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      Henkell, Moses Montgomery, born in Pendleton county, Virginia, March 23, 1798, became an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in Ohio in 1819, was for some time a missionary to the Wyandotte Indians, and preached in that state and in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Alabama. He established a religious magazine, and associated himself in 1845 with Dr. McFerrin in the editorship of the "Christian Advocate" at Nashville. In 1847 he established the "Southern Ladies' Companion," which he conducted for eight years. He taught in Philadelphia and other places, and was thus engaged in Baltimore, Maryland, during the civil war, but was sent within the Confederate lines. He died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1864.

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      Metcalf, Samuel L., born near Winchester, Virginia, September 21, 1798. With his parents he went to Shelby county, Kentucky, and in 1819 he entered Transylvania University, Lexington, where in 1823 he received the degree of M. D. He practiced in New Albany, Indiana, and later in Mississippi. In 1831 went to England, and on his return made a geological tour through eastern Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. For several years he lived in New York City, writing scientific books, and to the "Knickerbocker Magazine." In 1835 he again visited England in order to make scientific research, and while there was solicited to become a candidate for the Gregorian chair in the University of Edinburgh, but declined. Returning to the United States, he published his various books: "Narratives of Indian Warfare in the West;" "new Theory of Terrestrial Magnetism;" and "Caloric: its Agencies in the Phenomena of Nature." He died at Cape May, New Jersey, July 17, 1856.

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      Paschall, Edwin, born in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, in 1799. He became a lawyer, went to Tennessee in 1833, and was a teacher in Murfreesborough, Huntington, Brownsville, and for some time at Franklin, Williamson county, where he edited the "Western Weekly Review." Afterwards he taught a classical school near Nashville. During the civil war he was editorial writer for the Nashville "Press," and in 1865-66 for the Nashville "Gazette." He published "old Times, or Tennessee History." He died near Nolensville, Tennessee, June 5, 1869.

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      Upshur, George Parker, born in Northampton county, Virginia, March 8, 1799. He entered the United States navy as midshipman, April 23, 1818; was promoted to lieutenant, March, 1827, and served in the Lexington, on the Brazil station, 1832-34, against the pirates infesting the Falkland Islands. He commanded the brig Truxton on her first cruise in the Mediterranean in 1843-44, and from 1844 until 1847 served in the receiving ship at Norfolk, Virginia. He was commissioned commander, February 27, 1847, and from that year until 1850 was superintendent of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. On July 13, 1852, he took command of the sloop-of-war Levant, at Norfolk, joined the United States squadron in the Mediterranean, and died on board his ship, in the harbor of Spezzia, Italy, November 3, 1852.

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      Meriwether, David, son of William Meriwether and Elizabeth Winslow, his wife, and grandson of James Meriwether and Judith Hardenia Burnley, his wife, was born in Louisa county, Virginia, October 30, 1800, attended private schools, engaged in fur trading near Council Bluffs, Iowa; settled in Kentucky, studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Kentucky; in 1832 he was elected a member of the house of delegates of Kentucky, and served for thirteen terms; delegatge to the state constitutional convention of 1849; appointed in 1851 by Gov. Powell secretary of state of Kentucky; and upon the death of Mr. Clay appointed to fill his unexpired term in the United States senate, serving from June 6, 1852, to September 1, 1852; appointed by President Pierce governor of the territory of New Mexico, serving from May 6, 1853, to January 5, 1855; representative in the Kentucky legislatur efrom 1858 to 1863, and served as speaker of the hosue in 1859; died near Lousiville, Kentucky, April 4, 1893. He married, in 1824, Sarah Leonard, of Massachusetts. He was nephew of David Meriwether, of Georgia (q. v.).

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      Mcnutt, Alexander Gallatin, born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, September 12, 1801; he was educated at Washington College, Virginia; emigrated to Mississippi in 1828, and settled in Vicksburg in the practice of law. He was in the legislature for several years, speaker of the senate in 1837, and governor the next year. While in the legislature, he secured the right of representation to the counties formed out of the Chickasaw and Choctaw cessions. Sergeant S. Prentiss opposed this measure, and subsequently attacked him in a series of speeches in 1838, during Prentiss's canvass for congress, McNutt's slovenly dress and intemperate habits forming a target for his wit. McNutt subsequently reformed, and accumulated a large fortune from his practice. He was a Democrat in politics, and yielded in debate to none but Prentiss, whom, after the canvass of 1838, he resolutely refused ever to meet on the "stump." He died in De Soto county, Mississippi, October 22, 1848.

