tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18040898871179006822024-03-05T15:57:08.164-08:00Markham of ChesterfieldAncestors and Descendants of John MarkhamPam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-59364093755645784672020-10-05T13:59:00.000-07:002020-10-05T13:59:53.129-07:00The Story of Dr Dorsey and Mr Markham in Yazoo City<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOummPHsvRLkIwIBfh8rU2Wo9TrFYe7KGlVxcliA1zxM4tNsiqceGyuUIedMCWzajfjfIrke0S8gUtKxwdolMgwDEcKY4-oewB6gAzsFBkj70l7dB0RQO5klz_9O5NR4HesIyNjb___e0/s338/affray01-crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="268" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOummPHsvRLkIwIBfh8rU2Wo9TrFYe7KGlVxcliA1zxM4tNsiqceGyuUIedMCWzajfjfIrke0S8gUtKxwdolMgwDEcKY4-oewB6gAzsFBkj70l7dB0RQO5klz_9O5NR4HesIyNjb___e0/s320/affray01-crop.jpg" /></a></div><br />Years ago I
came across this mention of an “affray” between Dr Dorsey and Mr Markham in DeCell
and Prichard’s 1976 book titled, Yazoo - It's Legends and Legacies:<p></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">People took the law into their own hands,
frequently with disastrous results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Yazoo Banner 18 May 1839 reported that "Mr Markham, who was shot by Dr
Dorsey in the late affray in Yazoo City, is reported dead. This is a mistake,
he is rapidly recovering and is perfectly able to go about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw him a few days ago and congratulated
him on his manifest improved health."</i></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Through the
years I have worked to follow up on this incident, with the hope of identifying
Mr Markham (Markum), and understanding what lay behind the shooting. My success
has been limited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Initially I assumed
that “Mr Markham” was Linnaeus Bolling Markham. He was in the right place at
the right time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 1839 Linnaeus
B Markham was living on a farm outside of Yazoo City Mississippi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had come to the area a few years earlier
and taken up a scheme of land investment with a partner Vincent Galloway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Linnaeus Markham and his wife Elizabeth
Henderson did not have children of their own, but evidence suggests that they
raised Frances M Markham, youngest daughter of his brother Champe Fleming
Markham. Champe Markham’s first wife, Sarah Cocke, died around 1835, leaving
six children, including the infant Fannie. </span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A charge of
murder was brought against Champe Markham in 1838.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This item comes to us via an index to the
Natchez Trace Crime and Punishment Collection, 1819-1876.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This collection represents court records of
Warren county Mississippi, and is housed at the Dolph Briscoe Center for
American History at the University of Texas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have not had an opportunity to view these records (on microfilm) to
determine if they contain further detail related to the murder charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In the 1840
Mississippi census Champe Markham is living in or near Vicksburg in Warren
County.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is between the ages of forty
and fifty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In May of 1840 he is secondly
married to Elizabeth Thompson at Vicksburg, and the census shows him with his
new wife and several children from his first marriage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This might suggest that the murder charge,
two years earlier, did not result in a lengthy imprisonment.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">After coming
across the index entry - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charge of
Murder: Champ Markham, 1838</i> – I began to wonder if it was related to the
Dorsey – Markham shooting at Yazoo City in April of 1839.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dating would suggest that these were two
separate incidents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was Champe Markham
the hot-tempered perpetrator in both events?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It should be considered that two Markham cousins – George Evans Markham
and Devereux Jarrett Markham (brothers) were also living in the Yazoo City area
from about 1835-1841.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, neither of
these men are likely candidates for “Mr Markham”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Life in the
frontier towns of Mississippi, following the Panic of 1837, must have been
rough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is of interest to note that
Champe Markham, Linnaeus Markham, and Dr Washington Dorsey all died within a
few years following these 1838-1839 incidents – all young men in their thirties
and early forties.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Below are a
few more pieces to the story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps a
dive into the Natchez Trace Crime and Punishment Collection, or the archives of
the Yazoo Banner newspaper (not yet digitized) would provide more answers.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rencounter – We learn that a street fight
occurred a few days since in Yazoo City (formerly Manchester) between Dr Dorsey
and Mr Markum – which resulted in Markum’s receiving two Pistol shot wounds
that are supposed will prove mortal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
learn that Dr Dorsey is justified, as Mr Markum attacked him at or near his
residence with two Pistols, which he did not succeed in firing, from some
defect in the caps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since the above was
in type we have learned that Mr Markum is dead.</i> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">[source]
Madison Whig Advocate (Canton, Mississippi); 27 April 1839.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Yazoo City, April 20, 1839 – To John Gibson,
Editor of the True American:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dear Sir –
I hasten to inform you of the important information that I have just arrived
here in the steamer Patrick Henry, from Vicksburg . . Yazoo City has been for
the last four days like a village in an uproar, caused by the sudden
disappearance of the Teller of the Commercial Bank of Manchester, who departed
from this range on last Sunday, taking with him good funds . . . $12,000 . . .
Another item I would give, occurred a few minutes ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Mr Markham, being aggrieved at some remarks
which a Doct Dorsey (both residents) had made of him, accosted the doctor in
his office and demanded immediate satisfaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of course high words arose – pistols and Bowie knives flourished; the result
of which was that Markham was shot twice in the left side, and his life was
despaired of. Markham attempted to fire first, but his pistol snapping e
received Dorsey’s fire, upon which Markham . . to his Bowie, but was too late,
as he received Dorsey’s second ball, just as he was in the act of making a
thrust at Dorsey, who came off unhurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thus we do things in the staple State, and should I receive your thanks
for this epistle (after correcting it) and the True American at Jackson, on my
arrival there, with a wish for me to go ahead, why then I may give you the
goings on a the Capital.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wagner. </i> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">[source]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>True American (New Orleans Louisiana); 27
April 1839.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> A note on Dr
Washington Dorsey – </span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Dr
Washington D Dorsey was born in 1811 in Kentucky, and came as a young man to
the area around Yazoo City Mississippi where he served as one of the town’s
first physicians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the visityazoo
website we discover notes on his home - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Hollies, on West Broadway in Yazoo City, an old but elegant cottage dating back
to the days when Yazoo City was named Manchester</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Built by Dr Dorsey in 1834, The Hollies is
one of the oldest buildings in today’s Yazoo City. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While pursing Dr Dorsey, I came across an interesting
note on his protégé, Dr Henry Lewis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lewis
was the author of Swamp Doctor and other humorous literary productions, and we
learn that “. . . his sprightly intellect attracted the attention of Dr.
Dorsey, the leading physician of Manchester“.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Washington Dorsey died in Yazoo City on the 2nd of October 1845, at the
age of thirty-four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is buried in the
Eli H Brown Farm Cemetery in Bloomfield, Nelson County, Kentucky.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For more
details on <a href="www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I240&tree=mkchest">Linnaeus Bolling Markham</a> and <a href="www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I235&tree=mkchest">Champe Fleming Markham</a>, visit their
pages at the Markham of Chesterfield website.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">About the
photo: “A Practical
Application,” Punch, 20 December 1862.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Further
Reading: </span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The
Mississippi Department of Archives and the Yazoo Library Association both hold
scattered copies of the Yazoo Banner newspaper for the years 1838-1839.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are on microfilm; no indication that
they have been digitized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Natchez
Trace Crime and Punishment Collection, 1819-1876; part of the Natchez Trace
Collection; items are court records of Warren County, Mississippi, arranged by
type of case . . a list of individuals charged follows; Reel #30, 0785, Box
2E938, [Unnumbered Folder]: Charge of Murder, 1838–1876; housed Library of American
History at the University of Texas.</span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Odd Leaves
from the Life of a Louisiana Swamp Doctor; Henry Clay Lewis; LSU Press, Jun 1,
1997; a series of sketches that follow the outlandish misadventures of Dr.
