Identifier: oldchurchesminisfa02mead (find matches)
Title: Old churches, ministers and families of Virginia
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meade, William, 1789-1862
Subjects: Episcopal Church Virginia -- Church history Virginia -- Genealogy Virginia -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e following statenieut. foundedin part upon tradition and partly upon my own recollection. My maternalgrandfather, John Moncure. a native of Scotland, was the regular ministerboth of Aquia and Potomac Churches. He was succeeded in the ministryin these churches by a clergyman named Brooke, who removed to theState of Maryland. The Rev. Mr. Buclian .succeeded him: he was tutorin my fathers family, and educated John Thompson Mason, GeneralMa.son, of Georgetown, Judge Nicholas Fitzhugh. and many other*.Goinsc back to a period somewhat remote in enumerating those who livedin the vicinity of Potomac Church, I will mention n)y great-grandfather,Rowlcigh Travers, one of the most extensive landed proprietors in thatsection of the country, and who married Hannah Ball, lialf-sister of MaryBall, the mother of General George Washington. From Bowleigh Traversand Hannah Ball descended two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah Travers:the former married a man named Cooke, and the latter my grandfather, lb 4^
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FAMILIES OF VIRGINIA. 205 Peter Dauiel. To Peter and Sarah Daniel was born an only son,—TraversDaniel, my father,—who married Frances Moncure, my mother, the daugh-ter of the Rev. John Moncure and Frances Brown, daughter of Dr. Gus-tavus BrowU; of 3Iaryland. The nearest and the coterminous neighbourof my father was John fiercer, of Marlborough, a native of Ireland, adistinguished lawyer; the compiler of Mercers Abridgment of the Vir-ginia Laws; the father of Colonel George Mercer, an officer in the Britishservice, and who died in England about the commencement of the Revo-lution ; the father also of Judge James Meicer, father of Charles F. ^Mercer,of John Francis Mercer, who in my boyhood resided at 3Iarlborough, inStafford, and was afterward Governor of Maryland; of Robert Mercer, wholived and died in Frederick.sburg; of Ann Merocr, who married SamuelSelden, of Selvington, Stafford; of Maria Mercer, who married RichardBrooke, of King William, father of General George M. Brooke; a

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