Robert Turnbull (1742 - 1804)

Born 1742 in Tininghame, East Lothian, Scotland

Husband of Mary (Cole) Turnbull — married 16 Sep 1770 (to 1789) in Williamsburg, Virginia

Died 1804 at about age 62 in Prince George, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Robert was the son of Charles Turnbull of Dinwiddie and his first wife

Robert Turnbull married his stepsister, Mary Cole in 1770

Mary Cole was the daughter of Rev. Roscow and Rachel Robinson Cole

Their home "White Hill" later became known as the "Friend House"

"By the late eighteenth century, a string of plantation manors stood on the plateau overlooking the Appomattox River: "Clermont" (Cole, later Jordan), "White Hill" (Turnbull, later Gilliam and Friend), and the Taylor plantation (Figure 4.16). The Bate (later Hare) plantation lay west of the plateau bluff, but on an isolated knoll of similar elevation (100 feet above sea level). "^[1]

Children

1. Charles Turnbull (1772-1811) married Nancy Ann Bass Marshall
2. Anne Turnbull (1775-1840) she married Benjamin Harrison
3. Thomas Crawford Turnbull (1776- )
4. Robert Randolph Turnbull (1778-1839) married Elizabeth Jones Stith
5. William Cole Turnbull (1780-1780)
6. Mary Cole Turnbull (1782-1860) married Armistead Burwell
7. Margaret Stephenson Turnbull (1783-1836), she married Edward Randolph
8. (2)William Cole Turnbull (1786-1803)

Robert Turnbull's divorce from his second wife, Sarah Brooke Lee Buchanan, is detailed in the book The Great Catastrophe of My Life: Divorce in the Old Dominion by Buckley

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.heritage.umd.edu/CHRSWeb/NPS/Petersburg/PetersburgMainUnit/Chapter%204C.htm

• The William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 15, No. 3 (Jul., 1935), pp. 304-310 (7 pages)

• Memorials of Old Virginia Clerks