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THE SINCLAIRS OF VIRGINIA

JOHN SINCLAIR (1), the founder of this branch of the lineage, was Scottish. He came to the American colonies in 1747 with the families of Douglass, McDonald, Shepherd, and others; they were political exiles. He located as a planter near Leesburg, Virginia, on the Potomac river. The name of his wife is not known. His family was large, and he died upon his estate about the year 1800. His descendants in Virginia are Baptists, while those in Illinois are members of the M.E. church. Issue: -
  1. AMOS, farmer; resident about ten miles from Leesburg, Virginia
  2. JOHN
  3. SAMUEL.
  4. GEORGE
  5. SALLY, married Mr. Craven; resident near her brother Amos.
  6. JEMIMA, married Mr. Hawlings; died 1883, near Leesburg.
  7. JOHN, married Mr. Smith; resident near Waterford, Virginia
JOHN SINCLAIR (3), born Virginia; removed first to Tennessee; then to Kentucky; and later to Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1835. He married Rachel Steer. Issue: -
  1. JOHN, Methodist clergyman in early conference of Illinois; died with no issue 1858.
  2. WILLIAM.
  3. WATSON
  4. SAMUEL
  5. MARY M. married Mr. Thompson; resident Georgetown, Ky.
  6. ELIZABETH, married Mr. Boise; resident near Jacksonville; died about 1879.
  7. AMOS.
GEORGE SINCLAIR (5) was born near Leesburg, Virginia. He became a planter, owning some 600 acres. He married Margaret Craven, and resided near Leesburg. Issue: -
  1. ELEANOR, born November 18th 1801; married Charles Guillette, and lives in the stone house on the old Sinclair homestead, near the Chanocacy Aqueduct, on the Potomac river. This farm has for over a century been the home of these Sinclairs.
  2. GEORGE
  3. SAMUEL
WATSON SINCLAIR (11), farmer, married, first, Miss Morrison: secondly, Miss Maddox; thirdly, Mrs. Kuns. Died 1879-80. Issue: -
  1. ROBERT, dead.
  2. JULIA, resident Missouri.
  3. ANNA, married Mr. Mason; resident Missouri.
  4. KNOTTY, married Miss Stout; resident Virginia, Illinois.
  5. LOW
  6. NEWTON
  7. MYRA
  8. ADDIE
SAMUEL SINCLAIR (12), farmer, born Tennessee, 17th July 1808; died 8th May 1868. Issue: all resident Ashland, Illinois: -
  1. SALLY, married John Beggs.
  2. ELIZABETH, married Mr. Carrell.
  3. MARY, married Levi Letherman.
  4. SAMUEL WATSON.
  5. WILLIAM
GEORGE SINCLAIR (17), born near Leesburg, 18th May 1806, and resident in London County until after marriage to Ruth Ann Belt, when he removed to Charlottesville, Albemarle County, where he died 31st December 1851. Issue: -
  1. GEORGE ALFRED
  2. JOHN CAMPBELL, farmer, Charlottesville.
  3. SAMUEL JAMES, born 1833; died 1858.
  4. CHARLOTTE ELLEN, born 28th October 1836; married Rev. Dr. John A. Broades.
  5. VIRGINIA LUCRETIA, born 7th March 1843; married Dr. William A. Hawes, New York City
  6. CHARLES GUILLETTE, born 23rd July 1845; farmer, Charlottesville.
  7. CEPHAS HEMPTON, born 4th December 1847; married Julia Farish; is in U.S. Coast Survey, and resident Sacramento, California
SAMUEL SINCLAIR (18), born near Leesburg. Virginia, 8th June 1808; married, first, 28th October 1834, Euphemia Craven, and secondly, October 21st 1863, Dolly Beggs; he died in Springfield, Illinois; where he had lived for five years. He had formerly resided for 19 years near Ashland, and for 28 years near Sinclair, both in Illinois. He was a farmer and stock raiser. Issue: -
  1. GEORGE
  2. SAMUEL JAMES, born 1837; died Sinclair, Illinois 1838.
  3. ELLEN CRAVEN, born 1839; died 1881; married, 1870, Samuel L. Hamilton, merchant.
  4. PETER AKERS
  5. VIRGINIA FRANCES, born 1842; married 1862, Howard M. Atkins, attorney.
  6. HENRY CLAY, born 1844; married, 1872, Lucy E. Beggs; died, 1888, at Royalton, Minnesota.
  7. AMANDA CRAWFORD, born 1846; died 1847.
  8. JAMES SAMUEL
  9. MARY ELIZABETH, born 1848; married 1872, Dr. N.M. Gailey; resident Ashland.
  10. RUTH ANN, born 1850; married, 1883, Samuel L. Hamilton, of Ashland.
  11. JOHN, born 1853; married, 1881, Virginia Bowers; fruit farmer, San Diego, California.
  12. EMMA LOUISE, born 1865; and

  13. MARGARET born 1869; resident West Springfield, Illinois

GEORGE ALFRED SINCLAIR (32), brick and lumber dealer, resident Charlottesville, Virginia; born near Leesburg, I7th December 1831; married, 24th March 1868, Glenna Frances Dillard. Issue, resident Charlottesville, Virginia -
  1. GEORGE BURNLY, born 1869.
  2. RUTH, born 1870.
  3. PEARL VIRGINIA, born 1872.
  4. MARY CUSTIS, born 1874.
  5. ALFRED BELT born 1876; died 1877.
  6. JOHN A. BROADUS, born 1879.
  7. GLENNA FRANCES, born 1889.
  8. PERCY.
  9. BESSIE BELLE, born 1884.
  10. CHARLES SAMUEL born - 1885.
  11. OLIVER.
GEORGE SINCLAIR (39) born Sinclair, Illinois, August 10th 1835; married, February 10th 1859. Sarah Gaines: farmer; resident Princeton, Minnesota, where he died, December 1874. Union soldier during Civil War. Issue: -
  1. LOVICY
  2. MAGGIE.
  3. CHARLES.
PETER AKERS SINCLAIR (42), born Sinclair, Illinois, September 26th 1840; married, 16th April 1865, Emma Tyron; Union soldier in Civil War; farmer, resident Ashland, Illinois. Issue: -
  1. SAMUEL
  2. LYLE.
  3. ALICE.
  4. VERNE.
  5. ROSCOE.
JAMES SAMUEL SINCLAIR (46), born Sinclair, Illinois September 15th 1848; married, October 1880, Tella Scott; Union soldier in Civil War; farmer, resident Seattle, near Washington. Issue: -
  1. CHARLES.
  2. SCOTT.
  3. SADIE

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