This information was copied from The Cass County Genealogical Society, 1975, Vol. II, No. 3, pg. 15-21

WEBMASTER NOTE: The paragraph that starts: William G. Stanard, editor of ............Vol. VI, for April 1899, page 395)......you will note an ending ) but there is no beginning (. I changed this by putting a beginning ( in front of editor. 3 paragraphs below this there is the same problem with "...and throughout this area....which I once again fixed. In the next paragraph the word surrended I changed to surrounded.
The last paragraph on page 17 is continued on page 18 and makes no sense. I once again fixed this.
Pg 18.....Paragraph that begins The testimony against Captain Jocob Lumpkin........drinking to the health of simply "the Kinghand Queen".......I changed Jocob to Jacob and I changed "the Kinghand to the King and Queen......and on and on and on.....I just kept fixing the "'s.

Thanks to Charles Steger for this information.

SURNAME REPORT ON LAMBKIN, LUMPKIN, ETC.

This surname and its variants is undoubtedly a pet-form (or Diminutive') of the old fore-name LAMBERT, itself of an Old German origin and meaning "land-bright". The principal modern surname authority, the late Dr. P. H. Reaney, described Lambert as a popular fore-name from the 12th century, probably introduced from Flanders werer St. Lambert of Maastricht was highly venerated. Lambert became shortened to "Lamb", and then the "kin" suffix was added as an endearment form. Some of the variant spellings, such as Lumpkin, which now survives principally in America, reflect local accents.

Early examples of the surname-sound are as follows:
1178 Lamberkyn Flandrensis Northumberland Pipe Roll
1188 Lamekin filius Beatricis Buckinghamshire Pipe Roll
1273 Lambekin de Lamburne London Hundred Roll
1273 Lambekin de Carsell London Hundred Roll
1301 Nicholas Lambekyn Yorkshire Subsidy Roll
1379 John Lamkyn Colchester (Exxex) Court Roll
1379 Lamkynus de Braban Yorkshire Poll Tax
1375 Lambekin Taborer King's Wardrobe Account

A great series of early deeds from Norfolk covering the period 1440-1524 mentions various members of a family of the surname-sound at Gressenhall, a parish 3 miles NW of East Dereham; John Lampken in 1440, John Lampkyn in 1441 (who also signs as a witness), John Lambkyn in 1446, John Lampkyn in 1479 - probably all one and the same person - then Thomas Lampkyn in 1489 and 1524 (when he is described as "now deceased"). These deeds, abstracted in Moulton's Catalogue on 1930, pp. 102-3, are now scattered and lost in private collections all over the world. A Thomas Lambkin also appears in a Surrey deed of 1528 as leaser of a close abutting on Rowcrofte on the north and Mycham river on the south for 20 years; this would be Mitcham, now a southern suburb of London. (Moulton, p 271)

In Norfolk, the surname, seems to have persisted in an isolated manner, spot-checks of Norfolk records, for instance, show the marriage of a Bridgetta Lamkin at Burnham Sutton (about 12 m N of Gressenhall) in 1668, and an E. J. Lambkin appears at Fakenham (in the same vicinity) in the modern telephone directory. About 25 to 30 miles to the SW, across the border into Cambridgeshire, "the arms of the Lumpkin family are carved over the doorway of a house at Newton near Wisebeck" according to information supplied by G. M. G. Woodgate of Wisebech and recorded in the Great Card Index of the Society of Genealogists, London. Another card records that the MS pedigree of this family, of Leverington and Newton, is in the possession of the same gentleman but as the slip looks as though it was written during the early days of the Society, about the time of World War I, and there is no longer any member of this surname, the MS. may well be lost. Certainly it is not deposited in the Society's collections.

The reference to the arms in the Lumpkin spelling is odd, as no such is listed in Burke's Armory. There is only Lampkyn (Barry of six argent and azure a chief gules) and Lamkyn (barry of six argent and azure on a chief gules a lion passant guardant or) and Lamkyn (Gules, a stag's head and neck couped or), while Lambkin is not represented at all.

