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  1. Alexander Yelverton Peyton Garnett: Birth: 19 SEP 1819 in Essex, VA. Death: 11 JUL 1888 in Rehoboth Beach, Sussex, DE


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a. Note:   Muscoe GARNETT, twin brother of William GARNETT, was the son of Muscoe GARNET T and Grace Fenton MERCER. He and his brother were born at "Mount Pleasant" on July 12, 1786. He received his early education from private tutors and in May, 1804 with his twin brother entered the sophomore class of the College o f New Jersey [now Princeton], where he was elected a member of the Whig Socie ty. He was listed in the Faculty Minutes of May 10, 1804 as an irregular stu dent to recite part of the time with the sophomore class and to study French. He did not remain to graduate, however. He married in 1807, Maria BATAILLE, daughter of Hay BATAILLE of "Hays", Caroline County, Virginia. She was conne cted with the family of General Washington in several ways. Her grandmother was Mildred WASHINGTON, the aunt and god-mother of General Washington, who ma rried Col. Henry WILLIS. Her aunt, Jane CHAMPE married Samuel WASHINGTON a b rother of General Washington. Her half brother, Major Byrd Charles WILLIS ma rried Mary Willis LEWIS, daughter of Major George Washington LEWIS, a nephew of General Washington and his wife Catherine DAINGERFIELD, the elder sister of Ann DAINGERFIELD who married Hay BATAILLE. Muscoe GARNETT received under t he will of his father the lands he had purchase from Thomas Fogg, James Halbe rt, Thomas Newman, Robert Beverley and Humphrey Brooke, comprising the estate which Muscoe called "Prospect Hill" lying along the road from Loretta toward s Fredericksburg and adjoining "Elmwood" on the west. During the war of 1812 , Moscoe GARNETT was in active service in the Virginia Militia. Moscoe and h is wife lived at "Prospect Hill" until their children had married and establi shed homes of their own. His wife Maria, having died, Mr. Garnett on Februar y 12 1856 sold "Prospect Hill", then consisting of slightly over 800 acres to Dandridge Sale of Essex, who owned property to the east. He moved to Freder icksburg where he lived until his death on April 10, 1870. The mansion, like so many of the old houses was eventually the prey of flames and now only a p ile of bricks marks the spot where the house once stood.


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