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MARY RANDOLPH2 SPOTSWOOD (ALEXANDER1)1,2,3 was born June 19, 1775 in New Post, Virginia4, and died January 05, 1803 in "St Julien," Spotsylvania County, Virginia5,6. She married JUDGE FRANCIS TALIAFERRO BROOKE7,8,9 October 03, 179110,11. He was born August 27, 176312, and died March 03, 1851 in "St Julien," Spotsylvania County, Virginia13.
More About MARY RANDOLPH SPOTSWOOD:
Cause of Death: Complications of childbirth14
Hair color: Brown hair 15
More About JUDGE FRANCIS TALIAFERRO BROOKE:
Medical Information: Twin16
Military service: Served in the Revolutionary War17,18,19
Occupation: Attorney20
Public Office: Judge; Member of the Virginia Senate, 1800; Speaker of the Virginia Senate, 1804; Judge and President of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia20,21
Residence: Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia; Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia; Essex County, Virginia; Fredericksburg, Virginia; "Epsom," Spotsylvania County, Virginia; "St Julian," Spotsylvania County, Virginia22,23,24
Children of MARY SPOTSWOOD and FRANCIS BROOKE are:
i. ELIZABETH3 BROOKE25, d. Unknown.
More About ELIZABETH BROOKE:
Cause of Death: Killed by the overturning of a stage at the age of fifteen years25
ii. DR JOHN BROOKE25, d. Unknown, Off the coast of China26.
More About DR JOHN BROOKE:
Burial: Unknown, Some Chinese port26
Education: Carlisle College; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania27
Issue: None28
Military service: Served in the United States Navy29
Occupation: Physician29
iii. ROBERT SPOTSWOOD BROOKE30, b. September 05, 1800, "St Julien," Spotsylvania County, Virginia31,32; d. May 1851, Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia33; m. (1) ELIZABETH SMITH33, Bef. 1835; b. , Folly, Virginia33; d. Unknown; m. (2) MARGARET LISLE SMITH33, November 24, 183533; b. Abt. 1808, Egypt, Virginia34; d. Unknown.
More About ROBERT SPOTSWOOD BROOKE:
Education: West Point35
Occupation: Attorney; President of the Branch of the Valley Bank, at Staunton, Virginia35,36
Public Office: Member of the Virginia House of Delegates37
Residence: Augusta County, Virginia37,38
iv. MARY RANDOLPH SPOTSWOOD BROOKE39,40, b. 1803, Spotsylvania County, Virginia41,42; d. Unknown; m. DR EDMUND BERKELEY, SR43,44, October 03, 1826, Spotsylvania County, Virginia45,46; b. March 17, 180147; d. April 05, 185148.
More About MARY RANDOLPH SPOTSWOOD BROOKE:
Residence: Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia49
More About DR EDMUND BERKELEY, SR:
Education: Jefferson College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; University of Virginia50
Occupation: Physician50
Residence: Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia50
Endnotes
1. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 550.
2. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 358.
3. Slaughter, Rev Philip Slaughter, D D, A History of St Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia, (Culpeper, Virginia, 1900.), 72.
4. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 367.
5. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 360, "The shock I received on the death of my wife, I cannot well describe; but my father had left me a legacy better than property, his fine alacrity of spirits (God bless him), which have never forsaken me; and in the summer afterwards, I was advised to go to the Virginia Springs, and began to look out for another wife, to supply the place to my children of their mother. While at the Warm Springs, with Mr Giles and some others, a carriage arrived with ladies; there is something in destiny, for as soon as I took hold of the hand of Mary Champe Carter (though I had seen her before and admired her much), I felt that she would amply supply the place of my lost wife. I began my attentions to her from that moment."
6. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 367.
7. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 549.
8. By Special Staff of Writers, History of Virginia, Volume VI, Virginia Biography, (The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1924.), 560.
9. Slaughter, Rev Philip Slaughter, D D, A History of St Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia, (Culpeper, Virginia, 1900.), 72.
10. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 359, "In that year, the year '90, I sometimes visited my friends at Smithfield; paid my addresses to Mary Randolph Spotswood, the eldest daughter of Gen. Spotswood and Mrs Spotswood, the only whole niece of Gen. Washington. Our attachment had been a very early one. Her father frequently sent to Smithfield for me when I was only thirteen years of age; my father would complain, but always permitted me to go. I would find the General, about daylight in the morning, with his fine horses drawn out, and his fox hounds, and, as I was an excellent horseman, would mount me upon one of his most spirited horses, and often range through the country and woods, where I now live. He knew his daughter was very much attached to me, but though succeeding in my profession, I was but poor, and he had great objections to the match. After some time, however, when I had gone back to Tappahannock, finding his daughter's attachment too strong to overcome, though she had been courted by others, he consented to our union.She was sixteen in June, and we were married in October following, at Nottingham, in the year 1791."
11. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 367.
12. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 343, "I was born on the 27th of August, 1763, at Smithfield, the residence of my beloved father, upon the Rappahannock, four miles from Fredericksburg."
13. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 367.
14. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 360, "Happily married, with good prospects, we lived together thirteen years, when she died January 4th, 1803, after the birth of her youngest daughter, Mary Randolph."
15. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 359, "Her form could not be excelled; her face, when lighted with a smile, was brilliant, though her features were not regular; she had brilliant teeth, and luxuriant brown hair; she had been highly educated by a Mrs Hearn, an English lady, who lived in the family several years."
16. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 344.
17. By Special Staff of Writers, History of Virginia, Volume VI, Virginia Biography, (The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1924.), 560.
18. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 345, "Having passed the age of sixteen, the military age of that period, I was appointed a First Lieutenant in Gen Harrison's regiment of Artillery, the last of the year 1780; and my twin brother, not liking to part with me, shortly after got the commission of First Lieutenant in the same regiment."
19. Brock, Dr R A, VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS, Volume I, (H H Hardesty, Publisher, Richmond and Toledo, 1888.), 89.
20. By Special Staff of Writers, History of Virginia, Volume VI, Virginia Biography, (The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1924.), 560.
21. Brock, Dr R A, VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIANS, Volume I, (H H Hardesty, Publisher, Richmond and Toledo, 1888.), 90.
22. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 568.
23. By Special Staff of Writers, History of Virginia, Volume VI, Virginia Biography, (The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1924.), 560.
24. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 358, 361.
25. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 360.
26. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 367.
27. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 362.
28. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 367.
29. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 360.
30. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 367.
31. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 362, "In 1806, when her [Mary Champe] health was delicate and she was advised to go to the Springs, she carried Robert with her, then six years of age; he had had the ague and fever, but recovered at the Springs."
32. 1850 Federal Census of Augusta County Virginia, HH #1231, Robert S Brooke, 50.
33. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 367.
34. 1850 Federal Census of Augusta County Virginia, HH #1231, Margaret, 42.
35. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 360.
36. 1850 Federal Census of Augusta County Virginia, HH #1231, Lawyer.
37. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 360.
38. 1850 Federal Census of Augusta County Virginia, HH #1231.
39. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 360.
40. By Special Staff of Writers, History of Virginia, Volume VI, Virginia Biography, (The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1924.), 560.
41. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 360.
42. 1860 Federal Census of Augusta County Virginia, Book 1, 796, Mary R S Berkley, 57, widow. Born in Spotsylvania.
43. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 369.
44. Slaughter, Rev Philip Slaughter, D D, A History of St Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia, (Culpeper, Virginia, 1900.), 72.
45. Nanney, Frank L, Jr, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 360, "Mary Randolph was married in 1827, to Dr Edmund Berkeley, of Hanover; and after many changes of situation, went to Staunton, where she now resides, and has a family of eight children."
46. Family Tree Maker, Marriage Index: KY, NC, TN, WV, 1728-1850 (FTW CD #229).
47. Berkeley Family Bible Records.
48. By Special Staff of Writers, History of Virginia, Volume VI, Virginia Biography, (The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1924.), 560.
49. 1860 Federal Census of Augusta County Virginia, Book 1, 796.
50. By Special Staff of Writers, History of Virginia, Volume VI, Virginia Biography, (The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1924.), 560.
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