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1Ephraim Orcutt Jameson 1832-1902, Jamesons in America, The 1647-1900 (The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H. Published in Boston, Mass. 1901), pg 136-137, FHL film 1036257 Item 2. "Mr. Jameson, July 28, 1763. was granted letters of administration on his father's estate. and the following March 23, 1769, he was chosen by his youngest brother William, then over fourteen years of age, for his guardian. He was commissioned Feb. 25, 1773, ensign of militia, and was one of the two hundred and sixty-eight persons of the most respectable families who subscribed to an oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia, renouncing allegiance to George the III, early in the history of determined resistance of the American colonists to British oppression.
Mr. Jameson purchased, on the first day they were for sale, land office treasury warrants for twenty-five hundred acres of land, which he located May 9, 1780, or entered, the clerk recording his name Jimmerson, a little north of Mt. Sterling, Montgomery Co., Ky. Adjacent, or in this vicinity, at the same time, his uncle, David Jameson, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of Virginia, located thirty-five hundred acres, which, with two thousand acres belonging to John Gore, Esq., and fourteen hundred acres the property of Mr. Enoch Smith, all together making a total of nine thousand and five hundred acres on and near Mt. Sterling, of as finely located and as fertile and productive as any tract of land of the same size to be found in the state of Kentucky, and perhaps in the whole territory of the United Colonies. In 1782 Mr. Jameson removed from Culpeper, Va., to his new landed possessions in Montgomery Co., Ky. Twenty years later, in 1802, he erected a substantial brick dwelling-house about three miles to the north of Mt. Sterling, overlooking a beautiful reach of country which is traversed by a small stream called Hinkston creek. The house was not far from the battle-field of Estill's defeat, March 22, 1782. It has remained in the family until the recent date of Nov. 1894, and it is still occupied as a dwelling house."2James M. Bourne, Jameson Family, The, Pg 199-200. "6-iii. Thomas Jameson m. Judith Ball Hackley, sister of Lucy. On his tombstone is, "Thomas Jameson Sr. Emigrated from Culpeper C. H. Va., 1782. Died Aug. 14, 1827, aged 84 years." Commissioned Ensign Feby 25, 1773. He built a brick house on his farm, near the battle-field of Estill's Defeat, in 1802, and the house remainded in the familiy till last November. His son Thomas Jameson, built a brick house in full view of the battle-field, about 1804-4, and it is still occupied."
3James M. Bourne, Jameson Family, The, Pg 199-200. "6-iii. Thomas Jameson m. Judith Ball Hackley, sister of Lucy. On his tombstone is, "Thomas Jameson Sr. Emigrated from Culpeper C. H. Va., 1782. Died Aug. 14, 1827, aged 84 years." Commissioned Ensign Feby 25, 1773. He built a brick house on his farm, near the battle-field of Estill's Defeat, in 1802, and the house remainded in the familiy till last November. His son Thomas Jameson, built a brick house in full view of the battle-field, about 1804-4, and it is still occupied."
1Ephraim Orcutt Jameson 1832-1902, Jamesons in America, The 1647-1900 (The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H. Published in Boston, Mass. 1901), pg 142, FHL film 1036257 Item 2. "Mr. Jameson was a Revolutionary soldier. "He fought in the battle of Great Bridge, Dec. 9, 1775, and served in the southern states in Stevens' brigade in 1780-81. In 1790, 1791 he was a delegate to the Virginia legislature, and was afterward a magistrate and high sheriff of Culpeper Co., Va."...
He inherited one fourth part of the large estate of his uncle, Lieut. Gov. David Jameson of Yorktown, Va. whle his older brother, Col. John Jameson, inherited one half, and his cousin, David Jameson of Port Royal, Caroline Co., Va. inherited the other one fourth of the same estate."2James M. Bourne, Jameson Family, The, Pg 200. "He was Sheriff of Culpeper Co., Va."
3Ephraim Orcutt Jameson 1832-1902, Jamesons in America, The 1647-1900, pg 142. "Mr. Jameson was a Revolutionary soldier. "He fought in the battle of Great Bridge, Dec. 9, 1775, and served in the southern states in Stevens' brigade in 1780-81. In 1790, 1791 he was a delegate to the Virginia legislature, and was afterward a magistrate and high sheriff of Culpeper Co., Va."...
