I’m interested in Mary Pryor, sister of Major Pryor of Richmond, VA, who married James Quarles. I found her son Robert Quarles was in the American Revolution and his widow filed for a pension.
I love his lady! She was a woman who followed directions– she actually tore the page with birth and marriage records out of the family Bible and sent it off to Washington, DC. She even sent the front plate of the Bible that shows it was published in Edinburgh in 1797. So cool!
I found in Google Books “Sketches of Prominent Tennesseans“, edited by William S. Speer, published 1888. In a sketch of Judge James M. Quarles of Nashville it states the Mary Pryor who married James Quarles was of “the Pryor Family of Virginia, from whom Gen. Roger A Pryor , the brilliant criminal lawyer, now of New York, is descended.”
I wonder if the Roger A Pryor connection was a bit of family folklore or if there is some connection between Mary’s Pryor family in Richmond and the Pryors in Amelia, Louisa, and Nottaway counties. I can’t find it.