Madison Tensas - Lewis' literary persona. Many of these stories were first
published in New York's Spirit of the Times. Using dialect, comic imagery,
folklore, picaresque autobiography, and the form of the mock oral tale, Lewis
presents a vigorous vision of the southern backwoods, where life was often
violent and brutal, sometimes shockingly funny, and always wildly different
from the polished society of townsmen and wealthy planters.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For fifty-plus years now, I have carried around the memory of a set of blue-covered biographies for children that graced the shelves of my grade-school library. There must have been thirty of them, and during my third and fourth grade years, I’m pretty sure that I read every one. I recall my favorites being the wives of the presidents – Martha Washington, Dolly Madison, and Eleanor Roosevelt. This must have been the beginning of my fascination with the people of history. <br /><br />As I have worked on my family history for many years now, it has been fun to come across those biographical subjects again – sometimes right in the midst of my own family. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson have been counted among the intimate friends of two different branches of my family – the Flemings and the Frys. The Fry – Jefferson Map, published in 1755 by my grandfather Joshua Fry and his friend Peter Jefferson (father of the president), is a frequently referenced historical document. But, the friendship of Thomas Jefferson and my grandfather William Fleming is a bit more obscure. <br /><br />I recently had the opportunity to read through more than twenty letters exchanged between my grandfather <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I290&tree=mkchest">William Fleming</a>, and the statesman and US president, Thomas Jefferson. These were located at the Founders Online website. Several of the Fleming – Jefferson letters have been reprinted in the past - in “The Southern Literary Messenger” and in the Virginia Magazine of History. <br /><br />The earliest letters, dated in 1763-64, followed shortly after their graduation from William and Mary College. William Fleming was an older student of the college, being about age twenty-six when he finished his course of study. These early letters point to the close friendship that existed between them:<br /><br /><i>Dear Will, <br />From a crowd of disagreeable companions, among whom I have spent three or four of the most tedious hours of my life, I retire into Gunn's bedchamber to converse in black and white with an absent friend. I <br />heartily wish you were here that I might converse with a Christian once more before I die: for die I must this night unless I should be relieved by the arrival of some sociable fellow, but I will now endeavor to forget my present sufferings and think of what is more agreeable to both of us. </i><br /><br />Jefferson goes on to tout the fine qualities of several lovely ladies he has recently visited. Both men are still bachelors in 1764. But, Tom has a proposal for Will Fleming: <br /><br /><i>dear Will I have thought of the cleverest plan of life that can be imagined, you exchange your land for <br />Edgehill, or I mine for Fairfields, you marry S — y P — r, I marry R — a B — l [Rebecca Burwell], join and get a pole chair and a pair of keen horses, practise the law in the same courts, and drive about to all the dances in the country together. How do you like it? . . . I am dear Will<br />Yours affectionately <br />Th: Jefferson </i><br /><br />A similar letter follows a few weeks later, mentioning an upcoming Ball, a silk suit from Tom Randolph, and again - the romances among their friends, and the ladies William Fleming is “courting”. <br /><br />No further letters appear in the archives until almost ten years later, in 1773. By this point in time, the two friends have wed, become fathers, and are establishing homes – Jefferson at Monticello and Fleming at Summerville, outside of Richmond Virginia. Both men are serving in the Virginia House of Burgess, and will go on to serve in the Continental Congress. They continue a correspondence throughout their joint lifetimes, but the tenor of their later letters is less intimate, and relates to their shared interest in the direction of their state and nation, and the various tasks before them. </span><br />
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<br />William Fleming and Thomas Jefferson were both avid readers, and the letters suggest that Fleming regularly moved, loaned, or secured books for Jefferson : <br /><br /><i>[Williamsburg, June 1776] Purdie has promised to pack up your books, and Colo. Tom to carry them to Tuckahoe. He this day told me you desired him to enquire, of me, something about Vatels law of nations. You did not mention it in your letter to me. I can lend you a copy for a few months when you return to Virginia. I am Dr. Sr. yr. friend & serv., Wm. Fleming</i><br /><br /><i>[Philadelphia, August 1779; in the hand of William Fleming] I have procured all the books you wrote for except Erasmus, which is not to be had in this place. They will be sent to Wmsburg. I shall remain here ’til the 15th. of Sept. and hope to be favored with a letter by the gentleman who will be the bearer of this. I enclose for your amusement Dunlap’s paper of yesterday which contains some important news, and much private Scandal.</i><br /><br />Letters in 1781 and 1809 mention William Fleming’s planned visits to Monticello, and we know from other sources, that both men exchanged visits in the home of the other. Martha Markham, a grand-daughter of William Fleming, supplies a brief story in her 1904 letter: <br /><br /><i>Summerville was the name of his [William Fleming’s] home twelve miles from Richmond. The day that Cornwallis reached Richmond, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were dining with my grandfather, just as they were seated at the table a courier arrived announcing the arrival [illegible phrase]. My mother said all the gentlemen dropped knives and forks and rushed on to that place.</i><br /><br />In the year 1796 William Fleming sent Thomas Jefferson his reflections on a trip he made to Kentucky: <br /><br /><i>Dr Sir, <br />I herewith send you a geographical sketch of the several counties in the state of Kentucky, in which, I doubt not, there are many inaccuracies, as I had but little leisure to attend to the subject . . I was at eleven of their county courthouses, and at Danville, where one of their district courts is held; and what is stated from my own observation, I think, tolerably correct . . . </i><br /><br />A few years later, in 1809, William Fleming sent along another treasure, and Jefferson responded from Monticello: <br /><br /><i>I send you by mail the rattle of a snake which capt Mann, who presented it to me, said was six feet and a half long; and, from the length of the rattle, I have no doubt but his information was correct . . . <br /><br />I have recieved safely the extraordinary rattle of the rattle snake, as also the leav foliage of the Alleghaney Martagon - a plant of so much beauty & fragrance will be a valuable addition to our flower gardens.</i><br /><br />The friendship of William Fleming and Thomas Jefferson existed over a period of almost sixty-five years. It came to a close when William Fleming died in February of 1824. Jefferson died two years later in 1826. <br /><br />The final documented letter of William Fleming to Thomas Jefferson was exchanged in July of 1823. Fleming compliments Jefferson on the establishment of the University of Virginia:<br /><br /><i>I rejoice to hear of the prosperous advancement of the University; and earnestly hope that the legislature of Virginia will never suffer so noble, & interesting an institution to languish, through prejudice, or parsimony: though, being in the eighty eighth year of my age, I shall probably not live to witness the consummation of the establishment: but it will undoubtedly prove a great blessing to our posterity; and may possibly tend in a measure, to preserve, & perpetuate the union of the States; and it will, at least, reflect honour on the Ancient Dominion; and especially on its founders, who have hitherto been, & will no doubt, continue to be its Zealous patrons . . . <br />I have the honour to be, with the highest consideration and regard, dear sir, your Old friend, & obedient servt<br />Wm J. Fleming</i><br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I290&tree=mkchest">William Fleming</a>, visit his page at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/">Markham of Chesterfield website</a>.<br /><br /> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Further Reading:<br /><br /><a href="https://founders.archives.gov/">Founders Online</a> is an official website of the U.S. government, administered by the National Archives and Records Administration through the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), in partnership with the University of Virginia Press, which is hosting this website.<br /><br />The Journal of Gilcrease Museum,16.2; Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson, Kimberly Roblin. The Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, owns a manuscript letter from Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming written on July 1, 1776, when Jefferson was attending the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. Jefferson met Fleming when they roomed together at the College of William and Mary and they maintained a lifelong friendship and correspondence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">About the photo: <br />"The presentation of the Declaration of Independence to the Continental Congress."; Edward Savage, engraver, based on painting by Robert Edge Pine; Library of Congress.</span><br /><br /><br />Moving back in time: Aubin Markham Fry, 1877 > Eliza Brooks Hutchins, 1844 > Aubin Maria Markham, 1817 > Lucy Champe Fleming, 1776 > William Fleming, 1736. <br />William Fleming is my 5th great-grandfather.</span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-15589562643275873942019-12-21T11:43:00.000-08:002019-12-21T11:43:23.681-08:00Mary Fleming’s Letter to her Sister<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I came across this pleasant little letter from Mary Fleming
to her sister when I was searching the Journal Book of Mary Brown Williams
Dunbar, at the Mississippi Archives in Jackson Mississippi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The letter was dated 24 Feb 1792, and was in
very good condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was written by
Mary Fleming, daughter of Judge William Fleming of Virginia, when she was about
fourteen years old. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not certain to
which of her three sisters it was written.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was probably passed down to Mary Williams Dunbar by her grandmother,
Lucy Fleming Markham.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pamela Hutchison
Garrett, 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dear Sister, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Dear Papa handed me
your letter which gave me great pleasure as it informed me the Health of you
and my other friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I flattered my
self with the pleasure of seeing sister Lucy when Papa came down, but the weather
was too cold, though I hope he will bring her in the Spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was at a very agreeable Ball the other
evening, given by the Students, and had a very good partner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Give my love to my
sisters, and all my friends, and write often to your affectionate sister. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mary Boling Fleming </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">24 Feb 1792</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A little perspective: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mary Bolling Fleming was born about 1779, the youngest child
of William Fleming and Betty Champe of “Summerville” in Goochland (later
Powhatan) county Virginia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Betty Champe
Fleming died sometime between 1780 and 1790, leaving William Fleming with four
little daughters to care for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Fleming girls were raised with great devotion by their father who “always had
some female relation living with him to help care for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was both father and mother to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had them educated at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their teachers were from England, a Mrs
Dudley and a Mrs Livingston” (letter of Martha Markham).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is unknown where Mary Fleming was writing from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her mention of “Students” might suggest that
she was at school, but the year 1792 was an early date for the female academies
of Virginia. It seems more likely that she was visiting friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1792 her father was serving as a Justice
