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12 THE BALTIMORE, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1905 Marriott; time, Edward I (1288). Also took chart pertaining to the family descent which fills out certain lines not covered in the first chart. A few discrepancies in the early portion of the line will, as to which is correct, have to be decided between them. VIRGINIA HERALDRY Prominent Families Of The Old Dominion. MARYLAND HERALDRY History Of Distinguished Families And Personages.

THE BAKER LINEAGE AND ARMS Wood, who left no children, and second, Miss Allen, who also left no children. Bowyer Wood married Margaret Ann Robinson. Their children were: (1) Anna Frazer Wood, (2) Margaret Robertson Wood, (3) Fonrose Stanhope Wood, who died unmarried, (4) Sarah Lewis Wood. Sarah Lewis Wood married Lewis Nixon. Their son Stanhope Fonrose Nixon Is a several times great-grandson of the famous Revolutionary hero, Andrew Lewis, whose statue adorn3 the ctly of Richmond, Va.

The children of Susanna Howard Baker by her second husband, James Tapscott, were (1) Louisa Tapscott, who married, her cousin, John Baker White. cember 31, 1683, probated March 8, 1684) is Francis Wlnnlngton. too, had thought It might be a badly spelled rendering of Widdrington, but I verified my original copy last year at Annapolis. Has it ever been noted that the estate which Henry Howard leaves to Sarah Dor-sey in that will is "Colllngborne" In the search you have made for the names Matthew and Cornelius Howard, has it occurred to you that they came through an Arundel marriage, as well as through the Calvert and Lloyd connection? For instance The first Duke of Norfolk died 1485, the second Duke married twice. One of his first wife's children was Edmund, who married Joyce Colepepper and died 1538.

Their children were: (1) Henry; (2) Sir George and (3) Sir Charles; (5) Catherine, who married Henry VIII (6) Mary, who married Edmund Trafford (7) Joyce, who married John Stanney (8) Isabel, who married Baynton, and (4) Mar- Howard-Baker Chart. Lady Judith Howard, Howard. Hall, England, and husband of Sir Henry or Sir William Howard, had a daughter Susannah Howard, who married Peter Wood and moved to Charles county, Maryland. Their children were: (1) Charity Wood. (2) Susannah who married her first cousin, Col.

William Howard, of Maryland, and had two sons Henry and Thos. Howard. (3) Dorothy Wood. (4) Judith Wood who married John Baker, of Berkeley. (5) Rebecca Wood, who married August Oliver Burch and had a son Albert Burch, V.V? -i A Jermlma Miller.

Joseph Walker died in Baltimore and his widow moved to Cincinnati. John Walker, son of Christopher, married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Jemima Miller Walker. Descendants of the Walker family were living In Baltimore about the year 1860. A member of the family, John Wesley Walker, was at that time called High Sheriff of Baltimore, and I have heard that one of his daughters married into the Cole family and another into the Sewell family. Christopher Walker, with his son John and his son's wife, Elizabeth, moved to Cincinnati early in 1800, or, perhaps, a little earlier, and It is said his slaves followed him.

Any information about their lines will be most gratefully received. s. H. B. Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Messrs. Permit me through your paper to thank Mrs. Henrietta Wood Naylor for clearing up the different lines or families of Wood In this country, which she has done in her mostr interesting article of July 30. I would be glad to see her publish, through your kindness, the list of names of persons who were confined in the prison ships at New York, as far as she has them, undr Thompson, Howard and Wood, as the lists are inaccessible to many of those interested. The Clement Wood, Governor of Lincoln Castle, who had two sons, Clement and Samuel, and who had the grandson Isaac, must be the Wood family who intermarried with the Howards and the family to whom Kizrah'Wood Stansbury belongl.

In one of the old family Bible's Is a clipping in regard to the heirs of Isaac Wood, and in some old notes of my aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Virginia Isabella (Stansbury) Renmy-Hamilton, written about 50 years ago, she mentions this same Isaac Wood, and one note says: "The Woods of Kentucky are our kin." I hope some of the Woods will locate my Kezlah, who had a relative, Susannah Wood, who lived at Charity Jones in Liberty, Md. M. M. S.

M. San ITranclsco, CaL Messrs. Editors Can tell me something of the Edward Lucas mentioned in the letter of August 20 asking for Information of the Shepherds? The name occurs in connection Chloe, the only child of. Nicholas Llngan. Thomas married Editha organized the Indian Bureau at the request of President Madison, administered Its affairs for 20 years, and was the author of the standard works, "The North American Indians" and "The Tour of the Lakes." This last was an official Journey made by himself and General Cass.

His home estate for years was Weston, on the Tenallytown road, above Georgetown, D. not far from the Chapel of his half-brother, the Rev. John McKenney, of St. Albans. D.

Messrs. Editors: I inclose the names of my paternal ancestors In the direct line of grandmothers. The maiden name of Margaret McAllister, my father's mother, was Foster. Her father was1 from near Dublin or Belfast, I am not sure which. The mother of Margaret was a Sarah Bosley.

Sarah Bosley's mother was Rachel Wllmot. Rachel Wll-mot's mother was Elizabeth Hall. The Bos-leys and Halls were from Baltimore county and the Wllmots came from Anne Arundel county Annapolis, I think. I wish to learn if possible the names of my grandfathers and any other Information that may be procured, also If I have any claim to membership in the Sons of the American Revolution. The Shankllns of Baltimore county are connections of our family.

The line of descent is, as I have said before: Elizabeth (Hall) Wllmot, Rachel (Wllmot) Bosley, Sarah (Bosley) Foster, Margaret (Foster) McAllister and Charles Edmund McAllister, whose children are Mareta McAllister and Samuel R. McAllister. M. Jersey City, N. J.

Messrs. Editors: Will The Sox fulfill a promise made some time ago to give the genealogy of the Covington and Denwood families? There are descendants of these families all over the State who will greatly appreciate any Information on the subject. Inteeksted. Messrs. Editors: 1 beg to correct a typographical error in my article In last Sunday's Sux.

I asked for Information of the Cason family and stated that my great-grandmother, Mary or Molly Cason, of Orange or Culpeper county, married Nathaniel Hudson, and the name Hudson was incorrectly printed Hendson throughout the article. Through some oversight, I presume, my request to know from whom I could secure a Sun of 1903 containing a sketch of the Hammond family was omitted. I beg again that the editors of The Sun or some of the readers of the genealogical column will let me know how I can get a copy of The Sun of October 4, 1903, containing a sketch of the Hammond family. Of course, I am willing to pay whatever Is required for the same, or If the paper can only be lent me, to copy the article and pay expenses. My summer address Is Miss Eola Wiixis, Care Dr.

W. H. Nardln, Anderson, S. Messrs. Editors: My grandfather, of Caroline county, Maryland, married a Miss Sallle Eaton.

Can any of -the readers of The Scn tell me If she was a daughter or a granddaughter of Analthen Eaton, of England, and In what year did she come to this country from England? T. G. M. A CELEBRATED HOUSE Residence of th Tory, John Baker, aftd his -wife, Judith Howard Wood Baker, at Shepherdstorm, W. Va.

