I72822: Ralph BRISCOE (23 Feb 1798

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"3.5 Ralph Briscoe was born on 23 Feb 1798. He married Sarah Dougherty, daughter of Patrick Dougherty and Ann D (--?--), on 12 Feb 1824 at Columbia Co., GA, USA. He died on 28 Mar 1881 at Walton Co., GA, USA, at age 83."

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Ordained deacon for VA by Lord Bishop London. 26 Mar 1762 Ministered St Margarets Parsish 1773-1787

Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia. Article XXXVII.

Virginia, Prominent Families, Vol. 1-4 Volume II Chapter XII the Barbour, Green, Fleming, Coleman and Henry Families.

Virginia County Records SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY 1721-1800 DEEDS
DEED BOOK G 1766-1771

2 Susanna BROCK b: 1755 + Rev Archibald DICK b: 1725 d: 11 Oct 1811

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m2 John SAUNDERS OR SANDERS (Husband)

Will: Boarman, Mary,Charles Co.,20th Feb., 1732-3;
27th Nov., 1733.
To daus. Jane Neale and Mary Gardiner, Thomas Leckonby and the poor, personalty.
To son Thomas James, ex. and residuary legatee.
Test: William Boarman, John Bowling. 20. 842.
MARYLAND CALENDAR OF WILLS: Volume 7

Info from "The Mudd Family of the United States" by Dr Richard D Mudd; "The Maryland Semmes & Kindred Families" by Harry Wright Newman (LR); files of Dr Richard D Mudd; Family Tree Maker submitted by James R Dunavan;
death date before December 1739

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son of Joseph Lawrence and Johanna Peatros.
Children:
i Joseph Aaron Lawrence b. 22 Apr 1844
ii John Marion Lawrence b. c1850, Tennessee, m. Josie ____?.
iii Francis Marcellus Lawrence b. abt 1853, Tennessee.

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Went there for the recovery of his health.

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Benjamin Taliaferro 1750 1821 served as Lieutenant and Captain in Va. Line; was at the battle of Princeton.
DAR 35688 issue Benjamin Jr.; DAR 120756 issue Nicholas M. 1801-1871; DAR 99970,90129,110060, issue Margaret; DAR 78053,98901, issue David

"Benjamin Taliaferro was the oldest son of Zack. He had just begun to mix with men, when he was challenged by a bully before a crowd in the court-yard to a contest at fisty-cuffs. He was too proud to accept, and was threatened with disinheritance by his father for his supposed want of courage. That he was not afraid to fight, when fighting was right, he proved in many of the hardest fought battles of the Revolution. He was appointed at the beginning of the war a Lieutenant in one of the Virginia regiments, which was afterwards placed upon the Continental establishment. He commanded a company under Gen. Washington during the severe service in the Jerseys, in 1777-78. At the Battle of Princeton, he captured, with his company, a British captain and his command. When the British officer stepped forward in his dashing regimentals to deliver up his sword, the proud barefooted captain ordered his lieutenant to receive it. At the call of Gen. Washington he volunteered to join the southern army, then under command of Gen. Lincoln. He served under Gen. Lee and took part in many of the successful exploits of that dashing officer. He was made prisoner at the capture of Charleston, and permitted to return home on parole. He was in full vigor of young manhood when he left the British quarters to mix again with his neighbors in Amherst. His person was six feet high, his features handsome, and his understanding good. Army intercourse had refined his manners and made his conversation agreeable."

Capt. Taliaferro moved to Georgia in 1784. He became one of the leading men of the State; was President of the Senate, a member of Congress, and filled many other high offices. He was a member of the Legislature which passed the Yazoo Act, and resisted all the efforts of the speculators to induce him to vote for it. When the people of Georgia rescinded that Act, and discarded from office those concerned in the passage, Col. Taliaferro was made Judge of the Superior Court, though he was no lawyer. The members of the bar who had the law learning necessary for the office, and were willing to accept it, had been concerned in some way or other in that disgraceful contract. It became very important to the fraudulent land jobbers, who were interested in land causes depending in the courts of the circuit in which Col. Taliaferro presided, to drive him from the bench. By agreement among them, he was challenged by Col. Willis, upon some frivolous pretence, to fight a duel, upon the supposition that his army opinions would compel him to fight, and therefore to resign his judgeship. They were mistaken. He accepted the challenge without resigning.
The speculators tried a novel expedient to effect their purpose. Judge Taliaferro's attachment to his wife was well known. Col. Willis and his friends, to overcome the Judge's determination to fight, made their preparations for the duel by practising within sight and hearing of Mrs. Taliaferro, intending thereby so to frighten her as to make it impossible for her husband to meet the challengers. They were again mistaken. Whilst they were practising, Mrs. Taliaferro was aiding the Judge to put in order the horseman's pistols which he had used when he belonged to Lee's Legion. The Judge and his opponent met. The pistol, which had been oiled by the wife, sent its ball so near the speculator's vitals that he declined receiving a second shot. Col. Taliaferro's residence was on the south side, and about half mile from Broad River, and ten miles from its junction with the Savannah. His house was of the order called framed, in contradistinction to the round and hewed log buildings in general use. It was a story and a half high, with dormer windows, structures which projected from the sides of the roof of the house. and were in fashion in that part of the Old Dominion, where Col. Taliaferro's ancestors had lived before his father moved to Amherst County. They were designed to give air at night to the crowds who assembled to frolic, and whose homes were too distant to be reached for sleep after they left off dancing. A few such windows are yet to be seen from the steamboats which ply between Richmond and Norfolk in the antiquated houses which stand on the first hills above the low grounds of James River, and about the last remnants of the times when social enjoyments were more eagerly sought after than money. This story and a half house, with its dormer windows, was considered for a long time the headquarters of Broad River gentility.

