.£MM-" Mo,noJ-l-EAD wnnF1ELD 1874-1\laZ WHITFIELD, BR YAN, SMITH, AND RELATED FAMILIES BOOK ONE WHITFIELD Compiled by EMMA MOREHEAD WHITFIELD Assisted by Many Members of These Families Edited by THEODORE MARSHALL WHITFIELD DEDICATED To THOSE ANCESTORS WHO HAVE HONORED THE LORD SERVED THEIR COUNTRY AND PASSED THE NAME UNSULLIED. iii Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground: Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise; So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away. The 11Uad translation by Alexander Pope V CONTENTS Page DEDICATION --------------·······················-··---------------····-·············-·------- iii QUOTATION FROM The Iniad ······················································ V LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .............................................................. ix EDITOR'S FOREWORD .................................................................... xi FOREWORD .................................................................................... xiii ABBREVIATIONS AND NUMBER SYSTEM ...................................... XV PART I WHITFIELD IN ENGLAND WHITFIELD OF WHITFIELD .......................................................... 3 THE GENEALOGY OF WHITFIELD IN ENGLAND ··············•-- 10 PART II WHITFIELD IN THE WEST INDIES AND VIRGINIA WHITFIELD IN THE WEST INDIES ............................................ 25 WHITFIELD IMMIGRANTS TO VIRGINIA .................................... 30 VIRGINIA COUNTY AND CHURCH RECORDS .............................. 35 SOME VIRGINIA FAMILIES .......................................................... 44 PART III DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM WHITFIELD AND ELIZABETH GOODMAN WHITFIELD: FIRST AND SECOND GENERATIONS ...................... 51 WHITFIELD: THIRD GENERATION .............................................. 64 WHITFIELD: FOURTH GENERATION .......................................... 85 WHITFIELD: FIFTH GENERATION ............................................ 119 WHITFIELD: SIXTH GENERATION .............................................. 176 WHIT~'IELD: SEVENTH GENERATION ........................................ 245 WHITFIELD: EIGHTH GENERATION .......................................... 277 PART IV DESCENDANTS OF ANTHONY HATCH HATCH: FIRST AND SECOND GENERATIONS ............................ 287 HATCH: THIRD GENERATION .................................................... 288 HATCH: FOURTH GENERATION ................................................ 290 HATCH: FIFTH GENERATION .................................................... 294 HATCH: SIXTH GENERATION .................................................... 298 HATCH: SEVENTH GENERATION ................................................ 304 HATCH: EIGHTH GENERATION .................................................. 307 APPENDIX ...................................................................................... 311 BIBLIOGRAPHY .............................................................................. 327 INDEX ............................................................................................ 343 vii ILLUSTRATIONS Facing page EMMA MOREHEAD WHITFIELD.................. ...........................Frontispiece WHITFIELD HALL-HEXHAM, ENGLAND ............... 9 WHITFIELD COAT OF ARMS............................. 10 WHITFIELD MONUMENT, TENTERDEN CHURCH ........ 15 DESCENT FROM ROBERT WHITFIELD OF WHITFIELD (CHART)........................... 22 MAP ........................................................................... 54 BRYAN WHITFIELD.......................... 71 NEEDHAM WHITFIELD .......... 73 BENJAMIN WHITFIELD .............. 89 NATHAN BRYAN WHITFIELD........................... 99 GAINESWOOD ................. 101 A HAND BILL OF JAMES BRYAN WHITFIELD .... 102 GAIUS WHITFIELD ......................................................... 105 RICHARD GRIFFITH .......................... 127 SALLY ANNE ELIZA WHITFIELD ................................................... 128 GEORGE WHITFIELD .................................... 129 THEODORE WHITFIELD AND WIFE ................................... 130 THEODORE WHITFIELD ..................................... 131 BENJAMIN HATCH WHITFIELD .................. 136 MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE CHAPEL-1875 ....... 136 BRYAN WATKINS WHITFIELD ................... 144 CHARLES BOAZ WHITFIELD ............................. 154 BENJAMIN WHITFIELD GRIFFITH . 190 CORA G. GRIFFITH AND BENJAMIN W. GRIF'FITH .......... 191 CORA BERTHA GRIFFITH ............................................... 192 LUCY ANN GRIFFITH ............................................... 193 JAMES MOREHEAD WHITFIELD AND SONS 195 JESSE GEORGE WHITFIELD ........................................... 