Col. Eskridge, of Sandy Point, Westmoreland County, Va. Col. Eskridge'swill probated in 1735, mentions Howsen Kenner and wife Margaret.
Eskridge Family Portraits
The Virginia Historical Society is steward of the largest portrait collection in the South and is committed to its preservation for future generations of Virginians. Recently the Society received a private gift from the Eskridge family to conserve two fragile portraits in our collection. George Eskridge (d. 1735) of Westmoreland County, a prominent burgess, and his first wife, Rebecca Bonum Eskridge (d. 1715), were painted by an unidentified Virginia artist sometime after their marriage in 1680. Late seventeenth-century colonial American portraits are rare. Late seventeenth-century colonial American portraits painted by colonial Americans are even rarer: there were very few known portraitists active in the colony at this time.
These early and unusual paintings descended in the Eskridge family until they were given to the Society in 1914. Before their recent conservation, the original surfaces of the portraits were hidden beneath large areas of inept nineteenth-century repainting intended to repair minor damage. The cleaned paintings reveal that the Eskridges, as English gentry, were quick to display and enjoy the finery that wealth can buy. At the same time, the Eskridges wear notably somber expressions in their portraits, perhaps evidence of the difficult conditions of early settlement, where human life was fragile and the economy uncertain.George Eskridge was selected by Mary Hewes to be the guardian of her daughter, Mary Ball, who became in turn the mother of George Washington. By Eskridge family tradition, Mary Ball Washington named her son out of devotion to George Eskridge.
The Eskridge family gathered at the Society recently for a Family Association meeting and to view the conserved portraits of their ancestors.
From History Notes: The Newsletter of the Virginia Historical Society
Number 24 (Autumn 1996), p. 8
Return to the contents page of History Notes, Number 24
--------------------------------------HISTORY: GHOTEF See WordPerfect file GHOTEFP1.128 in WP51\DATA\GHOTEF1.128
Pages 11-28 are in this file.CORRESPONDENCE:
July 7, 1993 Mr. Willis Arnold Fincham, 250 N 200 E, Logan, UT 84321 Dear
Cousin Arnold,
Your letter of May 31st to Cousin Bea Davison has been referred to me. As
president of the Eskridge Family Association, I would like to extend a cordial
invitation for you and Mrs. Fincham to join EFA. We have a one-time
initiation fee of $5.00 and an annual membership fee of $3.00 per
individual/$5 joint (spouse). If you would care to join, please forward a
check to our treasurer, Mr. Harry Eskridge, of 219 Providence Square Drive,
Charlotte, NC 28270.
Unfortunately, we do not have a booklet or other compilation of information
to distribute. We do, however, maintain archives at the Westmoreland ""County
Museum in Montross, Westmoreland County, Virginia. We hold an annual meeting,
generally in the Montross area. This year we anticipate having a meeting the
first Saturday in October at Stratford Hall (the ancestral home of the Lees)
which is located a few miles from Montross. We anticipate having a speaker
address us on genealogical issues.
We hope that you will join EFA and be able to attend meetings so that we
might have the pleasure of meeting you in person.
Very truly yours, Thomas W. Steptoe, Jr., 500 S. Mildred Street,
Charles Town, WV 25414. 304-725-0029 CC: Mr. Harry EskridgeRESEARCH: Following references are listed in FHL SLC Catalog:
1. US/CAN Book 929.273 A1 No. 6617
Author: Dunagan, Robert Edward
Title: Covington and Allied Families of the Northern Neck of Virginia
Compiled by author, Frederickburg, VA 1991 54 p. inc. index
includes Eskridge and others
2. Film 0872806 , item 6
The Edwards Family/compiled by Ruby Lee Edwards 15 Apr 1950 of VA
Includes: Eskridge and others
3. US/CAN Book 929.273 M 47 ij also film 1321127, item 12
John Gaw Green and His Descendants by J.Lawrence Meen 79 p. 1985
Includes Eskridge
4. US/CAN BOOK 929.273 B 561 R also film 1320970
Koeltick, Long Black "My Heritage:A History of Black, Ackler, Lee,
Williams,Young, Eskridge, Smith, Graves...." 1986 235 p.
5. Film 1697281, item 9
"Life History of William John Packham and Luella Hickenlooper Packham"
Includes Eskridge.
