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My ancestor Mary Briggs, wife of Henry Briggs, was married 3 times before they became husband and wife and was by then a mother to Thomas Blunt and Richard Washington. Yet we do not know who Mary’s parents were. Consequently this Family Topic 2346 is devoted to my Blunt and Washington relations. |
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| Names found in this topic include the following. |
| | Mary (—) Blunt Ford Washington Briggs (-c.1677), |
| Richard Blunt, |
| Tobias Swann, |
| George Jordan, |
| Charles Ford, |
| John Washington, Robert Stanton, |
| Henry Briggs, James Mills, |
| Thomas Blunt, Priscilla Browne, |
| Henry Briggs, |
| Elizabeth Adcock, |
| George Blow, |
| Elizabeth Blunt, Howell Edmunds, |
| Henry Edmunds, |
| Capt. Thomas Edmunds, Ann Simmons, |
| Edmund Ruffin, |
| John Edmunds, Rebecca Brown, Elizabeth (—) Bolling, |
| Edmund Ruffin, |
| Capt. Thomas Edmunds, Martha Short, |
| John Edmunds, Eliza Kennon Randolph, Thomas Ruffin, |
| Elizabeth Edmunds, |
| Charlotte Edmunds, Stith Bolling, |
| Susanna Edmunds, William Edwards, Micajah Edwards, |
| Ann Edwards, William Ruffin, William Jones, |
| William Edwards, Mary Nelson, Fannie Green Seawell, John Seawell, Fannie Hobday, |
| Walter Armistead Edwards, William Wesley Baugh, |
| Thomas Edwards, Martha Ruffin, |
| Richard Henry Edwards, Judith Blunt, Mary Hamlin (Cocke) Edmunds, |
| Henry Edwards, |
| Rebecca Browne Edwards, Irby Jones, |
| Charlotte Bolling Edwards, David Davies, Mark Davies, |
| Alexander Edmunds, |
| Jane Edmunds, William Irby, |
| James Edmunds, |
| Sarah Edmunds, William Edwards, |
| Nathaniel Edwards, |
| Rebecca Edwards, John Webb, |
| Sarah Edwards, James Williamson, |
| Ann Edmunds Edwards, |
| Benjamin Edwards, Priscilla Williamson, John Sims, |
| Nathaniel Edwards, Mary Tatum, |
| Isaac Edwards, Martha Williamson, |
| Howell Edmunds, |
| Mary (—) Edmunds, Mary Briggs, |
| Maj. Howell Edmunds, |
| Lucy Nicholson, |
| Thomas Edmunds, |
| William Edmunds, Martha Briggs, |
| John Edmunds, Susanna Marget, |
| Samuel Edmunds, |
| Elizabeth Edmunds, Stephen Williamson, |
| Sarah Edmunds, William Collins, |
| Mary Edmunds, Harris Nicholson, |
| Ann Edmunds, |
| Martha Edmunds, John Myrick, |
| Lucy Edmunds, John Nicholson, |
| Col. Nicholas Edmunds, Elizabeth Flood, Mary (Seward) Nicholson, John Nicholson, |
| River Barker, Archibald Campbell, |
| Lucy (Nicholson) Stith, |
| Col. Thomas Edmunds, Sarah Eldridge, |
| John Flood Edmunds, Lucy Gray, |
| John Flood Edmunds, |
| James Edmunds, |
| William Fanning Edmunds, |
| Elizabeth Gray Edmunds, Benjamin Lewis, |
| Nicholas Edmunds Lewis, Martha Ann Claiborne, |
| Edwin Gray Lewis, |
| Dr. Henry Lewis, Frances Gibbons Stuart, |
| Charles Stuart Lewis, Elizabeth Skinker Fitzhugh, |
| Louisa Gray Lewis, William Webb Wilkins, |
| Henry Lewis, |
| Burdett Ashton Lewis, Elizabeth Hicks, |
| Richard Edwin Lewis, |
| Benjamin Lewis, Ellen Elizabeth Wilkins, |
| Joseph Warner Lewis, |
| James Edmunds Lewis, Elizabeth Estill, |
| Zebulon Lewis, |
| Lucy Gary Lewis, Thomas Hicks, |
| Elizabeth Sandal Lewis, Reuben B. Hicks, |
