The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-18

| Arthur Moseley of Buckingham County, | Va. Did he serve in the Revolution?
 an anxious to ind out something about ! him. D. B.
 2S6. FORSYTH-Who were the parents
 of Governor John Forsyth of Georgia | What was his mothers madden name
 Where did his father live and was he a
 Revolutionary soldier? N. n.
 Answers.
 250. BOSSARD-The Charleston Year
 Book for 1593 gives the name of Captain | Bossard in list of Revolutionary sol
 diers and refers to Globes Document
 ary History, 17Sl, for proof.
 20. INGE-'Memorial Record of Ala
 bsms,' Vol. II, page 4ss, gives g notice
 Richard 1nSe was a native of England and came to this country with his par | ents when a child long before the Rev -olution. The record does not say where | he lived, but he was soldier en tne Revolutionary War and refused 10 ac.
 cept a pension. saying that he did not | charge his country anything for his ser vices. His wife.s name Is not given or the number of children. One son. nen,
 uion Montgomery Pike lngs. g was ps1ma sslea
 In the Mexican War. He was named | for Gen. Zebulon Montgomery Pike oi ! Revolutionary fame. and the discovere' | or P1ke s Peak, WHICH pears HIS Dr. Richard Inge. son of Richard Inge was born in North Carolina and move to Alabama about 1919. He married Miss Elizabeth Bullock.
 was born in North Carolina, Granville County; he married Elizabeth Herndon PTS. MARrIN-GENTRY-we see in Richard Gentry. a Revolutionary soldier. was living in Madison County, Ky. a; that date. aged 7.
 1. According to the Virginia Magazine is descended from Nicholas Gentry. wh had son baptized May 30. 1897. His son. Nicholas Gentry. (2nd) married Jean -, and died in Albemarle County had a ea som Martin Gentry. '' Mir. Richard Gentry of Kansas City Mo. is collecting data for genealog, of the family of his name, which he. say. Kent County. Va. Correspondence with persons interested Is desired.
 20. HERNDoN-vol. TX. of the vir alosy from which these extracts are
 taken. Seven generations have been se-
 lected in direct line down to Elizabeth
 Brock Herndon, who married William descendants living in Alabama wht should be interested in this lineage. Ther, are two Revolutionary ancestors, 5. Ed ward Herndon, and 10. Edward Hern- cestry is traced back to Edward Digges Governor of Virginia in 1855.
 Among the names inscribed on the roll of Battle Abbey as having come with William the Conqueror into Britain in l066. is that of Heiroun. He Is the an cestor of the family of Herons, (and Hearns), which were for centuries prom inanf n ha a af hatr adoption. One branch of this family. nrabahly to distinguish 1t from another, ssnmed the suffix don" which accord HE M,s,. to % some means The The Herons ..r1 on the of the Valley"
 | In ll93. member of this family jour neyed with Richard III. to the Holy Land, for his escutcheon is carved on a
 stone gateway in the city, of Rhodes. A modification of these arms. argent, heron volant azure, between three escal- l lops sable. is also found in stained glass in Lincoln Inn Chapel. London. Although all branches in this country have tradition that the first of the name came from Wales, positive proof that they did this Is iacking;s howeve-, they were seated in, the county of Kent there as late as the 18th century. It is possible that branch of this family went to Wales before coming to America. The first Herndon Of whom we have authentic record is I. William, who pat ented lands in St. Stephens Parish, New Kent County, Va, in February, 1874. IT. 1877 he married Catharine Digges, young est daughter of Edward Digges, Cover nor of Virginia, in 1855. Of their children ~thsre is record of only one; ?. Edward born -176s, married 169s Mary Waller. Edward and Mary had: g. Edward; f. daughter of Lieut.. Gov. Hugh Drysdale, I descendants unknown. There may have been other children; 3; Edward Hern- daughter of Joseph Brock, whose lands adjoined and were located on the Brock Road, where over a century later the bat tie of the Wilderness was fought. He 39-40: in 1T39-40-A and 1747, was allowed by the vestry of St. Georges Church 800 pounds of tobacco for maintaining a poor man; on November F. 17s9 october 5. dered him to procession the lands be- tween the Rappahanock and the Ny from the Falls to the upper line of the county in TAI was styled Jaaior. but during that period; on November 3. 173S, he and George Stuoblefield gave bond to keep an ordinary according to law; on October r. 1740. he and Benja- | min Powell gave bond to keep an ordi- l nary at Poweifs dwelling; on November | 1, TAO. November 3. 1742, and again on | November S1. 174s. he gave bond to Ed
 
 one year. His will dated February 4, l l7E9, and proved November 5, 1759. men tions wife, Mary, sons Edward, John, Jo- seph. daughter Elizabeth; friends George Waller and George Waller, Jr. Children: 5. Edward: G. John: '. Joseph; s. Eliz- | abeth died 17SS married John ,Battaley, l died l77O.
 5. Edward Herndon born 1736, died 17ss; married Mary Colston. daughter of | Charles and Rebecca Travers Colston. | In l750-5l-52-66 he collected the parish levy | in l7es was elected vestryman of St | Georges; in 1756-7T was a member of the | Committee of Safety for Spottsylvana: | in 17S3 owned thirty-six slaves; in 17S9 | was deputy sheriff of the county: re- | ceived bounty land for three years ser vice in the Revolution. By his will. | which was dated August 5, 1793, but not | proved until September 3. 1799, he men, tionS sons John, Edward. William and | Joseph, and his sons-in.law James Lewis | and Anthony Frazer. an estate called | "Dewed Heads" his Perry's Run plant ation. and a grant and two locations fin Kentucky. Just when his wife died is not known, but it was before his death, as he was administrator of her estate. Children, 9. John; 10. Edward; H. Wil- liam; 12. Joseph: 13. Lucy; IA. daugh- ter who married James Lewis; 15. Han nah.
 10. Edward Herndon. was born in Spottsylvania County, Va, November 19. l 1i62. died May O. 1898. married Mary Sharpe. born April II. 1762 died December, 1892. whose mother was daughter of Thomas Hord. In August, 1S04, he offered his farm "Pine Grove" of 1000 acres in SpottsyIvania, for sale ba afnfn nadu fA