David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Both father and son had become widowers soon after landing in England: in her book Mrs. Sarah Mytton Maury gives us this reminiscence:— “The father and the son had each borne to the shores of England a daughter of their country — had borne them thither but to die. The emphatic words of that venerable man still ring in my ear as he thus addressed my husband, who had alluded to his wish to carry me his English partner to America, My son, every exotic will thrive in a foreign land, except a woman.” ”

“ Maury died on 31st December 1755.
Her son was the Rev. James Maury. He paid a visit to England in 1742, when he received ordination from the Bishop of London. On his return he became minister of Fredericksville parish, Louisa county. He married a niece of Colonel Walker, described as the chief person in the Ohio Company, in whose territory he settled. His letters to his uncles in England (to whom he signs himself sometimes “Your dutiful nephew and affectionate friend” — sometimes, “Yours affectionately and dutifully,”) show him to have been a sensible and able man. ”

“ Cruel self-love, that I should lament the happiness of that good soul which is gone before me, to attain the immortal crown of glory which God has promised through the merits of our blessed Saviour to them that trust in him.” Her husband (one of the family writes) “left her the house, land, and stock, household furniture, and six working slaves during her life, besides £20 a year.”
Most reluctantly did these settlers own slaves. Not their own desires, but the politicians of old England, brought this about. ”