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      Madison, James, born near Port Republic, Rockingham county (formerly Augusta county), August 27, 1749, son of John Madison, first clerk of Augusta county. His father and Ambrose Madison, the grandfather of James Madison, President of the United States, were brothers. He went first to an academy in Maryland, thence in 1768 to William and Mary College, where on July 29, 1772, he received the gold medal awarded as a prize by Lord Botetourt for classical learning. He was writing master at the college until May, 1773, when he was appointed professor of natural philosophy. He studied law under George Wythe, but abandoned the profession after a single case, and aided by fifty pounds from the board of visitors, visited England in 1775, and took orders. In November, 1775, he again attended as professor of natural philosophy at the college, and in October, 1777, succeeded John Camm as president of the institution, being then only twenty-eight years of age. Mr. Madison supported with great zeal the cause of the revolution, and in connection with Thomas Jefferson, a member of the college visitors, procured an entire reform of the course pursued at William and Mary College. Under their auspices the elective system of study was introduced, the honor system established, and by the addition of the chairs of medicine, law and modern languages, the college was made a university. Dr. James McClurg was called to the medical chair, George Wythe to the law chair, and Charles Bellini to the chair of modern languages. Thus the college became the first in America to practice the elective system, and to support chairs for the study of municipal law and the modern languages. It was second only to the College of Philadelphia in establishing a medical chair, which was, however, continued only for a very few years. In 1785 he presided over the first convention of the Episcopal church in Virginia, and in 1790 was elected first bishop of the diocese, and he was consecrated in the chapel of Lambeth palace on September 19, of that year, by Archbishop Moore, of Canterbury, being the last prelate of the American church to receive consecration from the bishops of the Anglican church. Bishop Madison published a "Eulogy on Washington (1800). He was married, in 1779, to Sarah Tate, of Williamsburg, a granddaughter of William Cocke, formerly secretary of the colony. She died August 20, 1815, leaving one son, John Catesby Madison, and one daughter who married Robert G. Scott, a distinguished lawyer of Virginia. A brother of Bishop Madison, George Madison, became governor of Kentucky. Bishop Madison died March 6, 1812. His remains lie interred in the chapel of the College of William and Mary.

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      Jameson, David, born August 19, 1752, in Culpeper county (then Orange), son of Captain Thomas Jameson; served in the revolution, fought at Great Bridge, Norfolk county, December 9, 1775, and was in Stevens' brigade in 1780 and 1781. In 1790-91 he was a member of the Virginia legislature, an afterwards magistrate and high sheriff of Culpeper county. He married, in 1791, Mary Mennis, daughter of Charles Mennis. He died October 2, 1839. He was a brother of Lieut.-Col. John Jameson (q. v.).

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      Jameson, David, son of James Jameson, of Essex county, Virginia, was a prominent merchant of Yorktown, Virginia; was treasurer of the "Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge," organized at Williamsburg in May, 1773, with John Clayton, the botanist, as president, and there is a letter of John Page, who succeeded Clayton as president, giving the result of some experiments made by him and David Jameson with an instrument of their own invention on the fall of dew and rain — these experiments being the first that ever were made of their kind in America, indeed, as Page says, "the first with such an instrument in the world." In 1777 he became a member of Patrick Henry's privy council. In 1781 he was lieutenant governor, under Governor Thomas Nelson, and in 1783 a member of the state senate. His will, dated October 14, 1792, was proved July 22, 1793. He was uncle of David Jameson (q. v.) and John Jameson (q. v.).

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      Bowyer, Henry, born in 1761. Early in the revolution, as a lad, he was left in charge of a store at Fincastle, belonging to his uncle, Michael Bowyer, who went to the army. Shortly after his uncle was gone, he sold the goods for what they would bring, and joined a company of cavalry under Washington. At Buford's defeat, he was an aid to that officer. He was a superb horseman, and performed various startling feats during his army service. After the war, he was elected clerk of the county court of Botetourt county, and held the office for a period of about forty years, being succeeded by his son, Henry W. Bowyer. He died in 1833. He married a daughter of Thomas Madison, of Botetourt county; she was a niece of Bishop James Madison, and her mother was a sister of Patrick Henry.

