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

BRANCH OF HIS SON PETER. 229
from his oil painting of Montague Arms.
He 711., Jan. 16, 1893, Lily Carville Fiedler*
of New York City, a descendant of Pere-
grine White, the first child born after the
arrival of the Pilgrims at Cape Cod, Mass.
1620.
1539. Heber Richmond, b. .
1540. Katherine Montague, b. Sept. 28, 1865.
1 54 1. Walter Proby, b. .
1542. Mary Carville, b. , d. in infancy.
516.
Walter Powhatan Montague, son of Henry B. [153],
13, 1 84 1, in Richmond, Va.
b. Aug.
Entered the confederate service at the outbreak of the war and
served through the whole period, rising to the rank of Lieut., and
served during the latter part of the war on board the confederate
steamer Rappahannock, from which he surrendered at the close of
the war. He m., July 19, 1870, at Christ Church [P. Episcopal] in
Baltimore, by Bishop Thomas W. Dudley, Lelia Sinclair, eldest dau.
* William White, a Puritan from England to Holland, a wool-carder, as he was called
when the banns of his marriage were published, 27 Jan., 1612, at Leyden. m., at Leyden,
Feb. 1, 1612, Anna Fuller (the same who was called Susanna), he was one of the Pilgrims
who came on the Mayflower 1620, with wife and son Resolved and two servants. Their son
Peregrine was b. Nov.. 1620, at Cape Cod, before the Mayflower reached Plymouth, and was
the first child born after arrival in America. The father, William White, d. Feb. 21, two
months after landing. His widow m., May 12 following, Edward Winslow, whose wife had
d. only thirty-one days after death of White. Peregrine White in. and had two children
before 1650 ; his dau. Jerusha 111. a Stanton. Jerusha White's third dau. in. a Grinnell and
settled in Westbrook, Conn. Living in Westbrook were three brothers named Lay who had
emigrated from England after 1620. The eldest son in. Mary Grinnell, dau. of Jerusha
[White] Stanton and Grinnell. The son of Mary Grinnell Lay in. Mary Spencer, whose
bro. Joseph Spencer m. Lydia Grinnell, the youngest dau. These last have the bread tray
belonging to William White's wife, and in which she made bread on the voyage over in the
Mayflower. Mary Grinnell's son, Jonathan Lay, had six children ; the oldest, Judge Jonathan
Lay, of Westbrook, Conn., had no children. Mary Lay, second child, m. (1) Enoch
Murdock, (2) Wood, (3) Squire Waite of Lyme, Conn., great uncle of Chief Justice Waite
of Supreme Court of the U.S.; she had nine children, of whom T. Murdock Chadwick is the
last, now living in St. Louis. Hannah Lay, third child, in. Abram Murdock, had two children,
a son and dau.; the son is Prof. James Murdock, Prof, of Theology at Andover. John
Lay, fourth child, was the grandfather of the Axtell, Lay, and Hart children ; he was a grad-
uate of Yale College, m. Phoebe Lee, whose mother was Abby Murdock. Lyra Lay, fifth
child, m. Hettie Kelsey. Phoebe Lay, sixth child, in. William Gale and had nine children.
Mary Lay, dau. of John Lay, m. Eli Hart, son of Judge Hart of Clinton, N. Y. Helen M.
Hart, oldest and only living child of Mary and Eli Hart in. Ernest Fiedler, and left four
children, Mary, Helen, Louise, and Edward. Edward Fiedler in. Eliza Winthrop Carville,
who have three children now living, Lily Carville, Constance Louise, and Edward C. Fiedler.
The oldest, Lily Carville Fiedler in. Henry Montague Robertson, as above stated.