Else where in England, the references are exceedingly scanty. Edward and Barrbara Lumkin are found in the parish of St. Anne Blackfriars, and David Lumkin, tailor, in St. Katherine Coleman, in the Taxation Census of London taken in 1695, and in 1700, the will of Elizabeth Lampkin, widow, of New Brentford, nearby in Middlesex was proved in the Prerogative Court of (The Archbishop of) Canterbury (Folio 26). The modern London Telephone Directory includes one Lumpkin and four Lambkin.

CAPTAIN JACOB LUMPKIN (1644-1708)
Of New Kent County, Virginia

For many years, family historians have been fascinated by the vigorous and colorful character of Captain Jacob Lumpkin. According to his grave stone at the north door of Mattapony Church, in King and Queen County, Virginia, he died in 1708, at the age of 64 - - a military leader who conquered by death. Records indicate that on several occasions he led militia cavalry units against marauding Indians, that in 1682 he received a grant of 565 acres of land in Kent County in compensation for transporting nine persons to the colony, and that in 1690 he refused to remove his hat when the health of the royal governor was drunk.

However, in spite of his transferring land to other Lumpkins and being a man of considerable activity, no documents have survived two courthouse burnings to show exactly how later generations of Lumpkins were descended from this strong-willed military captain. Some members of the family have accepted without question the tradition that Captain Jacob Lumpkin was the original settler in Virginia and that he was the grandfather of George Lumpkin who was born about 1723, married Mary ?ody in 1748, and later established the Georgia branch. That assumption is in conflict with statements in a letter written by Governor Wilson Lumpkin, of Georgia. In a letter (quoted by Mr. L. L. Cody in Lumpkin Lore) Governor Lumpkin assumed that the original immigrant was Dr. Thomas Lumpkin and that the Georgia branch probably was descended from that Dr. Thomas Lumpkin. Quite possibly, as some researchers think, Governor Lumpkin wrote Thomas instead of Jacob, but that is not the probable solution. In Lumpkin, a family register, Bryan Lumpkin, after weighing the evidence, decided that Jacob Lumpkin probably was an ancestor of the Georgia branch of the family; but he traced the family from George Lumpkin - - who relationship is not questioned.

In Lumpkin Lore, L. L. Cody quoted the marble slab over Jacob Lumpkin's grave at Mattapony Church, in King and Queen County, Virginia:
Jacob Lumpkin
Obit 14 die September 1708 Aetatis 64
Dux militum Victor Hostium
Morte Victus Pax adsit Vies Requies
Eterna Sepultis

William G. Stanard, (editor of The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography - Vol. VI, for April 1899, page 395) quoted the inscription without giving the day of the month, but added the work Acri after the word Anno, the Aeri probably being a form of herus, or a misreading for eri or heri, genitive forms meaning "of the Lord". So the two published versions agree that Captain Jacob Lumpkin died in 1708.

Bryan Lumpkin commenced his sketch with a quotation from a historical marker erected by the State of Virginia by the side of the highway a short distance north of King & Queen Courthouse, Virginia: "A mile south on the Mattaponi River is the site of Newington, birthplace of Carter Braxton (born September 10th 1736), Signer of the Declaration of Independence. In earlier times, Colonel Jacob Lumpkin, supporter of Governor Berkeley in Bacon's Rebellion, 1676, lived there.

Mrs. Frances Herren Lumpkin, in Bryan H. Mumpkin's Lumpkin, page 3 & 4, described the Jacob Lumpkin home site as she and her husband saw the place during the summer of 1936.

"A mile and a half from highway number fourteen in King & Queen County and some distance south of Mattaponi Church is the site of the homestead of Jacob Lumpkin."

"About one hundred feet from where the old dwelling stood, and on the left side facing the river is a sunken garden partly surrounded by a hedge of lovely giant boxwood. The hedge extends almost to the riverside where formerly an open lawn was terraced to the shore of the Mattaponi. The front of the dwelling without doubt faced toward the stream and the approach from the landward side was through a fine avenue of Oaks and Cedars. All that remains of the building is the bricked-in cellar. The avenue above mentioned was laid out across a meadow land and is quite an extended one."

