sons and two daus.--viz.,
i. George, born at Antigua, 24 April, 1704, m. Henrietta-
Maria, dau. of Col. John Ffrys, of Antigua, and died 12 Nov.
1734, leaving issue two sons and four daus.--viz.,
1. George, of Apps Court, co. Surrey, m. Louisa, dau. of
Peter Bathurst, Esq., M.P., of Clarendon Park, co. Wilts,
and niece of Earl Bathurst, and was buried at St George's,
Antigua, 7 Nov. 1779, had issue, 1. George Byam, died an
infant, in 1774; 2. Selina, m. Rev. William Hony, of
Liskeard, co. Cornwall, and has issue; 3. Elizabeth, m.
Mark Batt, of Lawell House, Co. Devon, and d. s. p.; 4 and
5. Louisa and Henrietta-Maria, both d. unm.
2. John, died at Antigua, 26 Oct. 1754, unm.
3. Mary, m. 1st, ---- Lyons, of Antigua, and 2ndly, Daniel
Mathew, of Antigua, and Felix Hall, co. Essex, some time
high-sheriff for that county, had issue, 1. Daniel-Byam
Mathew, of Felix Hall, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Edward
Deering, Bart.; 2. George, who m. Euphemia Hamilton, and
had issue a son, the present George B. Mathew, capt. in
Coldstream Guards, and late M.P. for Shaftesbury, who m. at
St George's, Hanover Square, April, 1835, the dau. and heir
of Henry Hoare, Esq., and granddau. of the celebrated
antiquary, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart.; 3. Elizabeth, who
m. Robert, fourth Viscount Galway; 4. Louisa, who m.
Admiral Lord Gambier; and 5. Jane, who m. Samuel Gambier,
commissioner of the navy.
4. Elizabeth, d. unm. in 1806.
5 and 6. Henrietta Maria and Lydia, both d. unm.
ii. William, of Byams, Antigua, and of Westbourn House, co.
Middlesex. He was a colonel in the army, and member of the
privy council, Antigua; born 3 July, 1706; admitted of
Christ's Coll., Cambridge, 21 June, 1720, B.A. 1724, m. 1735,
Anne, dau. of Col. John Gunthorpe, member of council,
Antigua, and had issue,
1. Martin, member of the council, Antigua, born 29 Sept.
1742, admitted a fellow commoner of Sidney Coll.,
Cambridge, 30 April, 1761, m. in 1771, Elizabeth, dau. of
Stephen Blizard, judge of court of common pleas, Antigua,
and relict of William Warner, of Antigua. He died June,
1805, s. p., and was buried at Lyndhurst, Hants.
2. Edward, lieut. R.N., born 15 Sept. 1743, m. Anne, dau. of
William Gunthorpe, of Antigua, Esq. He was lost in the
"Ville de Paris," after her capture, in 1782, leaving, by
Anne, his wife, a son and dau.,
1. William-Henry, capt. R.N., who m. his first cousin,
Alicia, dau. of Anthony Wyke, Esq. of Monserrat, and died
26 Nov. 1838, s. p.
1. Louisa, only dau. of her father, Edward Byam, d. unm. at
Kensington, in 1835.
3. Anne, eldest dau., born 27 Sept. 1744, m. 13 Jan. 1763, to
Anthony Wyke, Esq. of Monserrat, and died 18 June, 1814,
leaving a dau., Alicia, m. to her first cousin, William
Henry Byam, (see above.)
4. William, capt. in 68th regt. of foot, and of Woodborough,
in Somersetshire, born 7 Nov. 1753, m. in 1781, Mary, only
dau. of Rev. Richard Burgh, of Mount Bruis, co. Tipperary,
Ireland, and died in France, 27 April, 1830, leaving issue
three sons and three daus.--viz.,
1. Martin-William, born 19 Aug. 1783, m. Elizabeth, dau. of
Thomas Bull, of Bostock Hall, co. Chester, and died 22
April, 1836.
2. Rev. Richard-Burgh, member of council, Antigua, fellow
of King's Coll., Cambridge, vicar of Kew and Petersham,
Co. Surrey, born 26 Jan. 1785.
3. Edward-Samuel, late commissary-general of the police in
the Mauritius, and civil commissary of Port Louis, in
which situation he distinguished himself by his undaunted
zeal and inflexible efforts to suppress the slave trade
in that island, as may be seen in a recent work of Sir
Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart. on the slave trade, p. 220.
Mr. Byam is also a gentleman of great antiquarian
research, and a Celtic scholar, as well as the compiler
of a "Genealogical Table of the Kings of England,"
reckoned one of the best that has been published; born 5
Aug. 1788, m. at the ambassador's chapel, Paris, 26
March, 1818, Eleanor, eldest dau. of Andrew Murray, prior
of Rathdowney, in Queen's County, and of Claremonts, co.
Wicklow, and niece of Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency,
and had issue, Edward de Montmorency Byam, who died an
infant, and was buried at Harpenden, in co. of Herts.
4. Martha, eldest dau., born 7 May, 1782, and living unm.
5. Anna-Maria, born 15 March, 1786, living unm.
6. Alicia-Juliana, born 10 April, 1787, m. 21 Aug. 1805,
Wm. Leeves, Esq. of Tortington House, co. Sussex.
5. Alice, second dau. of William Byam, born 29 Sept. 1746, m.
23 April, 1763, Samuel Eliot, Esq. of Antigua, and died 13
Dec. 1827, and was buried in the family vault of Lord Lee
Despencer, at Mereworth, leaving four daus., 1. Anne, m.
Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Crosby, of Barnesville Park, co.
Gloucester; 2. Elizabeth, m. Sir Thomas Stapleton, Lord Lee
de Spenser; 3. Mary, m. Robert Cambden Cope, colonel of
Armagh militia; and 4. Alice, m. to William Hay Carr, Earl
of Errol, father of the present peer.
iii. Alice, born 19 May, 1711, m. 11 July, 1728, Robert
Freeman, of Antigua, Esq., and had issue.
iv. Lydia, born 14 Aug. 1713, m. 9 Nov. 1734, to her cousin,
Edward Byam, of Cedar Hill, Antigua, and of Clay Hill, co.
Middlesex, from whom descends that branch of the family.
v. Francis, clerk, M.A., rector of St. John's, Antigua, and
member of the privy council at that island, born 8 May, 1709,
admitted a student of Trinity Coll., Cambridge, 1728, and m.
1738, Jane, dau. and co-heir of Edward Warner, of Eltham, co.
Kent, member of privy council, Antigua, dying at Antigua,
left issue four sons and one dau.--viz.,
1. Edward Byam, judge of the court of vice-admiralty, and
president of the council of Antigua for near half a
century, born 21 Dec. 1740, and m. 7 July, 1763, Rebecca,
dau. of Stephen Blizard, judge of court of common pleas,
Antigua, dying 8 Feb. 1817, left issue an only child and
heir,
Jane, m. 10 June, 1784, Thomas Norbury Kerby, of Weir's
Estate, Antigua, who died while in the execution of his
office of commander-in-chief, (for the time being,) his
wife, Jane, dying at Hampton Court Palace, in 1837, left
by him an only child,
Anne-Byam Kerby, born in 1796, and m. the Hon. Miles
Stapleton, rector of Mereworth, co. Kent, third son of
Lord Lee de Spencer, by whom she had issue,
Adelaide, for whom her majesty the queen-dowager most
graciously stood sponsor, born 22 Oct. 1822;
Ann-Byam, born in 1823; and two other daus.
2. Sir Ashton-Warner Byam, Knt., A.B. of Sidney Coll.,
Cambridge, attorney-general of Grenada, and a great
luminary of the law in the Western world, born 1 June,
1744, d. unm. 25 Dec. 1790, and was buried in St John's,
Antigua.
3. William, of Santa Crux, d. s. p.
4. Richard-Scott, M.D., born 20 Dec. 1753, and died at Bath,
unm., 17 Dec. 1832.
5. Grace, only dau., born 1 Jan. 1752, and m. 3 March, 1767,
to Thomas Ottley, Esq. of the island of St. Vincent, by
whom she had a numerous issue--viz., 1. George W. Ottley,
of Parry's Estate; 2. Francis-Byam Ottley, of Wier's
Estate; 3. Matilda Ottley, m. to Hastings Elwyr, barrister;
4. Jane, m. 1st, Valentine Horsford, Esq., by whom she had
five sons, and 2ndly, to Lord James O'Brien, brother and
presumptive heir to the Marquis of Thomond; and 5. Rebecca
Ottley, m. to the Hon. Langford-Lovel Hodge, who dying 24
Jan. 1817, left issue a son, Langford-Lovel Hodge, Esq., m.
the dau. of -- Hart, Esq. of Dorset Square, Brighton, by
whom he has issue.
The remaining son of Lieut.-Gen. William Byam was Willoughby
Byam, (from whom the present family of the Cedar Hill Byams
descend.) He was a lieut.-col. in the army, and commanded the
body-guard of the commander-in-chief, Gen. Codrington, in the
expedition against the island of St. Christopher's, in 1690, when
he received a mortal wound in the neck, of which he soon after
died. He is honourably mentioned in the London Gazette of that
period, Nos. 2590 and 2602, and left, among other issue, two
sons, William and Samuel. Samuel Byam, the younger son, was a
major in the army, and dying early in life, (in 1712,) left, by
Elizabeth, his wife, the dau. of George Clarke, of Parker's Hill,
in Antigua, (and who re-married Ashton Warner, Esq.,) a son, a
second Samuel, who marrying Grace, dau. of Col. Edward Warner,
left Phillis, the heir of her brother, a third Samuel, (that d.
unm.,) and she (Phillis) m. 1st, Charles Wollaston, Esq., M.D.,
F.R.S., (physician to her majesty Queen Charlotte,) and 2ndly,
James Frampton, Esq. of Moreton, in Dorsetshire, and for whose
issue, _vide_ "Burke's _Commoners_"--1st, "Shirley, of Eatington
Park, co. Warwick," vol. i. p. 49; 2ndly, "Wollaston, of
Shenton," vol. iii. p. 419; 3rdly, "Frampton, of Moreton, in co.
Dorset," vol. iv. p. 193.
William Byam, son and heir, of Cedar Hill, Antigua, colonel in
the army, member of the privy council, and also one of the
general council of the Leeward Islands, m. Mary, dau. of John
Yeamans, of Mill Hill, Old Road, Antigua, lieut.-governor of that
island, and had issue,
i. Willoughby, died young, and was buried, 7 July, 1714, at
Oxford.
ii. Yeamans, died young, and was buried at Oxford, in 1714.
iii. Edward, of Cedar Hill, Antigua, and Clay Hill, co.
Middlesex, admitted a student of Trinity Coll., Cambridge, m.
