Catharine (Maxwell) Spotswoode (abt. 1630 - 1709)

Born about 1630 in Scotland

Wife of George Elliott — married 1654 in London. England

Wife of Robert Spotswood — married 22 Feb 1670 in Tangier, Morocco

Descendants

Died Dec 1709 at about age 79 in Tallow, Waterford, Ireland

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Biography

Father: William Maxwell ^[1]

She married:

1. George (or William^[2]) Elliott, had a child
   1. Roger Elliott (1655-1714)
2. Robert Spotswood, had a child
   1. Alexander Spotswood
3. Rev. Dr. George Mercer, Tangier Garrison schoolmaster.

THE MOTHER OF GOVERNOR SPOTSWOOD.
Dear Sir:
The Virginia Historical Society published some notes of mine on the career and &c. of Major-General Roger Eliot, (half- brother of Governor Alexander Spotswood,) in Vol. XIII. No. x, you will notice that I have put the mother of General Eliot and Governor Spotswood as Catherine, daughter of Mercer.
I must explain that there are two pedigrees in existence, the Eliot pedigree which gives the mother of General Eliot as Catherine, daughter of William Maxwell, Esq're, and the Spotswood pedigree which gives her name as Catherine, daughter of Mercer. For certain reasons I unfortunately considered the name "Mercer" as correct.
I must now add some recent researches I have made.

1. Ship's List of Passengers embarking at Tangier, 15 Oc- tober I683:

(a). Geo. Messer.

Kathr. Messer.

Bethea Spotwood.

Alexdr. Spotwood.

(b.) a second list states.

Geo. Mercer. Scoolemaster.

Katherne. Mercer. Scoolemaster's wife.

Betshia Spottswood. Scoolmaster's wife's servant.

Alexander Spotswood.

2. Depositions taken at Lismore, Co. Waterford Ireland, 1729, on behalf of Alexander Spotswood. These are most interesting and distinctly state that "Mrs Catherine Mercer" was the mother of Roger Eliot and Alexander Spotswood. From the above, I conclude that shortly before leaving Tangier, Mrs. Spotswood contracted a third marriage with George Mercer, Schoolmaster of that city. She died in December, 1709, at Tallow, Co. Waterford, Ireland, where she is probably buried.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} p. 194-195, Note by Edith C. Eliot in Historical and Genealogical Notes and Queries, Source: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Apr., 1910), pp. 194-195. Published by: Virginia Historical Society. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4243055 . amb 15:27, 7 November 2014 (EST)
2. ↑ p. 61, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 ...By Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, William Ryland Beall. retrieved 07 Nov 2014, amb

• Genealogy of the Spotswood Family in Scotland and Virginia; Author: Campbell, Charles, 1807-1876; Subject: Spotswood family; Spotswood, Alexander, 1676-1740; Spotswood family (Alexander Spotswood, 1676-1740); Publisher: Albany : J. Munsell; Call number: 31735061323055; Digitizing sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation; Book contributor: University of Pittsburgh Library System; Collection: university_pittsburgh; americana
• Wikipedia entry for Alexander Spotswood
• Douglas Richardson, "Royal Ancestry", 2013, Vol. 5 p. 4