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James Maury, Son of Mathew Maury and Mary Ann, His Wife, Was Born April 8, 1717 SOME PROMINENT •whose birth is not put down. In the Eev. James Maury's Bible we find the following entries: "James Maury, son of Mathew Maury and Mary Ann, his wife, was born April 8, 1717. (0. S. April 19/ 1717.) "Mary Maury, daughter -of James Walker and Ann, his wife, was born Noveniber 22, 1721. "My dear Mollie and I were married November 11, 1743." These two extracts settle the vexed question of Mrs. James Maury's parentage. Her husband's uncle, Rev. Peter Fontaine, says: "Col. Walker, chief person in the Ohio scheme, is her uncle, and the family record in her Bible, written by her husband, says her father was James Walker." The inference is that Col. Walker had a brother James who was Mrs. Maury's father, although his Is birth is not recorded in the Walker Bible. Family record of Eev. James Maury and Mary, nee Walker, copied by J. S. B. Davison from his Bible: "James Maury, son of Mathew Maury and Mary Ann, his wife, was born April 8, 1717. (0. S. April 19, 1717.) Died June 9, 1760. "Mary Maury, daughter of James Walker and Ann, his wife, •was born Nov. 22, 1724 and departed this life March 20, 1798. "Leonard James Walker, son of James Walker and Anne, his I wife, was born 1720 in November; died May, 1733. - "My dear Molly and I were married November 11, 1743. 1. "Mathew Maury, son of James Maury and Mary, his wife, was born Sept. 10, 1744. Departed this life May 6, 1801. 2. "James Maury, son of James Maury and his wife, Marv, was born Feb. 3, 1746. Departed this life Feb. 23, 1! 1840. ili 3. "Leonard Maury, son of James Maury and Mary, his wife, was born June 3, 1747. Departed this life 1747. 4. "Anne Maury, daughter of James Maury and Marv? his wife, was born Nov. 16, 1748. Departed this life Jan. 8, 1822. Married Dan. Clayborn, King William Co. • • 5. "Walker Maury, son of James Maury and Mary, his wife, was born July 21, 1752; died Oct. 11, 1788. 6. "Catherine Maury, daughter of James Maury and Mary, his wife, was born July 15, 1751; died July 26, 1786. VIRGINIA FAMILIES 301 7. "Elizabeth Maury, daughter of James Maury and Mary, his wife, was bom April 1, 1756. 8. "Abram Maury, son of James Maury and Mary, his wife, was born April 28, 175S. 9. "Fontaine Maury, son of James Maury and Mary, his wife, was born Feb. 3, 1761; died Feb. 1824. 10. "Benjamin Maury, son of James Maury and Mary, his wife, was born Jan. 17, 1763; died Feb. 11. "Richard Maury, son of James Maury and Mary, his wife. was born May 19, 1766; died Jan. 31, 1843. 12. "Matilda Hite Maury, daughter of James Maury and Mary, his wife, was born Oct. 28, 1769; died Nov. 7, 1821. Among the descendants of these thirteen children of the Rev. James Maury and Mary, nee Walker, there is a large number whose lives are worthy of note, but our limited space forbids us to make special mention of any excepting Matthew Fontaine Maury and Gen'l Dabney Herndon Maury. Matthew Maury was the son of Richard Maury (son of Rev. Matthew Maury, second rector of "Old Walker Parish"), - who married (1790) Diana Minor, daughter of Maj. John Minor, of "Topping Castle," in Caroline Co., Ya. When Matthew was about five years old his father moved to Tennessee and settled near Franklin. His daughter says in his biography, his parents were good and kind, but the day of obedient parents had not then dawned, so early in life young Matthew learn- ed unquestioning obedience. At twelve he had a fall from a tree and was so much injured that his father thought him unfitted for the life of a farmer, so gave him better educational advantages than he would otherwise have received. Matthew determined to enter the navy, but there was some opposition and many obstacles. In 1737 he met with a second accident which at first was thought would incapacitate him for active naval service, but he was finally accepted by the naval authorities. His first book "On Navigation," soon became the text-book of the Navy and won most complimentary notices from the highest nautical authorities in England. "Scraps from a Lupky Bag," a scries of papers on naval reform, next attracted attention, and when his identity became known he at once became an authority on naval questions and soon after he was put in charge of .the SOME PROMINENT Jolm, son of Eev. James Fontaine and Elizabeth. Bourciquot, purchased a commission in the English army, but not liking the service he resigned. He spent some years in America, and accom- panied Gov. Spottswood in his exploring expedition to the Eu- phrates Eiver in 