Mary Polly (Eldridge) Branch (1743 - 1792)

Born 4 Apr 1743 in Albemarle Parish, Surry, Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Branch — married 1760 in Virginia

Descendants

Died Nov 1792 at age 49 in Lewis Fork Township, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Mary (Eldridge) Branch is a descendant of Pocahontas. Here is the trail.

Name

Name: Mary /Eldridge/

“Issue of Thomas and Martha (Bolling) Eldridge: 38. Martha married John Harris, of Surry County; 39. Sarah, married, in 1762, George Rives, of Sussex County; 40. John, born April 22d 1741; 41. 'Mary (twin), born March 11, 1743, married Thomas Branch;' 42. Judith (twin) born March 11, 1743, married James Ferguson;43. “^[1]

Sources

• Virginia Historical Society. The Ancestors and Descendants of John Rolfe with Notices of Some Connected Families (Continued). The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan., 1915), pp. 94-96; Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4243412

• Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume 4; By Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Edward Jaquelin, Martha Cary Jaquelin https://books.google.com/books?id=3iQSAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA308&ots=2rNs9-xle2&dq=mary%20eldridge%20branch%201743&pg=PA308#v=onepage&q=mary%20eldridge%20branch%201743&f=false

• Shawnee Heritage V By Don Greene https://books.google.com/books?id=f9AeCAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT221&ots=jeTHXe1GFb&dq=mary%20eldridge%20branch%201743&pg=PT221#v=onepage&q=mary%20eldridge%20branch%201743&f=false

• Morenus, David. The Real Pocahontas website, "Pocahontas Descendants" chart, 5eb.

• "The Ancestors and Descendants of John Rolfe", in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 23, no. 1 (Jan 1915), p. 96.

• Robertson, Wyndham, and R. A. Brock. Pocahontas, Alias Matoaka, and Her Descendants: at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe, Gentleman: Including the Names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Bolling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murray, Page, Poythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewell, Walke, West, Whittle, and Others: with Biographical Sketches. J.W. Randolph & English, 1887 (see Space:Pocahontas and her Descendants), p. 34 (gen 5), p. 39 (children).

• "Virginia Births and Christenings, 1584-1917", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VRPL-4PB : 28 January 2020), Mary Eldridge, 1743.

1. ↑ Virginia Historical Society. The Ancestors and Descendants of John Rolfe with Notices of Some Connected Families (Continued). The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan., 1915), pp. 94-96; Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4243412