6. Film 0928044, item 5
Quesenbury, Duncan and Related Families.
Includes Eskridge.
7. Book 929.273 B 434S
Descendants of James & Elizabeth Benefiel Stout of Putnam Co., IN
Includes Eskridge.
8. Film 1035589, item 9
"Genealogical History of the Eskridge Family" compiled by Mrs. Henry
Litchfield West. 140 pp. Loaned for filming by Vernon Eskridge West-
Winchester, VA, owner & heir.HISTORY: From "GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE ESKRIDGE FAMILY" Compiled by Mrs.
Henry Litchfield West, Washington, D.C.
FHL, SLC, UTAH FILM 1035589, Item 9 This is quoted and copied from
extensively.(March 1994. WAF received a printed copy of this publication from the
Eskridge Family Association)ESKRIDGE FAMILY IN AMERICA
Page 1 to 10The family in America begins with George Eskridge of Westmoreland County,
Virginia. The earliest record bearing his name in that county, which so far
has been discovered, is that of 1696, but there is one in Northumberland
County of 1689 (?), when he was made the executor of the will of Mr. Patrick
Spence, and the guardian of his sister, Mary.
There is a tradition that he came to Virginia in 1667, in charge of a
vessel, bringing the bricks from which the first house was built, but as there
seems to be no record of the date of building the house, no dependence can be
put in that tradition. There is a record in the office of the Northumberland
Court House which may prove that he was here as early as 1678, but until those
records are in condition to be seen, we must take the later dates. (This
being in 1927)
In 1696 Col. George Eskridge was residing, with his wife, Rebecca Bonum,
in Westmoreland County. In that year he was made executor of the will of his
brother-in-law, William Rust, Jr., who had married Margaret Bonum, sister to
the wife of George Eskridge. There is hardly a page in the old Order Books of
Westmoreland Co., from that time until his death in 1735, on which his name
does not appear in connection with the affairs of the State. He must have
been in one of the two counties earlier that 1639, for he would hardly have
been chosen executor of a will and guardian of a daughter, had he been a new
resident of that section. He was chosen Attorney for many prominent men, and
as guardian for numbers of orphans. He was one of the most prominent men of
his day, and a very successful lawyer. The Court apopointed him to assist the
executors in the will of "King" Carter.
Among the minors for whom George Eskridge was guardian, was Mary Ball,
the mother of Gen. George Washington. In "AN UNWRITTEN CHAPTER IN THE EARLY
LIFE OF MARY WASHINGTON", written by Dr. G. W. Geale in the Virginia
Historical Magazine, he says.
"The mother of General Washington, as all the world know, was Mary Ball,
youngest daughter of Capt. Joseph Ball, of Lancaster Co., Va., and only child
of his second marriage with a widow Johnson. Much obscurity has rested on
this Mrs. Johnson- her maiden name, parentage, and history after Capt. Ball's
death. Indeed the only clue as to her identity as far as is known has been a
single clause in Capt. Ball's will of June 25, 1711, naming "Eliza. Johnson,
daughter of my beloved wife". Within a few weeks of the date of the above
will, Mary Ball's father died, leaving her fatherless ere she had attained her
fiftth birthday. Despite the accounts of her biographers and the fictitious
letters that have entered into them, the succeeding years of her life until
her marriage on March 6, 1730, were mainly spent in a Northumberland home to
which she was taken within a year of her father's death. This was brought
about by her mother's marriage for the third time to Capt. Richard Hews, a
vestryman of St. Stephen's parish, and a prominent business man in the above
county. Her mother had had, by her first marriage, two children--John and
Elizabeth Johnson--who became the close associates of her youngest daughter,
and who appear to have held her in tenderest affection.
The shadow of death that had fallen on the home of Mary Ball in
Lancaster, also descended swiftly on the one in Northumberland, Capt. Hews
having died within a year after his marriage to her mother. His inventory
filed March 17, 1713, by his widow, Mary Hewes. Numerous entries in the
Northumberland records during the succeedidng seven years, show the
enterprising and businesslike character of this mother of the most eminent of
American women.