(his first cousin) Lydia, dau. of Edward Byam, governor of
Antigua, in 1734.
iv. John-Sampson, died in 1766, unm.
v. Willoughby, (second of the name, the first having died an
infant,) died unm. in 1764.
vi. Henry, D.D., m. Hester, dau. of John Gunthorpe, of Antigua,
Esq., and dying, left issue by his wife, 1. Hester Byam, m. 7
Aug. 1781, Anthony Munton, d. s. p.; 2. Mary-Gunthorpe Byam,
born 9 Nov. 1748, m. in 1771, to Col. William Dundas, brother
to Lord Viscount Melville; 3. Anne Byam, living at Pear Tree
Lodge, near Southampton, unm. in 1838; 4 and 5. Henry and
Edward Byam, died infants.
vii. Anne, (second dau. living,) m. in 1727, Crooke Thomas, of
London, merchant.
viii. Mary, (eldest dau.,) m. 21 March, 1738, to Warner
Tempest, Esq. of Antigua, and of Moulsey, co. Surrey; and
ix. Rebecca, m. to Thomas Freeman, Esq. of Antigua.
Edward Byam, son and heir of William Byam, dying 13 June, 1768,
left by Lydia, his wife, issue,
i. William, of Cedar Hill, son and heir.
ii. Samuel, who m. 30 June, 1764, Elizabeth, dau. and heir of
Thos. Sheppard, Esq. of Antigua, and died in 1786, leaving
issue one dau., Lydia, m. to the Rev. Robt. Sutton, of East
Dereham, Norfolk, and has issue.
iii. Edward, buried at Antigua, in 1795.
iv. Lydia.
v. Rebecca, m. to -- Davies, R.N., died s. p.
William Byam, son and heir, of Cedar Hill, and Sunny Hill, co.
Pembroke, member of the privy council, Antigua, m. 26 June, 1766,
Martha, dau. of Edward Rogers, of Lanwnda, in Pembrokeshire,
died, and was buried at St. George's, Antigua, 1 Oct. 1779,
leaving issue,
i. Edward, son and heir.
ii. Samuel, D.D. of University Coll., Oxford, vicar of
Catterick, co. York, and chaplain in ordinary to George III.,
born in 1769, and m. Jane, dau. of John Welsh, of the island
of St Christopher's, dying at Brusselles, 24 April, 1816,
leaving issue,
1. William-Geo.-Munton, born 5 Aug. 1804, late lieut. in 43rd
Light Infantry.
2. Adolphus-Elizabeth, born 5 Sept. 1805, capt in Madras
artillery, and secretary to the court of Hydrabad, died at
the Cape of Good Hope, in 1839, s. p.
3. Henry-James, born in 1813, an officer in the service of
the Queen of Spain, died at San Sebastien, 5 Aug. 1837, s.
p.
4. Cornelia-Rachel-Munton, born 23 Feb. 1803, m. Baron
Augustus de Firkes, of Mittau, in Courland, and died in
1826.
5. Augusta-Louisa-Anne, born 4 Nov. 1806, and m. Frederick
Shallet Lomax, of Netley Park, co. Hants.
iii. Lydia, bapt. 4 Sept. 1772, died on her passage from
Antigua, unm.
Edward Byam, the son and heir, was a member of the house of
assembly of Antigua, born in 1767, and m. Christiana Matilda,
dau. of Matt. Ryan, of Dublin, barrister-at-law, died 27 May,
1795, leaving issue by his wife,
i. William, son and heir.
ii. Edward, late major in the 15th Hussars, now lieut.-col. in
the army. He served in the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria,
Orthes, and Waterloo, of Warblington Lodge, co. Hants, born
24 Dec. 1794, and m. 10 Sept 1829, at the residence of the
British minister at the court of Florence, Elizabeth Augusta,
dau. of Sir Grenville Temple, Bart., and has issue,
1. Willoughby-Temple, born 15 Aug. 1832.
2. Henry-Edward, born 22 Aug. 1835.
3. Edward, born in April, 1842.
4. Matilda-Augusta-Anne, born 28 June, 1830.
5. Agnes- Welthian, born 7 June, 1831.
6. Maria-Christiana-Elizabeth, born 6 Jan. 1834.
7. Augusta-Temple, born 10 May, 1837.
William Byam, the present representative of the Cedar Hill
branch, and of Westwood House, co. Hants, member of the council,
Antigua, and late lieut.-col. of the Local Dragoons, m. in 1815,
Martha, dau. of Thomas Rogers, of Antigua, and has issue,
i. Edward-Gamage, an officer in the 59th regt. born 30 June,
1823.
ii. Thomas-Rogers, born 12 Dec. 1826.
iii. William, born 10 Feb. 1828.
iv. Lydia, born 31 Dec. 1818, m. 18 May, 1837, to Francis
Shand, Esq. of Liverpool, and of Everton, co. Lancaster; and
v. Martha, born 29 Aug. 1821.
Col. William Byam served under the "hero of a hundred fights,"
the Duke of Wellington, in the battles of Orthes, Toulouse, and
Waterloo, in which latter he was dangerously wounded, and in
those ensanguined plains he belied not his high name, nor the
deeds of his fathers, whom we find so often figuring in the
annals of Antigua, leading its troops to battle, filling some
high official situation, or spilling their hearts' best blood in
defence of their native shores!
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[78] Ancestor of the now Earls of Cadogan.
[79] This pedigree, and that of the Byam family in general, has
been authenticated by Herald's College, by certificate, dated
"College of Arms, 27 July, 1841."
[80] So termed by the Heralds of the College of Arms, although
only mentioned in Antiguan history as lieut.-governor of the
island.
No. 5.
_Copy of the Grant of Land to Col. Philip Warner, after the
Restoration of Antigua to the English Crown, in_ 1667.
William Lord Willoughby of Parham Captn Generall and Chief
Governor of Barbados and the rest of the Caribee Islands, To all
whom these presents shall come greeting--Whereas the King's most
excellent Majestie hath by due Conquest regained to himself ye
sole and absolute right and propriet unto and in ye said Island
of Antigua and every part thereof. The said Island having been
lately taken and conquered by the f.french and since retaken and
reduced to his Majestie's obedience by his Majestie's forces. And
Whereas the Assembly or Representatives of the said Island have
acknowledged and recognized His Majestie's said title by Conquest
and have wholly submitted to ye same. Now know ye by virtue of
the power and authority to me given by His Majestie's Letters
Pattents under the great Seale of England bearing date the third
day of January in the yeare one thousand six hundred sixty and
six and by his instructions under his privy signett bearing date
the fourth day of February in ye said year enabling me to grant
and confirm estates in His Majestie's behalfe in the said Caribee
Islands. I the said William Lord Willoughby for divers good and
lawful considerations Have given granted remised released and
confirmed and doe by these Presents give grant release remise and
confirme unto Coll Phillip Warner his Heires and Assignes for
Ever all ye right title interest or demand which his said
Majestie now hath or heretofore had to a certaine plantation or
parcell of land situate laying and being ye Island Antigua
aforesaid commonly called and known by the name of the Savanna
The Westward part of which is bounded upon ye lands of _Thomas
Compton_ in Falmouth Division and part of ye lands called
Picadilla the North East thereof in part bounded with ye . . . .
of _George Mould_ the land of _William Phillips_ ye lands of
_John Andrews_ and ye land of _Phillip Lenird_ and part wth ye
sea. The Southward part thereof is bounded by a line drawn from
the head of English Harbor Creeke through the Valley towards
Crosse Cove in falmo harbor and from ye head of ye aforesaid
Creeke two hundred foot or forty geometricall paces from ye high
water marke observing ye turnings and windings of English Harbor
to ye Southermost end of the Sandy Bay at ye mouth of the said
Harbor, and part with ye sea The Eastermost part wholly bounded
wth ye sea side. Together withall and singular the Houses
Edifices, Buildings Timber, Timber trees, Woods, Underwoods,
Waters, Water-courses, Rights, Members Jurisdictions, Wayes,
Easemts Proffits, Priviledges, Commodities, Hereditaments, and
Appurtenances whatsoever to ye same belonging or any wayes
apertaining To Have and to Hold the said Plantation or parcell of
land wth all and singular ye appurtenances to him ye said Coll
Phillip Warner his Heires and Assignes and to ye only use
benefitt and behoaf of him ye said Phillip Warner his heires and
Assignes in Free . . . . Yielding and paying therefore yearly for
ever unto His Majestie his heires and Successors one Eare of
Indian Corne att or upon ye feast of ye Birth of our Lord Christ
in full satisfaction of all rents and services for ever. In
Witness whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and caused His
Majestie's Seale appointed for Barbados and ye rest of the
Caribee Islands to be affixed the Eleventh day of Aprill in the
twentieth yeare of ye Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the
Second King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of ye
Faith Anno que Domini One thousand Six hundred Sixty Eight.
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_Copy of the Grant of Land to Col. Philip Warner, restored to
him after his acquittal upon the charge of murdering his
half-brother, the Indian Warner, in_ 1676.
To all Xion People to whom these presents shall come William
Stapleton Capn Genl over all His Majties Leeward Islands in
America Sendeth Greetinge Know ye that I William Stapleton Capn
Gen as aforesaid in pursuance of His moste Excellent Majties
Charles the Second his Commission to me directed Bareing date the
tenth day of February and by virtue of an article in ye same
Impowering me to Sell Lett and dispose of all such lands
tenements and Hereditaments in and upon any or either ye said
Islands which shall fall or by Law Ellapse or otherwise become
due or belonging unto our Said Soveraigne Lord ye King and the
same or any part of Pall thereof from time to time to dispose of
under such moderate quitt Rents acknowledgements or securities to
be reserved to His Majestie his Heires and Successors by mee
shall bee deemed meete and convenient. And further by one other
Article in his Majties said Commission I am fully Impowered and
authorized by his said Majtie to grant Letters and Charters of
Incorporasion to all Citties, Townes, Boroughs and other places
wthn any or either ye said Islands or plantations respectively
wth all liberties, franchises, and priviledges requisite and
usually granted to any such wthn the kingdom of England which
said grants charters or priviledges soe by me granted and
------------ His Majties great Scale appointed for his said
Leeward Islands, and beinge duly Entered inrold and recorded
shall be good and effectuall in Law against any Pson, Power or
Authoritie what so ever. Know ye therefore that I the said
William Stapleton Capn Genl &ca by virtue of my said Commission
and ye severall Powers to mee therein given for and in ye behalfe
of our Soueraigne Lord ye King, for divers good and lawfull
causes and considerations hereinafter in the Psents mentioned and
expressed and forasmuch as Coll Phillip Warner of the Island of
Antigua stands possessed of a certain freehold and plantation or
Pall of land in and upon ye said Island of Antigua commonly
call'd or known by the name of the Savanna by virtue of a grant
and Pattent had and obtained by the said Coll Phillip Warner from
and under the hand of William Lord Willoughby of Parham late Capn
Genl and Governor in Chiefe of Barbadose and the rest of the
Leeward Islands and sealed wth the greate Seale then appointed by
his Majtie for the said Islands bearing date the 11th day of
April 1668. I have at the speciall instance and request of him ye
said Coll Phillip Warner Given granted released remised and
confirmed as I doe by these Psents give grant release remise and
confirme unto the said Coll Phillip Warner his heires and
assignes for ever the said Plantation and freehold under the name
and title of the Manor of _fframingham_ and doe by virtue of this
my Pattent invest him the said Coll Phillip Warner his Heires and
Assignes for ever in Right Title and Interest of the said
Plantation in a Mannor and Royaltie Lyinge wthn the Limits and
bounds hereinafter mentioned and expressed. That is to say the
Westward part of the said land being bounded wth the land of Mr
_William Wainwright_ and Crowne land in Falmouth Harbor To the
North wth the land of Mr _Nathl Monck_ and the land anciently
call'd and known by name of Piccadille Hills and to the North
East wth the land late of _George Mould_ the lands of _John
Pinchin Richard Law_ and _Richard Willis_ and part wth the sea.
