Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-12-16
Letter from iion. Macajah Woods to Col.
John L. PeytOn.

CHARLoTTEsvILLE, Va, Dec. 5, 1891.
Col. John l.. Peyton,
S iaunton, Va.
DEAR Col. I'm my hurried letter to yor
the other day, writing from memory, / wal
mistaken as to the line of my maternal lin
cage.
Family records 10 my possession show:
l. Sabina Lynn, the sister Of Margare,
Lynn, who married John Lewis, (the
founder), first married John Paul, (son Of
Hugh, Bishop of Nottingham.) He (Johr
PauD was a partisan of the House of Stu
art and persisted in the siege of Dalrymple
in 1745, leaving three children. ~ John,
Catholic Priest, who died on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland. (2) Audrey. an off.
Ger in the British Colonial forces, and the
father of Mrs. Gov. Mathews of Georgia,
and of Mre. General Blackburn, and (3)
Polly, who mar, led Mr.. - Taylor.
Said Sabina Paul, widow, married David
Stuart before he came to America and by
him had two children, ~ Sabina Stuart
and (2) Col. John Stuart, of Greenbrier
county. Sabina Stuart was born IN Au-
gusta county, at place in or near Staun-
said by some that you reside OF the place.
Stuart, first married George Wilson, and
on his death, married Captain Samuel
williams, an Irishman, who lived in Green
brier in the Irish Corner. She had two
Williams children, 1, Richard, whose de-
scendants, old maids, lived in Greenbrier
county, and 2, Margaret Lynn Williams.
81 Margaret Lynn Williams, daughter
of Capt. Sam'l and Sabina Williams, on the
21st of August, 1900, married Thomas
Creigh, of Lewisburg. Greenbrier Co Va,
BY whom she had nine children. /, Sabina,
who married Col. Charles Lewis, son of.
Captain John Lewis of the Cow Pastures.
in Bath county. 2, John. 8, David Stuart.
who was murdered by Gen. David Hunter.
a, DIR. Thomas, whose second wife was
Frapces Lewis of Kanawba COUNTY. 5,
Lewis Stuart, whose wife was Lzzie Edgar,
6, Jeanette NJ, who married Rev. David r.
Preston, brother of John M. Preston of
Seyen Mile Ford. Z, Charles Lewis, who
married Ellen Moore, [Sequin, Texas 8,
Jane, who married Judge Egbers 3. Wat
SOD, and 9, Sabina Lewis Stuart, born after
the death of her Oldest sister of same name,
on 9th of Nov, 1926
"a Sabina Lewis Stuart CTeigh. young
est daughter of Thomas and Mar
garet Lynn Creigh, married DR.. John r.
Woods of Albemarle county, on 231 June,
1843 She, my mother, is still living, on
the Holkham Estate, in this county. My
Father, DR.. John r. Woods died on oh of
July, 1885; he was born on 10Th of Janua
ry, 1915. My mother has several living
children of whom am the oldest. wss
born on 17th of May. 1914, married Ma
tilda [Tillie] Minor Morris on the Oh Of
June, 1874. She is the daughter of Mr..
Edward Watts Morris, of Claz snmoHt, in
Hanover county, Va. Her mother is Ma
tilda E., sister of Col. [Prof.] Lewis Mi
nor Coleman, deceased.
I have thus given you all the links in my
maternal lineage from Sabina Lynn, sister
of Margaret Lynn, to the present. time.-
Sabina and Margaret Lynn had sister
who married Preston. Gan you give me
any information on this pointS
I understand that between 1880 and 1888,
Hugh P. Taylor, descendant of Polly Paul,
see page 1, contributed some articles to the
Enquirer, signed, "a Son of Curnstalk !"
giving detailed information as to the hymns
and their descent and ancestry. Have you
ever seen them?
Pardon me for imposing this long letter
on you, and believe me,
Very Sincerely Yours,
MIcAJAH WOODS.
NOTE In Withers's "Chronicles of Bor-
der Warfare" published in 1881, it is stated
that Jane Lynn, the sister of the heroic
Margaret Lynn, wife of Col. John Lewis,
married in Ireland John Paul, son of Hugh
Paul, the Right Rev., the Bishop of Not
tinghsm, by whom he left three children.
1, John, 2, Audley, and 8, Polly, who mar
ried Gov. George Mathews, of Ga. John
Paul is described as partisan OF the
House of Stuarts and was killed in 1745 at
the siege of Dalrymple Castle. His widow
afterwards married John Stuart, of Va,
by whom she left issue, Col. John Stuart,
of Greenbrier, and Betsy, who married
Richard Woods, Of Albemarle county, Va,
the progenitor of Hon. ii tcajah Woods.