compendium of American Genealogy, gives Elizabeth as wife of Alexander d. 1744, but with surnames Coombes, Lee, Dick and Hepburn!) and inability to readily locate documents involving Enoch Coombes, reported to be a native of Largo, no conclusions have been drawn.  However, there were many Scots from Fife County in Western Maryland, so the name source of the tract "Largoe" seems assured.  Moreover, it is conclusive that Alexander Bell owned all or part of "Largoe."
Identification of Alexander Bell of St. Andrews with Alexander Beall of this line has been made in different references. Given the scant records of the 1600s now extant in Scotland and Maryland, the proof appears persuasive. The parochial registers of St. Andrews record the following brothers of Alexander born to Alexander Bell and Margaret Ramsay:
  • William baptised 22: 8: 1647 Witnesses: William Beall & Alexander Young
  • James baptised 5: 2: 1652 Witness: William & Janet Gourlays
  • Andrew baptised 28: 3: 16455 Witnesses: William Livingston & John Smart
Men of the same names as the three brothers of Alexander Bell are found in Maryland in the last half of the 1600s, with surname spelling changed to Beall, and identified as sons of Alexander Bell and Margaret Ramsay, in several publications and, inferentially, official documents. (See, for example, A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the USA, Donald Whyte, 1972).
Alexander Beall d. 1744, outlived those three brothers, and mentioned none in his will. His will does mention sons by the names of William and James, but, to confuse matters, mentions a surviving "Brother Robert Beall."  Since Alexander Bell and Margaret Ramsay had no recorded son by the name of Robert, it has been conjectured with some support that Robert was a foster brother. 
Two other references of interest appear in the records of Scotland which merit mention. The marriage of Alexander Bell and Margaret Ramsay was recorded in the old parochial registers of St. Andrews, thus:
Thursday 26 of March 1646 Contracted Alexander Bell with Margaret Ramsay both this Citie, married 21st May.
The Index of Testaments for the Commissariot of St. Andrews, records on 8th November 1653 the will of Christian Traill, The Testament was given up by her husband, William Bell, younger, braboner in St. Andrews, and mentions William Bell, elder, also a braboner in St. Andrews, presumably her father-in-law. It is possible that the William Bell who witnessed the baptism of Alexander Bell's son William in 1647 was this William Bell, elder, braboner in St. Andrews. Also, that William Bell, elder was the father of both Alexander Bell who married Margaret Ramsay and William Bell, younger. Readily available records in Scotland revealed nothing else identifiable with this family in Fife County or St. Andrews parish.
Alexander's sons John, John's sons Josiah and Samuel, and Josiah's and Samuel's joint grandson Gen. Elias Beall, shared distinctions as founding fathers of American cities.
Beall Town, Maryland - original name of Blandensburg, was situated upon a tract of land called "Black Ash" or variations thereof, which was owned by John Beall (1688-1742) (of Alexander), whose wife was Verlinda Magruder (1690-1745), the two of whom conveyed many lots in Beall Town long before it was named Bladensburg by Legislative Act of 1742. . . . 
Cumberland, Maryland - One unreferenced source credits Samuel Beall, Jr. as a founder of Cumberland.  . . . 
Columbus, Georgia - Gen. Elias Beall was one of five commissioners who laid out the town. . . . 
Alexander Beall 1649-1744 - . . . Alexander Beall settled in Charles or Calvert County, from which Prince George's County was formed in 1695. It is in the latter County that first references of him were found. Alexander and his descendants in Maryland, moved ever northward in the state, so it is probable that before he is found in 1716 living "halfway between Marlborough and the Eastern Branch" (now the Anacostia River), he had earlier settled to the south. 
In 1695 Alexander was one of those signing an "Association Address presented to his Sacred Majesty [King William] upon news here arrived of the horrible intended conspiracy against his Royal person . . .," and is described therein as one of the "Civill Officers & Magistrates of Price Georges County."  Among others signing the felicitation was Samuel Magruder, joint grandfather with Alexander of Samuel & Josiah Beall of this line. 
By the year 1695 Alexander Beall must have had large holdings of land. Some of his later acquisitions have been identified as "Largoe" which lay on both sides of the southwest branch of the Patuxent river and a nearby tract named Neighbourhood, both due east of now the District of Columbia, and Friendship Enlarged not far distant. 
Court records of Prince George's County disclose that in January 1697, Alexander Beall was a member of the Grand Jury, in June 1698 he was a member of the Grand Inquest, and in March 1699 he was Foreman of the Grand Inquest. . . . 
On November 20, 1704, Col. Ninian Beall deeded a half acre of land out of a tract called "Meddows," located on the Western Branch of the Patuxent River in Prince George's County, to Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, Presbyterian minister, for erection of a church. Trustees named in the deed include Alexander Beall and a James Beall, believed to be Alexander's brother. The deed was witnessed by Samuel Magruder.  . . . 
In December 1706, Alexander Beall accompanied his minister, Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, to a meeting attended by six other ministers from Maryland, Philadelphia and Delaware. The purpose of the meeting was to establish an organized Church from among the independent congregations. That meeting was the beginning of the Presbyterian Church in America. 
Presbyterian Elder Alexander Beall attended annual meetings of the Presbytery in the years 1708, 1709 and 1714 and in 1718 attended the general Synod, successor to the general Presbytery.
On October 11, 1709, Alexander Beall was again named Trustee for a Presbyterian Church when Dr. Mordecai Moore of Anne Arundel County deeded to Rev. Nathaniel Taylor, Alexander Beall, James Beall and others, as Trustees, a half acre of land on the Eastern Branch of the Potomac for a church. 
That new site was more convenient to Alexander Beall, who as earlier related "lived halfway between Marlborough and the Eastern Branch," than the Patuxent River Church initiated by Ninian Beall in 1704.  
In November 1716, Alexander Beall continued his missionary work and brought worship still closer to his home by Court registration of his residence on the Eastern Branch as a Presbyterian meeting-house. . . . 
"Friendship Enlarged" was patented to Alexander Beall on May 14, 1716. This tract of land contained 920 acres and fronted on the Northwest Branch of the Patuxent River, a short distance from their juncture. This tract lay about ten miles northeast of Beall Town, now Blandensburg, Maryland . . . 
The 1719 Prince George's County lists of taxables in West Branch Hundred, includes Alexander Beall. That taxing district lay a short distance south from Beall Town, now Bladensburg.
The 1733 lists of taxables include Alexander in the West Branch Hundred and also in the Eastern Branch Hundred which extended northwestward from Beall Town, now Bladensburg. 