| John Flood Edmunds Lewis, Maria Davis, |
| Benjamin Lewis, Harriet S. Booth, |
| Amanda Melvina Lewis, Nicholas Edmunds Davis, |
| Sally Edmunds Lewis, Thomas Hicks, |
| Lt. Reuben Booth Hicks, |
| Joseph Warner Lewis, |
| James Williams Lewis, |
| Dr. Norborne Wesley Lewis, |
| Sarah Edmunds, Dr. Richard Feild, |
| Lucy Gray Feild, Burwell Bassett Wilkes, |
| Susan E. Feild, Abner W. Lanier, Burwell Bassett Wilkes, |
| Julia Edmunds, Thomas S. Maclin, |
| Susan Edmunds, Robert Haskins, |
| Sterling Edmunds, Ermine (Embry) Simmons, Thomas Simmons, |
| Mary Edmunds, Allen Love, |
| Sterling Edmunds Love, |
| Benjamin Edmunds Love, |
| Ermine Embry Love, |
| Benjamin Edmunds, |
| Sarah Edmunds, Benjamin Ruffin, John Edmunds, |
| Joseph Ruffin, |
| Sarah Fenn Ruffin, |
| Elizabeth Edmunds, Samuel Garland, |
| Sarah Garland, Robert Chappell, |
| Lucy Edmunds Garland, Robert Bagley, |
| Mary Garland, Copeland Davis, John Taylor, |
| Nicholas Edmunds Davis, Amanda Melvina Lewis, |
| Elizabeth Lewis P. Lampkin, |
| Maria Davis, John Flood Edmunds Lewis, |
| Eliza Davis, Gray F. Dunn, |
| Jane Davis, |
| Edward Garland, |
| Elizabeth Garland, David Dunn, Obedience Weatherford, |
| Elizabeth Dunn, John Poindexter Neal, |
| Sarah Edmunds, James Jones, |
| Elizabeth Edmunds, |
| Ann Edmunds, |
| Mary Blunt, John Flood, |
| William Knott, Jane Flood, |
| Ann Blunt, |
| Edmund Irby, |
| Charles Irby, |
| Douglas Irby, |
| Edmund Irby, |
| Elizabeth Irby, |
| James Irby, |
| John Irby, |
| William Irby, |
| Thomas Blunt, |
| Howell Edmunds, Jane Flood, |
| Richard Blunt, |
| Samuel Cornwell, Bartholomew Figures, |
| Ann (—) Blunt, |
| Andrew Lester, |
| Abraham Green, |
| Richard Blunt, Jane Nicholson, James Jones, |
| Thomas Blunt, |
| Collins Blunt, |
| Richard Blunt, |
| Dolly Blunt, Richard Graves, |
| Thomas Graves, |
| Robert Graves, |
| George Graves, |
| Robert Blunt, |
| John Blunt, |
| Benjamin Blunt, Frances Briggs, |
| Mary Blunt, John Irby, |
| William Irby, |
| John Irby, Rebecca Briggs, |
| Mary Irby, Robert Eldridge, |
| William Irby, Jane Edmunds, |
| Elizabeth Williams, |
| Edmund Irby, Frances Briggs Lucas, John Lucas, |
| Richard Irby, |
| William Blunt Irby, Sarah Washington Stith, |
| Elizabeth Williams Irby, Freeman Fitzgerald, |
| Catherine Greenhill Irby, |
| Edmund Irby, |
| Ann Irby, Lemuel Cocke, |
| Ann Irby Cocke, |
| William Irby Cocke, |
| Richard Cocke, Jane Bland Ruffin, Isabella Ballentine, |
| Elizabeth Edmunds Cocke, John Royall Robertson, |
| Ann Irby Cocke, Sterling H. Edmunds, |
| Jane Cocke, Richard Blunt, |
| Mary Hamlin Cocke, William Edmunds, Richard Henry Edwards, |
| Elizabeth Irby, |
| Elizabeth Blunt, |
| Lucy Blunt, |
| William Blunt, Benjamin Ellis, |
| Elizabeth (—) Blunt, James Rookings, |
| Capt. William Blunt, Richard Blunt, |
| Ann Nicholson, |
| Martha Peete, Dr. Samuel Peete, |
| James Hicks, |
| Thomas Washington, |
| Samuel Blunt, |
| William Blunt, |
| Mary Blunt, |
| Elizabeth Blunt, |
| Henry Blunt, Henry Cooke, |
| Sarah (—) Blunt, |
| Sarah Blow, |
| Mary Blunt, Richard Parker III, |
| Frederick Parker, |
| Henry Parker, |
| Edmund Parker, |
