PROCEEDINGS OF THE VISITORS OF WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE, 1716.

[Ludwell PAPERS, VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY COLLECTIONS.]

At a General meeting of the Visitors & Governors of the Colledge of William & Mary held in the Convocation Roome of the said Colledge the 26th day of March, 1716.

* James Blair, D. D., educated at Edinburgh, came to Virginia in 1685; appointed commissary of the Bishop of London and ex-officio member of the Council in 1690; was the father of William and Mary College and its first president; married the daughter of Hon. Benjamin Harrison, of "Wakefield," Surry county, and died in 1743, having been a minister for fifty-eight, commissary and councellor fifty-four, and President of the College fifty years. His brother, Archibald Blair, M. D., also came to Virginia; was member of the House of Burgesses for Jamestown in 1718 and for James City county in 1723, and dying in 1736, left issue: I. John,2 born 1686, died November, 1771; member of the House of Burgesses, Auditor, member and President of the Council, and acting Governor in 1768; married Mary, daughter of Rev. John Monro; II. Harrison, married Dr. George Gilmer; III. Elizabeth, married, in 1728, Colonel John Bolling, of "Cobbs," Henrico, now Chesterfield. John and Mary (Monro) Blair had issue: I. John, Burgess 1769, &c., chief justice of the General Court, judge of the High Court of Chancery and of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, member of the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, and justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; died August 31, 1800, leaving no children who survived childhood; II. James, M. D., married, in 1771, Kitty Eustace, of New York, and d. s. p. December, 1772; III.

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ing to his former Agreement, It is ordered that notice be given

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Sarah, married Colonel Wilson Cary, of “Ceeleys," Warwick county; IV. Ann,3 married Colonel John Banister, of "Battersea," Dinwiddie county; V. Christian, born 1727, died January 2, 1784; married Colonel Armistead Burwell, of Stoneland," Mecklenburg county; VI. Elizabeth, married, in 1768, Captain William Thompson, of the British Navy.

+ Philip Ludwell, son of Philip Ludwell, of "Greenspring," James City county, Virginia, who was Governor of Carolina and long member of the Virginia Council, and his wife, Lucy, daughter of Robert Higginson, and widow of Lewis Burwell and William Bernard, was born at "Carter's Creek," Gloucester, and died January 11, 1726-7. He was member of the Council and Auditor-General of Virginia, and married, November 11, 1697, Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Harrison, Esq., of "Wakefield" (sister to the wife of Dr. Blair). They had: (1) Lucy, who married Colonel John Grymes, of "Brandon," Middlesex, Receiver-General and member of the Council; (2) Hannah, married Thomas Lee, President of the Council, and was mother of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; (3) Philip, born at “Greenspring" December 28, 1716, married Frances, daughter of Charles Grymes, of Richmond county; was member of the Council, and died in England March 25, 1767. With him the male line of the Virginia Ludwells

ended.

William Bassett, of Eltham," New Kent county, Virginia, son of Captain William Bassett and his wife, Bridget, daughter of Miles Cary, was born 1670 and died October 11, 1723; was a member of the House of Burgesses and the Council, and married Joanna, daughter of Lewis Burwell (2d), of "Carter's Creek," also a member of the Council. He was the father of William Bassett, of " Eltham," member of the House of Burgesses, who died in 1744; grandfather of Burwell Bassett, of “Eltham," member of the House of Burgesses, of the Revolutionary Convention and of that of 1788, and great grandfather of Burwell Bassett, of "Eltham," M. C. 1805-13, 1815-19, and 1821-31.

John Smith, of Gloucester county, son of Colonel Lawrence Smith, of the same county, was member of the Council 1715, &c., and County Lieutenant of Gloucester. He had numerous descendants in Gloucester.

|| Rev. Emmanuel Jones, son of John Jones, of Anglesea, matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, April 26, 1687, aged 19; B. A. 3d March, 1691-2; came to Virginia in 1700, and was minister of Petsworth Parish, Gloucester, until his death January 29, 1738. His tomb, with a mutilated coat-of-arms, is at the site of Petsworth Church. His son, Emmanuel, was usher at the College and master of the Indian School.

¶ Peter Beverley, of Gloucester county, Speaker of the House of Bur

by the Governors of the Colledge that such persons as are will

gesses, Treasurer, and member of the Council. October, 1895.

See this Magazine,

** Richard Bland, of "Jordan's Point," Prince George county, born August 11, 1665, died April 10, 1720. He was son of Theoderick Bland, of "Berkeley" and "Westover," Charles City county, who was Speaker of the House of Burgesses and member of the Council; was himself a member of the House of Burgesses; married Elizabeth, daughter of William Randolph, of "Turkey Island," Henrico county, and was father of Richard Bland, of "Jordan's Point," born May 6, 1710, died October 26, 1776, the distinguished statesman of the Revolution, and member of the Old Congress.

†† John Clayton, born 1665, died November 18, 1737, studied at one of the universities (probably Cambridge), admitted to the Inner Temple June 6, 1682; was called to the bar, and coming to Virginia in 1705, was appointed Attorney-General of the Colony in 1714, and held the office until his death. He was also judge of the Court of Admiralty, frequently a member of the House of Burgesses, presiding justice of James City county, and recorder of Williamsburg. He was brother of Lieutenant-General Jasper Clayton, of the English Army, who was killed at Dettingen 1743; son of Sir John Clayton, of London, and Parson's Green, Fulham, Middlesex, England, and of the Inner Temple, who was knighted 1664, and his wife, Alice, daughter of Sir William Bowyer, of Denham, Bucks., Baronet; and grandson of Sir Jasper Clayton, of St. Edmunds, Lombard Street, London, Mercer, who was knighted at Guildhall July 5, 1660.

