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Jacquelin Burwell Harvie (17881856)

Description

Jacquelin Burwell Harvie, John Marshall's son-in-law, was born on 9 October 1788 in Richmond, Virginia. He joined the Navy as a teenager and received promotion to lieutenant in 1809. Harvie resigned three years later in order to manage his ailing mother's estate. He would resume public service as a Virginia state legislator (182130) and major general of militia for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Citations

Louise Pecquet du Bellet, Some Prominent Virginia Families (Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Company, c. 1907), 86–88.

George D. Fisher, Descendants of Jaquelin Ambler (Richmond: William Ellis Jones, 1890), 5.

George Henry Preble, annotator, Navy Register 1805–6 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1875), 14. 

John Chaplin Strother et al., comps., "The Strother Family," Register of Kentucky State Historical Society, Volume 25, Number 75 (September 1927), 293–309.

Jacqueline B. Harvie at House History.

Jacquelin Burwell Harvie at Find a Grave.

Jacquelin Burwell Harvie at FamilySearch.