The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 1, July 1897 - April, 1898 Page: 310
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ty, Ky., about 1820; died, and is buried near Princeton, Ky., on
the Bennett or Catlett place. His first wife was Sarah Mosby (be-
low).
Rodes.-Tyree Rodes, one of the founders of Pulaski, Tenn.
(Act of Tennessee Legislature, Nov. 14, 1809); was son of John
Rodes (2nd), son of John Rodes (1st), of Albemarle and Han-
over counties, Va.
Mosby.-Benjamin Mosby, lived at what is now "Cumberland
Old Court House," Powhatan county, Va.; died testate 1774;
father of (among others) Littleberry Mosby, of "Font Hill," Pow-
hatan county, who was a member of Cumberland Committee of
Safety, 1775-76, and in the first Commission of the Peace, Pow-
hatan county, June, 1777; county lieutenant, 1780-81; burgess,
1781; sheriff, 1797; died testate, 1809. His first wife (1748)
was Elizabeth Netherland.
Harris.-The Harris family of Louisa, Albemarle, and Han-
over counties, Va. Sarah Harris married John Rodes (2nd).
She had a brother, Tyree Harris, who removed from the parish
1758. Is he the Tyree Harris who was in the Commission of
the Peace for Orange county, N. C., 1759, in Assembly 1760,
and sheriff 1766-67?
Avirett.-The Avirett family, once of Onslow county, N. C.
John Alfred Avirett, Sr., lived at "Richland," Onslow county.
His son, J. A. A., Jr., wounded at New Hope Church, Georgia
campaign, 1864; died soon after; Captain Fifty-eighth Alabama
Regiment, C. S. A.
Markham.--John Markham, Chesterfield county, Va.; said to
be the immigrant, 1717. His great-grandson, Dr. James Bernard
Markham, removed from Amherst (?) county, Va., to Hale
(Green?) county, South Alabama, many years aro. Lived many
years in Perry county, Ala.
lolland.-James Holland, of Rutherford county, N. C.; wac
sheriff of old Tryon county, before its division in 1779, from
Julv, 1777, to July, 1778; second lieutenant in Hardin's com-
pany, Locke's regiment, North Carolina militia, 1776: after the
war was in the State Senate, 1783. 1797; in the House, 1780,
1789; member first Board of Trustees, University of North Caro-
lina. 1789-1795; member second North Carolina Constitutional
Convention (that adopted the Federal Constitution), 1789: in
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