Monday, December 13, 2021

Newspaper Heraldry: Botts

Washington Herald (DC)
23 December 1906

[responses to previous inquiries]

20. BOTTS. -- The Hon. John Minor Botts, of Culpeper County, Va., was born in Dumfries, Prince William County, Va., Sept. 16, ,1802; married Mary Whiting Blair, daughter of Archibald Blair, and died Jan. 8, 1869. He was a son of Benjamin Botts, an eminent lawyer of Richmond, Va. who, with his wife Jane Tyler, of Dumfries, perished at the burning of the Richmond Theater, Dec. 26, 1811. This Benjamin was a son of Thomas Botts, who probably lived in the vicinity of Richmond.



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