Alexander's will mentions a tract of land "my Dwelling Plantation . . . Largoe" which has been located mid-way between Bladensburg and Upper Marlboro. As earlier cited, Alexander is reported in 1716 living "halfway between Marlborough and the Eastern Barnch." That would be the tract named "Largoe."  These locate Alexander's residence at a point ten miles due east of the point where the Anacostia and Potomac Rivers join in now the District of Columbia. . . . 
There are other references of land holdings of Alexander, but these cited are adequate to establish his residence at least as early as 1716 and continuing to his death as slightly southeast of Bladensburg. His numerous land holdings were at distances up to some ten miles from his residence. 
On January 16, 1743, of the Old Style calendar, which would be 1744 in the New Style calendar adopted some nine years later, Alexander Beall drew his will. It was filed of record September 5, 1744 in Prince George's County, and is now among Frederick County records. 
Alexander's will mentions no wife so, obviously, his wife or wives had pre-deceased him. His will does mention two deceased sons, John and James. Alexander, born 1649 and died 1744, was 95 years of age at his death.  The will is abstracted below:
"to my Brother Robert Beall all my Wareing apparel."  (Robert is believed to have been a foster brother).
"to Lingon Wilson's wife Mary my Shase & Harnise." (Mary is believed to be a daughter). 
"I give and bequeath to my negro Woman Ann her freedom forever."
"I give and bequeath to my son William Beall my Dwelling Plantation and Land being part of Two Tracts of Land Called Neighbourhood and Largoe."
"I give and bequeath to my son Ninian Beall the other part of a Tract of Land called Largoe . . . Commonly Called Menallas."
"One fifth part [of the estate remainder] to my Son William Beall, and one fifth part to my Son in Law John Jackson, one fifth part to my Son Ninian Beall, one fifth part to my Decd. son John Bealls Children, and one fifth part to my Decd. son James Bealls Children."
"William Beall, Ninian Beall and John Jackson to be Executors."
At first impression it would appear that Alexander's will was more generous with one or another of his children than with others. It was a custom of the time and of this Beall line, to deed land and give personal property, including slaves to children as they matured and married.  For example, John and James Beall, sons of Alexander, are known to have been substantial land owners 20 years before Alexander's death. Alexander's son-in-law, John Jackson, was a man of prominence of Maryland in his day and also a large land owner. Customs and circumstances of this will indicate that Alexander, prior to his death, had made substantial gifts to some of his children.
John Beall 1688-1742 - son of Alexander 1649-1744 - The years of birth of John Beall as 1688 and his wife, Verlinder Magruder, as 1690, and the year of their marriage as 1712, all as contained in unreferenced sources, are reasonably accurate. . . . John was born in Maryland, but the County of his birth is uncertain.  His father, Alexander was found in Prince George's County at its formation in 1695 from Charles & Calvert Counties.
Captain Samuel Magruder, the father of Verlinder, was a contemporary and neighbor of Alexander Beall. So, Verlinder was born in Maryland in the same particular area as her husband, John Beall.
Captain Samuel Magruder is reported to have been born in Calvert County, Maryland in the year 1654. He died in Prince George's County, Maryland, in 1711. Samuel's first wife, Sarah, was born in Maryland, but the County and year are not known. She died in Prince George's County in 1734. Sarah's maiden name is in dispute; one unreferenced source says she was the daughter of Col. Ninian Beall, while contradicting authorities cite the wills of Col. Beall and his wife which mention their children but omit any reference to a Sarah. [Samuel & Sarah (Beall) Magruder are our grandparents too]
Captain Magruder was a distinguished colonial official. He served Prince George's County as Militia Captain in 1696 and as a Commissioner in 1697. He served the Colony of Maryland as High Justice 1969-1705 [could be 1699-1705] and as member of House of Burgess 1704-1707. He owned a large amount of land, part of which was deeded or devised to his daughter, Verlinder Magruder, wife of John Beall. . . . 
John Beall was both trusted and respected by his Maryland associates. His mother-in-law, Sarah Magruder, named him an executor of her estate . . . 
On April 7, 1742, John Beall "being sick & weak of body but of sound & perfect mind & memory" drew his will . . . John Beall died soon after, for his will was recorded May 18, 1742. The will is abstracted below:
"Wife, Verlinder, 1/3 of personall Estate, and Sole Executrix, to be aided and assisted by her sons Samuel and Josiah . . . "
"eldest son Samuel . . . son Josiah . . . son Basil . . . younger sons John & Clement Beall . . . dau. Sarah Offutt, the wife of James Offutt . . . Rebecca wife of Nathan Magruder . . . Lucy . . . Hannah . . . Vilinder . . . my brother William Beall . . . "
"Heirs of Charles Beall late of Prince George's County, deceased (relationship is unknown but evidently not a son)"
References - Alexander Beall 1649-1744:
  • Will of John Beall, d. 1742, MD Hall of Records, Prince George's Co., 1742, Wills, Liber 22, Folio 475-477. 
  • Will of Alexander Beall d. 1744, MD Hall of Records, Frederick Co., 1744
  • Original Inventory 6/47 (sic), recorded 9/5/1744
  • Whyte, Donald, ed. A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the USA, Baltimore, MD: Magna Carta Book Company, 1972.
  • Scots Ancestry Research Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, file NO. B/12135 BELL, Research Report dated 2/1/1973
  • Beall, F.M.H.  The Beall & Bell Families
  • Smith, Joseph & Philip Crowl. American Legal Records - Vol. 9, Court Records of Prince George's County, MD 1696-1699, Washington, DC: American Historical Association, 1964
  • Edwards, Albert.  Historic Sketches of the Beall & Edwards Families & Their Descendants 360 to 1892, Springfield, IL: H.W. Rokker, 1910
  • Virkus, Frederick. The Compendium of American Genealogy
  • Society of Colonial Wars, Index of Ancestors
  • Maryland Calendar of Wills 1732-1738
  • Maryland Historical Society. Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. VI, p. 56
  • Calendar of Maryland State Papers, No. 1 The Black Books, State of Maryland
  • Will of Verlinder Beall, Maryland Hall of Records, Prince George's County, Wills, Liber 24, Folio 48-51. 
  • Scharf. History of Western Maryland
  • Browne, William, ed. Archives of Maryland, Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1693-1696/7, Maryland Historical Society, 1900
  • Hienton, Louise. Prince George's Heritage, Maryland Historical Society
References - Samuel Magruder 1654-1711 
  • Will of Samuel Magruder, MD Hall of Records, Prince George's Co., Wills, Liber 13, Folio 210-211
  • Will of Sarah Magruder, MD Hall of Records, Prince George's Co., Wills, Liber 21, Folio 246-248.
  • Estate of Sarah Magruder, Executors Account, MD Hall of Records, Accounts, Liber 13, Folio 31-33
  • Bowie, Effie. Across the Years in Prince George's County, Richmond, VA: Garrett & Massie
  • Culver, Francis, ed. Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Maryland, Williams & Wilkins, 1940
  • Makenzie, George. Colonial Families of the United States of America, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1966
  • Society of Colonial Wars - Index of Ancestors. 
Prall, Richard. The Crabb Family Vol. II, Albuquerque, NM, Prall, 1997

