The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-19

~ l5), member House OF Delegates
frott, King and Queen, 1884. Rich
ard "a. son OF William ls), married
elizabeth Richards. and had VIII
liam t6). of Pittsy1vania, sheriff 1885,
and Thomas t5). born In King and
Queen. emigrated to kentucky, became
Justice United States Supreme Court
and ancestor OF the distinguished
Kentucky Toddss Dorothy ca, daugh-
ter William CO., married Thomas Ed
mondson, OF Essex. Thomas Todd az
tThomas ., Thomas q, Thomas ~, OF
Todd's Neck. MarylnnL died In 1880,
and left large estates. His lcgatees
were four daughters ana ono Bon.
Ills various estates were known ns
"Showan Hunting Grounds" .srodd's
Industry" ~ ohnswell's Neck j" "Cuck-
ODDS Point and "Todd,s Island"
Eleanor Dorsey, his wife. married.
second. William Lynch. Tho Todd
beth CD, who married John Crom-j
we'll 90: Eleanor. married John En-.
sor (5); Frances, married George
Risteau 10; and Mary, who married
Worthington. Frances (3) Todd
s(Thomas Z. Thomas. j, also married a
Marylander, Robert North, who was
son OF Thomas and Ellen North, OF
the parish OF Wilmington In the
county OF Lancashire. England.
Cooke Connection with the Todds.
Anne Todd. granddaughter OF the
Thomas t2), married Mordecai Cooke,
of Wareham, Gloucester county. The
very name has wilful sound, and
these Cookies OF Warehum were
doughty folk.
They owned at various times Nor
decai's Mount" Z Warehani, !" Cedars,.,
"Beechly" and Chalk Level" They
intermnrried With Booths, Throck-
mortons. Writings and Fitzhughs
Mordecai Cooke. OF Wareham, was son
of that first Mordecai. who was chilled
the "stanchest OF all the Kings men
OF Gloucester. a devoted adheretlt and
5erke1ey" lie WAS huntsman and
fond OF NIL sport. He wished to marry
one OF the shipload OF maids who came
late In the seventeenth century * he
could have first choice--no second for
him. When the maids arrived old
Mordecai was chasing the red fox.
Just when the chase was hottest news
came that the HlIip and maids had
come. Using some forcible language.
Cooke declared. First the red fox and
then the maid" He deputed friend
to ride to Jamestown and offer two
hogsheads OF fairest Virginia tobacco
II they would "batten the matches and
keep the maids close TIL the fox was
caught" His offer was accepted, and
when no rode into Jamestown the next
morning he took his choice--Joan Con-
stable. Jewess with red hair. 1t IS
said that an aquiline nose follows the
descendants OF this romantic union,
and a CLINT of gold touches the hair
still OF those who came from the pur.
chased maid.
John Cooke and Anne "a, Todd had
Mordecai 90 Cooke, who married
Whiting (5) Cooke, who married Mary
Baytop. and had Mordecal ts). who
married the widow Macon; Sarah
Smith t5), who married her cousin.
Mordccai Cooke; and Francis Whit
ing t5), who left no Issue. Mordc-
tscni (5) Cooke and Nancy Pendleton
Macon had Catharine Pendlcton go.
who married Emmanuel Jones THURS
ton; Benjamin Pcndleton (6), who mar
Iried Emmeline Bngby. OF King and
Queen. and Hannah Baytop (sl, who
married Thomas Cooke Of Becchley.
Tnbb Connection with the Todds.
Edward t4) Tabb. OF Amelia (John 3.
Thomasga, Humphrey ~, married Lucy
Todd (4), OF Toddsbury christopher 8,
Thomas 2. Thomns ~, and had Philip
Bt51, Lucy (5). who went to Georgia
and left numerous descendants, Sem
atorS Ben Hill being one OF them;
Thomas ISL; Martini t5), married Rev.
IArmistead Smith; Elizabeth Co. mar
lrled John Patterson. of Poplar Grove
Mathews county Va; Pauline married
George Wythe Booth. Philip Tabb (5l
eldest son OF Edward and Lucy Todd
lis tho ancestor OF the oddsbury Tabs
He married Mary Mason Booth. Luc,
Tabb (5) married Gary. OF Georgia
Martha (5) Tabb married REV. Arm
Istead Smith. who was son of Captain
Thomas Smith and Dorothy Armistead
unmarried; Philip A. Smith, William
Patterson Smith, Lucy Smith, Betsey
lSmith and Sally Smith. WHO married
lher cousin, Todd, and had Sally
Todd. who is the nncestress OF the
i Light foots and tho Fields.
4 Elizabeth Tabb, daughter of Edward
Tabb and Lucy Todd. married Johr
\ Patterson. of England. founder of thu
beautiful estate Poplar Grove. "
Mathews county, Va, who was brew
eted by Washing ton at Monmouth
llkJONIls ana 1ASSSASSA
4 had daughter, Maria, who was TIL.
second wife Of christopher Temp ktns
and the mother of Captain Sally
Tonpkins. OF Confederate fame.
So much for tho American ances trS
4 OF the Todds and heir des cendants.5
English5 Ancestors OF the Todds.
Thomas Todd, the emigran,, mar
4 ried Anne Gorsuch. Anne Gorsucf
vas daughter ct Rev. John Gorsuch
Of Walkhorne. In lIertfordshire. an;
i Anne Lovelace. his wife, who was sis:
4 ter to Sir Richard Loyelncc, poet nc
cavalier who sang:
"Tellsme not, sweet, am unkind.
That from the nunnery
OF thy chaste breast and quiet mint
II TO war and arms Il fly.
S"Trues Il new mistress now / chase.
The first foe in the field.
a And with a stron ger fai tn embrace
"a sword, a horse. a shield.
"Yet this Inconsistency is such Z,
ia AS you, to {, shall adore;
4 could mot love! thee, dear. 50 much ~
Loved I no 4 honor mo re- iss
Anne Lovelace was daughters'of 81
7I5William Lovelace and Anne Barne. 81,