AAAtA imAA-y A-AAA I -i AtA'Aty $Aa i A'- 1 At, vv 'HA AAW A tv AyAAmifW part in the Wars of the Roses, fighting un der De Clifford (Thomas Marriott), fif teenth year of the reign of Henry VI. Thos. Marriott owned Uggeechella In 1310. John Marriott owned the same manor In the sixth year of the reign of Edward IV. John Marriott, son and heir of William Marriott, owned same in the seventeenth year of Edward IV.

John Marriott married Ellen Greaves in the thirty-ninth year of Elizabeth. The Marriotts were engaged in the foreign wars up to the civil wars, when we find John Marriott in 1647 was a celebrated Parliamentarian and was several times fined and plundered by the Royalists from Sheffield Castle." A little later John Marriott was on the Severn river, near Indian Landing, accord ing to the rent rolls and the archives of Masyland's report in 1681; here he stood. with his gun In his hand, defending his home against the Indians. This John Mar rlott married Sarah Acton, descended from Richard Acton, who came to the Severn river in 3650. The Actons of England date back to the time previous to William the Conqueror, and were of Saxon origin.

John Marriott's son Augustine married Mary Warfield, granddaughter of Richard War-field 1st. Their daughter, Mary Marriott, married John Sewell, and daujfhter Achsah Sewell married Leonard Mallonee, and their daughter Anne married William Klr-by, and they were the parents of Geo. A. Klrby, William M. Klrby, Leonard Klrby, Mrs.

N. A. Hammond and Mrs. Isabella Hammond. From Sir Bernard Burke's "Royal Families" we have these facts concerning the pedigree of the Marriotts: "Eleanor, daughter of Ferdinand III, King of Castile, married Edward King of England.

He married his Becond wife, Margaret, daughter of Philip, King of France. "Edward II, King of England, married Isabella of France, Edward III, King of England, married Phllllppa, daughter of William, Count of Hainault. "John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, King of Castile, married Catherine, daughter of Sir Payn Roet. "Joan, daughter of John of Gaunt, married Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmoreland. Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, married Lady Alice Neville, daughter of Earl LOMAX LEWIS Salisbury.

Sister of Earl of Warwick married Henry Lord Fitzhugh. Sir William Parr, Knight, married Elizabeth, second daughter of Lord Fitzhugh. Sir Thos. Parr's (A. D.

1512) daughter married Sir Thomas Green. "Maud Parr, daughter of William Lord Parr, married Sir Ralph Lane. Dorothy, daughter of Sir Ralph Lane, married Sir William Fielding. "Basil Fielding married Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Walter Acton, Knight, "Sir William Fielding, Knight. Earl of Derbeigh, married Mary, daughter of Geo.

Villiers, Knight. "George Fielding, Earl of Desmond, mar-. rled a daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope. William, Earl of Desmond and Derbeigh, married Mary, daughter of Sir Robert King. "Basil, Earl of Derbeigh and Desmond, married Hester, daughter of Sir Basil Fire-brace.

Lady Diana Fielding, daughter of the Earl of Derbeigh, married Rev. Randolph Marriott. Son of Randolph Marriott married Elizabeth Wilson, daughter of Bishop Wilson, of Bristol. Thomas Marriott married Anne, daughter of Sir John Beckett, Baronet, "Thomas Brackett Fielding Marriott, Esquire, captain Royal Artillery, nineteenth direct line from Edward King of England. "Edward III, King of England, married Phillppa, daughter of William, Count of Hainault.

Lionel Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, married Mary Elizabeth De Burgh, daughter and heir of William, Earl of Ulster. Catherine, daughter of Edward, Lord Chardes, married William, Lord Sandys, of the Vlne-Ellzabeth Sandys. Daughter of William," Lord Sandys, married Sir Edward Sandys. Henry, Lord Sandys, a Cavalier slain in 1644, married Margaret, his cousin, daughter of Sir William Sandys. Hester Sandys married Humphrey Noyce, son of the Attorney-General of Charles I.

Catherine Noyce married William Davles. Hester, daughter of William Davles, married Francis Cole. Humphrey Cole married Francis Maugh-born. "Francis Sewell Cole, Esquire, founder All Souls' College, Oxford, and nineteenth in direct descent from Edward III, King of England." X. Y.

Z. Messrs. Editors: Will you please mention among the descendants of Elizabeth Hlllen and Joslas Jenkins, of Long Green, the children of Elizabeth Jenkins, and Brooke Pleasants (who is a lineal descendant of Robert Brooke) and are, therefore, great-grandchildren of said Elizabeth Hlllen. Their names are (1) Annie Pleasants Troy, who married William Beaty Troy, of North Carolina, whose brother, Alexander Troy, of Montgomery, married the daughter of Governor Watts, of Alabama I (2) Mary Pleasants Dietrich, Clement I. Dietrich, who was United States Consul to Nantes, France, under President Cleveland's second administration.

Later they went to Colombia, South "America, and after residing there six weeks both died of yellow fever, she on the evening of December 31, 1903, and he on the morning of January 3, 1904. Letters from those In attendance said they had the best of medical attention and were nursed by a Sister of Charity and were followed to their graves by some of the best people in South America, among them Inlted States Consul John Owens. Their bodies lie side by side on a foreign shore. They left no children and were de vout Catholics. Mr.

Dietrich was a great nephew of General Rapp, one of Napoleon's generals. He knew him well and often heard him relate Incidents of Napoleon and his battles: (3) Pauline Tleasants, (4) Thomas Snowden Pleasants, (5) Lydia Armour, both died In lufancy (fl) LUette, christened Elizabeth: (7) Wilson Pleasants. (S) Lulu Jenkins neasants, who is a Sister of Charity, and il Eleanor Tleasants. Brooke Pleasants, of Virginia, was reared In the Quaker religion, but wa3 baptized In the Catholic faith three days before his mar rlage. Ills body lies burled in the old graveyard nt St John's Catholic Church at Long Green, which was built by his chil dren's great-grandmother.

KlUabeth Hlllen. Annie Pleasants Troy's children are Lydla Brooke, Roger Brooke, Elizabeth Hlllen, who died in Infancy Pauline and Elisabeth Jenklna. who died In Infancy; Helen Troy and Mary Pleasant Troy. They are tho great-Kraudchlldreu of I.ydla Armour and George JeuKIua. J.

P. "Why aw yn solus sbnJ to Ht" "IWioiw," MuwNd th (rafter, "I ara con vliiixsl ht prvtu ar sometimes without honor lu their ewu ojuntty." Star. 3 ANOTHER BRANCH OF LEWISES The Firat Settler West Of The Bine Ittdjcre In Angruata County A nil Founder Of Town Of Staunton, 1638 THE LEWIS ARMS Thb Sun has already published several sketches of. the Lewis family of Virginia, but the important branch given below was unintentionally omitted in each of those heretofore printed. The Interesting account of this branch was sent by Mr.

J. A. Smith, of Washington, D. with the following note: Messrs. Editors Ton published in your valued paper on June 4 the lineage and arms of the Lewis family of Virginia.

