230 HEREDITY IN RELATION TO EUGENICS 



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rick Bland, was speaker of the House of Burgesses, a mem- 

 ber of the Council, inferior to none in his time. Of the 

 three sons of Henry Lee and Mary Bland, John was a clerk 

 of courts and a member of the House of Burgesses; Richard, 

 was in the house of Burgesses and the House of Delegates; 

 Henry, in the House of Burgesses, Conventions, and the 

 State Senate. Such is a sample, merely, of the intermarriages 

 of the first families of Virginia and their product — statesmen 

 and military men, the necessary consequence of the deter- 

 miners in their germ plasm. 



3. The Kentucky Aristocracy 

 Nearly two centuries ago John Preston of Londonderry, 

 Irish born though English bred, married the Irish girl Eliza- 

 beth Patton, of Donegal, and to the wilderness of Virginia 

 took his wife and built their home, Spring Hill. "Of this 

 union there were five children, Letitia, who married Colonel 

 Robert Breckinridge; Margaret, who married the Rev. John 

 Brown; William, whose wife was Susannah Smith; Anne, 

 who married Colonel John Smith; and Mary, who married 

 Benjamin Howard." From them have come the most con- 

 spicuous of those who bear the name of Preston, Brown, 



