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Arthur Morson

Arthur Morson (1734-1798) of Greenock, County Renfrew, Scotland, sailed for Virginia in 1751 on the Greenock Snow and landed somewhere on the Rappahannock River.  A merchant in the town of Falmouth, Virginia, he served as a justice for King George County in 1766 and in 1770 as his home, Hartwood, was then in that county.…

Alexander Morson

Alexander Morson (1759-1822) was the son of Arthur Morson (1735-1798), a wealthy Scottish merchant with businesses in Falmouth.  In 1800 Alexander married in Stafford County Ann Casson Alexander (1781-1831) who inherited her family home, Snowden, after the death of her brother in 1804.  Alexander resided on Hollywood, which was located on the north side of…

William L. Morgan

William L. Morgan (c.1805-1873) was from King George County where he was a merchant prior to his moving to Stafford.  Around 1854 he married Margaret Strother (c.1795-after 1862), the daughter of James Strother (died 1853) of King George.  In 1855 William purchased the old Garrard’s Ordinary property across U. S. Route 1 from Stafford Courthouse.…

Wade Hampton Moore

Wade Hampton Moore was the son of George F. Moore (c.1846-after 1910) of Stafford County, Virginia.  He owned a general merchandise store on the southeastern corner of Shelton Shop Road (Route 648) and Mountain View Road (Route 627).  This intersection is still referred to by locals as “Moore’s Corner.”  After he sold his store, he…

Powhatan Moncure

Powhatan Moncure (1830-1908) was the son of John Moncure (1793-1876) of Carmora and Woodbourne, Stafford County.  Prior to the War Between the States, he lived at Ravenswood, part of which was recently taken for the airport interchange on U. S. Route 1.  Powhatan became gravely ill at the outset of the war and was never…

George Frazier Vowles Moncure

George Frazier Vowles Moncure (1826-1901), whose name often appears as George Vowles Moncure or George V. Moncure, was the son of John Moncure (1793-1876) of Woodbourne, Stafford County, Virginia.  George was born at Somerset and resided at Chelsea, both of these farms being in the Widewater area of Stafford.  In 1849 he married Mary Conway…

Jaquelin Marshall Meredith

Jaquelin Marshall Meredith (1833-1920) was the son of Dr. Reuben Meredith (1791-1860) and Mary Lucinda Clarkson (1802-1880) and spent much of his younger life in Fauquier County, Virginia.  He was an Episcopal minister who served in the 47th Virginia Infantry during the War Between the States.  He became rector of Aquia Episcopal Church in Stafford…

John Mercer

John Mercer (1704-1768) immigrated to America in 1720 from Dublin, Ireland, settling first in Maryland and then in Virginia.  He was the son of John Mercer and Grace Fenton of Dublin.  John soon became a prominent entrepreneur, attorney, and landowner.  He arrived in Stafford around 1725 and almost single-handedly rebuilt the failed town of Marlborough.…

Col. Enoch Mason

Col. Enoch Mason (c.1766-1828) was the son of John Mason (1722-c.1796) and the grandson of George Mason (16_-c.1729) of Aquia.  This seems to be a different family from that of  George Mason (1725-1792) of Stafford and Gunston Hall, Fairfax County.  Enoch Mason owned some 2,461 acres in Stafford and lived at Clover Hill in the…

Anthony Marquis

The spelling of this surname varies in the surviving records between “Marquis” and “Marquess.”  Anthony Marquis (1752-1821) married Elizabeth Winlock (died 1825) and lived about a half-mile above the old Berea Post Office.  He purchased this farm in 1803 from the estate of James Hunter (1721-1784).  Anthony was a saddle maker by trade and is…

George J. Lightner

George J. Lightner (1839-1898) was the son of George W. Lightner (c.1805-1886) and Mary Roberson/Robertson of Falmouth.  In 1852 he was a member of the Falmouth Division #388, Sons of Temperance.  In 1859 he married Eliza T. Cox (born c.1835).  George served as postmaster of Falmouth from 1881 to 1885 and again in 1889.  He was…

Thomas Ludwell Lee

Although he was raised at Stratford Hall surrounded by Virginia’s leading legal minds, Thomas Ludwell Lee (1730-1778) much preferred the solitude of remote  Stafford County to the busy atmosphere of Westmoreland.  He made his home at Bell View, which he’d inherited from his father.  This tract was on the south side of Potomac Creek and…