of the Virginia Supreme Court which met in Richmond each spring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Richmond being about fifteen miles from their
home, perhaps Mary Fleming was visiting or schooling there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The “sister Lucy” mentioned in the letter was Mary’s next
older sister, Lucy Champe Fleming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
is my own 4xgreat-grandmother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lucy
Champe Fleming married John Markham in 1794, and Mary Bolling Fleming married
Beverly Chew Stanard in 1798.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3975&tree=mkchest"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mary Bolling Fleming</span></a>, visit his page at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/">Markham of Chesterfield website.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mary Bolling Fleming is my 4<sup>th</sup>
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In the year 1877, the old Wisner Cemetery rested in the heart of Elmira New York, “deteriorated, and appearing as though it had no care for many years.” The citizens of the town had determined that it was an eyesore, and were ready to repurpose the land for a community park. The town council evaluated the situation, and prepared to remove the bodies to the town’s newer Woodlawn Cemetery.<br /><br />Several descendants of my 8x-great-grandfather Peter Mathews had originally been buried in the Wisner Cemetery, mostly during the 1830’s. It was in the years 1876 and 1877 that their bodies were removed to other cemeteries in the area, either by family members, or by the city of Elmira. <br /><br />Researcher Joyce Tice gives an excellent account of the Wisner Cemetery at her Tri-Counties Genealogy and History website. It includes a history of the land originally owned by the Wisner family, the establishment of the cemetery in 1802, and details of the removal of bodies in 1877. It also includes a newspaper article, published in Elmira’s Daily Advertiser of 20th October 1875, with the title, and sub-titles – AMONG THE DEAD; The Story of the Tombstones; The Wisner Park Burying Ground; The Bodies of Those Buried There to Be Removed; Some Account of the Spot and the names of Those Who Therein Do Lie.<br /><br />The “Tri-Counties” website also includes a list of the two hundred and seventy-seven headstones in the Wisner Cemetery that were inventoried before the removal: <br /><br /><i>Before all the headstones were removed, Ausburn Towner, a local historian, newspaperman, and writer, copied the inscriptions the best he could, and the data was published in the local newspapers.</i><br /><br />The list, as published at the “Tri-Counties” website, also includes bracketed notes, and identifies “markers which were found on August 27, 1973, at the Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York, by Doris Boyd.”<br /><br />In reviewing this list, I have identified ten persons who are descendants (or spouses of descendants) in our Mathews family, and I wanted to follow-up here with their burial story: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3946&tree=mkchest">Matthew Carpenter</a>, Major General; 26 Sep 1759 – 6 Oct 1839; 79y 12m 10d; Revolutionary War Soldier. Died in the 81st year of his age. <br />Note: Matthew Carpenter, husband of Catherine Mathews.<br />[Towner 1875; to Woodlawn 1876; Boyd 1977; FindAGrave 2012 – Woodlawn, Elmira]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3920&tree=mkchest">Catherine Carpenter</a>; 1764/65 – 28 Oct 1830; 65y; Wife of Major General M Carpenter.<br />Note – Catherine Mathews, daughter of James Mathews and Hannah Strong.<br />[Towner 1875; to Woodlawn 1876; Boyd 1977; FindAGrave 2012 – Woodlawn, Elmira]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I4137&tree=mkchest">Robert Lawrence, Esq</a> <br />Note – Robert Lawrence, husband of Catherine “Locky” Carpenter. This is a shale tombstone which contains no data. Trinity Episcopal Church records show a Lawrence as being buried 19 May 1834.<br />[Towner 1875; to Woodlawn by City of Elmira 1876; Boyd 1977; FindAGrave 2017 – Woodlawn, Elmira]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I4136&tree=mkchest">Locky Lawrence</a>; 20 Nov 1785 – 13 Dec 1817; 32y 23d; In Memory Of, Wife of Robert Lawrence.<br />Note – Catherine “Locky” Carpenter. Carpenter Family Bible records states that her name was “Catherine”, and she was the daughter of Matthew and Catherine Mathews Carpenter. <br />[Towner 1875; to Woodlawn by City of Elmira 1876; Boyd 1977; FindAGrave 2012 – Woodlawn, Elmira]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3923&tree=mkchest">Fletcher Mathews</a>; 19 July 1775 – 16 Feb 1814; 38y 6m 28d; In Memory Of.<br />Note – Fletcher Mathews, son of James Mathews and Hannah Strong.<br />[Towner 1875; FindAGrave 2012 - Maple Grove, Horseheads]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I4257&tree=mkchest">Peter Mathews</a>; 11 May 1789 – 24 Oct 1826; 37y 5m 13d.<br />Note – Peter Mathews, son of Selah Mathews and Mary Strong.<br />[Towner 1875]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3919&tree=mkchest">Selah Mathews</a>; 1761/62 – 9 Nov 1833; 71y<br />Note – Selah Mathews, son of James Mathews and Hannah Strong. Appears in a list of burials for Maple Grove Cemetery in Horseheads, Chemung county, New York.<br />[Towner 1875]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I4158&tree=mkchest">Thomas Mathews</a>; 5 Sep 1786 – 16 Jun 1836; 49y 9m 11d.<br />Note –Thomas Mathews’ parentage is uncertain, but he may be the man who married Rebecca Mathews, daughter of Vincent Mathews and Juliana Strong. Trinity Episcopal Church records state he was buried 18 June 1836 by Rev Richard Smith. <br />[Towner 1875]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I4251&tree=mkchest">Robert Mathews</a>; Sep 1809 – 28 Aug 1835; 25y 11m.<br />Note – Robert Mathews, son of Selah Mathews and Mary Strong.<br />[Towner 1875]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I4149&tree=mkchest">Amira Thompson</a>; Jul 1801 – 20 Oct 1839; 38y 2m; Wife of R H Thompson.<br />Note – Amira Carpenter, daughter of Matthew Carpenter and Catherine Mathews.<br />[Towner 1875]<br /><br /><br />For more details on the people listed here, visit their pages at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/">Markham of Chesterfield website</a>.<br /><br />Further Reading:<br /><a href="http://www.joycetice.com/cemc/wisner01.htm">Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice</a><br /><br /><br />About the Photo: <br />Trinity Church, Elmira New York; 2008 by LvKlock, creative commons.<br />Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-60722777324217199752018-05-30T11:52:00.001-07:002018-05-30T11:52:58.958-07:00They are off! - A Horseracing Family Tradition<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1878, Little Joe Adams Jr wrote an article titled Early Racing in Orange County [NY], and it was published in Wallace's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine Devoted to Domesticated Animal Nature (Volume 4). Below I draw some extracts related to the Mathews, Brooks and Waters families that are included in Adam’s entertaining and informative article. For those who are interested in the topic, I highly recommend a complete reading. Link at the closing of this blog post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />The article begins - “Horse-racing has ever been the pastime of the people of Goshen, and the major part of Orange county [New York] . . . “ Adams goes on to describe the arrival of European pioneers and their horses in New York’s Orange county. <br /><br />“Very naturally the owners of these spirited animals soon began to pride themselves on the merits of their respective blooded and highmettled pets, and friendly contests of speed and bottom followed as quickly and certainly as daylight follows the hours of gloom.”<br /><br />“Although New Windsor, Newburgh, Haverstraw and Orangetown were settled long before Goshen, neither had the "lay of land" suitable for racing, excepting "Matthews' Field"*—near New Windsor, now the home of Mr. Alden Goldsmith; and as Goshen had the best horses, the first matches in this county were made in this village . . . So numerous did these contests become, that it was deemed expedient, in a few years, to construct a course outside of the public highway . . . - It was located near the village, was constructed on what was afterward, and unto this day, known as Fiddler's Green . . . This was the first race-course in Orange county. Others soon followed, and at the beginning of 1800 this county boasted of at least four noted places of meeting—Summerville, Smith's Village, Golden Hill and the Old Waters Course*, which shall form the subject of this sketch.” <br /><br />*A note on Mathewsfield and the Old Waters Course – Adams remarks on the suitability of Mathewsfield for the earliest horse racing in the county. Mathewsfield was the original home of <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3649&tree=mkchest">Vincent Mathews</a>, and was later occupied by his son Fletcher Mathews, followed by Fletcher’s son-in-law Jonathan Brooks – all who were keen horsemen. <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3683&tree=mkchest">Jonathan Brooks</a> was married to Fletcher Mathews’ daughter Catherine Mathews. The Old Waters Course was established by Thomas Waters, another Mathews’ son-in-law. <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3686&tree=mkchest">Thomas Waters</a> was married to Fletcher Mathews’ daughter Bridget Mathews.<br /><br />Adams carries on his story with several descriptions of Thomas Waters and his Old Waters Course: <br /><br />“ . . . as the Waters' Course was superior in every respect, while the wealth and standing of its owner gave it a prestige none other enjoyed, his . . course kept in a style then unknown in any of the Northern States,—it is more than simple justice to accord to the departed the honor of introducing and patronizing and propagating the best blooded stock in the county . . “<br /><br />“As a part of the unpublished stallion history of Orange county, I will give you the names and pedigrees of the famous horses* and racers who have left such worthy progeny among us, and who figured conspicuously in the races of the above track encouraged by the patronage and influence of Sheriff Thomas Waters, who was, I believe, the first importer of horses in Orange county, and who loved a horse as he loved himself.”<br /><br />*”Imported Clothier.—A bright bay, sixteen bands high, owned by Jonathan Brooks, of Matthews' Field (now Washingtonville). He was got by Old Clothier, who was by Matchem . . . <br />Badger.—A thoroughbred grey stallion, bred in Maryland, got by imp. Badger, out of the full-blooded mare, Sarah, who was got by Partner. He also was owned by Jonathan Brooks.”<br /><br />“The Waters' Course was located about one and-a-half miles southwest of Goshen, on the farm of Sheriff Thomas Waters, which contained about six hundred acres. The old course was built in a very substantial manner, for those days, and at considerable expense. Like the Golden Hill Course, it followed the land—the first one-third of a mile on rolling hillocks, from ten to twenty feet high; then down across a stout stone bridge, spanning a brooklet which ran through the meadow, and then rose again to a level with the hillocks, turning then to the left, descended gradually down past the old Ash Spring , while the track across the meadow was level until it struck the home-stretch, then gradually ascended for a quarter of a mile to the stand. The judges' stand was built by, and fastened to, the large oak tree standing on the edge of the back-track, and the start was made from the tree to the right, near the distance-pole . . . “<br /><br />“Most of the old track is now obliterated; but notwithstanding the inroads of the plow of the farmer and the frosts of past winters, enough yet remains to prove to the incredulous that we of Goshen had a race-course long before these all-wise writers were born. In two or three places the old track can be distinctly traced: the turn above the stand, at the woods; the excavations on either side of the brook, and the embankment near the ash spring.”<br /><br />“The races on the Waters' Course (which began in 1790) only took place in the fall of the year; differing, in this respect, from the Golden Hill Course, where meetings were regularly held every spring and fall: and in consequence of which the interest was gradually withdrawn from the former and transferred to the latter, until at length (about 1832) the Waters' Course was abandoned, fenced off, as we find it to-day, and surrendered to the husbandman.”<br /><br />“The old Waters' homestead, and a remnant of the once spacious stables, yet remain, but weather-beaten and grey—mere wrecks of their former glory. The property has all passed into other hands, and today not a rood of the land is in possession of the descendants of the founder of the course. The main part of the old track is now included in the farm of Rev JR Staatz; while the old house and surroundings are the property of the Messrs Steward.”