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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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Dr. Louis Contesse lived and practiced his profession in Williamsburg, VA, during the first quarter of the eighteenth century. Neither the date of his emigration, nor the definite place of his birth in France have been transmitted. He patented, August 12, 1725, two tracts of land of 400 acres each on the south side of the James River in Henrico Coounty. The first is described as lying near the land of John Lavillain, and the second as being bounded by the lands of Francis and John James Flurnoy.
Allen Taylor Caperton, a Senator from West Virginia; born near Union, Monroe County, VA (now West Virginia), November 21, 1810; attended the private schools of Virginia and Huntsville, AL, and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; was graduated from Yale College in 1832; studied law in Staunton, VA; was admitted to the bar and practiced; member, Virginia House of Delegates 1841-1842; member, State Senate 1844-1848; delegate to the State constitutional conventions in 1850 and 1861; member, State House of Delegates 1857-1861; elected by the legislature of Virginia as a member of the Confederate States Senate and served until 1865; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate from West Virginia and served from March 4, 1875 until his death in Washington, DC, July 26, 1876; interment in Green Hill Cemetery, Union, WVa. (Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress"). Bibliography: US Congress. Memorial Addresses for Allen T. Caperton, 44th Congress, 2nd session, 1876-1877. Washington, DC; Govenrment Printing Office.
Hugh Caperton, a Representative from Virginia; born in Greenbrier Co., VA (now West Virginia), April 17, 1781; was a planter and also engaged in mercantile pursuits; moved to Monroe Co.; sheriff of Monroe County in 1805; member of the State House of Delegates, 1810-1813 and 1826-1830; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1815); resumed agricultural and mercantile pursuits; died on his estate, "Elmwood", in Monroe County, near Union, VA (now West Virginia), February 9, 1847; interment in Green Hill Cemetery, Union, WVa). (Source: "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress).