Husband [Ancestor] Fleming
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1 M John Fleming 1
Born: Abt 1761
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Died: 17 Feb 1817 2
Buried: - Great Island Cemetery, Lock Haven, Clinton Co, PA
Spouse: Susan Chatham ( -1824) 3
Marr: Chester Co, PA
General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Fleming
The surname of the Fleming family, according to the sentiments of the most approved historians and antiquarians, was at first assumed from a person of distinction, who in the days of King David I. (1124), a Fleming by nation, transplanted himself into Scotland, and took the surname Flanderenis, or Le Fleming, from the country of his origin. Robert Le Fleming, the direct and immediate ancestor of the earls of Wigtown, was one of the great barons of Scotland, under King Edward I. of England (1272-1309). In Furness Abbey, Lancashire, England, an ancient burial place of the Fleming family, may be seen the statue of an armed Knight with a fret upon his shield; hands elevated in a praying posture. Robert Le Fleming was succeeded by his son, Sir Malcolm Fleming, Lord of Fulwood, also in great favor with the King, who made him a large grant of land in Wigtownshire, and also Governor of Dumbarton Castle and sheriff of the county. Sir Malcolm Fleming was succeeded by his son of the same name, who was a forwarder and assister of the right and title of David II., Brucian line. He succeeded his father as Governor of Dumbarton Castle. During the whole of the usurpation of Baliol, this castle was a place to which the royalists did freely and with great security resort. Here Sir Malcolm had the honor to shelter and protect, in that evil time, Robert, Lord High Steward of Scotland, afterward King Robert II. (1371). His highness was graciously pleased in reward to Sir Malcolm's signal loyalty and fidelity in his service, to create him Earl of Wigtown. On his death he left his estates and title to his grandson, Thomas Fleming, second Earl of Wigtown. Malcolm Fleming, Earl of Wigtown, was in great favor with James V., by whom he was constituted Lord High Chamberlain of Scotland. He was slain in the service of his country at the battle of Pinky, September 10, 1545. He married Janet, daughter of King James IV., and by her had a son, James Fleming, who, being a nobleman of fine and polite parts, was by special favor of Mary, Queen of Scots, made her Lord High Chancellor. He accompanied Queen Mary to Scotland, and died in Paris, December 1, 1558. He was Governor of Dumbarton Castle, and distinguished himself for his zeal and loyalty to his queen.
The Flemings who became Lords of the Barony of Slane, County Meath, Ireland, descended from Archibald Fleming, who went from England to Ireland, A. D. 1173, with Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, and took part in the Norman Invasion and Conquest of Ireland. The Lords Fleming, of Slane Castle, numbered successively, twenty-three. This branch of the family came also originally from Flanders, with William the Conqueror, whose wife is known in history as Matilda of Flanders. Sir Thomas Fleming, son of Earl of Wigtown, emigrated to Virginia, in 1616. Many of the family followed him to the same colony, one of whom was Col. William Fleming, and another, the father of James Fleming, who was born in Iredell county, North Carolina, in 1762. He served in the Revolutionary war; afterward removed to Ohio, where he died in 1832. He was the great-grandfather of Hon. Josiah Mitchell Fleming, of Denver, Colorado. Another descendant of these Wigtownshire Flemings was Col. John Fleming, who migrated from Virginia to Kentucky in 1790. He was the grandfather of Hon. John Donaldson Fleming, late United States District Attorney for Colorado. 4