<br /><br />“Mr. Thomas Waters dying, in 1834, at the age of seventy-four years, his property all passed into other hands, and the once famous stamping-ground of Orange county sportsmen is to-day almost forgotten by even those who once participated in its enchanting sports.”<br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3686&tree=mkchest">Thomas Waters</a>, <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3649&tree=mkchest">Vincent Mathews</a>, and <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3683&tree=mkchest">Jonathan Brooks</a> visit their individual pages at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/">Markham of Chesterfield website</a>.<br /><br /><br />Further Reading: <br /><br />Early Racing in Orange County, by Little Joe Adams Jr; published in Wallace's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine Devoted to Domesticated Animal Nature, Volume 4; B. Singerly, 1878; available online through googlebooks.<br /><br />The Goshen Gallopers; Phil Pines; published in the Harlem Valley Times (Amenia, New York); 1985; and available at the Old Fulton Postcards Website.<br /><br /><a href="https://harnessmuseum.com/">Harness Racing Museum and Hall of Fame, Goshen New York</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo Credit: <br />“Trotting Cracks at Home, a Model Stable”; Thomas Worth sketch for Currier and Ives, 1868; Library of Congress Collection; no restrictions.</span></span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-52281857648717659352018-05-26T13:50:00.001-07:002018-05-26T13:50:25.676-07:00Starting Again!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Much to my disappointment, my Markham of Chesterfield blog has stood idle for more than two years. But, for me, that is how life “unfolds” at times. Over the past few months I have returned to work on the Mathews branch of my family, and I am ready to post up a few more stories on this intriguing group. My own connection to the Mathews family is through Catherine (Catalina) Mathews, who married John Markham about 1740, probably in Orange county New York. Her parentage remains in question, but it appears most likely that she is the oldest daughter of Vincent Mathews and Catalina Abeel, of Mathewsfield in Orange county New York. <br /><br />In 2015-2016 I included several stories on this blog related to the likely ancestors of Catherine Mathews – Captain Peter Mathews, New York Governor Benjamin Fletcher, and William Fletcher and Henry Vincent of London. More recently I have been looking at Catherine Mathews’ likely aunts, uncles, siblings, and cousins. There are some very interesting characters in the group, and I am looking forward to sharing a few of their stories. <br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I2&tree=mkchest">Catherine Mathews</a> visit her individual pages at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/">Markham of Chesterfield website.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Peter Mathews played many roles in his lifetime! Primarily he was a military man – beginning as quartermaster for a British company in Ireland, and advancing through several offices, to become a Captain of the King’s troops stationed in New York. There is some evidence that he served as a secretary to Governor Benjamin Fletcher upon their arrival in New York in 1692. In later life he worked to establish St Peter’s (Anglican) Church in Albany New York, and was among the active wardens of that congregation. He made a trip to England in 1703 to speak for the colonial troops, and he fulfilled a term as Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1715. Imagine my surprise when I learned that, amid all that busyness, he was also recognized as a tavern-keeper in New York City.<br /><br />The soldiering life in New York was a rather dismal affair overall. Men suffered the indignity of poor pay, and often lacked the basic essentials of food, clothing and warm blankets. Of course, the officer fared better than the common soldier, but it was an uncertain lifestyle at best. For that reason, many of the soldiers and officers found secondary means of supporting themselves and their families. This may have been the impetus behind Peter Mathews’ tavern.<br /><br />During his time in New York (1692-1719), Peter Mathews lived back and forth between New York City and Albany. According to New York City’s 1703 census, Peter Mathews and his family lived in the South Ward of the City, near the Fort. This was the oldest part of the city, and was probably the location of Peter Mathews’ Tavern. As was the custom of the day, his “tavern” was likely to be a room, or rooms, that were a part of his principal residence. We don’t have a name for his establishment, and we know very little of its nature. Did Peter Mathews and his wife Bridget serve food and drink to the public? Or, was it more of a private club for Mathews’ cronies? – in which case it gave the tavern-keeper an opportunity to take a few pence from his friends. <br /><br />New York politics at the beginning of the eighteenth century was a volatile mix. Following the Leisler Affair, the people of New York City found themselves divided into two strongly opposed factions. Peter Mathews was allied with the anti-Leislerians. During his years as governor of New York (1698-1701), Lord Bellomont waged a campaign to vilify his predecessor, Benjamin Fletcher. This included attacks upon Fletcher’s “friends” - among them, Peter Mathews. Inside Bellomont’s letters we find clues to the nature of the activities at Peter Mathews’ tavern. In September 1698 Bellomont mentions a “clubb” (anti-Leislerians) that was probably instituted by Benjamin Fletcher. A later letter, in 1700, hints that this Club might have had meetings at Peter Mathews’ tavern. <br /><br /><i>. . . The Jacobite* party in this towne have a clubb commonly every Saturday (which was Colonel Fletcher's clubb day). Last Saturday was seaven night, there mett twenty seaven of them, their ringleaders are Colonel Bayard, Colonel Minviele, both of the Councill, Mr. Nicolls, late of the Councill, and Wilson, late Sheriff of this towne ; there is so great a rancor and inveterancy in these people that I think it by no means proper for me to leave this province . . . </i><br />[source] From a letter of the Earl of Bellomont to the Board of Trade, 21 September 1698. <br /><br /><i>. . . My first Lieut's name is Peter Matthews, bred up from a child with Coll. Fletcher & 'tis at his house that the angry people of this Town have a Club and hold their cabals . . . </i><br /> [source] From a letter of Lord Bellomont to Secretary Vernon, 18 October 1700.<br /><br />*Note that the term Jacobite is probably used loosely here, to suggest that the “club” is on the opposing side to Bellomont. To call someone a Jacobite often meant he was a schemer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sometime between 1709-1711 Peter Mathews moved from New York City to Albany, New York. He probably made Albany his home until his death in 1719. There is no indication that he resumed his tavern-keeping habit during the Albany years. <br /><br />As a personal aside, I can’t help but mention another grandfather who kept a tavern in New York City during the same period. His name was John Hutchins, and he officiated over the King’s Arms Tavern on Broadway. It operated on the opposite side of the political scale from Peter Mathews’ establishment, but coincidentally, from Bayles’ “Old Taverns of New York”, we learn: <br /><br /><i>Although Hutchins had been favorable to the Leislerians in Fletcher's time, he seems to have gone over to the anti-Leislerians, and had been elected alderman by the votes of that party. He had borrowed money from both Gabriel Minvielle and Nicholas Bayard . . . These two men are named by Bellomont as ringleaders in the party opposed to him.</i><br /><br />We don’t know whether Peter Mathews and John Hutchins were acquainted. It seems possible! After the passage of four or five generations, their descendants would meet, marry, and establish a home in Natchez, Mississippi. –Another story, for another day!<br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3646&tree=mkchest">Peter Mathews</a>, visit his page at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/">Markham of Chesterfield website</a>. Peter Mathews is my 8xgreatgrandfather.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Further Reading: <br /><a href="http://www.geni.com/projects/Tavern-Keepers-and-Brewers-of-Early-America/14533">Tavern Keepers and Brewers of Early America; a project at geni.com</a><br />Old Taverns of New York; W Harrison Bayles, 1915; available online through googlebooks.<br /><a href="http://www.web-books.com/Classics/ON/B0/B701/18MB701.html">History of Coffee in old New York.</a> Interesting account including many details of John Hutchins and the King’s Arms Tavern (Coffee House). </span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-6699733206729230062016-02-04T15:17:00.002-08:002016-02-04T15:17:17.941-08:00The death of William Fletcher at Gloucester<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Family history research on the “ordinary” people of 17th century England can prove challenging. This blog posting is my effort to put flesh on the bones of William Fletcher of London. I suspect, but have not been able to prove, that he is one of my great-grandfathers. I cannot confirm, absolutely, that all of the details below refer to the same William Fletcher (Flesher), but the pieces of this story come together well, and I hope that it will prove helpful to future researchers. </i><br /><br />In 1643 England was in the throes of a civil war. The earliest fighting had taken place in the previous year – the Royalists (Cavaliers) coming up against the Parliamentarians (Roundheads) at Edgehill. The primary question to be resolved was whether the King should govern without the consent of his Parliament. Issues related to authority, religion, and rebellion undergirded almost twenty years of war. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <br />Most of England’s cities stood with the Parliamentarians throughout the war, and in 164<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3</span> the Earl of Essex called out two of London’s trained bands to follow him to “the relief of Gloucester” – that city being then under siege by the Royalists led by King Charles. <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3719&tree=mkchest"><b>William Fletcher</b></a>, a young gentleman of London, met the call. William was probably in his early 30’s, husband to <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3720&tree=mkchest"><b>Abigail Vincent</b></a>, and father to at least two sons, William Fletcher and <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3645&tree=mkchest"><b>Benjamin Fletcher</b></a> (future governor of New York). Records style William Fletcher (sr) as a gentleman, a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clothiers. He lived in the parish of St Lawrence Jewry, and his armorial bearings are recorded as - Sa a cross flory betw four escallops ar quartering Vincent, viz, az a chev between three quatrefoils slipped ar.<br /><br />London’s trained bands were established during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. <a href="http://bcw-project.org/"><b>The British Civil War Project website</b></a> houses very helpful information on these militia regiments. From their site: <br /><br /><i>In the absence of a regular army, the Trained Bands were the only permanent military units in England when the Bishops' Wars broke out in 1639-40 and the First Civil War followed in 1642. The popular view was that the Trained Bands were inefficient, poorly equipped and badly disciplined. With a few exceptions, this was generally true of the provincial companies. The London Trained Bands were of better quality thanks to enthusiastic societies of citizens who met regularly during the 1630s to practice their drill, hiring expert soldiers to instruct them. In 1642, the Common Council increased the four regiments of the London Bands into 40 companies of 200 men each, organized into six regiments and distinguished by their colours: Red, White, Yellow, Green, Blue and Orange.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />The Parliamentarians met with success, but William Fletcher never returned to his family in London. Was he the victim of an unfortunate turn of events? One of the earliest records I located in connection with William Fletcher was a reference to his funeral entry, found in Burke’s Armory (1884): <br /><br /><i>1643; William Fletcher slain before Gloucester and buried at the Collegiate Church there; Funeral Entry Ulster Office from St Lawrence (Jewry?), London England.