Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day

i. Edward, a colonel in the army, and member of the Council for

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the Island of Antigua; m. Elizabeth, dau. of the Hon. Richard Scott, (one of King William III.'s counsellors for Barbados,) by whom he had (among other issue) a son and heir, Richard-Scott, who dying a minor, at Eltham, in Kent, during the lifetime of his father, his three surviving sisters became the co-heirs of the family property--viz., 1. Grace, born at Cobb's Crop, Antigua, 13 Oct. 1717, died 31 May, 1754; m. 1st, (in 1735,) Samuel Byam, Esq., the son of Major S. Byam, and grandson of Col. Willoughby Byam; and 2ndly, William Fauquier, Esq., F.R.S. By her first husband (buried at St. George's, Antigua, 14 Jan. 1738) she had issue one son and one dau., 1. Samuel, who died 19 Nov. 1761, three weeks before the day appointed for his marriage, when his sister, 2. Phillis, became his heir. By her second husband (buried at Eltham, 21 Dec. 1788, aged 80) she had, among other issue, 3. Thomas Fauquier, who died in 1827. 4. Georgiana, m. 25 May, 1787, George Venables Lord Vernon. 2. Elizabeth-Anne, born in 1718, and m. in 1739, to Godschall Johnson, of Bloomsbury-square, Esq., (which family are now in possession of the Warner estates of Savannah and Folly,[74]) by whom she had issue. 3. Jane, born at Christ's Church, Barbados, in 172O, m. at St. John's, Antigua, 2 Jan. 1738, to the Hon. and Rev. Francis Byam, rector of St John's, and counsellor of that island, by whom she had a son, the Hon. Edward Byam, president of Antigua for nearly fifty years, born at St. John's, in 1740, who, failing of male issue, is now represented by his four granddaughters, i. Adelaid; ii. Anne-Byam; iii. Jane-Elizabeth; iv. Maria-Catherine, co-heirs of the barony of Lee de Spenser.