 Magruder Family
Generation 1
I. Alexander MacGregor b. 1569 Perthshire, Scotland, d. 1605 Perthshire - Alexander descended from Alpin, King of Scotland & Lady Margaret, daughter of Campbell, First Laird, of Baron of Keathock, in Angus, Perthsire, and widow of Sr. Andrew Drummond, 4th Laird of Ballycove 

 Generation 2
Alexander Magruder / MacGregor immigrant ca. 1652 b. Perthshire, Scotland, d. 9/14/1677 inv. Calvert Co., MD  md. 1) Margaret Braithwaie, dau. of Wm. Braithwaite; md. 2. Sarah (--?--), md. 3) Elizabeth Hawkins, d. ca. 1718

 Generation 3 (children of Margaret)
1. James b. 1685
2. Samuel b. 1654 Calvert Co., MD, d. 4/16/1711 will probated Prince George Co., MD, written 11/23/1710 #13, p. 210.  md. Sarah Beall, d. 5/9/1734, will probated Prince George Co., MD, daughter of Ninian Beall & Ruth Moore. - grandparents 
3. John d. intestae by 1711, unmarried

 (children of Elizabeth)
4. Elizabeth b. 1664 md. John Pottenger
5. Alexander b. 1671, d. 1746 md. Suzanna (-?-)
6. Nathaniel d. 1734, md. Mary (-?-)

 Generation 4
1a. Hugh
2a. Ninian b. 1686, d. 1753, will probated by James Magruder md. ca. 1707 Elizabeth Brewer, b. 10/26/1690 Anne Arundel Co., MD, d. before 1753, daughter of John Brewer b. ca. 1644, will 4/5/1690 Anne Arundel Co., MD & Sarah Ridgely b. ca. 1664 Anne Arundel Co., MD d. ca. 1727 Prince George Co., MD.  Sarah Ridgely, daughter of Henry Ridgely & Elizabeth Howard - grandparents
2b. Elizabeth Magruder md. Ninian Beall, Jr. d. before 1731
2c. John b, 1694, d. 1750, md. 121/1/1715 Susanna Smith
2d. James b. 1697, d. 1779 md. Barbara Combs
2e. Samuel b. 1708, d. 1779 md. Eleanor Wade
2f. Verlinda d. 1745 md. John Beall d. 1742, son of Alexander Beall 
2g. William d. 1765 md. Mary Frazer
2h. Alexander d. 1751 md. Ann Wade
2i. Nathaniel md. Susanna Blizzard
2j. Sarah md. William Selby
2k. Mary d. 1731 md. George C. Clagett 
2l. Eleanor md. Nehemiah Wade
6a. Alexander Justice of Prince George's County, 1699, 1730, 1732

 Generation 5
2a1. Capt. Samuel b. 2/24/1708 St. Barnabas Church, d. 1786 Montgomery Co., MD
2a2. John b. 10/11/1709 St. Barnabas Church, md. Jane Offutt
2a3. Ninian Jr. b. 4/5/1711 St. Barnabas Church, d. 1756 md. Mary Offutt
2a4. Sarah b. 3/19/1713 St. Barnabas Church, md. William Beall, Jr. - grandparents
2a5. Elizabeth b. 10/4/1717 St. Barnabas Church, md. Benjamin Perry of Montgomery Co., MD
2a6. Nathaniel b. 10/30/1721 St. Barnabas Church d. 1803 md. Mary (--?--)
2a7. James md. Mary Bowie
2a8. Rebecca b. 2/7/1722 St. Barnabas  Church, d. 6/12/1810 md. 4/24/1744 James Offutt b. 5/15/1725 Prince George Co., d. will probated 7/25/1802 Montgomery Co., MD
2a9. Rachel b. 1/23/1726 St. Barnabas Church, md. Thomas Clagett Jr.
2a10. Verlinda md. Walter Williams 1726-1787
2a11. Anne b. 1738 md. Thomas Clagett
2k1. Sarah Clagett
Because of their warlike nature, the MacGregor name of Scotland was banned by an edict of the king on 4/3/1603. All who carried the name were forced to renounce the name, and none of their children could use he name under the pain of death. No minister could baptize a male child with the name MacGregor. The Earl of Argyle and the Campbell Clan were ordered to pursue, slay and if possible exterminate the clan. In spite of the persecution, the MacGregor Clan increased in numbers and influence.  Charles II annulled the edict, but William & Mary compelled the clan to take other names.  In 1774 Parliament lifted the ban. Members of the clan took various names including Gregory, Gregor, Magruder, Greer, etc. [Montgomery County Story, Vol. 13, August 1970]
Alexander was a Colonel in the Charles II Royal Army and captured by Cromwell at the 1651 Battle of Worchester, England. In 1651 Alexander and his company of 150 men were shipped to Maryland by way of Barbadoes as indentured servants. In 1652 he ransomed himself and received a grant of 500 acres at Turkey Buzzard Island Calvert Co., near the Patuxent River. By the time of his death in 1677, he had 4,000 acres known as Craignaigh, Dunblane, Good Luck and Anchovie Hills.
Dunblane was surveyed for Alexander on 6/23/1671 and it was named after the town Dunblane in Perthshire, Scotland, where the Magruders or MacGregors lived. . . .
Alexander wrote a will 2/10/1776, which named wife Elizabeth, to receive 100 acres home plantation and be executor with James & Samuel Magruder, sons Alexander & Nathaniel to receive home plantation upon death of mother, sons James & John to receive 900 acres in the Western Branch of Patuxent River called Alexandria  and Dunblain son Samuel to receive 500 acres in Western Branch called Good Luck daughter Elizabeth to receive 200 acres called Cragnigh in the Western Branch, and names friends Nathaniel Truman, Samuel Taylor and Ninian Beale. The lands were originally in Calvert County, but later became a part of Prince George's County.
Maryland has the following Alexander Magruder wills:
  • 1677 Alexander Magruder I, Calvert County Wills 5, p. 261, original will M#19, inventory 4 p. 606 
  • 1746 Alexander Magruder II, Prince George County Wills 24, p. 372, original will Box 7 folder 3
The 1710 will of Samuel Magruder named wife Sarah to receive dwelling plantation; son Samuel at death of wife, part of 200 acres Good Luck and also 100 acres Magruder's Delight; son Ninian 300 acres Alexandria which formerly  belonged to brother John; son John 250 acres Dunblean; son James 300 acres that John Cole lives on; son William 190 acres Turkey Cock; son Alexander 100 acres, part of Good Luck; son Nathaniel 100 acres, part of Good Luck; sons Samuel, Ninian and John lot in Marlborough Town; sons James, William & Alexander 1 acre lot; daughters Eliza, Sarah, Verlinda, mary & Elizabeth personality; with executors brothers Alexander & Nathaniel Magruder & John Pottinger and one witness was Ann Smith.  
Samuel lived in Prince George County, served in the legislature, and was a captain in the 1698 militia. 
Ninian Magruder of the St. Barnabas Church owned Beall's Gift and Alexander Magruder owned Dunblane & Good Luck. 
See more details on the family & lineage of Ninian Magruder in Doliante. James Magruder & Mary Bowie were the ancestors of Confederate generals of distinction as well as US and Confederate Congressman Benjamin Henry Magruder. John B Prince John Magruder, known for his interest in the theater and military theatrics, marched a small number of troops around and near Yorktown, VA, during the peninsula campaign of April 1862 and fooled General McClellan into thinking he was facing a large force. On June 27, 1862, Magruder did the same thing near the Chickahominy River in the Seven Days' Battle for Richmond. 
Seaver, Montgomery. Brooks Family Records, Philadelphia, PA: American Historical-Genealogical Society, 1929.