He inherited one fourth part of the large estate of his uncle, Lieut. Gov. David Jameson of Yorktown, Va. whle his older brother, Col. John Jameson, inherited one half, and his cousin, David Jameson of Port Royal, Caroline Co., Va. inherited the other one fourth of the same estate.
Ancient Record - "Marriage bond of David Jameson Jr. to Mary Mennis, spinster, daughter of Charles Mennis decd and Mary his wife."
Dated, 1792 - Witness: F. Mennis.
"David Jameson of Culpeper and Mary his wife sell 100 acres, descended to Mary Mennis now Mary Jameson and Frances, daughters and co-heirs of Charles Mennis decead, who was the eldest son and heir of Callowhill Mennis. Ack. in York Couty, 16 Jan 1797."4Melvin Lee Steadman, Jr., Jameson Brothers, Culpeper Heroes, Bonneycastle Papers, Number 1; May 14, 1985, pp.3-4, VREF 929.2755. " David Jameson, a younger brother of John, was born in Culpeper on August 19, 1752, and died there at his home, "Redwood," October 2, 1839.
On April 20, 1775, Lord Dunmore ordered the seizure of the gunpowder in Williamsburg. News of this act reached Culpeper on April 25th in the evening. The volunteers organized by the local Committee of Safety, commanded by Edward Stevens and John Green, left immediately for Williamsburg, 170 miles distant. Among them was David Jameson. By early morning on April 27 they were on the heights of Fredericksburg, 40 miles away, and the men planned a march to the seat of government to make reprisal that day. David Jameson, an officer, was the standard bearer of the flag bearing as its emblem the rattlesnake in his coil and the motto: "Don't tread on me!" They were dissuaded from further pursuit of Dunmore by the Council's late speaker, Peyton Randolph, in a letter borne to them by Mann Page of "Mannsfield," a Burgess from Spotsylvania County. In it they were assured that further military pursuit would thwart and frustrate negotiation then in progress with Dunmore. Before moving homeward, however, they wrote an address to their countrymen, calling for independence, dated April 29, 1775, and signed by David Jameson.
AT GREAT BRIDGE
David Jameson was at the Battle of Great Bridge near Norfolk, with his brother, John, and his obituary published in 1839, stated: "In this battle the courage of David Jameson and that of his brother was conspicuous."
Jameson was in the bloody fight at the water's edge in Norfolk, January 1, 1776. A contemporary historian wrote of this battle:
"The intrepid Stevens, of whose officers Jameson was one, still added to his fame. At the head of his hardy, indefatigable, and irresistible band he rushed with the rapidity of lightning to the water side, struck a large part of the British who had just landed there, and compelled them to retire with slaughter and dismay to the protection of their wooden walls."
David's brother, John, was promoted by the Virginia Convention, and accepted only upon the former taking the duties of Assistant Clerk of the Court, to carry out the latter's full duties until peace came. By this time a Lieutenant Colonel, David Jameson took care of county business, but was frequently out with the Militia and in the years 1780 and 1781 performed an eighteen months' tour in the southern states in the capacity of Lieutenant in the brigade of Stevens. In his pension application dated August 16, 1832, Jameson wrote:
"Some few days after I got my Commission in August, 1780, our company marched to Hillsborough in North Carolina... 0ur Brigade remained at Hillsborough until (I think) late in November when we marched to Salisbury and fell under the immediate command of General Nathaniel, Green, and (I think) about the tenth day of December I was dispatched by General Stevens at the instance of General Green to explore the Tadkin River... Jameson was at the headquarters in January, 1781, Camp Cheraw Hills ... when by the politeness of General Green in inviting me frequently to dine with him, I became well acquainted with the General ... and the pleasing Count Coscellsky who was then a member of General's Family..."
Jameson was with the group under Stevens who was sent to take charge of the prisoners taken by Daniel Morgan at Cowpens, but tells in his application that they were retarded "by Freshetts in the Pedee River..." In a summary of his services he stated that he had "acted as a justice of the peace more than forty years; Commanded a Regiment of Militia as Colonel several years; Have served two sessions as a Representative of the County in the Virginia Assembly and have many years served my County and Country in various capacities." Among the capacities was as chairman of the Committee to build a new Culpper Court House as reported to the June Court, 1807. At that time Jameson, David Brown and Thomas Jeffries were the committee, and at the September Court they announced a decision to build a new building. This structure stood thru the Civil War and until the present one was built in 1870.
