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Leon G. Tyler, "Ancestry of George Wythe, LL. D.," William and Mary College Quarterly 2, no. 1 (July 1893), 69.[1]

Article text, July 1893

Page 69

Ancestry of George Wythe, LL. D.


BY THE EDITOR.

George Wythe was descended from an honorable line of ancestors who had held for generations high position in the County of Elizabeth City. The following represents his descent from the immigrant, Thomas Wythe, gent.

Thomas Wythe Gent. = = Anne ——— = = Capt. Thomas Har-
A leading Magistrate of Eliz-
City Co. will pr. 19 Mch,
1693-4
     wood, J. P. of E. C.
   Co.
1.        (?)2 == John Tomer.[2] 2. Anne2 who m.
William Mallory
of E. C. Co., will
pr. in E. C. Co.,
Feb. 11, 1720, son
of Capt. Roger
Mallory of New
Kent or King &
Queen; left issue.
 
     
  3. Thomas2 = =   Anne, dau. John Shep-   = = Quintilian Gu-
  (2nd husband)   
Will   pr.  18   
Sept., 1694, J.   
P. of E. C.   
Co.   
pard, (sister of Baldwin  
Sheppard, J. P. of E.  
C., will pr. 7ber, 1697.)  
   therick, 1st hus-
   band; adminis-
   tration granted
   in 1690, J. P of
   E. C. Co
           
Thomas3 who m., in 1719-20,
Margaret, dau. of George
Walker, who m. a daughter
of George Keith, a quaker
  Ann3
.1

William,
dead before
1695.
      == Rev. James Wallace,
      3rd husband,
      minister of E. C. Parish.
of good fortune who wrote      
a folio upon mathematical
and other subjects. (Story's
"Diary;" Call's Reports, IV,
p. 11.
  2. Elizabeth, mar.
Nicholas Curle
in 1699.
 
   
     
  Thomas4 GEORGE4
b. 1726,
d. June 8, 1806
Ann,4
m. Charles Mallory.
 
                         

References

  1. Leon G. Tyler, "Ancestry of George Wythe, LL. D.," William and Mary College Quarterly 2, no. 1 (July 1893), 69.
  2. W. Edwin Hemphill suggests the Wythe daughter who married John Tomer may have been named "Constance." "George Wythe the Colonial Briton," PhD diss., University of Virginia, 1937, 8n1.