| Jane Parker, Charles Briggs Jr., |
| Mary Blunt Parker, Daniel Butts, |
| Thomas Blunt, Anne Gray, |
| Henry Blunt, |
| Joseph Gray Blunt, Mary Rebecca Lewis, |
| Edward Blunt, |
| William Blunt, |
| James Blunt, |
| Ann Blunt, |
| Elizabeth Blunt, Samuel Edmunds, Elizabeth Saunders, Thomas Saunders, |
| Sarah Blunt, Mills Goodwyn, |
| Benjamin Blunt, Priscilla Person, John Person, |
| William Blunt, Mary (—) Person, Mary (Edwards) Ridley, James Day Ridley, Nathaniel Edwards, William Massenburg, |
| John Blunt, Mary Ridley, Richard Augustine Blunt, |
| Benjamin Blunt, |
| Mary Blunt, Jacob Turner, |
| Priscilla Blunt, John Turner, |
| Mary Turner, John Wall, |
| John Wall, Sarah Branch, |
| James Augustus Wall, Rebecca Mason Jeffries, |
| Albert Wall, |
| Mary Wall, Allen Jones Davie, Sarah Jones, William Richardson Davie, |
| Joseph Gray Wall, Anne Marie (Turner) Wilkinson, |
| Alexander G. Wall, Mary Cooper, |
| John Blunt Turner, Mildred (—) Turner, Isham Harwell, |
| Sugars Turner, Rebecca Delony, |
| Simon Turner, Nancy Bynum, |
| William Turner, |
| Ann Turner, Person Turner, |
| Thomas Turner, |
| James Turner, |
| Richard Washington, Elizabeth Jordan, |
| John Williams, John Gollage, Charles Briggs, Samuel Briggs, Charles Dunn, |
| Arthur Allen, Richard Parker, |
| John Simmons, Howell Edmunds, |
| George Washington, George Jordan, Mary Wright, |
| George Washington, Sarah —, |
| Joseph Washington, Joseph Washington, Mary Cheatham, |
| Richard Washington, |
| Elizabeth Washington, Sampson Lanier, Robert Nicholson, |
| John Lanier, Thomas Hunt Jr., |
| Caleb Ellis, |
| Thomas Lanier, Ann Maclin, |
| Jacob Lanier, |
| Drury Lanier, Tabitha Eves, |
| Benjamin Lanier, Lucy (Claiborne) Hunt, William Hunt, Thomas Hunt, Robert Hunt, |
| Frederick Maclin, |
| Herbert Lanier, |
| Augustine Lanier, |
| Benjamin Lanier, |
| Sterling Lanier, |
| Littleton Lanier, |
| Martha Lanier, |
| William Lanier, Elizabeth Burch, Richard Burch, |
| Benjamin Lanier, |
| Catherine Lanier, James Blick, |
| Thomas Lanier, |
| Sampson Lanier, Elizabeth Chamberlain, Samuel Chamberlain, |
| Cuthbert Smith, |
| Rebecca Lanier, Walton Harris, |
| Burwell Lanier, Elizabeth Hill, William Hill, Katherine —, William Lanier, Clement Lanier, Isaac Lanier, William Marshall, Frances Pickett Boddie, Dr. John Benjamin Rumph, |
| Buckner Lanier, Rebecca (—) Williamson, Arthur Williamson, |
| Frederick Lanier, Rebecca Williamson, Jesse Williamson, Elizabeth Williamson, Temperance (Bass) Warren, Benjamin Warren, |
| Robert Lanier, |
| James Lanier, |
| Ann Lanier, Aristotle Eldridge, |
| Polly Lanier, Matthew Williamson, Jesse Williamson, |
| John Lanier, |
| Winifred Lanier, Col. Drury Ledbetter, William Vaughan, |
| Ann Lanier, |
| Martha Lanier, |
| Agnes Lanier, William Davis, |
| Lewis Lanier, Ann Butler, Benjamin Hunnicutt, |
| Esther (Butts) Thorn, |
| Richard Lanier, Lucy Briggs, |
| Ann (Pettway) Mason, Isaac Mason, |
| Susanna Lanier, William Adkins, |
| William Lanier, |
| James Lanier, Nancy (—) Lanier, |
| Elizabeth Lanier, John Burch, Thomas Croft, |
| Lemuel Lanier, |
| Elizabeth Peebles, |
| Molly Lanier, King, |
| Sally Lanier, Williams, |
| David Lanier, |
