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appointed in P.ennett's administration. In the Iu-i<;lish State Paper office are many documents relating to the long controversy over Kent Island. Modern investigation shows that the long and active career of Claiborne was worthy of admiration.

lie married Elizabeth l^.uller. Children: \\illiam. married Elizabeth Wilks; Thomas, mentioned ])elow ; Leonard; Jane, married Colonel Thomas Brereton ; Mary, married (first) a man of the name of Rice, and (sec- ond) Robert Harris.

(II) Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Clai- borne, son of William and Elizabeth (Bul- ler) Claiborne, was born August 17, 1647, died October 7. 1683. He was buried at Romancoke, King William county, where his tomb remains l)earing the arms: Ar. three che\ rons interlaced in base sable, a chief of the last. In 1665 he received a grant of five hundred acres in New Kent county, and in 1677 one thousand five hun- dred acres on the "upper forks of York river." He also served against the Indians and was killed by an arrow in such service. He married a Miss Dandridge, and had one child, Thomas Jr.

(III) Captain Thomas (2) Claiborne, son

of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas (i) and

(Dandridge) Claiborne, was born December 16, 1680, died August 16, 1732. He is known as "Thomas Claiborne of Sweet Hall," King William county. He married Anne, daughter of Henry Eox. of King Wil- liam county, and his wife Anne, daughter of Colonel John West (nephew of the third Lord Delaware). Children: Thomas, born January 9, 1704, died December i, 1735. clerk of Stafford ; William ; Leonard, sheriff of King William county, 1732, burgess, 1736, married Martha, daughter of Major Francis iUirnell ; Nathaniel, died in his fortieth year; Augustine, mentioned below; Daniel; lUirnell.

(I\') Colonel Augustine Clail)orne. son of Cai)tain Thomas (2) and Anne (Fox) Claiborne, was born at "Sweet Hall" in 1721, died May 3, 1787. He moved to Surry and was burgess from that county ; clerk of Sussex; state senator. He married Mary, daughter of Buller Herbert. Children : Mary, Herbert, Tom, Augustine, Anne, Susanna, William, Buller, Richard, Lucy, Herbert, Elizabeth. John Herbert. Sarah. Ferdinand, Bathurst.

(V) John Herbert Claiborne, son of Colo-

nel Augustine and Mary (Herbert) Clai- borne, was born May 30, 1763. He married Mary, daughter of Roger Gregory, of Ches- terfield. Children : John Gregory ; Maria, married John Wilkins ; Martha Ann, mar- ried Nicholas Lewis.

(VI) Rev. John Gregory Claiborne, son of John Herbert and Mary (Gregory) Clai- borne, was born about 1786. lie married Mary E. Weldon. Children : Mary Au- gusta, married John G. Thomas ; Anna Alaria, married A. C. Butts ; John Herbert, mentioned below.

(VII) John Herbert (2) Claiborne, son of the Rev. John Gregory and Mary E. (Weldon) Claiborne, was born in Bruns- wick county, Virginia, March 16, 1828, died in 1908. He was graduated at the Univer- sity of Virginia in 1849 and at the Jefferson Medical School in 1850, after which for a vear he was connected with the hospitals of Philadelphia. In 185 1 he settled in Peters- burg. Virginia, and there practiced until 1861. In 1857 he was a member of the Virginia sen- ate. During the civil war he was a surgeon in the Confederate army, and in 1862 organ- ized the general hospital in Petersburg, of which he became chief executive officer. He served in the Twelfth Virginia Infantry Regiment (Mahone's brigade, Confederate States of America), and was captured two days before the surrender of General Robert E. Lee to General Ulysses S. Grant at Ap- pomattox. As surgeon he ranked as cap- tain and major. He was a member of sev- eral medical societies and held the office of vice-president of the Virginia State Medical Society and of the Confederate States Army and Navy Medical Association. After being paroled he returned to Petersburg. Vir- ginia, where he began again to practice his profession in that neighborhood. He made a specialty of the diseases of women and children, and his published articles in the medical journals are mostly on this suo- ject. He published essays on "Diphtheria" and "Dysmenorrhea" and a volume of "Clin- ical Reports from Private Practice" in 1873. Dr. Claiborne married (first) Sarah Joseph, daughter of Joseph Alston, of Halifax county. North Carolina. He married (sec- ond) Annie Leslie Watson. Children, all by first marriage : John Herbert, mentioned below ; Maria Louisa, married Herbert W. Page, of Pagebrook, Clark county, Virginia ; Anna Augusta, married Dr. P. H. Lightfoot :