The East and South East part thereof bounded wholie with ye low
water marke upon ye Severall Bayes, Poyntes, and Clifts at ye sea
side the South and South west part the said land and manner is
alsoe bounded with the Sea in English Harbour to the low water
marke observeing the severall turnings and windings of the said
Harbor and Creeke thereunto belongeing and from the Head of the
Eastmost Creeke through the Vallie to the adjacent round Hill
next to Cobb's Crosse Cove. And from thence to the sea in Falmo
Harbor, Together with all ye Ponds Creekes Coves inlets waters,
watercourses. Houses, Edifices buildings Orchards lands meadows
Leasowes Pastures Commons Sugar Mills Timber and Timber Trees
woods and underwoods Advowsons reversions rents Securitties,
wrecks, wafes, Estrayes Royaltties Liberties Privileges
Jurisdictions, hereditaments Together wth all other Rights,
Privileges, and power by Law warranted or allowed to any Royaltie
or Maner whatsoever saving onely and excepted to His Majtie his
Heires and Successors all Mines and Mineralls of Gould and Silver
which shall ly or be within the said Manor or the lands thereunto
belongeinge or appertainge. To have and to Hold the said Manor
lands tenements and all the premises in _fee simple_ to him the
said Coll Phillip Warner his heires and Assignes for ever and of
and in every part or Pall thereof wth the appurtenances
Royallties, Jurisdictions and Privileges heretofore in these
Psents mentioned and expressed to bee and Inure and shall bee
deemed adjudged Esteemed reputed and taken to bee and Inure to
the onely use benefit and behoofe of the said Coll Phillip Warner
his heires and assignes for ever. Yieldinge and payeinge
therefore yearly for ever unto his Majtie his heires and
successors a full growne _Bore_ at or upon ye Feast and Birth of
our Lord Christ if lawfully demanded which payment shall be
accepted reputed and taken in full satisfaction and discharge of
all other rents services duties taxes or Impositions layed or to
be layed by any Law authortie Custome or Usage Whatsoever. In
Testimony whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and caused His
Majtie's Great Seal prepared and appoynted for this and the rest
of the Leeward Islands to be hereunto affixed the 3rd _of
November_. In the one and Thirtieth Year of the Reigne of our
Soveraigne Lord Charles ye Second King of England Scotland France
and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c Anno Domi 1679.
No. 6.
_A Remonstrance of the inhabitants of the island of Antigua why
they soe very earnestly craved authority and commission from
his Excellency, William Stapleton Captain General and Governor
in chief, in and over all his Majesties Leward Cariba Islands
in America. To kill and destroy the Indians inhabiting in ye
Island of Dominica and likewise for ye craveing ayde from the
neighbouring Islands under his Excellency's command which was
promised us._
It is to well knowne as well to ye inhabitants of this Island as
to ye other merchants and traders amongst us since its first
being inhabited by Christians, or very near that time that ye
said Indians have not ceased by their continual incursions and
very many horrid murders, ripping up women with child, burning of
houses, and carrying away into miserable captivity, their
children and others, allmost to ye utter ruine of this collony,
whilst Indian Warner of late going under the name of Thomas
Warner was a chief leader and actor amongst ye said Indians
untill the year of our Lord 1657 when some of ye inhabitants of
this Island with the assistance of Mountserrat and others went
against them although by their subtility it proved almost
ineffectual, yett in ye year 1660, ye said Indian Warner with
other Indians came to Collo Xpher Keynell[81] then governor of
this Island, to make peace which was then agreed unto and wee had
for some small tyme rest from their allmost continual Alaroms,
but they soon fell to their accustomed cruelltys by robing,
murdering and carrieing away others of the inhabitants, so that
we were again constrained to make war against them to our
exceeding charge and ye losse of our crops at which tyme we
requested Collo Phillip Warner to goe in pson against them in
hopes he might by faire means have brought ye said Indian Warner
to have been helpful to our party in finding out and persueing
those othere breakers of ye sd peace, but all our endeavours
proved fruit-lesse and procured us nothing more but fair
promises, but he would not go or appear against those that
himselfe would say were our enemies, but on the contrary would
give them notice of our arrival, although we spared not, at any
tyme, to furnish him and those he called his friends with what
necessaries they wanted.
Notwithstanding in the year 1666 they began again their old
villainies and outragious practices, not regarding that peace,
but rather lookeing on us as their tributaries, a barbarous
conclusion drawn from our kindnesses, Indian Warner being all
this while amongst them, and would never give us any notice of ye
designs against us, which drew us to conclude he was still
against us, by consent, if not in pson, for those by him
protected as his friends and nearest relations, were chief in
comitting many outtrages murders, rapes and burneings, by which
means we were wholly putt from labour, which if at any time wee
attempted to follow their poisoned arrows were soon in some of
our sides, which spake nothing but death, soon after ye said
Indian Warner was carried prisoner by the French to St.
Xphers[82] being however his friends and nearest relations still
persued their bloody practises against the poore Inhabitants of
this Island for as often as ye men engaged the Ffrench enemy, the
said Indians were comitting their murders, rapes and other
villanyss amongst ye women and children, and when the Ffrench had
subdued ye Island and disarmed our inhabitants and carried away
our negroes and what else they thought fitt, then did these
Indians prosecute all villanies imaginable against our naked
inhabitants haveing nothing but the mercy of God to protect
ourselves from their cruelties, at which time, we having
submitted to the Ffrench on their promise of safety from ye
barbarisme of the said Indians, ye said Indians came to the house
of Collo Cardine late Governr of this Island who cyvilly treated
them, but at their departure desired him in friendship to walk
with them to the sea-side, where they cruelly murdered him, and
those that were with him, cutting off Collo Cardine's head,
broyled it and carried it to Dominica in triumph. But before
their departure returned to Collo Cardine's house, and carried
away his wife children and others, with them into captivity where
some of them perished.
Neare to this same tyme they went to the house of Mr. Thomas
Taylor pretending friendshipp and by him they were kindly
entertained, but before they departed they murdered ye said
Taylor, Mr. Thomas Beadle minister, Mr. Robert Boyers, wounding
others with poisoned arrows to death and carried away Mrs Taylor
and children, Mrs. Chrew and children, Mrs Lynt[83] and children,
with many to tedious to relate, and in these and ye like bloody
practises they continued untill a peace was proclaimed betwixt
our more gracious king, ye Ffrench, and Dutch. All which bloody
cruelties were acted and done by ye Chiefs of Indian Warner's
friends, without the least cause or provocation on our part.
And since ye peace made with them by the Lord William Willoughby,
although they have been kindly received and entertained by our
inhabitants out of respect to the said peace, yett they soon
begain their accustomed cruelties fore comeing to Parham Hill
plantation in agreeable manner were civilly and librally
entertained at their departure murdered several seamen that were
taking in tobacco, and planters that were carrying the same to ye
boats with out any manner of provocation.
Some of ye said Indians being soone after apprehended at
Mountserrat by our generall, who intended to have given them a
due reward for ye said murders, but such was our clemency towards
them, that if by any means wee could have brought them to live
peaceably by us, wee made our humble addresses unto our generall
to lett them goe, which we hardly obtained from his Excellency,
but no sooner were they loose but they comitted roberies upon ye
said Island.
Such hath always been their requitalls of any kindnesses or
civilities shewn them, and amongst these Indians were the freinds
and associates of the said Indian Warner and by him then
interceeded for alledging they were not the persons that had done
the said murders, although afterwards appeared that these whom he
a called his friends were the men that comitted ye said murder.
And to manifest the truth thereof, one of his nearest allies, in
the yeare 1674 came with other Indians to the plantation of Collo
Phillip Warner and killed severall Christians and carried away
sixteen negroes, and one Christian child, whom they afterwards
cruelly murdered, and at the return of the said Indians from this
Island, Indian Warner mett them at Guardeloup and craved share of
the booty they had brought from Antigua, and afterwards some of
ye goods [_obliterated_] Collo Warner's boyling house at their
being last there comitting of murders aforesaid were found in the
village belonging to Indian Warner in Dominica and were brought
back by some of Collo Warner's servants.
Thus hath the said Indian Warner often dealt treacherously,
pretending freindshipp, but proving and absolute enemy, not only
to this Island, but to our whole nation, for himself declared
that he had a Ffrench comission, and said that he would rather
serve ye Spaniards then ye English and finding ourselves to be
neare our utter ruine by his fraud and treachery, we were
constrained humbly to crave ayde of our captain generall to give
us his comission to make war against the said Indians, without
exception that we might labour by his just power to redeem
ourselves from those cruel practices which wee had long laine
under, which he was pleased to grant.
We then besought Collo Phillip Warner, our governor to goe in
person against them, which at our earnest request he was pleased
to undertake and with very great difficulty and hazard did doe
such service upon them which hath procured our ease and rest in
some measure to this tyme, although not without continnall
watching and warding to our great charge and trouble, they still
threatening a bloody revenge upon this place.
And it is evident, had not Collo Warner's party beene quick in
giving the first blow, upon those our bloody enemies, he and
those with him had received the same measure from our pretended
freinds but utter enemies. Who had agreed with those hee called
our enemies to destroy Collo Warner and his party and to that end
had them at rediness at hand, but God Almighty prevented them,
not sufferinge him any longer to raigne in his barbarous
practices of which this Island might give a large acompt for
neare forty yeares past and whether ye said Indian Warner with
his associates received not a due recompense for their villanys
and barbarous practices wee appeal to God and all ye world.
(Signed) Richard Boraston. Rowld. Williams.
(Autographs) Jonas Watts. Paul Hicks.
Jacob Hill. Jere. Watkins.
Saml. Irish. Richd. Ayres.
Daniel Pellar. John Cade.
Thomas Beck. Will Thomas.
Franc. Carlisle. John Mayer.
1676 Tho. Turner. Samuel Jones.
May it please your honours,
The sense wee have of the sufferings of Collo Phillipe Warner,
our late governor by and for an action by which wee have received
soe many advantages, and which the prayers of our inhabitants
constrained him by ------ comission to undertake, hath highly
obliged us to suplicate your honours, on his behalfe. Not that we
doubt his being justly dealt with, and according to law, but to
give your honors to understand that it was not by any designe or
private concern of Collo Phillip Warner that carried on that warr
and that action wherein it is said Indian Warner fell. But it was
founded on the supplication of the inhabitants here, that for
many yeares enjoyed little rest from the incursions of those
Indians of Dominica and amongst them those of Warner's family.
Some crying for their husbands slaine with poisoned arrows,
others for their children snatcht from them. Those and the such
like were the common complaints here. Until by their humble
addresse to our generall they obtained comission to goe under the
command of Collo Warner who was not easily wrought upon to
undertake it; but being highly importuned by all, he at length
complied and by that action we have since enjoyed much peace and
they have not dared to putt foot uppon our shoare, which we
wholly attribute to God's mercy towards us, but that action as
the second cause. This wee humbly offer unto your honors fearing
you may not otherwise be given to understand, what was the first
cause that moved to that action, as will appear if all papers
relating thereunto may be perused. We have not more to request
from your honrs than to give your favourable constructions of the
matter humbly take leave and subscribe ourselves your most humble
servants,
Richard Boraston, &c. &c.