 William Brooks b. England 1610 came to Virginia 1635, in the Speedwell; appeared in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1653; d. Deerfield, MA, 1688 md. Mary Burt

 Generation 2
1. William b. 1655-1675, killed by Indians in King Philip's War
2. John 1656-1675, killed by Indians in King Philip's War
3. Ebenezer 1662-1720 md. Elizabeth Belding
4. Nathaniel b. 1664, md. 1) Mary Williams, 2) Mary Allis
5. Joseph 1667-1748 md. Lydia Warner
6. Benjamin 1671-1765 md. Mary (-?-)
7. Jonathan b. 1674 went to Springfield about 1701, was on Long Island ca. 1725

 Generation 3
3a. William 1695
3b. John 1696
3c. John (2nd)
3d. Ebenezer 1701
3e. Jonathan 1709
4a. William captured by Indians, 1704, fate unknown
4b. Nathaniel 1710-1758 md. 1) Abigail Allen, 2) Rebecca (Clary) Bascom
4c. Samuel b. 1712 md. Mehitable (-?-)
4d. Aaron b. 1717 md. Elizabeth Allen
4e. Moses b. 1722 md. (-?-)
5a. Joseph b. 1714 md. Miriam Wright
5b. Benjamin 1717-1786 md. Mary Miller
5c. Daniel b. 1722 md. Mary Wright
6a. Benjamin b. 1693 md. Hannah Walker
6b. John b. 1702 md. Rebecca Gerry
6c. William b. 1708
6d. Joseph b. 1710

 Generation 4
4b1. Eliakim 1736 - ranger in French & Indian War
4b2. William 1740
4b3. Nathaniel 1743
5a1. Tirzah 1754
5a2. David 1758
5a3. Uri 1759
5b1. Benjamin 1752 settled in Northfield, MA
5b2. Cephas 1755, American Revolution
5b3. Thaddeus 1756 American Revolution
5b4. Alpheus 1758 American Revolution
5b5. Annis 1760
5b6. Lebbeus 1762
5b7. Persis 1766
5b8. Joseph 1769
5b9. Elnathan 1774
5c1. Daniel b. 1759 md. Lavina Morgan
6a1. Benjamin b. 1726
6a2. Edward 1727-17776 md. Anna Hayward, American Revolution
6b1. John b. 1726 md. Elizabeth Tyler
6b2. Martin b. 1734

 Generation 5
6a2a. Silvanus b. 1750 md. Mary Shaw
6a2b. Reuben 1752-1754
6a2c. Edward b. 1758 md. Thankful Harding
6a2d. Simeon 1760-1822 md. Elizabeth Strong
6a2e. Reuben 1763-1843 md. Annie Terry
6a2f. Benjamin 1769-1852 md. Esther Fisk
6a2g. Asa 1775-1851 md. Dorcas Gleason Fisk
6b1a. Martin b. 1778 md. Melinda Bond

 Generation 6
6a2a1. Marcena - went west and disappeared - no doubt this is our ancestor!!
6a2d1. Lyman b. 1789
6a2e1. Eli
6a2e2. Simeon
6a2e3. Ira
6a2e4. Asa 1788-1871 md. Lucy Stevens
6a2e5. Osmond H. 1793-1868 md. Polly Perham
6a2e6. Pardon md. Lavina Lillie
6a2e7. Reuben md. Phelena Burt
6a2e8. James d. 1878 md. 1) Olive Reed, 2) Irene Reed
6a2e9. Harrison lived in Ft. Wayne, IN 1895
6a2f1. Hiram 1801-1831
6a2f2. Pardon Allen 1806-1891 md. 1) Olive Deane, 2) Julia Reynolds
6a2f3. Rufus Fisk 1808-1902 md. Mary Adeline Barrett
6a2f4. Lucian Bonaparte 1812-1885 md. Susan Hazeltine
6a2f5. Benjamin Franklin 1816-1887 md. Charlotte Frances Burke
6a2f6. Stephen Perry 1819-1898 md. 1) Martha Amelia Hazeltine & 2) Elizabeth Welch
6a2f7. Eli Truxton 1821-1897 md. Anna Elizabeth Bemis
6a2g1. Asa b. 1806 md. Elziabeth Walker
6a2g2. Benjamin 1809-1897 md. Martha Wilbur
6a2g3. James Fisk 1812-1891 md. Sarah Davis

 Generation 7
6a2e4a. Asa S. 1819-1823
6a2e4b. Albert A. 1824-1910 md. Jennette Whitcomb
6a2e4c. Samuel H. b. 1827
6a2e4d. Julius P. 1828-1861 md. Sarah Tambell
6a2e5a. Alonzo 1822-1878 md. Ursula Burt
6a2e5b. Frederick 1826-1848
6a2e5c. George 1828-1889 md. Elizabeth Carey
6a2e6a. George
6a2e6b. Albert
6a2f2a. Hiram P. 1834-1913
6a2f2b. William H. 1837-1922
6a2f2c. Susan L. 1844-1919 md. Frank Cole
6a2f2d. Lucian B. 1847-1850
6a2f2e. Samuel Pardon 1850-192? md. Jennie Robinson
6a2f2f. Rufus 1852-1910
6a2f2g. Horace b. 1860 went to Montana
6a2f2h. George E. 1862-1863
6a2f3a. Sarah Adeline 1834-1866 md. Hiram Rice
6a2f3b. Esther Maria 1837-1839
6a2f5a. Charles Buck 1853-1868
6a2f5b. Esther Clara Herrick b. 1859 - became a doctor
6a2f5c. Frona Marie b. 1861 md. Morgan Brooks
6a2f6a. Maria Antoinette 1844-1847
6a2f6b. George Frederick 1849-1903 md. 1) Emma Bowers, 2) Matilda Calderwood 3) Abbie Fuller
6a2f6c. Ina Caroline b. 1863
6a2f6d. Lucy Ella 1866-1921

 New England Brooks
  • Captain Thomas Brooks b. England md. Grace (-?-) came to Watertown, MA 1630 or 1631, one of the original settlers of Concord, MA
  • Joshua Brooks b. 1630 England (?), md. Hannah Mason
  • Daniel Brooks b. 1663, d. 1733 md. Ann Merriam
  • John Brooks 1701-1777 md. Lydia Barker - had brother:
  • Job Brooks bapt. 1698 md. Elizabeth Flagg
  • Samuel Brooks 1730-1817 md. Hannah (Davis) Brown
  • Samuel Brooks b. 1755, d. Canada md. Ann (Bedel) Butler
  • Calvin Brooks b. 1782, d. 1848 md. Betsy Bartlett
  • Luther Brooks b. 1806 d. 1892 md. Ann Bosworth
  • Daniel Brooks b. 1738, d. 1820 md. Caroline Crescott, one of a committee to consider the rights of colonists 1772, served in Revolutionary War
  • Job Frederick Brooks b. Acton, MA 1764, d. 1822 md. Polly Babcock, Lt. Colonel of Militia
Henry Brooks name on tax list of Woburn, MA 1649, selectman 1667, 1671, 1672 married twice

 Generation 2
1. Timothy
2. Isaac
3. Lester
4. John md. 1) Eunice Mousall, 2) Mary Cranston

Generation 3
4a. John 1650-1653
4b. Ebenezer 1666-1686
4c. Jabez 1673-1746
4d. John (2nd) b. 1664, md. Mary Richardson