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      Moore, Richard Channing, born in New York City, August 21, 1762. His grandfather, John Moore (1658-1732), an eminent lawyer, was attorney-general and register-general of Pennsylvania under William Penn, and from 1704 until his death royal collector of customs for that colony. His father, John Moore (1686-1749), was a merchant in New York City and for some time a member of the provincial assembly. One of his uncles, Daniel Moore, served in the English parliament, and another, William (1699-1783), was a member of the Pennsylvania assembly, being also from 1741 until 1781 president judge of the court of Chester county. He was a colonel of the militia, and so vigorously opposed some of the acts of the assembly that in 1758 an unsuccessful attempt was made to remove him from office. His residence, "Moore Hall," near Valley Forge, is still a landmark. Richard Channing Moore was prepared for King's (now Columbia) College, but was prevented by the revolution from pursuing a collegiate course. Subsequently he studied medicine, received a degree and practiced for some time, but following an inclination for the ministry, he began theological study under Bishop Provost. Being ordained deacon and priest in 1787, he served for two years at Rye, New York, and was then called to the rectorship of St. Andrew's Church, Richmond, Staten Island, where he remained until 1809. In 1808 he attended the general convention of the Episcopal church in Baltimore, and from 1809 until 1814 was rector of St. Stephens Church, New York City. He was chosen bishop of Virginia, in 1814 and was consecrated in Philadelphia in May of that year. In addition to his duties as bishop he also served until his death as rector of the Monumental Church, Richmond, Virginia. A man of great ability and energy, he rendered notable service in reviving the drooping fortunes of the church in Virginia. Besides a number of sermons and addresses, he published "The Doctrines of the Church," a discourse delivered before the general convention in 1820. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by Dartmouth College in 1805. A memoir of his life, written by Rev. J. P. K. Henshaw, was published in 1842. His son, David (1787-1856), was graduated at Columbia in 1806, was ordained priest in 1808, and, succeeding his father, was from 1809 until his death rector of St. Andrew's Church, Richmond, Staten Island. Union College gave him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1841. Bishop Moore died at Lynchburg, Virginia, November 11, 1841.

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      Alexander, William, born in Delaware, in 1763, was six years old when his parents removed to Botetourt county, Virginia. At the age of sixteen years he entered the revolutionary army and marched under Gen. Greene to North Carolina, was at the battle of the Cowpens under Morgan, and made the memorable march across North Carolina. In the war of 1812, as colonel, he marched his regiment of militia to the seaboard. For about fifty years he was county surveyor, for a long time a magistrate, a James river commissioner, occasionally engineer of public improvements, and a member of the legislature. He became an exemplary member of the Presbyterian church of Fincastle. He died September 13, 1839.

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      Logan, Robert, born at Bethel congregation, Augusta county, in September, 1769. He received literary and theological instruction at Liberty Hall, under the care of Rev. William Graham. He was licensed as a Presbyterian preacher, and made missionary excursions to New England, and finally settled at Fincastle, Botetourt county, Virginia, where he taught ordinary and classical schools, besides preaching. After some thirty years of such occupation, he died in October, 1828.

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      Haxall, Philip, son of William Haxall and Catherine, his wife, was born at Exning, county Suffolk, England, April 10, 1770, emigrated to Petersburg, Virginia, in 1786; he was vestryman of Bristol parish; was partner with his two brothers, William and Henry, in the milling business of the Petersburg mills; removed to Richmond in June, 1809, and, in partnership with his brother William, bought the Columbian mills, which became known as the Haxall mills. He married Clara Walker, daughter of Robert Walker, of "Kingston," Dinwiddie county, and died December 26, 1831. He was succeeded in the milling business by his sons, Richard Barton Haxall, William Henry Haxall and Bolling Walker Haxall. The Haxall mills were one of the great enterprises of Richmond, and shipped immense quantities of flour to all parts of the world.

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      Lawson, Robert, On February 13, 1776, he was commissioned major in the Fourth Virginia Regiment, and he was promoted to colonel the following year. He is said to have commanded a brigade of Virginia militia under Gen. Greene at the battle of Guilford Court House. He died at Richmond in April, 1805.

