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Transcribed (with original errors and typos) from an undated and unsourced family clipping by Elizabeth Meredith Wayland Tierney. I believe it to have been a response to a letter to the editor of the Times Dispatch in Richmond, VA, on December 20, 1903, regarding the genealogy of the Winston Family, which was submitted by J. Powell Garland. His published letter is available online, though I haven't yet found this particular letter in the Times Dispatch archives.
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Merediths.
The following can be added to the Meredith article of the 14th instant:
Samuel Meredith, Sr., of Hanover county, Va., had issue by his first wife: Elisha, John, Pleasant, George, Ruth, William and Samuel, Jr. By his second wife, Margaret, there was no issue. He died April 14, 1762, and on September 30th following his widow became the second wife of Dr. William Cabell, the ancestor of the Virginia family of that name. She died February 26, 1768, without issue.
Ruth daughter of Samuel Meredith, Sr., married Samuel Jordan, Jr., of Seven Islands, Va.
Samuel Meredith, Jr., was born in Hanover county, Va., 1732, and was captain in Colonel William Byrd's regiment, 1768, and for his services was granted to him July 11, 1774, 2,000 acres land in Kentucky. In 1775 he was captain of an independent company from Hanover county, which on May 2d he resigned in favor of his brother-in-law, Patrick Henry, and accepted a lieutenancy in the company. He was a member of the convention of May, 1776, and in 1778 he subscribed 500 pounds to old Washington Henry College, in Hanover town, and for several years was president of the Board of Trustees.
In 1779 Governor Thomas Jefferson confirmed to him the Kentucky lands granted in 1774, and that same year he purchased the home of Joseph Cabell, near New Glasgow, Amherst county, called "Winton," and moved there.
Colonel Meredith had long been a vestryman of St. Paul's parish, Hanover county, and the vestry on December 29, 1780, "elected a vestryman in room of Samuel Meredith, gent, who was removed out of the parish." Colonel William Cabell, in his diary January 12, 1781, states, "Lieut-Col. Samuel Meredith my small sword, nicely silver mounted."
Colonel Meredith was then in service with the Amherst militia. In 1785-6, Governor Patrick Henry granted him additional lands in Kentucky for services in the French and Indian War.
He was also one of the trustees of Warminster Academy from 1791, and was long a justice of the peace, when the justices sat on the county bench, and for some years before his death was the presiding justice, and was also high sheriff in 1807. His will was dated August 6, 1808. He was buried at "Winton," and such was the great esteem and affection in which he held his mother-in-law, Jane Henry, that he requested to be buried at her feet, and this is the only designation of the grave of Mrs. Henry, the mother of the orator and patriot, Patrick Henry. The old Cabell building still stands, and the old family burying ground unenclosed, save by a most dilapidated fence, which, like most private grounds where the property passes out of the family, is left to neglect and decay. The tombstone of Colonel Samuel Meredith bears this inscription:
" Here lie the remains of
Col. Saml. Meredith,
Who departed this life Dec. 22, 1808.
Aged 76 years."
By his side is buried his wife, Jane Henry, and at her feet is the grave of her daughter Jane, wife of David S. Garland. Besides Mrs. Henry, there are four other members of the Henry family buried at Winton.
M. H. G.
Lynchburg, Va.
Transcribed (with original errors and typos) from an undated and unsourced family clipping by Elizabeth Meredith Wayland Tierney. I believe it to have been a response to a letter to the editor of the Times Dispatch in Richmond, VA, on December 20, 1903, regarding the genealogy of the Winston Family, which was submitted by J. Powell Garland. His published letter is available online, though I haven't yet found this particular letter in the Times Dispatch archives.
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Merediths.
The following can be added to the Meredith article of the 14th instant:
Samuel Meredith, Sr., of Hanover county, Va., had issue by his first wife: Elisha, John, Pleasant, George, Ruth, William and Samuel, Jr. By his second wife, Margaret, there was no issue. He died April 14, 1762, and on September 30th following his widow became the second wife of Dr. William Cabell, the ancestor of the Virginia family of that name. She died February 26, 1768, without issue.
Ruth daughter of Samuel Meredith, Sr., married Samuel Jordan, Jr., of Seven Islands, Va.
