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burgesses in 1632-33, and afterward went back to England, returning to Virginia in 1635. In the colony he married Sarah , who qualified on his estate, Decem- ber 3, 1655. Rice Hooe left an only child, Rice (2) Hooe (?).

Rice (2) Hooe ( ?) married Jane Seymour St. Mars, of Norman descent, whose for- bears settled in Wales after the conquest. Rice Hooe ( ?) died in 1748, father of an only child. Rice.

Rice Hooe patented one thousand acres of land in King George county, at Hooe's Ferry, on the Potomac river, and in 1715 erected a fine old colonial residence known as "Barnesfield." This old house was in a perfect state of preservation until June 25, 1861, when it was set on fire by Federal gun- boats. Seven generations of the Hooe fam- ily lie buried at "Barnesfield," where a large marble shaft tells the story of their births and deaths. Rice Hooe was a member of the house of burgesses and was vestryman for Overwharton parish from 1700 to 1703, and was promoted from the rank of captain to that of lieutenant-colonel in the colonial militia. Rice Hooe married (first) Anne, daughter of Roljert Howson and widow of Captain Robert Massie. and was afterward married twice. Robert Howson patented, in 1669, six thousand acres that are now a part of the site of the city of Alexandria, Virginia. Rice Hooe died in 1758.

Howson Hooe, fourth son of Rice Hooe and his first wife. Anne (Howson-Massie) Hooe, married Frances Bernard, who bore him a son Howson (2), of whom further.

Howson (2) Hooe, son of Flowson (i) and Frances (Bernard) Hooe, was sheriff and justice for Prince William county, 1761 to 1769. and in 1791 was vestryman for Det- tingen parish. He married Mary, daughter of Robert Dade, and granddaughter of Fran- cis Dade and Lady Frances (Townshend) Dade, the second wife of his grandfather (lieutenant-colonel). Rice Hooe. Lady Frances was a sister of Lady Mary Town- shend, who married John Washington. The Townshends nobly descended from Ludovic, a Norman knight who assumed his wife's name. Lady Frances was a cousin of Vis- count Townshend, of the ministry of George I., was the daughter of Colonel Robert and Mary (Langhorne) Townshend, sister of Sir William Langhorne, of Newton, Brown- shall, Northamptonshire, and granddaugh- ter of Captain Richard and Frances (Bald-

win) Townshend. Captain Townshend sailed from England on the "Abigail" and landed at Jamestown in 1620. He studied medicine with Dr. John Pott, the first physi- cian-general to the colony of Virginia, and was a member of the house of burgesses and of the governor's council, 1636-1645. How- son (2) and Mary (Dade) Hooe had chil- dren : Henry Dade, married Jane Fitzhugn, of King George county, and died in 1806, leaving issue, Henry Dade (2), Howson, and Daniel Fitzhugh. Howson, son of Henry Dade Hooe, was thrice married, the children of his third wife, Nancy Reed, being John ; Daniel Bernhard, who went to Cali- fornia in 1S49; Harmon; Eyrich Richard, of the Confederate States army, who was killed in battle ; Sallie, and John, who married Mary Farr and had a son, James Cecil, LL. B., colonel on the staff of Governor J. Hogg Tyler, of Virginia. Colonel James Cecil Hooe married Edith, daughter of Nelson A. Dingley, governor of Maine, and long a member of congress, and has a son, Ding- ley ; Robert How.^on, of whom further; and Daniel Fitzhugh.

Robert Howson Hooe. son of Howson (2) and Mary (Dade) Hooe, was born at Buck Hall, the home of his father in Prince William county, Virginia, and died in Fau- quier county, Virginia, at the age of eighty- six vears. He was sheriff and justice of Stafford county from 1796 to 1798. Rob- ert Howson Hooe married Mary, daugh- ter of Major Richard and Matilda Waugh, her mother a sister of the celebrated Dr. Charles Stewart Waugh, whose professional skill gained him wide fame in the Northern Neck of Virginia. Matilda V^'^augh was a granddaughter of the militant parson. Rev. John Waugh, who, after the death of Crom- well, favored the organization of a militia to oppose Charles II. if he should attempt to compel the colony of Virginia to abjure Protestantism. Robert Howson and Mary (Waugh) Hooe had issue : Anne ; Rice ; Howson, married Katherine McLean, and was the grandfather of Anne Hooe, wife of John Warwick Rust ; Matthias, Mary, John, Robert, and Sallie, who died at the great age of one hundred years and six months.

Edward Wilkerson Krouse. John Krouse, a drummer bov in the Confederate army, serving throughout the entire war period, was born in Richmond, Virginia, and there died at the age of forty-nine years. After