As there were several branches of this family left out, I have been asked to send you a full list of the de- scendantsof Pioneer John Lewis up to date, wnicn i nave tried to do. or course, ail or his descendants I am unable to get, but in the lines sent they are complete. Washington. J. A.

Smith. Pioneer John Lewis, son of Andrew Lewi3 and Mary Calhoun, born in 1678, married Margaret Lynn, daughter of the Laird of Loch Lynn, Scotland, was, with fcis follow ers, the urst settler west of the Blue Ridge la Augusta county, Virginia, and founder of the town of Staunton. His sons were Thomas, Andrew, William and Charles. Old John Lewis first" introduced into Vir ginia the red clover, the white only being Indigenous to the soil. When It came up and bloomed red the Indians noticed it with wonder and astonishment, saying ihe clover was dyed red by the blood of the Indians the Lewises had killed.

Col. Thomas Lewis, eldest son of Pioneer John, distinguished member of the House of Burgesses, married Jane Strother, of Tidewater, Va. He was in the House of Burgesses at the time of the flight of Lord Dunmore from Williamsburg, and at the sale of his furniture, purchased some of It, which he gave his daughter Agues, who married John Stuart, of Greenbrier, W. Va. Some of it, with paintings, is still owned by their immediate descendants, and Is now at Stuart Manor.

Greenbrier. W. Va. His son Charles Inherited the homestead on the Shenandoah river, in what Is now Rockingham county, and mar rled Anne Homce, of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Gen.

Samuel Hanson Lewis, their eldest son, a prominent citizen of irgmia, was a graduate of Washington College (now Wash ington and LeeK a man of great literary tastes, profoundly religious, of high moral worth and beloved friend of Bishops Meade and Cobbs. While exceedingly genial among his Intimate friends, he was a man remark able for his strict religious observances, for his stern deportment In the presence of frivolity and for his Iron will and high Integrity both In private as well as public life. He represented his county in the Legislature for many years, and his name is dear to the church in Virginia, In whose councils he was so long a ruling spirit. He died at his home, Lewlston, Rockingham county, of cancer of the neck, in 1S68. He married, first, Nancy Lewis, daughter of Col.

Charles Lewis, killed at the battle of Point Pleasant, and their children were Charles, John, Samuel Elizabeth, Mary, William Meade and Margaret Lynn. He married the second time Anna Maria Lomax, daughter of Judge J. T. Lomax, of Fredericksburg, and had issue Charlotte, Lunsford Lomax, Cornelia and Anna Maria. John Francis Lewis, second son of Gen.

Samuel H. Lewis, inherited all of his fa ther's sterling qualities, and was one of the leading men of his day in Virginia. Of magnificent physical proportions six feet three Inches tall his mental attributes were quite as remarkable. Me was especially noted for his reckless bravery, his Impulsive denunciation of wrong and his utter disregard of public opinion when he considered It to be in error. His first appearance In public life was when he was sent as delegate to the convention, at the outbreak of the Civil War, which was to decide whether Virginia would secede from the Union or not.

He was a strong Union man, and went there instructed to vote against secession, which he did to the bit ter end, saying they might hang him, as they threatened to do, but he would never sign the ordinance. He was the only man In this convention who did not sign it. There were several of the West Virginia members who did not sign, but they left at once for their homes within the Northern lines. A hundred times the ordinance was thrust into his face, but he invariably replied, "I will die first!" That he was not killed seems almost a miracle. Many of the best and stanchest Union men gave way to the pressure and signed the ordinance.

Samuel McDowel More was burned in effigy; Jubal A. Early was threatened with mob law, yet they both yielded to the over-. whelming excitement, John F. Lewis alone remained at his post, true to the last to his firm conviction that to do so would bring trouble and ruin to his State. His Integ rity and honesty of purpose were so well known and so well appreciated that they seemed to be a shield to his open and often reckless Union utterances, and while others were imprisoned, or shot down on the roadside, he was spared to save his State from the internal strife which so long retarded the happiness and prosperity of many of the more Southern States.

In 1869 he was elected Lieutenant-Governor, and in Novem ber of that year was elected to the United States Senate. To quote from Kev. o. fe. Bunting, late of Petersburg, and a dear friend: "From heel to crown he was every Inch a man brave, tree, sincere, courteous In the truest sense, generous, positive.

Agree with him some did not, but admire him all must. All over the State he was honored as extremely few public men ever were." He married Serena Helen Sheffey, dauKhter of the Hon. Daniel Sheffey, of Staunton, and their children were Dan iel Sheffey Lewis, Nannie, Maria Hanson, QAT-ana TTaIoti fTT TsmfaA JaViti "FmnciS and Samuel Hance. Daniel Sheffey married Isabella Botts, I daughter of Hon. John Minor Botts, of I Richmond, Va.

Their children are Minor I Botts, John D. Sheffey, Beverley, Lun I ford and Archie. 'j Nannie married Hon. John Ambler Smith. I of Dinwiddle county, Virginia, and theft children are Serena Helen, John Lewis.

Charles Maurice and J. Ambler. Sereni Helen married Charles Towson, of Towson, Md. Their children are J. Ambler, Harvis and Charles.

John Lewis married Marie Livingston, of Washington. Their daugh ter Is Marie Ambler. Charles Maurice, lieutenant in tbe Eighteenth Infantry, was killed November 8, 1STO, while leading his command against the insurgents on the Island of Panay. Philippine Islands. Maria Hanson married Penrose N.

Ions, of Fairfax. Va. No children. Serena Helen married Lewis Stuart Davis, of Greenbrier, W. Va.

children. Mary Louise married Dr. Edwin Glbbs, of Lexington. Va. Their children are John Lewis and Nannie Lewis.

John Francis married Anna Harnsberger, of Port Republic, Va. Their children are Serena Helen, Hanson Sheffey, Anna and Catherine. Samuel faance married Editha Clay, of Lynchburg. Va. Their son is Samuel Jr.

Samuel H. Lewis, third son of Gen. Samuel H. Lewis, married Louisa Dabney, of Albemarle county, Virginia. Their children are Lucy, Sallle, Elizabeth, Ellen, Samuel John E.

Walter, Charles, Harry and Sue. Elizabeth, daughter of Gen. Samuel II. Lewis, married Rev. Clifton Wheat Their children are Dr.

Lewis Wheat, John, Eleanor and Clifton. Charlotte, daughter of Gen. Samuel H. Lewis, married Beverley Botts, son of Hon. John Minor Botts.

Their children are Mary Beverley and Nellie. Mary Beverley mar- Continued on Page 13. Among The Ancient Representative Of Went Of England Let-tern On (Jcneulosry From Readers. By Emily Emekson Lantz. "And his mother, deservedly esteemed for her constancy, piety and faith." Inscription In Sampford-Arundel Church, Somerset, England, upon the monument erected to Christopher Baker, High Sherlft In 1724 of Somerset county.

