Rotherham, Yorkshire (slide show)

Rotherham, Yorkshire (slide show)

Harrogate Stray and Beckwith, Yorkshire in the news

Harrogate Stray and Beckwith, Yorkshire in the news

Once part of a belt of common land that separated embryo Harrogate from the much older communities of Beckwith and Rossett, the Stray took its present form in the 1770s when it was declared with legal support “that it should remain ever hereafter open and unenclosed”.

Resurrecting a slice of history on The Stray

ONE of Harrogate's most famous celebrations will be re-created to raise
money for charity. In 1887 Samson Fox roasted an ox on the Stray to
celebrate Queen Victoria’s Jubilee, and next month the tradition will be
repeated when Weetons of West Park host an ox roast as part of the Mayor of
Harrogate’s Inaugural Well to Well Walk.

The walk, taking place on May 7 in memory of the late Rosie Towers, will see the Mayor of Harrogate Coun Caroline Bayliss lead more than 200 walkers re-enacting some of the other
historic occasions that have taken place on the Stray.

Once part of a belt of common land that separated embryo Harrogate from the much older
communities of Beckwith and Rossett, the Stray took its present form in the 1770s when it was declared with legal support “that it should remain ever hereafter open and unenclosed”.

Once home to literally hundreds of sheep, they will return once more thanks to the help of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society.

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St Mary the Virgin Leake ancient Church Thirsk North Yorkshire

St Mary the Virgin Leake ancient Church Thirsk North Yorkshire

Yorkshire history Abbeys

Yorkshire history Abbeys: "Handale" & "Grendale"

Grendel?

Walking books for Yorkshire

Walking Pages Ltd.

An excellent collection of books containing many places of importance to Beckwith researchers.

Beckwith House Ainthorpe - Esk Valley, North Yorkshire

Beckwith House Ainthorpe - Esk Valley, North Yorkshire

Readings on Pat Patterson's Pages

Readings on Pat Patterson's Pages
Including:
-The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South
by Catherine Clinton, history professor at Harvard
-History of the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842
by John K. Mahon, former professor of history at the University of Florida
-The Transformation of Virginia 1740-1790
by Rhys Isaac, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History
-The Revolution in Virginia, 1775-1783
by John E. Selby, Wm. F. Pullen Professor of history at the College of William and Mary
- Colonial Chesapeake Society edited by Lois Green Carr, Philip D. Morgan and Jean B. Russo Selection here by James Horn, Principal Lecturer at Brighton Polytechnic, Sussex, England
"Adapting to a New World: A Comparative Study of Local Society in England and Maryland"
- The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore: From Tobacco to Grain
by Paul G.E. Clemens, Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers College
-Yorkshire from A.D. 1000
by David Hey

"Yorkshire: Tudor & early Stuart era: Houses" - Readings on Pat Patterson's Pages

"Yorkshire: Tudor & early Stuart era: Houses" - Readings on Pat Patterson's Pages

Ugglebarnby, Yorkshire

Archaeological Monuments, Antiquities and Oddities

Some Yorkshire Studs


From the desk of Steve Bulman:
The Churches Of Britain and Ireland
Aikton Parish
Dacre Parish

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Language Change in English

EXCERPT:
Family names
Many family names or surnames contain Scandinavian elements - these may be names of places, Viking personalities, trades or occupations, and Norse gods. Examples include: Airey, Appleby, Asquith (Askwith), Beckwith, Brandreth, Chippendale, Fotherby, Fothergill, Grimshaw, Hague, Heseltine, Heslop, Hislop, Hogarth, Holmes, Kendal(l), Lofthouse, Pickersgill, Rowntree, Scargill, Schofield, Stockdale, Sykes, Thackeray, Thorpe, Threllfall, Thwaite(s), Willoughby, Wolstenholme and York.

From the name of the god, Thor we get such forms as Thorburn, Thurkettle, Thurstans, Thurston, Turpin and Turtle.

Descendants of Sir Hercules

Descendants of Sir Hercules
Now With More Details!

1 - Sir Hercules Beckwith (b. abt 1235) married the daughter of Sir John Ferrers of Tamworth Castle


Tamworth Castle

Paranormal Investigations at Tamworth Castle


2 - Nicholas Beckwith of Clint (b. abt 1260 in Beckwith) m. dau. of Sir John Chaworth

Portrait Miniature of Mary Chaworth by John Hazlitt, 1805
Heiress to Annesley Hall.

