Person:John Semple (15)

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Major John Walker Semple, Sr.
m. 17 Jan 1761
  1. Major John Walker Semple, Sr.1761 - 1820
  2. Elizabeth Baylor Semple1763 - 1798
  3. James Semple1765 - 1806
  4. Rev. Robert Baylor Semple, Sr.1769 - 1831
  • HMajor John Walker Semple, Sr.1761 - 1820
  • WFrances Lowry1770 -
m. 30 Jan 1794
Facts and Events
Name Major John Walker Semple, Sr.
Gender Male
Birth? 18 Nov 1761 King and Queen, Virginia, United States Hereditary Sempill Lords of Blackburn, Kirkhouse, and Long Dreghorn & Clan Sempill
Marriage 30 Jan 1794 Berkeley, Virginiato Frances Lowry
Marriage 23 Mar 1797 to Lucy Robertson
Death? 13 Nov 1820 Seventy Six, Clinton, Kentucky, United States
References
  1.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.
  2.   Semple, William Alexander. Genealogical History of the Family Semple: From 1214 to 1888. (Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1888)
    Page 29 thru 38.
  3.   Anderson, William Kyle. Donald Robertson and his wife Rachel Rogers of King and Queen County, Virginia: their ancestry and posterity : also a brief account of the ancestry of Commodore Richard Taylor of Orange County, Virginia, and his naval history during the War of the American Revolution. (Detroit, Mich.: unknown, 1900)
    Page 36, 37.

    Page 36, 37 – NOTE. – In this connection a brief account of her husband’s, John Walker Semple’s family, is appropriate.
    John and James Semple, who emigrated to the Colony of Virginia from Scotland in 1752, were sons of the Rev. James Semple, minister of the Parish of Dreghorn. John and James were born there, John on October 17, 1727, and James on May 18th, 1730. Their father came of the family of Blackburn, Renfrewshire, and was lineally descended from the Semples of Elistoun, Lochwinwoch. Upon their arrival in Virginia, John settled at “Rose-Mount” farm, about three miles northeast of the village of Walkerton, Virginia, in King and Queen county. James went to New Kent county. John became a lawyer and married, January 17, 1761, Elizabeth Walker, by whom he had four children, viz., (1) John Walker Semple, (2) Elizabeth Baylor Semple, (3) James Semple, (4) Robert Baylor Semple. He died February, 1770, and his wife survived him twenty years. She died in May, 1790. They were buried at “Rose-Mount” farm, as was also their son, Robert Baylor Semple, who was a very distinguished Baptist preacher.
    James Semple , the brother of John, who, as stated above, settled in New Kent county, became a clergyman of the Church of England. He married Rebecca Allen, who bore him four children, one of whom, Judge James Semple, married Ann Countess Tyler, sister of President John Tyler.
    John Walker Semple, eldest child of John Semple and Elizabeth Walker, his wife, was born November 18, 1761. He was twice married, first to Frances Lowry, daughter of Colonel Thomas Lowry and sister of Mrs. Robert Baylor Semple, his brother’s wife, no issue; and second to Lucy Robertson, daughter of Donald Robertson, by whom he had nine children. He was a member of the Virginia General Assembly; removed in May, 1797, to Kentucky, and practiced his profession as a physician many years, but later in life devoted himself to farming. From 1804 to 1808 he was a member of the Kentucky Legislature. He died at Seventy Six, Kentucky in Clinton county, November 13th, 1820.

  4.   Walker, Rosa Kershaw; Pittman, Hannah Daviess. Americans of Gentle Birth and Their Ancestors: A Genealogical Encyclopedia ... Embracing Many Authenticated Lineages and Biographical Sketches of the Founders of the Colonies and Their Descendants found in all parts of the United States . (Saint Louis, Missouri: Buxton & Skinner, 1903)
    Vol. 1, Pages 242, 243.

    John Walker Semple, eldest son, married, first, Miss Laurie of Caroline Co.; secondly, Lucy Robertson, born November 18, 1761, died in Kentucky November 13, 1820. Issue, James Semple, Eliza Baylor, Frances, John Walker, Robert, Isaac Robertson, Charles Donald, Lucy Baylor, Adeline Matilda.