Breckinridge, Gamble, Salomons, Selden, Smith, Witherspoon

updated: 2021-08-18

🚧 construction zone warning barrier 🚧 A sketch of a graph connecting some farther-flung Gamble relatives by marriage(s).
Robert Howard Gamble (findagrave) and Martha Chaires
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Gamble relatives 2 (pdf)

. Alexander Breckinridge ⚭: Jane Preston
.. Robert Breckinridge ⚭: Letitia Preston
... James Breckinridge (s of Robert Breckinridge & Letitia Preston; gs of Alexander Breckinridge & Jane Preston and John Preston & Elizabeth Patton; ggs of John Archibald Preston & Mary Stewart; 2ggs of William Stewart 1st viscount Mountjoy & Mary Coote; brother of John Breckinridge who m Mary Hopkins Cabell) b: 1763-03-07 at Fincastle, Botetourt county VA d: 1833-05-13 at Fincastle, Botetourt county VA buried: Breckinridge Grove Hill Estate, Fincastle, Botetourt county VA     ⚭: 1791-01-01 at St. John's church, Richmond, VA with Ann Cary Selden (d of Wilson Cary Selden 1735-1792 & Elizabeth Jennings 1735-1807) b: 1770 at "Buckroe", Hampton, VA (700 acres around Buckroe Beach; about 37.0432N, 76.2937W) d: 1843-03-17 at "Grove Hill", Fincastle, Botetourt county VA buried: Breckinridge Grove Hill Estate, Fincastle, Botetourt county VA

. Samuel Selden ⚭: Rebecca Yeo/Yoe
.. Joseph Selden b: 1690 d: 1727 ⚭: 1722 with Mary Cary b: 1704 d: 1775

... colonel Wilson Cary Selden 1723 or 1735- 1791 or 1792 ⚭: Elizabeth Jennings 1735-1807

.... James Breckinridge (brother of John Breckinridge who m Mary Hopkins Cabell) b: 1763-03-07 d: 1833-05-13 at Fincastle, Botetourt county VA ⚭: 1791-01-01 at St. John's church, Richmond, VA with Ann Cary Selden (d of colonel Wilson Cary Selden & Elizabeth Jennings) b: 1770 at "Buckroe", Hampton, VA (about 37.0432N, 76.2937W) d: 1843-03-17 at "Grove Hill", Fincastle, Botetourt county VA buried: Breckinridge Grove Hill Estate, Fincastle, Botetourt county VA

..... Robert Gamble b: 1781-02-13 in VA d: 1867-05-23 at Baltimore, MD buried: Walnut area 2, lot 1, Green Mount cem., Baltimore, MD ⚭: Letitia Breckenridge/Letitia Breckinridge/Laetitia Breckinridge/Lettice Breckinridge (d of James Breckinridge & Ann Cary Selden) b: 1791-10-26 d: 1866-03-10 buried: Walnut area 2, lot 1, Green Mount cem., Baltimore, MD

...... captain Robert Howard Gamble (s of Robert Gamble & Letitia Breckenridge/Letitia Breckinridge) b: 1815-09-22 in Botebourt county VA d: 1887-12-14 in Tallahassee, Leon county FL buried: St. John's Episcopal church cem. Tallahassee, Leon county FL ⚭1: 1858-06-07 with Martha Chaires (daughter of Benjamin Cadwalladar Chaires & Sarah Powell/Sara Powell) b: 1829 d: 1866-01-27 in Tallahassee, Leon county FL buried: SE corner, St. John's Episcopal church cem. Tallahassee, Leon county FL

. Samuel Selden (grand-nephew of John Selden) b:c.1660 d:c.1720 ⚭: 1684-08-27 in DevonShire with Rebecca Yeo (d of sir James Yeo & ??; cousin of the other Rebecca Yeo who m John Lear) b:c.1654 d:c.1737 (c.1690 established "Buckroe" "at the head of Mill Creek".)