She may have been a descendant of Hamon's mother...although much later.


Mary Chaworth and her literary lover


3 - Hamon Beckwith of Clint (b. abt 1294 in Beckwith) m. dau. of Sir Philip Tynley

Clint was a moated manor and early fortification in Yorkshire.
YORKSHIRE FORTIFICATIONS

Clint is in the ancient parish of Ripley

4 - William Beckwith (b. abt 1316 in Beckwithshaw) m. dau. of Sir Gerard Urfleet
NOTE:..Sir GERARD UFFLETE or OUSFLET, Knt., of Ousflet, co. York, England. Arms on a Roll of Knights temp. Edward II.
ARMS:..Argent (silver), on a fess Azure (blue), three fleurs-de-lis Or (gold).

It appears doubtful whether the Duchess Elizabeth was after all actually ever buried at Hoveringham beside her murdered spouse. At all events, she had a fourth husband, Gerard Ufflete, a Knight, who fought at Agincourt in 1415.


5 - Thomas Beckwith of Clint, Magna Otrigen and Housley( b. abt 1338 in Clint, Yorkshire) m. dau. of John Sawley of Saxton

Sawley Abbey
Founded in 1147 AD, Sawley's Abbey was home to Cistercian monks for almost four hundred years until it was dissolved in 1536.


6 - Adam Beckwith of Clint m. Elizabeth de Malebisse

7 - Sir William Beckwith of Clint (b. abt 1365 in Clint, Yorkshire) m. dau. of Sir John Baskerville. She and Sir John were direct descendants of Lady Godiva.

DESCENDANTS OF LADY GODIVA



Baskervilles of the Magna Carta baronry
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EXCERPT:
12.
Elizabeth Touchet d' Audley
married Sir John Baskerville of Coome, 1408-1455.
(Collin's Peerage, Vol 6, p.549, Burke's Commoners, Vol. 1. pp 89-91,
Lewis Dwynn, Vol.1, pp 252-315).
son of Sir John Baskerville, and Elizabeth, daughter of
John, son of Sir Baldwin Brugge, of Lexton and Staunton,
and wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Piere Grandison, died 1398
and Blanche, daughter of Roger de Mortimer and
Joane de Geneville: son of Sir William Grandison and Sybill,
daughter of Lord Treges and Mabel, daughter of
Fulk Fitz Warren K.B., and Princess Margaret,
daughter of Griffith ap Wenwynwyn and wife Hawise,
daughter of John le Strange, of Knockyn
(descendant of William d'Albini, Roger de Somerie, Robert de Muscegros, Barons in Arms.)
Fulk Fitz Warren, descendant from Robert de Roos son of
Son of Richard Baskerville of Erdisley

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8 - Thomas Beckwith of Clint (b. abt 1400 in Clint, Yorkshire) m. dau. and heiress of William Heslerton (Filey, Muston, Thorp)



Mulgrave Castle

9 - John Beckwith (b. abt 1435 in Clint, Yorkshire) m. dau. of Thomas Radcliff of Mulgrave

OldPrints
[Images of beautiful homes may be purchased there.]

10 - Robert Beckwith of Broxholm (b. abt 1415 in Broxholm, Yorkshire)
11 - John Beckwith of Clint and Thorp (b. abt 1469 in Clint, Yorkshire)


12 - Robert Beckwith of Clint and Thorp (b. < 1511 in Thorpe, Yorkshire)

Robert Beckwith at Ampleforth, Easingwold
The church contains a mine of historical information about Ampleforth, and possesses a chalice, with hallmarks for the years 1567 and 1568, made by Robert Beckwith of York.