Samuel Meredith, Jr., was born in Hanover county, Va., 1732, and was captain in Colonel William Byrd's regiment, 1768, and for his services was granted to him July 11, 1774, 2,000 acres land in Kentucky. In 1775 he was captain of an independent company from Hanover county, which on May 2d he resigned in favor of his brother-in-law, Patrick Henry, and accepted a lieutenancy in the company. He was a member of the convention of May, 1776, and in 1778 he subscribed 500 pounds to old Washington Henry College, in Hanover town, and for several years was president of the Board of Trustees.
In 1779 Governor Thomas Jefferson confirmed to him the Kentucky lands granted in 1774, and that same year he purchased the home of Joseph Cabell, near New Glasgow, Amherst county, called "Winton," and moved there.
Colonel Meredith had long been a vestryman of St. Paul's parish, Hanover county, and the vestry on December 29, 1780, "elected a vestryman in room of Samuel Meredith, gent, who was removed out of the parish." Colonel William Cabell, in his diary January 12, 1781, states, "Lieut-Col. Samuel Meredith my small sword, nicely silver mounted."
Colonel Meredith was then in service with the Amherst militia. In 1785-6, Governor Patrick Henry granted him additional lands in Kentucky for services in the French and Indian War.
He was also one of the trustees of Warminster Academy from 1791, and was long a justice of the peace, when the justices sat on the county bench, and for some years before his death was the presiding justice, and was also high sheriff in 1807. His will was dated August 6, 1808. He was buried at "Winton," and such was the great esteem and affection in which he held his mother-in-law, Jane Henry, that he requested to be buried at her feet, and this is the only designation of the grave of Mrs. Henry, the mother of the orator and patriot, Patrick Henry. The old Cabell building still stands, and the old family burying ground unenclosed, save by a most dilapidated fence, which, like most private grounds where the property passes out of the family, is left to neglect and decay. The tombstone of Colonel Samuel Meredith bears this inscription:
" Here lie the remains of
Col. Saml. Meredith,
Who departed this life Dec. 22, 1808.
Aged 76 years."
By his side is buried his wife, Jane Henry, and at her feet is the grave of her daughter Jane, wife of David S. Garland. Besides Mrs. Henry, there are four other members of the Henry family buried at Winton.
M. H. G.
Lynchburg, Va.
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Transcribed (with original errors and typos) from an undated and unsourced family clipping by Elizabeth Meredith Wayland Tierney. I believe it to have been a response to a letter to the editor of the Times Dispatch in Richmond, VA, on December 20, 1903, regarding the genealogy of the Winston Family, which was submitted by J. Powell Garland. His published letter is available online, though I haven't yet found this particular letter in the Times Dispatch archives.
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Merediths.
The following can be added to the Meredith article of the 14th instant:
Samuel Meredith, Sr., of Hanover county, Va., had issue by his first wife: Elisha, John, Pleasant, George, Ruth, William and Samuel, Jr. By his second wife, Margaret, there was no issue. He died April 14, 1762, and on September 30th following his widow became the second wife of Dr. William Cabell, the ancestor of the Virginia family of that name. She died February 26, 1768, without issue.
Ruth daughter of Samuel Meredith, Sr., married Samuel Jordan, Jr., of Seven Islands, Va.
Samuel Meredith, Jr., was born in Hanover county, Va., 1732, and was captain in Colonel William Byrd's regiment, 1768, and for his services was granted to him July 11, 1774, 2,000 acres land in Kentucky. In 1775 he was captain of an independent company from Hanover county, which on May 2d he resigned in favor of his brother-in-law, Patrick Henry, and accepted a lieutenancy in the company. He was a member of the convention of May, 1776, and in 1778 he subscribed 500 pounds to old Washington Henry College, in Hanover town, and for several years was president of the Board of Trustees.
In 1779 Governor Thomas Jefferson confirmed to him the Kentucky lands granted in 1774, and that same year he purchased the home of Joseph Cabell, near New Glasgow, Amherst county, called "Winton," and moved there.
Colonel Meredith had long been a vestryman of St. Paul's parish, Hanover county, and the vestry on December 29, 1780, "elected a vestryman in room of Samuel Meredith, gent, who was removed out of the parish." Colonel William Cabell, in his diary January 12, 1781, states, "Lieut-Col. Samuel Meredith my small sword, nicely silver mounted."
Colonel Meredith was then in service with the Amherst militia. In 1785-6, Governor Patrick Henry granted him additional lands in Kentucky for services in the French and Indian War.
