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of Broadwater. He had one son, Charles, who received a large grant of land in Fair- fax county from the English sovereign, and became the first high sherif? of that county, his appointment coming from King George II. In 1770 George \\'ashington. Charles Broadwater, Bryan Fairfax and Charles Henderson were appointed justices of the peace in Fairfax county, and subsequently George Washington and Charles Broad- water were on the same day elected to the \'irginia legislature. In 1775 Charles Broad- water was captain of the Fairfax troops un- der General Braddock. and after the dis- astrous rout of the troops of that general Captain Broadwater assisted in covering their retreat, later being raised to the rank of colonel in the service. The Broadwater arms are described as follows: "Argent, on pile, between two anchors, in a base of gold, a female figure vested in argent, right hand pointing (silver) to a rainbow above her head, with the left supporting an anchor soured. Motto: Spcs iiwa in caclo. (My hope is in Heaven)."

The seat of the family, whence came Cap- tain Charles Broadwater, is near Surrey, England, and although for many years oc- cupied by another family, still retains the liistoric name of "Broadwater." Charles Broadwater is named as a member of the vestry of Truro parish in 1765, George A\"ashington being a fellow vestryman, the same record, that of Pohick, Fairfax county, \'irginia. narrating the story of a slave, owned by Colonel Charles Broadwater, Samuel Jenkins. This slave drove a pro- \-ision wagon, belonging to his master, over the .\lleghany mountains in the baggage train of General Braddock's army, and was also in the battle of Great Meadows. His master dving when he was about forty years of age, Jenkins was purchased by a resi- dent of Ohio, who freed him in that state, Jenkins dying in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1849. at the wonderful age of one hundred and fifteen }ears. probably the last survivor of Braddock's men. Colonel Charles Broad- water married Ann Amelia (Markham) Pierson. widow of Dr. Pierson. She was an English lady of distinguished ancestry, her family record showing frequent marriages with personages of title and nobility, and possessed such remarkable beauty, grace and dignity of bearing that she was best described bv the phrase of her numberless admirers, "Queen of Women." By her first

marriage she was the mother of two sons and two daughters, the former Captain Simon and Captain Thomas Pierson, of rev- olutionary fame. Captain Thomas Pierson married a daughter of Dr. Coates, of Fair- fax county, \irginia. their daughter marry- ing Mr. Chapman, of Summerhill, V^irginia, becoming the parents of Dr. Nathan Chap- man, a distinguished surgeon and at one time professor in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. Colonel Charles Broadwater and his wife had five children, one of these a son. Lieutenant Charles Lewis Broadwater.

Lieutenant Charles Lewis Broadwater gained his rank through service in Captain Thomas West's company in the Tenth \'ir- ginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel Ed- ward Stevens, his appointment dated No- vember 18, 1776, his discharge from the colo- nial army. April 21. 1778. He married a Miss Sebastian, a lady of Spanish descent, and had several children, among them: Sallv. married a Air. ^^■est, two of their daugh- ters Ijecoming Airs. Sewell and Mrs. Colo- nel \\'illiam Alinor; Amelia, married Mr. Sebastian, a brother of her mother, her hus- band becoming implicated in the Burr con- spiracy and fleeing to the \\'est Indies : Mar- garet, married a Mr. Henderson ; Jane, mar- ried John (or Scotch) Hunter, of Abbotts hill, a descendant of the family whose seat was Hunterton Castle, Ayr. Scotland : Charles Guy, of whom further.

Charles Guy Broadwater, son of Lieu- tenant Charles Lewis Broadwater, wr.s born January 9, 1786, in Virginia, died August 20, 1827. He was a prominent lawyer, and served in the war of 1812. His home was near Fairfax Court House. He married. De- cember 18, 1808. Catherine Gunnell, born in March, 1792, died October 23. 1826. Chil- dren : I. Ann Markham. l)orn February 19, 1810, died in St. Louis, Missouri, July 12, 1P90: she had a most brilliant mind, and was loved and respected by all who knew her: she married. May 27. 18.^0, Matthew Flgin, of Loudoun county, \^irginia. born July 3. 1803. died April 10, i860: in the autumn of 1836 Mr. and Mrs. Elgin removed from \'irginia to St. Louis. Missouri, bring- ing her younger brothers with her; St. Louis lieing so small at that time, they drove on to St. Charles, twenty miles farther on. and eventually returned to St. Louis : Air. jiud Airs. Elgin had three children: i. Julia Jane, born Julv 15, 1837; married Tohn Thomas