Judge and Chancellor of the College of William and Mary. Son of Signer Thomas Nelson.
Robert Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va., 14th October, 1778; married, April, 1803, Judith Carter, youngest daughter and ninth surviving child of Gov. John Page by his first wife (Frances Burwell). He was called Chancellor Nelson, from having been Chancellor of William and Mary College. He died, 1819, at Williamsburg, James City Co., Va., aged about 40. He was professor of law in William and Mary College, and was also Equity Judge. He was a Presidential Elector in 1813. They had one surviving child, viz.:
(1) Lucy Nelson, who married, about 1830, Hugh N. Pendleton, of Caroline County, Va., and was his first wife. She died, leaving one child, viz., Julia Pendleton, who married, about 1853. James Allen, of Bedford, who died August, 1862.
~Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia: Also, a Condensed Account of the Nelson, Walker, Pendleton, and Randolph Families, with References to the Bland, Burwell, Byrd, Carter, Cary, Duke, Gilmer, Harrison, Rives, Thornton, Welford, Washington, and Other Distinguished Families in Virginia; Richard Channing Moore Page; 2nd ed.; Publishers' Print. Company, 1893.
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Robert Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va., 14th October, 1778; married, April, 1803, Judith Carter, youngest daughter and ninth surviving child of Gov. John Page by his first wife (Frances Burwell). He was called Chancellor Nelson, from having been Chancellor of William and Mary College. He died, 1819, at Williamsburg, James City Co., Va., aged about 40. He was professor of law in William and Mary College, and was also Equity Judge. He was a Presidential Elector in 1813. They had one surviving child, viz.:
(1) Lucy Nelson, who married, about 1830, Hugh N. Pendleton, of Caroline County, Va., and was his first wife. She died, leaving one child, viz., Julia Pendleton, who married, about 1853. James Allen, of Bedford, who died August, 1862.
~Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia: Also, a Condensed Account of the Nelson, Walker, Pendleton, and Randolph Families, with References to the Bland, Burwell, Byrd, Carter, Cary, Duke, Gilmer, Harrison, Rives, Thornton, Welford, Washington, and Other Distinguished Families in Virginia; Richard Channing Moore Page; 2nd ed.; Publishers' Print. Company, 1893.
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Judge and Chancellor of the College of William and Mary. Son of Signer Thomas Nelson.
Robert Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va., 14th October, 1778; married, April, 1803, Judith Carter, youngest daughter and ninth surviving child of Gov. John Page by his first wife (Frances Burwell). He was called Chancellor Nelson, from having been Chancellor of William and Mary College. He died, 1819, at Williamsburg, James City Co., Va., aged about 40. He was professor of law in William and Mary College, and was also Equity Judge. He was a Presidential Elector in 1813. They had one surviving child, viz.:
(1) Lucy Nelson, who married, about 1830, Hugh N. Pendleton, of Caroline County, Va., and was his first wife. She died, leaving one child, viz., Julia Pendleton, who married, about 1853. James Allen, of Bedford, who died August, 1862.
~Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia: Also, a Condensed Account of the Nelson, Walker, Pendleton, and Randolph Families, with References to the Bland, Burwell, Byrd, Carter, Cary, Duke, Gilmer, Harrison, Rives, Thornton, Welford, Washington, and Other Distinguished Families in Virginia; Richard Channing Moore Page; 2nd ed.; Publishers' Print. Company, 1893.
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Robert Nelson, born at Yorktown, Va., 14th October, 1778; married, April, 1803, Judith Carter, youngest daughter and ninth surviving child of Gov. John Page by his first wife (Frances Burwell). He was called Chancellor Nelson, from having been Chancellor of William and Mary College. He died, 1819, at Williamsburg, James City Co., Va., aged about 40. He was professor of law in William and Mary College, and was also Equity Judge. He was a Presidential Elector in 1813. They had one surviving child, viz.:
(1) Lucy Nelson, who married, about 1830, Hugh N. Pendleton, of Caroline County, Va., and was his first wife. She died, leaving one child, viz., Julia Pendleton, who married, about 1853. James Allen, of Bedford, who died August, 1862.
~Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia: Also, a Condensed Account of the Nelson, Walker, Pendleton, and Randolph Families, with References to the Bland, Burwell, Byrd, Carter, Cary, Duke, Gilmer, Harrison, Rives, Thornton, Welford, Washington, and Other Distinguished Families in Virginia; Richard Channing Moore Page; 2nd ed.; Publishers' Print. Company, 1893.
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