</i><br /><br />I suspect that this funeral entry relates to an account I recently came across in the aptly named “Bibliotheca Gloucestrensis: a collection of scarce and curious tracts relating to the county and city of Gloucester: illustrative of, and published during the civil war, with biographical and historical remarks, Volume 2”, compiled by John Washbourn, 1823. In his book Washbourn publishes an account written by Sgt Henry Foster with another lengthy title – “A true relation of the severall passages which have happened to our army, since it advanced towards Glocester”. Henry Foster was an officer in London’s Red Regiment, under Col Harvey. He gives a detailed account of the experiences of his regiment, and includes the story of their arrival at Prestbury Hill outside of Gloucester. Apparently the weather was formidable, and the officers and men made a rather confused and desperate descent of the hill, to seek shelter in the nearby villages. Here is the story that Henry Foster tells: <br /><br /><i>. . . the army marched for quarter to severall villages adjacent, Colonell Harveye's foot, the London redcoats, and Kentish regiment, drawing off towards Southam, a little village not farre from the foot of the hill, sidewards, which when we were within two or three bow-shoots of my Colonell himselfe, with colonel Sir William Springate, Major Shepheard, and his owne cornet, with myselfe and some few others, out-marcht the foot, the rather indeed that my colonell might (according to his wonted vigilancy) view the avenues before the darknes of the night should overtake him; which while he, with Major Shepheard, were about, Major Bourne and Captain Buller with their troops (mistaking us for cavaliers) dismounted at our quarter, and by a pistol shot (before we could make them understand who we were) wounded sorely, we fear mortally, Cornet Flesher, and we strongly presumed had pistolled more of us had not my colonell seasonably returning, made knowne himselfe, and so rescued us.</i><br /><br />Cornet Flesher (Fletcher) likely died on the same day the Royalist troops marched away from Gloucester. Due to the chaos of the situation, it was probably deemed best to bury him at Gloucester Cathedral (Collegiate Church), rather than escort his body back to London. A sad story indeed!<br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3719&tree=mkchest"><b>William Fletcher</b></a>, visit his page at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/"><b>Markham of Chesterfield website</b></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Further Reading:<br />Numerous accounts have been written of the Gloucester Siege. One I particularly enjoyed was Jon Day’s, “Gloucester & Newbury 1643: The Turning Point of the Civil War”, published by Pen and Sword in 2007. It includes the account of Cornet Flesher. <br /><a href="http://www.blews-ltb.co.uk/knot.asp"><b>The Blew Regiment of the London Trained Bands website</b></a> <br /><br />About the Photo: <br />Preparation Sketch for “The Setting Out of the Train Bands from London to Raise the Siege of Gloucester”, by Charles West Cope, about 1865, from the Parliamentary Art Collection (Palace of Westminster). </span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-62034284854850785762016-01-21T11:24:00.000-08:002016-01-21T11:24:55.364-08:00Peter Mathews – Searching for AncestorsPeter Mathews’ ancestry remains a mystery for me! I’ve had some success in piecing together the story of his lifetime, but, despite a hot pursuit, his parents and grandparents have remained out of sight. Or, if they are in my research pages, I don’t recognize them yet. <br />
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<a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3646&tree=mkchest">Peter Mathews</a> was probably born between 1660 and 1670, perhaps in Ireland or England. He first appears in military records in 1691, when he is assigned as quartermaster in Benjamin Fletcher’s regiment of foot, serving in Ireland. Shortly after, in 1692, Peter accompanies Fletcher to New York. <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3645&tree=mkchest">Benjamin Fletcher</a> acted as New York colonial governor and chief commander of the military from 1692, until 1696. During the Fletcher tenure, Peter Mathews served as Fletcher’s personal secretary, and as a Captain of the British troops at Fort William Henry (later Fort George). There is evidence that Peter Mathews was related to Benjamin Fletcher, possibly being his nephew or younger cousin. <br />
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Considerable effort has been expended to try to identify the ancestors of Peter Mathews. A number of Mathew, Mathews, Matthews individuals and families have been examined. To better define that research, various individuals have been placed in the Markham of Chesterfield database under a collective entry - "Mathews Ancestors ZCollector". At present there are fifteen candidates vying for the position of Peter Mathews’ ancestors. A list of these candidates, with links, appears in the sketch titled <a href="http://markhamchesterfield.com/sketches/SkchA101_MathewsAncestors.pdf">Peter Mathews – Ancestral Possibilities</a>.<br />
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This blog post introduces a few of the more interesting “ancestral possibilities”. More detail can be found in their individual entries in the database. <br />
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The first, and most promising, of the candidates is <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3841&tree=mkchest">Benfletcher Mathews</a>, who appears in a 1691 burial record at St Michan Church in Dublin, Ireland. A check, and recheck of this name suggests that it is spelled correctly. The burial information gives an intriguing clue: Benfletcher Mathews, who was driven out of Athlone; buried 7 Apr 1691. Comments on what was happening in Athlone in the winter and spring of 1691 can be found in the sketch titled <a href="http://markhamchesterfield.com/sketches/SkchA103_Athlone1690.pdf">Athlone Ireland 1690-1691</a>. It is also intriguing to note another burial in Dublin’s St Michan Church five years later in 1696 – Elizabeth, wife of <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3958&tree=mkchest">Vincent Mathews</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3842&tree=mkchest">John Mathews</a>, quartermaster of Dublin, might also prove of interest. In records he is styled as a gentleman, and he and his wife Margaret reside on Francis street in Dublin. John and Margaret Mathews both die in 1660, making them questionable as parents for our Peter Mathews.<br />
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Other Dubliners caught my eye - <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3851&tree=mkchest">John Mathews</a> and his brother Henry. They appear among the masters and wardens of Dublin’s Goldsmith’s Guild in the early 1700s. Several things suggest that they might be descendants of the Dublin quartermaster mentioned above. The Christian names used in this family do not hint at a connection for our Peter Mathews. But, for several reasons, they continue to be of interest.<br />
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It is likely that Peter Mathews’ family came to Ireland from England in the mid-17th century. Benjamin Fletcher was born in London in 1640; his father and grandfathers being local and international merchants. Did the Mathews family also belong to the London merchant class? I have come across a very interesting <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3845&tree=mkchest">Peter Mathews</a> (1617-1677) in London. He was the son of Baldwin Mathews, a London cloth merchant, and his wife Anna Regoot. The Regoot family came from the Netherlands to London in the 16th century, and had extensive family and business connections across the English Channel, and also in New Netherlands (New York). Their family story is interesting!<br />
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The search for Peter Mathews’ ancestors will continue. All clues are welcome. For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3646&tree=mkchest">Peter Mathews</a>, visit his page at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/">Markham of Chesterfield website</a>.Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-6112272210246840382016-01-10T14:05:00.000-08:002016-01-10T14:05:50.731-08:00Finally – the Mathews Family!<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After nearly eight months of hard work, I am finally ready to share my research on the Mathews family at my <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/"><b>Markham of Chesterfield database website</b></a>. John Markham, my immigrant ancestor, married Catherine Mathews around the year 1740 in Orange county New York. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To date, I remain uncertain as to whether <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I2&tree=mkchest"><b>Catherine Mathews</b></a> is the daughter or granddaughter of <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3646&tree=mkchest"><b>Peter Mathews</b></a>, a captain of His Majesties troops at New York. This question is discussed at several points in the database, and it will be the topic of an upcoming blog post. For now, try the sketch titled – <a href="http://markhamchesterfield.com/sketches/SkchD003_JMarkhamWife.pdf"><b>A Wife for John Markham</b>.</a><br /><br />Catherine Mathews’ family is an interesting group. Her aunts, uncles, and siblings are involved in some of colonial America’s most fascinating stories – Indian treaties, pirates, the Leisler Rebellion, merchant doings of New York City, establishment of the English church at Albany, and Tory intrigue. <br /><br />Identifying Catherine Mathews’ ancestors has been a struggle! I have gathered a long list of clues, but no firm evidence. Further discussion can be found in the sketch titled – <a href="http://markhamchesterfield.com/sketches/SkchA101_MathewsAncestors.pdf"><b>Peter Mathews: Ancestral Possibilities</b></a>. The strongest clue lies in Peter Mathews’ relationship to <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3645&tree=mkchest"><b>Benjamin Fletcher</b></a>. Fletcher served as Colonial Governor of New York from 1692 – 1698. Peter Mathews was probably a nephew or cousin of some sort to Benjamin Fletcher, but proof of the exact relationship is still lacking. Fletcher’s ancestral line has also been added to the online database, with the hope that it will eventually provide answers for the Mathews search. It includes such interesting characters as <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3719&tree=mkchest"><b>William Fletcher</b></a> (father), <b><a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3737&tree=mkchest">Henry Vincent</a> </b>(grandfather), and <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3782&tree=mkchest"><b>Dorcus Charke</b></a> (grandmother). To read more about the possible relationship between Mathews and Fletcher try - <a href="http://markhamchesterfield.com/features/FeaMkChB01_MathFletConnect.pdf"><b>Peter Mathews and Benjamin Fletcher: What’s the Connection?</b></a><br /><br />Some branches of the Markham family hold to the theory that Catherine Mathews was a daughter, or granddaughter of <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3678&tree=mkchest"><b>Richard Coote</b></a>, Lord Bellomont, who served as Colonial Governor of New York following Benjamin Fletcher. My research draws this idea into question, and is discussed in the sketch titled - <b><a href="http://markhamchesterfield.com/sketches/SkchA007_ColGovTheory.pdf">Our Colonial Governor: Three Theories</a>.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b></b><br />It is my hope that the introduction of the Mathews family to the Markham database will prompt discussion, and eventually lead to answers to the questions surrounding Catherine Mathews. I would enjoy hearing from others who are interested in their stories.<br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I2&tree=mkchest"><b>Catherine Mathews</b></a>, <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3646&tree=mkchest"><b>Peter Mathews</b></a>, or <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I3645&tree=mkchest"><b>Benjamin Fletcher</b></a>, visit their individual pages at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/"><b>Markham of Chesterfield website</b></a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: <br />Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Theatres -- U.S. -- N.Y. -- New Amsterdam" <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-5498-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99"><b>The New York Public Library Digital Collections</b></a>.</span></span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-11505990750552112502015-12-15T06:45:00.000-08:002015-12-15T06:45:42.099-08:00Brother Markham . . of mild and engaging disposition and much practical good sense.<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcvsXKjvMz_sAA2mGao23oXXee2OSRsALHh2sf1Nq3JsQUF3gYfAB1jvsfVRHk6pMWi5bnhLCbYP6-ePFqHkw69dmDLV9kOTWoqNo1cMcrIbFX1bH4CT2eYZp9zvvH778od3mGTW0X_MQ/s1600/06methodistmissioncemetery4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcvsXKjvMz_sAA2mGao23oXXee2OSRsALHh2sf1Nq3JsQUF3gYfAB1jvsfVRHk6pMWi5bnhLCbYP6-ePFqHkw69dmDLV9kOTWoqNo1cMcrIbFX1bH4CT2eYZp9zvvH778od3mGTW0X_MQ/s320/06methodistmissioncemetery4.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The year 1854 saw the passage of the Kansas – Nebraska Act by the US Congress, and a vast swath of new land was open for settlement. The Methodist Episcopal Church was immediately aware that the settlers in the new territory would be in need of the church. At a meeting in Baltimore Maryland, church leaders determined to “send one who should make a tour of exploration, ascertain its condition . . return and report in time to send out a sufficient body of preachers . . “ The Church chose Rev William H Goode for the job. He set out in July 1854, and nine years later, he included an account of his expedition in a book - Outposts of Zion.