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Nelson Berkeley, born May i6, 1733, at "Barn Elms," moved to Hanover county, Virginia, previous to the Revolution, where he acquired an estate called "Airwell," some five thousand acres in extent, and built his home. He was a member of the Hanover committee of safety from 1774 to 1776. He married, March 11, 1758, Elizabeth Worme- ley Carter, of "Sabine Hall," a daughter of Landon Carter. She saved the silver com- munion service of her parish church from Colonel Tarlton and his fnen by standing in the doorway of the church and defying their entrance.

The third son of Nelson Berkeley was Dr. Carter Berkeley, born February 20, 1768, died November 3, 1839. He was educated at Edinburgh University, Scotland, where he studied eight years, and received the de- gree of Master of Arts, and in 1793 the de- gree of Doctor of Medicine. On his return to his native land he settled at Edgewood, Hanover county, and was appointed jus- tice of Hanover in 1798. He married (first) May 7, 1796. Catherine Spottswood Carter, daughter of Charles Carter, of Shirley, and a sister of Annie Hill Carter, who became the wife of "Light Horse" Harry Lee, and mother of General Robert E. Lee, the dis- tinguished Confederate commander. He married (second) Frances Page Nelson, widow of Thomas Nelson (son of Governor Nelson) and a daughter of Governor John Page, of "Roswell."

Dr. Carter Berkeley's second son, by his first marriage. Dr. Edmund Berkeley, was born March 17. 1801, at "Shirley," and was educated at Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, and the University of Virginia, from which letter institution he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He also pursued a course in medicine at Edinburgh Univer- sity. In 1832 he located at Staunton, Vir- ginia, where he continued actively in prac- tice until his death, April 5. 1851. He mar- ried Mary Randolph Spottswood Brooke, daughter of Judge Francis Taliaferro Brooke, of St. Julien, Stafford county, presi- dent of the supreme court of appeals of Vir- ginia. Her mother was the daughter of Gen- eral Spottswood, who was a grandson of Governor Spottswood, "Knight of the Golden Horseshoe." Mrs. Berkeley's grandmother was Elizabeth Washington, daughter of General Augustine Washington, and a full niece of General George Washington.

Dr. Edmund Berkeley's third son, Dr. Carter Berkeley, was born October 9, 1837, in Staunton, and studied medicine at the universities of Virginia and Maryland, com- pleting his education and receiving the de- gree of Doctor of Medicine at the latter, after the close of the Civil war. During that struggle he was a soldier of the Confederate army in all three arms of the service, serv- ing with distinction, and during the latter part of the war was first lieutenant of artil- lery. He died March 7, 1905, in Staunton, Virginia. He married (first) in 1867, Jane Love Gilkeson, daughter of William and Marguerite Gilkeson, of "Hill Side," Au- gusta county, Virginia. She died in 1884, and he married (second) in 1888, Jane Hale, of "Rocky Mount," Franklin county, Vir- ginia, who died in 1889, without issue. Chil- dren of the first marriage: i. Edmund Ingles, born November 20, 1869, lives at Shrevesport, Louisiana, unmarried : served ill the Spanish-American war in Cuba, in the Engineers' Corps. 2. Margaret Brooke, born March 14, 1872, died in childhood. 3. Captain Charles C, mentioned below. 4. Major Randolph Carter, born January 9, 1875 ; major in the United States Marine Corps, with which he served during the Spanish-American war; he married (first) Carrie Phillips, by whom he had one child, James, born July 3, 1907 ; married (second) Bessie Bancroft Russell ; in Rear-Admiral Fletcher's report Major Randolph C. Berke- ley received honorable mention for "cool judgment, courage and skill in handling his m.en" at Vera Cruz. 5. Mary Randolph Spottswood, born August 24, 1880; married R. C. Simpson ; children : Margaret Berke- ley, born January i, 1913; John Wistar, born September 25, 1914; all living at Glenn Springs. South Carolina. 6. Janet Carter, born March 10, 1882, librarian at Greens- boro, North Carolina. 7. Robert Brooke, born June ii, 1883, lives in Memphis, Ten- nessee ; married Erna C. Kesselis ; one child, Robert Brooke, born November, 1914.

Captain Charles Carter Berkeley, second son and third child of Dr. Carter and Jane L. (Gilkeson) Berkeley, was born August 18, 1873, in Staunton, Virginia, and was educated at the Virginia Miltary Institute and other Virginia schools. Following the military precepts of his forbears he joined the armv of the United States in the war with Spain, at the close of the nineteenth