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So nearly as I can trace my direct ancestral line the first
three American generations lived in Hanover County, Virginia.
Here Joseph Dameron was born, grew up and married Mary Ball.
This name has given the family opportunity to claim relationship
with Mary Ball, the mother of George Washington. The claim, so
far as I know, is founded upon nothing more than the name and
the proximity of the families. Joseph Dameron was a
revolutionary soldier and was wounded at Guilford Court House.
After the war he moved to Dinwiddie County and later "down on
the Dan river." One of his sons, my great-grandfather, George
Ball Dameron (1771-1848), married Mary Moore (1781-1870), who
lived to the advanced age of eighty-nine, preserving much of her
physical and mental alertness to the end. I knew her, rode and
drove with her, and listened with great eagerness to her stories
of the family. My other - on my mother's side was Mary Clay, "a
daughter of Edward C. Clay, whose father was a brother of
Reverend John Clay, the father of Henry Clay." This good lady
gave me in my boyhood days "Henry Clay's whiskey glass" which I
still possess, but it has long been void of the ancient
beverage. Probably it is one of the many glasses from which this
illustrious statesman took his toddy.
From the autobiography of the late James P. Dameron (my mother's
brother) of San Francisco, published privately in 1877, I take
the following:
"Edward C. Clay's wife was a Tribue, whose mother was a daughter
of Count Bartholomew Du Puy, one of those noble and great men
who, with his accomplished wife disguised as a page, fled from
home and country rather than abjure their religious faith and
escaped from France to Germany where they resided fourteen years
and then went to England and stayed two years, and then
emigrated to Virginia in 1699 or 1700 and settled at a place
called Monican Town, some twenty miles above Richmond on the
James River."
From the same source I make the following extracts concerning
two of my ancestors: "Joseph Dameron was a large, fine looking
man and a school teacher by profession but kept a farm for his
family to live on. He had five sons and three daughters. He was
in the Revolutionary War under Captain Rainey and was at the
Battle of Guilford Court House, North Carolina."
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Mother: LILLIAS GRAHAM |
Ann Fleming, Charles Fleming + Susannah Tarleton, John Fleming +
Mary Bolling, John Bolling +Mary Kennon, Col. Robert Bolling +
Jane Rolfe; Thomas Rolfe + Jane Poythress, John Rolfe and
Pocahontas. I also took the Flemings back to 1266. In 1383
Malcolm Fleming married Elizabeth Stewart daughter of Robert
Stewart and Muriella Keith. Robert was the son of Robert II King
of Scotland mother Elizabeth More. I also got the Bollings back
to 1100 they were De Bollings then.
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_MALCOM FLEMING 3rd Lord of Fleming_+ | (1497 - 1547) m 1524 _JOHN FLEMING 5th Earl Of Fleming_| | (1535 - 1572) m 1562 | | |_JANET STEWART\STUART ______________+ | (1500 - 1560) m 1524 _JOHN FLEMING 1st Earl of Wigton_| | (1567 - 1619) m 1585 | | | _ROBERT ROSS _______________________ | | | (1510 - ....) | |_ELIZABETH ROSS __________________| | (1537 - ....) m 1562 | | |____________________________________ | | |--THOMAS FLEMING "the Immigrant" | (1600 - 1683) | _ROBERT GRAHAM _____________________+ | | (1510 - 1547) | _JOHN GRAHAM Earl of Montrose_____| | | (1540 - 1619) m 1563 | | | |_MARGARET FLEMING __________________+ | | (1532 - 1584) |_LILLIAS GRAHAM _________________| (1564 - 1619) m 1585 | | _DAVID DRUMMOND 2nd Lord Drummond___+ | | (1522 - 1571) m 1543 |_JEAN DRUMMOND ___________________| (1548 - ....) m 1563 | |_LILIAS RUTHVEN ____________________ (1526 - 1579) m 1543
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Father: John LEWIS Mother: Sarah TALIAFERRO |