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      Riley, Bennett, born at Alexandria, Virginia, November 27, 1787. He received an ordinary English education, and after engaging for a time in clerical pursuits in Maryland was on January 1, 1813, appointed by President Madison an ensign of rifles in the regular army. He was promoted to be lieutenant on March 12, 1813, and served with great gallantry during the war of 1812. He was raised to the rank of captain on August 6, 1818. He was engaged in the operations against the Arickaree Indians in 1823; was promoted to be major on September 26, 1837, and lieutenant-colonel on December 1, 1839, and was brevetted colonel, for his services against the Seminoles in Florida, on June 2, 1840. During the Mexican war in 1846-47 he commanded the Second Infantry under Gen. Winfield Scott, and later the Second Brigade of Gen. D. E. Twiggs' division in the operations against the City of Mexico. He participated with conspicuous bravery in all of the most important battles of the war and was repeatedly commended by Gen. Scott. He was brevetted brigadier-general April 16, 1847, and major-general August 20, 1847. In 1848 he was assigned to the command of the department of the Pacific and served as military governor of California, until the organization of the state government, which he hastened by all the mans in his power. On January 31, 1850, he was promoted to be colonel and commanded the First Infantry until his death. General Riley was a splendid soldier, and his firmness and discretion proved of the greatest value in the most turbulent period of the history of California. He died at Buffalo, New York, June 9, 1853.

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      Hoge, John Blair, born in Jefferson county, Virginia, in 1790, son of Rev. Moses Hoge, president of Hampden-Sidney College. He was educated in part in his father's private school at Shepherdstown, and in part at Hampden-Sidney College, under the presidency of his father. He was for a time a tutor in the college, and then studied law under Henry E. Watkins, of Prince Edward county. He, however, came to prefer theology before the law, was prepared by his father for the ministry, and in 1810 was licensed as a preacher by the Hanover presbytery. The next year he was transferred to Winchester presbytery, was ordained at Tuscarora meeting house, and became pastor of the churches there and at Falling Waters his preaching was impressive, both in matter and manner. In 1814 he went to Europe to restore his failing health, and returned in 1816, much improved. He removed to Richmond, where he performed ministerial labors, and compiled a volume of his father's sermons, and when his health finally failed he was compiling a memoir of his father. He was active in establishing the theological seminary in Prince Edward, holding a foremost place in the synod. He married Ann K. Hunter, of Martinsburg, Virginia. He died March 31, 1826.

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      Jameson, William, born in Virginia in 1791, died in Alexandria, Virginia, October 7, 1873; was appointed midshipman in the United States navy from the District of Columbia in 1811, and during the second war with Great Britain was in several naval engagements. In 1817 he was commissioned lieutenant; in 1837, commander; and in 1844 was promoted to captain When the civil war broke out he took sides with the North, and remained in service until July 16, 1862, was then commissioned commodore, placed upon the invalid list, and after the war closed was placed upon the retired list.

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      Jameson, John, son of Captain Thomas Jameson, of Orange county, Virginia, served in the revolution; was captain of the Virginia regiment of dragoons, June 16, 1776; major, First Continental Dragoons, March 1, 1777; transferred to the Second Continental Dragoons, April 7, 1777; wounded near Valley Forge, January 21, 1778; lieutenant-colonel, August 1, 1779, and served to the close of the war. He was the officer to whom the unfortunate Major John André was delivered in 1780, after concerting with Benedict Arnold for the surrender of West Point.

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      Fitzgerald, James H., born in Cumberland county, Virginia. He was liberally educated, and inherited an ample estate. Early in life he represented his county in the house of delegates. He married a daughter of Francis Thornton, and took up his residence at the falls of the Rappahannock river, near Fredericksburg. He was an elder in the Presbyterian church, a trustee of Hampden-Sidney College, a director of Union Theological Seminary, president of the central board of foreign missions, and a helper in all good works. The church at Fredericksburg attained to a place of commanding importance, largely through his instrumentality, and in him the church at Warrenton ever had a firm friend and generous helper. Failing health induced him to visit France, with his wife, in 1851, and on May 6, 1852, he passed away in Paris.

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      Leavenworth, Abner Johnson, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, July 2, 1803; graduated at Amherst College in 1825; studied theology at Andover, Massachusetts, and was licensed as a Congregationalist preacher. After holding charges at Orange and Bristol, Connecticut, he became pastor of the Young Ladies' Seminary at Charlotte, North Carolina. In 1838 he removed to Warrenton, Virginia, where he took charge of a school until he was called to a Presbyterian church at Petersburg, Virginia, in 1840. Resigning in 1844, he became principal and proprietor of the Leavenworth Academy and Collegiate Seminary for Young Ladies. He was corresponding secretary of the Virginia Education association, which he was largely instrumental in founding. He died in Petersburg, Virginia, February 12, 1869.

