The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-08-06
For tue farm-r and Me~eanir
Some Notes on tho PuRh Family
Of North CavoItos.

Some Notes on tho Pugh Family
of North CavoItos.
In The year o. grare, sixteen hundred
and siXtv-six, Francis, Dn.iel and
Thomas i'ugh, geutlenleu. aiid eoung , !.
sons oi Welsh Squire al C;.cr,arvou-
shire, cat least, SO say, an Old record. }
emigrated with their families IL James
ton. Va Francis. the eldcs. OF the
three. settled near suffolk. Va. in
Nahsemond. Parish, and built hand
some brick residence which he chris ten
cd',Jericho, probably because ho faucied
that he had reached the ultima thule. :
being so far from the ".tuld root tree
in the fathelland. These were all men
Of means Judging Iom tic great credit
that the family had with the London
merchants at that time. Some years
after this we find that Francis. (whom !
SHAH designate as The Second") the
son OF Francis, the eldest brother, paid
over to Robert Carey, London mer-
chant. the just and full sum of fifteen
thousand pounds sterling, of which the
original receipt is yet in the hands OF
one of mis- descendants.
Daniel Pugh and his fanil, removed
to South Carolina, where they have de
scendants to this day, Thomas and
family to West Va, and the Ohio re.
gion. OF the South Carolina branch.
the late Hon. George +. Pugh, OF Ohio
u ). Senator, was an eminent repre-
sentative. A letter to the writer ot this
article, from Mrs. Mary A. Hart. o
Cincinnati, Ohio, a sister of the Hon
George +. l'ugh, shows that they claim
the same common tradition of the thrc,
brothers. Another distinguished repre-
sentative OF the South Carolina branch
is Hon. James l.. Pugh. of Alabama
U. 5. Senator, his family traditions also
taking him back to the three brother.
who landed on Virginia soil in lGGG
going thence through South Carolina tC
Alabama. Another tradition which
seems to be the common property of al
the branches, aud hence seems highly
~ ohabe is this -
That the name was originally al
Hugh (the Welsh for ''sOn Of IIu~h''
and that they trace their lineage from
Hugh Glendower. younger son of Sil
Owen Glendower. choleric old Welsh
chieitain, immortaliZcd by the Bard o
Avon in his drama OF King Henry The
Fourth and who had so good an opin.
ion of himself as To assure Ilolspur. the
son of the Earl ot Northumberland that
1.-THE earth did shake when he was
born,' aud that he was mot III the roll
81 common men" But. to our theme
begging pardon Of the rcafcr for thi,
momentarv wandering of INTO tIlt
realms OF fiction and pocsy.
To return to Francis (whom >llaI
designate as The 81, ond. : the son %
Francis. the First he married phcribc,
Savage. OF Williams burn Va. Il cOu.
ncctiOn of The House Of kandoph. :
an assertion proven 10y the fact that a,
her death she appointed the celebrate,
Peyton Randolph. of Vire MA, guardian
to her only daughter, by her SECOND
marriage. to Col. Thomas Barker, the
intimate friend and law preccptor o
Governor Samuel Johnston. These
two exchanged poi traits, and it is sal,
tina. there still hangs on the wall "a
Hays the old Johnston mansion
near Edenton. ~ g.. (now in posses
sion o. Mrs. Edward Wood. an elegan
portrait of Barker, painted by l'rincely
an English artist of cons idcrablc rcpute
| The name OF the only issue OF Thos
Barker and Mrs. phCrihec SAVAGE Pu"h
was ..betsy Barker Il name now men
toned by a thousand lips with reverence
She was celebrated beauty. ani one
of the most accomplished women OF he
day, judging from traditions handle,
down. and from a photographic copy o
a portrait of her. painted by the SAM
artist. Prlncely, referred to above. whicl
portrait is said 10 have been painte,
while she was an inmate of Mr.. Ran
dolpn's house. 1t was there She wa
seen and sought in marriage. bv Honor
able Thomas Jefferson, then Il tncmbc
of the Virginia House Of Burgcsses
though afterwards President OF thes,
United States. The photograph of thi
celebrated lady was given the writer b,
Mrs Clement &. Clay. of Alabama. he
lineal descendant, and who assured tn
writer of the fact that her ancestress re
fused the hand of the Sage of Monti
cello" We have also been told tina
such was fact by Mr.. John BuStol
/ Williams. OF "BuXton Place Warrel
county. n. c.. a grandson of Betsy Ban
/ ker. which information he received d
rectly from his mother, Mrs. Henry q
Williams. nee Tunstdll. the daughter G
I the aforementioned lady. Miss l'arke
was married to Col. Wm. TuHstall. {
Il Henry county. Va. one of the mos
gallant gentlemen Of the olden time, AN
a. Was natural named her first born so
after her guardian and relative, Peytn
Randolph These became the founder
ei Tie great Tuns tall family. which ha
had so many illustrious representative
|, and molly borne "the grand old nam
of gentleman" in so many of our Soutl
crn States.
lCoatiHued negt peek