Colonel Jameson was married, in 1792, to the lovely Mary Mennis, of the ancient family of Callowhill-Mennis. She was born in Yorktown in 1777, and died at "Redwood," Culpeper, where her tombstone stood until removed to the Masonic Cemetery, April 30, 1985. Jameson was "a man of handsome face, fine physique, and elegant apparel, dressing in the English style, knee pants, silk hose, knee and shoe-buckles." He dressed well, lived well, and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He had a 5,000 acre farm, "Redwood," which extended from Culpeper to near Rixeyville. His mansion house burned, but a later one on the site is owned by Mrs. Bryant O'Bannon Smith and is near St. Luke's Lutheran Church. There he is buried beside his wife, a child and others of the family. Their son, Thomas, a physician who was given a valuable farm near Bowling Green, Ky., by his father, died at 38. Another, David, died at 28. Callowhill, another son who died in infancy, is buried beside his mother. The one son who survived to inherit the estate, including David's share of his uncle, Lieutenant Governor David Jameson's bounty, was George Washington Jameson."
1Ephraim Orcutt Jameson 1832-1902, Jamesons in America, The 1647-1900 (The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H. Published in Boston, Mass. 1901), pg 143, FHL film 1036257 Item 2. "was a physician. His father gave him a valuable farm near Bowling Green, Ky., to which he removed. Dr. Jameson was never married, and died at the age of thirty-eight years. After his death his property was never recovered by his friends."
1Ephraim Orcutt Jameson 1832-1902, Jamesons in America, The 1647-1900 (The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H. Published in Boston, Mass. 1901), pg 143, FHL film 1036257 Item 2. "was a physician. His father gave him a valuable farm near Bowling Green, Ky., to which he removed. Dr. Jameson was never married, and died at the age of thirty-eight years. After his death his property was never recovered by his friends."
1Ephraim Orcutt Jameson 1832-1902, Jamesons in America, The 1647-1900 (The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H. Published in Boston, Mass. 1901), pg 141-142, FHL film 1036257 Item 2. "Mr. Jameson was a graduate of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., the oldest college in the country, except Harvard. It was chartered Feb. 8, 1692.
He was appointed clerk of the court in Culpeper Co., Va. This county was formed in 1748 from Orange Co., and named for Lord Culpeper, who was governor of Virginia from 1680 to 1683.
Colonel Jameson held this office of clerk of the court for thirty-eight years until his death in 1810. He inherited by will one halpf of Lieut. Gov. David Jameson's estate, being his uncle's favorite nephew. he belonged to a distinguished Virginian family. While his course has been severely criticesed in relation to sending Andre' to Arnold, with regard to "The honest of his purpose and the military propriety of his action there has never been any question."
Colonel James acknowledged his mistake in a letter to Washington, dated Sept. 27, 1780:
"I am very sorry that I wrote to General Arnold. I did not thnk of a British ship being up the river, and expected, that if he was the man he has since turned out to be, he would come down to the troops in this quarter, in which case I should have held him."
Mr. Jameson was doubtless a leading spirit among those famous Culpeper minute-men. Culpeper was distinguished early in the War of the Revolution for the services of her gallant Minute-Men who, as John Randolph said in the U.S. Senate, "were raised in a minute, armed in a minute, fought in a minute, and vanquished in a minute."
These were the first soldiers raised in Virginia. ...
Mr. Jameson was elected June 13, 1776, by the Virginia Convention, captain of the Third Troop of Horse. He had six competitors for the position, and received forty-eight vote, while his competitors received respectively 17, 15, 9, 4, 3, 2 votes. One of his competitors was Henry Lee. He took command June 16, 1776 as captain in a Virginia regiment of dragoons; promoted March 31, 1777, major 1st Continental Dragoons, and transferred April 7, 1777, to 3d Continental Dragoons. He was wounded Jan. 21, 1778, near Valley Forge; was commissioned lieutenant-colonel Ag. 1, 1779, and served to the close of the war.