Shakespeare in presenting perhaps hla most ideal picture of womanhood Cordelia, the devoted daughter of King Lear has endowed that tender and gentle creature with this same trinity of virtues "constancy, piety and faith." Ilence It is a lovely picture of motherhood that smiles down through the centuries as the earliest ancestress of the Baker family of Somerset and Devonshlre.England the same family, It Is believed, one of whose scions, John Baker, gentleman, of Devonshire, England, came to America and married Judith Wood, daughter of Peter and Susannah (Howard) Wood, who as "Little Jude" is well known to readers of The Sun. AmoDg the ancient families of the West of England, one of the most respected Is that of Baker, whose earliest representative was James Baker, of Buckland Houb, near Taunton, County Somerset, lord of the manors of Cogload and Sampford-Arundel in Somerset and of Nlcholas-Hayne and Hale, In the parish of Culmstock, Devonshire. He had the godly wife Sarah Baker, before mentioned, and four sons, three of whom died without children, but all of whom were more or less distinguished. Christopher Baker, the eldest son, was High Sheriff of Somerset county la 1724, and the Inscription upon his monument mentioned above eulogizes him as "a worthy descendant for his candour and generosity, and of unrivaled Integrity of life," and then follows the tribute to his saintly mother. The second son of James and Sarah Baker was his father's namesake, but without Issue July SI, 1747.

George Baker, the third son, Is spoken of as George Baker of Brockenhurst House, Hants. He was a banister and a bencher of the honorable society of the Inner Temple, and since no mention Is made of the wives of any of these three sons, it is probable that none of them ever married. Dr. John Baker, the fourth son of James and Sarah Baker, lived at Richmond, Surrey, and was much respected not only for his professional ability, but also for his sterling Integrity and great benevolence. He was a disciple of Boerhaave, the celebrated Dutch physician, philosopher and botanist, among whose patients was included the Czar Peter the Great of Russia.

Dr. John Baker married Sarah Wood, daughter and co-helress of Robert Wood, brother of Thomas Wood, of Littleton county, Middlesex, and of Middlehan Castle, County York. Dr. John Baker and his wife, Sarah (Wood) Baker, had one daughter named Sarah (for her mother and grandmother), who died young, and three sons. The sons were (1) George Baker, fellow-commoner of Kings College, Cambridge, who was distinguished for his classical knowledge, but who died, without children, at that university In 1772.

(2 John Baker, captain of the Coldstream Guards, who married Sarah Baddison, daughter and sola heiress of Captain Baddison, of the Royal Navy. Captain Baker died at Sway Lemmlngton In 1794, leaving one son, John Robert Baker, and two daughters. (3) Robert Baker, third son of Dr. John and Sarah (Wood) Baker, was born In 1737, and the first of the family to be crested a Baronet He was of Upper Dunstable House, Surrey, and of Nlcholas-Hayne. Devonshire, and created a baronot In 1706.

He married Dinah Hayley, daughter and heiress of George Hayley, who was member of Parliament and Alderman of the city of London. The profession of law, the army or navy service or the church have chiefly occupied the men of the Baker family, and among notable names In the English connection are: Robert Henry Sherston Baker, born In 3S4S, captain In the Royal Navy: John Chlckely Sherston Baker, born in 1S50, captain of the Elthorne militia; Sir Henry Lornlne Baker. Baronet, born in 1787, vlce-ndmlral of the Royal Navy, C. B. Sir Henry Baker, third baronet, who served with distinction in the British Navy the late Row Sir Henry Williams Baker, vicar of Montland, Herdfordshire, who was one of tue cnlof compilers of "Hymns Ancient and Modern." The latter's kinsman and th9 prent -grandson of the first baronet Is Sir George Edward Dunstan Sherston Baker, who was created fourth baronet and who is a barrister.

According to notes by Mr. John Baker Tnpscott, the arms borne by the Bakers of Somerset and Devonshire, England, and those of John Baker, who emigrated to this country from Devonshire, England, are identical. John Baker died in June, 1798, and was burled in the Colonial churchyard near Charlestown, Jefferson county, W. Va. The family estates of the American Bakers were all in Devonshire, England, and John Baker received large grants of land In Montgomery county, Mary land.

As he was an ardent Tory, these es tates were confiscated by the Government after the Revolutionary War. The daughters of John Baker were noted beauties, and Mrs. John Baker, Jr. (nea Mark) Is quoted as saying that when Intro duced as a bride In her father-in-law's home she had never seen anyone so beautiful as his daughter Margaret. In view of the Interest taken In the de scendants of John and Judith Howard (Wood) Baker, one of their descendants contributes the following genealogy, for the accuracy of which she vouchps.

John Baker married Judith Howard Wood. Their children were (1) Margaret Baker, who married James Lyle; (2) Subs nna Howard Baker, who married first. Dr. John Wood, of Virginia, her cousin, and second, James Tapscott; (3) Judith Baker, who married Col. James Hlte; (4) Alctnda Baker; (5) Anna Baker, who married Mr.

Waters: (0) Mary Baker, who married General Boyer; (7) John Baker, was a distinguished lawyer and a Federalist member of Congress from 1811 to 1813. He married Anna Marks, of Jefferson county, Virginia. Margaret Baker married James Lyle. Their daughter, Juliet Lyle, married Abram Smith. Their daughter, Margaret Lyle Smith, married her cousin, Robt.

Spotswood Brooke. Their children were: (1) John Francis Brooke, who married Ann Carter Berkeley. Their children were (a) Isabella Brooke, (b) Robert Spotswood Brooke, (c) Margaret Lyle Brooke, (d) John Francis Brooke, Jr. (2) Juliet Lyle Brooke, (3) Mary Randolph Spotswood Brooke, who married Overton Bowcock and died without children. (4) Martha Brooke, who married Walter Frederick Chermslde.

Their children were (a) Merriel Chermslde, (b) Marjory Chermslde, (c) Mabel Morrison Chermslde, (d) Herbert Brooke Chermslde, (e) Robert Alexander Chermslde, (f) Juliet Lyle Chermslde. (5) Francis Taliaferro Brooke, who married Ann Aurelia Burnley. Their children were: (a) Mary Randolph Spotswood Brooke, (b) Francis Taliaferro Brooke, (c) Elizabeth Brooke. (6) Edmund Berkeley Brooke. Susanna Howard Baker married, first, her cousin, Dr.

John Wood, of Virginia, son of Col. James Wood and his wife, Mary Rutherford. He was the founder of Winchester, and clerk of the court of Frederick county for 17 years. He was also In the House of Burgesses, acting as proxy for Washington when he was elected, and was colonel In the French and Indian Wars. Susanna Howard Baker Wood married, second, James Tapscott, of Rockbridge county, Virginia, who was a widower at that time.

By her first marriage she had two sons Fonrose and Stanhope Wood. Fonrose married, but left no heirs. Stanhope married a Miss Lewis and had four sons: (a) Lewis Wood, (b) Bowyer Wood, (c) Edwin Wood, (d) Frank Wood. Frank Wood died unmarried. Lewis Wood died unmarried.

