John HORSLEY

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John Horsley, b. September 17, 1787; merchant; farmer; man of affairs; m. (first) August 4, 1814, Phila­delphia Hamilton Dunscombe, at the residence of Maj. William Duval, in Buckingham County, Va. She was born in 1797; died in March 1817, at the Elk Creek Mills, and was buried at the residence of Micajah Pendleton, near her husband's sisters. Her father, Major Andrew Dunscombe, a soldier of the Revolution, from New York, distinguished as a financier, was sent by the legislature of that State, after the war, to settle her claim against the State of Virginia. Located in Richmond, and in 1787 was appointed by the executive of Virginia commissioner for settling the war accounts between this commonwealth and the United States. This occupied him several years, after which he held an office in the first bank established in Richmond, and is also said to have been at one time a Master in Chan­cery of Judge Wythe's court. He was mayor of Richmond in 1795; died in 1804. He married Philadelphia Duval, daughter of Col. Samuel Duval, who was in colonial times member of the House of Burgesses from Hanover. Sister to Col. Shepherd Duval and Maj. William Duval, soldiers of the Revolution, and aunt to Gov. William Pope Duval, of Florida, the original of Washington Irving's "Ralph Ringwood," and of J. K. Paulding's "Nimrod Wildfire." Maj. Andrew Dunscombe's father was a Scotchman, a fol­lower of "Charles Edward the Pretender" at Culloden. His mother was the daughter of an Amsterdam merchant. His daughter, Philadelphia H. D. Horsley, left an only child, named for his grandfathers.

John married Philadelphia Hamilton DUNSCOMBE on 4 Aug 1814. (Philadelphia Hamilton DUNSCOMBE was born in 1797 and died in Mar 1817.)

John next married Mary Mildred CABELL on 4 Feb 1819.