1716, when the Governor took possession of the JEAN DE LA FONTAINE. country for King George I, of England, and instituted the order of the "Knights of the Golden Horseshoe." John Fontaine was one of his knights. He kept a journal of his stay in America, which is now accepted as reliable history. John Fontaine returned to England and married. Francis Fontaine, son of Rev. James Fontaine and Elizabeth Bourciquot, took his degree of M. A. in Dublin, Ireland, and 389 then studied for orders in the Church of England. The Arch- bishop of Dublin gave him a most complimentary letter to the Bishop of London, from whom he received both Deacon's and Priest's orders. The Bishop of London gave him a letter to the Governor of Virginia, and soon after his marriage he sailed for the Colony and took charge of St. Margaret's Parish in King William Co., Va. While in Cork, Ireland, Mary Anne Fontaine, daughter of Rev. James Fontaine and Elizabeth Bourciquot, met, and, in 1697, married Matthew Maury, a Huguenot exile from Castle Mauron, Gaseony. He was the son of Abram Maury and Marie Feauquereau, also Huguenots. Mathew Maury and his wife came to Virginia in 1719. She lived but a short time ahd died at Westover Rectory, while on a visit to her brother, Peter Fon- taine. James Maury, eldest son of Mathew Maury and Mary Ann, n6e Fontaine, was ordained in London in 1724 by the Bishop and became first rector of Walker Parish in Albemarle Co., Va. He was also chaplain under Col. George Washington in his un- fortunate campaign against Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburg. The Rev. James Maury married (November 11, 1743) Mary Walker, daughter of James Walker, and niece of Dr. Thomas Walker, of Castle Hill. Walker Church, now Grace Church, in Walker Parish, was his first and only charge, holding it thirty- five years. He was. much beloved, and his monument, which marks the site of the pulpit of old Walker Church, is still standing. The following inscription is on it, "Sacred to the memory of the Rev. James Maury, first pastor of Walker Parish, born April 8, 1717; died June 9, 1760. This monument was erected by Elizabeth Walker, as a tribute to his piety, learning and worth." Dr. Channing Page and some other genealogists have said the Rev. James Walker, first rector of Old Walker Church, married (in 1773) Elizabeth or Susanna Walker. They are mistaken. In a "Tale of a Huguenot," by Mrs. Ann Maury, she quotes a letter from the Rev. Peter, uncle of Rev. James Maury, in which he says, "he married a niece of Dr. Thomas Walker." This Dr. "Thomas Walker was further identified, as of Castle Hill, in the letter which speaks of him as prominent in "the great Ohio scheme," in which the Rev. James Maury Avas also interested. This Dr. Thomas Walker in the family Bible is accorded but one brother, called John, but he must have had another called James, 3t)S SOME PROMINENT VIRGINIA FAMILIES William Grymes Maury, was born March 29, 1784, Mar- ried Xanny Woolfolk, July, 1808. Penelope Johnston Maury, b. June 3, 1785. Married CHAPTER XIV Robert Peale Polk, attorney-at-law. Matthew F. Maury. b. Sept. .15. K8G. Catherine Ann Maury, was born May 20. 1788. Died in infancy. SLAUGHTER FAMILY. Mrs. Maury died in 1830, at Belle Grove, and was buried at "Long Meadow?/' the Hite burying ground. The coat-of-arnis of the Slaughter family is found on a seal to Bible record of Maj. Isaac Ilitc, of Belle Grove, who married a a bond of William Slaughter, as Sheriff in 1685, examined by the •second time, Ann Tunstall Maury, on the first day of December, editor in Essex County Clerk's office, answering in Burke's 1S03. Issue: ''Landed Gentry," to Slaughter of Counties Gloucester and Wor- 1. '"Ann Maury TTite. was born June 17. 1S05, half after six cester. Anns—A saltire azure. o'clock a. m." (Married Philip "Williams, attorney-at- In the early deeds and records of Virginia we find the name of law.) Slaughter, as far back as 1635, when John Slaughter took out •?. Isaac Fontaine Hite. was horn May 7, 1807, half after a patent for land. May 30, 1635. Again we (ind an old will of twelve o'clock p. m." (Married Maria Louise Davison.) Francis Slaughter, taken from certified records now in the State 3. "Mary El tinge Hite, was horn Oct. 2(5, half after eight Library of Virginia. In this quaint old will he speaks of mother- p. m.. 1808." Married J. Smith P». Davison, attorney- in-law, Margaret Upton, to whom ho leaves ten shillings to buy a a t-la w, W i ncheste r.) pair of gloves (presumably mourning gloves) ; to brother-in-law, 4.
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