Edwin Wood married first, his cousin, Susanna (2) Susanna Caroline Tapscott, who mar ried Judge Lucas Powell Thompson. (3) John Baker Tapscott. (4) Newton Tapscott. (5) Chichester Tapscott. (6) Henry noward Tapscott The children of John Baker and Louisa (Tapscott) White were: (1) Susan White, who married William I.

Armstrong December 14, 1830. Their children were: (a) William Armstrong, who married Miss Clarke, of Baltimore, Md. (b) Elizabeth Armstrong, who mar ried Mr. Kidd and has one child. (2) Juliet White, married Noble Tabb.

Their children an (a) Laura Tabb; (b) John Tobb; (c) Horace Tabb; (d) Judith Tabb; (e) Elizabeth Tabb. (3) Arabella White, who married Judge Thompson, of Virginia, and has no children The children of Judge Lucas Powell and Susanna Caroline (Tapscott) Thompson were (1) Margaret Lyle Thompson, who married Paul Jones Carrington. Their chil dren were: (a) Lucas Powell Carrlngton; (b) Susan Cary Carrlngton; (c) John Marlon Carrlngton; (d) Paul Julian Car rlngton; (e) Caroline Tapscott Carrington; (f) Eleanor Stuart Carrington; (g) Mary Carter Carrlngton; (h) Alice Lee- Carrlng ton. (2) Lucas-Powell Thompson. (3) Susanna Rebecca Thompson, who married the late Robert Hull.

(4) John Baker Thompson, who married Alice Powers. (5) Carolina Tapscott Thompson, who married Charles Carroll, of Doughoregan Manor, Maryland. (6) Eleanor Stewart Thompson, who married Robert Goodloe Harper Carroll. (7) Alice Louisa Thompson. (8) Mary Carter Thompson, who married Gov.

John Lee Carroll, of Maryland, and had a son Philip Acosta Carroll. The children of Robert and Susanna Rebecca (Thompson) Hull are: (1) Henry Powell Hull, who married Leila Gordon Taylor and has one daughter, Elizabeth Taylor Hull, who married Frank McKay, of Chicago. (2) Caroline Tapscott Hull. (3) Amy Eleanor E. Hull.

(4) John Baker Thompson Hull, who married Louise Gertrude Ranstead. (5) Robert Carter Hull, who married Susan Boush Johnston and has a daughter, Elizabeth Hull. Judith (or Juliet) Wood Baker married Col. James Hlte. Their children were: (1) Frances Hlte, who married Dr.

William Waters, of Frederick, Md. Their children were: (a) Susan Waters, who married Dr. Gregg Gibson, whose children (I) Fannie Gibson, (II) James Hlte Gibson, (III) Agnes Gibson, (IV) Nannie Gibson; (b) Ann Waters, who married Dr. Harry Dor-sey; (2) Juliet Wood Hlte, who married Col. Thomas Briscoe; (3) Amelia Baker Hlte, unmarried; (4) Mary A.

Hlte, who married Jacob Grove (5) Arabella Hlte, unmarried (6) Caroline Hlte, who married William (or Daniel) Buckey, of Baltimore, and had three children (one son la the United States Army, Capt. Mervyn Buckey, breveted on the field la Cuba; (7) Alclnda Hlte, who married a Mr. Baker. Baker Tapscott married his first cousin, Ellen Baker. Their children were: (1) Samuel Tapscott, (2) John Baker Tapscott, (8) Elizabeth Tapscott.

John B. Tapscott, the only one surviving, married and lives with his children in Clarkesville, Tenn. Newton Tapscott married first Miss Dally, of Winchester second, Miss Louisa Fair fax. He left one daughter, Susan Cary who died at Savannah, Ga. Arabella Baker (Mrs.

Judge White) had one daughter and two sons: (1) Juliet, who married Col. Hiram Ople, of Northum berland, Va. No children. (2) Robert White, who married Miss Elizabeth Kean, of Winchester, Va. Their children were (a) Arabella White, who married William Luckett no children; (b) Nancy White, (c) Betty White, who married Rev.

William Atkin son, of the Presbyterian ministry. Their children were (I) William Atkinson, (II) Juliet Atkinson, who married William Mc-Caw and had two children (d) Juliet White. (3) John White, who married Miss Jewett, of Sheppardstown. Their children were (a) Betty. White, (b) Nannie White, (c) Robert White, (d) Jewett White.

Rob ert White married Miss Mary Donoghe, of Staunton, Va. They had one child Alfred White. Chichester Tapscott married Miss Jane Naylor, who died leaving one daughter. Anne Chichester, who married Mr. Riley, of Missouri, by whom she had one son.

She married second Mr. Ducher, of St. Louis. The only son of John Baker, of Devonshire, John Baker, married Miss Anne Mark, of Jefferson county, Va. She was the aunt of Mrs.

John White. Mrs. Tnrnbull and Mrs. Peyton Harrison. Their children were (1) John Baker, (2) Ellen Baker, (3) Samuel THE BAKER ARMS Arms a saltier, charged with five escallops, ermlnols on a chief, a lion passant, of the third, armed and lan-gued, gules.

Crest A demi-lion rampant, per fesse, Indented, ermlnols and psean, supporting In his paws an escallop, charged with an ermine spot. Motto Fidei cotioula crux (The cross Is the touchstone of faith). Baker, (4) Lyle Baker. Ellen Baker married Baker Tapscott, her first cousin. The sons did not marry.

Ann Baker married Gov. Thomas Walker Gilmer. Her life was a romance and a tragedy. Governor Gilmer was passing her home in Sheppardstown and seeing her standing on the porch fell in love with her at first sight and exclaimed "There is the woman I will marry He won her and their lives passed happily for many years. He was Secretary of the Navy under President Tyler.

When the guns were to be tried on the Princeton, the President, Mrs. Gilmer and Miss Gardner did not go on deck, because Miss Gardner wished to remain with the President, who was addressing her, and Mrs. Gilmer remained below deck to chaperon the lovers. The gun exploded, killing Mr. Gilmer, Mr.

Upshur and several others, and Mrs. Gilmer bitterly reproached Miss Gardner that she was not at her husband's side to die with him. President Tyler and Miss Gardner were married afterward, and It Is a curious fact that Mr. Lyon Gardener Tyler, grandson of Mr. Tyler, married a granddaughter of Mrs.

Gilmer. The chil dren were: (1) Elizabeth Gilmer, who married first St. George Tucker, one of whose grandchildren was Mrs. Lyon Gardner Ty ler, of Williamsburg; (2) John Baker Gil mer, who died unmarried; (3) Juliet Gilmer, unmarried (4) Ellen Gilmer, unmar ried; (5) George Gilmer; (6) James Gilmer; (7) Thomas Walker Gilmer. The children of St.

George and Elizabeth Anderson (Gilmer) Tucker were: (1) Ju liet Ann Tucker, (2) Ellen Tapscott Tucker, (3) Thomas Walker Tucker, (4) George Hudson Tucker, (5) Francis Robert Tucker, (6) James Blair Tucker, (7) Virginia Douglas Tucker. Another descendant of and Judith Wood Baker sends from the South a second vV garet, who married Sir Thomas Arundel. They had Sir Matthew, who married Margaret Wllloughby, and died 1598. The record of their eldest son. Sir Thomas Arundel, is the only one I have.

