History and Genealogy of Peter Montague (1603S2003) Volume One
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History and Genealogy of Peter Montague (1603S2003) Volume One Montagues of Boveney 1634 History and Genealogy of Peter Montague of JAMESTOWNE, VIRGINIA 1603S2003 _______ VOLUME ONE Generations: 1S8 _______________ QUADRICENTENNIAL EDITION _____________ Researched and Compiled by Robert V. Montague III Edited by Jana Sloan Broglin, CG, OGSF HOUSE OF MONTAGUE NAVARRE, FLORIDA Montague, Robert V., III History and Genealogy of Peter Montague of Jamestowne, Virginia, 1603S2003 / Robert V. Montague III Quadricentennial Edition Includes bibliographical references and index Library of Congress Control Number: 2012952964 Set ISBN: 978-0-9710239-7-0 ISBN, Volume 1: 978-0-9710239-1-8 1. Genealogy―Authorship. 2. United States—Genealogy—History The text of this book is composed in Book Antiqua; titles are composed in Edwardian Script ITC. Composition and book design are by House of Montague. Portions are reprinted with the permission of the acknowledged authors. J The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences―Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. Q U A D R I C E N T E N N I A L E D I T I O N © 2012 Robert V. Montague III Please direct all correspondence and book orders to: 2500 Cypress Point Circle Navarre, Florida 32566-8761 www.houseofmontague.com [email protected] ― All rights reserved ― Produced in the United States of America No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form, or by any means, without written permission of the author, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages for a review. IN MEMORY OF my sister and dad who died while this work was in progress: _ ROBERT V. MONTAGUE JR. (1925S2007) _ CYNTHIA LYNN MONTAGUE (1961S2004) Contents List of Illustrations x About the Author xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv Notes to the Reader xvi Abbreviations xx Frontispiece xxii INTRODUCTION 1 HISTORY and GENEALOGY VOLUME 1 Generation 1 15 Generation 2 43 Generation 3 59 Generation 4 73 Generation 5 87 Generation 6 115 Generation 7 231 Generation 8 761 VOLUME 2 Generation 9 1587 Generation 10 2427 Generation 11 2781 Generation 12 2875 Generation 13 2917 Generation 14 2923 APPENDICES A: Peter Montague 101 2925 B: Grave Site/Memorial 2930 C: HGPM (1894) Revisited 2960 D: Montague Migration 3001 E: Heraldry: Montagues of Boveney 3032 F: George WashingtonSMontague Connection 3036 G: DNA Genealogy: The Montague Project 3042 H: Photo Album 3049 Bibliography 3059 Index 3077 ix Illustrations FIGURES (not including descendant images) 1. Montague of Boveney Visitation of 1634 8 2. Arms of Sir Simon de Montacute 12 3. Arms of Montague of Boveney (circa 1634) 12 - Boveney Church 15 - 1599 Geneva Bible 20 - Will of Peter Montague 31 TABLES 1. Analysis of Peter Montague’s Birth Date 6 2. Peter’s Montague’s Charles Shipmates 22 3. Short List of Names for Peter’s First Wife Named Ann(e) 36 4. Peter’s 8-Year Pattern 41 x About The Author Robert V. Montague III is proud to be one of 33 (or so) 9th great-grandsons of Peter Montague who in 1621 immigrated to the first permanent settlement in the Virginia Colony―Jamestowne. The present work began 14 years ago when he accidentally discovered his ancestry amongst a pile of family papers his father, Robert V., Jr., passed to him in 1998―with no mention of the Jamestowne connection. These papers had been hand-typed on layers of carbon paper. Further investigation revealed that almost nothing had been done during the past 100 years to bring the family up-to-date, but for one notable exception―an update by Carman and Carman, History and Genealogy of Peter Montague: 1894S1972 (Supplement). In Dec 2000, he established HouseofMontague.com to maintain continuity with the larger public and to provide a clearinghouse for collecting and distributing updated and new information. In 2010, Mr. Montague and four others chartered the Montague Family Association (MFA) of America (http://www.montaguefamily association.com) and was elected MFA’s first Historian. As Historian, he inaugurated The MFA Newsletter which is currently issued triannually. Mr. Montague holds a BS in Physics, MS in Business Management, and completed National Genealogical Society’s, “American Genealogy: A Basic Course”. In 2002, he completed the genealogy technical writing course at Samford University. His ongoing genealogical memberships for the past 12 years include Association of Professional Genealogists, National Genealogical Society, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Virginia Genealogical Society, and the Jamestowne Society. Following publication of this Quadricentennial Edition, Mr. Montague will seek formal certification of credentials through the Board for Certification of Genealogists. The author is always interested in hearing from anyone with corrections, updates, and additions to this family history. Readers wishing to contribute their information or feedback are encouraged to contact the author through this website: (www.houseofmontague.com) or email: ([email