| Washington Lanier, Elizabeth Hicks, |
| Benjamin Lanier, |
| Nancy Lanier, Armstrong, |
| James Lanier, Mary Cook, |
| Henry Lanier, |
| Nathan Lanier, |
| Lydia Lanier, |
| Abbie Lanier, |
| Isom Lanier, |
| James Lanier, |
| Cynthia Lanier, |
| Mary Lanier, |
| Lucretia Lanier, |
| Sampson Lanier, Elizabeth Massey, Thomas Massey, |
| Sidney Clopton Lanier, |
| Arthur Lanier, |
| John Washington, |
| Eliza (—) Washington, |
| Arthur Washington, |
| Eliza Washington, |
| Thomas Washington, |
| Faith Washington, |
| John Washington, Tamer Rickman, William Rickman, |
| Jesse Washington, Rebecca Wrenn, Thomas Wrenn, |
| Mary Washington, |
| Thomas Washington I, Agnes (—) Washington, Thomas Briggs, |
| Thomas Washington II, |
| Sarah Gray, Gilbert Gray, William Gray, |
| Thomas Washington III, Janet Love, Allen Love, |
| William Blunt, Benjamin Ellis, |
| Gray Washington, Nancy Harrison, James Harrison, |
| Mary Washington, Thomas Jenkins, |
| Ann Washington, Edmund Collier, |
| Elizabeth Washington, David Tucker Jr., David Tucker, Athalia Kessie (Wright) Hunt, |
| Lucy Washington, George Clements, Benjamin Clements, Lucy Parker, |
| Thomas Washington Clements, Martha Edwards, Martha Edmunds, |
| Moses Clements, Elizabeth Daugherty, |
| James Clements, Lucretia Cotton, |
| Rebecca Clements, Richard Moore, |
| Elizabeth Moore, |
| Francis Moore, |
| John Moore, |
| Sarah Clements, Lodowick Lee, |
| Susanna Lee, |
| Alfred Stith Lee, |
| Elizabeth Clements, |
| Lucy Clements, |
| George Clements, |
| Richard Clements, |
| William Washington, Sarah Tynes, |
| James Washington, Joyce Nicholson, Nathaniel Harrison, William Cripps, Robert Nicholson, |
| Robert Washington, Agnes Terrell, |
| Nicholas Washington, |
| Benjamin Washington, |
| John Washington, |
| Ethel Washington, |
| Joanna Washington, |
| Elizabeth Washington, |
| Joyce Washington, John Long, Susanna Long, Archer Cheatham, |
| Arthur Washington, Richard Hamlin, |
| Sarah (—) Washington, |
| George Washington, Easter (—) Washington, |
| William Washington, |
| David Washington, |
| Sarah Washington, |
| Mary Washington, |
| Eliza Washington, John Abraham, |
| Priscilla Washington, Robert Lanier, John Lanier, Elizabeth Bird, Thomas Clary, Benjamin Lanier, |
| John Lanier, Priscilla (—) Lanier, Samuel Russell, |
| Robert Lanier, |
| John Lanier, Catherine Fallett, |
| Rebecca Dressony Lanier, |
| Lucy Lanier, Edward Newel, |
| Thomas Lanier, Mary (—) Lanier, Mary Collins, |
| William Lanier, Rebecca Robinson, |
| Tabitha Lanier, |
| Collins Lanier, Lucy Berryman, |
| Edmund Lanier, Martha Walton, George Walton, Angelina —, Amy Washington Goodrich, |
| Miles Cooksey, |
| Rebecca Lanier, Joel Thacker, |
| Susanna Lanier, Miles Cooksey, |
| Sarah Lanier, Edmund Lawrence, |
| Bird Lanier, Susanna Cain, |
| Martha Lanier, |
| Abner Lanier, Sarah Chambliss, Mary Ann Grigg, |
| Robert Lanier, Elizabeth Jackson, John Jackson, |
| Priscilla Lanier, |
| Ann Washington, John Stevens, |
| John Stevens, |
| Mary Stevens, |
| Thomas Stevens, Anne (—) Stevens, |
| John Washington Stevens, |
| Elizabeth Stevens, James Coleman, |
| John Coleman, |
| Ann Washington Coleman, |
