The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-22

elected to q scat in tho honorable VIII
| gtnia Legislature. for number OF
years. from tho county In which he
died He also held the Office OF mag
/ istrate, which, though of little profit
is OF much Importance to the people,
1 and the duties OF which he nevor.-
| failed to discharge with promptitude--
! Captain b. wac man of sound prirsa
ciples--no political weathercools was
he--during the boisterous reign OF ter
| ror. he remained firm and immovab1c,I
| pointing to the then Spartan band, but
now formidable phalanx OF Republi-
| oanism. In a moral point OF view, few
could stand test with him, none sur
| pass him. He was q kind father,
| good heighbor. humane master; long
| will his death be mourned by crate
full family. sensible of the loss which
natures law has imposed upon them.
Long, too. will an extensive acuuair1-
tancs deplore tho sad catastrophe.
which has deprived society OF use
full member and themselves OF an
amiab1e friend.
Peace worthy man! peace to thy
departed shade! No impure breezs
shall ever watt thy name. nor ruffls
| the green herbage that lightly be-
decks thy breast
| Baytop.
| (Concluded.)
! This Baytop genealogy embraces 80
| much that 1t will ever bo vaiuabIe
I reference not only for genealogy. but
also for history Much light is thrown
on the War OF 1912. We can hear
dramatic tones and smell tho battle. II
| indeed afar.
In tho close of the genea1osy wa
find Games Cat1ett murdered when
| a young man by a favorite slave"
This was perhaps the most intensely
dramatic situation ever felt IN
Gloucester county.
James Catlett was the only son OF
his mother. who was a WIDOW. he
was lust returned from college, brill
liant. handsome and rich. with life
In It's fulness spread out before him.
His bodyservant, q mulatto fellow,
promising, too. and apparently rai.n-
full, was present when no read his
will to friend. To this bodyservant
he left the priceless boon OF the hu1
man soul--freedon.
soon after this Incident James Ca
left one bright morning started wit
| this man to distant plantation.
was to return that evening. but NJ
| dia not. Tho servant did return. and
announced that his master was DEF
| tanned The masters prolonged an
| sence created suspicion, and when tn
negro was rrave1y required to tell whatt
he knew he lost courage and fled to the
| woods The men OF the whole coun-
/ trysSie started In pursuit: the women
stayed at homo filled with despairins
dread.
Dogs were let loose and fell In
4 with spirit for the CHASTITY chase. q
fayorite dog OF James Catlett LED 70
the discovery OF his body near MS
| home. where It was covered deep with
earth. brushwood and leaves
DAYS passed before the murderer
! was trapped desperate. weak ana
fanaished In the woods.
A trial ensued. and he was cor
| demned to death. Old residents nays
| to1d us OF the hanging; how the
resroes from all the plantations. and
many white citizens. too. filed IN
| oarr,,1ous lines from the various
pIantations to the courthouse to watch
n pttiful and tremendous trageds,
No doubt the condemned oody
servant protested religion noishy' NJ
| ne had not done so pefore, a.u .,s s
aS,,r,nr colored friends saw MN riss
Yrnr, the gallows to realms OF uh.olu
l ,.oaaon, within the blue sky Whienl
\ spread above his shame. ca 4
Is.m. If capt Thomas (5o ana %
.,t Inooth) Baytop: 1. James w.
sarah fe) smith: 8. Mary COZ s. lsioi'I
j as (6y, as follows: 80 a,el1I
James t6l Baytop lnorn ~, 49,, ~,
i $500. married Lucy iaiai rama.
IL
~ walker (carterl Catlett. OF III
, 49, who married. 1850, Ann
G.rtar fhorn 1850. was dauShter
charI.s Garter. of "Cleve," and
.hi., Vito. Lucy Taliaferro. daughter
VIM. Taliaferro and Ann Walker ,M.II
was daughter OF James Walk s
Clara Robinson. daughter ~
TOPPER Robinson. the immi ,. =, NV
his wife. Catherine Hone). wilma
iTa}faferro. father of Mrs. Lucy Tailsl
ferro Carter, was justice of CarollnlI
county. and son of Charles Tal!nferr
80 his wife, Catlett, son OIL
Robert Talaferro. the immigrant Mr5iI
Tucy ,fTaiiaSerro) Carter married
Col. William Jones. James, BaStop VAS
delegate from Gloucester county ny, -,
with Mann Page (see issue farther on,
II. sarah smith (s) Baytop, marrie1
whitaker Campbell, Of King ami
Queen. and had: ~, II,
1. Mary lane Fl. 60, married y, 1ol.
cr,,tpars and toN William Bland.
Issue. III
punstan and had Sarah F,.. lanes ~
1V,,ter p married Tabb; En-
W.. w. varied Robert Curtis, four
children. Mary Booth, married
Weymouth three children: Hugh
Z. Lucy ca Ann B.. $. p.
l. Pompey t7) W., d. $. p.
III. Mary (e) Baytop. married :
Smith stubbs, no issue
~. Thomas t6) Baytop surveyor
Gloucester, 1921; lieutenant OF ar
lery, 1918. Fourth Regi ,n, !, Eo w
lanes B. preston March, 1922. Thoma
Baytop obtained letters of adninistraI
ton on the "nnadministsred estate he,
,rhomas Baytop, deceased. James BAY
TON, security Gloucester Record
Vol Vol H., SOY. In note of 1924 he say
he "nnds himself Indebted TO MI
brother James Baylor, for s1.2"n an,
adds that he had suffered as securi
ty for Major James Raytop. and was
then suing to recover the security.
money, which he wished his attorney w.
M. YIN Roy. to pay to his brother II
James" He died at Springfield, un-
married, after 1895.
december Is 1878, Reed from 4
whitaker Campbell s2sa In full for all III
my interest in the estate of WHIT
-, Z. ~ So