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| 4. | John James Flournoy was born on 15 Oct 1782 in Prince Edward County, Virginia, USA (son of Thomas Flournoy and Anne Martin); died in 1862. John married Ann Carrington Cabell on 26 May 1807 in Amherst County, Virginia, USA. Ann (daughter of William Cabell, Jr and Ann Carrington) was born on 20 Sep 1787 in Union Hill, Nelson County, Virginia, USA; died on 7 Jul 1854 in Staunton City, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 6. | Walter Coles was born on 8 Dec 1790 (son of Isaac Coles and Catherine Thompson); died in Nov 1857. Notes:
DAR # 593761 and # 502396
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V
Name: Thomas Jordan Coles (cont.)
Walter Coles, son of Colonel Isaac, Sr. and Catherine (Thompson) Coles, was born in December, 1790, died at Coles Hill, Pittsylvania county, Virginia, in November, 1857. He was first a lieutenant and later a captain in the American army in the war of 1812, and for ten years held a seat in the Virginia legislature, from which body he was sent to Congress, of which he was a member from 1835 to 1845, his father having preceded him to both law making institutions. He was a man of practical wisdom, unblemished honor and patriotism, and successful in all his undertakings. The Democratic party claimed his allegiance throughout his entire career. He married Lettice P., who died in 1875, youngest daughter of Judge Paul Carrington, Sr. Judge Paul Carrington, Sr., was a son of George Carrington, a member of the Virginia house of burgesses. George Carrington, when a youth of nineteen years, assisted Colonel William Byrd in running the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina, and in his mature years was a personage of influence and power in his colony. Judge Paul Carrington, Sr. was a member of the Virginia house of burgesses from 1765 to 1775, in which latter year it was replaced by the conventions of the people. In 1765 he voted against Patrick Henry's resolutions in regard to the Stamp Act, considering that the colonies had too few munitions of war with which to oppose a mighty kingdom grown old in waging victorious wars on land and sea. In the journals of the house of burgesses Paul Carrington's name is found as a member of every important committee appointed between 1765 and 1775 He was a member of each of the three conventions of 1775 and was appointed one of the eleven members of the celebrated committee of safety, which at that time held the supreme executive power in the colony. He also sat in the famous Virginia convention of 1776, and on the organization of the new government took a seat in the house of delegates, from which he passed to the bench of the general court and thence to the court of appeals. He was a judge of this latter court until 1811, when, in the seventy-ninth year of his age, he resigned, being succeeded by his nephew, Governor William H. Cabell, and died in 1818, aged eighty-five years. Apart from the invaluable service he rendered his state and country he gave three youthful sons to the Colonial army in the war for independence. Walter and Lettice P. (Carrington) Coles were the parents of: Lettice, died aged fourteen years, and is buried in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington; Isaetta, died in childhood, buried at Coles Hill, Pittsylvania county, Virginia; Isaac, died in childhood, buried at Coles Hill, Virginia; Walter, of whom further; Helen C., died at Coles Hill in 1897; Mildred H., married Colonel Stanhope Flournoy, died in Missouri, in 1901; Agnes C., married Dr. J. G. Cabell, of Richmond, and died January 31, 1901.
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"Coles Hill", Pittsylvania Co., VA
Walter married Lettice P. Carrington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 8. | Thomas Flournoy was born on 20 Nov 1738 in Amelia County, Virginia, USA (son of Jean Jacques Flournoy and Mary Williams); died on 25 Feb 1801 in Prince Edward, Virginia, USA. Other Events and Attributes:
- Military Service: 1780; Gave both civil and military service. Member of House of Delegates, 1780. Colonel of County Militia at close of War.
Notes:
Thomas rendered Civil and Military service during the AmericanRevolution. He w as a member of the House of Delegates in 1786and was Col. of Militia at the clo se of the war.
Thomas married Anne Martin on 17 Mar 1766 in Prince Edward County, VA. Anne died in 1814. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 10. | William Cabell, Jr was born on 25 Mar 1759 in Union Hill, Nelson County, Virginia, USA (son of William Cabell and Margaret Meredith Jordan); died on 22 Nov 1822 in Union Hill, Nelson County, Virginia, USA. William married Ann Carrington on 20 Nov 1780 in Charlotte County, Virginia, USA. Ann was born on 9 Jun 1760 in Charlotte County, Virginia, USA; died on 3 Mar 1838 in Union Hill, Nelson County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 11. | Ann Carrington was born on 9 Jun 1760 in Charlotte County, Virginia, USA; died on 3 Mar 1838 in Union Hill, Nelson County, Virginia, USA. Children:
- 5. Ann Carrington Cabell was born on 20 Sep 1787 in Union Hill, Nelson County, Virginia, USA; died on 7 Jul 1854 in Staunton City, Virginia, USA.