_John IV "Councillor" LEWIS ___+ | (1669 - 1725) m 1685 _David LEWIS I_______| | (1695 - 1779) m 1717| | |_Elizabeth (Isabelle) WARNER __+ | (1672 - 1719) m 1685 _John LEWIS _________| | (1728 - 1784) m 1750| | | _William A. TERRELL Sr.________+ | | | (1660 - 1743) m 1685 | |_Anne TERRELL _______| | (1695 - 1734) m 1717| | |_Susanna WATERS _______________+ | (1667 - 1734) m 1685 | |--Henry Graves LEWIS | (1767 - ....) | _John "The Ranger" TALIAFERRO _+ | | (1656 - 1720) m 1682 | _Richard TALIAFERRO _| | | (1703 - 1749) m 1726| | | |_Sarah SMITH __________________+ | | (1660 - 1720) m 1682 |_Sarah TALIAFERRO ___| (1727 - 1769) m 1750| | _Benjamin BERRYMAN ____________+ | | (1669 - 1729) m 1708 |_Rose Anne BERRYMAN _| (1708 - 1763) m 1726| |_Elizabeth NEWTON _____________+ (1685 - 1762) m 1708
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Mother: Frances AUSTIN? |
_Richard LITTLEPAGE I_ | (1600 - 1688) _Richard LITTLEPAGE II_| | (1647 - 1717) | | |______________________ | _Richard LITTLEPAGE III_| | (1662 - ....) m 1697 | | | ______________________ | | | | |_Frances AUSTIN _______| | (1650 - 1731) | | |______________________ | | |--Elizabeth LITTLEPAGE | (1703 - ....) | ______________________ | | | _______________________| | | | | | |______________________ | | |_Frances AUSTIN? _______| (1677 - 1732) m 1697 | | ______________________ | | |_______________________| | |______________________
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__ | _(RESEARCH QUERY) NESMITH Old Williamsburg, Dist.SC_| | | | |__ | _John NESMITH _______| | (1700 - ....) | | | __ | | | | |____________________________________________________| | | | |__ | | |--Samuel NESMITH | (1740 - ....) | __ | | | ____________________________________________________| | | | | | |__ | | |_____________________| | | __ | | |____________________________________________________| | |__
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"Will of William Penn of Kingsalle, Co Cork, Ireland, "taken
Sicke in Boddey" [dated] 27 April 1676....
"to Amey Penne my dafter" £ 20 "and on Bed & [furniture?] & 2
plates to be paid within 3 months of her day of marriage.
To Margaret Penn, "my dafter £ 20 & Bed & 2 pewter plates" 3
months before marriage.
"To James Penne my son" £ 10
"To William Penn my son" £ 50 "which is due mee from the
Treasury office in London ffor Sallery & £ 60 more due from the
office of Ordinance wch was disbursed by mee ffor his Magestie's
youse ffor [illegible] rest at Kinsalle."
To said W P "2 shuts of clothes" & my Buffe Bellt wth silver
Buckels & one Sworde & on Scarffe of sillke with gould & silver"
[illegible] & 2 pair of sillke stockings" & "my silver watch" 2
fowling pieces a case of small pistols, "on cloke & longe coate
& hatte" etc.
Rest of goods to "Joane Penn my wiffe" [my] extrx.
Witt: Will: Bishop
/s/ Wm Penn
Probated 21 July 1676
There is also a Cash Book kept by William Penn's steward, Philip
Ford, which lists itemized expenses of his employer during the
years 1672 to 1680. Among the items in this book are entries of
payments made in accordance with the Admiral's will, and
miscellaneous payments to other relatives. There is an entry
which seems to prove his "Cousen Markham" undoubtedly was the
Founder's own first cousin, later his deputy governor in
Pennsylvania.
"William Penn, "son of George Penn late of the fforest of
Brayden in the County of Wilts gent Deceased," was bequeathed
£10 in the 1670 will of Admiral Sir William Penn. He was the
Admiral's first cousin, son of the Admiral's uncle George Penn
who was a brother of Giles Penn, the Admiral's father."
"In addition to the usual bequests to his immediate family,
Admiral Sir William Penn also bequeathed money to other
relatives, among them his nephew William Markham, to whom he
left £10 sterling, his nephew George Markham, to whom he devised
£ 5 sterling."