Generation 4
4d1. John 1686
4d2. Ebenezer 1686-1686
4d3. John 1694
4d4. Timothy b. 1697 md. Abigail Wyman
4d5. Isaac 1703-1719
4d6. Nathan 1706-1751

Generation 5
4d4a. Timothy b. 1726 md. Ruth Wyman

Generation 6
4d4a1. John 1749-1796
4d4a2. Seth 1760-1827
4d4a3. Timothy 1751-1810 md. Abigail Mason - not this line

Officers of the Continental Army 
  • Caleb (MA) - 1st Lieutenant of Woodbridge's Massachusetts Regiment, May to December 1775, served subsequently as Major Massachusetts Militia
  • John (PA) - 2nd Lieutenant & Adjutant 6th Pennsylvania Battalion, 9th January to December 1776; served as Assistant Commissary of Issues 1777 to 1780, died 1803.
Brooks Served in American Revolution, # is the number of times that name appears on the rolls
  • Delaware - Charles, Elisha 6, John, Jonas, Lambert 2, Samuel, Seth 17
  • Maryland - Charles, Jacob, James 3, John 2, Johnson, Lawrence 2, Nathan, Thomas 2
  • Massachusetts - Aaron 3, Abel, Abijah, Abner 3, Alpheus, Amariah, Amos, Ann, Asa 4, Austin 2, Azariah, Benjamin 7, Boston, Caleb 2, Charles, Daniel 3, David 2, Ebenezer 2, Edmund 2, Edward 2, Eleazer, Eliakim, Elijah 2, Ephraim 2, Francis, Gilbert 2, Hananiah, Henry 2, Hezekiah, Isaac, Isaiah, Jabez 3, James 2, Jehiel, Job, Joel, Joel Jr., John 23, Jonas 3, Jonathan 5, Joseph 13, Joshua 4, Josiah 3, Leavitt, Lemuel, Levi, Luke 2, Luther 2, Mary, Matthew, Michael, Moses 4, Nathan 2, Nathaniel 5, Nehemiah 3, Noah, Peter 3, Philip, Prescott, Princester, Reuben 2, Robert, Samuel 12, Seth 2, Shadrack, Silas 4, Simeon 6, Simon, Solomon 2, Stephen 6, Sylvanus, Thaddeus 4, Thomas 6, Timothy 4, Uriah, Will, William 4, Zaccheus, Zachariah 2
  • Pennsylvania - Alexander, Benjamin 3, Charles, Cornelius, Cornilius, David 15, Edmund, Edward 4, Francis 2, George, Henry 4, Jacob, James 8, John 31, John Jr., Johnson, Joseph 11, Laurence 4, Lawrence, Owen 6, Philip 4, Robert 3, Samuel 9, Thomas 14, William 
  • Virginia - Benjamin, Charles, David, Elias jr., George, Henry, James 2, John, Joseph 2, Nelson, Peter, Reuben, Richard, Robert, Thomas 3, William 3
Prominent Brooks of America, Past Generations:
  • David, soldier b. 1756, joined army in 1776 as lieutenant in PA line, captured at Ft. Washington, prisoner 2 years, later officer & friend of George Washington, prominent in NY politics, MC 1797, first judge of Dutchess Co.
  • Eleazer, soldier b. Concord, MA 1727, captain of militia 1773 . . brigadier general in American Revolution. General Court 1774, served as representative, senator and counselor, retired 1801
  • John, governor of MA, b. Medford, MA 1752. In 1777 made Lt. Colonel 8th MA regiment, battles of Ft. Stanwix, Ft. Saratoga, promoted Major General. Member of state convention that ratified US Constitution 1788, held many state and federal offices, d. 1825
  • Joseph Brooks, clergy, b. Butler Co., OH, 1821, chaplain 1st MO artillery & 3rd AR colored infantry during Civil War, leader in AR Constitutional Convention 1868, Governor of AR 1874, d. 1877. 
  • Richard, early settler, came to America in the Blessing July 1635, aged 14, removed to Scituare, then to Rehoboth, gave the power of attorney to his son-in-law Robert Crossman of Taunton 1689 who sold his land in Scituate in 1699, died 1695
  • Robert, early settler, from Mainstone, England, came to America with wife in the Hercules. Resided at Marblehead and had a land grant between his old house and new in 1657.
  • William, early settler, came to American in the Blessing July 1635, aged 20, settled at Salem, MA, proprietor in 1639.
Tri-State Genealogical Society. Tri-State: Southwestern Indiana, Southern Illinois & Western Kentucky Connections at Evansville, Indiana, Evansville, IN: Tri-State Genealogical Society, 1984.

 Ancestor chart of Edith (Smith) Shurig:

 1. Edith Smith b. 1909 Petersburg, IN, d. 2000 md. Darwin Shurig 1940
2. Willard E. Smith b. 1873, MO, d. 1939 IN md. 1902
3. Mary Priscilla McConnell b. 1880 Knox Co., IN, d. 1966 Oakland City, IN
4. Lawrence W. Smith 1845 Pike Co., IN, d. 1908 Pike Co., IN md. 1866
5. Rebecca Jane Willis b. 1849 Pike Co., IN, d. 1887 Pike Co., IN
6. Simpson McConnell b. 1846 Philadelphia, PA, d. 1928 Petersburg, IN, md. 1871
7. Dulcena Arabelle Jerrell b. 1851 Pike Co., IN, d. 1892 Pike Co., IN
8. Henry Smith b. 1802 Perquimans Co., NC, d. 1880 Pike Co., IN md. 1821
9. Mary Mebane Campbell b. 1804 Indiana Territory, d. 1850 Pike Co., IN
10. George Willis b. 1807 NC, d. 1894 Pike Co., IN, md. 1833
11. Betsy Johnson, b. 1815 KY, d. 1894 Pike Co., IN
12. Robert Randal McConnell b. 1701 [1801?] Scotland, d. IN, immigrated 1826
13. Martah Marie Simpson b. 1700 [1800?] Ireland, d. IN
14. Elijah Fitzgerald b. 1801 IN, d. 1864 Pike Co., IN, md. third wife 1843
15. Jane Nancy (Dalk) Gamble b. 1824 IN, d. 1895 Pike Co., IN
16. Hosea Smith b. 1773 NC, d. 1846 Pike Co., IN, md. 1798 NC
17. Hulda Harrel Wilson b. 1774 VA, d. 1845 Pike Co., IN
18. George Campbell b. 1771 NC, d. 1827 Pike Co., IN, md. 1802 Orange Co., IN
19. Susan Mebane b. 1781 NC, d. 1804 Pike Co., IN
20. James Willis b. England, d. 1888 NC
21. Sarah (-?-) will 1898
22. Robert Cravens Johnson b. 1789 VA, d. 1864 Pike Co., IN
23. Nancy Garwood b. 1790 NC, d. 1868 Pike Co., IN
28. Walter Fitzgerald b. NC, d. 1813 md. 1792 KY
29. Sarah Fields Dedman b. 1784 VA, d. ca. 1849 Pike Co., IN
30. Joseph Gamble b. 1796 VA, will 1827 Pike Co., IN, md. 1820
31. Susannah Harness b. 1801

 Ancestor chart of Betty Ann (Saltzman) Simpson

 1. Betty Ann Saltzman b. 1929 Warrick Co., IN, d. 2017 Warrick Co., IN md. Ray Simpson
2. Otto Anderson Saltzman b. 1907 Spencer Co., IN, d. 1986, md. 1928
3. Vernetta pierce b. 1910 Warrick Co., IN, d. 1979 Gentryville, IN
4. Andrew Jackson Saltzman b. 1885, d. 1966 Vanderburgh Co., IN, md. 1907
5. Virgie Cohoon b. 1891 Spencer Co., IN, d. 1939 Tennyson, IN
6. Pearl Pierce b. 1884 Warrick Co., IN, d. 1940 Kane Co., IL md. 1907
7. Etna Allen b. 1889 Cloverport, KY, d. 1966 Huntingburg, IN
8. Burl Saltzman b. 1846, d. 1900
9. Louiza Vanderveer b. 1848, d. 1926
10. James Cohoon b. 1852 Spencer Co., IN, d. 1927 Spencer Co., IN
11. Margaret Melinda Wire b. 1853, d. 1927 Spencer Co., IN
12. Parley Pierce b. 1856 Warrick Co., IN, d. 1912 Warrick Co., IN, md. 1879
13. Eliza Belle Dancy b. 1859, d. 1929 Warrick Co., IN
14. Scott Allen b. 1843, d. 1890 Cloverport, KY
15. Martha Dean b. 1857 TX, d. 1932 Warrick Co., IN
16. Peter Saltzman
17. Alice E. Hornback
18. Thomas Vandeveer
19. Matilda (--?--)
20. Joseph Cohoon b. 1813/14, d. 1879, md. 1831
21. Mary Simpson b. ca. 1815
22. John Wire md. 1836
23. Mary Ann Tennyson
24. Jesse Andrew Pierce b. ca. 1825, d. 1882, md. 1849
25. Nancy Jane Crowder b. ca. 1833, d. 1896
26. Jackson Andrew Dancy b. ca. 1832, d. ca. 1880, md. 1853 Wayne Co., KY
27. Margaret Brown b. 1836, d. 1895
28. Joel Rice Allen b. 1812
29. Margaret (-?-) b. 1812 NC
31. America (-?-) b. ca. 1828
Ward, Jack. James Christian Smith Family Group Sheet, March 9, 1997

 Husband: James Christian Smith b. 1813 Scott Co., KY, d. 3/30/1891 Shelby Co., KY md. 4/10/1838 Fayette Co., KY son of Philip & Susan (Smith?) Smith

 Wife: Susan Runyon b. 9/10/1816 Fayette Co., KY, d. Shelby Co., KY, daughter of John Runyon & Sally Stout

 Children:
1. Elizabeth Smith b. 12/20/1840 Scott Co., KY, d. 8/20/1919 Simpsonville, Shelby Co., KY, bur. Fairview Cemetery, Todds Point, Shelby Co., KY, md. 12/10/1859 Robert W. Cooper
2. Albert C. Smith b. ?, d. 2/26/1854 Scott Co., KY
3. Martha Ellen Smith b. 1848 Scott Co., KY, d. 1917 Shelby Co., KY, bur. Fairview Cemetery, Todds Point, Shelby Co., KY
4. William Robert Smith b. 1851 Scott Co., KY, d. 1914 Shelby Co., KY, bur. Fairview Cemetery, Todds Point, Shelby Co., KY
5. Infant Smith b. 8/22/1854 Scott Co., KY
6. John C. Smith b. ?, d. 1865 Shelbyville, Shelby Co., KY
7. Sally Smith b. Scott Co., KY
8. Susan Edmonie Smith b. ?, d. 1924
9. Fannie Smith b. ?, d. Shelbyville, Shelby Co., KY
10. Emma Smith b. ?, d. Shelbyville, Shelby Co., KY
11. James Smith
12. Mary Jane Smith
13. Walter Freeman Smith b. 12/12/1864, d. 1937 Simpsonville, Shelby Co., KY
Ward, Jack. Susan Runyon Pedigree Chart, March 9, 1977

 Rendered here as an ahnentafel

 1. Susan Runyon b. 9/10/1816 Fayette Co., KY, d. Shelby Co. KY md. 4/10/1838 Fayette Co., KY to James Christian Smith
2. John Runyon b. ca. 1785 Fayette Co., KY, d. after 1848 IL md. 2/1/1808 Fayette Co., KY
3. Sally Stout b. ca. 1788 Fayette Co., d. unknown

 Generation 3:
4. John H. Runyon (?) b. ca. 1750 NJ, d. after 4/27/1811 Fayette Co., KY md. ?
5. Anne (Runyon) b. ?, d. ? Fayette Co., KY
6. Anthony Stout b. ca. 1767 NJ, d. after 2/22/1837 Fayette Co., KY md. ?

 Generation 4
8. Benjamin Runyon b. 12/21/1729 Middlesex Co., NJ, d. 1785 KY md. 1749
9. Anna Van Court b. 8/27/1730 Piscataway, Middlesex Co., NJ, d. ?
12. Benjamin Stout (?) b. 1731 Hunterdon Co., NJ, d. ?
13. Mary Higgins b. 1735 NJ, d. ?

 Generation 5
16. Peter Runyon b. 6/1/1680, Piscataway, Middlesex Co., NJ, d. 10/1773 Middlesex Co., NJ
17. Providence Blackford b. ca. 1682 NJ, d. 1760 Piscataway, Middlesex Co., NJ
18. Elias Van Court b. 5/12/1691 Isle of Guernsey, British Isles, d. 7/28/1756
19. Ann Cooper b. ca. 1698
24. Benjamin Stout b. 1731, Hunterdon Co., NJ
25. Mary Higgins

 Generation 6
32. Vincent Rongnion b. 1644 Portiers [Poitiers], AP [?], France, d. 11/1713 Piscataway, Middlesex Co., NJ, md. 7/17/1668
33. Anna Martha Boutcher b. 1650, Hertfordshire, England, d. ca. 1725 Piscataway, Middlesex Co., NJ
34. Samuel Blackford b. ca. 1640 England, d. 1711-1712
35. Hannah Smalley b. 6/14/1641 Plymouth, PC [Plymouth Colony?], Massachusetts, d. NJ
36. Thomas Van Court b. ca. 1668, d. Isle of Guernsey, SAP [?], British Isles
48. Benjamin Stout b. 1706 NJ, d. KY

 Generation 7
70. John Smalley b. 1615 Devonshire, England, d. 7/30/1692 Piscataway, Middlesex Co., NJ, md. 11/29/1638 Plymouth, Massachusetts
71. Ann Walden b. ca. 1619 England, d. 1/29/1694, Piscataway, Middlesex Co., NJ
96. David Stout b. 1667 Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ, d. 1732, NJ, md. 1688 NJ
97. Rebecca Ashton b. 1672 Providence, Rhode Island

 Generation 8
192. Richard Stout b. ca. 1615 Burton Joyce, N. [Nottinghamshire] England, d. 10/23/1705 Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ, md. 1644 New Amsterdam, NY
193. Penelope Prince b. 1622 Amsterdam, Noord, Holland, d. 1732, Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ
194. Reverend James Ashton V b. 1652 Freehold, Monmouth Co., NJ, d. 5/19/1705 md. 12/12/1670 Providence, PC [Providence Co.], Rhode Island
195. Deliverance Throckmorton b. 1648 Providence, PC, Rhode Island, d. 1705 Monmouth, Monmouth Co., NJ

 Generation 9
384. John Staught b. 1580 England, d. England, md. 11/13/1609 Burton Joyce, N., England
385. Elizabeth Bee b. England
386. Reverend Richard Prince b. ca. 1595 Sheffield, England, d. ca. 1650 Amsterdam, Holland
388. James Ashton IV b 1603, St. Albans, HC [Hertfordshire], England, d. 5/19/1705 England
389. Judith Ashton b. 1622 St. Albans HC, England
390. John Throckmorton b. 5/9/1601 Norwich, Norfolk Co., England, d. 3/17/1683 Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ
391. Rebecca Throckmorton b. 1602 England, bur. Taylor Graveyard, M, MC, NJ [?, Monmouth Co., NJ?]

