MARY² MARSHALL (JOHN¹)^1,2 was born September 13, 1795 in Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia³, and died April 21, 1841⁴. She married GENERAL JAQUELIN BURWELL HARVIE⁵ September 18, 1813 in Fauquier County, Virginia⁶. He was born October 09, 1788 in Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia⁶, and died 1850⁷.

More About MARY MARSHALL:
Burial: 1841, Shockoe Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia⁸

More About GENERAL JAQUELIN BURWELL HARVIE:
Military service: Served in the United States Navy⁹

Children of MARY MARSHALL and JAQUELIN HARVIE are:
i. EMILY H³ HARVIE¹⁰, d. Unknown.
ii. MARY MARSHALL HARVIE, b. March 17, 1815¹¹; d. July 27, 1873¹¹.

More About MARY MARSHALL HARVIE:
Medical Information: Paralyzed by a stroke of lightning and her nervous sytem permanently damaged at the age of eighteen.¹¹

iii. JOHN MARSHALL HARVIE, b. October 09, 1816, Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia¹¹; d. September 07, 1841, Cedar Keys, Florida¹¹.

More About JOHN MARSHALL HARVIE: Cause of Death: Victim of the climate in Cedar Keys, Florida¹¹
Education: West Point Military Academy¹¹
Military service: Served in the Florida War¹¹
Occupation: Professor of Mathematics at West Point Academy¹¹

iv. ELLEN STROTHER HARVIE¹², b. December 10, 1818, Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia¹³; d. Unknown; m. COLONEL FRANCIS GILDART RUFFIN, SR^14,15,16,17, March 27, 1860¹⁸; b. 1816, Woodville, Mississippi^19,20; d. 1892²⁰.

Notes for COLONEL FRANCIS GILDART RUFFIN, SR:

"The following is an extract from a letter of the late Col Frank G Ruffin to Hon Paul Cameron, Hillsboro, N. C.:

