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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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Thomas Beale of "Chestnut Hill", Richmond Co., VA.
Arthur Spicer Brockenbrough lived at the University of Virginia where he was the architect and Proctor until 1832. He died at the University of Virginia.
William H. Brockenbrough Judge
Judge William H. Brockenbrough, United States Senator from Florida.
Dr. John Brockenbrough, long a prominent citizen and President of the Bank of Virginia. He received his M.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1795, and returned to Virginia where, on 18 April 1797, he married Gabriella Harvie Randolph, the young and wealthy widow of Thomas Mann Randolph. Dr. Brockenbrough did not actively practice medicine but was involved in civic and business enterprises. A contributor toward the building of Monumental Church after the Richmond theater fire of 1811, he at one timed owned the Warm Springs in Bath County. His home he built on Shockoe Hill, in Richmond, at the corner of 12th and Clay Streets, was designed by Robert Mills of South Carolina. Built in 1818, it was later enlarged in 1844. the Brockenbrough house was later the residence of President Jefferson Davis, and the "White House of the Confederacy" during the Civil War, which is now occupied as the Confederate Museum. (Source: Christopher F. Hutchins).
The "White House of the Confederacy", in Richmond, was designed by Robert Mills for Richmond physician John Brockenbrough. The residence was completed in 1818 and enlarged several times by subsequent owners. During the Civil War it served as the Executive Mansion fo the Confederate States of America, and thus the official residence of Jefferson Davis, his wife Varina,and his family. Since 1894, the house has been owned by the Confederat Memorial Literary Society and maintained by the Museum of the Confederacy. It is a National Historic Landmark. (Source: "The Hornbook of Virginia History", 1994, Salmon and Campbell, published by The Library of Virginia).
Joseph Carter was a Revolutionary War soldier.
Joseph Carter was a Revolutionary War soldier.
Charles Landon Carter, of "Longbranch", Northumberland Co., VA.