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ried Samuel Clayton. 2. Rachel, married John Vass. 3. Catherine, married John Taylor. 4. Henry, of whom further. 5. Isabella, married (first) Richard Thomas, (second) a Mr. Barboni. 6. John, born i6gi, married a Miss Tinsley. 7. Philip, married Elizabeth Pollard.

(IV) Henry' Pendleton, son of Philip Pendleton, was born in 1683, died in May, 1721. He married, 1701, Mary Taylor, daughter of James Taylor, of Carlisle, Eng- land, and after his death she married (sec- ond) Edward Watkins. Children: i. James, born 1702, died 1761 ; married and had chil- dren : James, Hefiry, Philip, Anne, married a Mr. Taylor. 2. Philip, of whom further. 3. Nathaniel, born 1715. died 1794; married a daughter of Philip Clayton. Among the children of Nathaniel was Philip, born 1752, whose daughter, Maria, married John R. Cooke and had two sons : Philip Pendleton and John Esten Cooke. 4. John, born 1719, died 1799; married and left several daugh- ters. 5. Edmund, the distinguished states- man and patriot, whose name is indissolubly connected with the noblest acts of the revo- lutionary period. He was born 1721, died 1803; married (first) 1741, Elizabeth Roy; (second) 1743, Sarah Pollard. 6. Mary, married James Gaines. 7. Isabella, married William H. Gaines.

(V) Philip" Pendleton, son of Henry' Pendleton, died in 1778. He married and left fifteen children, the youngest of whom was Micajah, of whom further.

(VI) Micajah* Pendleton, son of Philip Pendleton, died at a great age loved, hon- ored and wealthy, although he began life as a poor man, he was persevering, indus- trious and thrifty. He was founder of the first temperance society in America. He married Mary Cabell Horsley, daughter of William and Martha (Megginson) Horsley and lived in Amherst county, Virginia. Chil- dren : I. Martha, unmarried. 2. Edward, unmarried. 3. Edna, married Dabney P. Gooch (related to Sir William Gooch, gov- ernor of Virginia, 1727 to 1749. 4. Joseph, unmarried. 5. Letitia Breckinridge, married Hudson Martin Garland. Jr., a literary man and poet. 6. Elizabeth, married Thomas Truxton Emett (see Emett HI). 7. Robert, married Mary Taliaferro of Amherst county, and had one daughter, Jane Rose.

W^illiam Horsley, aforementioned, was born about the year 1745, son of William

and Mary (Cabell) Horsley, the latter named a daughter of Dr. William Cabell, a surgeon in the British navy and founder of the Cabell family in Virginia. (A full ac- count of him and the Cabell family may be found in Dr. Alexander Brown's book, "The Cabells and Their Kin"). William Horsley, Jr., was one of his majesty's justices from Amherst from 1770 to 1775 ; one of the justices under the commonwealth in 1776; a lieutenant in the revolutionary war. 1778 to 1781. inclusive: sheriff of Amherst. 1788. He married January 3, 1768*, Alartha, daughter of Colonel William Megginson, of "Clover I^lains," Amherst county, who was a justice of the peace of Goochland, 1741 ; a captain prior to 1743. when he "laid the levies" in the upper part of St. Anne's par- ish ; afterwards a justice of the peace for Albemarle; purchased five hundred and eighty acres of land from Mrs. Elizabeth Cabell in 1739, on the south side of the James river at Greenway Station, to which he afterwards added over two thousand acres, and called the estate "Clover Plains:" after the year 1761 his lands were in Buck- ingham county; his wife. Martha (Goode) Megginson. was a daughter of John Goode, of "Falls Plantation, Chesterfield county, Virginia, who was born about 1675 at Whit- by,'" and killed by the Indians about 1725. His father. John Goode. the emigrant, was born in Cornwall. England, emigrated to the Barbadoes, and from thence to Virginia prior to 1660. The will of William Horsley, Jr., was dated April 15, 1791, and proved September 5. 1791. His wife survived him only a few years.

Thomas Randolph Keith. The Keith fam- ily is su])]josefi to derive its origin from one Robert, a chieftain among the Catti, a Saxon tribe, from which it is said came the surname of Keith. At the battle of Panbridge, in 1006, he slew with his own hands Camus, general of the Danes, and King Malcolm, perceiving this achievement, dipped his fingers in Cam- us' blood, and drew red strokes, or pales, on the top of Robert's shield, which have ever since been the armorial bearing of his de- scendants. In loio he was made hereditary mareschal of Scotland, and was rewarded with a barony in East Lothian, which was called Keith Mareschal, after his own name. The island of Inchkeith, in the Firth of

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