History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

82 DESCENDANTS OF PETER MONTAGUE.
1740, and again in the will of his mother 1747.
No further mention
of him is made in Essex Co. records. He m. about 1754,, Mrs.
Catherine Taylor whose maiden name was Catherine Young. About
the year 1759 he emigrated to North Carolina* and settled in
Granville Co. where he d. about the year 1812 or 1813. After his
death, his wife moved with her daughter Fanny Graves to Maury Co.,
Tenn., where she d. about 1815 or 1816.
"3- Henry,
114. Martha,
115 William,
116 Mary,
"7 Young,
118 Charlotte,
119 Frances,
CHILDREN.
b. about 1756, in Va.
b. about 1758, in Va.
b. about 1760, in N. C.
b. in N. C.
b. May 20, 1765, in N. C.
b. about 1768, in N. C.
b. Oct. 4, 1777, in N. C.
38.
William Montague, son of William [16], b. 1729, in Middlesex
Co. Va.
April 7, 1 76 1, he was appointed guardian of his sister Margaret,
who was then a girl of about twelve years of age. He also received!
one-ninth part of the dower of his mother, she having remarried Mr.
Vincent Vass. He was also, in 1760, one of the administrators of
the estate of his brother John, deceased. Will Book 1760 to 1772,
p. 82, has the appraisal of the estate of Massey Yarrington, Sept. 2,
1760, appraised by WT
illiam Montague, Philip Montague and Charles
Lee. All the books of Middlesex records from 1748 to 1760 [12
years] were carried off by the Federals during the war of 186 1.
* " In 1562 the great Huguenot leader Jean Ribalt founded a short-lived and ill-fated
colony at Port Royal and named the county " Carolina," in honor of the wretched Charles
IX., a king deserving little respect from any one, least of all from Huguenots. So far as
paying compliments to an unworthy king goes, the name served the purpose of the English
colonists equally well and it was retained."—Maryland and the Far South by John Fiske.
The first permanent settlement in North Carolina was made on the eastern bank of the
Chowan, and called Albemarle, by emigrants who fled from religious persecution, from,
Nansemond in Virginia, about 1660. Several previous attempts to settle it had failed. It
had been granted to different proprietors at different times ; but in 1663, it was transferred to
Lord Clarendon, and some others who procured a Constitution of Government to be prepared
for it by the celebrated John Locke. The chief magistrate was called the Palatine, and there
was a hereditary nobility. The Legislature was called a Parliament. This Constitution was
so defective that in 1693 it was abolished. In 1729 the Crown purchased the whole of the
Carolinas for ^17,500 sterling; and the king immediately divided it into two provinces, North
and South Carolina.— U. S. Gazetcer.