Col. Jameson was in command of a regiment under Arnold, and some of his men captured Andre' near Tarrytown, about the time that Arnold made his escape to the British fleet, and he has been severly blamed by historians for what he did in relation to the caputre of Andre'; but Brigadier-General John P. Hawkins, late commissary-genera of subsistence and brevet major-general of the U.S. army, write under date of 1897: "it seems to me that Jameson showed only that he was not suspicious of Arnold, his commanding officer, and that like a true sholdier he had no thought of calling in question the act of his commanding officer, whom he doubtless thought within his rights." And he continues, "Col. Jameson was a man who had a high standing in Virginia, both before and after the war. He must have shown himself to be a good soldier or he would not subsequently have been transferred with increased rank to the Continental line."...
Co. John Jameson was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, in Virginia, and was present at their meeting held Dec. 13, 1802, in Richmond, Va., when it was voted to appropriate some of their funds, to the amount of $25,000, to found Washington College.
He was a member of the same Masonic Lodge in Alexandria as Washington."2Melvin Lee Steadman, Jr., Jameson Brothers, Culpeper Heroes, Bonneycastle Papers, Number 1; May 14, 1985, pp.1-3, VREF 929.2755. " Jameson was born in 1751, and died at "Cedar Grove," where he is buried, November 20, 1810. He attended William & Mary College and was appointed Clerk of the Culpeper Court, a position he held for 38 years, in 1772. Clerk Jameson inherited by will one-half of the vast estate of his uncle, Lieutenant Governor David Jameson of Yorktown. He was a founding member of the Culpeper Minute Men and was in the Battle of Great Bridge, in modern day Chesapeake, then Norfolk County, December 9, 1775. Jameson and his brother, David, were with 300 men who defeated Lord Dunmore's troops. This was followed by the Battle of Norfolk, January 1, 1776.
Jameson was elected Captain of the Third Troop of Horse, June 13, 1776, by act of the Virginia Convention, being honored over the competition of "Lighthorse Harry" Lee. He took command June 16, 1776, as Captain of the Virginia Dragoons, was promoted March 31, 1777, Major 1st Continental Dragoons, and transferred April 7, 1777, to 2d Continental Dragoons. Dragoon Jameson was wounded in the Valley Forge Campaign, June 21, 1778, and was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel August 1, 1779. By 1780 he was stationed in New York.
In the fall of 1780 American morale was low. Much of the Revolutionary Amy was ill-fed, ill-clothed, and unpaid. Some had mutinied at Morristown and had not the treachery of Benedict Arnold been detected, the capture of West Point by the British could have been disastrous to the American cause.
Colonel Jameson had his cavalry headquarters at Sand's Mill in Armonk, New York. The British Spy, Major John Andre as "John Anderson" was brought to headquarters to be questioned. Jameson had received instructions from his Commander, General Benedict Arnold, to pass "Anderson" onto Arnold's headquarters should he show up. But the documents found on Andre puzzled Jameson. Deciding to play it safe, he sent the documents by mounted courier to General Washington in Connecticut. His letter to Washington was dated September 23, 1780, and Jameson told him:
"Inclosed you'll receive a parcel of papers taken from a certain John Anderson who has a pass signed by General Arnold as may be seen. The papers were found under the feet of his stocking. He offered men that took him 100 Guineas and as many goods as they would please to ask. I have sent the prisoner to General Arnold. He is very desirous of the papers and everything being sent with him. But as I think they are of a very dangerous tendency I thought it more proper your Excellency should see them."
Jameson informed Washington that no British troops had embarked, and stated:
"From every account that I can hear they mean an Attack on the Troops at this place and I must beg leave to assure you that it is out of my power to keep the Troops so compact as I could wish or move as often as I really think necessary from the scarcity of Provisions & Forage ... about one half of the Men are without Blankets or Cooking Utensils for which account I am obliged to quarter them at houses...."
Jameson's letter was among 47 documents found and sent on later to Colonel John Lawrance, Judge Advocate General of the American Army. Lawrance was a son-in-law of General Alexander MacDougall, Commandant of West Point. Judge Advocate General Lawrance used Jameson's letter in his subsequent investigation and prosecution of Andre. It was lost until 1968 when the cache of documents were discovered in an old battered suitcase by John Lawrance Hawkes of Dorset, Vermont, a descendant of General MacDougall. The discovery was reported in LIFE MAGAZINE of February 28, 1968.
Colonel Jameson sent "Anderson" to Arnold under guard. Still suspicious Jameson sent fast riders to overtake and bring him back. Military protocol dictated that Jameson report the capture of "John Anderson" to Arnold. When the report arrived, Arnold, at breakfast, hurriedly left his table and his young wife. Ordering eight American soldiers to row him down the Hudson to the British Sloop Vulture, he was taken aboard with honors. A few weeks later he became a brigadier general in the British Army.