Falmo July ye 25th, 1676.
To ye Honble. his Maties. justices of Oyer and terminer appointed
for the triall of Collo Phillip Warner in ye Island of Barbadoes
These humbly are sent.
It was not Col. Warner alone who was implicated in this affair,
although he plays the most prominent part. Many of the offenders
had their lands taken from them, until the issue of their trial
was known; but Col. Warner and Lieut. Ffrye, of their own free
will, delivered up their possessions, immediately upon their
being charged with the crime already narrated, as may be learnt
from the following passage extracted from an old record (speaking
of those persons who had been dispossessed of their lands):--
"Excepted the lands of Collo Phillip Warner at the ffig tree, and
at the Road being resigned up freely by himself. Also excepted
the lands of Lieut. John Ffrye, lying and beinge in the body of
this Island beinge resigned up freely by him."
------
[81] Christopher Reynall.
[82] St. Christopher's.
[83] Lynch.
No. 7.
GENEALOGY OF THE WILLIAMS FAMILY.
The family of the Williams' trace their colonial descent from
-- Williams, Esq., who was supposed to have emigrated from
England under the auspices of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke,
and, by tradition, is said to have been the first Englishman who
set foot in the Island of Antigua. He planted and settled the
family estate at Old Road, and dying, left a son,
Rowland, colonel in the army, and the first white child born in
the colony, about the year 1632. He fulfilled for some time the
office of governor of Antigua, and in the attack upon the French,
to recover St Christopher's, in 1690, he gallantly distinguished
himself, having under his command a body of eight hundred
Antiguan troops. He died in 1713, at the advanced age of eighty,
universally lamented by all who knew him, and was interred in the
parish church of Old Road, of which edifice he was the principal
founder. His will is now to be seen in the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury. He left issue, by his wife, two sons, Thomas, his
heir, and Samuel, student of Christ's College, Oxford, of which
university he was a distinguished member. He is honourably
mentioned by Oldmixon, in his "British Empire." He died at an
early age (probably in his father's lifetime) s. p.
Thomas, son and heir of the above Col. Rowland Williams, was a
colonel in the army, of Old Road estate, Antigua, and of
Newlands, co. Surrey, m. in 1705, Mary, dau. of Edward Byam,
(then fulfilling the government of Antigua,) by his first wife,
Mary, dau. of Samuel Winthorpe, Esq., and granddau. of John
Winthorpe, first governor of New England, and of Groton Hall, co.
Suffolk. The likeness of this lady (Mary, the wife of Col. Thomas
Williams) was in possession of the late Rowland-E. Williams, at
Newlands. Col. Thomas Williams dying, left issue, by Mary, his
wife,
i. Edward, son and heir.
ii. Rowland, died s. p.
iii. Samuel, entered at University College, Oxon, 3 November,
1737, died s. p.
iv. Sarah, died s. p.
Edward, son and heir, of Old Road. Antigua, and Newlands, in the
parish of Thames Ditton, co. Surrey, born 9 May, 1710, m. in
1747, Mary, dau. of -- Bennet, of Penryth, co. Cumberland. He,
dying 6 April, 1784, was buried at Thames Ditton, aforesaid,
leaving issue by his wife,
i. Rowland-Edward, son and heir.
ii. Samuel, who possessed an estate in Hampshire, and dying s.
p. in 1825, was buried at Lyndhurst, in that county.
Rowland-Edward, as eldest son, inherited the family estates of
Old Road, Antigua, and Newlands, co. Surrey, born 18 Dec 1784, m.
Mary, dau. of Robert Symes, of the Island of Jamaica, Esq., and
dying 28 Nov. 1826, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, left
issue two sons,
i. Rowland-Edward, son and heir.
ii. Samuel Williams, captain in the Royal Navy, and two daus.
Rowland-Edward Williams, as eldest son, possesses the family
estates in England and Antigua, the patrimonial domains of his
ancestors, who came in among the first settlers; member of her
Majesty's privy council in that island, and late captain in the
10th regiment of Hussars, m. Mary-Anne, dau. of Sir Patrick Ross,
K.C.B., (then captain-general and governor-in-chief of the
Leeward Caribbee Islands,) who, dying at the early age of
thirty-two, left issue by him two sons, one of which only
survives.
Nos. 8 & 9.
GENEALOGY OF THE CODRINGTON FAMILY.
One of the great ancestors of the Codrington family was John de
Codrington, grandson of Geoffrey Codrington, standard-bearer to
Henry V., 1415; he afterwards purchased the manor of Wapeley in
1455, living to the great age of 112; died in 1475. From this
source descends the family of Codrington connected with Antigua.
Geoffrey Codrington, of Codrington, co. Gloucester, left issue a
son, Robert, of the same place, and also of Sodbury. Robert had
issue three sons, Morvail, Humphry, and John.
John, m. and had issue, Christopher, and Edward.
Edward, m. and had a son,
Thomas, who m. and had a son,
Simon, who died in 1618, leaving by his wife, Anne, co-heiress of
Richard Seacole, of Didmarton, co. Gloucester, three sons,
i. John. ii. Giles. iii. Robert.
Robert Codrington, m. Anne, co-heiress of Richard Stubbs, and
left issue, Christopher, and John. John was of Didmarton, and
died in 1670.
Christopher, the eldest son, was a lieutenant-colonel in the
army, and settled in Barbados in the year 1649, after having
contended in the Royal cause; he married and had two sons,
Christopher, and John, the latter colonel of the Life-guards in
Barbados, of whom presently.
Christopher, the elder son, was governor of the Leeward Islands
in 1689, and died in 1698, leaving, by ------, his wife, two
sons, Christopher, the celebrated founder of All Souls', Oxford,
and John, who died in the lifetime of his brother.
Christopher, the elder son, was the purchaser, from his cousin,
Samuel, of Doddington, in Gloucestershire, and was appointed to
succeed his father in the government of the Leeward Islands, in
1698. Among his great possessions in the West Indies, he had an
estate called "Betty's Hope," in Antigua, from whence, 22 Feb.
1702, was dated his will, making such munificent bequests for the
foundation of a college in Barbados, and to All Souls' College,
Oxford, which is thus described in a contemporary work, among the
remarkable events of the year 1710:-- "About the same time (21
July, 1710) came advice from the Leeward Islands of the death of
Col. Christopher Codrington, for some time captain-general of
those Islands. He left the bulk of his estate to his
cousin-german, Col. William Codrington, of Barbados, (and also of
Antigua,) which is reckoned to amount to 40,000l. and upwards. He
most generously bequeathed 20,000l. to the Society for
Propagating the Faith in that part of the world; and having for
many years been Fellow of All Souls', Oxford, gave that college
10,000l., as also his noble library, valued at 6000l. more. He
ordered his body to be buried there, and allowed only 20l. for a
gravestone upon it, but left 1500l. for erecting a monument for
his father in _Westminster Abbey_." And to his remaining estates,
his cousin, Col. William Codrington succeeded accordingly. He was
a Member of the Council of the Island of Antigua, and son of Col.
John Codrington, of the Life-guards, Barbados, by his wife, the
dau. of Col. Bates, of the same island. Col. William Codrington
is spoken of in very high terms by "Oldmixon," in his "British
Empire in America," _as one of the two men of the best heads and
best fortunes in British America_, (Col. Edward Byam, as already
mentioned, being the other,) and was very deservedly created a
Baronet, 21 April, 1721. He died 17 Dec. 1738, leaving by his
wife, Elizabeth, dau. of William Bethel, of Swindon, co. York,
Esq., four sons,
i. William, second Bart., who succeeded him, and of whom
hereafter.
ii. John-Archibald, died s. p. in 1759.
iii. Christopher, m., and died s. p. in 1797.
iv. Edward.
To John Archibald he bequeathed his Barbados estates. To
Christopher he bequeathed an estate called "Rooms's," in Antigua.
To Edward the Folly estate in that island, (now modernized into
"Bath Lodge,") and comprising "Betty's Hope," the "Cotton
Estate," and the "Cables," all in the Island of Antigua, and the
entire Island of Barbuda, in the general bequest to his eldest
son and successor.
Sir William, second Bart., M.P. for Minehead, co. Somerset, dying
11 March, 1792, left, by Anne, his wife, the dau. of -- Acton,
Esq., a son and heir of his own name--viz.,
Sir William, third Bart., who died in France in 1816, whereupon
his cousin,
Christopher-Bethel Codrington, of Dodington Park, co. Gloucester,
assumed the title, asserting his cousin to have died in France,
without lawful issue. He was the son of Edward, by his wife,
Rebecca Le Sturgeon, and grandson of Sir William, the first
Bart., the son of Col. John Codrington, Treasurer of Barbados, by
his wife, the dau. of Col. Bates, of the same island, as already
mentioned. Besides Christopher-Bethel, of Dodington Park, Edward
was the father of Sir Edward Codrington, the hero of Navarino,
G.C.B., K.S.L., K.S.G., and Rear-Admiral of the Blue; and also of
Caroline, the wife of Joseph-Lyons Walrond, of Walrond's and
Lyon's Estates, in Antigua, and of Dulford House, co. Devon, and
by whom she has, Bethel Walrond, Esq., formerly M.P. for Sudbury,
who m. in 1829, Lady Janet Erskine, dau. of the Earl of Rosslyn.
Sir Christopher-Bethel, of Dodington Park, aforesaid, m. 15 Aug.
1796, the Hon. Carolina-Georgiana-Harriott Foley, dau. of Thomas,
second Lord Foley, (by Harriott, dau. of William, second Earl of
Harrington, by Caroline Fitzroy, dau. of Charles, second Duke of
Grafton, K.G.,) and by her had, (among other children,)
Sir William-Christopher, the present Bart., born 12 March, 1805,
and m. Lady Georgiana Somerset, dau. of his Grace the present
Duke of Beaufort.
It may be right to observe, that the title is disputed by his
cousin, William-Raimond Codrington, who alleges himself to be the
legitimate son of William, the third Bart., but this is a
litigation into which we shall not enter.
No. 10.
GENEALOGY OF THE MATHEW FAMILY.
The family of the Mathews originally came from Glamorganshire,
(where they were one with the Mathews, Earls of Llandaff,)
emigrated to the West Indies, from Cornwall, in the Heraldic
Visitation for which county, in 1622, they are mentioned. The
lineal descent of the present branch of the family, from the
first settler of the name, may be traced in the following manner
--viz.,
Abednego Mathew, of Pennetenny and St. Kew, co. Cornwall, born in
1629, was a colonel in the army, and emigrating to the West
Indies, obtained grants of land, first in Antigua, and afterwards
in St Christopher's, of which island he became governor, through
the interest (it is supposed) of his second cousin, George, Duke
of Albemarle, and Sir Richard Grenville, and which situation he
honourably filled until his death, 18 April, 1681. He m. a Miss
Sparrow, a West Indian heiress, by whom he left issue two sons,
i. Charles, colonel in the army, m. Miss Dashwood. His arms,
impaled with those of Dashwood, are given in a General Atlas,
published in 1721, to which work he was a subscriber.
ii. William, Knt.