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      Gholson, William Yates, born in Brunswick county, Virginia, December 25, 1807, son of Thomas and Ann (Yates) Gholson, and a cousin of Judge Samuel J. Gholson. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1825, studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced his profession in Mississippi. He removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1845, and at once took a leading place at the bar. With Bellamy Storer, Sr., and Oliver M. Spencer he was appointed judge of the superior court, and the three probably were never surpassed. He was afterward supreme judge of the state for four years. He wrote a "Digest of the Laws of Ohio," and also published addresses on "Payment of Bonds of the United States;" "Reconstruction of the Southern States," and "Payment of the Principal of the Public Debt." He married Elvira Wright, of Missouri. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 20, 1870.

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      Cowardin, James Andrew, born near Hot Springs, Virginia, October 6, 1811, the son of John Lewis and Polly (Rhodes) Cowardin, and grandson of Abraham Cowardin, who married Miss Lewis, daughter of Mrs. Lewis (who at one time owned the famous Warm Springs in Bath county), and who was of the numerous family of Lewises of Virginia, of which Gen. Charles and Meriwether Lewis, of the Lewis and Clarke Rocky Mountain explorers, were members. At the age of thirteen years James entered the office of the Roanoke "Sentinel," Danville, Virginia, to serve his time at the "art preservation of arts." In 1827 or 1828 he removed to Lynchburg, Virginia, and at twenty-one became foreman of the "Jeffersonian Republican," and occasionally wrote for it. He held this position until 1834, when he removed to Richmond, Virginia, where he became chief and confidential clerk of Thomas Ritchie, editor and owner of the "Daily Enquirer," and the Nestor of Southern journalism. Politically they were far apart, but Ritchie's heart was won by the cheerful and willing spirit, the active and obliging disposition of young Cowardin. Letters which passed between them when they stood in good relation of employer and employee, and after they had separated, show Mr. Ritchie's high estimate of his young clerk, and his sincere desire to see him advance in life. Mr. Cowardin held his clerkship in the "Enquirer" office until 1838, when he bought out the interest of John S. Gallegher in the "Times and Compiler," W. H. Davis being the remaining partner, the firm becoming Cowardin & Davis. Later, desiring to engage in financial pursuits, he disposed of his interest in the "Times and Compiler," to W. C. Carrington, and embarked with his brother-in-law, Charles W. Purcell, in the banking and brokerage business. Of this he soon tired, and on October 19, 1859, in connection with William H. Davis, Mr. Cowardin started the "Daily Dispatch," which was independent in politics, and the first penny paper ever published south of Baltimore, Maryland, and after years of toil he established it upon a firm foundation, and made it one of the most progressive and prosperous papers in the Southern states. At the close of the civil war, Mr. Cowardin associated with himself H. K. Ellyson, who became half-owner in the "Dispatch." In the Whig campaign of 1853 Mr. Cowardin was nominated by the old Whig party as one of the candidates to represent the city of Richmond in the house of delegates of Virginia, and was elected. In the great struggle of 1869, when Virginia was seeking to release herself from military rule and secure readmission to the Union, he again consented to take an active part in politics and helped to organize the committee of nine, and went with it to Washington in the interest of the "Walker movement." His letters from Washington to the "Dispatch" measurably prepared the Virginia mind for the acceptance of "the new departure," and finally to its success. He was a great friend of internal improvements, and wrote well upon this and all other public questions, and was thoroughly loyal to the history and traditions of his state. His sanguine temperament and cheerful disposition, shown in his writings, an in his daily life, were of inestimable service to Virginia in the dark forbidding days following the burning of Richmond and the surrender of Lee. He was a charming newspaper correspondent, graphic and humorous. His editorials on the "Old Virginia Ham," "Old Virginia Fiddlers," etc. (in which he would pen life portraits of Jefferson, William Wirt, Governor Gilmer, Governor Cabell, Whitwell Tunstall, and others, who delighted in a "concord of sweet sounds," and were accomplished performers of the violin, as he was himself), are well remembered. Mr. Cowardin was married, in 1840, to Annie Marie Purcell, daughter of Charles and Sarah Purcell. He died at Richmond, Virginia, November 21, 1882.

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      Haxall, Robert William, born in Petersburg, Virginia, August 1, 1802, son of Philip Haxall, a merchant of Petersburg, Virginia, who came from Exning, county Suffolk, England, in 1786, and Clara, his wife, daughter of Robert Walker, of "Kingston," Dinwiddie county, Virginia; graduated at Yale in 1823, attended medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, and received his medical degree from the University of Maryland in 1826. After studying in Europe, he settled in Richmond. He was several times president of the Medical society of Virginia, and was one of the founders of the American Medical Association. He obtained two Boylston prizes for essays, and was a frequent contributor to the "Stethoscope" He died in Richmond, Virginia, March 26, 1872. He married Jane, daughter of David Higginbotham, of Albemarle county, and widow of W. B. McMurdo.

