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Descendants of Henry William Tucker (1791-1863)
William Henry Tucker, son of John Tucker (1785-1852) and Mary Harris, was born 18 June 1814 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. He married Emily Hannah Hendy, daughter of William Hendy and Hannah Newth (d. 1818), in 1835. They had six children. He died in 1877.
This copiously documented volume sheds new light on one of the earliest families to settle in Virginia, that of Captain William Tucker of London, and on a number of allied families whose progenitors figured in the early history of the Virginia and Maryland colonies.
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In mid-April 1814, the Virginia congressman John Randolph of Roanoke had reason to brood over his family's decline since the American Revolution. The once-sumptuous world of the Virginia gentry was vanishing, its kinship ties crumbling along with its mansions, crushed by democratic leveling at home and a strong federal government in Washington, D.C. Looking back in an effort to grasp the changes around him, Randolph fixated on his stepfather and onetime guardian, St. George Tucker. The son of a wealthy Bermuda merchant, Tucker had studied law at the College of William and Mary, married well, and smuggled weapons and fought in the Virginia militia during the Revolution. Quickly grasping the s...