Colonel Taliaferro had nine children by his first wife. After her death, he outraged the romance of their strong attachment by marrying a dependent young woman of the neighborhood, of the name of Cox, about whom any romance would have been ridiculous. She had one child, a son.

Colonel Taliaferro's Children.
Emily married Isham Watkins.
Louis Bourbon (after Louis, the King of France) married Betsy Johnson.
Betsy died unmarried.
Benjamin married Martha Watkins.
Martha married William McGehee.
David married Mary Barnett.
Thornton married Miss Green; 2nd wife: Mrs. Lamar.
Margaret married Joseph Green.
Nicholas married Melinda Hill.
Zack married_____."

"Benjamin TALIAFERRO [Parents] was born in 1750. He died in 1821. He married Martha MERRIWEATHER.

Benjamin, the eldest son, of Amherst County, Virginia, born in 1750, and died in 1821, married Martha Merriweather. He served under General Washington in 1777-78; also under General Lee; was made a prisoner at the capture of Charleston, S. C.; was promoted to Captain. He was one of the original members of the Order of the Cincinnati. He and his brother, Zachariah, were in love with Martha Merriweather, of Amherst County, Virginia; Benjamin won and married her. This caused a lifetime estrangement between the brothers.

Benjamin moved to Georgia in 1784, at the close of the Revolution. He was a member of the convention that formed the State Constitution, before its admission into the Federal Union; was President of the State Senate, member of the United States Congress, and afterwards Judge of the Superior Court of the State. He lived and died a respected citizen of Georgia, and amassed a large fortune. The present Taliaferro County was so called in his honor.

He had eleven children, as follows:
Louis B., married Betsy Johnson, and lived many years in Madison County, Alabama, but died in Nach??doches, Texas. He had one son, Nicholas, who left no children.
Zachariah; we have no account of his descendants.
Betsey; never married.
Emily; married Isham Watkins.Benjamin."
From: http://www.ishipress.com/pafg136.htm

Children on internet:
Mary Amelia Taliaferro F 1770 in Elbert, Houston, GA, USA
Emily Taliaferro F 1776 in [city], [county], GA, USA
Major Benjamin Taliaferro M 1784 in [city], [county], GA, USA

Louis Bourbon Taliaferro M 1786
Elizabeth Betsy Taliaferro F 1786
Martha Taliaferro F 1788 in [city], Wilkes, GA, USA
David M Taliaferro M 1790 in [city], [county], AL, USA
Thorton Taliaferro M 1792 in [city], Wilkes, GA, USA
Nicholas Meriwether Taliaferro M 29 Dec 1801 in Louisville, [county], KY, USA
Margaret B Taliaferro F 5 Nov 1804

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The Noble Lineage of the Delaware West Family by Anne Fox 1958; Aka: Robert DE VETERI-PONTI. ^[S1993]

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Ralph BRISCOE

23 Feb 1798 - 28 Mar 1881

ID Number: I72822

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Walter BURNSIDE "the Immigrant"

1713 - 1804

ID Number: I37447

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Rev. Archibald DICK "the Immigrant"

1725 - 11 Oct 1811

ID Number: I76143

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Andrew Frank GATEWOOD III

George Christian HEIDELBERG

____ - ____

ID Number: I7378

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Mary JARBOE

ABT 1669 - 17 Dec 1739

ID Number: I85426

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John Petris LAWRENCE

13 Apr 1816 - AFT 1860

ID Number: I32080

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Vicompte ADALBERT de LIMOGES

ABT 0835 - BEF 0914

ID Number: I53368

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James MILES

1 Jan 1778 - 15 Aug 1821

ID Number: I24843

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PENDLETON

ABT 1780 - ____

ID Number: I68906

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Capt. Benjamin TALIAFERRO

4 Jan 1756 - 3 Sep 1821

ID Number: I40764

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ROBERT de Vespont VIPONT Lord Of Westmoreland

ABT 1222 - 7 Jun 1264

ID Number: I28164

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Estelle WILLIAMS

ABT 1900 - ____

ID Number: I5008

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