He was also one of the trustees of Warminster Academy from 1791, and was long a justice of the peace, when the justices sat on the county bench, and for some years before his death was the presiding justice, and was also high sheriff in 1807. His will was dated August 6, 1808. He was buried at "Winton," and such was the great esteem and affection in which he held his mother-in-law, Jane Henry, that he requested to be buried at her feet, and this is the only designation of the grave of Mrs. Henry, the mother of the orator and patriot, Patrick Henry. The old Cabell building still stands, and the old family burying ground unenclosed, save by a most dilapidated fence, which, like most private grounds where the property passes out of the family, is left to neglect and decay. The tombstone of Colonel Samuel Meredith bears this inscription:
" Here lie the remains of
Col. Saml. Meredith,
Who departed this life Dec. 22, 1808.
Aged 76 years."
By his side is buried his wife, Jane Henry, and at her feet is the grave of her daughter Jane, wife of David S. Garland. Besides Mrs. Henry, there are four other members of the Henry family buried at Winton.
M. H. G.
Lynchburg, Va.
Transcribed (with original errors and typos) from an undated and unsourced family clipping by Elizabeth Meredith Wayland Tierney. I believe it to have been a response to a letter to the editor of the Times Dispatch in Richmond, VA, on December 20, 1903, regarding the genealogy of the Winston Family, which was submitted by J. Powell Garland. His published letter is available online, though I haven't yet found this particular letter in the Times Dispatch archives.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Merediths.
The following can be added to the Meredith article of the 14th instant:
Samuel Meredith, Sr., of Hanover county, Va., had issue by his first wife: Elisha, John, Pleasant, George, Ruth, William and Samuel, Jr. By his second wife, Margaret, there was no issue. He died April 14, 1762, and on September 30th following his widow became the second wife of Dr. William Cabell, the ancestor of the Virginia family of that name. She died February 26, 1768, without issue.
Ruth daughter of Samuel Meredith, Sr., married Samuel Jordan, Jr., of Seven Islands, Va.
Samuel Meredith, Jr., was born in Hanover county, Va., 1732, and was captain in Colonel William Byrd's regiment, 1768, and for his services was granted to him July 11, 1774, 2,000 acres land in Kentucky. In 1775 he was captain of an independent company from Hanover county, which on May 2d he resigned in favor of his brother-in-law, Patrick Henry, and accepted a lieutenancy in the company. He was a member of the convention of May, 1776, and in 1778 he subscribed 500 pounds to old Washington Henry College, in Hanover town, and for several years was president of the Board of Trustees.
In 1779 Governor Thomas Jefferson confirmed to him the Kentucky lands granted in 1774, and that same year he purchased the home of Joseph Cabell, near New Glasgow, Amherst county, called "Winton," and moved there.
Colonel Meredith had long been a vestryman of St. Paul's parish, Hanover county, and the vestry on December 29, 1780, "elected a vestryman in room of Samuel Meredith, gent, who was removed out of the parish." Colonel William Cabell, in his diary January 12, 1781, states, "Lieut-Col. Samuel Meredith my small sword, nicely silver mounted."
Colonel Meredith was then in service with the Amherst militia. In 1785-6, Governor Patrick Henry granted him additional lands in Kentucky for services in the French and Indian War.
He was also one of the trustees of Warminster Academy from 1791, and was long a justice of the peace, when the justices sat on the county bench, and for some years before his death was the presiding justice, and was also high sheriff in 1807. His will was dated August 6, 1808. He was buried at "Winton," and such was the great esteem and affection in which he held his mother-in-law, Jane Henry, that he requested to be buried at her feet, and this is the only designation of the grave of Mrs. Henry, the mother of the orator and patriot, Patrick Henry. The old Cabell building still stands, and the old family burying ground unenclosed, save by a most dilapidated fence, which, like most private grounds where the property passes out of the family, is left to neglect and decay. The tombstone of Colonel Samuel Meredith bears this inscription:
" Here lie the remains of
Col. Saml. Meredith,
Who departed this life Dec. 22, 1808.
Aged 76 years."
By his side is buried his wife, Jane Henry, and at her feet is the grave of her daughter Jane, wife of David S. Garland. Besides Mrs. Henry, there are four other members of the Henry family buried at Winton.
M. H. G.
Lynchburg, Va.
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