Sir William Mathew was one of the brightest luminaries the West
Indies produced: a brave soldier--an accomplished gentleman--a
true friend--and a good governor. He was colonel of Monk's own
regiment, the Coldstream-guards, and highly distinguished himself
by his gallant bearing and true martial glory, at the siege of
Namur, Neerwinden, &c., under William III. In 1702, he was
nominated brigadier-general of her Majesty's Guards; and in 1704,
appointed captain-general and governor-in-chief of the Leeward
Caribbee Islands, and sailing from England at the beginning of
June, in a squadron consisting of five men-of-war, and six
transports, arrived at Antigua, the seat of his government, 14
July, 1704, where he died 4th Dec following. Sir William Mathew
m. Katharine, Baroness Van Leempat, an heiress of the celebrated
family of that name in Holland, and who accompanied Mary, Queen
of William III., to England as one of the maids of honour. The
nuptials were celebrated at Kingston, co. Surrey. The Baroness
accompanied her husband to the West Indies, where she surviving
him nineteen years, died at St Christopher's, 26 March, 1723. Sir
William left issue by his lady,
i. Abednego. ii. Edward. iii. William, of whom hereafter. i.
Susan. ii. Louisa.
William (third son of Sir William Mathew) was another
distinguished officer in her Majesty's service,
brigadier-general, and colonel in the Coldstream-guards, and
served as second in command under Lord Peterborough, in the
Peninsular wars. General Mathew acted as lieut.-governor of the
Leeward Islands in 1730; and 13 Sept. 1752, was appointed
captain-general, and commander-in-chief. He m. 1st, Anne, dau. of
General Thomas Hill, Governor of Nevis, who died s. p.; and
2ndly, ----, dau. of the Hon. Daniel Smith, President, and
sometime governor of Nevis, a great heiress, possessing estates
in St. Kitts, Nevis, and Antigua, by whom he had issue four sons,
i. William, died young.
ii. Daniel, of Antigua, and Felix Hall, co. Essex, Esq.,
sometime high-sheriff for that co. He m. at Antigua, 10 May,
1750, Mary, dau. of George Byam, and grandson of Governor
Edward Byam, by whom he had issue,
1. Daniel-Byam, of Felix Hall, and Antigua, m. Elizabeth,
dau. of Sir Edward Deering, Bart., (by whom issue.)
2. George, m. Euphemia, dau. of John Hamilton, Esq., by whom
he had issue a son, George, captain in the
Coldstream-guards, and late M.P. for Shaftesbury, m. in
1835, the dau. and heir of the celebrated antiquary, Sir
Richard-Colt Hoare, Bart., and has issue a son, born 5
March, 1839.
1. Mary, m. to James, Lord Gambier, K.C.B., admiral.
2. Jane, m. to Samuel Gambier, commissioner in the navy.
3. Elizabeth, m. in 1779, to Robert-Monckton Arundel,
Viscount Galway, by whom, among other issue, she had
William-George, the present viscount, born in 1782.
iii. Edward, major-general in the army, and governor of
Grenada, and sometime equerry to the Queen's household, m. 31
March, 1743; Lady Jane Bertie, dau. of the third Duke of
Ancaster,[84] and by her (who died 21 July, 1793) had issue,
1. Mathew, born 11 Sept. 1762, 2. Jane, m. 30 Aug. 1776,
Thomas Maitland, of Herts, Esq.
iv. Abednego, m. ----, and had issue two daus., the second of
which, Mary-Buckly, m. Hugh, Viscount Carlton.
------
[84] The three only daus. of this third Duke of Ancaster m. West
Indians: Lady Mary-Bertie, the eldest, was united to Samuel
Greathead, Esq. of Guy's Cliff, and M.P. for Coventry, and died
13 May, 1774; Albemia, the second dau. of his Grace, m. Frances
Beckford, Esq., and died 12 Feb. 1754; and Jane, (as already
seen,) m. Major-Gen. Edward Mathew, and had issue a son,
Brownlow-Bertie Mathew, who assumed the name and arms of Bertie,
in accordance with the will of his maternal uncle, Brownlow, last
Duke of Ancaster, and Marquess of Lindsey.
No. 11.
_List of the Members of the House of Assembly at the time of
the death of Governor Parke, copied from the Original Returns._
Dr. Daniel Mackinnon.
Mr. Edward Chester.
Returns made by John Col. John Gamble.
Gamble, Esq. Mr. William Granodle. St. John's Town.
By Richard Oliver, Col. Thomas Williams.
Esq. Major John Tomlinson. St. John's Division.
Captain John Pigott. New North Sound
By Edward Byam, Esq. Captain John Painter. Division.
Mr. Jacob Morgan Dickenson Bay
By S. Watkins, Esq. Samuel Watkins, Esq. Division.
Richard Cockran, Esq.
By Charles Lloyd, Esq. Charles Lloyd. Nonsuch Division.
By Thomas Osterman, Col. John Ffrye. Old Road and Bermudian
Esq. Captain John Roe. Valley Div.
By John Haddon, Esq. Mr. Andrew Murry. Five Islands.
Mr. John Elliot.
By John Kerr, Esq. John Kerr, jun. Belfast.
Edward Warner, Esq. Falmouth and
By John Horsford, Esq. Isaac Horsford, Esq. Rendezvous Bay.
By Nathaniel Crump, Mr. Samuel Phillips. Old North Sound
Esq. Nathaniel Crump. Division.
Mr. Baptist Looby. Willoughby Bay
By G. Lucas, Esq. G. Lucas. Division.
By Francis Rogers, Mr. Francis Carlisle.
Esq. Mr. William Hamilton. Popeshead Division.
No. 12.
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF GOVERNOR PARKE.
It may not be uninteresting to some of my readers to peruse a
copy of the will of that unhappy man, Governor Parke: it is here
inserted. It is worthy of notice, that anxious as Col. Parke was
to perpetuate his name, it has become utterly extinct. The latter
sentence of his will was written upon the morning of the very day
in which he met his fate:--
"In the name of God, Amen. I, Daniel Parke, Capt.-Gen. and Chief
Governor, &c., of all the Leeward Islands, make this, my last
Will and Testament, in manner following: (Imprimis, I bequeath my
soul to Almighty God.) I give all my estate in these islands,
both land and houses, negroes, debts, and so forth, to Thos.
Long, Esq. and Mister Ceasar Rodney, for the use of Mistress Lucy
Chester, being the daughter of Mistress Katharine Chester,[85]
though she is not yet christened, and if her mother thinks fit to
call her after any other name, I still doe bequeath all my estate
in the four islands of my government to her; but in case she dies
before she attains the age of twenty-one years, then I bequeath
the same to her mother, Mistress Katharine Chester, that it shall
be and remain in the hands of my loving friends, Collonel Thos.
Long and Mister Ceasar Rodney, the produce of the same to be paid
into her own hands, but to no other person whatsoever, and after
the decease of the said Mistress Katharine Chester, then I
bequeath the same to my godson, Julius Ceasar Parke, and his
heirs for ever, but in case the said youngest daughter of the
said Mistress Katharine Chester lives to marry and have children,
I give the whole to her eldest son, and the heirs male of his
body, and for the want of such heirs, to her second son's son,
and the heirs of his body, and for want of such, to her next, and
so on to her heir, provided still, he that heirs itt, calls
himself by the name of Parke; and my will is, that the said
youngest daughter of Mistress Katharine Chester alter her name,
and that she calls herself by the name of Parke, and that
whosoever shall marry her, calls himself by the name of Parke,
and that she and the heirs of her body, themselves by the name of
Parke, and use my coat of arms which is yet of my family of the
county of Essex, but in case she refuses, or her heirs, to call
themselves by the name of Parke, then my will is, that all my
estate, both real and personal, go to my godson, Julius Ceasar
Parke, to him and the heirs of his body for ever, and for want of
such heirs, to the heirs of my daughter Francis Curtis, and for
want of such heirs, to the heirs of the body of my daughter Lucy
Bird, always provided whoever shall enjoy this my estate, shall
call themselves by the names of Parke.
"Item, I give to my daughter Francis Curtis, all my estate, both
real and personal, either in Virginia or England, and the heirs
of her body, provided they shall call themselves by the name of
Parke, and for want of such heirs, to the heirs of the body of my
daughter Lucy Bird, and for want of such heirs, to the heirs of
the body of the youngest daughter, now living, of Mistress
Katharine Chester, and for want of such heirs, to the heirs of
the body of Julius Ceasar Parke, provided still, that whoever has
this my estate shall call themselves by the name of Parke, and in
case of failure of heirs, or that they refuse to call themselves
by the name of Parke, then my Will is, that my estate go to the
poor of the parish of White Church, in Hampshire, but my Will is,
that my daughter Francis Curtis pay out of my estate in Hampshire
and Virginia, the following legacies and all my debts, that is,
to my daughter Lucy Bird, one thousand pounds sterling; to my
godson Julius Ceasar Parke, fifty pounds sterling each year
during his life; to my three sisters and their children, fifty
pounds to buy them rings; and to my Executors, hereafter named in
England, each twenty pounds, and my Will is, that Thos. Long,
Esq. of this island, and Mister Ceasar Rodney, and Major Saml.
Byam, be my Executors in trust for the performance of what is to
be done with my estate in the Leeward Islands; and that Micajah
Perry, Esq., Mister Thomas Laws, and Mr. Richard Perry, of
London, merchant, be Executors in trust for the performance of
what is to be done in England and Virginia, and I doe hereby
Revoke all former Wills, Declaring this to be my last Will and
Testament, being writ with all my owne hand, signed and sealed in
St John's, in Antigua, the Twenty-ninth day of January, in the
year of our Lord, One thousand seven hundred nine and ten.
"Sealed, published, and Declared to be his Will and Testament,
Daniel Parke.
"In the presence of us,
"Herbert Pember,
"John Birmingham,
"William Martin.
"December the seventh. One thousand seven hundred and ten, I doe
appoint in the room of Collonel Thos. Long, deceased, Mister
Abraham Redwood to be one of my Executors in trust, to see this
my Will performed.
"Daniel Parke.
"By the Honourable Walter Hamilton, Esq., Lieut-Gen. and
Commander-in-Chief in and over all her Majesty's Leeward Charibbe
Islands in America, and ordering of the same for the time being,
December twentieth, One thousand seven hundred and ten.
"Then Hubert Pember, of the said island, Esq., and William
Martin, of the town of St. John's, vintner, personally came and
appeared before me, and made oath on the Holy Evangelists of
Almighty God, that they were present, and did see his late
Excellency Daniel Parke, Esq., late Capt. Gen. and
Governor-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands, sign, seal, publish,
and declare the within instrument of writing, as and for his last
Will and Testament, and were subscribing witnesses to the same,
and that the said Daniel Parke was then of perfect mind, memory,
and understanding, to the best of their judgment and knowledge.
"Sworn before me the day and year above written,
"Walter Hamilton. "Robt. Pember.
"Wm. Martin."
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[85] Wife of Edward Chester, Esq.
No. 13.