<br /><br />Rev Goode’s book is a delightfully readable account of his many years of service in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His trip to the Kansas – Nebraska Territory in the summer of 1854, is only a piece of his story. But, the reading of these chapters (Part II, Chapter 1-3) was instructive. Along with the opening up of land for settlement, came the divisive issue of slavery, and during his journey, Goode became a witness to growing tension in Kansas. In his position as a church leader, he commented on the “stands” of the various Indian Missions in the area around Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Besides the several Methodist missions in the area, there were the Baptists and Quakers. Being an anti-slavery man – he found himself more hospitably received by the Quakers, than by his own church’s Shawnee Mission.<br /><br />But, the story here is about <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I36&tree=mkchest">Rev Thomas Bernard Markham</a>, who is introduced to us by Rev Goode. What great good fortune to come across a first-hand account of our ancestors. By 1854, Rev Markham had been serving almost thirty years as a teacher, missionary, and circuit rider among the white and Indian settlers on the Kansas – Missouri border. Rev Goode fell seriously ill during his travels in Kansas, and he was taken in by Rev Markham and his family. <br /><br />In the words of Rev William H Good:<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>[mid July 1854] . . . Still Feeble, suffering, and apprehensive of results, I urged on my course, and about three in the afternoon reached the house of Rev. Thomas B. Markham, then residing upon the bank of the Missouri, nearly opposite to where the town of Kickapoo, in Kansas, now stands. Here I found a brother in Christ and a kind Christian family, who, though then afflicted themselves, received me cordially, sympathized in my condition, and ministered to my necessities.<br /><br />Brother Markham was a grave yet cheerful Christian man and minister, of mild and engaging disposition and much practical good sense. He had been a local preacher, steadfast in the ranks of the Methodist Episcopal Church up to the time of the reorganization of Missouri Conference in 1848, when, like many others, stirred by the necessities of the work and the scarcity of laborers, he joined the traveling connection, though already past the meridian of life. He had given a son also to the ministry, said to have been pious and promising, who, after a brief service in itinerancy, during which he encountered sharp persecutions, fell nobly at his post in the field of battle. Brother M. was well versed in the history of affairs in Missouri and upon the border, had spent some years in the Indian missions, and was able to give me much interesting and valuable information. Before leaving I engaged him to take charge of the work in the settlements of Kansas contiguous to Fort Leavenworth, till the ensuing Conference . . . <br /><br />By the 22d [July] I began to feel as though I should summon up my little strength and again address myself to the journey. Hearing of a meeting of some days' continuance to be held, on my way, in a neighborhood on the Missouri side, where, it was said, nearly all the residents had "taken claims" in Kansas, and intended moving over, and, being told that I could see more Kansas people there than at any point in the Territory, I determined to attend. Brother M. accompanied me to the place, where I found a settlement of substantial Indiana farmers, and was made welcome. I participated in the Sabbath services, preaching from John iv, 35, and administering the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. We had an interesting meeting, and I saw no demonstration of hostility . . <br /><br />At this place I formed some acquaintance that proved of benefit to me in my after labors in the Territory . . Near one year afterward, just about the time of the breaking out of violence in Platte county, good brother Markham was called home to his reward without witnessing the worst of the painful struggle which ensued. I was called to preach his funeral; consented, and fixed a day; but the scenes of outrage meantime had opened; the Platte county interdict upon our preachers had been passed; and the family never made the appointment.</i></span><br /><br />Rev Thomas Bernard Markham died 1 April 1855, near Weston in Platte county Missouri. The 1860 census shows his widow and younger children living across the river in Shawnee county Kansas. His obituary proclaims, “He was a good man, a good preacher, and an unwavering friend of the Methodist Episcopal Church.”<br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I36&tree=mkchest">Thomas Bernard Markham</a>, visit his page at <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com. </a><br /><br />Moving back in time: Thomas Bernard Markham, 1800 > John Markham, abt 1745 > John Markham of Chesterfield, abt 1700.<br />Thomas Bernard Markham is my first cousin, six generations removed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Captain N L Cooke was a child of Kentucky, born in 1816 to <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I273&tree=mkchest">Norborne Berkeley Cooke</a> and <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I26&tree=mkchest">Judith Virginia Markham</a>. He likely began his days in the town of Versailles, but as a young boy, moved with his family to an area around New Castle in Henry county Kentucky. His story is an interesting one, and descendant William “Bill” Millay has put together an account – sharing stories about the packet boats he operated on the Ohio River, his stance on slavery, and an eventual move to Texas. Bill has graciously allowed me to share these stories on my Markham of Chesterfield website.<br /><br />So, what do the “N. L.” initials represent? After coming across at least a half-dozen different renderings for his name, I have settled with the spelling <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I435&tree=mkchest">Norborne Linnaeus Cooke</a>. I don’t claim to be correct on this spelling, and I don’t have any strong evidence to support my choice. After looking at so many possibilities, I simply had to settle on something. <br /><br />The name Norborne was passed down through the Cooke family for several generations. It must have originated with Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt, who served as Governor of Virginia from 1768-1770. The Norborne name is often seen with a “u” in the second syllable.<br /><br />Norborne Cooke’s middle name raises even more questions. Not only have I seen a wide variety of spellings, but discussion continues as to whether the name is Linnaeus or Leneans. Recently, Bill Millay and I have shared our thoughts on the question. Coming from the ‘Markham Family camp”, I wrote to Bill: <br /><br /><i>I would like to ask you about the middle name “Leneans” . . . Do you know anything of its origin? I have no doubt that you know much more about the Cooke family than I do – but I have always felt that the Linnaeus spelling fit as a family name. For what it is worth, I will tell you the little bit I know about the Linnaeus name. Judith Virginia Markham Cooke (wife of Norborne Berkeley Cooke) had a sister Mary Markham. She married <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I272&tree=mkchest">Linnaeus Bolling</a> and lived in Buckingham county Virginia. I have the impression that Linnaeus Bolling was well respected among the Markham spouses. I have assumed (possibly incorrectly) that Norborne and Judith Virginia Cooke used the name to honor their brother-in-law. Bolling family history claims that the name Linnaeus was used in their family to honor the botanist Carl Linnaeus. I don’t know more than that.</i> <br /><br />Bill replied, and referred me to James Nourse and His Descendants (1897), by Catharine Nourse Lyle – where the Leneans spelling of the middle name appears. The Nourse book includes a good account of the descendants of Norborne Berkeley Cooke and Judith Virginia Markham. It is not clear as to who supplied the information to Mrs Lyle. If Judith Markham Cooke, or one of her children, supplied the information, then Bill is correct in suggesting to me, <i>“I would think that the elder Mrs. Cooke would know how to spell her rather distinguished grandson's name.” </i> But, I do note that Judith Markham Cooke’s mother is incorrectly identified in the account, and that leaves me wondering. <br /><br />For now, I am going to leave Captain Cooke’s name as Norborne Linnaeus Cooke in my database. But, I am not going to discount the possibility that his middle name is actually Leneans. Perhaps some stronger evidence will surface in the future. <br /><br />Regardless of the correct name spelling, you will enjoy learning more about Captain Cooke. Be sure to check out, <a href="http://markhamchesterfield.com/biographies/cooknorb435_biobm.pdf">Captain Norbourne L Cooke: An account by William "Bill" Millay, 2015</a>.<br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I435&tree=mkchest">Norborne Linnaeus Cooke</a>, visit his page at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/">Markham of Chesterfield </a>website.<br /><br />Moving back in time: Norborne Linnaeus Cooke, 1816 > Judith Virginia Markham, 1787 > Bernard Markham, abt 1737 > John Markham of Chesterfield, abt 1700.<br />Norborne Linnaeus Cooke is my first cousin, five times removed.</span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-39348419583337652232015-08-08T12:54:00.002-07:002015-08-08T12:54:28.813-07:00Home Sweet Home – A search for John Markham’s home on the Shampoke<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am pleased to have a copy of Benjamin Weisiger’s book “Old Manchester and Its Environs, 1769 – 1910”, written in 1993. It contains a lovely collection of stories from the area around the old town of Manchester in Chesterfield county Virginia. One of the stories that caught my attention was that of Laurel Meadow Plantation, the home of Col David Patteson. Weisiger’s introductory paragraph tells us: <br /><br /><i>Laurel Meadow, the old home of Colonel David Patteson, stands at 1640 Bramwell Road , in a subdivision off of Hull Street Road, east of Chippenham Parkway. It is fortunately surrounded by some acreage that sets it off from its surroundings. The L-shaped house was probably built in the 1750s or 60s and added to in the 1770’s. </i><br /><br />Col David Patteson was a friend to the Markham family. Born in 1746, he was of an age of John Markham’s sons, and his cousin Nelson Patteson married John Markham’s youngest daughter. About 1776, a few years after John Markham’s death, David Patteson purchased a nine hundred acre property from the Markham family. Evidence points to this property being John Markham’s estate on the Shampoke .<br /><br />When I first read Weisiger’s book, back in 1999, I made a note to consider whether Laurel Meadow might be the original plantation home of John Markham. That thought has been percolating a long time. In 2013 Laurel Meadow was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and I have recently had the opportunity to view the application published online. The nomination was prepared and written by Adele Livingston, the current owner of Laurel Meadow, with assistance from the staff at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. It only makes a brief statement related to the original owner (builder) of the home, but it seems possible that this is the home where John Markham lived with his family in Chesterfield county Virginia. <br /><br />I would like to give a few teasers from the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/13001165.pdf">National Register nomination for Laurel Meadow</a>. I think that descendants of the Markham and Patteson families would enjoy taking a further look. <br /><br /><i>Laurel Meadow is an early Virginia plantation home now located in the city of Richmond on a one-acre remnant of an original 902 acre parcel, within a mid 20th century subdivision of modest homes. The 1 ½ story, L-shaped house, measuring 2,200 square feet, is a simple frame building, constructed in two distinct sections at right angles to each other, and displays aspects of Colonial and Federal architectural design. The west section rests on an English basement, and may have been constructed prior to 1776 when David Patteson, who had become the agent for William Byrd’s Falls Plantation in 1767, acquired the property. The east section, which fronts Bramwell Road, appears to have been added to the house in the early 19th century . . </i><br /><br /><i>The west section, considered to be the oldest section of the building, includes a stair hall, a library to the north, and a dining room to the south . . The stair rises to a room over the library that was clearly designed as a small bedroom . . </i><br /><br /><i>The ‘original’ core of the house may have been an overseer’s house constructed in the eighteenth century, and currently exists as the northwestern