In the summer of 1721, Mrs. Hews died, and on July 29th of that year her
will was placed on record. The present writer having discovered it among the
Northumberland archives has faithfully transcribed it. It is seldom that a
document of this kind, maternal affection, having other and older children to
share its bequests, so concentrates itself upon a youngest daughter, and she a
child of thirteen summers. Perhaps of all tributes laid at the feet of Mary
Washington has been more heartfelt or significant of her worth than the
legacies of her mother's last will and testament, written as they were all
unconsciously of her future distinction.HISTORY:
From "KIN OF
MY GRANDCHILDREN" Vol II McCARTY/CURRY BY Judge Noble K. Littel Ch. 2 p.
27-28
Colonel George Eskridge was the maternal grandfather of Elizabeth Kenner.
He was born in Lancashire, England and died in Westmoreland County, Virginia
25 November 1735. He married Rebecca Bonum, daughter of Samuel and Margaret
(Philpot) Bonum. Colonel Eskridge was reportedly shanghaied in his youth
while walking along a wharf in England about 1670, brought to America and sold
as an indentured servaant. When his term expired he returned to England,
studied law and came back to Virginia.
He was a member of the House of Burgesses for many of the sessions from 1704
through 1734. George Washington was undoubtedly named for him. Douglas S.
Freeman so stated in his biography of Washington, Vol. I, pp 43-45, 47. Mary
Hewes __ the mother of Mary Ball and of Mary's older half-sister, Elizabeth
Johnson who married Samuel Bonum __ named Colonel Eskridge as the guardian of
Mary Ball. He served in this capacity from the time Mary was 13 years old
until she married Augustine Washington. Mary Ball was reared in the home of
Colonel Eskridge and her marriage to the father of the :Father of our Country"
took place from our ancestor's home. It was George Eskridge who held their
first born as he was christened George Washington. A highway marker near
Sandy Point, Westmoreland County, Virginia attests to this fact.
Freeman commented that Colonel Eskridge was a lawyer of distinction, a land
speculator of skill, and a gentlemen of character. He was the father of six
children by his first marriage; he married second, Elizabeth Vaulx, and was
the father of a seventh child.
Ancestry.com willDate:27/10/1735 PROVE Date:25/11/1735
Eskridge, George, 27 Oct. 1735; 25 Nov. 1735.
Son Samuel 800 acres of land where I live; son William land on river adjoining his brother; wife use of land given Samuel for her life, slave she brought me in marriage and 10 other slaves for life and at her death to my daughter Elizabeth; land in Machodick to my son Robert; 4 slaves each to the 4 sons of my son George decd.; my daughter Elizabeth land on Pohick, Prince William Co., slaves and stock thereon; son Samuel 500 acres of my Prince William Tract; son in law Willoughby Newton and his wife Sarah; dau. Margaret Kenner wife of Howson Kenner and her dau. a portion of the same tract of land.This may NOT be the same person
------------------------------------------------
Name: Colonel George EskridgeEncyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I
IV--Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons
Full Context of Virginia Biographical Encyclopedia
Viewing records 3705-3714 of 21243 Matchescame to Virginia about 1690, was a lawyer, attorney for the King in Westmoreland county, member of the house of burgesses in 1705-1706, 1710-1712, 1712-1714, 1718, 1720-1722, 1723-1726 and 1727-1734. From 1702 to 1729, he was granted several thousand acres of land in the eastern part of Virginia. He died about 1730. He married Hannah Ashton and left issue; portraits of himself and his wife are still preserved.
Eskridge Family Portraits
The Virginia Historical Society is steward of the largest portrait collection in the South and is committed to its preservation for future generations of Virginians. Recently the Society received a private gift from the Eskridge family to conserve two fragile portraits in our collection. George Eskridge (d. 1735) of Westmoreland County, a prominent burgess, and his first wife, Rebecca Bonum Eskridge (d. 1715), were painted by an unidentified Virginia artist sometime after their marriage in 1680. Late seventeenth-century colonial American portraits are rare. Late seventeenth-century colonial American portraits painted by colonial Americans are even rarer: there were very few known portraitists active in the colony at this time.