ACCOUNT OF THE MACKINNON FAMILY.
This Dr. Mackinnon (mentioned page 81, vol. 1,) was the second
son of Lacklin More Mac'kinnon, chieftain of the powerful
Highland clan of the Mac'Kinnons. He was the founder of the
Mackinnon family in Antigua; and as his estates in that island
are still in the hands of his representative, Wm. Alex.
Mackinnon, Esq., a short account of that gentleman's lineal
descent, from the celebrated Dr. Mackinnon, may not prove
superfluous.
Genealogy.
Dr. Daniel Mackinnon, of Dickenson's Bay, Antigua, member of the
legislature in that island, representing the town of St. John's
in the assembly convened 22 May, 1710, and one of the most
influential men of his day, m. Alice, dau. of William Thomas,
Esq. of Antigua, and ancestor of the present Sir George Thomas,
Bart., by whom he had issue,
i. William, of whom hereafter.
ii. Charles, m. the dau. of ---- Cunningham, Esq., of St.
Christopher's, by whom he had issue.
iii. Elizabeth, m. at St. John's, Antigua, 28 April, 1708, 1st,
Francis Carlisle, Esq. of Antigua, the second of the name in
that island, by whom she had a dau., Alice, who m. Ralph
Payne, Esq. of St. Christopher's, (nephew of Sir Charles
Payne, created a baronet in 1737,) and who, on her decease,
m. 2ndly, Margaret Galway, and by her had Admiral John Payne,
and Gen. Sir William Payne, who m. Lady Harriet Quin, dau. of
the Earl of Dunraven, and who, in 1814, took the name of
Galway. He was succeeded by his son, the present Baronet in
1831.) But by Alice Carlisle, the first wife of the aforesaid
Ralph Payne, he had Sir Ralph Payne, K.B., late Lord
Lavington, of whom a more ample detail will be found in
another place (vide page 136, and Appendix No. 15.) Elizabeth
(the dau. of Dr. Daniel Mackinnon above mentioned) m. 2ndly,
at a very advanced age, John Gray, of Antigua, Esq.
i. William Mackinnon, son and heir, succeeded his father, Daniel
Mackinnon, born in 1697, died 8 Oct. 1767, and was buried in
Abbey Church, Bath, where there is a monument erected to his
memory, m. Charity, second dau. of William Yeamans, of Mill Hill,
Antigua, by whom he left issue,
i. William, son and heir, of whom hereafter.
ii. Elizabeth, m. Thomas Fraser, Esq., M.D., of Antigua, by
whom she had, 1. William-Mackinnon Fraser, of London and of
Bath; 2. Jane, m. to Charles Grant, Esq., chairman of the
Hon. East India Company, by whom she had the present Lord
Glenelg; 3. Charity, m. to William Chambers, Esq. M.D., by
whom she was the mother of the celebrated physician of the
same name now living. To revert to the son,
i. William Mackinnon, (the son of William, by his wife, Charity
Yeamans,) who m. Dorothy, the dau. of Henry Vernon, Esq., of an
ancient family of that name, in Staffordshire, and had issue,
i. William, of whom presently.
ii. Daniel, Esq., barrister-at-law, who m. Rachel, dau. of
Thomas Eliot, Esq., and had issue.
iii. Henry, major-general in the army, who was slain at
Badajos, Spain, by the explosion of a mine, leaving, by
Catharine, his wife, dau. of Sir John Call, Bart., (since
re-married to A. R. Prior, Esq.,) 1. George, a colonel in the
army, and of the Coldstream Regt. of Guards, and 2. Donald,
captain in -- Regt. of Infantry.
i. William, the eldest son, m. Harriott, the dau. of Francis
Ffrye, of Bermudian Valley, Antigua, Esq., by whom he had,
i. William-Alexander, now a most able and useful M.P.,
representing Lymington, in Hampshire, m. to Emma, dau. of
Joseph Palmer, Esq.
ii. Daniel, colonel in the Coldstream regt. of Guards.
iii. Harriott, the wife of the Rev. Dr. Molesworth, rector of
Rochdale, in Lancashire.
No. 14.
PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE NEGRO INSURRECTION OF 1736.
"_His Excellency and Council to the Gentlemen of the Assembly,_
"Gentlemen--
"I think fit to lay before you a remonstrance I have received
from the justices who have examined into the intended
insurrection of the negroes. I could not forbear remarking to
this board the grateful sense I have of this great service, and
have found here every member as moved as myself. I cannot doubt
but the Assembly will give a _public testimony_ of their
satisfaction and acknowledgment to the gentlemen, from whose
wisdom, public zeal, and indefatigable care, we found a crime of
the deepest die, and of universal danger, and the public safety
secured by the most criminal having been brought to justice.
"By command,
"De la Court Walsh, &c."
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"_Members of the Assembly to his Excellency._
"We are extremely sensible of the zeal and integrity with which
the magistrates have acted, in endeavouring to discover and
punish the principal offenders in the insurrection intended by
the slaves of this island, as well as of the prudence and temper
with which they have proceeded in this matter; and, therefore, we
shall not be wanting on our part, to testify our acknowledgment
for the same, by appointing some members of our house to return
these our thanks upon that account.
"Thos. Kerby, Speaker."
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The following relates to the execution of "Frank," one of the
conspirators of the Ravine:--
"Gentlemen--
"I sent you a report of the justices of the conspiracies, dated
15th instant, upon which I observed to you, that the execution of
the negro "Frank," belonging to E. Chester, Esq., had been
suspended from Friday the 17th, to this 20th of December, upon
some information and application to the justices; which, having
been considered fully by them, he is, accordingly, this day to
suffer the aforesaid sentence of death, by being burnt in Otto's
Pasture.
"By command, &c.
"Council Chamber, 20th Dec. 1736."
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In the thirtieth chapter of this work, will be found another
letter from a white inhabitant of Antigua, to a friend in
England, giving a fuller account of the mode of execution
practised upon some of the unfortunate actors in this melancholy
affair. The military strength of Antigua at this period consisted
of "Monk's Hill," mounted with thirty guns; a fort, known as
"Great Fort," at the entrance of St. John's Harbour, mounted with
fourteen guns; and seven other batteries, with twenty-six pieces
of cannon.
No. 15.
GENEALOGY OF THE THOMAS FAMILY.
The family of Sir George Thomas is certainly of Welsh extraction,
and, by tradition, came from Glamorganshire, and still possess
considerable property in Antigua. The first of the name in the
island was
William Thomas, of Bristol, Esq., who afterwards emigrating to
Antigua, became a member of the legislature of that island, and
in such capacity signed the "Remonstrance," drawn up in the case
of Col. Philip Warner, in 1676. He married, at St. Augustine's,
Bristol, 2 Nov. 1665, Lydia Tomlinson, by whom he had issue two
sons and two daus.--viz.,
i. William, son and heir, member of her majesty's council in
Antigua, died in or about 1717, leaving his nephew, George
Thomas, his heir.
ii. George, (second son of William Thomas,) col. in the army,
m. -- Winthorpe, dau. of Samuel Winthorpe, of Antigua, Esq.,
and sister of the first wife of Edward Byam. Col. Thomas
dying 13 May, 1707, left issue two sons and one dau.--viz.,
1. George, first Bart., of whom hereafter.
2. William, who m. -- Yeamans, dau. of John Yeamans, of Mill
Hill, Antigua, Esq., and dying, left issue,
William, who was killed in a duel, and left his estate to
his sister.
Elizabeth, who m. Frances Farley, Esq., and dying s. p.,
left her estate to her husband.
3. Elizabeth, m. William Dunbar, of Dickenson's Bay, Antigua,
Esq.
iii. Lydia, who m. 1st, the Hon. Samuel Martin, and 2ndly,
Governor Byam.
iv. Alice, m. to Dr. Daniel Mackinnon, of Antigua, the first
settler of the name in that island.
Sir George Thomas, Bart., who inherited the estates of his uncle,
the Hon. William Thomas, was appointed governor of the Leeward
Islands, 25 Jan. 1752, and afterwards created a Baronet. He left
issue, by his wife, Lydia, dau. of John King, Esq. of Antigua,
i. William, second Bart.
i. Lydia, who m. John White, Esq. of Chichester, M.P., and
whose granddau., Frances, m. Gen. Crosbie.
ii. Margaret, m. to Arthur Freeman, Esq., by whom she had,
among other issue, Inigo Freeman, of Ratten, near Eastbourne,
Sussex, and who assumed the name of Thomas, m. 1st,
Charlotte, dau. of Henry Peirce, Esq. of Bedale, co. York;
and 2ndly, Frances, dau. of Viscount Middleton, and has issue
by both marriages.
Sir George Thomas dying at Upper Brook-street, London, 31 Dec.
1774, was succeeded by his eldest son,
Sir William, who was living at Pickitt's Hill, co. Hants, in
1745, high-sheriff for Sussex in 1767, m. Margaret, only dau. and
heir of Walter Sydserfe, Esq. of Antigua, and Soho, London, and
had issue,
i. Sir George, third Bart.
i. Anne, m. in 1774, to Stephen Popham, Esq.
ii. Elisabeth, m. to Andrew Lyon, of Edinburgh, Esq.
iii. Maria, m. to General Popham.
iv. Margaret, m. to William Roe, Esq.
v. Lydia, m. to Alexander Adair, Esq.
Sir William died 16 Dec. 1779, and was succeeded by his eldest
son,
Sir George, of Dale Park, co. Sussex, m. 1st, Jane-Louisa, dau.
of Alexander Salis, Esq. of Andelheim, Alsace, Switzerland, by
whom he had issue,
Sir George-William-Lewis, fourth Bart.
Sir George (third Bart.) m. 2ndly, Sophia, dau. of Admiral John
Montague, who was living in 1843, s. p., and dying in 1816, was
succeeded by his son,
Sir George-William-Lewis, present Bart., born about 1768, m.
Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Welsh, Esq., by whom he has issue,
i. George, died in 1820.
ii. Montague. iii. William.
i. Helen. ii. Sophia.
iii. Louisa-Leonora, m. in 1841, to -- Browne, Esq., 41st regt.
at Weymouth.
iv. Elizabeth.
No. 16.
GENEALOGY OF THE CARLISLES AND LAVINGTONS.
The first of the Carlisle family of whom we find any record, was
Richard Carlisle, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Conyers, and
had issue,
Thomas Carlisle, who m. Anne, dau. of -- Bussell, Esq. of co.