13 - Marmaduke Beckwith of Dacre and Clint (b. Before 1537 in Thorpe, Yorkshire) m. Anne Dyneley of Bramhope

Bramhope is mentioned in the Domesday Book when the Saxon thane Uchill had a great manor here. In 1095 this passed into the hands of the famous Percy family, and in 1165 was sold to Ralph de Bramhope. In the 13th century the monasteries owned much of the land and had granges where sheep were grazed. The monks used tracks, such as Scotland Lane and Staircase Lane, as they travelled from their outlying granges to Kirkstall Abbey. At the dissolution of the monasteries Henry VIII gave the land to the Earl of Cumberland. In the 16th century the Dyneley family moved into the area and acquired Bramhope Hall. In 1649 they built the Puritan Chapel, which was taken over by the Church of England after the Restoration.
http://www.bramhope.org/brhistry.htm

Descendants of William Dyneley

Some descendants of Marmaduke and Anne Dynley
14 - Roger - Matthew
15 - Arthur - Matthew
16 - Roger - Jonah
17 - Marmaduke (Va) - Benjamin
18 - Jonathan - Silas
19 - Jennings - Isaac
20 - James - Silas II

21 - Albert
22 - Alvin
23 - Vernon
24 - Donald
25 - David Harmonious

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Stapleton Park near Pontefract


Stapleton Park



Swinton Park

A beautiful scene at Windermere

Descendants of Sir Hercules Beckwith
or
Ancestors of Marmaduke Beckwith

1 - Sir Hercules Beckwith (b. abt 1235) married the daughter of Sir John Ferrers of Tamworth Castle
2 - Nicholas Beckwith of Clint (b. abt 1260 in Beckwith) m. dau. of Sir John Chaworth
3 - Hamon Beckwith of Clint (b. abt 1294 in Beckwith) m. dau. of Sir Philip Tynley
4 - William Beckwith (b. abt 1316 in Beckwithshaw) m. dau. of Sir Gerard Urfleet
5 - Thomas Beckwith of Clint, Magna Otrigen and Housley( b. abt 1338 in Clint, Yorkshire) m. dau. of John Sawley of Saxton
6 - Adam Beckwith of Clint m. Elizabeth de Malebisse
7 - Sir William Beckwith of Clint (b. abt 1365 in Clint, Yorkshire) m. dau. of Sir John Baskerville. She and Sir John were direct descendants of Lady Godiva.
8 - Thomas Beckwith of Clint (b. abt 1400 in Clint, Yorkshire) m. dau. and heiress of William Heslerton (Filey, Muston, Thorp)
9 - John Beckwith (b. abt 1435 in Clint, Yorkshire) m. dau. of Thomas Radcliff of Mulgrave
10 - Robert Beckwith of Broxholm (b. abt 1415 in Broxholm, Yorkshire)
11 - John Beckwith of Clint and Thorp (b. abt 1469 in Clint, Yorkshire)
12 - Robert Beckwith of Clint and Thorp (b. < 1511 in Thorpe, Yorkshire)
13 - Marmaduke Beckwith of Dacre and Clint (b. Before 1537 in Thorpe, Yorkshire) m. Anne Dyneley of Bramhope

Robin Hood, Beckwith and Little John

Littlejohn

Robin Hood, Beckwith and Little John

ROBIN HOOD'S YORKSHIRE

Campsall Church

Campsall Church is very ancient and reputed to be the place where Robin and Marian were married. Near the end of the Geste, Robin begs the King to allow him to return to the north to pray at the chapel of St. Mary Magdalen in Barnsdale. The Cluniac priory of Monk Bretton, near Robin Hood's Well, is dedicated to that saint, as too was Campsall and one of the chantry chapels in Wakefield. The Magdalen cult was strongly involved with the legends of the Holy Grail, the Merovingian royal family in France, Knights Templar and the medieval Cathar heresy, although it is not certain whether any of these influences had found their way into the English Church.

Campsall
"CAMPSALL, a parish-town, in the wapentake of Osgoldcross, liberty of Pontefract; (the seat of the Rev. E.B. Frank,) 8 miles N. of Doncaster and Pontefract, 9 from Ferrybridge, 30 from York. Pop. 389. The Church is a vicarage, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen, in the deanry of Doncaster, value ~£16. 16s. 8d. p.r. !£120. Patron, Cook Yarbrough, Esq.



The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Campsall



Campsall Hall

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From Brittania.com:
Robin Hood's Stone near Skelbrook
Little John's Well near Skelbrook
Sandal Castle & The De Warrennes
In Norman times, Wakefield was held by the De Warenne Earls of Surrey. However, by 1157, they had abandoned their castle there for a strong position above the River Calder, two miles further south at Sandal Magna.

