See, this is neat! I didn't know you were so famous Carolyn! <smile> dave -----Original Message----- From: John Haisty <jhaisty@tcac.com> To: ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com <ARDREW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, November 09, 1998 9:59 PM Subject: [ARDREW-L] >Thanks Beth, but those aren't my Harveys. The Dandridge line is mine >however, but it was not James Spotswood, but GovernorAlexander >Spotswood of Virginia that we came from. I have some of these lines >back to the 400s B.C. Martha Dandridge Washington is not in the >Spotswood line. There is a Martha Dandridge in my line and she was a >sister of my ancestor, Elizabeth Dandridge. Martha Dandridge >Washington is from a Dandridge - Jones marriage (no Spotswood). > >Sir Alexander Spotswood (1676-1740) officer of the Brittisih Army, >served under Marlborough; wounded at the Battle of Blenheim; Governor >of Virginia from 1710-22 after bringing the writ of habeas corpus to >the Virginians from the King of England, who had previously denied it; >deputy Postmaster-General of the Colonies (1730-39), and Postmaster of >Pennsylvania; Major-General (1740); organized and led the "Knights of >the Golden Horseshoe" over the Blue Ridge Mountaines for the first >time, and was perhpas the most popular and renowned of the Colonial >Governors of Virginia. He married in 1724, Anne Butler Brayne, >Daughter of Edward Brayne. (Have Spotswood Line). > >One: Immigrant, William Dandridge > I. Col. William Dandridge II married Unity West > A. Capt. - Col. Nathaniel West Dandridge M. Dorothea Spotswood > daughter of Gov. Alexander Spotswood > 1. Martha Dandridge m. Archer Payne > 2. Capt. Alexander Spotswood Dandridge m. Anne Stephen > 3. Anna Katharine Dandridge > 4. Mary Claibourn Dandridge > 5. Dorothea (Dolly) Spotswood Dandridge married Patrick >Henry > (yes, the great orator) > 6. Elizabeth Dandridge married Philip Payne > after all the other children > m. Dr. Nathaniel West Payne m. Catherine Wilson >Alexander > (8) Adelia Pendleton Payne m. Ezekiel Brooke Owens > (OWENS line) > F. Milton Hubert Owens m. Martha Caroline >Hankins > 4. Henry Monroe Owens m. Mattie Lou >Miller > b. Lucy Mae Owens m. Willie Phil >Haisty > (2) Carolyn Haisty > > > II. (Colonel - Major) John D. Dandridge m. Frances Jones > A. Martha Dandridge (1731), eldest child first married Daniel >Parke Custis > Married second, George Washington. > >We have had the Spotswood, Dandridge, Alexander, Payne, Callaway >(Daniel Boone's daughter married a sibling of my ancestor), for over >50 years. If anyone ties to any of these lines, let me know, please. >The names Nathaniel West and Dorothea Dandridge have been handed down >through many generations. > >Carolyn > > > >