protected]) Ë Ë Ë xi Preface n 1894, George William Montague, compiler of the original work upon which Ithis research is based wrote, “The compiling of this work has been a pleasure.” The present author agrees and adds it is also a privilege to advance and expand his history of the Peter Montague Family of America. This two volume set is published as a quadricentennial celebration of both Peter Montague’s 400th birthday (1603S2003) and the founding of Jamestowne (1607S2007). These volumes are intended to serve as the master genealogical library of the First Montague Family in America―a living document to preserve the past, refresh the present, and secure the future as each generation of Montague descendants, in their turn, makes their mark. Even after 13 years of near daily effort, this book would not have been completed in thrice the time without internet technology and email. Genealogy, as an academic discipline and professional field of scholarship, has been fundamentally reinvented since George Wm. Montague compiled his impressive 1894 Edition of the first Montague family in America. For example, today’s stricter standards of proof and the imperative to mercilessly cite sources didn’t emerge until the 1930s when the great Donald Lines Jacobus (1887S1970), considered the father of modern genealogy scholarship, evolved our current standards. The 1894 Edition of the “Peter Montague Book”, while predating Mr. Jacobus, is nevertheless in some ways ahead of its time. Though it lacks a foundational underpinning of formal documentation crucial to establishing credibility in a work of genealogy by today’s standards, it is of inestimable value to the Montague family. Were it not for the “Peter Montague Book”, this Quadricentennial Edition could not have been compiled in any meaningful time frame―if ever. George Wm. Montague acknowledged the truth of this in his original Preface: “And the record of them here given, however imperfect it may be considered, can only be regarded as facts snatched from the very verge of oblivion.” The Preface in the 1894 Edition describes something of the manner in which that book was compiled and the difficulty encountered in making sense of scarce and diverse records. In essence, the 1894 Edition was compiled from a combination of meager scraps of county records and the few remaining vestry books of Christ Church, Middlesex. To these individual name records, were added the family histories from Virginia Genealogies, by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, and individual family histories wherever they could be found; also Hotten’s Emigrant Lists [aka John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality] for ship’s arrival records and emigrants to the Virginia colonies. These raw materials and years of dedicated hard xiii History and Genealogy of Peter Montague of Jamestowne work gave us, without apologies, the best that the technology of the times could produce. Prophetically, George Wm. Montague sums his work up thus, “Those who discover errors, while they criticize, should remember that if the work serves no other purpose, it will be a foundation and guide to some historian of the family in the far distant future who may issue a second and more perfect edition, and correct the errors made in this.” This Quadricentennial Edition strives to be that more perfect edition. To be more perfect, this edition undertakes the following four changes: (1) resets the original source material within the modified register system (NGSQ)* numbering system; (2) updates known family lines and identifies previously unidentified ancestors; (3) provides documentation for every fact of genealogical value or, in lieu of adequate citation, acknowledges the use of hypothesis or informed judgment whenever such is asserted; and (4) preserves, not only the substance, but the format, style, look, and feel of the 1894 Edition. The author apologizes for the clarity and quality of some images, particularly the headstone images. Headstone images are offered not so much for reading their inscriptions as for showing their overall appearance during field trips to locate them. Eight Appendices. Six of these appendices contain original research focusing on specific aspects of “Montagueology” (the study of the Montague family). Appendix A is a condensed, ten-minute overview of Peter Montague’s life and is recommended as a “pre-read” or jumping off point. Most ground-breaking of all is Appendix B for its deconstruction of HGPM’s assertion that Peter was buried on the north side of the Rappahannock River where an impressive Memorial was erected in 1903 by the Governor of Virginia. Appendix C is a reprint of the Introduction from the 1894 Edition, preserved for its account of early English Montague lineage back to AD 1066. Appendix D showcases the first statistical study of Montague family migration across America from 1759 through 1930 and includes distributive, demographic data. Readers will want to refer often to Appendix D for the maps depicting migration routes and for following the history and time line of Peter’s pre- Revolutionary War descendants.