Plimpton, Plumpton and Beckwith

Plimpton, Plumpton and BeckwithA Genealogy and Historical Notices of the Family of Plimpton or Plympton in America and of Plumpton in England (on microfiche)
by Levi B. Chase, pub. 1884.
The first 22 pages concerns the family of Plympton in England. The majority of this book contains the descendants of John and Thomas Plympton. John Plympton, the first to come to America, served as an indentured servant to pay for his passage. He later married Jane Dammin at Dedham, Massachusetts in 1644. The stories of new settlements, encounters with the Indians, anecdotes of the first settlers, biographies, along with wills, inventories, passenger and other lists, make this a valuable history. There are 240 pages on 3 microfiche.

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Plimptons and Plumptons from the Boyd House genealogy page. Note the Knaresborough reference.

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Elizabeth Plumpton (born circa 1424) married Sir William Beckwith also of Yorkshire, England. She was the daughter of either Sir William Plumpton, knight, or Sir Dennis Plumpton.

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A personal remembrance of this ancient soul who has just passed from us:

George Plimpton, among other things, was a great fan of pyrotechnics...and it was in this context that I first made my acquaintance with the lofty old soul.

It was in the early 1980s in Boston, and Mr. Plimpton was to host an international fireworks festival. George introduced each country's firework presentation, describing the subtleties and techniques employed. And while the display was taking place, an orchestra would feature that country's music.

The French were really good with pastels; the English were good at causing the fireworks to sort of park themselves in the air, then branch off in different directions, then repeat the process. The Japanese fireworks were most similar to viewing a computer screen, and the fireworks seemed to directed at the stationary viewer. Palimpsests were also quite excellent. The Chinese had perhaps the strangest. A dozen strings of glowing red apples that slowly drifted across the sky, in time with the music. Very subtle. Very different from the American fireworks that finished off the evening...and, by the way, won the competition. To me they merely looked like a battleship had pulled up to the shore and just starting opening fire on the crowd. Huge white fireballs.
Goodness gracious!

For his myriad interests which he shared with the world, George Plimpton will be missed and remembered. I shant expect to have a more scintillating experience of the world of pyrotechnics, literary or otherwise. The world of letters owes him a debt of honor.

YORKSHIRE:
Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for the year 1379

Claro wapentake, Ripley parish:
Clint (Villa de Clynt)Johannes de Bekwyth' & vxor ejus
Adam de Bekwith' & vxor ejus

Claro wapentake, Ripley parish:
Killinghall (a. KYLYNGALE)
Ricardus de Bekwith' & vxor ejus


THE AINSTY WAPENTAKE:
Subsidy Rolls
WAPENTAGIU' DE LE AINSTY QUOD EST LIBERTAS PRENOMINATE CIVITATIS EBOR'.
VILLATA DE ACASTRESELBY.
John Bekwith in goods 40s 12d.

YORK:
Subsidy Rolls
WARDURA DE BOWTHUM EBOR.
PAROCHIA SC~I MICH~IS IN LE BELFRAY & BM~.
PAROCHIA SC~I MARTINI IN CONYNGSTRETE
Robert Bekwith in wages 20s

YORKSHIRE:
Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for the year 1379
Skyrack wapentake, Otley parish:
Otley (OTTELAY)
Willelmus Bekwyt & uxor
Willelmus de Bekwyth' & uxor
Johannes de Bekwyth' & uxor

YORKSHIRE:
Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for the year 1379
Morley wapentake, Calverley parish:
Idle (IDYLL)
Johannes Bekwyth' & uxor


YORKSHIRE:
Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for the year 1379
Claro wapentake, Aldborough parish:
Minskip:
VILLA DE MYNSKYPP'.
Robertus de Bekwyth' & vxor ejus

Transcript of the entry of "professions and trades"
for LEEDS in White's Directory of 1837

Royal Standard, Henry Beckith, 106 Kirkgate

Malbis Greek Orthodox Church in Alabama


The Roots of North East England

Bede, the famous Anglo-Saxon scholar was born at Sunderland near the mouth of the River Wear and lived most of his life at Jarrow on the River Tyne. Bede would be familiar with many words still used in the dialect of North East England today. And yet he lived 60 years before the first Viking raids and 130 years before the Viking conquest of Northern England...