 Generation 10
768. John Bee b. England
776. James Ashton III, b. 1588 St. Albans, HC, England, d. 3/27, 1650, St. Albans, HC, England
777. Alice (Ashton) b. ca. 1583, St. Albans, HC, England, bur. 5/22/1643 St. Albans, HC, England
780. Bassingborne Throckmorton b. 1564 Norwich, Norfolk Co., England, d. 9/21/1638 England, md. 12/7/1591 Bury St. Edmunds, SC [Suffolk], England
781. Mary Hill b. ca. 1568 Bury St. Edmunds, SC, England, d. 1615

 Generation 11
1552. James Ashton II b. ca. 1550 St. Albans, HC, England, d. 11/1624 St. Albans, HC, England
1553. Margaret Ashton b. ca. 1553/54 St. Albans, HC, England
1560. Lionel Throckmorton b. 1525 Allhallows, SE [?], SC [Suffolk?], England, d. 11/1599 England, md. 1560 Barsham, Suffolk, England
1561. Elizabeth Blennerhasset b. 1529 Barsham, Suffolk Co., England, d. 1608 England
1562. William Hill b. 1543 Bury St. Edmunds, SC, England
1563. Jane Annable b. 1543
Williams, Ronald. The Lord of the Isles: The Clan Donald & the Early Kingdom of the Scots, London, Hogarth Press, 1984.
Map: The Lordship of the Isles
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle contains the following entry for the year AD 787 - an ominous foretaste of things to come:
In this year, King Beorhtric tood Eadburgh, King Offa's daughter to wife. And in his days, came three ships of Northmen from Hordaland; and then the King's Reeve rode to them and tried to make them go to the Royal Manor, for he did not know who or what they were, and they slew him there. Those were the first ships of the Danish men that sought the land of the English.
Since they came from Hordaland, the raiders were presumably Norwegians rather than Danes, but the early chroniclers, confronted by this sudden and terrible phenomenon, were confused as to the identity and origin of the first Vikings. However, they were not long ignorant of the Norsemen's purpose. From 790 onwards, the sea-raiding continued in terrifying earnest, and along the coastlands, churches and monasteries - undefended and with their collections of treasure, ornaments and wealth - quickly became principal targets.  Monks in their cells prayed for stormy weather, and came to dread the fair wind that brought the longships with their dragon prows stooping towards the shore, to turn their serenity into a red martyrdom of axe and arrow-flight. Settlements clustering in the estuaries, by sheltered bays and sea lochs, fell easy prey to the sudden Viking onslaughts: a longship sighted from the headland; keels grinding on the shingle; screams and running feet, blood and burning, slavery and huddled corpses left to smoulder in the embers.  'Never before in Britain has such terror appeared as this we have now suffered at the hands of the heathen,' wrote Alcuin to his master Charlemagne after the sack of Lindisfarne. 'Nor was it thought possible that such an inroad from the sea could be made.'
Picture of Dunadd: the Crowning Stone
The Descendants of Somerled: the Clan Donald & Clan Dougall
1. Somerled b. ?, d. 1164 md. 1. no name, 2) Ragnhilda daughter of King Olaf of Man

 Generation 2
by first wife
a. Somerled
b. Gilliecolum

 by second wife
c. Ranald d. 1207
d. Dugall
e. Beathag (Beatrice) 1st prioress of Iona
f. Angus
g. Olaf (?)

 Generation 3
a1. John
a2. Maolmory
c1. Donald of Islay  d. 1269
c2. Ruairi d. 1268 (Clan Ruairidh)
d1. Duncan de Lorne
d2. Dugall Scrag
d3. Ospak Hakon
f1. James
f2. son
f3. son killed 1210

 Generation 4
c1a. Angus Mor d. 1292
c1b. Alasdair Mor (MacAlisters of Loup)
c1c. Murchad
c2a. Allan d.1285
c2b. Dugall
d1a. Ewen de Lorne
f1a. Jane md. Alexander, son of the Steward

 Generation 5
c1a1. Angus Og d. 1329
c1a2. Alasdair Og of Islay deposed 1308 md. Juliana of Lorne (see below)
c1a3. John Sprangach d. ca. 1340 (Maclains of Ardnamurchan)
c2a1. Ruairi
c2a2. Ranald
c2a3. Lachlan d. 1318
c2a4. Christina Macruairi md. Duncan, 2nd son of Donald, 6th Earl of Mar
d1a1. Juliana of Lorne (see above)
d1a2. Alexander de Ergadia
d1a3. Duncan
f1a1. Walter, 6th High Steward md. Marjory Bruce

 Generation 6
c1a1a. John, d. 1380, 1st Lord of the Isles md. 1) Amie MacRuairi (see below)  & 2) Margaret Stewart
c1a1b. Ian Fraoch, d. 1358 - Glencoe
c2a1a. Amie MacRuairi (see above)
c2a1b. Ranald
c2a1c. Alan
d1a2a. John the Lame
d1a3a. Alan
f1a1a. King Robert II

 Generation 7+
c1a1a1. Ranald d. 1386 md. ? Stewart of Atholl
c1a1a2. Godfrey
c1a1a3. Donald, d. 1422, Lord of the Isles md. Lady Margaret Leslie
c1a1a4. John Mor d. 1472 - Earls of Antrim
c1a1a5. Alastair Carrach, d. 1440 - Keppoch
d1a2a1. Ewen
d1a3a1. Clan Dougall of Dunollie
f1a1a1. Stewart Kings of Scotland

 Generation 8
c1a1a1a. Alan d. ca. 1430 md. ? Stewart of Appin, Clan Ranold
c1a1a1b. Donald d. 1420 md. Fraser Lovat - Glengarry
d1a2a1a. Janet
d1a2a1b. Isabella
c1a1a3a. Alexander d. 1449, Lord of the Isles, Earl of Ross md. Elizabeth

 Generation 9
c1a1a3a1. John, d. 1503, Lord of the Isles, Earl of Ross md. Elizabeth Livingstone
c1a1a3a2. Celestine of Lochaish, d. 1476
c1a1a3a3. Hugh of Sleat, d. 1498 - Sleat

 Generation 10
c1a1a3a1a. Angus Og d. 1490 md. Lady Margaret, daughter of the Earl of Argyll
c1a1a3a2a. Sir Alexander of Lochaish, d. 1495

