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108 VIRGINIA HERALDICA j
brief journal of a voyage made in the bark 'Virginia,' to Virginia
and the other parts of the Continent of America." His wife Sarah
married after his death, Col. John Walker of Rappahannock, by
whom she had several daughters. By Capt. Fleet, she had a son,
Henry, died 1728, Justice of Lancaster in 1695, Sheriff in 1718 and
1719. He married Elizabeth Wildey, by whom he had: (1) Henry;
(2) William; (3) Elizabeth; (4) Judith, married 1723, William
Hobson of Northumberland; (5) Margaret, married Presley Cox
of Westmoreland; (6) Ann, married Leonard Howson of Northumberland;
(.7) a daughter who married Brent.
The maternal ancestry of Capt. Henry Fleet is very distinguished.
Sir Henry Wyatt of Allington Castle, Kent, Privy Councillor to
Henry VIII., married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Brooke, Lord
Cobham. Their son. Sir Thomas Wyatt, "The Rebel," born 1520,
beheaded on Tower Hill, 11 April, 1554, married Jane, daughter of
Sir William Howt. Their daughter Joan Wyatt, married Charles
Scott, son of Sirv^Reginald Scott of Scott Kail, Kent, and their
daughter, Deborah "Scott, married William Fleet, gent., of Chatham,
Kent, a member of the Virginia Company. They had issue, seven
sons and four daughters; four of the sons being among the early
immigrants to Virginia and Maryland, viz: (1) Henry; (2) Edward,
member of the Maryland Legislature in 1638; (3) Reginold, member
of the J^Iaryland Legislature in 1638; (4) John, member of the
Maryland Legislature in 1638.
TAYLOR. Caroline county.
Crest: A naked arm couped at the shoulder embowed, holding
an arrow ppr.
Motto: Consequitur quodcunque petit.
James Taylor, ancestor of the Caroline county family of that
name, is said to have come from the vicinity of Carlisle, England.
He was in Virginia before 1650 and took out patents of land on the
Mattaponi River. By his first wife, Frances, he had Jane, bom
27 Dec, 1668; James, born 1674;- Sarah, born 1676. His first wife
died in 1680, and in 1682 he married ilary, sister of John Gregory,
by whom he had the following children: John and Anne, twins,
born 1685, John died young; Mary, born 1688; Edmund, born 1690;
John, born 1693, died young; Elizabeth, born 1694, died young; John,
bom 1696. James Taylor died about 1698 at an advanced age. An
old ring handed down in the family is said to have once been his
property, and it bears engraved upon it the above crest which is
that of the Taylors of Pennington Castle. The descendants of
James Taylor have been exceedingly prominent in the history of
the State, one of them—^Zachary, becoming President.
BUCKNER. Gloucester county.
Arms: Sable three fleurs de Us or.
Crest: A fleur de lis gules, an adder entwined around It issuing
from the centre leaf ppr.
John and Philip Buckner, brothers, were in Virginia as early as
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