Place names



Acaster Malbis (Yorkshire)
Acaster means the site of a Roman fort which was later aquired by and Anglo-Saxon called Aca. After the Norman conquest the manor was owned by the Malbis family.


Aldbrough St John (Yorkshire)

Place names containing the elements borough, brough or burgh, more often than not refer to ancient fortified settlements or manors and should not be interpreted in the modern sense of the word borough. The North Yorkshire villages of Aldbrough St John near Darlington and Aldborough near Boroughbridge both have the same meaning despite their slightly different spellings. Both names are Anglo-Saxon and mean 'old burgh' - an old fortified site. In pre-Saxon times both places were tribal strongholds associated with the Brigantes. The Brigantes were Welsh-speaking ancient Britons who occupied most of Yorkshire and South Durham. The Brigantes were the largest single tribe in Roman Britain. When the Romans first arrived in northern Britain, the fort of Stanwick near Albrough St John was the most important stronghold of the Brigantes. It was the Brigantian Queen, Cartimandua who handed over the British rebel Caractacus to the Romans in the year 51 AD. This infuriated her husband Venutius who captured the stronghold and rebelled against the Romans. The Romans forced the Brigantes to abandon the fort in 73 AD. As the Romans gradually took control of northern Britain, the Brigantes were surpressed and a Roman town called Isurium was built at the Brigantian tribal capital of Aldborough near Boroughbridge.

Balder, River (County Durham)

This may be a Viking river name and may relate to the Norse God Balder, who was the god of light.


Bamburgh (Northumberland)

The village of Bamburgh with its famous castle on the north Northumberland coast was the capital of the Kingdom of Northumbria, an Anglo-Saxon province that stretched from the River Humber to the Firth of Forth. Like the City of York, which was also a one-time capital of Northumbria, Bamburgh claims to be one of the longest continuously inhabited places in the British Isles. In pre-Saxon times Bamburgh was a Celtic stonghold and was known by its Celtic name Din Guayrdi. Supporters of the legend of King Arthur have associated this early name with Joyous Guard, the castle of Sir Lancelot, who was one of Arthur's Celtic Knights of the Round Table. There is no evidence for this, but Arthur is said to have fought the invading Anglo-Saxons in the north of England. History records that in 547 AD, an Anglo-Saxon King called Ida the Flamebearer captured Din Guayrdi from the Celts and made the fortified site the capital of a Kingdom called Bernicia. Later this site was acquired by Aethelfrith, King of Northumbria who named the fort or burgh after his wife Bebba. Over the years the name Bebba's Burgh has been corrupted to Bamburgh.


Baldersby (Yorkshire)

The place belonging to a Viking settler called Balder.


Beckwithshaw (Yorkshire)

This name derives from the Viking words Beck and Vith meaning stream and wood. The last element 'shaw' is an anglo-Saxon word for a wood.


Crackpot (Yorkshire)

Crackpot can be found in Swaledale and has two parts to its name, both of which occur in a number of other Northern place names. In 1298 the place was called Crakepot and its name derives from the Old English ‘Kraka’, a crow and the Viking word ‘Pot’. A ‘pot’ was usually a cavity or deep hole often in the bed of a river, but in Crackpot's case refers to a rift in the limestone. Pot also occurs in the place name Potto near Hutton Rudby, Sand Pot near Northallerton and in Pot Hall and the Pot Beck near Masham. The word is still used in Swedish dialects today. Crake meaning crow occurs in many place names throughout the North, although Crayke near Easingwold derives from the old Celtic word ‘Kraik’ meaning ‘rock’. This also occurs in the form Craig. Sometimes places containing the word Crake result from a person’s name. Crakehill, near Dishforth for example means the hill belonging to a Viking called Craca. Crakethorn near Pickering means the thorn bushes frequented by crows and this may also be the meaning of Crathorne near Yarm. Crows were also abundant further north and were found at Crawcrook - the crook of land inhabited by crows. Craster on the Northumberland coast was originally called Crawcestere and refers to an abandoned fort inhabited by crows.

