Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-11-27
The Great Preston Fanily.

Correspondence of Cincinnati Gazette J
LEXINGTON, Nov. 70.
There was reference, IN the columns OF
the Gazette, few DAYS ago,in the relation.
snip OF Frank 7. Blair, WIN. Preston, OF
k9rucky, and Wade II tmpton, aud the ef-
frct Of IT upon the fortunes Of the D.1uo-
cratic party ia the late Presidential! cam
pagu. Perhaps short history Of that
Preston family and its ramihcations vii en-
able some Of your readers to explain other
political movements OF the past. That his
try propose 20 give John Preston, the
first Of the American branch Of the family,
came 10 this country from Londonderry,
Ireland, in l7iO be married EiZibrth
Patton. Col James Patton, brother Of
Elizabeth, came To Virginia az the same
kline Wa, very wealthy, and was billed 10y
the lndiauS in 1853. He left two daugh-
ters, one OF whom married Colonel John
Buchanan, and from him descended John
FLOYD, once Governor OF the same State
and James Buchanau's famons Secretary of
War. John Preston had rive children
Oftbem in their order: /. Ltitia Preston
married Colonel Robert Brrcknridge, a
Virginia farmer. His son, john Brrckiu.
ride, was a lawyer OF eminence, was Uui-
ted States Senator and Attorney Genera
und-r J~irr sou. He had the famou, Esnl
tuc6v and Virginia resolutions adopted by
the Kentucky legislature. His sons were
the three Ir, S'yterian preachers, John
Breck nridgr, VII" held the noted debate
with Archbishop Hughes, x. J. b. ana W.
l.. Il. John &. breckenridge was the grand
SOW of this John Breckenridge sud Letitia
Preston. ? Margaret Presto married the
R-v. John Brown, Presbyterian minister,
.rN J.
Brown, United States Senator FROM Ken
rurky, James Brown, FIRST Secretary Of 5 ate
Of Kentucky, Dr.. Samuel Brown, Prof $ or
10 the Medical School Of TranSyl yauiA Uni
vrrsity. John Mason and Orlando BoSn,
both eminent citizens of Kentucky, were
sons of the Hon. John Brown. 8 William
Preston. HIS defendants are very numrr-
ous. The mention of a few OF them will he
interesting. Francis Preston, his second
son, was the father Of the distinguished
S1u'h CProlna orator, W. G. Preston, of
General John Preston, Mrs General Car
ripgton, Sc. Francis Preston's fourth dangh
ter, Sarau, marrl-d john b. Flovd. Of Vlr-
ginia, and Wade Hampton, Of south Caro-
Hna. married his tenth child, Margsret.-
Francis Preston, son Of John s ma-rird a
Miss Hampton, daughter OF General Wade
llimp'oo. Col. William Preston's Tot Smith-
n-li, Va second daughter, S,rtl, married
Colonel James Mcdowell. Il Virginia. and
their daughter EVA married Hon. Thomas
II. Benton, Of Missouri, whose daughter.
j -ssir Ann, ularried General John q. Ere.
mont. W'n. Prrstou's thru SON, William.
married a Miss Hancock, OF virginia. and
their eldest child Henrietta, married G n
erll Albert Sidney Johnston, the great reh-
"a cheitain. WIN. Preston, ct Kennedy.
who nuUi'nated Prank Blair tor Wee Prrsi-
deut, is al'o a Guild Of William Preston aud
Miss Hancock. Z Ann Preston married
Fraucis Smith, OF Virginia. Their eldest
i daughter, Elizabeth, married J tm.s Blair. a
I laUyrr, aud Attorney General Of K,,ntnckv.
/ THIS James Biair was the faih-r of I. =.
BLAIR, ed TOR of the Globe, and h. was th,,
I father of Montgomery Blair and Frank BAR.
3. Mary Preston, the fourth daughter o. Old
John Preston, married John lioward of VIZ
rinn. Thrir Ion, Bsrjtuin Howard, was
/ Governor Of Missouri. Margaret lloFard,
also their daughter. married Robert Wick
lhi, ~ Lexington, Kentucky, whose daugh.
Ter, Margarri, marri Gen. William Pres
ton, uf Kentucky. We omitted to mention
amnrg the Rucrs Ors OF Am Preston. Der
dgngutrr, Agatha, who married Dr.. I.tWis
Marshall, 81 Woodf1rd county, Kentucky
Thomas +. Marshall, the orator, WAS their
child. The above are few o. the decend-
tNis ot John Preston, ard his Vie, Ella.
beth IA ton. We c'uli * end the Int
mu fur her, bnr the ahoyr is ruou.h o
sLOs tur cunnec iol Il several mru vhu
have ac;ed colspltuoui paris IN tue la,