Mary Randolph Brooke

Birth: Jun. 29, 1775 New Post Spotsylvania County Virginia, USA Death: Jan. 16, 1803 Spotsylvania County Virginia, USA

Daughter of Alexander Spotswood & Elizabeth [Washington] Spotswood

1st Wife of Francis Taliaferro Brooke Married October 3, 1791 Spotsylvania Co., VA

Mother of: John Francis Brooke Elizabeth Brooke Robert Spotswood Brooke Mary R. Spotswood [Brooke] Berkeley

From Judge Francis T. Brooke: In that year, the year '90, I sometimes visited my friends at Smithfield; paid my addresses to Mary Randolph Spotswood, the eldest daughter of Gen. Spotswood and Mrs. Spotswood, the only whole niece of Gen. Washington. Our attachment had been a very early one. Her father frequently sent to Smithfield for me when I was only thirteen years of age; my father would complain, but always permitted me to go. I would find the General, about daylight in the morning, with his fine horses drawn out, and his fox hounds, and, as I was an excellent horseman, would mount me upon one of his most spirited horses, and often range through the country and woods, where I now live. He knew his daughter was very much attached to me, but though succeeding in my profession, I was but poor, and he had great objections to the match. After some time, however, when I had gone back to Tappahannock, finding his daughter's attachment too strong to be overcome, though she had been courted by others, he consented to our union. Volume II Chapter XI A Narrative of My Life for My Family. Narrative.

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Parents:

 Alexander Spotswood (1746 - 1818)

 Elizabeth Washington Spotswood (1749 - 1814)

Children:

 John Francis Brooke (1795 - 1849)*

 Robert Spotswood Brooke (1800 - 1851)*

 Mary Randolph Spotswood Brooke Berkeley (1803 - 1875)*

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Burial: Brooke Cemetery Spotsylvania County Virginia, USA