"Mr. Beam, of near King & Queen Court House, owns the property and uses quantities of boxwood clippings each season for holiday and other decorations."

"To the left rear of the swelling site is a small rock house built apparently as a block house for defense against the Indians. It is quite picturesque with diamond shaped port holes and no doubt is one of the old buildings standing in North America today."

"To the right rear another dwelling probably two hundred years of age, with chimneys at each end of the type seen in the old buildings at Yorktown and other places in Virginia. This house was probably the home of the overseer."

"The present owner states that tradition has it that this latter dwelling was the one in which Carter Braxton was born."

The most detailed record of Captain Jacob Lumpkin appeared in an article entitled "Jacobitism in Virginia," The Virginia Magazine Of History and Biography (Volume VI, for April 1899, pages 389-396). The body of the article consists of court records from the Virginia Archives, court orders and depositions of witnesses, accusing Captain Jacob Lumpkin of seditious words against King William and Queen Mary and their royal governor in Virginia, Governor Francis Nicholson. When this charge was brought in New Kent County in September, 1690, William and Queen Mary had been on the English throne only a little more than eighteen months (since February 13, 1689). They succeeded the last Stuart King, King James II, who, in the face of rebellion of the English Parliament, had quietly withdrawn to France late in December, 1688, and with his son James was biding his time until he and the Stuarts could regain the English throne. His supporters became known as Jacobites.

The testimony against Captain Jacob Lumpkin suggests that he was a strong-willed independent colonial planter who refused to take off his hat when the healths of King William and Queen Mary were drunk at a party at the home of Benjamin Arnold; that he at first tried to avoid controversy by drinking to the health of simply "the King and Queen" and then quietly leaving the party; but when the neighbors tried his temper by insisting that he name King William and Queen Mary in his toast, he cut loose with some stout language.

The court action began on Sept 10, 1690, when Benjamin Arnold appeared before two justices of New Kent County (John Lane and Robert Bird) and swore out a complaint that Captain Jacob Lumpkin "on or about ye first of September, 1690, at ye house of me, ye Subscriber, in company with and before Divers Evidences, did utter, express & declare diverse Seditious unlawful and dangerous words & expressions as their majesties and their present Governor, ye Honorable Francis Nicholson, Esp., in manner & form following: that being in Company at ye said Compl'ts house at ye time aforesaid with Joseph Clarke, Richard Yarbrough, myself & wife & several other persons, & drinking their Majesties "health" ye Said Capt. Jacob Lumpkin Slighted it & refused to put on his hat. Afterwards ye informer, with ye aforesaid Comlt, according to usual Custom to try ye temper of ye Said Capt. Jacob Lumpkin. Dranke ye Honoble their Majesties' Governor's health when ye Said Capt. Lumpkin also Slighted, & mounting his horse Swore he was as good a man as ye Governor & Sword God dam him if he were there he would fight him, to which information I set my hands this 10th of Sept. Anno 1690."

When this complaint was brought into court on 29 Sept 1690, the justices for New Kent County ordered the Sheriff to "Summon the said Jacob Lumpkin and all the Evidence to Appear at the house of Mr. Edmond Turnstall on ye 9 day of October next, when the court have appointed to meet and examine the Evidence therein and also that ye Sheriff give all the Northside Gentlemen Notice hereof for Speedy Tryall of ye matter." On that day appointed, 9 October, five witnesses appeared and deposed substantially the same testimony. Anne Browne, aged 31 years or there abouts, swore that Captain Jacob Lumpkin "was willing to drink ye King & Queen's health but refused to name the King William & Queen Mary. And ye said Joseph (Clarke) hath said there was a great many Kings & Queens & urged him to name the, but he refused or pulled off his hat & when ye said Capt. Lumpkin went to get upon his horse he said if any man came to oppose him he would fight him if it was ye Governor & after he was upon his horse he sword a great Oath which to ye best of yor Depont knowledge was (God dam him) if ye Governor were there he would fight him." Ellinor Thompson, who made her mark instead of signing her deposition, added that "Joseph Clarke cut a stick & bid Capt. Lumpkin measure itt with his cane & he would right him in ye Governor's behalf." Ann Arnold confirmed her husband's testimony and that of Ann Browne and Ellinor Thompson. The depositions of Richard Yarbrough and his wife Elizabeth, both of whom signed with their marks, agreed with the testimony of the other three.