205 AUGUSTUS FOSCUE WHITFIELD ........................................................ 206 MARY EMMA CLARK .................................................................................. 207 BRYAN WATKINS WHITFIELD .............................................................. 208 GAIUS WHITFIELD .................................................................................... 216 LOUIS BROUGHTON WHITFIELD, SON AND GRANDSONS........ 234 WALTER EDWIN PRICE AND LUCY BALEY PRICE................. 250 CHILDREN OF THEODORE M. WHITFIELD ........ 251 LUCY ELIZA HATCH.......................................... 298 BENJAMIN WHITFIELD ........ 298 ix EDITOR'S FOREWORD Emma Morehead Whitfield died in Richmond, Va., May 6, 1932. She had hoped to publish this genealogy in the early '30s. She labored long and intensely over the preparation of the manuscript and believed it almost ready for the press. The eco­ nomic depression of those years and her death prevented the realization of this hope. Often during the years preceding her death Emma M. Whitfield talked with me about the whole matter and expressed the desire that I should complete the task if she were prevented. This I have undertaken, and while additions and revisions have been made, this genealogy remains essentially hers. At the time of her death, Emma M. Whitfield left a modest sum to publish this book. Others in the family had indicated their desire to share this burden, but with the passage of years many of these persons died and it became necessary to seek new support. Most recently we have had both advances in cash and promises of support. Thanks to this support, we have closed our record and given it to the printer that you may read and glean therein whatever of joy and benefit you find. THEODORE M. WHITFIELD. Westminster, Md. 1948 xi FOREWORD A slip from a genealogical tree when transplanted to new soil resembles the parent tree as surely as does a cutting from any of Nature's forest: so with Whitfield in England and America. A resemblance is found in the Christian names borne by the English and American families of Whitfield. Charts compiled by Ralph C. V. Whitfield, Esq., of Red Car, York, and Middlesex, England, show a repetition of the names William, Matthew, and Thomas. Charts of Whitfields in the Southern States show the same names repeated with persistence from 1636 to our day. · The Whitfields on both sides of the water have other char­ acteristics in common. From the first Whitfield whose name emerged from obscurity there have been divines among them. The calls of medicine and law have not been unanswered and the fields cultivated by Whitfields have been wide. and fruitful. Learning has ever had their support, and councils of state have been wiser for their presence. On fields of valor sons sprung from the barons of Runnymeade have proved their devotion to country and justice, while at the knees of devoted mothers, children learned to worship God and to regulate their lives with due regard for honesty, industry, and sympathy for their fel­ lows. Despite constant effort of many years running no docu­ mentary evidence has been found to establish the link between the two branches of the family. Fire, war, and time have com­ bined to block the search in both the Indies and Virginia, the earliest homes of Whitfield in America. Study in England has been as yet as unproductive as in this country, but in the re­ covery of manuscripts Jong lost or forgot there is room for hope that this connection may yet be found. This genealogical record will be largely confined to persons in the southern and western portions of the United States. By reason of its very magnitude this study is the product of years of patient research and loving toil of many people. While it has been my privilege to contribute to each of these, it is my purpose freely to declare to any who reads these pages that he is debtor to many. Much of the material for the Whitfields and Bryans in North Carolina came from the notes of Nathan Bryan Whitfield (71), Bryan Watkins (260), William A. xiii Whitfield ( 65), and Gen. R. C. Martin, of Louisiana. In the Bryan records the work of John Bryan Williams (B 225), stands in unequaled importance. Working a score of years, he touched sources in some cases no longer available. He made several copies of his notes which he graciously lent or gave to members of the family including ourselves. Mrs. Jesse S. Claypoole (BE 504) in addition to contribut­ ing much material kindly read much, if not the whole, of the Bryan manuscript and made suggestions for improving the manuscript at other points. Ralph C. V. Whitfield, head of the senior Northumberland line in England contributed a sketch of Whitfield of Whitfield, and charts and data relative to lines mingling with