Old churches, ministers and families of Virginia . give you the following statement, foundedin part upon tradition and partly upon my own recollection. My maternalgrandfather, John Moncure, a native of Scotland, was the regular ministerboth of Aquia and Potomac Churches. He was succeeded in the ministryin these churches by a clergyman named Brooke, who removed to theState of Maryland. The Rev. Mr. Buchan succeeded him: he was tutorin my fathers family, and educated John Thompson Mason, GeneralMason, of Greorgetown, Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh, and many back to a period somewhat remot
Old churches, ministers and families of Virginia . give you the following statement, foundedin part upon tradition and partly upon my own recollection. My maternalgrandfather, John Moncure, a native of Scotland, was the regular ministerboth of Aquia and Potomac Churches. He was succeeded in the ministryin these churches by a clergyman named Brooke, who removed to theState of Maryland. The Rev. Mr. Buchan succeeded him: he was tutorin my fathers family, and educated John Thompson Mason, GeneralMason, of Greorgetown, Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh, and many back to a period somewhat remote in enumerating those who livedin the vicinity of Potomac Church, I will mention my great-grandfather,Rowleigh Travers, one of the most extensive landed proprietors in thatsection of the country, and who married Hannah Ball, half-sister of MaryBall, the mother of General George Washington. From Rowleigh Traversand Hannah Ball descended two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah Travers:the former married a man named Cooke, and the latter my grandfather,. FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA. 205 Peter Daniel. To Peter and Sarah Daniel was born an only son,—TraveraDaniel, my father,—who married Frances Moncure, my mother, the daugh-ter of the Rev. John Moncure and Frances Brown, daughter of Dr. Gus-tavus Brown, of Maryland. The nearest and the coterminous neighbourof my father was John Mercer, of Marlborough, a native of Ireland, adistinguished lawyer; the compiler of Mercers Abridgment of the Vir-ginia Laws; the father of Colonel Greorge Mercer, an officer in the Britishservice, and who died in England about the commencement of the Revo-lution ; the father also of Judge James Mercer, father of Charles F. Mercer,of John Francis Mercei, who in my boyhood resided at 3Iarlborough, inStafford, and was afterward Governor of Maryland; of Robert Mercer, wholived and died in Fredericksburg; of Ann Merocr, who married SamuelSelden, of Selvington, Stafford; of Maria Mercer, who married RichardBrooke, of Kin
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