These early and unusual paintings descended in the Eskridge family until they were given to the Society in 1914. Before their recent conservation, the original surfaces of the portraits were hidden beneath large areas of inept nineteenth-century repainting intended to repair minor damage. The cleaned paintings reveal that the Eskridges, as English gentry, were quick to display and enjoy the finery that wealth can buy. At the same time, the Eskridges wear notably somber expressions in their portraits, perhaps evidence of the difficult conditions of early settlement, where human life was fragile and the economy uncertain.George Eskridge was selected by Mary Hewes to be the guardian of her daughter, Mary Ball, who became in turn the mother of George Washington. By Eskridge family tradition, Mary Ball Washington named her son out of devotion to George Eskridge.
The Eskridge family gathered at the Society recently for a Family Association meeting and to view the conserved portraits of their ancestors.
From History Notes: The Newsletter of the Virginia Historical Society
Number 24 (Autumn 1996), p. 8
Return to the contents page of History Notes, Number 24
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FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Lineage of Rebecca (Bonum) Eskridge- taken from information provided by Coz.
Floyd WickenkampRebecca Bonum, first wife of George Eskridge, was the mother of all but one
(Elizabeth) of George's children. She was the daughter of Samuel Bonum and
Margaret Philpott.
There is some question as to exactly when Samuel Bonum arrived in Virginia.
Three early references to a SDamuel Bonham in records of Northumberland
County probably referred to the same man we know as Samuel Nonum ssince the
name Bonham disappears after 1660 and from there on there are numerous
references made in the records to Samuel Bonum.
Samuel Bonham was the recipient of f Virginia land patent in 1633, but the
precise location of the property has not been determined.
Samuel Bonham is listed as a witness in a law suit in Northumberland
County 22 Aug 1655. (Record Book 14, p. 56)
Samuel Bonham is again mentioned in a a law suit 14 Nov 1660 when he took
William Thomas to court for failure to pay his srent. (Nthumblnd Co. Order
Book 2, p 133)
Samuel owned at least 3 tracts of land in Westmorelandd county. David W.
Eaton in Historical Atlas of Westmoreland county, Virginia mentions 99 acres
patented 13 October 16665 on Lynch's Poing; 288 acres acquired from Mrs.
Joane Philpott, mother of his wife Margaret, located on "the sosusth side of
Bonum's Creek" across the creek from Pecatone and undetermined acrreage in
what is now Colonial Beach. according to Nugent's Cavaliers and Pioneers, vol
II, he also patented 400 acres in Lancaster County "on the freshes of the
Rappahannock River 14 miles above Nansemond town", 29 Oct. 1669.
Eaton states in his book (op cit) "Samuel Bonum is said to have come from
Kinsale, Ireland.. It is known that he named the first tract of land he
patented "Kinsal" in Westmoreland County." ...Whether Samuel was descended
from English or Irish forebrears has not been determined; Bonum is not a
common name in Ireland but is frequently seen in Essex, England records. no
record of his birth has been found in either england or Ireland, however.--------------------------------------
Listed as Judge M (son of Carter J Ashworth) on 1900 Polk County AlabamaCensus
James and Alice resided in Cherokee County Alabama in 1910 (listed as"James M")
Sherman and Georgia resided in Cherokee County Alabama in 1910
Resided in Cherokee County Alabama in 1880
There is a Franklin Battles...19th AL Inf., Co. F But we're not sure ifthis is the same as our Franklin
12/29/01 AOL chatSuthundish: Sarah... aka Sally and Franklin...Civil War pension
Suthundish: pre-Civil War lived in Ashville
Suthundish: buried in Shady Grove\
Suthundish: 2nd AL Calvary
Suthundish: yeah...show William's wives as Keziah Wright or Ann Jacobs...far as I know
Suthundish: Franklin Battles was the son of William Battles and Ann (?).
