Maj. John Fitzhugh

  Notes and Events:

• Relationship: g5 grandfather.

• Note. May have been Justice of the Peace

• Note. There is on record in King George a deed, February 20, 1787, from John Fitzhugh, of "Bellair," and his son George, conveying to Daniel McCarty Fitzhugh 473 acres in King George, called Feneaux, or the Hop Yard.

• Note. Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume II, Pages 838-861, The Fitzhugh Family, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, (with an introduction by John Frederick Dorman); indexed by Thomas L. Hollowak. Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 1981. 5 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.
JOHN4 FITZAHUGH (Henry,3 William2), of "Bellair," Stafford county; born June 30, 1727; "baptized by Rev. David Stuart; had for sureties Mordecai Cooke and William Brent, of Peace Neck; also Anna and Mrs. Elizabeth Buckner, his aunts." He married, October 30, 1746, Alice (born August 21, 1729; died March 5, 1790), daughter of Rowland Thornton, of "Crowes," King George, and died May 1st, 1809. He does not appear to have held any public office, except perhaps that of justice of the peace.
Issue: 50. Henry5; 51. John,5 born September 29, 1749; died February 9, 1807. Did he marry or leave issue? 52. George,5 born April 24, 1751, died November, 1810. There is on record in King George a deed, February 20, 1787, from John Fitzhugh, of "Bellair," and his son George, conveying to Daniel McCarty Fitzhugh 473 acres in King George, called Feneaux, or the Hop Yard; and on January 12, 1788, George Fitzhugh, of King George, and his wife, Humphrey Francis Toy Fitzhugh, conveyed to Thacker Washington, of King George, a track of land in that county. It seems probable there was no issue of this marriage, as the will of Mrs. Humphrey Frances Toy Fitzhugh, proved in King George in 1791, names only her husband and niece, Caroline Matilda Fitzhugh. Her surname was probably Tabb; 54. Thomas,5 born June 15, 1753. Did he marry or leave issue? 55. Elizabeth,5 born October 10, 1754, died February 21, 1823, married March 20, 1770, Francis Conway of "Port Conway," King George, who served in the Revolution as a captain in the Continental Line. (See Hayden’s Virginia Genealogies, 263, &c.). A full length protrait of her, by Heselius, and a miniature have been preserved; 56. Susannah,5 born February 6, 1756, died March 15, 1819, married, about 1775, Catlett Conway of "Hawfield," Orange (Hayden, 264, &c.) 57. William,5 born August 11, 1757, died October 4, 1803. Did he marry or leave issue? 58. Alice,5 born February 20, 1759; married – Pratt? 59. Francis, born February 4, 1761, died March 30, 1821. His will was dated October 22d, 1798, and proved April 5, 1821, in King George County. He leaves his whole estate to his wife, Lucy W. Fitzhugh, with reversion of most of it at her death to his nephew, Edwin, son of Francis Conway, of Caroline county; and if he dies, then to his brother, John Conway; legacy to his niece, Lucy, daughter of his brother, Thomas Fitzhugh. Wife and nephew, Francis Fitzhugh Conway, executrix and executor. Codicil giving 100 guineas to his nephew, Francis, son of his brother, John Fitzhugh. There was no issue, as Mrs. Lucy Fitzhugh, in her will dated November 16, 1827, and proved in King George, July 1st, 1830, leaves her property to Sarah Ann Beverley, her adopted daughter, and to her (S. A. B.’s) daughters; to nephew A. S. Hooe, nephew Wm. C. Posey, and to Henry M. R. Beverley, son of her niece, Sarah Ann Beverley. There is in King George a deed, March 1st, 1795, from Francis Fitzhugh and Lucy, his wife (late widow of John Taliaferro, deceased), of King George, conveying to William Thornton Alexander 600 acres in King George, called "Hayes," which was the dower of said Lucy as widow of said Taliaferro -- consideration: Love and affection for said W. T. Alexander. And also a deed, August 2d, 1802, from John Taliaferro, Jr., administrator of John Taliaferro, of "Hayes," deceased, who was executor of Mrs. Lucy Alexander, late of King George county, and relict of John Alexander, of "Salisbury," King George, reciting that the said Mrs. Lucy Alexander was the only surviving child of Colonel William Thornton, of King George, many years deceased, and that the said Lucy Alexander, in her will, January 6, 1781, directed that, among other things, 50 acres should be sold and the proceeds divided between her daughters, Lucy Taliaferro, now Lucy Fitzhugh, and Mary Thornton, now Mary Posey; 60. Daniel McCarty,5 of King George county, born May 9, 1763, died May 2d, 1823, died without issue. 61. Sarah Ann,5 born February 13, 1765, died in Kentucky, November 1820, married Charles Thornton, of "North Garden," Caroline County (see William & Mary Quarterly, VI, 109). 62. Thornton,5 born June 4, 1768, died June 29, 1814. Did he marry or have issue? 63. Ann Rose,5 born December 26, 1769, married Dr. Henry Fitzhugh Thornton, Caroline county (see William & Mary Quarterly, VI, 111); 64. Frances5 ? married John Waugh.

John married Alice "Eliza" Catlett Thornton, daughter of Rowland Thornton and Elizabeth Catlett, on 30 Oct 1746 in Bedford, Stafford Co., VA. (Alice "Eliza" Catlett Thornton was born on 21 Aug 1729 in Crowes, King George Co., VA and died on 5 Mar 1790 in Stafford Co., VA.)