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      Ellison, Matthew, born in Monroe county, Virginia, November 10, 1804. He became a Baptist minister in Virginia, traveling over wide districts, and organized twenty-five churches. When seventy-five years of age he gave up preaching and settled at Raleigh, West Virginia. He is the author of "Dunkerism, a Plea for the Union of Baptists," and other controversial works on the subject of baptism.

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      Inglis, Mary, said to have been the first white woman in Kentucky, was born in 1729, died in 1813. In 1756 one of the frontier settlements of Virginia on Alleghany Ridge (now in Montgomery county, Virginia) was attacked by a party of Shawnee Indians, who killed some of the inhabitants, making others captive. Mrs. Inglis, her two sons, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Draper, were carried by the Indians down the Kanawha to their towns at the mouth of the Scioto, where she was separated from her children. Mrs. Inglis won the favor of the Indians by making shirts out of the colored goods purchased from the French traders, but the separation from her children and the hard life she led, moved her to escape. She induced an old Dutch woman to join her, and having obtained permission to pick grapes, set out down the Ohio valley, one hundred and forty miles, to a point opposite the Scioto towns. There they found an old horse on the Kentucky side, procured corn and wheat, the followed on to the Virginia line, where they found the Big Sandy impassable. Going up the river, they found a raft of trees and logs on which they crossed in safety, but lost their horse. They wandered on toward the Kanawha, but suffered so much from hunger and exposure that the Dutch woman became crazed, finally making a deadly assault upon Mrs. Inglis, who went on alone, reached the banks of the Kanawha, and there finding an old Indian canoe, crossed over. The Dutch woman reached the same point, and begged to be carried over, but Mrs. Inglis dared not again trust herself within reach of the demented woman. She traveled up the Kanawha, soon found a clearing and white settlers, who went back and brought in the Dutch woman. Mrs Inglis had been over forty days on her journey through the wilderness, and had traveled more than four hundred miles. one of her sons died in captivity, the other was ransomed after being held by the Indians for thirteen years. She was the mother of daughters who married men who became distinguished in the history of Virginia and Kentucky.

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      Cary, Mary, daughter of Col. Wilson Cary, of "Ceeleys," Elizabeth City county, Virginia, was born 1731-1738, married Edward Ambler (q. v.), of Jamestown, in 1754. She survived her husband, who died in 1768, thirteen years. A beautiful portrait of her is preserved. There was a very current story that she was once Washington's sweetheart, but this is entirely discredited by the eminent antiquarian, Wilson Miles Cary, of Baltimore, who shows conclusively that the object of Washington's attachment was her elder sister, Sally Cary, who married George William Fairfax. Mrs. Ambler removed, when the revolutionary war broke out, from Jamestown to the "Cottage," in Hanover county, where she died in May, 1781.

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      Ambler, Jaquelin, son of Richard Ambler (q. v.), of Yorktown and Jamestown, Virginia, was born in August, 1742. He was educated at William and Mary College from 1753 to 1760, and entered into business with his father at Yorktown; he was councillor of state during the revolution, and later was treasurer of the commonwealth, a position which he held till his death, February 20, 1798. He married Rebecca Burwell, daughter of Lewis Burwell (q. v.), president of the council and acting governor. She was the young lady whom Thomas Jefferson called his "Belinda."

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      Irvine, William, born in Virginia, about 1750, died in 1820. He grew to manhood in Virginia, then, with his brother Christopher, went to Kentucky, and was among the earliest pioneers of that state. They built and occupied Irvine station, in Madison county, in 1778, and took part in most of the fighting with the Indians. William Irvine was at Little Mountain, where Captain Estill and eighteen riflemen fought twenty-five Wyandottes, and he received a severe wound. In 1876 Christopher Inglis led a company under Col. Ben Logan against the Indians of northern Ohio, and was killed by a savage he was pursuing, who in turn was killed by Irvine's men. William Irvine became clerk of the quarter sessions and county courts of Madison county; was elected a member of the Virginia house of delegates from the district of Kentucky; was a delegate to the several conventions at Danville, looking to the establishment of Kentucky as a state, and was a member of the convention which framed the second constitution of Kentucky. He was several times chosen presidential elector.