I have seen Edmund Ruffin, Sr.'s, Genealogical chart and
remember that I found myself the seventh in descent from the head
of the family in Virginia, William Ruffin who settled in Isle of
Wight in 1660, who accumulated immense landed property on the south
side of James River by importing laborers into the country, that
sort of service being at that time remunerative by a grant of so
much land per capita.
As early as 1743 'Capt. John Ruffin' of Surry was a large
planter. The family have generally remained on the south side of
James River, but Judge Ruffin's grandfather, Col Robert Ruffin, who
in 1762 was appointed along with Robert Bolling, Roger Atkinson,
William Eaton, John Bannister, Thomas Jones, Henry Walker, George
Turnbull and James Field, all represented by Virginia and North
Carolina families to this day, to lay off the town of Petersburg and
he was designated by the act as a 'gentleman,' at a time when that
term had sense and meaning in it.
Col Robert, after the marriage of his daughters to Claibornes,
removed to King William County, and occupied the brick mansion Sweet
Hall on the Pamunkey, about ten miles above---not West Point, but
West's Point, named after one of our earliest settlers. Sweet Hall,
as I knew it in its decay forty years ago had still enough left of
its grounds and surroundings to argue the means, tastes, and habits
of a gentleman once its owner; as a ruined but distinct dyke which
had once reclaimed a very extensive marsh on his large tract of land
on the opposite shore of New Kent, showed what must have been his
energy and enterprise.
Besides these he also owned another large tract in the
immediate neighborhood of Sweet Hall in King William, called 'Turcoman,'
which subsequently became the property of his son Sterling (father
of Judge Thomas Ruffin) and a very large body of very fine land in
the county of Brunswick.
He married the widow of Lightfoot of the Sandy Point Lightfoots,
who was born a 'Clack,' and was, as old Mr John Roane, who knew her,
has frequently told me, a very beautiful woman, and who had consumption
for fifty years, as I learned from Judge Ruffin, who spent much of
his childhood with her.
They had five children, two daughters (who married Claibornes,
one o fthe oldest colonial names, and one left a son, Sterling Claiborne,
who was probably as able a lawyer as the Judge himself, and altogether
a very remarkable man,)_ and three sons, James, William, and Sterling.
James was a captain of cavalry throughout the war of the Revolution.
He settled in King William, married Mary, the daughter of John Roane,
Maximus Natu, of 'Uppowoc' on the Mattaponi in the same county, and
died at a comparatively early age, having a large family of children.
He was a man of parts and very high courage, but extreely lazy habits.
Most of his children died in early manhood, and only one of them was a
really prosperous man, he migrated early to Tennessee, and thence to
Mississippi, and dying bequeathed to his children very large property. *
* *
Of Mr Sterling Ruffin I can tell you not half as much as you
probably know. He had been dead some years before I came from
Mississippi to Raleigh in 1824. His wife Alice was the daughter
of Thomas Roane of Newington in the county of King and Queen on the
North bank of the Mattaponi, about three miles below Mantapike, and
where Dahlgreen was killed in 1863. * * *
My grandfather, William Ruffin, a volunteer at the age of
sixteen at the siege of Yorktown, married Margaret Ritchie, daughter
of Margaret Roane, sister of the two brothers above named engaged in
commerce at Fredericksburg with Hugh Campbell, who had married a daughter
of Thomas Roane, and who was so crippled in business that he had to
draw out. He and his brother Sterling subsequently left that part of
Virginia and moved to Brunswick, where, joining the Methodist church,
they became most intimate with the fathers respectively of George A
Dromgoole and the Gholsons, and continued so until death.
From Brunswick they moved to North Carolina, as you know.
They had both seen gay men, but they became very devout, and gave up
as many of this world's vanities as most persons of their persuasion;
though neither of them could surrender blooded horses as entirely as
Bishop Ravenscroft did---possibly because they had obtained a dispensation
from the circuit riders;---and my uncle Sterling bequeathed his to his
son, the Judge, in whose family I hope they still remain.
These two brothers were, as you know, devotedly attached to
each other, and Judge Ruffin once told me, in proof of the fact, that
his father, when dying, grasped my grandfather's hand exclaiming: 'Twin
brothers; brothers by nature, and brothers in faith.' They were both
in earnest. The late Governor Morehead of your State told me that he
had heard my uncle Sterling 'exhort,' with the usual gesticulations of
his sect, until he would sit down thoroughly exhausted, panting and wet
with perspiration.
'He was a powerful man very much of the figure and face of my
brother James, bowlegs included,' Judge Ruffin once said to me. My
grandfather, from a defective physique perhaps, he was never robust, and
for many years suffered greatly from rheumatism---or possible from other
causes, was less demonstrative and exhortatory. He died when I was in
my ninth year, so I remember but very little of him. But I have always
heard, and from several sources, that he had fine conversational powers.
At a dinner given to Mr Thomas Ritchie in Essex, his native county, in
1840, I heard that gentleman declare that whether his political principles
were good or bad, he was more indebted for them, both in depth and
clearness of conviction, to his brother-in-law, William Ruffin, than to
any other man. Judge Ruffin told me that he was a man of fine intellect
and excellent business capacity, who would have prospered in life, but
for the uncontrollable extravagance of his wife.
Like many, or rather, most youths of his period, his education
was defective, owing to the derangements of the war; but at the age of
sixty-six he retained enough of his Latin to superintend the preparation
of my daily tasks for Dr McPheeters; always preceded by the Lord's
Prayer, repeated between his knees; and to him and the late Wm. Bingham,
of Orange, I owed such proficiency that I took my Latin degree at the
University of Virginia when I was but little over sixteen years old.
Of another branch of the family, the founder in this country, was Edmund
Ruffin, also a son of William, of Isle of Wight, great-grandfather of the
distinguished agriculturist of that name. He was a carpenter and made a
large fortune, more, as his great-grandson used to say, than his son and
grandson could spend in their short lives---they each died of gout at
forty-three. I do not suppose him to have lost caste by his trade; for
in the manners of that time, arbitrary and capricious there as always, a
gentleman no more came to be such by following a trade, than did a Scotch
Cameron by stealing cattle, or a Ruthven by attempting to kidnap a king.
Archibald Harwood, of King and Queen, a first cousin of Judge Ruffin,
through his mother, was made a coach maker 'because,' as the old lady
told me, 'he would not learn his book,' and she was resolved he should
not grow up in idleness. And Arthur Brockenborough, son of Dr
Brockenborough who married a Roane, aunt of Judge Ruffin, was a
carpenter--made such because he was not bright at letters---and was
the superintendent of all the carpenters' work done upon the University
of Virginia. All honor to their sensible parents.
It was the son of that Ruffin, the carpenter, and the grandfather
of Ed. Ruffin, Sr, as we knew him, who was a member of the convention
called to consider the adoption of the Federal Constitution, who on the
25th of June, 1798, voted against the ratification of that instrument
along with Patrick Henry, the orator of Virginia, and with Theodorick
Bland, his own colleague, Stephens Thompson Mason, William Grayson,
George Mason, James Monroe, Benjamin Harrison, John Tyler, Thomas Roane,
and others. * * *
This gentleman and his descendants resided on the south side of
James River below the head of tide, and had all the characteristics of
the people among whom they were brought up. There are other branches of
the same family in the same region, of whom I knew but little; though they
are not remotely allied to me. They all, however, occupy the status of
gentlemen in their respective communities.
The traditions of our settlement here vary. One account is that
our first ancestor was a parson of the English Establishment. Another,
somewhat more ambitious, is that we are a part of the family of the
Ruthvens of Pertshire in Scotland, who, attainted and driven into exile
in France, returned to England on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes,
whence some members of the family migrated to this country. I have no
means to decide this point, nor to tell whether we are of the Noble or
Scullion branch of the family---whether we are descended from gentlemen,
or whether

