A chart of the English descent of the Bernard family is also published. It is learned from the MSS pedigrees compiled in 1816 by T.R. Rootes of Gloucester County from "an ancient paper," which have been invariably found to be accurate, where susceptible of verification from independent sources, that "Col. William Bernard, son of the Knight of Huntington," had [in addition to Elizabeth Todd] another daughter Lucy by his wife, the daughter of Col. Hickerson [Higginsonl and widow of Lewis Burwell Esq., and that this daughter Lucy married Edward Gwin [Edmund Gwynne]. It is further stated that Lucy, the daughter of Edward Gwin and Lucy Bernard, married Thomas, son of George Reade, the pedigree of this Thomas Reade of Gloucester being further elaborated. Corroboration of these statements in the Rootes MSS may be found in the Magazine which shows that Edmund Gwynne had a daughter Lucy who married Thomas Reade (Va. Mag. 4, 206). Edward Creffield of London married Lucy, the widow of Edward Gwin.
The will of Edwd. Creffield, of London, merchant, dated Nov. 24, 1694 and proved Dec. 9, 1694, makes a bequest of a diamond ring to "my daughter in lawe, now or late wife of Mr. Thomas Reed of Gloucester in Virginia which my late wife, mother of the said Lucye, used to wear" (Va. Mag. 19; 289-290).