Because Captain Jacob Lumpkin failed to appear before the Justices on 9th Oct. as he had been ordered, the New Kent County Court ordered the high sheriff, Richard Johnson, to transmit the whole court record in the case to the Governor for action by the General Court during its next meeting. But nothing in this particular record indicates whether Capt. Jacob Lumpkin ever answered the charge, which probably was not pressed by the Governor.

Since the most diligent and best informed researchers have been unable to prove the relationships among Capt. Jacob Lumpkin and the other members of the Virginia Lumpkins, the records and documents are listed and quoted below for use of anybody who wishes to work on the interesting puzzle:

According to the "Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia" edited by Henry R. McIlwaine, Jacob Lumpkin and Coloney Travers, as attorney for Elizabeth Pickis, on 16 March 1675, are engaged in a legal proceeding to settle.

THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY (Vo. VI, for April, 1899, page 433) says that Mattapony Church is the burial place of Col. George Braxton, who died 1 July 1748, at the age of 71. He was the father of George Braxton, who served three terms in the Virginia House of Burgesses. He was also the grandfather of Carter Braxton, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

The same issue of THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, page 396, published two references to Capt. Jacob Lumpkin's military career: "In the records of Middlesex County is an order dated 2nd, Oct 1677, stating that 18 men, with horses, were sent out of that county (by command of Governor Jeffreys) on May 20th prededding, under the command of Captain Jacob Lumpkin, and in Lancaster, May 29, 1678, is a certificate in regard to a horse which was taken out in service against the Indians, under command of Capt. Jacob Lumpkin and was out five months. It is believed that Capt. Lumpkin was an ancestor of the family of the name in Virginia, and also of the distinguished Southern jurists."

In his Lumpkin record, pg 6, Bryan H. Lumpkin listed two references to Jacob Lumpkin. The first is to the Journals of the House of Burgesses for Virginia, 1659-1693 (pp. 81, 83), where in 1693 Jacob Lumpkin is listed with 3,000 pounds and 750 pounds of tobacco, "Charge of Mattaponie Fort," whatever that may mean. Bryan's second reference is to a History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, p 43, where the Quit Rent Rolls of Virginia for 1704 show that Jacob Lumpkin owned 950 acres and that Robert Lumpkin owned 400 acres in King & Queen County, as recorded by Robert Bird, Sheriff - - probably the same Robert Bird who was one of the justices of New Kent County when Capt. Jacob Lumpkin was being accused of seditious words.

THE DESCENDANTS OF JACOB LUMPKIN

Generation I.
Robert Lumpkin died 1704 in King & Queen County, Virginia. Elizabeth Lumpkin who in 1695 married John Clark. Their son, Jonathan born in 1698 md. Elizabeth Ann Wilson, dau. of William Wilson and Lucy Rogers. Another son, John md. Ann Rogers (his cousin) and their son was General George Rogers Clark. Another daughter of Jacob Lumpkin (name unknown) md. George Braxton and they inherited Newington.

Generation II.
These are the children of Robert Lumpkin; George born in 1723 who md. Mary Cody in 1748. He died in Georgia in 1800. Their grandson, Wilson Lumpkin, was a governor of Georgia. Joseph Lumpkin, born in 1725, md. Ann ? in 1765, and died in Georgia in 1803. Anthony Lumpkin born in Virginia in 1730, died in Granville County, North Carolina in May of 1811. Henry Lumpkin born between 1730 and 1740 was a Captain in the Revolutionary War in Virginia.