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| 12. | Isaac Coles was born on 25 Feb 1747 in Richmond, Virginia, USA (son of John Coles and Mary Ann Winston); died on 3 Jun 1813; was buried . Notes:
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume V
Name: Thomas Jordan Coles (cont.)
Colonel Isaac Coles, son of John (1) and Mary (Winston) Coles, was born in Richmond, Virginia, March 2, 1747, died on his plantation in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, June 3, 1813, and is there buried. He was educated at William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Virginia, was a colonel of militia during the revolutionary war, and was a member of the Virginia legislature in 1783-84-85-87. He was a member of the convention which met in Richmond in June, 1788, to ratify the new Federal Constitution, and there voted against its ratification. He was a member of the first United States Congress which met in New York City in 1789 and there "voted against the adoption of the Constitution as it came from the hands of its framers, for he saw the poison under its wings." It is also on record that he voted to "abolish the slave trade," although a large land-owner and slave-holder himself, while his brother-in-law, Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, voted to continue it. He held his place in Congress until 1797, and while a member of the Philadelphia Congress he voted "to locate the seat of government on the banks of the Potomac. "He was twice married, (first) in 1771, to Elizabeth, died in 1781, daughter of William Lightfoot, of Charles City county, Virginia. They had three children, only one of whom lived to maturity, Isaac (2), who built and lived at a place called Springwood, near Houston, Halifax county, Virginia, and was the grandfather of the late Hon. Paul C. Edmunds and Captain Henry Edmunds, of Halifax county. Colonel Isaac Coles, Sr., married (second) in January, 1790, Catherine Thompson, a "New York belle and beauty," whom he met while attending the New York Congress. She was a daughter of James and Catherine (Walton) Thompson, of New York, and a descendant of the Beekmans. Her sister, Ann, had previously married Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts, an old bachelor at the time of his marriage. Elbridge Gerry was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, governor of Massachusetts, member of Congress, vice-president of the United States at the time of his death in 1814, and was once sent abroad on an important diplomatic mission with Pinckney and Marshall. Catherine Thompson, second wife of Colonel Isaac Coles, Sr., was born in New York City in 1767, died in Pittsylvania county, Virginia, in 1848. being buried by the side of her husband. They were the parents of a large family, of one of whom, Walter, further mention is made. Colonel Isaac Coles, Sr., during his political career, lived on the plantation in Halifax county, Virginia, inherited from his father, located at Coles' Ferry on the Staunton river, and about 1800 moved to Pittsylvania county, Virginia. His home in this locality was a plantation of five thousand and fifty-seven acres, which land he had purchased from Philip Lightfoot, a cousin of his first wife. His reason for disposing of his Halifax property was two-fold; because of the malarial conditions there prevalent, which affected both his health and that of his family, and because of financial embarrassment, for the political positions that had taken such a large share of his time had been honorary or with small remuneration attached and wide inroads had been made upon his finances during his long public service. Colonel Isaac Coles, Sr. was known as a great wit and entertaining raconteur, and in the declining years of his life prominent men from all parts of the country journeyed to his home to enjoy his unmatched hospitality and the gleams from the intellect that time had not deprived of its luster.
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"Coles Hill", Pittsylvania Co., VA
Isaac married Catherine Thompson on 2 Jan 1790 in New York City, New York, New York, USA. Catherine (daughter of James Thompson and Catherine Walton) was born in 1767 in New York City, New York, New York, USA; died in 1848 in Pittsylvania County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 14. | Paul Carrington was born on 5 Mar 1733 (son of George Carrington and Ann Mayo); died on 23 Jun 1818 in Mulberry Hill, Charlotte County, VA. Notes:
Papers of Harriet V. Miller.
DAR # 593761 and # 502396 cite Campbell's History of VA, p. 625.
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography, p. 196.
Judge Paul was at the VA Conventions of 1774 and 1776 and Member of the Comm. of Safety (the Rev. executive body in VA until formation of the state in July 1776).
"Carrington," by M.E. Tillye, 1843 - Paul's home was called "Mulberry Hill," near the junction of the Little Roanoke and Staunton Rivers.
The Carrington Family of VA, from Natl. Gen. Soc. Quarterly, Vol. 70 (1982), pp. 264.
Paul married Priscilla Sims on 6 Mar 1792 in Charlotte County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 15. | Priscilla Sims Notes:
DAR # 593761 and # 502396
There were also two unnamed infants who died.
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