228 HEREDITY IN RELATION TO EUGENICS 



Donegal were descended from Elizabeth Deming; from 

 Mabel Bigelow came Morrison R. Waite, Chief Justice of 

 the United States, and the law author, Melville M. Bigelow; 

 from Ann Richardson proceeded Marvin Richardson Vin- 

 cent, professor of Sacred Literature at Columbia University, 

 the Marchioness of Apesteguia of Cuba, and Ulysses S. 

 Grantand Grover Cleveland, presidents of the United States. ^ 

 Thus two presidents, the wife of a third and a vice-president 

 trace back their origin to the germ plasm from which (in 

 part) Elizabeth Tuttle was also derived, but of which, it 

 must never be forgotten, she was not the author. Neverthe- 

 less, had Elizabeth Tuttle not been this nation would not 

 occupy the position in culture and learning that it now does. 



2. The First Families of Virginia 



This remarkable galaxy arose by the intermarriage of 

 representatives of various English aristocratic families. The 

 story of these early matings is briefly as follows: Richard Lee, 

 of a Shropshire family that held much land and many of 

 whose members had been knighted, went, during the reign 

 of Charles I, to the Colony of Virginia as Secretary and one 

 of the King's Privy Council. *'He was a man of good 

 stature, comely visage, enterprising genius, sound head, 

 vigorous spirit and generous nature." He gained large 

 grants of land in Virginia. His son Richard married, in 

 1674, Laetitia, daughter of Henry Corbin and Alice Elton- 

 head. The Corbins were wealthy and extensive landowners 

 in England for 14 generations, and the Eltonheads were also 

 an aristocratic family and extensive landowners of Virginia, 

 holding high oflBces in the colony. Richard and Laetitia had 

 six sons and one daughter (Fig. 175). Their daughter Ann 

 married Colonel William Fitzhugh, a descendant of the 

 English barons of that name who took prominent parts in 



^From the genealogist's manuscript, deposited at the Eugenics Record Office. 