Generation III
Joseph Lumpkin (1759-1840) is the only known child of Anthony Lumpkin. According to census reports Anthony had two sons and one daughter. Joseph Lumpkin was born in Virginia and died in Granville County, North Carolina. He joined the Virginia Militia in May 1777, as a private under his Uncle Henry Lumpkin. The North Carolina Secretary of State reported him to Congress for a pension in 1835 and 1840.

Generation IV
These are the known children of Joseph Lumpkin who had two other sons and a daughter. William born circa 1779 in Granville County, North Carolina, Edmond born circa 1781, and Fleming born circa 1783.

Generation V
William Lumpkin possibly lived in the southern part of North Carolina in 1820 and 1830 as he did not appear on the Granville County census. He is known to have had four sons and three daughters. The four sons appeared in Floyd County, Georgia in 1840 and they were: George (1800-1881); Thomas born in N.C. in 1806 and wife, Martha born in Georgia in 1821 were parents of John F., Joseph W., Mary Jane, Pleasant, Martha E., Margaret A., and James B.; L. D. born in 1807 and wife, Virginia C. born in Georgia in 1814 were parents of James, Harry E., Rebecca, Solomon G., William W., and Sarah Virginia; and Dickerson born in N.C. in 1810 and wife Elizabeth born in N.C. in 1810 were parents of Wilson, Edward H., Jasper N., Robert D., Mary E., Nancy J., Sereply, and Permelia.

Generation VI
George Lumpkin (1800-1881) had two families. The children of the first marriage (wife unknown) were: Elijah H. "lige" who married Helen M. Kyle in Nov. 1844; Hiram P. "High" born in 1824 who married Julia Ann Cornutt in Dec., 1845. A known son of theirs is John W. born in 1847; John Lumpkin (living in 1881); and Elizabeth "Betsy" who married Ben Pierce in Dec., 1842. George Lumpkin and his second wife, Mary born in Tennessee in 1805, were parents of these children: Martha C. born in Floyd Co., Ga. in 1832 md. a Hinshaw and had a known daughter, Amanda; Susan Helen (1839-1923) md. James Andrew Peirce in 1858 at Pleasant Grove, Ala. were the families living at that time; (Dr.) Robert Donald (1843-1919) md. first Martha Ann Cook, daughter of Wesley & Mary Brooks Cook and secondly, Clementine Campbell; and Benjamine Franklin (1846-1929) md. three daughters of George and Martha McDonald Law - Josephine, Mattie Allice and Mary Addeline. George and Mary (died 1879) Lumpkin along with all their children are buried at Law's Chapel, Cass County, Texas.

Generation VII
1. Children of James & Susan Lumpkin Peirce; Albert Laranzo (1860-1943), Robert Donald born 1862, James Andrew, Jr. (1865-1880), Mary Elizabeth (Blackman) (1867-1895), Margaret Jane "Maggie" (1870-1963), Fannie Eveline (Allison) (1872-1958), John Patton (1874-1953), Joseph Hiriam (1876-1958 married Bertha L. Paulett, George Henry (1879-1881), and Babe (1883-1959).
2. Children of Dr. Robert Donalk & Martha Ann Cook Lumpkin; Clarence (Jun-Aug, 1866), Lizzie (1867-1875), James Robert (1870-1885), Wm. Sawyer (1872-1944), Addrian Telula (1875-1953), Louisa Roxana (1881-1957) married Melvin Walker, and Henry S. (1884-1890).
3. Children of Benjamine F. and Mattie Alice Law Lumpkin; George Henry (1868-1942) md. Katherine Virginia Echols, Mary Alice (1870-1958) md. William P. Riley, Martha Harriett (1872-1932) md. Brice B. Brooks, Sarah Fitzpatric (1874-1948) who married Elbert Wesley Steger, Benjamine F. Jr. (1875-1939) md. Janie M. Echols, Ida Witcher (1878-1966) md. James C. Willson, Bettie (1880-1964) md. E.H. "Larce" McClanahan, and Susie (Mar-Jun, 1880) twin to Bettie.