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Mother: Mary C. COWAN |
_Isham HODGES Sr.__________________+ | (1750 - 1798) _Edmond (Edmund) HODGES Sr._| | (1776 - 1841) m 1797 | | |_Mary______________________________ | (.... - 1806) _Edmond HODGES Jr.___| | (1806 - 1862) | | | _Aaron PEARSON Sr._________________+ | | | (1736 - 1808) | |_Sarah PEARSON _____________| | (1780 - 1823) m 1797 | | |_Winifred SPEARS __________________ | (1754 - 1805) | |--Mary C. HODGES | (1842 - 1850) | _(RESEARCH QUERY) COWAN OR COWDEN _ | | | _William Harvey COWAN ______| | | (1790 - ....) | | | |___________________________________ | | |_Mary C. COWAN ______| (1813 - 1892) | | ___________________________________ | | |_Ellen TOLBERT _____________| (1790 - ....) | |___________________________________
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Mother: Anne MATTHEWS |
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m. 1699 Edgefield, South Carolina
________________________________ | _________________________________| | | | |________________________________ | _Philip HOSKINS Esq. "the immigrant"_| | (1650 - 1718) m 1680 | | | ________________________________ | | | | |_________________________________| | | | |________________________________ | | |--Martha HOSKINS | (1681 - 1714) | ________________________________ | | | _Thomas MATTHEWS "the Immigrant"_| | | (1622 - 1676) m 1659 | | | |________________________________ | | |_Anne MATTHEWS ______________________| (1664 - 1718) m 1680 | | _John COCKSHUTT "the Immigrant"_ | | (1609 - 1642) m 1629 |_Jane COCKSHUTT _________________| (1638 - 1699) m 1659 | |_Jane HICKS ____________________ (1612 - 1662) m 1629
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Mother: Alice COLLIER |
"In 1633, the Reverend Rowland Jones immigrated from England to
the colony of Virginia. He had graduated from Oxford University
and in Williamsburg served as minister of Bruton Parish for
fourteen years. First rector of the newly formed Bruton Parish
Church from 1674 until his death in 1688."
"Among the men of the Revolution who attended Bruton Parish
Church were Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Richard Henry
Lee, George Wythe, Patrick Henry, and George Mason. But the
building's history, and that of its churchyard, goes back
further in time.
Dating from 1715, the present structure is the third in a series
of Anglican houses of worship that began in 1660. The first,
which may or may not have been at or near the 18th-century site,
was built, probably of wood, in the Old Fields at Middle
Plantation, Williamsburg's name until the 66-year-old community
was incorporated in 1699.
Formed from Middletown and Marston Parishes in 1674, Bruton
Parish was about 10 miles square. It is named for Bruton,
Somersetshire, in England, the home of then-Governor William
Berkeley and Virginia secretary Thomas Ludwell. As late as 1724,
the parish contained only 110 families.
In 1677 the vestry ordered that a church be built of brick on
land donated by John Page on November 14. Page also donated
£200. The contract was let in June 1681 and the building (72K
image w/caption), which stood a few steps northwest of the 1715
church, was complete by November 29, 1683. Its buried
foundations remain. The first rector, the Reverend Rowland
Jones, dedicated the structure on January 6, 1684.
The church stood near the center of Williamsburg's original
survey map drawn 15 years later. Its location suggested the
church's importance to the colonial community's life, but the
building was already in disrepair. On November 21, 1710, the
vestry declared its condition ruinous and proposed construction
of a third church. The vestry submitted a plan for one large
enough to meet only the needs of parish residents and invited
the colony's government to finance an enlargement to accommodate
its officers and others who came to the capital when the General
Assembly sat. The house approved a £200 grant December 5, 1710,
to be financed from the taxes on liquor and slaves.
The Reverend James Blair, president of the College of William
and Mary and Virginia's highest-ranking clergyman, approved
construction on March 1, 1711. The same day, Governor Alexander
Spotswood provided an architectural drawing of a cruciform
design 75 feet long and 28 feet wide "in the clear," with two
wings 22 feet wide and 19 feet long. Spotswood offered to
underwrite 22 feet of the length and provide some or all of the
bricks if the vestry would finance 53 feet and the assembly paid
for the wings. His proposition was accepted. The contract was
let to carpenter James Morris on November 17, 1711, the wings to
be raised by John Tyler, builder of the Magazine.
Work began in 1712 with an October 15, 1714, deadline. The
December 2, 1715, entry in the vestrybook says, "at length new
Church is finished, or nearly so." The second church was
demolished the same year.
Spotswood was provided with a canopied chair on a platform
inside the rail opposite the raised pulpit with its overhanging
sounding board. Parishioners sat in boxed pews, their walls
providing privacy and protection from drafts. In the early years
the sexes sat apart. A vestrybook entry for January 9, 1716,
says: "Ordered that the Men sitt on the North side of the
church, and the women on the left."
A succession of galleries was built for particular groups
beneath the soaring ceiling. For example, on July 10, 1718,
William and Mary students were assigned one that still stands.
Exterior stairs were added for access to some of these railed,
overhanging rows of benches. In 1744 the building was enlarged,
and in 1752 the vestry voted to make the east end as long as the
west, extending the chancel 25 feet to the east. The assembly
paid for the work, and it was completed in 1755.
The north, east, and south gables are pierced by rosette
windows, the north and south walls by tall arched and sashed
windows. All were provided for ventilation as well as light.
In 1758, the church received a chalice, paten, and alms basin
(33k image w/caption) from the old church at Jamestown.
Among the Williamsburg notables buried beneath the marble
flagstones inside the church was Governor Francis Fauquier, one
of the best loved of the colonial governors, who died in 1768.
