that he is possessed of a mulatto house servant, of the name of London, having a wife and family in the City of Williamsburg, who he conceives under God was the great means of saving his, and his wife's life in a carriage with frightened horses, and being desirous of countenancing and rewarding such active exertions, he prays the honourable assembly to emancipate the said slave by an act of assembly and your petitioner shall ever pray. Wilson Miles Cary

Williamsburg,

Nov 30, 1809.

PETITION OF THE RECTOR AND VESTRYMEN OF BRUTON PARISH. To the General Assembly of Virginia,

The petition of the Rector & Vestrymen and Trustees of the Parish of Bruton to the General Assembly of the State of Virginia respectfully represents

That the Glebe of the said Parish is destitute of any buildings or improvements, except what have been placed thereon by the present incumbent; that these consist of small Log Cabins for the accommodation of his slaves, & are in a state of decay; and that the value of the land would be greatly increased by substantial & permanent buildings, which a tenant for life, & greatly advanced in years, cannot be expected, or afford, to erect: They therefore humbly request that an Act of your Body may pass authorizing the sale of the Premises, but reserving the interest of the purchase money to the present Rector, during his residence under that character.

They further request that they may also be authorized to sell a small tract of land of about one hundred & fifty acres, lying on the head of Queen's Creek & commonly called the Factory,* which they hold by devise for charitable purposes, but which from the ruinous state of the buildings & other circumstances has become

*This factory was established about 1769 opposite to Queen Mary's Port on Queen's Creek by a joint stock company, of which Peyton Randolph was President. It made cotton and linen cloth. Tyler, History of Williamsburg, p. 56-57.

unproductive; as also a small lot of ground of four or five acres, called Whaley's free school, on the road leading to the Capitol Landing & without any buildings.

If these two pieces of land were sold & the purchase money vested in some public funds in the name of the Mayor or Aldermen of Wmsburg, the interest thereon to be by them appropriated to the education of poor children within the Parish, your petitioners are persuaded that the laudable object of the Donors wou'd much more effectually & amply be complied with, than can under present circumstances be attained.

John Bracken Rector of Bruton Parish Major Miles Cary, Anty Robinson, John W. Smith, W. Browne, Wm Coleman, James Henderson, Ro: Saunders, Ferdinand S. Campbell, Robert Nelson, John Coke, Edmund Christian, Wms_ Burg. Dec 20, 1813.

[Endorsed:]

Rector &c. of Bruton Parish-Petition.

Dec 22d 1813 refd to Cts of J., reasonable

FORMICULA-STUART-BANKHEAD.
Communicated.

Great-Great-Grand-Mother, Margaret Evelyn, of England, of noble family. She married James Douglas Stuart of Scotland. They had one child, a daughter, Matilda Stuart. They then moved to Venice and there Matilda met and married Serafina Formicula, a descendant of one of the Doges of Venice. They had one child, a daughter, Evelyn Formicula. Her father being an intimate friend of Lord Dunmore, the first Governor of Virginia, came over to America with him, and they settled at Eltham on Munroe's Creek, and when they died, they were buried at Eltham, and left their daughter Evelyn as the ward of Lord Dunmore, but when Dunmore left Virginia for England, Evelyn was left in the care of her relatives the Stuarts, and very early in life she married, and when a young widow married her cousin Stuart Bankhead. One child was born to them, our Mother, Eliza Stuart Bankhead. Evelyn again being widowed married a third time. Robert Gilchrist Robb, who was a widower with three children, Eliza, Ellen and Robert. Evelyn had two children by this marriage Margaret and Roberta. Evelyn married three times and was a widow when she died at the early age of 31. Our Mother was married twice before she was 20.

Serafina Formicula was a man of very high culture and subscribed Five Hundred Dollars to building an Institute in Richmond which was devoted to "Science, Art, and Philosophy," later on the building was changed to a Theatre and was burnt, and the Monumental Church (which now stands) was then built as a memorial to those who lost their lives in that fire.

Eliza Stuart Bankhead was a widow, (Mrs. Waring) and married our Father, Henry Thomas Garnett. She was a near cousin of President Monroe and Madison. This list made out January 10th, 1917, by

Roberta Garnett Skinker, Morris, Coontz,

St. Augustine, Florida.

Roberta Garnett married 3 times.

Note.-Serafina Formicula, mentioned in the above account, appears to have first resided in Williamsburg, and is mentioned among

the lot owners in 1783. About that year he resided in Richmond, and was owner of a tavern. For a time he managed the famous Eagle Tavern. He is mentioned by Mordecai in his "Richmond in By-Gone Days" as a subscriber to DuQuesnoy's Academy of the Fine Arts. His son-in-law, Stuart Bankhead, died in 1805, and there is in the Richmond Enquirer for September 5 a long obituary. Formicula was doubtless a friend of Lord Dunmore, but his daughter could hardly have been his ward, as Formicula lived in Virginia long after Dunmore left it.

RECORD OF THE SMITH FAMILY.

Communicated by SAMUEL N. Warren.

As written by Anne Smith (born 1762), oldest daughter of Col. Samuel Smith, formerly of Essex County, Va., and later of Granville Co., N. C.

For an account of the early generations of this Smith Family, compiled by the editor from the records of Middlesex and Essex Counties, Va., see William and Mary College Quarterly, IX, p. 46. It begins with Alexander Smith, great-grandfather of Col. Samuel Smith. In Book VI, of the Virginia Land Grants, under date Sept. 21, 1674, he is granted 110 acres in Middlesex County, adjoining the land "on which e now lives," a dividend of Major Courts, dec'd, and the Glebe land. There is a tradition in the family that Alexander Smith was son of Joseph Smith, of Bristol, and that he had a brother John.

A TRUE AND EXACT COPY OR RECORD OF THE "SMITH FAMILY"
AS WRITTEN BY ANNE SMITH, OLDEST DAUGHTER OF
COL. SAM SMITH AND MARY WEBB SMITH, HIS WIFE.

"As well as can be reccollected by the writer "The Smith family' Emigrated from Scotland. The ancestor of the following Smith family came from Scotland, whose name was Alexander Smith; he married an English Lady, whom if I reccollect was named Anne Coxe; she had a brother named Maurice Coxe. Samuel Smith born........ married to......Anne Amis born..... Samuel Smith, son of Sam and Anne Smith above was born in Essex Co., Va., Dec 3-1729-old style. Sam Smith died Oct 6-1800 in Granville Co. N. C, Mary Webb born in Essex Co Va Oct 21-1740 old style. Deceased Nov 20-1827 between 2 and 3 O'clock in morning. North Carolina.

Samuel Smith and Mary Webb were married in May....1761 in Virginia.

The following are the children of Sam and Mary Smith. Anne Smith was born Sunday Evening May 9-1762, Essex Co, Virginia.

Essex

Mary Smith was born Sunday evening Sept 18-1763, Co, Va was married to William Williamson in Feb. 1800. Dec'd