Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-07-24

then dispute between the British crown, and Lord
Fairfax. (See Revised Code, 1919, Vol. ?, page
3I5, 3i6.)
Burden returned TO Britain, IN 1897. and brought
hither upwards of hundred families OF adventurers,
10 settle ON his grants. They chiefly Scottish
Presbyterian dlsseners, and many OF them parisans
OF the House of Stuart, i'll the political contest then
raging IN England and Scotland.-Amongst these
adventurous, werc,-John Patton, the son-in'law OF
old Ben. Burden, who settled Cutawba above
Pdtonsturg; his daughter became the wife of Col.
VIM. Preston, and the mother OF James Patton
Prcston late Observation-Disclosures Mcdowell, who
settled IN Beverly manor. onthc south river,-Jamcs
Greenlcc the soninow of Ephraim Mcdowell, who
settled on James river nj Phcbc's salls.-John Nc
Dowcll, son of Ephraim, who settled at Fairfield,
where Col. James Mcdowell now ivcs,-Iugh Tel
lord, who settled the falling spring, (Church) in
the fork of James River-paul Whitley who settled
GU Cedar creek, where the Red mill now iS,--Arch-
baid Alexander who settled on the North river OPP
posltc Observation-Disclosures Moore (nCl the Gencrall
who settled adjoining NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. A'ch-
or. who settled Mt Giimorcs spring. cast of the
Bridge taverig and Capt. John Matthews, mar
red TO his daughter Betsy Archer, who settled where
Maj. J. w. Matthews now lives, bclnw the Natural
Bridge: this John Matthews, raised very cntcrpri-
sing sous; viz: Sampson OF StauLton William, Rich
ard, Archer. john and General George Matthews
late Governor of Gcorgia--Those iamilcs, and
uany others, became permanently settled, Burdens
grants, in 1888, 1889, I7i0.f
Governor Gooch rcalcascd those settlers from pay
ing q"t rents at the intercess ion of VIM. Anderson
~ prcacUcr. heir prlncipal trade butter ana
poultry carried to Williamsburg i'll exchange for salt
and lrOn.>Od Rem. Burden, aud his settlers. thus
located most of the good land between Lewis
creek and the head of Catawba.-lIe allowed eacl
settler one hundred acres free; and leave to buy any
farther quantity at jO per thousand acres for each
cnbb'n built on the land: when the titles were gran
ted, they were popularity called ''cat5in rights."!
Amongst these emigrans. there "a wild Irish grl
nnmcd Polly Miiholln, came To this country; an,
was hired tn James Bell, servant, to pav hc
passage money:-at the termination of her servitudc
she dressed III hunting shirt and bree,hes-a tcro
ner CHRISTIAN name to that OF and verify sakct
forth as "a man amongst men" She went out ant
QUIT about thirty cabins Burdens land; all,
claimed and heid one hundred acres of land at rncI
cabbin When young Ben Burden. as the agent o
his father came on to make deeds for the cbba ljLf
| he was surprised tn many in the name al
Nliholln; investigation led to the discovery OF IN,
whole mystery To the great mrth of the inhabitants
She resumed her feminine dress; md many of hc-
respectable defendants now reside within the linn:
OF Burdens grant.
John Paul the son of IIurh bishon of No,,;rob,,,
IN England, married to Jane LYNN of the
"Lynncs of Loeb Linn sister to John Lewis.
wlie-hc was n parizan OF the House of Stuart anc
pcrlshed at the siege OF Darymple castle during the
civil wars, IN l745; he LETT two somes John ana
Audley, and daughter Polly: his widow afterwards
oecane the wife of John Stuart an intimate of Rob
ert i1lnwlddies--Tben Dnwiddie came here as rov.
ernor OF Virginia. in 1852 he br DUG hi wthm LARGE
detachment of emigrants; amongst these were John
stuart and his wife, and three step-childrcn: they
settled on the Shenandoah, below Burdens grant
John Pau tAc lnger marred Miss Whirey and
Afterwards lived and died a Roman Catholic priest
IN the Eastern shore OF Maryland:-his sister Polly
became the wife of the late governor George Mat
thews OF Georgia-hls brother Audcy. after serving
ten years officer in the British Colonial for
ces' stationed at different forts, the frontiers of
Pennsylvania and Virginia, was finally married to
Jane Matthews, daughter of John, and settled at
Springfield near the Natural Bridge.-John Stuart's
marriage with Mrs. Paul, gave origin to two children
porn III virginia, to witt John, the late Col. Stuart o
Greenbrier;--and Betsey the wife of late Col Rich
ard w oods of Albemarle.
- SON OF CORNSTAIK.
see The deposition Of Mary Greenec, referred TO-
several OF the grants OF those catn rights are flied in III
office OF the Staunton district court in the Burden
heiTS, Bolryer & niistr.