Person:John Paul (13)

Information on John Paul

From "Chronicles of Border Warfare", by Withers:

When in 1752 Robert Dinwiddie came over as governor of Virginia, he was accompanied by many adventurers; among whom was John Stuart, an intimate friend of Dinwiddie, who had married the widow of John Paul (son of Hugh, bishop of Nottingham). John Paul, a partizan of the house of Stuart, had perished in the siege of Dalrymple castle in 1745, leaving three children: John, who became a Roman catholic priest and died on the eastern shore of Maryland; Audley, who was for ten years an officer in the British colonial forces; and Polly, who married Geo. Matthews, afterwards governor of Georgia. Mrs. Paul (formerly Jane Lynn, of the Lynns of LochLynn, a sister to the wife of John Lewis) had issue, by 1 This incident is well authenticated.

From "Annals of Augusta County, Virginia", pg. 369:

http://files.usgwarchives.org/wv/greenbrier/bios/colebios/stuart.txt

David Stuart married Margaret Lynn Paul, the widow ol John Paul, who was a son of Hugh Paul, Bishop of Nottingham. John Paul was also a partisan of the House of Stuart. He was killed in the siege of Dairymple Castle in the year '745. He left five children. The eldest of these children became a Catholic priest who moved to America and died on the eastern shore of Maryland.

Audley Paul, another son, was an officer in the British colonial forces in Virginia.

Pollie Paul, who moved to America with her stepfather, David Stuart, married Governor Mathews, of Georgia.