Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-07-17
His Virginia Cousins.
From the Baltimore American.


General Ben Harrison has in Virginia an
army of cousins more or less removed. He
is the eighth great grandson of Pocahontas,
the Indian maid of sweet memory. ANY
yirginian who wishes to determine bis rela.
tonship to General Harrison can do so by
referring to Bishop Msade's Families OF
Virginia" which can be found at the Pratt
Library. General Harrison is related to
Bishop Randolph, formerly OF Emmanuel
Church, this city, now bishop Of Virginia;
to the family of Col. Robt Randolph, of Eau.
quier, and to the Randolphs Of Loudoun
county. as we'll as to the Rapdolphs of this
CITY, He is related to the 1shams, to the old
family of Ishams of Bermuda Hundred, and
through this family to the numerous family
of Keiths in Fauquer and neighboring coun.
ties of Virginia Among these may be men
toned Isham Keith, q farmer near Warren
ton. Virginia, and his brother, Judge James
Keith, of Warrenton. Va. Through this
connection General Harrison is also related
to Mr.. James Briggs's family, of Stafford
county, Va, and to that of Ishsm Briggs. a
merchant of Briggs Postoflice, Clarke county,
Va, and through his vile to the numerous
branches OF the family OF BosWels, OF Clarke
and Fauquier counties, Virginia. he is re-
lated to William Royal, attorney ofthe Vir
ginia English bondholders, and that large
family of Fauquier and adjoining counties,
including DR.. Cook, of Fauquier. Through
this connection be is also related to the
James and Gaskins families, of Fauquier
county. The branches of this family are
legion, and their connection ss clan, es-
pecially in the fertile region of the Pignut
and Rappahannock mountains, Fauquier
and Prince William counties Virginia, will
number several hundred. if not thousand.
He is related to the Peytons, Beverleys,
Manns and Marshals All the innumera.
BILE branches OF Chief Justice Marshall's
kindred in Upper Fauquier are his relations.
So are the Amblers.
Rev. John Amber, who for years preach
ed near Piedmont, or Delaplane, Fauquier
and also at Grace Episcopal Church, near
Warrentou, and who now is located in West
Virginia, is related to hin. Rev. John
Amber attended the great Harrison and
TippecaDoe and Tyler, too'' meeting in
Baltimore on May 4, 1910. He came with a
delegation OF one hundred men, who rode
on horseback from Fauquier county to at
tend that great wing meeting. AllVirginia
was for protection in those days. Col. John
Walden was marshal of the Fauquier dele
cation.
Through the Amblers and the Marshals
the Chunns and innQmerable branches of
that family are related to "the next presi.
dent of these United States" All the Ran.
dolphs, of Tuckahoe, Dungeness, Curls,
Roanoke, Chstsworth, Wilton, Varina, Bre.
mo and Turkey Island are related to Gen.
eral Harrison. He is also related to that
family whose name i5 legion, the descend
ants Of Colonial Governor Berkeley, of Vir.
ginia. This family is found in Hanover
county, Virginia, and in other parts of the
State. General Harrison ia also connected
with the many families of Virginia SCOTS.
He is closely related to the Boiling family,
of Petersburg, Va, now represented by
COL Robert Boiling. Robert Beverley, of
The Plains, Fauquier county, Va, is large
collateral connection. Mr.. Beverly ia large
agriculturist and q public-sprited citizen of
the State Senator John S. Barbour is
relative of his. So is the fair autboress,
Mrs. Amelie Rives Chandler. The Yates
and Stitbs, of Gloucester county, can call
Ben Harrison cousin. Rev. MIR. Stith was
a historian of Virginia. The numerous
family of Campbells, OF whom one also was
a historian of Virginia, can come to see
"Cousin Benz ct the White House, and all.
nounce their trooping in force, as the great
Campbell clan of Virginia, to the music of
1.-THE Campbells Are Coming" The de-
scendants of old King Carter-the Carriers,
Mitchels, Bladens-who ramify from Tide.
water Virginia through the Piedmont re-
gion to the mountains and the valley. can
all say "Our Cousin Ben Harrison is Presi-
dent" Mr.. Aic Rose, of Bethel, Fau
quier county, can shake hands with "Cous.
in Benz
According to Bishop Meade's book, Poca-
hontas left g son, Thomas Rolph, who was
educated in England, and returned to the
colony of Jamestown, Va, of which his
father was recorder and secretary. He lived
in Henrico, ana became a man of fortune
andIdistinction the colony. He left an
only daughter, ,swho married Colonel Robert
Boiling, who left an only son, Major John
Boiling, who was the father of Colonel John
Boiling, and several daughters, one of
whom married Colonel Richard Randolph,
another, Col. Flemmipg, another DR.. VIM.
Gay fourth, Mr.. Thomas Eldridge, and the
last Mr.. James Murray. Richard Randolph,
of Curls, fourth in descent from Pocahontas,
married Miss Ann Meade sister of Col. r. <.
Meade. Their daughter married MIR. VIM.
Boiling, of Boiling Hail. Goochland county,
Va, being fifth in descent from Pocahontas.
Gen. Ben Harrison's grandfather, President
Harrison. was in lineal descent from Poca.
hontas through the Randolphs. In the year
1904, Mr.. .Burk, a historian of Virginia, spoke
of the descendants of Pocahontas in these
words: This remnant of the imperial fami-
" OF Virginia, which long ran in single
,,arson ia now Increased and branched ont
into very numerous progeny. The virtues
of mildness and humanity, 80 eminently dis
tinguished in Pocahontas, remain in the ma