.. Joseph Selden b:c.1705 d:shortly before 1727-06-21 ⚭: 1720 with Mary Cary (d of Miles Cary ii & Mary Wilson; gd of Miles Cary & Ann Taylor) b: 1704 in Elizabeth City county VA d: 1775

... colonel Wilson Cary Selden b:1725 or 1735 d: 1791 or 1792 ⚭: c.1741 with Elizabeth Jennings (d of Charles Jennings & Mary) b: c. 1725 or 1735 in West Indies d: 1807

.... Dr. Wilson Cary Selden ii (s of colonel Wilson Cary Selden & Elizabeth Jennings) b: 1761 at "Buckroe", Hampton, VA (about 37.0432N, 76.2937W) d: 1835-03-14 at "Exeter", Loudoun county VA (c.1781 sailed aboard brother's ship, was captured off St. Eustatius (about 17.49638N, 62.97944W), imprisoned on Antigua until 1782 or 1783)     ⚭1: his cousin Mary Mason Selden (d of Samuel Selden 1725or1735-1791or1792 & Mary Thompson Mason 1731-1758; gd of Joseph Selden & Mary Cary and lieutenant-colonel George Mason iii & Ann Stevens Thomson 1699-1762; ggd of colonel Miles Cary ii & Mary Wilson and colonel George Mason ii 1665-1716 & Mary Fowke 1668-1706 and Stevens Thomson & Dorothea Taunton; widow of Mann Page) b:1754-10-01 d: 1787-09-17     ⚭2: Eleanor Love/Nellie Love (d of Samuel Love & Ann Jones)     ⚭3: Mary Bowles Armistead (d of Bowles Armistead & Mary Fontaine/Mary Ann Fountain; gd of William A. Armistead & Mary Bowles and colonel Peter Fountain & Elizabeth Louise Winston; ggd of James Bowles, esq. & Rebecca Tasker Addison; 2ggd of colonel Thomas A. Addison & Elizabeth Tasker)

..... John D. Selden (s of Wilson Cary Selden & Mary Bowles Armistead) b: 1822-02-24 in Loudoun county VA d: 1896-01-08 buried: Zion church-yard, CharlesTown, WV

..... ⚭1: 1845-06-19 in Jefferson county VA with Sarah Pendleton Dandridge Kennedy/Sarah D. Kennedy (daughter of Andrew Kennedy & Mary Ann Riddle Lane; grand-daughter of John Kennedy & Anne Clayton Pendleton; great-grand-daughter of John Kennedy & Lilly UNKNOWN and Philip Pendleton & Agnes Ann Patterson) b: 1834 d: 1920

..... ⚭2: 1857-01-08 with Anne Rebecca Kennedy (daughter of Andrew Kennedy & Mary Ann Riddle Lane; grand-daughter of John Kennedy & Anne Clayton Pendleton; great-grand-daughter of John Kennedy & Lilly UNKNOWN and Philip Pendleton & Agnes Ann Patterson) b: 1825-09-29 in Jefferson county VA d: 1854-07-14 buried: Zion church-yard, CharlesTown, WV

►Guido Abbatista 2008 _Edmund Burke, the Atlantic American War, and the Poor Jews at Eustatius: Empire & the Law of Nations_ (ISSN 1123-7023; unique identifier 7180061469; UFirenze/UFlorence/UTrieste/Cyber Review of Modern Historiography; Jewish-American Society or Historic Preservation: Golden Rock to Golden Door   UChicago/American Historical Review: St. Eustatius in the American Revolution   Victor Enthoven: Early American Studies: "That Abominable Nest of Pirates": St. Eustatius and the North Americans 1680-1780   IR Proper Design.nl/PamKatPhotography: a short tour through Orangestad, St. Eustatius   1951 June: Consuela Mary McKee: Loyola U Chicago: the Caribbean lands and the American Revolution   2019 October: Jeremy Smilig: U of Southampton: Anglo-Jewry and the Revolution Era 1789-1815)