block. This theory is supported by historical tradition that Laurel Meadow was the residence of Col David Patteson, who purchased the property in 1776, deeded portions of it “where I now reside” as a gift to his son Samuel in 1813, and was buried in the cemetery designated in his will close to his residence when he died at Laurel Meadow on 2 May 1821. </i> <br /><br /><i>It is not clear when the earliest section of Laurel Meadow, the northwest block, was originally constructed. It may have been built prior to 1776, which is when David Patteson purchased the property, as there is reference in the deed for 696 acres dated December 4, 1772, from Richard Crump to Vincent Markham describing “. . . one certain tract or parcel of land situate in the said County being the same whereon John Markham deceased formerly lived . . . “ (previously from the estate of John Markham). Another deed from James Lyle to Vincent Markham dated April 3, 1772, describes “fifty acres bounded by the lands of John Smith, Matthew Branch, the said Vincent Markham and Shampoker Creek.” This creek described boundaries for Laurel Meadow until 1943 when a plat of 30 acres remaining with the house accompanied the deed, and the remaining acreage where the house is located were sold. The plat accompanying the 1943 deed shows a family cemetery on the north, Shampoke Creek to the south, and the residence, barn, and other outbuildings in the middle. </i> <br /><br />The “original” section of Laurel Meadow presents possibilities as the John Markham home on the Shampoke. The information detailed in the National Register application blends nicely with John Markham’s 1771 estate inventory, which hints at a dining room, and a possible library area for the main section of the house. As I read the inventory I envisioned a kitchen set apart from the house. But, I would wonder where John Markham’s six bedsteads might have resided, if they were resident in this small home in 1770. Is the “English” basement a possibility? Merriam Webster Dictionary tells us that an English basement is “a high basement that is usually mainly above ground, is often adapted to living quarters . . “ As the English basement at Laurel Meadow has a number of windows and a fireplace, this seems like a real possibility for bedding all the Markham children in the 1750 - 1770 period. <br /><br />I really want to believe that Laurel Meadow was John Markham’s home! It is exciting to think that a pre-revolutionary ancestral home might still be standing today in Chesterfield county Virginia. And, I am left to wonder about the Patteson family cemetery that resides nearby. Might some of our Markham ancestors also be buried there? I am almost convinced, and would be delighted to know what others might think? <br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=mkchest">John Markham</a>, visit his page at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/">Markham of Chesterfield website</a>. A transcription of his inventory will be found there. A sketch titled John Markham’s Life in Virginia might be of interest, as it gives a few further details on the location of John Markham’s property. Also, my blog posting titled Pass the Cream Pott, Please gives an imagined picture of John Markham’s home, based on his estate inventory.<br /><br /><br />Further Reading:<br /><a href="https://preservationvirginia.org/docs/laurel_meadow_Weisiger,_Old_Manchester012-1.pdf">Old Manchester and Its Environs, 1769 – 1910; Benjamin Weisiger, 1993.</a><br /><a href="http://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/13001165.pdf">Laurel Meadow (Richmond, Virginia); National Register of Historic Places, Adele Livingston, 2013. </a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">About the photo: I have been in contact with Adele “Hutch” Livingston, current owner of Laurel Meadow. She is continuing with a restoration of the home, and graciously shared this recent photo. We are both excited to explore further on the Markham family connection to Laurel Meadow.</span></span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-21109202069221884042015-07-18T08:33:00.000-07:002015-07-18T08:33:23.720-07:00Pass the Cream Pott, Please!John Markham’s family is sitting around their <u>large walnut table</u>, on the <u>rush bottom chairs</u>. It’s 1757, a cool autumn afternoon in Chesterfield county Virginia. On this day the table is set with the <u>Delph plates</u>. The <u>Delph teapot</u>, <u>sugar dish</u> and “<u>cream pott</u>” wait on a side table. A corner cabinet holds a few of their finer things – “<u>Chainie” plates</u>, <u>cups and saucers</u>, <u>six silver spoons</u>, and a <u>flint glass decanter with wine glasses</u> . . .<br />
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I am imagining again! I have conjured up this scene from John Markham’s estate inventory, found among the 1770 records of Chesterfield county Virginia. Studying an old inventory can be an interesting occupation. It gives us clues to the lives of our ancestors. <br />
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Years of research on John Markham’s family has left me with the impression that they lived a comfortable, rural life, perhaps a step above the typical tidewater farmer, but not quite members of the Virginia elite. John Markham was a large landowner, holding about eight hundred acres. Services he offered to his community suggest that he was literate, and possibly formally educated. Records regularly designate him as “gentleman”. His estate inventory tells us that he had a few fine (imported) things. <br />
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In 18th century Virginia many of the large homes were inventoried “room by room”, filling many pages in the county ledgers. But, John Markham’s inventory comes to us as a single list, about one and one-half pages long. Items are arranged on the list in a manner that might suggest several rooms in the home. There must have been a separate dining area to house their large collection of tableware. Besides the “Chainie” plates, and Delph collection, they also had <u>thirty-six pewter plates,</u> and various serving items. The more utilitarian cooking items appear near the end of the inventory, along with odds and ends. They might have had a detached kitchen, a somewhat common practice of that time and place. <br />
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The furniture listed on the inventory was simple – six beds and furniture, two tables, twenty-four chairs of various description, two old desks, and a bookcase. The bookcase is of interest, because it probably held the <u>parcel of Books</u>, valued at twelve pounds and thirteen shillings. Books were expensive, and this valuation is one of the larger amounts on John Markham’s inventory, ranking up there with his <u>Copper Still</u> and <u>grey Horse</u>. <br />
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Rosie Zagarri, Professor at George Mason University, soothed my curiosity about the nearly three dozen cups and saucers listed in the inventory, <br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">By the mid-18th century there was a lot of imitation of English tea drinking rituals. So if you could, you would import fancy silver goods, tea kettles, teaspoons. Tea drinking really was the center of social ritual at the time. Especially the women would gather together and make a big ceremony of brewing a certain kind of tea and pouring the tea and socializing and gossiping and eating little teacakes. It was all a big way to both demonstrate your social status and connect with other members of your community.</span></i><br />
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What might we learn of John Markham himself from these inventory items – a <u>Silver Watch</u>, <u>a pair of pistols</u> and <u>fencing foils</u>? The watch was valued at 4 pounds, identifying it as a valuable possession, and a mark of social standing. The pair of pistols, at 10 shillings, must have been old and weary. But, the fencing foils are interesting. These were not commonly listed on the inventories of Virginia farmers in 1770. With the value at 1 shilling, they weren’t fancy. I wonder who John Markham found for a sparing companion – perhaps one of his sons. Or, were the foils remnants of his youth, when he served as a British soldier in the Highlands of New York?<br />
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There are other items listed in John Markham’s inventory that might support a future blog posting. It would be interesting to know more about how they used the <u>warming pan</u>, <u>mustard pott</u>, <u>fire Dogs</u>, and <u>bullet moulds</u>. Did the Markham women work the <u>Spinning Wheele</u>? And what makes a <u>hair Brush</u> valuable enough to list on an inventory? Certainly, I would like to take a hard look at his thirteen slaves. <br />
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For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=mkchest"><b>John Markham</b></a>, visit his page at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/"><b>Markham of Chesterfield website</b></a>. A transcription of his inventory will be found there. <br />
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If you would enjoy knowing more about probate inventories, visit this great website: <br />
<a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu/probateinventory/"><b>Probing the Past</b></a>. It includes the<a href="http://chnm.gmu.edu/probateinventory/lessons/materials/SarahGreenTranscript.pdf"> <b>interview with Professor Rosie Zagarri</b></a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">About the photos: <br />Posset pot, Netherlands, Late 17th or early 18th century, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Wikimedia Commons, photo in the public domain. <br />H. Angelo's Fencing Academy by Rowlandson, 1787.</span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-33778796263558535782015-07-06T04:45:00.000-07:002015-07-06T04:45:45.588-07:00I Need to Know Your Name<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLFVnNUKjTMjqrZLukOfwfFezS6qdD8owaSTrVBgq0mdryiVPaY3TPZ7O_U7nQSG4c3BjPeiVknfNozXufE5gbMz0jTjaIH_pSg7__TwBJEBmnw6n28RDIq6M9e9BOikezwCPt6C8KYik/s1600/newspaperwoman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLFVnNUKjTMjqrZLukOfwfFezS6qdD8owaSTrVBgq0mdryiVPaY3TPZ7O_U7nQSG4c3BjPeiVknfNozXufE5gbMz0jTjaIH_pSg7__TwBJEBmnw6n28RDIq6M9e9BOikezwCPt6C8KYik/s320/newspaperwoman.jpg" width="272" /></a>In the 1890’s there was a flurry of activity among John Markham’s descendants – an effort to record their family history. George Evans Markham committed to paper the stories of his family branch, and Liddie Rivers published an extensive account of the Markham family in the William and Mary Quarterly. Around the same time, an anonymous descendant recorded what she knew of her grandmother, Judith Markham, and it turned up as a newspaper clipping in the files of a Kentucky Historical Society.<br />
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The brief, but informative, newspaper clipping was reprinted in Kentucky Explorer Magazine in October 1995. The original newspaper is not identified, but the article has a connection to Henry county Kentucky. An accompanying note said, "Taken from old clippings dealing with Kentucky family history . . These clippings are about 100 years old." I contend that the article introduces us to Judith Markham Burch, and a transcription, with explanations, can be <a href="http://markhamchesterfield.com/sketches/SkchD104_JudithMarkhamClipping.pdf"><b>found here</b></a>. The purpose of this blog posting is to consider who the author of the newspaper clipping might be. <br />
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The clipping headline reads “Judith Markham”, and the article begins “My grandmother was a Markham . . . “ <br />
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I suspect, but have not proven, that this is the same Judith Markham who marries Cheadle Burch and is named in the records of Amelia county Virginia as early as 1806. By 1820 she appears, as a widow, in Giles county Tennessee. As best I have been able to determine, Judith Markham Burch had three children, eleven grandsons, and five granddaughters, all born in Giles county Tennessee. Possibly there are other children and grandchildren unidentified. But – I would like to look further at the five granddaughters to see if one might be the author of this article. The granddaughters are Mary Judith Edwards, Sarah Antoinette Edwards, Mary White, Sarah R White, and Marion A White. <br />
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The Edwards girls – Mary and Sarah - are the daughters of Dr John Edwards and Mary C Burch of Cornersville in Giles county Tennessee. Mary Judith Edwards, born about 1827, married Thomas Burgess, merchant, and they removed to Nashville Tennessee by 1880. Sarah Antoinette Edwards, born about 1830, married Angenol Cox, and they resided for a number of years in Pulaski Tennessee. The 1860 census of Giles county Tennessee identifies A Cox as a methodist minister. Stories of his later life suggest that he was an interesting and successful promoter and man of business. <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I2800&tree=mkchest"><b>Sarah Edwards Cox’s bio</b></a> gives more details on the Opera House he built in Pulaski. By 1880, Sarah and Angenol Cox are found in Butler county Kansas, and they are buried there in Elmwood Cemetery. Both of the Edwards ladies are in the running as authors for the Judith Markham story. <br />
