I62444: Judith (ABT 1780

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SOURCES Mark Kelley. Littleton, CO

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"Benjamin Botts and Jane Tyler died on December 26 in 1811 in a Richmond theater fire which killed them, 70 some odd others and their niece, Ariana Hunter, daughter of Sarah Tyler, who had gone to the theater with Jane and Benjamin. Their orphaned children were given to Ann Moore Tyler Lithgow and her husband Alexander Lithgow to care for."

The Botts Weems House in Dumfries, Virginia

The 200-year old museum is named after Mason Locke Weems and the man to whom he sold the house in 1802, Benjamin Botts.

Parson Weems briefly lived in the now-restored building and used it as a bookstore. Reportedly he played the devil's instrument, the fiddle, on the porch to attract customers from the major highway leading to the port of Dumfries. Weems popularized the life of President Washington, crafting the curious anecdotes about Washington as a youth chopping down the cherry tree ("I cannot tell a lie") and throwing a rock across the Rappahannock. The stories might reflect the parson's imagination and a keen sense of what would sell books, rather than accurate history - but they helped make George Washington a national hero for all time.

It was the biggest selling book in America, along with the Holy Bible, and was in continuous publication from 1800-1927.

Benjamin Botts was the defense attorney in 1807 for Aaron Burr. Burr was accused of treason for conspiring with the Spanish to split the western settlements (across the Allegheny Mountains) from the United States. Botts was successful and Burr was not convicted. This satisfied the trial judge, Chief Justice John Marshall, but disappointed President Thomas Jefferson - under whom Aaron Burr had served as Vice-President from 1801-1805. Benjamin Botts and his wife Jane were killed along with the Governor of Virginia and other prominant state leaders, in a theater fire in Richmond, Virginia in 1811. (The Church built over the fire site still stands, as does the basement crypt)

Please note that the greater family of George Washington has some ties to Botts. Source: David Botts

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One of the lawyers who defended Aaron Burr.
"1 While Benjamin Gaines Botts was living in Culpeper with his widowed mother, the brilliant young attorney, John Minor (1761-1821) of Fredericksburg, was practicing in the courts of neighboring county seats. He met young Botts in Culpeper and persuaded him to study law with him in Fredericksburg. Mrs. Sue (Gregory) Whitmore, grand niece of Benjamin Botts, in her manuscript history of the Gaines-Botts family, states that Capt. James Gaines wrote her great grand mother, Frances(Gaines) Botts, on the acquittal of Aaron Burr: "My son, Edmund Pendleton Gaines, had Aaron Burr arrested, and your son, Benjamin Botts, had him acquitted l."Under orders from President Jefferson, Gen. Gaines had accomplished the arrest of Burr in 1805 (FTM CD #187, p. 177). A distant relative Nathaniel Pendleton, a prominent lawyer and jurist in New York, was the second of Alexander Hamilton in his duel with Aaron Burr (M. Lee Minnis, First Virginia, 1998, p. 331).
died December 26, 1811, in Richmond, VA; married, about 1798, in PrinceWilliam Co, Miss Jane Tyler. Benjamin Gaines and Jane (Tyler) Botts perished in the Richmond Theatre fire of 1811 (FTM CD #187, p. 182)."

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Mary Barnes COMPTON b: ABT 1823

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"Kentrough, the eldest child, married Bettie Witherspoon and the children born to them are as follows: John W., James, Eugene, William, Louisa, Rosa, Augusta, Marion and Benton. Of this family James and Eugene were killed while serving in the Confederate Army and Marion and Benton have only been dead a short time."

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"Apparently Sarah Warren, Ann Wilson and Margaret Ship were sisters who had inherited the land in question from their father. In two years Margaret Ship was to sue John Warren for slander." Warrens and Related Families of North Carolina and Virginia, by Holland D. Warren, Ph.D., 1990."

My Southern Family

Judith

ABT 1780 - AFT 1817

ID Number: I62444

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Kitty

ABT 1890 - ____

ID Number: I7171

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Benjamin Gaines BOTTS

29 Apr 1776 - 26 Dec 1811

ID Number: I45924

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Matilda Clementine BUCKHOLTS

1 Aug 1857 - ____

ID Number: I53161

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John Wilson COMPTON

15 Jan 1760 - ____

ID Number: I58528

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Mary Barnes COMPTON

ABT 1823 - ____

ID Number: I93903

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Kimbrough C. "Kentrough" DUBOSE

ABT 1810 - ____

ID Number: I99594

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Mary FRANKLIN

ABT 1684 - BEF 1761

ID Number: I37240

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Martha Rebecca HODGES

18 Jul 1849 - 18 Feb 1908

ID Number: I27069

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Jo Nell LANE

James REYNOLDS

ABT 1700 - AFT 1748

ID Number: I30386

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Sarah SHIPP

1732 - 29 Oct 1800

ID Number: I75048

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