The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-15
! DAUGHTERS OF THE ] AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Genealogical and
 Historical Department.

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 p n A n "a nR An n nnmS Billups Gayle married, we are told, a Miss Rees; the grandfather of John ana Bfllups Gayle. whose name we also near was John. married blliups, .sn San na Soa | of the Rees sisters also was the mother os Col. John Darlington Of Ciarke Coun- ty. Ala. Can you tell me the name ol | the mother of these Rees sisters? was l 1t Ponsonpy, or was it Blair? l am told | the Blairs of Virginia are related to the | Gayles. The Gayles originally came from Jamestown. Virginia. Can you seii m ro l told that my great-great- grandtatner' Matthew Gayle was Major in the co | lonial army and afterwards )oineo the | American Revolutionary Army. VT, 1 3o1. CITNNINGHAM-Pleas give me in your reply all the information or the | you can find. My Sreat-srandmotinsr | Gayle was Pamela Cunningham. lMiss | Ann Pamela Cunningham, who lfst org an | ized the Mount Vernon ASS9c.atlon, was ! naned for my eat-grandmother, and l was a cousin of hers.) Col. ReeS Gayie, | now of Selma. and formerly or SanaWoi, 1 Is n son of Billups Gayle and Pamsia ! Cunningham. She was oaushlei oA 70 yid Cunningham. IL. w.
 so2. sTARK-Please give me the name l of Gen. John Stark wife, tsecond mar | riage1. the names of his children and the l husbands of his daughters. My grand l father was Livingston Stark son or Gen, cral Stark. have my grandtatner G 5 VII WI. | where he speaks of his mother as 'e Stark but makes no m9ntlon or ne. | maiden name. My mother told me tnat her father Livingston Starh. was a son , of General Stark and the land he inner l tied from his father. Gensral otark, wis deeded to General Stark 5y the Govern | ment in reward for. his services in the l Revolutionary War Livingston Stark re | sided near St Stephens. Clarke County l he married Eliza Gayle. niece or cover nor John Gayle and daughter Of BillupS Gayle. who resided in Clarke County | near St. Stephens. h. w.
 3o3. poPE-wanted the percentage of | Lieutenant Colonel Charles Pope Of Dela- | ware. who served in the Revolutionary War from that State moved apout levo to Columbia County. Ga, died tnere III 1863 supposed to be grandson of Thomas Pope. son of Nathaniel. brother Of Ann Pope; he married Jane Stokeslsy marT,ed 1z99 Sarah Simpson. M. W. IT. Answers.
 PAS. HARvIE-JORDAN-Ex from History of Automatic" page 24
 John Harvie. Senior, was a nsuVe ol Stirlingshire. Scotland and at the tihie Albemarle was organized. was ilvinS at Belmont. near Keswick. place ne l bought from Matthew Graves. lie was the guardian of Thomas Jefferson anu one of the earliest efforts of the great states e mans pen was an inquiry addressed 10 MT. Harvie respecting the method or ms | education He died in 1767. His wife was Martha Gaines and his children. Ricnaru' John, Daniel who married S3ran ai1a- Ga, ferro william, who married Judith, Cos | bv: Martha. the wife of John Moore; Margaret. the wife of John Davenport | Elizabeth the wife of James Marks; Ja- net the wife of Reuben Jordan, and Mary. the wife of David Meriwether. Some or these families resided for a time in Am herst but all except John emigrated to
 Wilkes County, Ga, in the decaoe oi i7Se .;,,.
 "John Harvie, Junior, was a prominent man in his generation. He was one or I the first lawyers in point or tune who practiced at the Albemarle par. he was was | member of the House of Burgesses ana of the Continental Congress. He owned large tracts of land in the county, among | them Belmont, the Barracks and Pen
 Park By his influence as Sonsi . esof ef the Prison Camp at the Barracks. lie made his home for some years at Bei-
 mont, but on receiving from MT. Je1-
 ferson the appointment of Register or the
 Land Office he removed to Richmond and
 continued in the discharge of It's dutles
 during the remainder of his life. He dled
 at Belvidere, his country seat near Ricn, n.
 mond, in 1897. He was a public-spirited
 man and did much to improve his clty
 property. building among other houses
 what was afte wards kroWn aS the Gam | ble mansion, in the erection of which ms death was caused by falling from lad
 der His wife was Margaret Jones,
 daughter of Gabriel Jones' the distiI~ guished Valley lawyer. His son. Jacaue- daughter of Chief Justice Marshal. and his daughter Gabrielle Harvie. great beauty and wit. became the wi1e or tne elder Thomas Mann Randolph in his old I hi i,I1 a D. ous sensation at the time and which oc- casioned some prudent advice on the pa;t of Mir. Jefferson to his daughter, the wife of MT. Randolphs son, in accord that dwelt in the man. After the death of her husband Gabrielle was married to Dr. John w. Brockenbroush. of Rich rlond and the Warm Springs"
 It will be seen from the above extract that Janet Harvie married Reuben Jordan and the contrary statement printed in the Joseph Habersham Collections was typo | graphical error. The name of Benjamin | Jordan was signed to The Aibemarle Dec laration of Independence, April 21 11i9 (page 366) William Jordon was pri- vate in the State militia from Albemarle. | (nage 3ID; Samuel Jordan was q maSis- trate in Albemarle in 1746, lpage 316); he was sheriff in 1755. (page S79! Matthew l Jordan died in 1769, (page 396)
 | The descendants of Reuben Jordan and J9nst Hsrvie cannot claim revolutionary | services through John Harvie. Senior. for he died in 1T6T. And there is no menti on of any colonial service rendered by him. John Harvie. Jr., was the distinguish9d ed member of the family.
 29o GAINES -PENDLETON - These | families were briefly described in the issue of The Advertiser for June 9. 1901. | Fuller particulars will be given in this article.
 | Meade's Old Churches etc, page 29S
 About the year 1874. there came from
 England to Virginia two brothers. Ma
 thaniel. a minister, and Philip. q teacher.
 The former died without issue The lat te~ left three sons and four daughters
 The two younger sons married and had children, but of them there Is no certain
 account The four daughters married
 Messrs. Clayton, Nass. Taylor and Thom- as leaving numerous descendants. The eldest son married at the age of IS. Mary Taylor. who was only l3. Their sons were Jams. Philip Nathaniel and F. l. mund, the latter being President of the Court of Appeals. Their daughters were and James Gaines, from one of whom the late General Gaines was descended. The sons all married and left children except | Edmund the Judge, who married twice but left 10 children. The descendants of the above mentioned grandchildren Of th first Pendleton have int srmarried wi h the Taylors. Polards. Roys. Gainses. I.ewises, IIarts. Ricaards, Taliaferros, l Turner's. SheDhcrds. Carters. ;[emDs, P Il mers. Dandridges. Cooks and others.
 Nathaniel Pendleton. brother of Edmund lived in Culpepper and had four sons. Henry. Nathaniel. William anI Philip. Henry was put in business by his father in Falmouth or Fredericksburg but not liking 1t and his father not consenting to