BLEAK HALL, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VA

[1831] Daniel resided at "Bleak Hall", on the South side of Mattox Creek, containing 1000 acres, which he bought before his father's death. He owned a great deal of land, as is indicated by the following deeds. The writer (Brooke Payne) has been told
by old residents in Westmoreland that Daniel Payne used to remark that he could walk from the Potomac to the Rappahannock without setting foot off his own property. His father left him the Glebe (Church Point) and also 535 acres near Leedstown
originally owned by Richard Payne and purchased 1795 by said John Payne from his brother William Payne. 1818 Daniel Payne bought "Laurel Grove" from Alexander Morson, who had it from Bushrod Washington; this estate adjoined Bleak Hall. 1831 he
purchased from Mrs. Mary Lee 185 acres on Mattox Creek adjacent to Bleak Hall and Laurel Grove. 1832 he bought Locust Farm and Oak Grove, 4000 acres on Mattox Creek. In the same year he and Henry T. Garnett bought from John Gray three tracts,
including "Wakefield", the birth-place of General Washington, and an island in Pope's Creek. Mr. Gray had purchased Wakefield in 1813 from George Corbin Washington, who reserved a plot 60 by 60 feet around the site of the house, and another
plot 20 by 20 feet around the tomb. 1835 Mr. Garnett sold to Daniel Payne for $8250 his share in Wakefield. Following Daniel Payne's death, his executors sold Wakefield to John E. Wilson.

Mattox Creek as viewed from an inland road, VA Route 205
http://www.nps.gov/gewa/mattoxcr.htm
http://papayne.rootsweb.com/private/d0003/f0000075.html


www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/2179/Yates3.html


http://www.geocities.com/orvillei/beach3.html

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Westmoreland County, VA
Early Marriages
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/westmoreland/vitals/marr001.txt

May 15, 1795, Marmaduke Brockenbrough Beckwith and Rebecca Beckwith
November 1, 1796, Robert S. Hipkins and Mary H. Butler,
Beckwith Butler, her father, gives his consent
January 23, 1805, Barney (Barnes?) Beckwith and Elizabeth P. Martin

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http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/guides/southern_hist/plantations/plantm2.asp

Section 22, Carter, Robert (1728-1804), Correspondence, 1754-1804
...Sir Jonathan Beckwith (concerning lawyers and lawsuits pending in the county courts of Virginia)...
...Beckwith Butler (concerning supplies for the Lancaster County militia)...

Section 1, Jenings, Edmund (1703-1756), Letterbook, 1753-1769
This section consists of one item, a letterbook, 17 November 1753-29 July 1769, of Edmund Jenings. The volume has been indexed by the staff of the Virginia Historical Society. The letterbook was kept in London, England, and Richmond, Virginia.

Letters concern the Board of Trade of Great Britain, Jewish immigration to Great Britain, the Maryland Land Office, Negroes, paper currency in Virginia and Maryland, pistole fee, plantations in Virginia and Maryland, salt, the Seven Years' War, tobacco, and the Virginia and Maryland boundary.

