Evening star., 1914-04-05
POCAHONTAS-ROLFE
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of Burgesses. Jane Randolph married Colonel
Anthony Wake. Elizabeth Randolph mar
ried Richard K. Meade, an aide de camp tc
Washington. In this same generation there
were three noted brothers, Thomas, John
and William Fleming, of whom the first
was a Captain and was killed in the battle
of Princeton, the second was a Major and
was killed at White Plains, and the third
was a member of the Continental Congress
and Presiding Justice of the Virginia Court
of Appeals
The sixth generation was numerous, un-
der many names. Elizabeth Boiling married
William Robertson, member of the Coun-
Gil of State. Elizabeth Tazewell married
Dr. Samuel Griffin, member of Congress.
Daniel Meade Randolph was United States
Marshal for Virginia Susannah Randolph
married Charles Douglass, heir presump-
tive to the Earl of Morton. John Ran
dolph of Roanoke was for years one of
the most eminent statesmen of the ma
ton, and has left a uniquely brilliant if
eccentric record in American annals. Mary
Cary married Carter Page, son of Gov
ernor John Page. William Gay married
Lucy Harrison Coupland, granddaughter Of
Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declara-
ton of Independence Mary Anne Davies
married Fortescue Whittle, fellow exile
of Thomas Adds Emmett, and Anne Muir
ray married Dr. Thomas Robinson, another
comrade of Emmet's and a distinguished
scientist.
The seventh generation contained three
brothers, Thomas, John, and Wyndham
Robertson, of whom the first was Attorney
General, Governor, and United States Judge
in Louisiana, the second was Attorney
Ca,,aro1 ND (>o,,pco1or cf Niroi,,io apI tho
third was Governor of Virginia.
Sophonisba Cabell married Robert H.
Grayson, son of Senator Grayson. Edward
Blair Cabell married a niece of President
Monroe. Elizabeth Robertson Cabell mar
ried DR.. James Cobbs, brother of Bishop
Cobbs of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Joseph c. Megginson was Judge in Texas.
William Randolph was an officer on the
Chesapeake in the affray with the Leopard,
and was on the Wasp when that famous
vessel mysteriously disappeared. Edward
Randolph was Captain in the United
States navy. and Robert Randolph was a
surgeon in the same service. Victor Moreau
Randolph was Captain in the United
States navy and also in the Confederate
navy. Thomas Mann Randolph was Gov
ernor of Virginia. Anne Cary Randolph
married the famous Gouverneur Morris Of
4NC" olh w lllidlil AoHWdy w iiltlS was a
Commander in the United States navy and
Commodore in the Confederate navy.
Stephen Decatur Whittle was Secretary Of
the Virginia State Convention of 1S49-50,
and Francis Men, Whittle was a distin-
guished Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
There are many other worthy names in
these generations, and of course there are
many more in the succeeding generations
since the seventh,-Pages, Randolphs, Whit
ties, Morrises, Robertsons, Flemings, and
who not else. Indeed, there are few more
distinguished genealogies in America than
that which had its promise and potency in
the Pocahontas-Rolfe wedding, in the little
cedar-lined church at Jamestown, three
hundred years ago, and a celebration of the
tercentenary by the lineal descendants of
the daughter of Powhatan would muster a
company mighty in numbers and still more
goodly in character.
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