Attorney-General Clayton had issue: I. John, born at Fulham, England, 1685, and died in Gloucester county, Virginia, December 15, 1773. He came to Virginia in 1705, was an eminent botanist, member of some of the most learned societies of Europe, President of the Virginia Society for Promoting Useful knowledge, 1773, and author of "Flora Virginica." He was for fifty years clerk of Gloucester, and had a botanical garden at his estate, “Windsor," in that county. He married, January 2, 1723, Elizabeth Whiting, of Gloucester; II. Arthur, stated by his brother to have been "clerk of a county on the upper part of York River" [New Kent?], and who died in 1733, his wife surviving him. Whether they had children is not known; III. Thomas, M. D., educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and afterwards completed his medical studies in London; married Isabella Lewis, of “Warner Hall,” Glouce ter county, Virginia, and died October 17, 1739, aged 38. He had an only child who died in infancy. His armorial tomb is at Warner Hall."

John Clayton, the botanist, had several sons and daughters. He states

ing to undertake the keeping of the Colledge table do deliver in their proposals to the Rector of the Colledge between this and the next Generall Court, and that thereupon the Rector be impowered and desired to call a committee for considering the said

in a letter that his eldest son was named John, and that as soon as he was prepared he would send him to Cambridge. He also was the father of Captain Jasper Clayton, of Windsor," clerk of the Gloucester Committee of Safety in 1775-6, and who, in 1776, had two sons, Jasper and Thomas Whiting Clayton. Jasper Clayton, Jr., the last named, is said to have served in the cavalry of the Revolutionary army. He married Courtney, daughter of Colonel John Baylor, of "Newmarket," Caroline county, and had issue: (1) Arthur B., born 1800, died March 31, 1845; married his cousin, Jane Hatley Baylor, of "Newmarket,” and was the father of Jasper S. Clayton, of Chesterfield county; (2) Baylor; (3) Caroline; (4) Courtney, married Harris, of Nelson county.

Colonel William Clayton, of New Kent, who was a member of the House of Burgesses from 1769 (and perhaps earlier) to 1774, of the Conventions of 1776 and 1788, and of the House of Delegates, and Colonel William Beverley Clayton, who was clerk of New Kent from 1787 to 1803, and perhaps later, are stated to have been of this family. Arthur Clayton, who was a member of the House of Delegates from Louisa in 1817 and 1818, Jasper S. Clayton, who was appointed a justice of Matthews county in 1791, and Joseph and James Clayton, who were living in Gloucester in 1840, were doubtless also of this family. A letter written in 1776 says there were then at 'Windsor" the library and herbarium of John Clayton, and a number of portraits by Kneller and others [what has become of these portraits?]. The Clayton arms are: Argent, a cross engrailed sable, between four torteaux. See Wallace's Historical Magazine, October, 1891, for proofs of descent given above, with extracts from letters, &c., and an engraving of the arms. Any additional information in regard to this family of Clayton will be published with pleasure in the Magazine.

Probably Nathaniel Burwell, of "Carter's Creek," son of Lewis Burwell, of the Council, who was a member of the House of Burgesses, married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Carter, of "Corotoman," and died in 1721, leaving issue: Lewis Burwell, President of the Council and acting Governor; Robert Burwell, of Isle of Wight county, also member of the Council; Carter Burwell, of "The Grove," James City county, and others. Or it may have been Lewis Burwell, of King's Mill," James City county, a half brother of Nathaniel.

?? Probably William Randolph, of "Turkey Island," second of the name, who was afterwards member of the Council.

proposals, and agreeing on such Terms as the said committee shall Judge reasonable.

Resolved, That it be recommended to the Ministers who preach before the Generall Court, together with such of the Governors of the Colledge as shall then be in Town, on the next Monday after such preaching Respectively to examine the scholars, what progress they have made in their Learning pursuant to a former order of the Visitors & Governors, and that it be also recommended to such of the Clergy as are Governors at the colledge that whenever their occasions shall call them to Town, to take the trouble of examining the said scholars, and to report what they think necessary therein to the next Generall meeting.

Ordered, That it be an established Rule for the future that the masters of the Colledge allow no more play days to the scholars at the Request of any person whatever than one afternoon in a month, except onely upon the comeing of a new scholar, when they may allow one afternoon extraordinary upon every such occasion and no more.

The Rector acquainting the Visitors & Governors that upon Mr. Jackson's declining to teach the Indian children he had appointed Mr. Christopher Smith to succeed him in that Imployment, and said Christopher Smith is hereby approved of as a Master to that said Indian ** and ordered that he have the same allowance of Sallary as was given Mr. Jackson.

The office of Deputy Surveyor Generall being vaccant by the death of Major William Buckner* it is the opinion of this meet

* Major William Buckner, of York county. He was appointed justice of that county 1694, was sheriff 1695 and 1696, and member of the House of Burgesses 1698 and 1699. He is frequently mentioned in contemporary records, and appears to have been a merchant with extensive business in the colony and England. He was probably a grandson of John Buckner, the immigrant. There is on record in Stafford the will of Philip Buckner (who was a justice of that county in 1693), dated November 21, 1699, and proved April 10, 1700. His legatees were Judy Boltrup, and his sons, Robert and Andrew; he appoints his "cozen Wm. Buckner of York" his executor, and in case he refused to act, his "cozen Thomas Buckner of York." The executor is to take his sons down [to York] with him that they may have learning. William and Thomas Buckner were doubtless brothers. The latter, Major Thomas