Robert Montgomery 1758

Lawyer - merchant - owned the mill that bore his name. Robert Montgomery was a Member of the General Assembly from Hertford County 1785c, 1787c, 1788 senator, 1790, 1791, 1794, 1795, 1798 - 1800 house of commons, 1801 - 1807 senator. Most of this time his co representative was James Jones of Pitch Landing 1792, 1796 - 1806; Thomas Wynns 1786, 1787 house, 1790-1800 senate, 1808 -1817 senate; Abner Perry 1801 -1809.

Children of Mary Jones and Robert Montgomery:
1. Jane Montgomery 27 Oct 1782 - 28 Jan 1798
2. Dr. John C. Montgomery 30 Dec 1784 - 9 Dec 1822
      married Harriet Duer
                 she married 2nd John A Anderson
    a. Mary Jane Montgomery 1823 - no info aft 1833
3. Gen. (militia) Bridger Jones Montgomery 26 Nov 1790 - ca 1835
     Frequently served in House & Senate from Hertford Co 1818 - 1832
   served as Clerk and Master in Equity between Howell Jones & William Meredith Montgomery
      married Mary Cowper
        granddaughter of Capt. Lewis Meredith
   a. William Meredith Montgomery 1814 - 1864 lived Frazier's Cross Roads

Hertford County's Clerk and Master in Equity 1833 - 1864

       married 28 Feb 1839 Olivia Y Harrell 29 April 1820 - 9 June 1847
           i. William Bridger Montgomery 16 May 1840 - 11 July 1840
          ii. Frances Cowper Montgomery 22 Aug 1841 - 1879
                married 3 July 1863 Thomas Crowder Hayes 3 June 1835 -
         iii. Elizabeth Rebecca Montgomery 21 Dec 1842 - 7 Mar 1902
               married 18 April 1867 Luther Rice Cobb d 18 Jan 1915 age 75
          iv. William Preston Montgomery 13 Oct 1845 - 4 May 1904
                     lost a foot in the war - never married
       married 19 Oct 1847 Catherine Amanda Harrell 21 Feb 1822 -14 Dec 1881
                           sister of John W Harrell
           i. Mary Eleanor [Ella] Montgomery 21 Aug 1848 - 1883
               married 28 Jan 1869 Richard [Dick] Adam Hayes 24 July 1840 -
           ii. Magdalene [Maggie] Montgomery 3 Nov 1850 - 1914
                married 14 Jan 1879 James Hiliary Matthews
          iii. Robert L Montgomery 20 Feb 1853 - 6 April 1928 dsp

           iv. Anna Walton Montgomery 27 May 1856 - 25 Nov 1856
            v. Rosa Harrell Montgomery 27 May 1856 - 22 June 1904
                 married 1881 Dr. Jesse H Mitchell 1859 - 1934
          vi. Kate Bell Montgomery 18 Dec 1857 - 12 Oct 1938
                 married Thomas C Blanchard
          vii. Oliva [Ollie] Floyd Montgomery 2 Sept 1861 - 1890
                 married Richard A Hayes
         viii. Willie F Montgomery [a girl] 4 Sept 1863 - 6 Feb 1864
4. Dr. Robert M Montgomery Jr. 17 March 1796 - 17 Feb 1821
5. Col. (militia) Kerr Montgomery 7 Oct 1798 - 1830's
     married ca 1825 Julia A Cowper 1800 - aft 1860
                granddaughter of Capt. Lewis Meredith
      a. Roscius Montgomery ca 1826 -
           said to have gone with sister Rebecca to Panola Co, MS to live
      b. Rebecca Montgomery ca 1828 -
           married a Mr Smith
      c. Evelyn Montgomery ca 1830 -
             While a little girl she fell from a tree, broke her neck and died.
                 This tragedy is said to have caused her mother to become mentally unbalanced.
6. George W. Montgomery 19 Nov 1801 - ca 1841
      married 8 Nov 1825 Mary Hitchborn granddaughter of Capt. Lewis Meredith
      married 2nd after 1831 Martha Pipkin 1812 - 19 June 1882
        a. Georgie [Georgianna] Montgomery 1837 -
             married 29 June 1865 Isaac Pipkin 1832 Gates Co -
                                   of Murfreesboro
             i. Isaac Pipkin ca 1869
                     1. Mildred Pipkin ca 1910 -
            ii. Thomas W Pipkin
           iii. Georgie Pipkin
                  married Lewis C Lawrence Jr lived Marion, SC
       b. Mary Susan Montgomery 1839 - aft 1880 School teacher
            married F L Funk 1828 Germany - aft 1880   School teacher
             Georgie and Susan were members of that first class of eleven students at Chowan.
     Martha married 2nd John W. Harrell 1 Dec 1814 - 30 Sept 1894
7. Nancy Carr Montgomery 12 March 1805 - 10 April 1851
      married 8 Feb 1825 Benbury Walton 16 Sept 1801 - 28 Jan 1878
      a. Susan Wesley Walton 3 Oct 1842 - 18 Aug 1918
           married 1 May 1867 Theophilus J Hunter 22 Aug 1838 - 3 July 1904
            went to Sardis, Panola County Miss to live (DAR application)

There is this James Jones of Pitch Landing who I have also been told we descend from that died about/before 1784 who was married when he died to Sarah Bridgers widow of James Cotten and mother to Mary Jones the wife of Robert Montgomery. I cannot fit all this into the picture without a hitch somewhere. [My James Jones was still married to an Ameliscent when he died in 1783 and left children James, William, Winefred Hays and Sarah Wiggins.] Could the elder James Jones be his father who left Robert Montgomery and Sarah Jones as his executors? I have decided our James Jones of Pitch Landing is the nephew of this James Jones, son of his brother John.

Winborne says both: that Mary, Robert Montgomery's wife was a Meredith from Murfreesboro and in another place that she was Mary Jones.

This is my working hypothesis - the way I see it as of this moment!!
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