Did they have daughters also, and whom did the daughters marry 7 There were Arundels in Virginia before 1630. The Sir Richard Graham Preston who married Anne Howard (daughter of Anne Howard, of Escrick, and her husband and cousin, Sir Charles Howard,) was a brother-in-law of Sir John Fenwlck, and of course belongs to a much later generation than the Richard Graham Preston of Virginia and Maryland. The latter came into the Province of Maryland as one of the Provincial Court 1649-52, and Cornelius Howard and his brothers became landholders at the same time. "Howard's survey south side of the Severn, July 3, 1650." (See Land Office at Annapolis). Is it a mere coincidence? The old arms I have spoken of already are like those of the Lancashire Howards, minus the mullet, but the crest Is a rampant lion holding a cross-crosslet fitchee in its right paw.

To the inquiry made by a Maccubbln descendant as to "Aunt Carroll," I would suggest that she is very probably that Ann Llngan (daughter of Ann Maccubbln and Thomas Llngan), who married a Maccub-bin cousin, as there appears in the Montgomery county records the following notice "Married January 10, 1799, Ann Maccubbln and Daniel Carroll." 2. To the Inquiry of A. as to the descendants of Thomas Todd and Anne Gor- sueh I would say: -In-the Books of, under f'Pa tented land in Elizabeth City, Gloucester 1664" appears a statement as follows "Thomas Todd, of Toddsbwry, Ware parish, Gloucester county, Virginia, and Bal timore county, Maryland, where he settled in 1664, Burgess for Baltimore county. 1674-5, died at sea 1676, will dated 1675, married Ann Gorsuch." Their son Thomas, of Toddsbury, married Elizabeth He waB born 1660, died January YJustiee of the Peace for Gloucester. Their son Thomas, of Baltimore county, married Elisabeth and their son Thomas, of Todd's Neck, Baltimore county, Maryland, died 1739, married Eleanor Dor sey.

Land appears patented in Maryland in 1662 to Charles Gorsuch, a Quaker. 8. To the inquiry as to the Elder family, I would say the date of the marriage of John Dorsey (son of Col. Edward Dorsey and Sarah Wyatt) and Honor Elder is given as 1708, which would seem to Indicate that the family had been in Maryland some time earlier. But the only memorandum I have comes from the pedigree of the late Archbishop Elder, of Cincinnati, which is as follows "Frederick County, Maryland, William Elder, a Catholic from St.

Mary's College, gave the name St. Mary's Mount to a part of Carrlck's Knob. lie came In 1734 and his place Is named Pleasant Level. "He was born In Lancashire England, 1707, emigrated In 1728 or 1732 and married twice. He died April 22, 1775.

His first wife was Anne Wheeler, whom he married in England. She was born. 1709, died 1739. They had William, Guy, Charles, Richard and Mary. "The second wife was Jacoba Clementina Livers, daughter of Arnold Livers, a devoted Jacobite, who falling a son, named his little daughter for James III, 'the old Pretender, (as his enemies called him), and his queen Clementina SobleskL She was born 1717, died 1807.

The children of this second marriage were Elizabeth. Arnold, Thomas, Ignatius, Ann and Aloy-sla." Thomas born 1748 married 1771 Elizabeth Spalding, sister of Basil Spalding, of Charles county, and was the direct ancestor of the saintly Archbishop named above. I have always understood there was a "John Elder, i gentleman" in Charles or Mary's county during the years of the anti-Catholic regime followed the seizure of the Government from the Lords Baltimore, and that, he suffered heavy fines and restrictions for his faith but I have no documentary data. Perhaps William Elder was the son of one of the English Catholic Nonjurors of 1715 coming out to Maryland to Join their kinspeople who had gone to the Province under the first Lords Baltimore. 4.

To "Carroll Descendant" I would say that in one paper -I have, Susanna and Hester Larkin are given as daughters of Thomas. Hester, married John. Baldwin and had Thomas, John and Catherine. Susanna married Nicholas Nicholson, her daughter Susanna marrying Zachariah Maccubbln, testator of 1753. The latter speaks In his will, of at least three daughters Ann Llngan (wife of Dr.

Thomas), Elizabeth Hood, and Susannah Maccubbln, also of several sons, James, Nicholas and Zachariah. My table being Imperfect 1 would like to ask if the following is accurate Samuel Maccubbln, born 1763 (son of Mary Clare Carroll and Nicholas Maccubbln) had Susanna and Samuel died 1834. Susanna married Col. James Boyle, of Annapolis or thereabouts, and had James, John, Edwin and Llewellyn. Samuel of Samuel had William, State Treasurer of Maryland, who had Susanna, who married Judge Lloyd Hammond, of Elllcott City or thereabouts.

Two of my mother's favorite cousins were Mistress Susanna Boyle and Mistress Susanna Hammond, both of whom were gentlewomen of singularly attractive nature. Mrs. Boyle's youngest son was, I am told, Lieutenant-Governor of Maryland at one time, and one of her granddaughters married the Mexican Minister Marlscal. 6. I would be much pleased if the "Descendant of Capt.

John Hawkins" will tell me the names of the parents of Anne naw-klns who married Judge Samuel Hanson (son of Hon. Samuel Hanson, of Green Hill, and his wife Elizabeth Story). Judge Hanson's home was Poplar Hill (he and many of his children are buried there), and in the family record appears the statement: "Mrs. Anne Hanson, consort of Mr. Samuel Hanson, departed this life at sea, April 28, 1774, aged 44 years." But whether this record Is In his own handwriting or that of his Bon-ln-law, Gon.

George Lee (son of Thlllp Lee and his "Seawell wife" the paper says) I cannot decide. 7. Can any of the genealogists of the Barber family give me the names of the parents of the Anne Barber who married William McKenney, of Chestertown, The name of their home was Hopewell. Of the three sons of thin marriage Samuel married Miss William married who had a son, B. Wood Burch.

The children of John and Judith (Wood) Baker, of Berkeley, were: (1) Juliet Wood Baker, who married Col. James Hlte; (2) Arabella Baker, who married Judge White, of Winchester, Va. (3) Margaret Baker, who married Mr. Lille, of Staunton, whose daughter married Mr. Smith, whose daughter married Robert Brooke, whose sister, Mary Brooke, married Dr.

Edmund Berkeley; (4) Alclnda Baker; (5) Annie Baker, who married Znch-ariah Waters, of Montgomery county, Maryland; (6) Caroline Baker, who married Mr. Tapscott and had Louisa, Baker and others; (7) Miss Baker, who married Mr. Esk-rldge; (8) John Baker, who married Annie Mark. The children of Judge and Arabella (Baker) White, of Winchester, were: (1) Julia White, who. married Major Ople (2) Baker White, who married Louisa Tapscott, his first cousin.