1850 Cherokee Co Ala. cen:
William Battles 70 born in TN (1781)
Ann Battles 60 (1790) born in TN
Asender(or something) 20 m b1830 AL
Limatha (or something) 18 f b1832 AL
Julia 16 f b1834 AL
William m 14 b1836 AL
Franklin m 12 b1838 AL
Lewis m 10 b1840 AL
Charlsey f 8 b1842 AlSuthundish: this is but one of many lists for William
Suthundish: here is another
Suthundish: Archibald Battles, son of William Noel Battles, had a son named Franklin. The 1850 census of St. Clair Co., Ala shows Archibald Battles, 50, wife Milley, 48, both born in Ga., and children: Munroe, Russel, Franklin, Archibald, Jr., Evan, Eveline. Charlotte (?), and Priscilla, born in Alabama from 1831. If you think this is your line, I can and will send you lineage and some history back to 1066. E-mail me janervin@datasync.netRonzzer: if william noel dies in 1840 (at 83), and our Franklin was born in 1832, noel would have been 75.
from ancestry.com
don't know if this is this James or not
he would have been 16Spouse 1: James J. Battles Spouse 2: Charlsie Wood Marriage Date: 05 May 1889 Marriage Place: Etowah Surety/Bond Date: Performed By: Minister of Gospel Surety/Perf. Name: H. E. Harris OSPage: 392 Comment:
Col. Eskridge, of Sandy Point, Westmoreland County, Va. Col. Eskridge'swill probated in 1735, mentions Howsen Kenner and wife Margaret.
Eskridge Family Portraits
The Virginia Historical Society is steward of the largest portrait collection in the South and is committed to its preservation for future generations of Virginians. Recently the Society received a private gift from the Eskridge family to conserve two fragile portraits in our collection. George Eskridge (d. 1735) of Westmoreland County, a prominent burgess, and his first wife, Rebecca Bonum Eskridge (d. 1715), were painted by an unidentified Virginia artist sometime after their marriage in 1680. Late seventeenth-century colonial American portraits are rare. Late seventeenth-century colonial American portraits painted by colonial Americans are even rarer: there were very few known portraitists active in the colony at this time.
These early and unusual paintings descended in the Eskridge family until they were given to the Society in 1914. Before their recent conservation, the original surfaces of the portraits were hidden beneath large areas of inept nineteenth-century repainting intended to repair minor damage. The cleaned paintings reveal that the Eskridges, as English gentry, were quick to display and enjoy the finery that wealth can buy. At the same time, the Eskridges wear notably somber expressions in their portraits, perhaps evidence of the difficult conditions of early settlement, where human life was fragile and the economy uncertain.George Eskridge was selected by Mary Hewes to be the guardian of her daughter, Mary Ball, who became in turn the mother of George Washington. By Eskridge family tradition, Mary Ball Washington named her son out of devotion to George Eskridge.
The Eskridge family gathered at the Society recently for a Family Association meeting and to view the conserved portraits of their ancestors.
From History Notes: The Newsletter of the Virginia Historical Society
Number 24 (Autumn 1996), p. 8
Return to the contents page of History Notes, Number 24
--------------------------------------HISTORY: GHOTEF See WordPerfect file GHOTEFP1.128 in WP51\DATA\GHOTEF1.128
Pages 11-28 are in this file.CORRESPONDENCE:
July 7, 1993 Mr. Willis Arnold Fincham, 250 N 200 E, Logan, UT 84321 Dear
Cousin Arnold,
Your letter of May 31st to Cousin Bea Davison has been referred to me. As
president of the Eskridge Family Association, I would like to extend a cordial
invitation for you and Mrs. Fincham to join EFA. We have a one-time
initiation fee of $5.00 and an annual membership fee of $3.00 per
individual/$5 joint (spouse). If you would care to join, please forward a
check to our treasurer, Mr. Harry Eskridge, of 219 Providence Square Drive,
Charlotte, NC 28270.
Unfortunately, we do not have a booklet or other compilation of information
to distribute. We do, however, maintain archives at the Westmoreland ""County
Museum in Montross, Westmoreland County, Virginia. We hold an annual meeting,
generally in the Montross area. This year we anticipate having a meeting the
first Saturday in October at Stratford Hall (the ancestral home of the Lees)
which is located a few miles from Montross. We anticipate having a speaker
address us on genealogical issues.
We hope that you will join EFA and be able to attend meetings so that we
might have the pleasure of meeting you in person.