Somerset, and had, among other children,
Francis Carlisle, of Mells, in Somerset, and who was included in
the Heraldic Visitation of that county for the year 1623. He m. a
lady whose name is not on record, but who was alive in 1663, when
her son bequeathed her an annuity of 15l. for her life. This son
was a second
Francis Carlisle, of Wemden, and of Durleigh, near Bridgewater,
at the former of which places is a property still known by the
name of "Carlisle's." The first Francis Carlisle had another son,
viz., John Carlisle, prebendary of Comb, in the cathedral of
Wells, between 1661 and 1667, and who, on 7 June, 1664, proved
his brother Francis' will in the Archdeacon's Court at Taunton,
and in which will, mention is made of a third
Francis Carlisle, plainly the first settler of the name in
Antigua, young at the date of his father's death, in 1664, but
who afterwards emigrated to Antigua, where he became a member of
the legislature in 1676, on 25 July of which year, in such
capacity, he signed a remonstrance in vindication of Col. Philip
Warner, inserted in another place, (vide p. 317.) His son,
Col. Francis Carlisle, was still alive in 1732, when we find him
named as executor to the will of Col. Edward Warner, the
representative, in this island, of Sir Thomas Warner, and the
owner of the Folly and Savannah estates. He (Col. Francis
Carlisle) m. at St John's, Antigua, 28 April, 1708, Anne, dau. of
Daniel Mackinnon, Esq., and had an only dau. and heiress,
Alice Carlisle, who m. at St John's, Antigua, 8 July, 1735, the
Hon. Ralph Payne, chief justice, and afterwards governor of St
Christopher's, and by whom, who died 1762, she had (besides a
dau. Elizabeth, the wife of Drury Ottley, Esq., who died at his
house in Bryanstone-square, London, 22 April, 1822) a son,
Sir Ralph Payne, K.B., created Lord Lavington, who succeeded to
this estate on the death of his mother, at St Christopher's, in
1760, at the time when a general sickness prevailed in that
island. Lord Lavington was born at Basseterre, in the parish of
St George, in the island of St. Christopher's, 19 March, 1739,
and before his elevation to the peerage, in the imperial
parliament, he represented the several places of Shaftesbury,
Camelford, and Plympton. In 1771, he was made Knight of the Bath;
and in 1795, was raised to the peerage by the title of Baron
Lavington of Lavington. He m. at St George's, Hanover-square, 1
Sept. 1767, Frances, Baroness Kolbel, one of the ladies who
accompanied her Majesty Queen Charlotte, on her leaving Germany,
as the bride elect of King George III. Lord Lavington died at
Antigua, 1 Aug. 1807, leaving to his lady his estates for her
life.
No. 17.
GENEALOGY OF SIR CHARLES AUGUSTUS FITZROY.
William Crosby, brigadier-general, col. of the Royal Irish,
equerry to the Queen of George II., appointed governor of the
Leeward Islands, and afterwards of New York, in 1730,[86] m.
Grace, the sister of George Montague, Earl of Halifax, and dying
10 March, 1736, left issue by her a dau.,
Elizabeth, who m. 1st, Lord Augustus Fitzroy, second son of
Charles, second Duke of Grafton,[87] and 2ndly, James Jefferys.
She dying 21 Dec. 1788, left by her first husband a son,
Augustus-Charles Fitzroy, third Duke of Grafton, who m. 29 Jan.
1756, Anne Liddell, dau. and sole heir of Henry, Lord
Ravenscroft, by whom he had issue,
i. George-Henry, fourth Duke of Grafton, who m. Charlotte, dau.
of James, third Earl of Waldegrave, by whom he had a son,
Henry Fitzroy, Earl of Euston, the present Duke of Grafton.
ii. Charles, a general in the army, and colonel of the 48th
Regiment of Foot, m. 20 June, 1795, Frances, dau. of Edward
Millar Munday,[88] of Shepley, co. Derby, the issue of which
marriage was a son,
Sir Charles-Augustus Fitzroy, K.H., the present
commander-in-chief of the Leeward Islands, born 10 June,
1796, m. Lady Mary Lennox, dau. of Charles, fourth Duke of
Richmond, by which marriage he has issue.
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[86] Philip Crosby, Esq., another descendant of this family, and
a distinguished admiral in the British navy, in 1792, m.
Elizabeth, dau. of William Gunthorpe, Esq. of Bugle Hall, co.
Southampton, and of Winthorpe, in the island of Antigua.
Lieut.-Gen. Henry Crosby, another of that family, died at Bath,
17 Jan. 1822, aged 79; m. Anne, dau. of the late Samuel Eliot,
Esq. of Belfast Division, in the island of Antigua.
[87] Henry, the father of this Charles, was the first Duke of
Grafton, so created 11 Sept. 1675. He was mortally wounded by a
shot, that broke two of his ribs, while heading a party in an
assault upon the city of Cork, 21 Sept. 1690, and of which he
died, 9 Oct. following. His son, Charles, (the second Duke of
Grafton,) had two sons, who dying in his lifetime, (the eldest,
George, Earl of Euston, s. p.,) he was succeeded in his title by
his grandson, the son of Lord Augustus Fitzroy, by his wife,
Elizabeth Crosby, of whose marriage mention is made in Oldmixon's
"History of the British Empire," vol. i. p. 260:--
"Judge Morris makes mention of Lord Augustus Fitzroy being at New
York, where was then a man-of-war, on board of which that lord
had a command, and while he was in this city, he took to wife a
dau. of the governor, (Brigadier-General Crosby,) an agreeable
young lady." We need hardly repeat, this lady was the
great-grandmother of the present commander-in-chief. Sir C. A.
Fitzroy.
[88] William Munday, of Markinton, co. Derby, Esq., another
member of this family, m. Harriott-Georgiana, dau. of James
Frampton, of Moreton, co. Dorset, Esq., and granddau. of Phillis
Byam, an heiress of the island of Antigua.
No. 18.
GENEALOGY OF THE WILLOUGHBY FAMILY.
The Willoughby family trace from a long line of noble ancestors,
the first of whom known in England was
Sir John de Willoughby, one of the followers of William, Duke of
Normandy, who, on the conquest of England, gave to him the
lordship from him called Willoughby, in Lincolnshire; and from
this Sir John, we pass to his descendant, in a direct line,
Sir William de Willoughby, who, the 54th of the reign of Henry
III., was signed with the cross, as the phrase then was, and
accompanied Prince Edward (afterwards King Edward I.) into the
Holy Land. He m. Alice, dau. of John, Lord Beke, of Eresby, and
had issue,
Sir Robert de Willoughby, who, the 4th of Henry II., inherited,
as next heir, the estates of Anthony Bec, bishop of Durham, and
was summoned to parliament, in three years afterwards, as Baron
Willoughby de Eresby. From this nobleman we pass to his
great-great-grandson, and lineal descendant,
William Willoughby, fifth Baron Willoughby de Eresby, who died in
1409, leaving, by Lucy, his first wife, dau. of Roger, Lord
Strange, two sons--viz.,
i. Robert, sixth Baron Willoughby de Eresby, ancestor of the
Willoughbys of Eresby.
ii. Sir Thomas, a soldier of distinction, and one of the heroes
of Agincourt. He m. Joan, the dau. and heir of Sir Richard
FitzAlan, and was succeeded by his son,
Sir Robert, who, dying in his minority, was succeeded by his
brother,
Sir Christopher, who was made a Knight of the Bath, 6 July, 1483.
He m. Margaret, dau. of Sir William Jennet, and by her (among
other children) had,
Sir Christopher, knighted for his gallant conduct at the siege of
Tournay, temp. Henry VIII. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Sir George
Talboys, and by her had,
Sir William, Knt., who was elevated to the peerage, by letters
patent, dated 16 Feb. 1547, in the dignity of Lord Willoughby of
Parham. His lordship having distinguished himself in the wars of
Henry VIII., was made lieutenant of Calais, 4th of Edward VI.,
and resided there the remainder of that reign. He m. Elizabeth,
the dau. and heir of Sir Thomas Heneage, by whom he had,
Charles, second Lord Willoughby of Parham, who espoused Lady
Margaret Clinton, dau. of Edward, first Earl of Lincoln, by whom
he had issue,
William, who died before his father, leaving issue, by Elizabeth,
his wife, dau. and heir of Sir Christopher Hilliard, a son,
William, third Lord Willoughby of Parham, who succeeded his
grandfather. This nobleman died in 1617, leaving issue, by his
wife, Lady Frances Manners, dau. of John, fourth Earl of Rutland,
three sons, Henry, Francis, and William. Henry was the fourth
lord, but dying in his infancy, his brother
Francis succeeded him, and became fifth Lord Willoughby of
Parham. This nobleman, on whose account, in the first and
principal degree, we have introduced the present lineage, married
Elizabeth, second dau. and co-heir of Edward Cicil, Visct.
Wimbledon, and had issue one son, William, who died young, and
three daughters,
i. Diana, m. to Heneage, Earl of Winchilsea.
ii. Frances, m. to William Brereton, Lord Brereton, of Laghlin,
in Ireland; and
iii. Elizabeth, m. to Roger Jones, Visct. Ranelagh.
This nobleman--viz., Francis, fifth Lord Willoughby--was one of
the most celebrated characters of his age, but whose fortune
brought him to Antigua, and the other Caribbee Islands, of which
he became one of the most distinguished and notable governors;
having under his command at one time, the whole archipelago of
which the British empire in those parts consist.
Those who would wish to be fully acquainted with the character
and conduct of this nobleman, must consult all the annals of the
eventful period in which he lived, comprising the entire epoch of
the civil wars, and which, from first to last, abound with
anecdotes and facts relating to his personal history. We find him
first mentioned in connexion with the siege of Newark, a place he
gallantly besieged and took, sword in hand, at twelve o'clock at
night; and also at the termination of the civil commotions, as
state prisoner in the Tower of London, for attempting (after his
return from the West India Islands, in 1652) to raise a rebellion
against the government of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell.
In 1649, when the English fleet revolted from the parliament and
the service of the Commonwealth, they chose this nobleman,
Francis Lord Willoughby, for their commander and admiral; a
capacity in which he attended upon his Majesty Charles II., then
in Holland. Pointing out to his Majesty the islands in the West
Indies which still remained faithful to his cause, and unsubdued,
and where had congregated a vast assemblage of gallant royalists
--the island of Barbados alone counting several thousands of them
--his Majesty proposed to him to give him a commission of
governor thereof, provided only he would go out and assume the
command in his own person; terms with which Lord F. Willoughby
was readily induced to comply--obtaining also a commission from
the Earl of Carlisle, to whom those islands had been previously
granted. Thus armed at all points, he arrived at the island of
Barbados at the beginning of the year 1650. The first act of his
lordship's government, and of the ardent spirits there assembled
and associated with him, was, now that Charles I. had perished by
the fatal axe, to proclaim Charles II., his son, as his
successor;--this was done when, by the laws of the Commonwealth,
it was felony and death to acknowledge the Prince of Wales as
king of England, or rightful heir of any of the territories
thereunto belonging;--and Charles II. was proclaimed accordingly,
on 7th May, 1650. But the legislature of Barbados being at this
time engaged in some affairs of a very delicate nature, they
wished to bring them to a close before any new commander assumed
the head of the government; they therefore entreated his lordship
to suspend his authority for the space of three months, when, on
his return at the end of that period, they promised him all due
submission--an arrangement to which Lord Willoughby assenting, he
left Barbados, with some of his personal friends, (Major Byam in
the number,) and came to Antigua, where they again proclaimed
Charles II. as king of England and the territories thereto
belonging. This seems to be the first occasion of his visiting
the shores of this island; for at the end of the specified term
he returned to Barbados, where, at the expiration of little more
than another year, a fleet arrived for the reduction of that
colony, an account of which will be found in the annals of the
Byam family. (Vide page 40, vol. i.)
