Kemp Family Association

THE DUNTONS OF THE EASTERN SHORE

Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:52:20 -0500
From: "William Brundick" 
Subject: Dunton book

From: Eleanor Brundick
[email protected]
Subject: Dunton Book - Is Adah There?

I received the latest Peter's Row catalog today and was delighted to learn
that there is a book about the Dunton family by Gail and Dr. Bill.  I am
going to order one.  However, I have a feeling that my last Dunton
ancestor - Adah - won't be there.  She and her daughter seem to be missing
from most accounts.

Isabella Senior & Stephen Dunton (son of John & Elizabeth) had at least 6
children:

sons: Senior, Stephen and Thomas
daughters: Betty Savage,  Adah Kemp (later Evans) and Ritter Taylor

Adah Dunton married John Kemp on March 11, 1769.  John died before 1777.
They had a daughter named Sarah Kemp.

Sarah Kemp married George Scott on Dec. 22, 1790.  I believe George is the
son of George Scott and the grandson of Baily Scott but that is not proven.
George died before July 1, 1819.  George and Sarah had a daughter named
Nancy Scott.

Nancy Scott married William W. Scott on July 1, 1819.  William W. Scott was
the son of William Scott Jr. & Elizabeth.  Nancy died sometime before 1832
when William W. Scott married his second wife Henrietta Mason.  He later
married Elizabeth M. Scott.  Nancy Scott & William W. Scott had a son named
Azariah Francis Scott born Sept. 14, 1822.  He was my great great
grandfather.  I have been fascinated by A.F. Scott.  He was a Baptist
minister and a well-known educator who served as the principal of several
Academies.  He is mentioned in several history books and his portrait is in
the Gloucester Courthouse.  He died in 1897 and is buried in Dunnsville VA
in Essex County and yet I heard stories about him when I first visited the
family home around 1960.  One of the things that puzzles me is how he became
so well educated while his own father signed his will with an X.  I wondered
if his mother died right after his birth and he was raised by someone else.
The second son, William M. Scott, born in 1836 became a farmer like his
father.

Azariah Francis Scott married Margret Elizabeth Holt on May 31, 1852.  She
was the daughter of George Holt Jr. & Elizabeth Ann Savage  (daughter of
Michael R. Savage & Elizabeth "Betsy" Mapp).  They had many children.  My
ancestor, Nettie Scott, married Richard Watson Eubank

Now, I have 2 questions:  Are Adah Dunton and Sarah Kemp in the Dunton book?
Should I send pictures of the graves of Azariah Francis Scott and Margaret
Holt Scott  and their children to the Ghotes pages even though the graves
are in Essex County?

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 16:35:58 -0800
From: "B. Cox" 
Subject: Re: Dunton book

At 02:52 PM 02/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
 >I have a feeling that my last Dunton ancestor - Adah - won't be there. 
She and her daughter seem to be missing from most accounts.
 >Now, I have 2 questions:  Are Adah Dunton and Sarah Kemp in the Dunton book?
 >Should I send pictures of the graves of Azariah Francis Scott and Margaret
 >Holt Scott  and their children to the Ghotes pages even though the graves 
are in Essex County?

Hi Eleanor,
I'll address your second question and comment on the first ...

(2) Generally speaking, because Wayne has so much ahead of him with the 
Ghotes Virtual Cemetery, I'm asking that we delay adding graves from other 
places for a while. HOWEVER, if we have a descendant chart with Azariah 
Francis Scott in it, for example, then it is still appropriate and welcome 
for you to send the photo and say which chart it goes with. ALSO, at some 
future growth spurt of the Web site, I hope to add a section on "Where They 
Went." When we do that one, these photos will also have a place.

(1) Have faith, or more faith, in the work of our esteemed ghotes. Isabella 
and Stephen and Adah and John and dau Sarah and all the cousins and etc. 
are indeed documented in the new Dunton book by Burton and Walczyk.

I hope to post some new book announcements soon, since both Peter's Row and 
Hickory House Publishing have some great new books available.

Meanwhile, here's the citation for this one:

Burton, Wm. S., M.D., and Gail M. Walczyk. THE DUNTONS OF THE EASTERN 
SHORE. NY: Peter's Row Publishing, 2001. For more information, contact 
Peter's Row Publishing at [email protected] or visit their Web site at 
http://www.petersrow.bookpub.net

Barbara

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:20:48 -0800
From: "Eva J. Ruben" 

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