Correspondents (pp. 1-157 of the letterbook) include Thomas Bacon, Elizabeth (Brockenbrough) Beckwith, Sir Marmaduke Beckwith, William Beverley (of Blandfield, Essex County, Virginia), Sir Thomas Bladen, John Beale Bordley, Matthias Bordley, Stephen Bordley (concerning Horatio Sharpe), [first name unknown] Bowes, John Brice ([d. 1766] concerning Richard Lee and Horatio Sharpe), John Brice ([1738-1820] concerning Edward Braddock's campaign in 1755), Doctor [first name unknown] Brown, John Bullen, [first name unknown] Butler, William Byrd III (of Westover, Charles City County, Virginia), [first name unknown] Calvert (concerning horse racing in Virginia), Benedict Calvert (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore and Horatio Sharpe), Cecilius Calvert, Charles Carter (of Cleve, King George County, Virginia, concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Halifax, the Duke of Newcastle, and John Randolph), Landon Carter (of Sabine Hall, Richmond County, Virginia), [first name unknown] Carteret, Samuel Chamberlaine, Doctor Daniel Cheston (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore and the Earl of Halifax), Francina Augustina (Frisby) Stephenson Cheston, Gawin Corbin, Richard Corbin (of Laneville, King and Queen County, Virginia, concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, William Byrd III, John Randolph, Peter Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and the Ohio Company), [first name unknown] Cruiksshanks, Robert Dinwiddie (concerning James Abercrombie, John Randolph, Peter Randolph, and Peyton Randolph), Michael Edwards, Benjamin Fendall (concerning Horatio Sharpe), Samuel Galloway, Charles Goldsborough, [first name unknown] Gordon, Anne [Guith?], Philip Hammond, Mathias Harris, [first name unknown] Hepburne, Matthew Hutton (as Archbishop of York), [first name unknown] Hyland, Michael Inman, Robert Janssen, Stephen Theodore Janssen, Doctor [first name unknown] Jeffery, Edmund Jenings Jr., Edmund Jenings (1731-1819), [first name unknown] Key, Mrs. [first name unknown] Lambert, Philip Ludwell Lee, Richard Lee (concerning Horatio Sharpe), John Leids, [first name unknown] Lidderdale, Edward Lloyd, Philip Ludwell III (of Green Springs, James City County, Virginia, concerning John Randolph), [John Miller], George Plater (concerning Horatio Sharpe), [first name unknown] Porteus, Beilby Porteus, Elizabeth (Jenings) Porteus, Nancy Porteus, Ariana (Jenings) Randolph, John Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Robert Dinwiddie, the Earl of Halifax, Peter Randolph, and Peyton Randolph), Peter Randolph (concerning John Randolph), Peyton Randolph (concerning John Randolph and Horatio Sharpe), Onoria Razalini (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Halifax, and the Duke of Newcastle), Mrs. [first name unknown] Rogers, Doctor David Ross (concerning Horatio Sharpe and a prescription), John Ross, Horatio Sharpe, William Sharpe (concerning John Blair, John Randolph, and Horatio Sharpe), William Smythies, [first name unknown] Snowden, [first name unknown] Stewart, Doctor George Steuart, Robert Stevenson, Benjamin Tasker, John Tayloe, Edward Thompson (concerning John Randolph), Presley Thornton, unidentified addressees (concerning William Byrd III, Edmund Jenings [1731-1819], John Randolph, Peter Randolph, Peyton Randolph, Horatio Sharpe, and Ralph Wormeley), [James] Wardrof, John Williams, [first name unknown] Williamson, John Wollaston, Mrs. John Wollaston, Ralph Wormeley, Chessley & Co. of Bristol, England, Hill & Co. of [location unknown], and Sedgeley & Co. of Bristol, England.

Letters (pp. 161-368 of the letterbook) of Edmund Jenings ([1731-1819] of London, England) also concern the Board of Trade of Great Britain, Brafferton, Yorkshire, England, copper mines, the East India Company, slavery, pamphlets of Edmund Jenings (1731-1819) and Doctor John Mitchell, paper currency, a portrait of William Pitt, the Seven Years' War, the Stamp Act of 1765, taxation, tobacco, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.

Correspondents include Sir Marmaduke Beckwith (of Richmond County, Virginia), Robert Beverley (of Blandfield, Essex County, Virginia, concerning William Pitt), John Beale Bordley (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, Robert Eden, the Earl of Hillsborough, Edmund Jenings Jr., Philip Ludwell Lee, William Pitt, Horatio Sharpe, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts of London, England), Sarah (Frisby) Brice, John Brice ([d. 1766] concerning Edmund Jenings [1703-1756] and Horatio Sharpe), John Brice (1738-1820), William Byrd III (of Westover, Charles City County, Virginia), Charles Carroll (concerning Frederick Lord Baltimore, the Earl of Hillsborough, Philip Ludwell III, and William Pitt), Francina Augustina (Frisby) Stephenson Cheston, Gawin Corbin (concerning Doctor Arthur Lee and William Pitt), Richard Corbin (of Laneville, King and Queen County, Virginia, concerning Robert Beverley, William Byrd III, the Earl of Halifax, Benjamin Harrison, the Earl of Hillsborough, Edmund Jenings [1703-1756], William Lee, Philip Ludwell III, William Pitt, John Randolph, Horatio Sharpe, John Tayloe, George Washington, and Ralph Wormeley), John Dickinson, George Lee Mason Fitzhugh, Benjamin Harrison (of Lower Brandon, Prince George County, Virginia), Edmund Jenings Jr., [first name unknown] Jordan (concerning Robert Eden and William Pitt), Doctor Arthur Lee (of London, England, and Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning the Earl of Hillsborough, Philip Ludwell III, and William Pitt), Richard Henry Lee (of Chantilly, Westmoreland County, Virginia, concerning Doctor Arthur Lee and Benjamin West and a portrait of the Earl of Camden), Richard Ludwell Lee (i.e., Philip Ludwell Lee or Richard Henry Lee concerning Robert Boyle, John Randolph, and John Tayloe), Thompson Moses, George Plater (concerning William Pitt), Beilby Porteus, Robert Porteus, Ariana (Jenings) Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Robert Dinwiddie, Philip Ludwell III, John Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and John Tayloe), John Randolph (of Williamsburg, Virginia, concerning Edmund Jenings [1703-1756], Doctor Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, William Pitt, Edmund Randolph, Peyton Randolph, and John Tayloe), [first name unknown] Reynard, Gregory Rhodes, Christopher Robinson, Doctor David Ross, Danson Roundall, William Smythies, William Stevenson (concerning Horatio Sharpe), John Tayloe (of Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, concerning Doctor Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, John Randolph, William Sharpe, and Presley Thornton), Edward Thompson (concerning the Earl of Halifax), Presley Thornton, unidentified addressees (concerning William Pitt and the Quartering Act of 1766), Edm. Wilcox, and Ralph Wormeley (of Rosegill, Middlesex County, Virginia, concerning the Earl of Hillsborough).