Lived in London and emigrated to VA. CONFLICT: "I also have
the account which says that William Penn of Penn's Lodge
(1609-1676). I found a copy of his will in Kinsale, Ireland in
the English records and a copy of his will in Maryland. First,
each of these wills is written 20 Sept. 1696. It is proved in
Canterbury Court (date in Latin which I read to be sometime in
1697). It is proved in Charles Co., MD on 9 Oct. 1696.
Each will mentions a wife, Elizabeth, as executor and his three
sisters. No children are mentioned. The witnesses are ?
Markham, ? Wright, and ? Greenfield. Now it gets confusing.
There is no evidence that the William Penn who died in 1696 had
any connection with Kinsale, Ireland. There is a William Penn
who died testate in Kinsale, Ireland in 1676, however, his will
was destroyed during the Irish revolution in or about 1922 and
only an index listing the will survives.
Which William Penn is the William who was born in 1609? Which
William Penn was the one who married Elizabeth Markham? Which
William Penn purportedly had a son name John Penn who married
Lucy Granville? Which William Penn, if either, was a direct
descendant of the Penns of Caroline Co., VA? Since the William
Penn who died in 1696 does not mention any children in his will,
I tend to doubt that he was the father of John Penn or marriage
Lucy Granville or the Penns of Caroline Co., VA. I just don't
think that a William Penn who was born in 1609 could be the
grandfather of our Caroline Co., VA Penns who were born between
1700-1720.
Here are my early William Penn references in Virginia:
1. On 22 Feb. 1652 a William Penn was imported to Virginia by
Theo. Hoans, Gent. who got 720 acres on the N. side of
Rappahonock River, near Lawson's Creek.
2. On 16 March 1657 John Waller (Walker?) and William Pen
received a land patent of 360 acres in Lancaster Co., VA.
3. The Bristol Register has an entry for 26 Sept. 1672 which
says that William Penn left Bristol for VA on this date. He was
an indentured servant of William Sanders.
4. On 20 Sept 1683 there is a reference in James City Co., VA
of 12 acres of land being patented to William Briscoe, referred
to a "land which William Pen dyed seized of and was found to
excheat by inquisition under Col. John Page, Exchecker & Co."
My comment to this is that this William Penn could be the
William Penn who died in Kinsale, Ireland in 1676.
Data I have on Markham indicates that some of the material may
be accurate it states the questioned genealogy of Joseph Penn.
In the material is information that Elizabeth Markham who was
born in 1655 was involved in the administration of the estate of
William Penn, deceased, in Charles Co., MD in 1753.
The Markham account suggests that this is a continuation of the
administration of the estate of the William Penn who died in
1696. I think this is unlikely (I don't see an estate going on
for 57 years). I think that this William Penn in the next
generation at least and may not be directly related to the
William Penn who died in 1696.
Further evidence of this is that the Elizabeth who was the
executor of the will in 1696 would not be referred to as an
"administrator" of the same will later. An executor and an
adminstrator have two different meanings (I am an attorney and
know that an executor is a person named to administrate an
estate in a will and an administrators is a person not named to
administrate an estate in a will but appointed to administrate
the estate, either with the will annexed or of a person who died
without a will).
If this William Penn was married to Elizabeth Markham, then the
account that said that the William Penn who was born in 1609
married Elizabeth Markham was wrong, regardless of whether this
William Penn was the one who died in Kinsale, Ireland in 1676 or
the one who died in 1696. I think the Markham connection is a
red herring with respect to the Penn family which connects with
the Penns of New Kent Co., King & Queen Co. and Caroline Co.,
VA."
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______________________ | _Thomas SWAN ________| | (1777 - 1845) m 1805| | |______________________ | _John SWAN _____________| | (1806 - 1845) m 1828 | | | _Stephen RAWLINGS Jr._+ | | | (1749 - 1830) m 1773 | |_Ruthy RAWLINGS _____| | (1780 - ....) m 1805| | |_Rosannah STEPHENSON _ | (1750 - ....) m 1773 | |--Robert Kennedy SWAN | (1830 - ....) | ______________________ | | | _____________________| | | | | | |______________________ | | |_Sarah Rosanna KENNEDY _| (1806 - ....) m 1828 | | ______________________ | | |_____________________| | |______________________
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