The same year an English organ was installed. Gaolkeeper Peter
Pelham was hired to play it for £25 a year, a position he held
until about 1802. Pelham brought to church with him a prisoner
from the Gaol, whose job it was to pump the instrument. The
organ remained in service until 1835. The present organ, the
church's fourth, was presented by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in
1954.
In 1761 merchant James Tarpley presented the church with a bell.
Bids for a steeple or belfry to house the bell were let on
January 1, 1769. The vestry awarded a £410 contract for a brick
tower surmounted by a wooden octagon and for miscellaneous
repairs to Benjamin Powell that September 14. The addition can
be seen from outside the church, as the steeple bricks have a
darker color than the salmon-hued bricks of the rest of the
church. Tarpley's bell is still in use.
In 1781 the church served as a storehouse or hospital, perhaps
both, during the Battle of Yorktown. In 1799 a visitor noted
that the church again was "much out of repair." The exterior
stairs were removed in 1834, and in 1838 the vestry agreed to
major remodeling. Begun in 1839 and finished the next year, the
renovations made a coal bin of the lower tower, walled off the
west end for a Sunday school, relocated the pulpit against that
wall, and opened a door in the east end. On June 1, 1840, the
town clock was installed in the steeple.
For a week after the May 5, 1862, Battle of Williamsburg, the
church served as a Union hospital for Northern and Confederate
soldiers.
The vestry ordered extensive repairs and modifications in 1886
and 1896. By turns the original pews were sawed shorter, then
removed. Many of the marble floor slabs were removed in 1840 or
in 1886, and a wooden floor was substituted. Some slabs were
recovered when another restoration began in 1901 under the
Reverend W. T. Roberts, but new ones had to be ordered for that
restoration.
The Reverend Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin became rector in 1903 and took
over the restoration. He raised funds to restore the church to
close to its original form and obtained the services of New York
architect J. Stewart Barney. Dedicated in 1907, the work cost
$27,000.
Goodwin undertook another restoration in 1937 When his health
failed the next year, Colonial Williamsburg helped the parish
complete the project. The walls were found to be in danger of
collapse. The church is owned by, and still serves, the
three-centuries-old parish."
From: http://www.history.org/almanack/places/hb/hbbruch.htm
__ | __| | | | |__ | _Rowland JONES Sr.___| | (1608 - 1685) m 1632| | | __ | | | | |__| | | | |__ | | |--Rowland JONES Jr."the Immigrant" | (1644 - 1688) | __ | | | __| | | | | | |__ | | |_Alice COLLIER ______| (1610 - ....) m 1632| | __ | | |__| | |__
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Mother: Mary Polly JONES |
_Joseph MOTLEY III_____________+ | (1736 - 1806) m 1750 _David James MOTLEY __| | (1760 - 1826) m 1785 | | |_Martha "Molly" ELLINGTON _____+ | (1733 - 1781) m 1750 _Joseph MOTLEY ______| | (1794 - 1839) | | | _Philip PENDLETON _____________+ | | | (1747 - 1811) m 1766 | |_Elizabeth PENDLETON _| | (1766 - 1804) m 1785 | | |_Martha AWBREY ________________+ | (1745 - 1805) m 1766 | |--Patsey MOTLEY | (1810 - ....) | _(RESEARCH QUERY) of VA JONES _+ | | | _Elisha JONES ________| | | (1760 - ....) | | | |_______________________________ | | |_Mary Polly JONES ___| (1790 - 1862) | | _______________________________ | | |_Jerusha FOWLKES _____| (1760 - ....) | |_______________________________
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Mother: Phearby Ann HODGES |
_William ROWND Jr.____+ | (1782 - ....) _William Scholfield ROWND _| | (1812 - 1908) m 1837 | | |_Sally HUTCHINSON ____+ | (1790 - ....) _Robert Hutchinson ROWND _| | (1847 - 1928) m 1871 | | | _LLYWELYN ap Seisyllt_ | | | (0960 - ....) | |_Mahala Phoebe HODGES _____| | (1820 - ....) m 1837 | | |_Eliza CASON _________ | (1804 - ....) m 1820 | |--Margaret ROWND | (1876 - 1932) | _LLYWELYN ap Seisyllt_ | | (0960 - ....) | _John Gleason HODGES ______| | | (1812 - ....) m 1844 | | | |_Phearby Ann HARRELL _ | | (1785 - 1819) m 1802 |_Phearby Ann HODGES ______| (1853 - 1948) m 1871 | | _Jehu FLETCHER _______+ | | (1791 - 1865) m 1813 |_Jincey Ann FLETCHER ______| (1822 - 1907) m 1844 | |_Margaret GLOVER _____ (1795 - 1886) m 1813
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Mother: Cynthia Ann SICKLER |
_Baltas (Leobathasar) SWARTZ (SCHWARTZ) _+ | (1772 - 1820) _Henry SWARTZ (SCHWARTZ) _| | (1805 - 1895) m 1829 | | |_Margaret HUPPMAN (HOFFMAN) _____________ | (1770 - ....) _William P. SWARTZ ___| | (1833 - 1927) m 1853 | | | _Samuel MILLER Jr._______________________+ | | | (1767 - 1839) m 1789 | |_Melissa MILLER __________| | (1808 - 1881) m 1829 | | |_Susannah PHILLIPS ______________________+ | (1773 - 1849) m 1789 | |--Franklin W. "Frank" SWARTZ | (1863 - 1917) | _________________________________________ | | | _George SICKLER __________| | | (1810 - ....) | | | |_________________________________________ | | |_Cynthia Ann SICKLER _| (1835 - 1896) m 1853 | | _________________________________________ | | |_Lucinda "Lucy" WHITE ____| (1810 - ....) | |_________________________________________
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