BECKWITH

       Marmaduke Beckwith, son of Sir Roger Beckwith and Elizabeth Jennings of Gloucester, England was an immigrant to Virginia before 1665 who settled in Richmond County. Marmaduke married Maudlin Creed . Their children were Elizabeth, Jonathan and Grace.

       Their daughter, Grace Beckwith, married William Lucas .

       An amusing 1765 legal dispute between Marmaduke Beckwith, Clerk of Richmond County, and Thomas Jones, Clerk of Northumberland County has been published in the William and Mary Quarterly, Series 1, Vol. 23, pages 259-260. ( A copy is in the manuscript As I Have Been Told.)  This is credited to the immigrant Beckwith, but the dates are too late. Perhaps the son Jonathan named a son for the grandfather.