Their children were: Col. Robert White, of Wheeling, and others. (3) Susan White, who married a Mr. Armstrong, of Rompey. The children of Zachariah and Annie (Baker) Waters, of Montgomery county, Maryland, were (1) Baker Waters, who married Mrs.

Rachel Mayneder. of Rockvllle, Md. (2) Tilghman Waters, who married his second cousin, Eleanor Mayneder Briscoe, daughter of Major Thomas Briscoe and Juliet Wood (Hite) Briscoe, of Jefferson county, Virginia. (3) Courtney Waters, unmarried. The children of John and Annla (Mark) Baker were: (1) Annie Baker," who: married Gov.

Thomas Gilmer, of Virginia, who was Governor in 1840 and member of Congress and Secretary of the Navy in 1848. (2) Lille, unmarried. (3) Ellen Baker, who married Baker Tapscott and had a son, John Baker Tapscott, of Clarksvllle," Tenn. Juliet Wood Baker married CoL James Hlte, son of Col. Thomas Hlte, of New Hopewell, aiid Frances' Madison Beale, and grandson of Col.

Jacob Hlte and Catherine O'Bannon and great-grandson- of Baron lost Hite and Anna Maria DuBols, the first settler in the Valley of Virginia, in 1732. The children of Col. James and Juliet Wood (Baker) Hite were: (1) Frances Hlte, who married Dr. William Waters, of Frederick, Md. -Their children were: (a) Susan Waters, who married Dr.

Gregg Gibson, whose children are (I). Fannie Gibson, (II) James Hite Gibson, (III) Agnes Gibson, (IV) Nannie Gibson, (b) Ann' Waters, who married Dr. Harry Dorsey. (2) Juliet Wood Hlte, who married Major Thomas Briscoe. 3 Amelia Baker Hite, unmarried.

(4) Mary A. Hite, who married Jacob Grove. (5) Arabelle Hlte, unmarried. (6) Caroline Hite, who married Daniel Buckey, of Baltimore. (7) Alclnda Hite, who married a Mr.

The children of Major Thomas and Juliet Wood (Hite) Briscoe were: (1) Eleanor Mayneder Briscoe, who married, first, ''Tilghman Waters, and second. Dr. Washington Waters. (2) Elizabeth Caroline Briscoe, who mar-' rted Dr. W.

H. D. (3) Juliet Baker Briscoe, who married Norman Miller, of Martinsburg. (4) Ann Arabella Briscoe, who married E. M.

Aisquith, of Charlestown. (5) James Hlte Briscoe, who married Caroline Miller. (6) Capt. John Lanese Briscoe, Confederate States Army. (7) Dr.

Thomas Wood Briscoe, Confed-Drato States Armv. (8) Amelia Frances Briscoe, wno marnea William B. Gallaher, of Waynesboro, whose daughter is Miss Juliet Hlte Gallaher. The children of Jacou ana juary a- inue; Grove were (1) Hon. James Hlte Grove, who married Sara of Hagerstown.

Their children were: (a) Hire Grove, (b) Dr. Washington Grove, surgeon, in Concord (c) Thomas Grove and Mary Grove. (2) Alice Grove, who was the second wife of Dr. Gregg Gibson. Their children were (a) Robert Gibson, (b) Dr.

Hopwood Gibson, of Shepherdstown. (3) Juliet Baker Grove. (4) Thomas Grove. (5) Robert Grove. The children of Daniel and Caroline (Hite) Buckey, of Baltimore, were (1) Maria Buckey, who married Rev.

James Thomas. (2) Juliet Buckey, who married a Mr. Holdaman. (3) Thomas Buckey, who married Louisa Tackett, of Charlestown, great-great-grand-niece of Gen. George Washington and great-granddaughter of Captain Packett, of the United States Navy.

The mother of Miss Packett was a Harewood Washington. Thomas and Louisa Packett Buckey had a son, Capt. Mervyn Buckey, of the United States Army. Maryland Letter Box. Communications from readers of THE SUN on subjects relating to Maryland Genealogy shcmld be addressed to "Maryland Heraldry," Sun office, to Insure their prompt appearance.

Such communications -will be published -without charge, The names and addresses of the writers should accompany the communications. Write on one side of the paper only and be careful to write names distinctly. Messrs. Editors It gives me great pleasure to direct the attention of C. C.

C. and others to a verj good history of Lancashire In the Capitol library at Washington, where they will find the Preston-Holland marriage, and much about the Prestons that yon do not find elsewhere. It begins somewhat In this way "Preston of the Manor and Abbey, originally of Westmoreland, of Preston-Patrick from time immemorial." Arms Argent, two bars gules, a canton of the first with a cinqfoii or. Thomas Preston, of Preston-Patrick and Levans, purchased the site of the Abbey of Furness of Trustees of the Crown. John Preston, of the Manor of Furness of Lancaster, married Elizabeth Holland, of Lancashire, Their daughter Margaret married Sir Francis Howard, of Corby.

The Richard Preston I named came into Virginia In 1635, and appears seated In the Provincial Court of Maryland as early 1R40-52. Alathea (Howard) Fairfax should have been cited as the granddaughter of William of Naworth the Betham table in which she appears shows plainly the line of descent -Wllllam-Phlllp-Alathea. The name of the witness to the will of "Henry Howard, of A. (dated De- A "-At JUDGE LUNSFORD with business transactions. I am interest ed in a sea captain Lucas, whose family lived at that time 1753 supposedly in Maryland.

I. W. D. Messrs. Editors: About six weeks ago I read with a great deal of interest your account of the Mac-kenzles of Scotland and their descendants In Maryland.

I am a descendant of the Mackenzles of Scotland. My great-grandfather came to Wilmington, N. and afterward settled in Georgia, where, in 1759, he obtained from the King a commission as Collector of the Port of Savannah, and in 1771 another as Collector of the Port of Sunbnry, also in Georgia. He came ever to this country in 1746, shortly after the battle of Culloden, and married. In Wilmington, a Miss Christian Campbell, daughter of James Campbell and Christian Cad-wallader.

He had two sons, George and John, and two daughters, who became, respectively, Mrs. Yonge (then Mrs. Fleming) and Mrs. Simpson. George married a Miss Rowan, daughter of President Rowan, of the Council, and they are burled at Lllllput Plantation, Brunswick county, and John Mackenzie married a Miss Heron, of Wilmington, N.

and had two children William, who died unmarried in early manhood, and my grandmother, Mary Jane Mackenzie, who married my grandfather. Dr. W. W. Anderson, of Stateburg, S.

and had four sous, who grew to manhood two died unmarried, and two, who left Issue, were Gen. Richard Heron Anderson of the Confederacy, who is survived by a daughter, now MrB. W. D. Bland-Ing, residing In Kentucky, and Dr.

W. W. Anderson, also of the Confederate Army, who, with his wife (nee Chllds), still lives In the old home place In Stateburg, S. C. They have two sons and three daughters living, all married.

A daughter of Dr. W. W.Anderson and Mary Jane Mackenzie also survived and married Col. Frederick Lynn Chllds, of the Confederate Army, and has two surviving sons, both married, and a daughter (myself), still single; also a daughter who married Mr. W.

