Extracts from notes in the Mitchell Family Bible, made by James Mitchel from personal recollections and conversations, correspondence & c., with other members of the family.
"Grandmother's father, Colonel Samuel Pryor's parents were from England, and had settled in Caroline County, Va. He married a Miss Thornton, whose parents were also from England, and settled in Caroline, Hanover and Spotsylvania counties. They had ten children, eight sons, and two daughters: William, Samuel, John, Thornton, Robert, Luke, Frank and Joseph: the youngest of the brothers and least of them weighed 220 pounds. Nancy Pryor married Colonel Samuel Wells, judge of the County Court of Amelia county. Mary Pryor was born 15th November 1730 and married Major William Berry, of Gloucester, Va., who died, leaving two daughters, Nancy and Prudence."
"Nancy Berry married Jonathan Taylor, son of Colonel George Taylor."
"Prudence Berry married Major George Blackburn, and both families removed to Kentucky in 1797. Molly Pryor Berry's second marriage was to James Mitchell. She died in 1804, and James Mitchell, her husband, in 1819."
"Their children were: 1. Edward, born 1760, died 1837; 2. James, born 1762, died 1781; 3. Samuel, born 1764, died 1855. Edward Mitchell (1760-1837) married Haley, and had James Mitchell (1785-1869), who married Ann George Walton, and had Edward Phillips Mitchell, 1812-1880, who married Elizabeth Tyndall, and had James T. Mitchell, 1834, Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania."