Andre confessed, was tried and convicted as a "Spy from the enemy," and on October 2, 1780, was hanged at Tappan, New York. Thus, by his order to apprehend of September 23, 1780, Jameson became the captor of Andre, and the events thereafter lifted the spirits of the Americans who fought once again with hope.
Colonel Jameson was a member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati, and a member of the Masonic Lodge in Alexandria over which General Washington presided. He became a founding member of the Culpeper Lodge. Remembered as "a very fine looking man, six feet tall, black hair, blue eyes, remarkably fair," he was twice married.
John Jameson's first wife was of a distinguished New York family, whom he met while serving there during the war. She was Rachel Berrim, daughter of John and Sarah (Fish) Berrim of the family of the Honorable Hamilton Fish. They were married February 25, 1785. Mrs. Jameson died in Cuba, where she went for her health. They lost two children in infancy. Colonel Jameson then married Elizabeth Davenport of Culpeper. She was born in 1769 and died January 11, 1829 with burial at "Cedar Grove." Her father was Colonel Burkett Davenport. Their son, John, Jr., born in Culpeper April 9, 1803, married on August 4, 1825, to Elizabeth Thatcher Corbin Major, daughter of Colonel William and Elizabeth (Corbin) Major, a relative of the Waites and others still in our community. She was born in Culpeper, December 11, 1803 and died September 30, 1871. He died August 2, 1871.
Elizabeth Frances Jameson, a daughter of John, Jr., married John J. Porter, the internationally known local artist. A son of John, Jr., Philip Lightfoot Jameson, born September 21, 1834, served with distinction in the Confederate Army and lived all of his life in Culpeper where he died in 1923. He married, after the Civil War, Champe Storrow Thompson. Jameson placed his family portraits with the local Masonic Lodge for safe keeping, and they sold them in recent years, a tragic loss to Culpeper."
1Ephraim Orcutt Jameson 1832-1902, Jamesons in America, The 1647-1900 (The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H. Published in Boston, Mass. 1901), pg 141-142, FHL film 1036257 Item 2. "Mr. Jameson was a graduate of William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., the oldest college in the country, except Harvard. It was chartered Feb. 8, 1692.
He was appointed clerk of the court in Culpeper Co., Va. This county was formed in 1748 from Orange Co., and named for Lord Culpeper, who was governor of Virginia from 1680 to 1683.
Colonel Jameson held this office of clerk of the court for thirty-eight years until his death in 1810. He inherited by will one halpf of Lieut. Gov. David Jameson's estate, being his uncle's favorite nephew. he belonged to a distinguished Virginian family. While his course has been severely criticesed in relation to sending Andre' to Arnold, with regard to "The honest of his purpose and the military propriety of his action there has never been any question."
Colonel James acknowledged his mistake in a letter to Washington, dated Sept. 27, 1780:
"I am very sorry that I wrote to General Arnold. I did not thnk of a British ship being up the river, and expected, that if he was the man he has since turned out to be, he would come down to the troops in this quarter, in which case I should have held him."
Mr. Jameson was doubtless a leading spirit among those famous Culpeper minute-men. Culpeper was distinguished early in the War of the Revolution for the services of her gallant Minute-Men who, as John Randolph said in the U.S. Senate, "were raised in a minute, armed in a minute, fought in a minute, and vanquished in a minute."
These were the first soldiers raised in Virginia. ...
Mr. Jameson was elected June 13, 1776, by the Virginia Convention, captain of the Third Troop of Horse. He had six competitors for the position, and received forty-eight vote, while his competitors received respectively 17, 15, 9, 4, 3, 2 votes. One of his competitors was Henry Lee. He took command June 16, 1776 as captain in a Virginia regiment of dragoons; promoted March 31, 1777, major 1st Continental Dragoons, and transferred April 7, 1777, to 3d Continental Dragoons. He was wounded Jan. 21, 1778, near Valley Forge; was commissioned lieutenant-colonel Ag. 1, 1779, and served to the close of the war.
