Judith Scott ROSE

   Other names for Judith were Mrs. Judith Scott CABELL and Mrs. Landon CABELL.

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  General Notes:

His wife, Judith Scott Rose, was the daughter of Col. Hugh Rose and his wife, Caroline Matilda Jordan (died in 1809), the daughter of Col. Samuel Jordan by his sec­ond wife, Mrs. Judith Scott Ware. Col. Hugh Rose was born September 18, 1743; he was a justice of the peace for Amherst from 1765, I believe, to his death; a member of the County Committee, 1775-1776; a vestryman of Amherst, and after 1779, of Lexington Parish; was sheriff of his county in 1776; colonel of mili­tia; county lieutenant in 1780 and after; member House of Delegates, 1785-1786; a trustee of Warminster Academy in 1791-1795, etc. His will, dated October 16, 1794, was probated January 19, 1795. Col. William Cabell, Jr., was one of his executors.

"Feb'y 2nd 1795. To cash paid Wm. S. Crawford for the Rev. Charles Crawford for the funeral sermon of Hugh Rose, £3."

Col. Hugh Rose was the son of the celebrated Rev. Rob­ert Rose by his second wife, Anne Fitz Hugh, who descend­ed from well-known Eastern Virginia families. She was born March 8, 1721, and died April 18, 1789. Her father, Henry Fitz Hugh, born January 15, 1687, died December 12, 1758; married February 24, 1718, Susanna Cooke (born December 7, 1693, died Nov. 21, 1749), daughter of Mordecai Cooke, of Gloucester. Henry Fitz Hugh was a son of Col. William Fitz Hugh (1651-1701), the emi­grant from England, by his wife, Sarah Tucker, who was born August 2, 1663, in Westmoreland County, Va.

Rev. Robert Rose, born at Wester Alves in Scotland, February 12, 1704, was ordained by the bishop of London, came to Virginia about 1725, was minister of St. Anne's in Essex 1726-1747, and of St. Anne's in Albemarle 1747-­1751. He died June 30, 1751, in Richmond, Va., and was buried in old St. John's churchyard. He was an active businessman, pioneer, and preacher. He was never idle, but always doing his duty in all ways. He was a friend and an administrator of Gov. Alexander Spotswood; an inven­tor of a great improvement in the navigation of the moun­tain streams; one of our earliest and best citizens. His will was probated November 12, 1751, when his wife, Anne Rose, qualified as the executrix with Peter Jefferson, John Harvie, and John Nicholas as her securities. The inventory of his estate was made in January 1752. He was of the fif­teenth generation from Hugh Rose of Easter Geddes, who died in 1333; and of the eighth generation from Hugh Rose (died 1517) of Kilravock, and his wife, Lady Mar­garet Seton, daughter of Alexander, first earl of Huntley, and sister to George, the second earl, who married the Princess Joanna, daughter of James I of Scotland, and relict of James, Earl of Angus.

Judith married Landon CABELL, son of William CABELL II and Margaret JORDAN. (Landon CABELL was born on 21 Feb 1765.)