Notes for William Brockenbrough, Col.: Col. William Brockenbrough, of Westmoreland County.. William was orphaned the a year after his birth and raised by Colonel John Tayloe of "Mount Airy." "Mount Airy," built by Colonel John Tayloe, later belonged to Colonel John Tayloe III who built "Octagon House" in Washington, DC. William was a Colonel of the Militia and County Justice.
The War of 1812 (William Brockenbrough's sons outraged at British attack)
America found itself tangled in the stormy relations between Britain and France in the early 1800's. The British navy, facing a critical shortage of sailors, began seizing American seamen form their vessels and impressing them into the Royal Navy. Diplomacy failed to end the practice and Americans grew angry at this bullying from their former rulers. Staunchly Republican Essex had never cared much for the British. When a British ship attacked an American vessel off of Norfolk in 1807 and killed several sailors, a cry for vengeance sounded across the country and America. A "meeting of a large number of citizens of the county" met in Tappahannock to express outrage over the British attack. Colonel William Waring chaired the meeting and appointed a resolutions committed of James Garnett, Taliaferro Hunter, Archibald Ritchie, Newman Brockenbrough, James Hunter, James Webb, Andrew Monroe, Thomas Pitts, James Sale, Sthreshly Reynolds and Thomas Brockenbrough. The Men resolved that "we consider the cowardly attack made by the British ship Leopard, on the United States' ship Chesapeake, an atrocious murder of out fellow citizens, as the most outrageous violation of right, that has ever committed on us, and that it fully justifies the indignant feeling that has been expressed in every part of America." In Richmond, Essex natives led a much larger rally. Thomas Ritchie, Spencer Roane, and John Brockenbrough organized a rally of Richmonders at Capital Square to condemn the attack on the Chesapeake.
More About William Brockenbrough, Col. and Elizabeth Fauntleroy: Marriage: November 25, 1735, Richmond, Virginia.
Children of William Brockenbrough, Col. and Elizabeth Fauntleroy are:
+Austin Brockenbrough, Col., b. November 03, 1738, Richmond County, Virginia, d. March 19, 1810, "Bloomsbury," Westmoreland Co., Virginia.
+John Brockenbrough, Dr., b. 1741, Tappahannock, Essex County, Virginia, "Hobbs Hole"126, d. September 27, 1832, Richmond, VA.
Col. William Brockenbrough, Col. (b. June 05, 1715, d. 1778)
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