HI, I have a Henry Garrett on the the 1880 Middlesex Co., Saluda Post Office, VA age 60 born in VA and his wife Mary E. Garrett(maiden name Mary McTyre.) They were married in Middlesex Co., VA. I cannot connect him to parents on the Census he says his parents were born in VA. Do you have a list of Richard's children or William's children? Any help is greatly appreciated. Henry and Mary had only one child, Elizabeth/Betty who married Wm Chowning and moved to Baltimore.

Sorry, no in my files.

Joe Luther
via Capt. Henry Garrett

I have a question for you. I know you got the information from the sources listed but I have been searching for a William Garrett for sometime and I have similar dates, though not exact which in this list would be William III and his father who I have as William who would be William Jr. I also have that my relative William (III) fought in the American Revolution but have no proof of that. However, I have his (William III) descendants living in King and Queen County and the information you posted said that William Jr's family went to Maryland, do you have any other information or anyone I could contact on this line? I appreciate any one's help in this. Thank you.

In addition to the various Garrett/Johnson marriages that you mentioned in your original post, a Clevars/Cluverius Duke of Louisa Co., VA married a Lucy Smith (about 1770) and then an Elizabeth Barbour JOHNSON (about 1778). Also, a Richard JOHNSON (do you know if he was a descendant of one of the earlier male Johnsons who had married into the Garrett family?) married an Ann Smith in the home of the above Mr. Duke....probably around 1772 or so. I SUSPECT that this Richard JOHNSON and Elizabeth Barbour JOHNSON were at least related to the Johnsons who married into the Garrett family in some way...and I also SUSPECT that the Lucy Smith who married Mr. Duke was related to the Ann Smith who married Richard JOHNSON.

In 1773, the above Richard JOHNSON (again....was he perhaps a Johnson/Garrett descendant?) and his wife Ann Smith had a daughter named Elizabeth "Betsy" JOHNSON, and that daughter was baptized in Caroline Co., VA (versus Louisa County) in 1774. Surety was provided by a Mrs. John Thilman and her daughter Fanny Thilman of Carloine Co., VA, and research now indicates that Mrs. John Thilman was born Miss Anna Daniel (born early-1740s), and that she was a daughter of Garrett Daniel and Clara Smith of Middlesex Co., VA.

Note: While I have Clara Smith's lineage back to the Alexander Smith who lived in Lancaster/Middlesex Co., VA by at least 1650s, I do not know how/if Ann Smith....nor the above Lucy Smith....were related to Clara Smith. In addition, while there are some very skilled and dedicated researchers of the referenced Daniel family, none of them has been able to determine a "specific reason" why Garrett Daniel had his given name of "Garrett."

Note: John Thilman's step-mother was a Vivion, and the Smith and the Vivion families in Middlesex Co., VA had intermarried earlier. So....there appears to have been a couple of "connections" between the Thilman and Smith families.

I note that one of the daughters of William Garrett, Sr. and Miss Ashton married a Mr. Terrell/Terrill, and it appears that he was also associated with Caroline Co., VA (per some records that I have seen). Did Mr. Terrell and his Garrett wife also live in Caroline Co., VA? Was there a "connection" of some sort between the Garretts in Louisa Co., VA and the Garretts in the Essex, Middlesex and/or Caroline Co., VA areas?

There was Henry Garrett who purchased land in Middlesex Co., VA from a nephew (John Smith) of the above Mrs. Clara (Smith) Daniel in 1799 (I do not know where this Henry Garrett was living prior to 1798/1799...but there had been no Garretts at all listed on the 1783 Middlesex Co., VA tax list). In 1798/1799, that Henry Garrett was a witness when the widow Mrs. Winifred "Winnie" Bennett married her second husband in Middlesex Co., VA. Mrs. Winnie Bennett had a son who was named Smith Bennett, and I am trying to determine Winnie's "exact connection" to the Smith family. Winnie had a daughter who was named Mary Bennett, and it strongly appears that Mary Bennett and her husband John Brown took-in an orphaned son of the above John Smith (again, John Smith was a nephew of Clara Smith) around 1818-1819. This orphaned son was then named Smith W. Brown (though DNA testing on one of his living male "Brown" descendant proves that he was a "blood Smith" who was out of the family of the above-referenced Alexander Smith, Clara Smith, John Smith, etc.), and he was my maternal gg-grandfather.

My gg-grandfather Smith W. "Brown" married Susan Hill Garrett, a daughter of Richard Garrett and Nancy Taff, in 1841 in Middlesex Co., VA, so I am a Garrett descendant (though I don't know if my overall Garrett family was part of your overall Garrett family). It APPEARS that the above Richard Garrett had come into Middlesex Co., VA from King and Queen Co., VA by 1812.

Note: There was what appears to me to have been a DIFFERENT man who was named Richard JohnSton/Johnson, and he married Dorothy Waller. Some records show that this man married second the above Ann Smith...but I now SUSPECT that two different (and possibly unrelated) Richard JohnStons/Johnsons have been incorrectly "intermixed."

Anyway, if you have any evidence that the Richard JOHNSON who married Ann Smith in the Louisa Co., VA home of Mr. Duke (probably around 1772 or so)....and who then lived in Caroline Co., VA....was a son of one of the male Johnson/female Garrett couples, please let me know. Thanks.