The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-11

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vending thclr way to tho Western
frontier, Humanity is restless. AS /,
wen In tn. beginning. It continues TO
DE.
Thomas Todd patented land in
Elizabeth City IN 1847. and In GlouceB-
ter in 1864. This Thomas IL thought to
he the son of Robert. our grantee He
inaTri2h Anne Gorsuch. we arc happy
TO say for thus no gave to his pos
terity the most delcetahlo descent, tor
Anne's sreat-grandfather was Sir
william Lovclace. OF Bsthsrsden. in
kent, knishtcd in 1909. who married
elizabeth Auchcr. and eft son,
SIR William Loveiace. Annes grand.
father. Richard Loyelacc. the poet, was
Williams brother.
Ths younger and tho elder william,
l.ovelace were members OF the Vlr-
=inin Company. and the elder died
lighting for the Dutch republic against
spain. The wife Of the second Will
liam Lovelace was frst cousin OF the
wife OF Sir Humphrey Gilbert. who
was half brother of SIR Walter Raleigh
all Interested In colonization. Again
the wife of Sir William Loyelace the
younger. was niece Of George Sandys
the treasurer. and the first virginIan
poet who translated "Ovid" on the
hanks OF the James. and of Sir Ed
win Sandys. who was tho chief fac
tor in giving Virginia her FIRST Legis-
laturs. Lady Lovelacos father was
Archbishop Sandys. Tho wife of the
hrst William Lovelace was Anne
Barnes, daughter OF a house of those
great merchants, who were princes in
the seventh century. The Barneses
were connected with Sir Philip Sid
ney
SO all who como from the Todd
Goosuch" marriage can pride them
selves on the beautiful line OF distiu-
suished kinship which It unfolds.
Thomas Todd, supposedly the son
OF Robert. held Toddsbury. in Ware
Parish. and lands in Baltimore coun-
", Maryland. He had Thomas and
many other children, of whom nothing
is known. Thomas t2) and Elizabeth.
his wife. had Ammo (s). who married
Mordccni Cookie, of wareham; Thomas
CD. who evidently Inherited some Of
the MARYLAND land: Richard ca. WIZ
liam (3, who went to King and
Queen; Phillip CD died young; Fran
ces ta). who married Robert North
OF MARYLAND: Christopher (s), who
inherited Toddsbury. Is married
Elizabeth 90 and had Thomas as.
who died young, and Lucy A). who
married Edward Tabb, and his de-
scHndants held Toddsbury for many
Years. Thomas CD. of Maryland, had
Thomas ib, of Todd's Neck, who mar.
ried Eleanor Dorsey, had DESCENDANTS,
and Robert 60. OF Showan, Of Balti
more.
William (S) went to King and
Queen and married Martha Vicnries,
mad JhoE,as ca, who married Betty
Warins, and was the ancestor or the
King and Queen Todds, Fauntleroys.
IIenieys, Latanes. etc., and the Robins
OF Level Green. In Gloucester; Richard
60, who married EliEnbeta Richards.
and had William. of Pittsylvauia coun-
", Virginia, shcrin 1856. and Thomas
(i}' who went to Kentucky and be-
came justice United States Supreme
Court Tho elder Todds held lands
called showan Hunting Grounds. and
Robert Todd, Of Maryland. and John
Newstend Todd, OF Gloucester, preserv.
cd Shoman as the name CT their es-
tates
few InonthF ago m expert on the
subject OF old oliver came to the United
states from England for tho purpo se
OF examining eccles!astlc silver In tho
various Colonial States, He came un-
dor the auspices OF tho Colonial Danes
or America, and as was excccted, found
the Oldest and most interesting church
silver In Virginia.
few Sundays ago we asked, Where
is the old communion silver once own
ed In Pettsworth church," and our
question Is SO we'll and charminsly an
swered by that human mine OF infor-
nation. Miss Mnry F. jones. OF Lands
Emo. In Gloucester, that we print her
anewer just as II came to US:
Lands End, january o.
Dear Editor:
have Just seen in The Times-Dis-
patch that you ask about the Petts-
worth communion service given by
Ansuatine Warner. 1t is what Is now
regularly used at Ware Church. in
Gloucester. or this there Is no possible
doubt. When old Pettsworth went to
wrack and ruin my greet-grandmother.
widow OF Emanuel Jones, III. (rector
OF Pettsworth and grandson of first
EmanueD, got possession OF the COM
munion service and kept Il as n sacred
trust as long as ahe lived. There was
no episcopal minister in Gloucester Mt
TINT time. SO che left II in charge Of
her daughter-in-lav Mrs. Martha
Throckmorton Jones (my fathers
mother), charging her to kecpt IL un-
I'll tho church was restored In Cslou-
ccster. Then to turn it over to the
Episcopal minister. And this was done.
When MIR. Ca!rncs cnmo 10 Gloucester
his nret official act was to marry
Martha PAGE and Anne Jones The
night they ware married Cat tho cot
tago) the old service was on exhibition,
ana was That night formally turned
over TO Mr. Cairncs. Ny aunts. Mrs.
Charles Curtis and Mrs Mann Page
loved TO tell abolt IL as long as they
lived-how their grandmother guarded
the sacred silver az long as she lived
and her nercc determination kept It
untarnished for the Epiacopal church.
They said old Dr.. Philip Taliaferro
called their grandmother 1.-THE old gem
erar because of her strong character.
Her husband was one OF tho last Of tho
Colonial clorgy to go TO England for
orders. The children OF General W.T.
liam Taliaferro have he's picturc---a
sharpless crayon drawing, taken when
she was seventy years old, holding in
her hand red Morocco Church OF
England Prayer Book her husband had
always used. She was the Erandmoth.
er OF Colonel Warner Throckmorton
Jones. ard the great grandmother Of
General William q. Taliaferro. Dew