'Our ancient but ignoble blood
Has crept through scoundrels ever since the flood.'

Your request that I will state the characteristics of the family
involves me in some difficulty and more delicacy, as the people were of
my own blood, and from what I knew of them, somewhat mixed in their
characteristics. They have been within my range of observation, pretty
thorough-going men, whether their leaning was to business or pleasure;
and I have seen a good many instances of these extremes. They were
almost universally high spirited, high tempered, quick to take and
resent offense, but placable, except when their personal dignity was
invaded or even threatened; when, though not relentless, they were
unforgiving.
They have not generally been obtrusive of their opinions,
though tenacious of them, and have been too independent and outspoken
to make politicians, though they have generally possessed that
manliness of bearing and that geniality of manner which have given
them the sort of popularity which is based on respect and good will.
They have always relished rural pursuits; and my father (who went
to Mississippi by the advice of Judge Ruffin, very early in the present
century, and landed at Fort Adams with his forty dollars and two
shirts in his saddle bags), is the only one of the name I have ever
heard of, who had made a fortune by trade. He g ot out ofit as soon
as he could, and went to planting cotton and raising horses and cattle
in Wilkinson county. Further than this I do no know that they have
peculiarities which separate them very widely from their fellow citizens."
[Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume IV, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981, 337-341.]

More About COLONEL FRANCIS GILDART RUFFIN, SR:
Education: University of Virginia²¹
Military service: Served in the Confederate States Army^21,22
Occupation: Writer; Virginia State Auditor^23,24
Public Office: Virginia Auditor²⁵
Residence: "Valley Farm," Albemarle County, Virginia; Richmond, Virginia^25,26,27

v. VIRGINIA HARVIE, b. November 01, 1821, Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia²⁸; d. Unknown; m. SPICER PATRICK, SR²⁸, June 15, 1852²⁸; b. 1792, New York²⁹; d. June 15, 1884²⁹.

More About SPICER PATRICK, SR:
Education: University of New York³⁰
Occupation: Physician³⁰
Public Office: Served in the Virginia Legislature; Member and Speaker of the House of Delegates, West Virginia³⁰
Residence: Kanawha County, Virginia; West Virginia³⁰

vi. SUSAN COLSTON HARVIE, b. October 07, 1824, Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia³¹; d. Unknown; m. REVEREND ANDERSON WADE, SR³¹, March 10, 1853³¹; d. 1880, Prince Edward County, Virginia³¹.

More About REVEREND ANDERSON WADE, SR:
Education: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania³²
Occupation: Physician; Minister³²
Religion: Episcopalian³²
Residence: Charles City County, Virginia; Henry County, Virginia³³

vii. WILLIAM WALLACE HARVIE³⁴, d. May 29, 1868, Arkansas³⁴.

More About WILLIAM WALLACE HARVIE:
Military service: Served in the Confederate States Army³⁴
Residence: Arkansas³⁴