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The three White girls – Mary, Sarah and Marion – are the daughters of James K White and Judith Virginia Burch of Pulaski Tennessee. They have been more difficult to follow. The 1850 census of Giles county Tennessee shows James K White as a school teacher, but by 1860 Virginia White is a widow, practicing the art of millenery. Daughter Mary White, born about 1834, appears with her parents in 1850, but I have lost tract of her after that. Second daughter Sarah White is married to Joseph Marshall in 1865, following the war. By 1870 she is a twenty – eight year old widow living in Nashville Tennessee with her brother. She may have remarried, but I have not been successful in following her. <br />
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Marion A White, youngest daughter of James White and Virginia Burch, proves interesting. I am voting for her as the most likely candidate for author of the Judith Markham newspaper clipping. Marion White was born about 1844 in Pulaski Tennessee. In 1871, in Nashville Tennessee, she was married to Isaac D George. He was a printer and newspaper man, and they eventually settled in Chicago Illinois, where George died in 1906 and Marion in 1912. A few further details of their life can be found in <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I2822&tree=mkchest"><b>Marion White George’s bio</b></a>. Isaac George and Marion White were the parents of three daughters. Two of the daughters, Mary Adah George and Helen Louise George, did not marry. I have not been successful in tracking their middle daughter, Virginia “Jennie” George, who was born about 1881. <br />
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Identifying the author of the Judith Markham newspaper clipping could answer further questions on the identity of Judith Markham Burch and her descendants. I think that others may be able to tell us more about this family. Until then – I Need to Know Your Name!<br />
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For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I16&tree=mkchest"><b>Judith Markham Burch</b></a>, visit her page at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/"><b>Markham of Chesterfield website. </b></a><br />
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Moving back in time: Judith Markham, 1780 > William Markham, abt 1736 > John Markham of Chesterfield, abt 1700. <br />
Judith Markham is my first cousin, six times removed.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">About the photo: Woman Reading The Newspaper, by Carl Vilhelm Holsoe (no date). Via wikigallery.org, in the public domain. </span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-9492361486900688262015-03-29T11:17:00.001-07:002015-03-29T11:17:53.845-07:00Francis Smith meets General Lafayette<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Marquis de Lafayette, friend and confidant of George Washington, was one of the great heroes of America’s Revolutionary War. In 1824, at the invitation of President James Monroe, Lafayette returned to the United States for a celebratory tour. The year-long visit marked the upcoming fifty year anniversary of America. Lafayette traveled over six-thousand miles, visiting all twenty-four states. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In October of 1824 Lafayette made a week-long stop in Richmond Virginia, a city he had twice defended during the Revolutionary War. The Richmond Enquirer, dated 29 October 1824, gave an account of the myriad of events that surrounded Lafayette’s visit to the city. The article included a “Muster Roll of Revolutionary Officers who met at Richmond on 26 Oct 1824 to welcome General Lafayette.” On that list we find, “Francis Smith, First Virginia Regiment, 83 years.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This must have been a great day for Francis Smith, our old veteran! A family friend, commenting on Francis Smith, recalls, “. . . when I was a boy 17 years of age . . . I stayed at his [Francis Smith] house with Capt Wm his son, - he set up half the night, talking of nothing but the Rev War, it was his only theme from that day to the present . .”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This account of Lafayette’s arrival in Richmond is found in “Chesterfield: An Old Virginia County”, Francis Earle Lutz, 1954:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Lafayette and his party came up the James River and landed on October 26 at Osbornes where a huge assemblage was awaiting his arrival, including the official State welcoming party, an escort of horse, and a detachment of artillery to fire a salute. An immense multitude thronged the wharves and adjacent hillsides to get a glimpse of the distinguished visitor. He was conducted to the waiting carriage amid enthusiastic cheers and started for Richmond by road with an escort of cavalry. Everywhere along the route waving crowds were there to cheer and it is reported that the escort had difficulty in clearing Mayo Bridge for the triumphal entry into the capital city.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We will probably never know the exact vantage point from which Francis Smith observed these historic events. Was he part of the welcoming party? At age eighty-three, did he ride with the Cavalry? Or, did he simply watch with the crowds from the hillside? According to accounts, this impromptu parade tracked down Main Street and eventually arrived at Richmond’s historic Eagle Hotel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We garner a clue of Francis Smith’s likely participation in the day from Duke and Jordan’s, “A Richmond Reader: 1733-1983”, published in 2011:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The parade ended at the Eagle Hotel where Lafayette would stay, but the General's groupies still hung out in the streets outside of the hotel. Many were able to meet the revolutionary hero, but forty old and venerable vets of the revolution got a personal reception from the Frenchman. They were able to meet with him in an elegant room the evening he arrived. Some saluted in silence; some "welcomed him with every expression of sincerity and kindness.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These “old and venerable vets” may have joined Lafayette for dinner that same evening at the Governor’s mansion. The dinner guests were said to include Vice President John C Calhoun, Virginia Governor James Pleasants, Chief Justice John Marshall, and “more revolutionary vets”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Despite his advanced years in 1824, Francis Smith lived on for nearly ten years more, dying in April of 1833. The account of this great day, when General Lafayette visited Richmond, must have been given a prominent place in his repertoire of revolutionary war stories. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I38&tree=mkchest"><b>Francis Smith</b></a>, visit his page at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/"><b>Markham of Chesterfield website</b></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Moving back in time: Francis Smith married Catherine Markham, b abt 1745 > John Markham of Chesterfield, b abt 1700.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Francis Smith is the husband of my 5th great-grandaunt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">About the Photo: The Landing of General Lafayette. Platter, pearlware with transfer-printed decorations; James and Ralph Clews, Cobridge, Staffordshire, circa 1825. On display at the DAR Museum, Washington DC. Photo by Daderot – placed in the public domain.</span></span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-7754253971887125582015-03-15T11:06:00.000-07:002015-03-15T11:06:34.511-07:00John Markham – Who are you?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Exploring the life of John Markham has been a bit like assembling disparate pieces into a puzzle. One of the first pieces to appear was a Will for John Markham, proved in 1770 in Chesterfield County Virginia. It named nine children, but no wife. Then, by great good fortune, a genealogy presented itself - published in the Virginia Magazine of History about 125 years after that Will. The genealogy introduced an interesting wife, but she didn’t seem to fit very well into the puzzle. Next out of the box, something about New York – Really? Then an amazing clue arrived, but the piece was hard to get to – a fellow researcher suggested a quest for Bernard Markham in Ireland. So the pieces were laying themselves out on the table, but they weren’t fitting together very well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Time and patience has worked its magic, and gradually the story of John Markham’s life has come into better focus. There are still some missing pieces. And, one or two pieces just don’t fit like they should. But, I am determined to get his puzzle into better shape. Perhaps future researchers will be able to give it some polish. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">John Markham was born near the beginning of the eighteenth century in County Kilkenny Ireland. He was the son of Bernard Markham and Rebecca Briscoe, whose families had come into Ireland from England in the previous century. The basic timeline of John Markham’s life is fairly simple – As a young man, in the 1730’s, he immigrated to America, and settled in Orange county New York; probably just before 1740, he married Catherine Mathews and began a family; just after 1750, he uprooted his family, and moved south to Chesterfield County Virginia; in Virginia his family continued to expand and he pursued a variety of occupations; in 1770 John Markham died in Chesterfield County Virginia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It was when I tried to color John Markham’s timeline with details that his story became interesting and challenging. Did he come alone to America? There is little evidence of family or friends. What is the story of his wife? Her puzzle piece is one that doesn’t fit very well. What inspired John Markham to uproot his family and move to Virginia? That wasn’t a typical migration pattern of the time. And, the questions continue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have written extensively about John Markham at my Markham of Chesterfield database website. I suspect that I have asked, and examined, more questions than I have answered. If you like to consider puzzles, and are interested in the life of John Markham, I hope you will make a visit, and read more. There are still plenty of seats at the puzzle table!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">For more details on <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=mkchest"><b>John Markham</b></a>, visit his page at the <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/"><b>Markham of Chesterfield website</b></a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Moving back in time: Albert Luther Clarkson 1901 > Aubin M Fry 1878 > Eliza Brooks Hutchins 1844 > Aubin M Markham 1817 > John Markham 1770 > Bernard Markham 1737 > John Markham of Chesterfield, abt 1700.</span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1804089887117900682.post-17092216003559418682015-03-09T14:14:00.000-07:002015-03-09T14:14:08.417-07:00GREETINGS!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Greetings! I am delighted to have you visit my Markham of Chesterfield Blog. My name is Pamela Sue Hutchison Garrett, and I have been researching on Markham, and allied surnames, for almost forty years. This Blog is a companion site to my Markham of Chesterfield database website.<br /><br />The Markham of Chesterfield database website sets out, in orderly fashion, the ancestors and descendants of John Markham of Chesterfield county Virginia. He is my 6xgreat-grandfather. I chose him as the centerpiece of this Markham story, because he was that adventurous ancestor who brought my Markham family across the ocean to America. Besides the vital statistics, the database website includes stories, photographs, biographies, social history sketches, and documents, both original and transcribed. <br /><br />The Markham of Chesterfield Blog will serve a slightly different purpose than the database website. The ancestor stories here will be relatively brief and focused. They might tell about a family home, a quirky character trait, or a historic event. The postings might introduce a compelling or amusing story that I have come across in my years of research. <br /><br />This Markham family seems an ordinary family. But, when their stories are thoughtfully considered, their lives take on an extraordinary cast. If you enjoy the stories and want to know more about how they relate to your own ancestral past, be sure to visit the <a href="http://markhamchesterfield.com/"><b>Markham of Chesterfield database website</b></a>. <br /><br />I hope you enjoy your visit.<br /><br />Pam Garrett<br />March 2015</span></span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0