. reverend Robert Smith, D.D. () b: 1723 in Londonderry, Ireland d: 1793-04-15 at home of William Hunter near Rockwell, Chester county PA buried: Pequea Presbyterian cem., Gap, Lancaster county PA   (the current, 2021, Pequea Presbyterian church, East of Springville, is about 6-6.6 miles NE of Gap, 1.1-1.5 Miles N of Old Philadelphia Pike/PA340, along Cambridge Rd, 18 miles E of Lancaster, & at about 40.052N, 75.9911W; Gap is at the intersections of Lincoln high-way/USA30, Gap-Newport Pike/PA41, & Newport Rd/PA772, and has a Pequea Ave., & Bellevue Presbyterian church at about 39.9882N, 76.025W;   the current town of Pequea is at the mouth of Pequea creek at the Susquehanna river, about 13 miles SW of Lancaster;   White Horse Run flows from about 40.0717N, 75.9981 near about 600 Narvon Rd about 2 miles N of Pequea Presbyterian church & cem. & flows right by it, reaching into Pequea creek at about 40.0215N, 76.023W, while the main stream originates near 40.0934N, 75.9918W about a mile SW of Narvon, 3-3.2 miles North of the church)     ⚭1: 1750-05-20 with Elizabeth Blair (d of probably Samuel James Blair & Martha Campbell Lyle; sister of Samuel Blair) b: 1725 in PA d: 1777-02-17 buried: Pequea Presbyterian cem., Gap, Lancaster county PA
.. Samuel Stanhope Smith b: 1751-03-15 at Pequea, PA d: 1819-08-21 at/near Gap, PA ⚭: 1775 June with Ann Witherspoon/Anne Witherspoon (d of John Witherspoon/John Knox Witherspoon/?John Robert Witherspoon? & Elizabeth Montgomery; gd of Robert Montgomery & Jane Edgar) b:1749-07-23 d: 1817
... Mary Clay Smith b:c.1787 d:c.1864 ⚭: Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (s of John Breckinridge & Mary Hopkins Cabell) b: 1788-07-24 in Albemarle county VA d: 1823-09-01 at Frankfort, Franklin county KY
.... USA VP/ major-general/ CSA SecWar John Cabell Breckinridge (s of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge & Mary Clay Smith) b: 1823-01-16 in Lexington, KY d: 1875-5-17 in Lexington, KY ⚭: 1843 with Mary Cyrene Burch (d of Clifton Rhodes Burch & Alethia Viley) b: 1826-08-16 at Georgetown, Scott county KY d: 1907-10-08 at University Heights, Bronx county NY

. Alexander Breckenridge ⚭: Jane Preston
.. Robert Breckenridge ⚭: Letitia Preston/Lettice Preston (d of colonel John Preston & Elizabeth Patton)
... John Breckinridge b: 1760-12-02 at Staunton, Augusta county VA d: 1806-12-14 08:00 ⚭: Mary Hopkins Cabell (daughter of Joseph Cabell & Mary Hopkins) b: 1769-02-22 in Buckingham county VA d: 1858-03-26 in Louisville, Jefferson county KY

.... VP Joseph Cabell Breckinridge b: 1788-07-24 d: 1823-09-01 ⚭: with Mary Clay Smith (d of Samuel Stanhope Smith, D.D. 1750-1819 & Ann Witherspoon/Anne Witherspoon 1749-1817; gd of reverend Robert Smith, D.D. 1728-1798 & Elizabeth Blair and reverend John Witherspoon 1723-1794 & Elizabeth Montgomery; ggd of reverend James Alexander Witherspoon & Anne Walker and Robert Montgomery; descendant of John Welsh/John Welsy of Ayr & Elizabeth Knox) b:c.1787 d:c.1864