Col. Jameson was in command of a regiment under Arnold, and some of his men captured Andre' near Tarrytown, about the time that Arnold made his escape to the British fleet, and he has been severly blamed by historians for what he did in relation to the caputre of Andre'; but Brigadier-General John P. Hawkins, late commissary-genera of subsistence and brevet major-general of the U.S. army, write under date of 1897: "it seems to me that Jameson showed only that he was not suspicious of Arnold, his commanding officer, and that like a true sholdier he had no thought of calling in question the act of his commanding officer, whom he doubtless thought within his rights." And he continues, "Col. Jameson was a man who had a high standing in Virginia, both before and after the war. He must have shown himself to be a good soldier or he would not subsequently have been transferred with increased rank to the Continental line."...
Co. John Jameson was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, in Virginia, and was present at their meeting held Dec. 13, 1802, in Richmond, Va., when it was voted to appropriate some of their funds, to the amount of $25,000, to found Washington College.
He was a member of the same Masonic Lodge in Alexandria as Washington."2Melvin Lee Steadman, Jr., Jameson Brothers, Culpeper Heroes, Bonneycastle Papers, Number 1; May 14, 1985, pp.1-3, VREF 929.2755. " Jameson was born in 1751, and died at "Cedar Grove," where he is buried, November 20, 1810. He attended William & Mary College and was appointed Clerk of the Culpeper Court, a position he held for 38 years, in 1772. Clerk Jameson inherited by will one-half of the vast estate of his uncle, Lieutenant Governor David Jameson of Yorktown. He was a founding member of the Culpeper Minute Men and was in the Battle of Great Bridge, in modern day Chesapeake, then Norfolk County, December 9, 1775. Jameson and his brother, David, were with 300 men who defeated Lord Dunmore's troops. This was followed by the Battle of Norfolk, January 1, 1776.
Jameson was elected Captain of the Third Troop of Horse, June 13, 1776, by act of the Virginia Convention, being honored over the competition of "Lighthorse Harry" Lee. He took command June 16, 1776, as Captain of the Virginia Dragoons, was promoted March 31, 1777, Major 1st Continental Dragoons, and transferred April 7, 1777, to 2d Continental Dragoons. Dragoon Jameson was wounded in the Valley Forge Campaign, June 21, 1778, and was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel August 1, 1779. By 1780 he was stationed in New York.
In the fall of 1780 American morale was low. Much of the Revolutionary Amy was ill-fed, ill-clothed, and unpaid. Some had mutinied at Morristown and had not the treachery of Benedict Arnold been detected, the capture of West Point by the British could have been disastrous to the American cause.
Colonel Jameson had his cavalry headquarters at Sand's Mill in Armonk, New York. The British Spy, Major John Andre as "John Anderson" was brought to headquarters to be questioned. Jameson had received instructions from his Commander, General Benedict Arnold, to pass "Anderson" onto Arnold's headquarters should he show up. But the documents found on Andre puzzled Jameson. Deciding to play it safe, he sent the documents by mounted courier to General Washington in Connecticut. His letter to Washington was dated September 23, 1780, and Jameson told him:
"Inclosed you'll receive a parcel of papers taken from a certain John Anderson who has a pass signed by General Arnold as may be seen. The papers were found under the feet of his stocking. He offered men that took him 100 Guineas and as many goods as they would please to ask. I have sent the prisoner to General Arnold. He is very desirous of the papers and everything being sent with him. But as I think they are of a very dangerous tendency I thought it more proper your Excellency should see them."
Jameson informed Washington that no British troops had embarked, and stated:
"From every account that I can hear they mean an Attack on the Troops at this place and I must beg leave to assure you that it is out of my power to keep the Troops so compact as I could wish or move as often as I really think necessary from the scarcity of Provisions & Forage ... about one half of the Men are without Blankets or Cooking Utensils for which account I am obliged to quarter them at houses...."
Jameson's letter was among 47 documents found and sent on later to Colonel John Lawrance, Judge Advocate General of the American Army. Lawrance was a son-in-law of General Alexander MacDougall, Commandant of West Point. Judge Advocate General Lawrance used Jameson's letter in his subsequent investigation and prosecution of Andre. It was lost until 1968 when the cache of documents were discovered in an old battered suitcase by John Lawrance Hawkes of Dorset, Vermont, a descendant of General MacDougall. The discovery was reported in LIFE MAGAZINE of February 28, 1968.