| Faith Washington, Josiah Barker, |
| David Jones, Richard Parker Jr., John Allen, Caleb Ellis, |
| Richard Barker, |
| John Barker, |
| Arthur Barker, Rebecca (—) Barker, |
| River Barker, Elizabeth (—) Barker, Nicholas Edmunds, |
| Howell Barker, Unity —, |
| William Barker, |
| Samuel Barker, |
| Faith Barker, |
| Mary Washington, Robert Hart, |
| | John Barker (-1714), |
| Ann (—) Marshall, George Marshall, Benjamin Harrison, |
| Grace (—) Barker, Grace Cotton, Thomas Busby, Capt. Francis Gray, Grace —, |
| Elizabeth Barker, Christopher Foster, |
| Andrews, Thomas Andrews, |
| Sarah Barker, Robert Lanier, Priscilla Washington, |
| Hannah Barker, Walter Lashley, |
| Grace Barker, |
| John Barker, Mary —, |
| Christopher Barker, |
| Mary Barker, |
| Josiah Barker, Faith Washington, |
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Boddie, John Bennett. “Barker of Surry.” Southside Virginia Families, Redwood City, Cal.: Pacific Coast Publishers, Vol 2, 1955:30-42. • Family of John Barker. |
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Boddie, John Bennett. “Blunt of Shingleton, Sussex.” Southside Virginia Families. Redwood City, Cal.: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1955(1):70-74. • Family of Thomas Blunt. |
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Boddie, John Bennett. “Gutteridge-Goodrich.” Southside Virginia Families. Redwood City, Cal.: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1955(2):119-121. • Covers the family of Elizabeth Blunt and Howell Edmunds. |
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Boddie, John Bennett. “Lanier.” Southside Virginia Families. Redwood City, Cal.: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1955(1):298-313. • Includes Samson Lanier who married Elizabeth Washington and Robert Lanier who married Priscilla Washington. |
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“Edmunds Family.” Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981(1):642-660. • Family of Elizabeth Blunt and Howell Edmunds. |
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Jackson, Lena E. and Aubrey Starke. “New Light on the Ancestry of Sidney Lanier.” Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981(4):151-159. • Emphasis on the Lanier ancestry of Sidney Lanier, son of Mary Jane Anderson, and grandson of Sampson Lanier. |
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“The Lanier Family.” Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981(2):562-583. • Covers many of the Laniers of Southside Virginia, including Samson Lanier who married Elizabeth Washington. |
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“Washingtons of Surry County.” Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981(4):381-396. • Family of Richard Washington and Elizabeth Jordan. |
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Wilson, Albert Edwards, M.D. “Sketch of William Edwards IV and His Descendants.” Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Tyler’s Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981(1):670-683. • Family of William Edwards. |
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