J. Rees, of Stateburg, S. and died, leaving two daughters. Do you care to have the complete data of this branch of the Mackenzles, and do you think you can help me to establish the connection of my great-great-grandfather with Sir George Mackenzie? I have searched "Burke's Peerage" and "Burke's Landed Gentry," and have also read "The History of the Mackenzles," by James Mackenzie, and the only William I can find who at all seems to answer in points of time and age. Is William, second son of Sir George Mackenzie, third Earl of Cromartie, who, with his eldest son.

Lord Macleod, was taken prisoner the day before the battle of Culloden. But Mr. James Mackenzie, who gives the fullest account, says this William died young, ne gives the names of 11 children, and in another place in his book says that Lady Mackenzie was soon to give birth to a twelfth child when she led her 10 children to the feet of the King to plead for the lives of their father and brother. Mr. Mackenzie also says that a daughter died young, and about a third child he says absolutely nothing.

Yet 10 children of the 11 were living at that time, and the one who was dead might have been the 'laughter who died young, as well as this son William. Now, my hypothesis Is that William, who must have been not over 10 or 17 years of age, came to Carolina as recorded, and that the author of this history lost sight of him In America, and, knowing nothing further of him, simply said he died young. Two of the daughters of this same Sir George married Carolinians, and this seems to strengthen my hypothesis. Also, In the matter of emigrants to America, the author makes such vague statements as this, for Instance who went to America, and married a Miss Fraser at St. Anns there." AltOKether, I think it highly probable that my theory can hold water.

What do you think about it? Do you think It worth pursuing and attempting to demonstrate, and will you be kind enough to make any suggestions, which your familiarity with the subject fits you so well to do? M. M. C. Messrs. Editors: Referring to the sketch of the Sewell and allied families lu Tub Spn of May 7, the names of Colo, Marriott, Klrby, Acton nnd others appeared, llalleln'a "Society Publications" give the following: "Rudolf.Wllltnuj and Augustine Marriott came over to England ith William th Conqueror and fought under Dn Bnlsby at the battle of Hustings, and for their bravery received grants of land.

"Charter of tho Marriott's Manor of gpeoheUn. "The Marriotts took an active part lu tha barons' wars uudr Adam and Thomas A' Sl SAAA. lAAf; a of in Messrs. Editors: I would like to say to H. of Washington, D.

that In about two weeks I can give them considerable Information concerning the Eskrldge family. I am having the records of Dorchester county searched and am encouraged as far as I have gone. J. E. E.

Cambridge Md. Messrs. Editors: A always read the columns of Miss Lantz and Miss Keys with great interest and the Letter-Box Is always full of suggestions for answers. One would be astonished to find how many Georgia people are connected with these old Maryland families. They have lost sight of their ancient progenitors and have been lost sight of by the chroniclers of the present day.

The Thomas family, for instance, has a very large and distinguished branch In Georgia. Gen. Edward Lloyd Thomas, who was a captain in the war in Mexico, was a brigadier-general in the war between, the States, and his old father, Col. Edward Lloyd Thomas, was once a surveyor-general. This family of Thomases came to Georgia to look after the Interests of the famous merchant, William Patterson, of Baltimore.

The Lawsons, of whom Inquiry Is made, came to Virginia among its very first settlers, became connected with the Thorogoods one branch went to Maryland, one to Middle Virginia and North Carolina and afterward to Kentucky, and several families came to Georgia. They sprang from rough Hall, Yorkshire and Newcastle on the Tyne. The allusion of Mrs. Naylor to the Howards leads me to say that before Francis, Earl of Effingham, was In. Virginia that John Hayward, or Howard, was father of Henry Howard, who married Elizabeth Moss.

He had a son Francis, who married a Calthorpe, from an old English Puritan family. From them sprang Elizabeth, who died unmarried, and Colonel Henry, who married, a Mrs. Schlater. The Pawletts were doubtless ancestors of the Polletts. They are mentioned in Collins as descendants of the Marquis of Winchester.

confusion which "Descendant" finds concerning the Richard Bland who married Anne Poythup results- from confounding the two Rlchards father and son. In the pleasant article of Miss E. L. Willis, of Charleston, the name printed Hendson should be Hudson. The Casons I find as early as 1638 in the Portsmouth records.

The Hudsons, as well as Casons, came to Georgia. Geohoe G. Smith. Messrs. Editors: When or have you had the heraldry of the Jenkins family Also who was Thomas Wheeler and what Colonial position had he? Also the parents of Sarah.

Scott? Will someone kindly answer? A DESCENDAira. Messrs. Editors: I cannot refrain from offering my appreciation of Miss Lantz's accuracy in tracing the lineage of the Hlllen family. It Is remarkable. I have heard many say the same thing, and you have my congratulations upon her work and the amount of Interesting data she has gotten together regarding the family.

I am now having a clipping from The Sun saved for those who come after me. J. Hillen Jenkins. Messrs. Editors: In answer to your correspondent B.

in your issue of Sunday, August 13, as to Ruth Hammond, the second wife of my great-great-grandfather, Henry Griffith, she was the daughter of John and Ann (Dorsey) Hammond, the granddaughter of Major Charles and Hannah (Howard) Hammond, the great-granddaughter of John and Mary Hammond. Ann Dorsey was the daughter of Colonel Edward and Margaret Dorsey by his second marriage. Hannah Howard was the daughter of Philip and Ruth (Baldwin) Howard. R. G.

Messrs. Editors: Can anyone tell me If there Is record in the Fairfax family or the Francis (Fairfax) Martin family of a daughter who married Joseph Berry in 1750 or earlier? VinaiNiA. Umatilla county, Oregon. Messrs. Editors: I beg to correct the letter written on the 22d instant.

My grandfather was Clement nubbard, of Caroline county, Maryland. He married a Miss Sallle Eaton, a descendant of Analton Eaton, of England. Can any of the readers of The Sun tell me if she was a daughter or a granddaughter of Analton Eaton and in what year did she come to this country? T. G. Messrs.

Editors: In your Issue of -May 28 there was a letter from Mrs. Henrietta Wood Naylor In the "Maryland Heraldry" column Inquiring about the Naylor family. My mother was Lucy Ann Naylor. whose father was William Naylor, a distinguished lawyer and Presbyterian elder, who came, I think, from Carlisle, and married a Miss Anne Sanford. I should be glad to hear more of the Naylor family.

My grandfather. William Naylor, came from Carlisle, about 1S00 and settled in Romney, Hampshire county. W. Va. K.

H. M. Messrs. Editors: Can any of the descendants of Col. Zndok Magruder tell me the name of his wife? I have always heard thnt she was Rachel Pottlnger and a widow Bowie until 1 saw thnt contradicted In your paper a few weeks ago, in reply to "Descendant." Another Descendant.

Messrs. Editors: Can Miss Lantz or any readers of The Sun give me any information about tho WalkerB, of Baltimore? Christopher Walker, born 1757, ditd In Cincinnati, Ohio, May 0, 1841. Do not know whom he mar ried. His brother, Joseph walker, married i i.