 Generation 11
c1a1a3a1a1. Donald Dubh, d. 1545
c1a1a3a2a1. Sir Donald Gallda d. 1519
c1a1a3a2a2. Margaret (Heiress) md. Donald, 6th of Glengarry

 Map - the Castles of the Lordship

 Kings of Scotland
843-860 Kenneth Mac-Alpin - the Hardy; son of Alpin
860-863 Donald I - brother of Kenneth Mac-Alpin
863-877 Constantine I - son of Kenneth Mac-Alpin
877-878 Aodh - son of Kenneth Mac-Alpin
878-889 Eochaidh - great grandson of Alpin
889-900 Donald II - son of Constantine I
900-943 Constantine II - son of Aodh
943-954 Malcolm I - son of Donald II
954-962 Indulf - son of Constantine II
962-967 Duff - son of Malcolm I
967-971 Colin - son of Indulf
971-995 Kenneth II - son of Malcolm I
995-997 Constantine III - son of Colin
997-1005 Kenneth III - son of Duff
1005-1034 Malcolm II - son of Kenneth II
1034-1040 Duncan I - grandson of Malcolm II
1040-1057 Macbeth - grandson of Malcolm II; Mormaer of Moray
1057-1093 Malcolm III Canmore - son of Duncan I
1093-1094 Duncan Bane - brother of Malcolm III Canmore
1094 Duncan II - son of Malcolm III Canmore
1094-1097 Donald Bane - second reign
1097-1107 Edgar - son of Malcolm III Canmore
1107-1124 Alexander I - brother of Edgar
1124-1153 David I - brother of Edgar & Alexander I
1153-1165 Malcolm IV - the Maiden; grandsons of David I
1165-1214 William the Lion - brother of Malcolm IV
1214-1249 Alexander II - son of William I the Lion
1249-1286 Alexander III - son of Alexander II
1292-1296 John Balliol
1306-1329 Robert I (the Bruce)
1329-1371 David II
1371-1390 Robert II
1390-1406 Robert III
1406-1424 the Regency
1424-1437 James I
1437-1460 James II
1460-1488 James III
1488-1513 James IV
1513-1542 James V
Wulfeck, Dorothy. Smith of Virginia, Vol. I, Naugatuck, CT: Wulfeck, 1966
5129. April 4,  1958 Smith - Parks - Allen - Want parents of James Smith & wife Ann Parks whose son, Aaron, removed to Harrison County, VA in 1772, with wife, Sarah Allen, granddaughter of William Allen who d. 1798 Hunterdon, NJ. Did Aaron Smith move from NJ to VA? Where did he live before taking up land in Harrison County?
5201. June 13, 1958 - Harbert - Smith - Shinn - Thompson - A) Mary Abigail Harbert b. 4/1/1840, d. 9/21/1865 Harrison, WV md. 6/7/1855 Jefferson Jay Smith b. 11/13/1827, d. 10/10/1892, Harrison Co., WV.   Mary A. Harbert was daughter of Isaiah Harber & Orpha Shinn, daughter of Clement & Mary (Thompson) Shinn.
B) Smith - Wamsley - Noah Parks Smith b. 1813, d. 1880 Harrison Co., WV md. 1837 Lucinda A. Wamsley b. 1811, d. 1880 Randolph County.
3691. Aug. 15, 1941 - Signed PPO (Okla.) (Excerpt) . . . Elizabeth Bushrod, daughter of Col. John md. 1769 (letter of Philip Ludwell Lee of Stratford in Lee of Virginia, p. 167), Philip Smith, 1744-1778, of Westmoreland Co., and had Baldwin Bushrod, Frances Burgess & Hannah Bushrod Smith, named in Westmoreland deed (dated 2 March 1782) from Elizabeth Smith, relict of Philip Smith of Washington Parish, to John Augustine Washington (William & Mary Quarterly, Vol. 6, p. 93). It is highly probable that Elizabeth (Bushrod) Smith married a second time.
Marriages of Some Virginia Residents 1607-1800 from the Files of Dorothy Ford Wulfeck, Smith Family
  • (--?--) Smith md. before 1767 Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of James, whose will, dated 10 March 1767, Accomac Co., proves it. 
  • (--?--) Smith md. William Robinson, 2nd wife
  • Elenor Smith md. Peter Shepherd
  • Elizabeth Smith md. Thomas Foster
Heads of Families First Census of Virginia - Smith
Frederick County, 1782
  • David, 8 whites
  • John 3 whites
  • Josiah 11 whites
  • Sarah 5 whites
  • Sam 1 white
  • Edward 4 whites
  • Thomas 5 whites
  • John 7 whites
  • Michael 8 whites
  • Bartholomew 9 whites
  • David 8 whites
  • John 5 whites 
Hampshire County, 1782
  • Jacob 9 whites
  • David 7 whites
  • Michael 3 whites
  • Charles 12 whites
  • John 2 whites
  • James 9 whites
  • Thomas 7 whites
  • Robert 9 whites
  • William 7 whites
  • David 10 whites
  • Richard 6 whites
  • John 3 whites
Hampshire County, 1784
  • John 4 whites
  • David 7 whites
  • Yokle 10 whites
  • Robert 9 whites
  • William 8 whites
  • John 6 whites
  • William 5 whites
  • John 10 whites
  • James 8 whites
  • David 10 whites
  • Nathaniel 7 whites
  • Richard 6 whites
  • Charles 10 whites
  • Michael 3 whites
Fothergill, Augusta & John Naugle. Virginia Tax Payers, 1782-87, 1940.
  • Christopher, Caroline Co.
  • Christopher, Louisa Co.
Wulfeck, Dorothy. Smith of Virginia, Vol. III, Naugatuck, CT:  Wulfleck, 1969.
4812. March 1957 A) Foreacre - Edginon - Lent - Shigler - Brill - Smith - Hague - Rose - Parks - Larue - Crawford - Info requested on parents of James Foreacre, b. 1754 (where?) and his wife, Rosanna (-?-) b. 1757 (where?) the parents of the following children:
  • George b. 1779-1780 VA md. Mary Edignton, perhaps in Culpeper Co., VA
  • Isaac b. 1781, VA md. Guernsey Co., OH 1) Charity Lent, 2) Mary Ann Shigler
  • James Jr. b. 1794-1800 probably in VA, md. Margaret Brill, 15 Sept 1818 Guernsey Co., OH
  • Polly b. 1794-1800 probably in VA md. Peter Smith 14 March 1816 Guernsey Co., OH
  • Hannah b. 1794-1804 VA md. 17 Aug. 1820 Guernsey Co., OH John Hague
  • John b. 1806-1807 in OH md. 1824 Guernsey Co., Ruannah Rose
  • Margaret md. Reuben Hague in Guernsey Co., OH 1824
  • Rosa md. (--?--) Parks
  • Lydia m. (--?--) Larue 
  • Jane md. (--?--) Crawford
  • Catherine md. (--?--) Smih
  • Unknown
James Foreacre is supposed o have served in Revolutionary War a Yorktown, and to have received land in Guernsey Co., OH for his service. He emigrated to OH ca. 1805-06, settling near present-day Salesville. He d. 1849 age 95 and is buried in Leatherwood Church Cemetery. 
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