[3] His mother's first cousin was Dabney Carr, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and his wife, Martha Jefferson.

[3] Martha was the sister of President Thomas Jefferson and she was also a cousin of William's second wife, Anne Price.

Martha's father was Peter Jefferson, a planter and surveyor in Albemarle County (Shadwell, then Edge Hill, Virginia.)

She was the daughter of Captain Thomas Randolph Price, who served as an officer in the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War and was a participant in the Gunpowder Incident and Barbara Overton "Betsy" Winston.

November 7, 1650 – April 11, 1711) was a colonist and land owner who played an important role in the history and government of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

He and his wife, Mary Isham, are referred to as "the Adam and Eve of Virginia"; Richard Lovelace, an English poet in the seventeenth century and Francis Lovelace (1621–1675), who was the second governor of the New York colony appointed by the Duke of York, later King James II of England.

Their children were Thomas, Christopher, James, William, Philip, Joanna, Anne, Frances and Isabella.

Thomas Todd, the eldest child, was the distinguished jurist, Thomas Todd of Kentucky, who after filling the highest judicial offices in that State was appointed by President Jefferson one of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and held that office from 1807 till his death in 1824.

His abilities and character won him the personal friendship of Chief Justice Marshall, and of the foremost men in the country.

His eldest son, Charles Scott Todd was graduated at William and Mary College, practiced law in Frankfort, Ky.

Madison; he was sent on a confidential mission to Colombia by the United States Government in 1820, and was appointed minister to Russia by President Tyler in 1841.

The wife of President Madison was Dorothea (commonly called Dolly) Payne, though when he married her she was the widow of John Todd, a promising and wealthy young lawyer in Philadelphia.

She and her sister Lucy (Judge Todd's second wife) were daughters of John Payne and Mary Coles, a first cousin of Patrick Henry, and grand-daughter of John Payne who came to Virginia early in the eighteenth century, and Anna Fleming, grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Fleming, one of the early settlers of Jamestown, Va. Their family belonged to the society of Friends, and their mother and Grandmother had been as celebrated as they were for beauty and charming manners.

After recuperating, he re-entered the service, and in December 1780, he was a Captain of Volunteer Troop of Horses in the 4th Virginia Militia.1 March 8, 1781 Yorktown—Letter from Capt.

James Maxwell to Gov Jefferson described how a plundering party of about 300 British regulars under Col. Dundas were chased from Yorktown to Newport News by Maj. Callis & Lt. Allen with a small force of volunteers.

On April 6, 1781, now a Major, Callis delivered letters from Brig Gen. Weedon to the British Maj. Gen. W Phillips, Portsmouth, regarding the exchange of prisoners.

Thomas Jefferson and described how a plundering party of about 300 British regulars under Col. Dundas were chased from Yorktown to Newport News by Maj. Callis & Lt. Allen with a small force of volunteers.

On August 1, 1781, having been promoted to Colonel, Callis reported on the fleet in the Portsmouth area to Brig Gen. Weedon at Williamsburg.

Callis replied, "Sir, the leg that was wounded in the service of your country would be buried with full military honors.

In his widow's application for a pension in 1847, she stated her husband acted as aide de camp to Gen. Nelson in 1781 during the period when the British fleet under Adm. Graves was in Hampton Roads and Lord Cornwallis was operating by land.

In the Virginia Magazine of History (V375) was printed a letter from Lafayette to Governor Jefferson, dated July 1, 1781.

Lyons Plantation-- "I had yesterday the pleasure to see Maj. Callis and am happy to find you have established a chain of liaison between this camp and the seat of government."

The character in the movie (Colonel William Tavington) was based on Tarleton as a cruel, sadistic commander who massacred prisoners of war and innocent civilians.

On December 7, 1785, he bought Cool Springs plantation, comprising 660 acres (2.7 km2), from Thomas and Lucy Poindexter for 120 pounds.

As I set out for Montecello in six days, it will be shorter for you to address the information to Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy at Baltimore.

http://www.schutzfamily.us/ It was at Cuckoo Tavern during the war that Jack Jouett overheard English officers plotting the capture of Gov.

Jouett made the perilous ride over back roads in the dead of night to warn them so they were long gone when the British arrived the next day.