Lord Willoughby availing himself of the comprehensive nature of
the terms then and there obtained, went to England. After the
restoration of Charles II. to the throne of his ancestors, his
lordship renewed his pretensions to Antigua and other West India
colonies; and again obtaining a commission, dated 12th June,
1663, he shipped himself for those ports, and arrived at Barbados
in the August following. In another part of this work is given an
account of his loss off the Saint's Island, near Guadaloupe, with
a large fleet under his command, destined for the recovery of St.
Christopher's, recently taken by the French. On his plantations
at Surinam, his lordship expended no less than £26,000, a vast
sum in those days, equal to £150,000 according to the value of
money in our time; and these possessions (all lost by the
surrender of Surinam, according to the terms of the treaty of
Breda) his lordship, by his will, bequeathed to his nephew,
Lieut-Gen. Henry Willoughby; his Barbados property to his next
nephew, William; and his Antigua estates to his dau., Lady
Brereton, already mentioned. Of this possession of his lordship's
in the island of Antigua, we find traces in the maps of the same,
as late as 1748, wherein on "Collins's" estate, near Nonsuch
Harbour, is marked down, "My lord's pond," "My lord's cove,"
evidently in allusion to his lordship's former possessions, and
perhaps personal residence in the island. Lord Francis Willoughby
dying without male issue him surviving, his brother
William succeeded to his hereditary honours, and became sixth
Lord Willoughby of Parham, and obtaining letters patent for the
renewal of his brother Francis's commission, dated 3 Jan. 1666-7,
he shipped himself for these colonies, where he arrived soon
afterwards. His sons Henry and William, acted conspicuous parts
in the West India islands, where, together with their father,
they found their grave, though no memorial of them now seems to
exist, nor, indeed, have the exact dates of their deaths been
ascertained; but their father, William, Lord Willoughby, by whom
the most ancient of the Antigua laws, as they now exist in the
printed statutes book, were signed, died at Barbados, on 10
April, 1673. To the circumstance of the considerable mortality in
this family (occurring in these islands) may fairly be traced the
speedy extinction of their hereditary honours, and thus enabling
a foot soldier (collaterally related to those who died in the
Western hemisphere) to claim and recover the ancient honours of
the Willoughby family; for Edward Willoughby, a private in the
confederate army, serving under the illustrious Duke of
Marlborough, perceiving the family honours vacant, and knowing
himself to be a cadet of the house, laid claim to them, and
succeeded in establishing his right to the same, though he did
not long enjoy them, dying in April, 1713, when his brother
Charles succeeded him. It would not be consistent with the plan
of this work to pursue the history of this family further than to
observe, that the title finally became extinct in 1779, in the
person of George Willoughby, the seventeenth Lord Willoughby of
Parham.
The present Earl of Abingdon traces his descent from George,
seventh Lord Willoughby of Parham, (who succeeded [on the failure
of male issue] William, sixth Lord Willoughby of Parham,
capt.-gen. of the Leeward and Windward Caribbee Islands, and who
died 10 April, 1673,) in the following manner:--
Elizabeth, dau. and sole heir of George, seventh Lord Willoughby,
m. James Bertie, second son of James Bertie, second Earl of
Abingdon, (by his wife, Eleanor, dau. of Sir Henry Leigh,) and
had issue a son, who succeeded his grandfather as Willoughby,
third Earl of Abingdon, born in 1692, m. Anna-Maria, dau. of Sir
John Cullin, by whom he had issue, Willoughby, fourth Earl of
Abingdon, born in 1740, m. Charlotte, dau. and coheir of Sir
Peter Warren, K.G., and dying in 1799, was succeeded by his son,
Montague, fifth and present Earl of Abingdon, born in 1784, m.
Emily, dau. of Gen. Thomas Gage, by whom he has issue a son, Lord
Norreys, born in 1808, M.P. for co. of Oxford.
No. 19.
GENEALOGY OF THE MARTIN FAMILY, OF GREEN CASTLE.
-- Martin, colonel in the army. He emigrated to the West Indies,
and became proprietor of an estate at Surinam, at which colony,
soon after the Restoration, he swore to having been present at
Charing Cross, London, when Charles, Prince of Wales, was
proclaimed King, under the title of Charles II., and when his
proclamation was read, commanding all persons _then in office_ to
continue so until further notice. This gentleman is said to have
been, under the appellation of Sovereign, the chief magistrate of
Belfast It is supposed he died at Surinam, previous to the
removal of that colony to Antigua, according to the terms of the
treaty of Breda, in 1667, leaving, by ----, his wife, a son,
Samuel Martin, major in the army, speaker of the house of
assembly in Antigua, in 1689, during the administration of
Christopher Codrington, the elder. He m. 1st, 18 Aug. 1690, the
relict of Christopher Reynall, (who died 8 Aug. 1691, s. p.;) and
2ndly, 28 Jan. 1692, Lydia, dau. of the Hon. William Thomas, of
Antigua, by whom (who re-married Governor Edward Byam) he left
issue three sons,
i. Samuel, son and heir, of whom hereafter.
ii. Thomas, M.D., born in Antigua, died at Jamaica in 1747,
leaving issue.
iii. Josiah, president of the Council of Antigua, m. 1st, Mrs.
Chester, and 2ndly, Mary, dau. of William Yeamans, of New
York, by whom he left a numerous issue.
Major Samuel Martin being murdered 25 Dec. 1701, was buried at
St. John's, Antigua, and was succeeded in his estates by his
eldest son,
Samuel, (above mentioned,) a minor at his father's death, but
became afterwards colonel in the army, and speaker of the house
of assembly in Antigua, from about 1753 to 1763. He was possessed
of great virtues and eminent qualifications, and having insured
the goodwill of all his contemporaries, died in 1788, universally
lamented, at the advanced age of about 90 years, leaving by his
first wife, Frances, dau. of John Yeamans, Esq. of Mill Hill,
Antigua,
i. Henrietta, wife of Col. Anstar FitzGerald, (of the Desmond
family,) and who was ancestor of William Thomas FitzGerald,
the poet, and John Fonblanque, the present Commissioner of
Bankruptcies, and
ii. Samuel, treasurer to the Princess of Wales, M.P. for
Camelford and Hastings, and one of the joint-secretaries of
the treasury. He is famous for the duel he fought with the
celebrated Wilkes, who received a wound in the encounter.
Samuel Martin died s. p.
And by his second wife, Sarah, dau. of Edward Wyke, of Monserrat,
Esq., Col. Martin had three sons,
i. Henry, of whom hereafter.
ii. Josiah, appointed governor of North Carolina, 8 Dec. 1770.
iii. William-Byam, of White Knights, Reading, high-sheriff for
the county of Berks, in 1787, died in 1816, leaving by his
wife Charlotte, dau. of Col. Yorke, three sons--viz., 1.
Samuel, lieut.-col. in the guards; killed in France, 13 Dec.
1813; m. Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Rolleston, Esq., by whom
he left issue three sons and one dau.; 2. William-Byam,
resident in Hyderabad, now of Hyde-park-corner-terrace; and
3. Henry-Yorke-Byam, d. unm. in 1808.
Sir Henry, commissioner of the navy, M.P., born in 1733, created
a Baronet in 1791. He m. Eliza-Anne, dau. of Harding Parker,
Esq., by whom he had issue,
i. Sir William-Henry, second Baronet.
ii. Josiah, collector of the customs, Antigua.
iii. Sir Byam, G.C.B., M.P., comptroller of the navy; m.
Catherine, dau. of Commissioner Fanshawe, by whom he has
issue, 1. Capt William-Fanshawe Martin, R.N.; 2. Capt
Henry-Byam Martin, R.N., and a dau.
iv. Judith, m. to John-Poll. Bastard, Esq., Devon.
Sir William-Henry, second Baronet, born in 1768, died in 1842,
leaving issue by his wife, Catherine, (to whom he was married 23
Jan. 1792,) dau. of Thomas Powell, Esq., a son and heir,
Sir Henry, the third and present Baronet, born in 1801, and
married to his first cousin, Catharine, the dau. of Sir Byam
Martin, G.C.B.
No. 20.
GENEALOGY OF THE FREEMAN FAMILY.
The lineage of the Freeman family may be traced from Arthur
Freeman, of Lincoln's-inn-fields, London, and of Antigua, Esq.,
who espoused Dorothy, relict of George Symes, Esq. of Antigua,
(by which marriage the estates called "Freeman's," in Antigua,
now in possession of Inigo-Freeman Thomas, Esq., came into that
family,) and had issue a son, Thomas, who m. Rebecca, dau. of
Col. Wm. Byam, (_see_ Byam's _Pedigree_,) and by her had,
i. Arthur, of whom hereafter.
ii. Thomas, m. Anne, dau. and co-heir of Col. John Wickham, of
Old North Sound, in the Island of Antigua, and by which
marriage he became possessed of the estate still known by the
name of "Wickhams." Dying, he left issue two sons, 1. Thomas,
speaker of the house of assembly, Antigua, in 1790, m.
Christiana, second dau. of Francis Ffry, of Bermudian Valley,
Antigua, Esq., by whom (who died at Cheltenham, 23 Feb. 1808)
he had a son, Thomas-Inigo-Wickham Freeman, Esq., a capt. in
the army, and late of his Majesty's 18th Hussars, and of
Wickhams, in the island of Antigua, as lineal descendant of
John Wickham aforesaid, (of the family of the celebrated
William of Wickham, the founder of Winchester College, and
New College, Oxford,) whose arms Capt. Freeman quarters with
his own; and 2. Arthur, an accomplished scholar, and rector
of St. Paul's, Antigua, where he died in 1815.
iii. Byam, m. Anne, dau. and co-heir of Thomas Watkins, Esq. of
Popeshead, Antigua, by whom he had an only child, Harriet,
the wife of Thomas Oliver, Esq. of Boston, in North America,
who had issue two daus., Alice, late wife of Captain Haynes,
R.N., and Emily, who m. -- Elton, Esq.
iv. Robert, v. Charles, both died unm.
i. Elizabeth, m. to Richard Kirwan, Esq.
ii. Rebecca, m. to Daniel Warner, Esq.
iii. Mary, m. to -- Phillis, Esq.
iv. Charlotte, m. to General Sherington Talbot, (son of John
Talbot, Bishop of Durham, and brother of Charles, Lord
Talbot, lord chancellor of England, and ancestor of the now
Earl Talbot,) by whom she had an only dau., born at Antigua
during the raging of a hurricane, 28 July, 1751, and
appropriately christened "Indiana;" m. at St George's,
Bloomsbury, 1773, to Louis-Peake Garland, Esq., by whom she
had two sons, Nathaniel, and Peake Garland, Esqs., the former
of Ensom, in Surrey, and the latter a barrister-at-law,
recently deceased at Cheltenham.
Arthur Freeman (the eldest son of Thomas and Rebecca Freeman) m.
Margaret, dau. of Sir George Thomas, first Bart., and dying in
1780, left two sons and three daus., Inigo and George, who, in
conformity with the will of their maternal grandfather, assumed
the name of Thomas. (For Inigo-Freeman Thomas, _see_ Thomas'
_pedigree in this work_.) George, who was lieut.-col. in the 11th
Hussars, and proprietor of an estate at Popeshead, in Antigua,
died unm. in Nov. 1827.
THE END.
T. C. Savill, Printer, 107, St. Martin's Lane.