Very truly yours, Thomas W. Steptoe, Jr., 500 S. Mildred Street,
Charles Town, WV 25414. 304-725-0029 CC: Mr. Harry EskridgeRESEARCH: Following references are listed in FHL SLC Catalog:
1. US/CAN Book 929.273 A1 No. 6617
Author: Dunagan, Robert Edward
Title: Covington and Allied Families of the Northern Neck of Virginia
Compiled by author, Frederickburg, VA 1991 54 p. inc. index
includes Eskridge and others
2. Film 0872806 , item 6
The Edwards Family/compiled by Ruby Lee Edwards 15 Apr 1950 of VA
Includes: Eskridge and others
3. US/CAN Book 929.273 M 47 ij also film 1321127, item 12
John Gaw Green and His Descendants by J.Lawrence Meen 79 p. 1985
Includes Eskridge
4. US/CAN BOOK 929.273 B 561 R also film 1320970
Koeltick, Long Black "My Heritage:A History of Black, Ackler, Lee,
Williams,Young, Eskridge, Smith, Graves...." 1986 235 p.
5. Film 1697281, item 9
"Life History of William John Packham and Luella Hickenlooper Packham"
Includes Eskridge.
6. Film 0928044, item 5
Quesenbury, Duncan and Related Families.
Includes Eskridge.
7. Book 929.273 B 434S
Descendants of James & Elizabeth Benefiel Stout of Putnam Co., IN
Includes Eskridge.
8. Film 1035589, item 9
"Genealogical History of the Eskridge Family" compiled by Mrs. Henry
Litchfield West. 140 pp. Loaned for filming by Vernon Eskridge West-
Winchester, VA, owner & heir.HISTORY: From "GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE ESKRIDGE FAMILY" Compiled by Mrs.
Henry Litchfield West, Washington, D.C.
FHL, SLC, UTAH FILM 1035589, Item 9 This is quoted and copied from
extensively.(March 1994. WAF received a printed copy of this publication from the
Eskridge Family Association)ESKRIDGE FAMILY IN AMERICA
Page 1 to 10The family in America begins with George Eskridge of Westmoreland County,
Virginia. The earliest record bearing his name in that county, which so far
has been discovered, is that of 1696, but there is one in Northumberland
County of 1689 (?), when he was made the executor of the will of Mr. Patrick
Spence, and the guardian of his sister, Mary.
There is a tradition that he came to Virginia in 1667, in charge of a
vessel, bringing the bricks from which the first house was built, but as there
seems to be no record of the date of building the house, no dependence can be
put in that tradition. There is a record in the office of the Northumberland
Court House which may prove that he was here as early as 1678, but until those
records are in condition to be seen, we must take the later dates. (This
being in 1927)
In 1696 Col. George Eskridge was residing, with his wife, Rebecca Bonum,
in Westmoreland County. In that year he was made executor of the will of his
brother-in-law, William Rust, Jr., who had married Margaret Bonum, sister to
the wife of George Eskridge. There is hardly a page in the old Order Books of
Westmoreland Co., from that time until his death in 1735, on which his name
does not appear in connection with the affairs of the State. He must have
been in one of the two counties earlier that 1639, for he would hardly have
been chosen executor of a will and guardian of a daughter, had he been a new
resident of that section. He was chosen Attorney for many prominent men, and
as guardian for numbers of orphans. He was one of the most prominent men of
his day, and a very successful lawyer. The Court apopointed him to assist the
executors in the will of "King" Carter.
Among the minors for whom George Eskridge was guardian, was Mary Ball,
the mother of Gen. George Washington. In "AN UNWRITTEN CHAPTER IN THE EARLY
LIFE OF MARY WASHINGTON", written by Dr. G. W. Geale in the Virginia
Historical Magazine, he says.
"The mother of General Washington, as all the world know, was Mary Ball,
youngest daughter of Capt. Joseph Ball, of Lancaster Co., Va., and only child
of his second marriage with a widow Johnson. Much obscurity has rested on
this Mrs. Johnson- her maiden name, parentage, and history after Capt. Ball's
death. Indeed the only clue as to her identity as far as is known has been a
single clause in Capt. Ball's will of June 25, 1711, naming "Eliza. Johnson,
daughter of my beloved wife". Within a few weeks of the date of the above
will, Mary Ball's father died, leaving her fatherless ere she had attained her
fiftth birthday. Despite the accounts of her biographers and the fictitious
letters that have entered into them, the succeeding years of her life until
her marriage on March 6, 1730, were mainly spent in a Northumberland home to
which she was taken within a year of her father's death. This was brought
about by her mother's marriage for the third time to Capt. Richard Hews, a
vestryman of St. Stephen's parish, and a prominent business man in the above
county. Her mother had had, by her first marriage, two children--John and
Elizabeth Johnson--who became the close associates of her youngest daughter,
and who appear to have held her in tenderest affection.