Section 2, Jenings, Edmund (1731-1819), Correspondence, 1789-1819

This section consists of eight items, letters, 1789-1818, written to Edmund Jenings of London, England. Letters concern land in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Correspondents include John Brice (of Baltimore, Maryland), W. Cooke (bears endorsement of James Brooks), Thomas Land Emory (of Baltimore, Maryland), Eliphalet Pearson (of Cambridge, Massachusetts, concerning the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts), David Ross (of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania), and Ralph Randolph Wormeley (of Blackheath, England, and Winchester, Virginia, bears letters [copies] of Thomas Lane Emory and Doctor Gerard Hopkins Snowden and seal of Wormeley).

Section 3, Jenings, Edmund (1731-1819), Land Papers, 1783-1795

This section consists of two items, a letter, 1783, written by Lloyd Kenyon (of London, England, and bears seal) to John Randolph Grymes (of London, England) concerning American property rights in England; and an act (copy made by John Gwinn), 1795, of the Maryland General Assembly concerning land of Edmund Jenings in Anne Arundel County, Maryland (by authority of William Harwood, John Hoskins Stone, and Henry Warfield).

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MRS. FRANCES MORTON HUBARD
(1739?-1800?)
Frances Morton was the daughter of Joseph Morton (1715-1759) of Richmond County and James City County and Frances Colston Morton, daughter of William Colston of King George County (d. 1721) and Mary Meriwether Colston (d. 1752). Mrs. Hubard was kin and connected to the first families of Virginia: Gooch, Beale, Bathurst, Beckwith, Jennings, Belfield, Meriwether, Mountjoy, etc. (See genealogical chart.)
Mrs. Morton's father was a Burgess from James City County 1756-1758. He was the son of Captain John Morton of Richmond County and Mary Mountjoy Morton. Joseph Morton became a distributing agent for a group of Yorkshire horse breeders. Traveller, an imported stud and race horse, was owned by Morton from 1748-1757. "He was bred by Mr. Crofts at Raby in Yorkshire (who was the fortunate breeder and owner of some of the first horses in England) and was got by his famous horse, Partner, grandsire of King Herod. The dam of Traveller was by Bloody Buttocks (an Arabian) ... Traveller sired horses owned by Thomas Mann Randolph, Robert Skipwith, John Hartwell Cocke, Richard Lee, Littlebury Hardyman, Secretary Thomas Nelson, Lewis Burwell and James Southall."
Following his marriage to Frances Colston c. 1739 Morton continued to live in Richmond County or King George County. In 1742 he owned two lots, #25 and 26, at Leeds Town. Following the death of his mother-in-law, Mary Meriwether2

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The Ancestors of Randy Wilson - pafg27 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File 3072. Matthew BECKWITH was born on 22 Sep 1610 in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England. He died on 21 Oct 1680 in New London, CT. He married Elizabeth (Mary) LYNDE in 1637 in Hartford, CT. [Parents]
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