Colonel Jameson sent "Anderson" to Arnold under guard. Still suspicious Jameson sent fast riders to overtake and bring him back. Military protocol dictated that Jameson report the capture of "John Anderson" to Arnold. When the report arrived, Arnold, at breakfast, hurriedly left his table and his young wife. Ordering eight American soldiers to row him down the Hudson to the British Sloop Vulture, he was taken aboard with honors. A few weeks later he became a brigadier general in the British Army.
Andre confessed, was tried and convicted as a "Spy from the enemy," and on October 2, 1780, was hanged at Tappan, New York. Thus, by his order to apprehend of September 23, 1780, Jameson became the captor of Andre, and the events thereafter lifted the spirits of the Americans who fought once again with hope.
Colonel Jameson was a member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati, and a member of the Masonic Lodge in Alexandria over which General Washington presided. He became a founding member of the Culpeper Lodge. Remembered as "a very fine looking man, six feet tall, black hair, blue eyes, remarkably fair," he was twice married.
John Jameson's first wife was of a distinguished New York family, whom he met while serving there during the war. She was Rachel Berrim, daughter of John and Sarah (Fish) Berrim of the family of the Honorable Hamilton Fish. They were married February 25, 1785. Mrs. Jameson died in Cuba, where she went for her health. They lost two children in infancy. Colonel Jameson then married Elizabeth Davenport of Culpeper. She was born in 1769 and died January 11, 1829 with burial at "Cedar Grove." Her father was Colonel Burkett Davenport. Their son, John, Jr., born in Culpeper April 9, 1803, married on August 4, 1825, to Elizabeth Thatcher Corbin Major, daughter of Colonel William and Elizabeth (Corbin) Major, a relative of the Waites and others still in our community. She was born in Culpeper, December 11, 1803 and died September 30, 1871. He died August 2, 1871.
Elizabeth Frances Jameson, a daughter of John, Jr., married John J. Porter, the internationally known local artist. A son of John, Jr., Philip Lightfoot Jameson, born September 21, 1834, served with distinction in the Confederate Army and lived all of his life in Culpeper where he died in 1923. He married, after the Civil War, Champe Storrow Thompson. Jameson placed his family portraits with the local Masonic Lodge for safe keeping, and they sold them in recent years, a tragic loss to Culpeper."
1Ephraim Orcutt Jameson 1832-1902, Jamesons in America, The 1647-1900 (The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H. Published in Boston, Mass. 1901), pg 136, FHL film 1036257 Item 2. "These sisters and a brother it is said were second cousins to Gen. George Washington."
1Ephraim Orcutt Jameson 1832-1902, Jamesons in America, The 1647-1900 (The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H. Published in Boston, Mass. 1901), pg 136, FHL film 1036257 Item 2. "John Jameson, as son, was in the Indian battle of Estill's defeat, March 11, 1782 on "Little Mountain Creek, " Montgomery Co., Ky."
1Ephraim Orcutt Jameson 1832-1902, Jamesons in America, The 1647-1900 (The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H. Published in Boston, Mass. 1901), pg 136, FHL film 1036257 Item 2.
2William and Mary College quarterly historical magazine, FHL US/CAN Film 1254 pg 200. "John Hackley, vestryman of St. Mark's Parish; and Judith Ball was daughter of Samuel Ball, one of the first twelve vestryment of St. Mark's par. (a first cousing of the mother of Washington) and Ann Catharine (Tayloe) Ball. (Virginia Genealogies, Hayden)."
1Ephraim Orcutt Jameson 1832-1902, Jamesons in America, The 1647-1900 (The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H. Published in Boston, Mass. 1901), pg 136, FHL film 1036257 Item 2. "of the Revolution. Died in the Continental army."
1Ephraim Orcutt Jameson 1832-1902, Jamesons in America, The 1647-1900 (The Rumford Press, Concord, N.H. Published in Boston, Mass. 1901), pg 151, FHL film 1036257 Item 2. "Mr. Jameson erected a brick house, in 1809, about a mile south of where his father lived and in full view of the field on his father's farm where a battle was fought, March 22, 1782, and Estill was defeated. In this house Mr. Jameson died, and it is still occupied by the family. The old mantels are unchanged, giving a good idea of the style of architecture ninety years ago.
Mr. Jameson's house and that of his father overlooked the Hinkston cree. Mt. Sterling is near the source of that stream and about sixty miles southeast of Frankfort, Ky. It is said that the largest crop of tobacco ever raised in Kentucky was grown on this Jameson land."