{Dirck G. Salomons, M.D. b: c. 1785 d: 1815 at his father's estate, St. Eustatius/Sint Eustatius/Statia, Leeward Islands, Netherlands Antilles/Dutch West Indies (about 17.49638N, 62.97944W The Salomons were apparently merchants descended from Jewish people expelled from the Iberian peninsula & who had settled for a few generations in the Netherlands. John Witherspoon had recruited students & donors from the Caribbean for Princeton as part of his development efforts. The Eustatius merchants had sold arms, ammunition, & supplies to the American Revolution & were attacked by Rodney in 1781 for doing so, and some were tortured & killed.)     ⚭: 1810 with Susan Smith/Susan Stanhope Smith/?Susan French Smith? (d of Samuel Stanhope Smith & Ann Witherspoon/Anne Witherspoon) b: 1785-06-23 d:c.1849}

{Anna Maria Salomons (d of Dirck G. Salomons & Susan Smith/Susan Stanhope Smith) b:c.1811 d: 1862-08-20 ⚭: 1833-02-26 with Alfred Alexander Woodhull, M.D. (s of George Spofford Woodhull & Gertrude Neilson; gs of colonel John Neilson) b: 1810-03-25 d: 1836-10-05 (1828 M.D. from Rutgers.)}

{brigadier-general Alfred Alexander Woodhull ii, M.D. b:1837-04-13 at Princeton d: 1921-10-18 at Princeton ⚭: 1868 with Margaret Ellicott (d of Elias Ellicott & Sarah Eliza Poor; gd of Elias Ellicott & Mary Thomas; ggd of Andrew Ellicott) b:1848 March in Baltimore d: 1925}

Breckinridge family tree
Alexander Breckinridge () b:c.1686 d:c.1743 ⚭: Jane Preston (d of John Archibald Preston & Mary Stewart; sister of John Preston; gd of Phineas Preston & Letitia Hammond and William Stewart 1st viscount Mountjoy & Mary Coote) b:c.1690 d:c.1746
Robert Breckinridge (s of Alexander Breckinridge & Jane Preston) b:c.1720 d:c.1773 ⚭: Leticia Preston/Laetitia Preston/Lettice Preston (d of John Preston 1700-1747 & Elizabeth Patton 1700-1776; gd of Henry Patton & Sarah Cameron Lynn) b:c.1729 in Ireland d:c.1797 in Fayette county KY
colonel or brigadier-general James Breckinridge   (findagrave)   (s of Robert Breckinridge 1720-1773 & Leticia Preston/Laetitia Preston 1729-1797; gs of Alexander Breckinridge 1686-1743) b: 1763-03-07 near Fincastle, VA d: 1833-05-13 in Botetourt county VA ⚭: Ann Cary Selden (d of Wilson Cary Selden & Elizabeth Jennings) b:1770 d: 1843
Robert Gamble/Robert Grattan Gamble ii (s of Robert Gamble & Catherine Gratton; gs of James Gamble 1729-1781 & Agnes Bell and John Grattan & Elizabeth Brown; ggs of Robert Gamble & Mary Bouy) b:1781-02-13 in VA d: 1867-05-23 in Baltimore, MD ⚭: Letitia Breckinridge/Laetitia Breckinridge (d of colonel or brigadier-general James Breckinridge & Ann Cary Selden) b: 1791-01-26 in VA d: 1866-03-10 in Baltimore, MD
Robert Gamble/Robert Grattan Gamble ii ⚭: Letitia Breckinridge/Laetitia Breckinridge

2018-11-19: Jason Williams: The George Washington Masonic Cave/Selden's Cave South of Charles Town, WV: Full Circle   Andrew Kennedy (& his brothers John Pendleton Kennedy & Anthony Kennedy)

Jessica R. Mack: Princeton in the West Indies

1964: Jefferson Sinclair Selden ii: Descendants of Henry Sinclair born in Aberdeen, Scotland: the second son of the earl of Caithness & his son John Sinclair 1755-1820

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