The shadow of death that had fallen on the home of Mary Ball in
Lancaster, also descended swiftly on the one in Northumberland, Capt. Hews
having died within a year after his marriage to her mother. His inventory
filed March 17, 1713, by his widow, Mary Hewes. Numerous entries in the
Northumberland records during the succeedidng seven years, show the
enterprising and businesslike character of this mother of the most eminent of
American women.
In the summer of 1721, Mrs. Hews died, and on July 29th of that year her
will was placed on record. The present writer having discovered it among the
Northumberland archives has faithfully transcribed it. It is seldom that a
document of this kind, maternal affection, having other and older children to
share its bequests, so concentrates itself upon a youngest daughter, and she a
child of thirteen summers. Perhaps of all tributes laid at the feet of Mary
Washington has been more heartfelt or significant of her worth than the
legacies of her mother's last will and testament, written as they were all
unconsciously of her future distinction.HISTORY:
From "KIN OF
MY GRANDCHILDREN" Vol II McCARTY/CURRY BY Judge Noble K. Littel Ch. 2 p.
27-28
Colonel George Eskridge was the maternal grandfather of Elizabeth Kenner.
He was born in Lancashire, England and died in Westmoreland County, Virginia
25 November 1735. He married Rebecca Bonum, daughter of Samuel and Margaret
(Philpot) Bonum. Colonel Eskridge was reportedly shanghaied in his youth
while walking along a wharf in England about 1670, brought to America and sold
as an indentured servaant. When his term expired he returned to England,
studied law and came back to Virginia.
He was a member of the House of Burgesses for many of the sessions from 1704
through 1734. George Washington was undoubtedly named for him. Douglas S.
Freeman so stated in his biography of Washington, Vol. I, pp 43-45, 47. Mary
Hewes __ the mother of Mary Ball and of Mary's older half-sister, Elizabeth
Johnson who married Samuel Bonum __ named Colonel Eskridge as the guardian of
Mary Ball. He served in this capacity from the time Mary was 13 years old
until she married Augustine Washington. Mary Ball was reared in the home of
Colonel Eskridge and her marriage to the father of the :Father of our Country"
took place from our ancestor's home. It was George Eskridge who held their
first born as he was christened George Washington. A highway marker near
Sandy Point, Westmoreland County, Virginia attests to this fact.
Freeman commented that Colonel Eskridge was a lawyer of distinction, a land
speculator of skill, and a gentlemen of character. He was the father of six
children by his first marriage; he married second, Elizabeth Vaulx, and was
the father of a seventh child.
Ancestry.com willDate:27/10/1735 PROVE Date:25/11/1735
Eskridge, George, 27 Oct. 1735; 25 Nov. 1735.
Son Samuel 800 acres of land where I live; son William land on river adjoining his brother; wife use of land given Samuel for her life, slave she brought me in marriage and 10 other slaves for life and at her death to my daughter Elizabeth; land in Machodick to my son Robert; 4 slaves each to the 4 sons of my son George decd.; my daughter Elizabeth land on Pohick, Prince William Co., slaves and stock thereon; son Samuel 500 acres of my Prince William Tract; son in law Willoughby Newton and his wife Sarah; dau. Margaret Kenner wife of Howson Kenner and her dau. a portion of the same tract of land.This may NOT be the same person
------------------------------------------------
Name: Colonel George EskridgeEncyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I
IV--Burgesses and Other Prominent Persons
Full Context of Virginia Biographical Encyclopedia
Viewing records 3705-3714 of 21243 Matchescame to Virginia about 1690, was a lawyer, attorney for the King in Westmoreland county, member of the house of burgesses in 1705-1706, 1710-1712, 1712-1714, 1718, 1720-1722, 1723-1726 and 1727-1734. From 1702 to 1729, he was granted several thousand acres of land in the eastern part of Virginia. He died about 1730. He married Hannah Ashton and left issue; portraits of himself and his wife are still preserved.
twin to eskridge
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