h/o Temperance Ramsey.
"As a lawyer and a man he was above reproach. He was extremely nervous and mercurial, and very dainty in his choice of associates. This was his only political service, for his feeble frame succumbed at an early date and with him passed from Hertford county the name of Borland. His brother Solon became US Senator from Arkansas and Minister to Nicaragua. Dr. Euclid Borland, a wealthy and courtly planter of Louisiana, long retained veneration for his native place and continued to revisit it."
He was likely named for Greek Sextus Rosicus of America and his friend Cicero.
Birth: 1st of three known children in Nansemond county, Virginia
Roscius was;
"The young but gallant and high-strung..."
1st of three known children
attorney, appearing in August Term, 1830, of Court with license signed by Leonard Henderson, C. J. and John Hall and Thomas Ruffin, Associate Justices and took oath of an attorney. He in 1835
"...had won the confidence and respect of his people and was elected County Attorney...",
succeeding James Sydney Jones III as Hertford county attorney when Jones removed to Alabama.
"Roscius had been elected [1835] to serve in North Carolina's House of Commons"
[with Kenneth Rayner, John Vann was in Senate] so wrote Benji B Winborne in 1906.
Marriage bond in Northampton County, NC for Roscious C. Borland and Temperance Ramsay on April 19, 1837.
From 521 pages of BORLAND family materials acquired 1944, "Collection Mss. 65 B66", at The College of William & Mary's, Earl Gregg Swen Library, herein prefixed (WM),
Census: 1840, age 30 to 39 Hertford county, North Carolina with family and seven slaves.
Occupation: attorney
A letter of 8 December 1846 to George Godwin, Suffolk, Virginia from F M Capehart, Murfreesboro, North Carolina stating he intends on 17th,. to bring Roscius families remains to Suffolk for burial (no names, could be any/all. George Boyd, Fanny Green, Temperance, Roscius Cicero????).
It seems most strange that we found nothing regarding his wife Temperance's life or death. One theory (?) is: wife "Tempe" died shortly before August 1845 when Roscius deeded property to brother Euclid, then as son Thomas wrote, his father died 1845, which had to be either in November or December, reportedly in Mississippi with brother Euclid.
Death: thought to be in Marshall county, Mississippi on brother Euclid's plantation, so wrote Judge Winborne in 1906.
Burial was undoubtedly in one of the many unrecorded and unknown private family cemeteries within Nansemond county, such as are early families of Borland, Godwin, Jones, Prentis to name but four of hundreds.
Father: Dr Thomas Wood Borland b: 9 DEC 1779 Scotland.
Mother: Harriott Godwin b: 17 SEP 1787 Virginia.
Marriage: Temperance Ramsey b: ABT 1814 in Northampton county, North Carolina
Married: 25 APR 1837 in Northampton county, North Carolina
Known Children
Harriott Godwin Borland b: 18 MAR 1838 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
George Boyd Borland b: BEF 1840 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
Fanny Green Borland b: 2 FEB 1842 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
Thomas Roscius Borland b: 3 MAR 1844 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
"As a lawyer and a man he was above reproach. He was extremely nervous and mercurial, and very dainty in his choice of associates. This was his only political service, for his feeble frame succumbed at an early date and with him passed from Hertford county the name of Borland. His brother Solon became US Senator from Arkansas and Minister to Nicaragua. Dr. Euclid Borland, a wealthy and courtly planter of Louisiana, long retained veneration for his native place and continued to revisit it."
He was likely named for Greek Sextus Rosicus of America and his friend Cicero.
Birth: 1st of three known children in Nansemond county, Virginia
Roscius was;
"The young but gallant and high-strung..."
1st of three known children
attorney, appearing in August Term, 1830, of Court with license signed by Leonard Henderson, C. J. and John Hall and Thomas Ruffin, Associate Justices and took oath of an attorney. He in 1835
"...had won the confidence and respect of his people and was elected County Attorney...",
succeeding James Sydney Jones III as Hertford county attorney when Jones removed to Alabama.
"Roscius had been elected [1835] to serve in North Carolina's House of Commons"
[with Kenneth Rayner, John Vann was in Senate] so wrote Benji B Winborne in 1906.
Marriage bond in Northampton County, NC for Roscious C. Borland and Temperance Ramsay on April 19, 1837.
From 521 pages of BORLAND family materials acquired 1944, "Collection Mss. 65 B66", at The College of William & Mary's, Earl Gregg Swen Library, herein prefixed (WM),
Census: 1840, age 30 to 39 Hertford county, North Carolina with family and seven slaves.
Occupation: attorney
A letter of 8 December 1846 to George Godwin, Suffolk, Virginia from F M Capehart, Murfreesboro, North Carolina stating he intends on 17th,. to bring Roscius families remains to Suffolk for burial (no names, could be any/all. George Boyd, Fanny Green, Temperance, Roscius Cicero????).
It seems most strange that we found nothing regarding his wife Temperance's life or death. One theory (?) is: wife "Tempe" died shortly before August 1845 when Roscius deeded property to brother Euclid, then as son Thomas wrote, his father died 1845, which had to be either in November or December, reportedly in Mississippi with brother Euclid.
Death: thought to be in Marshall county, Mississippi on brother Euclid's plantation, so wrote Judge Winborne in 1906.
Burial was undoubtedly in one of the many unrecorded and unknown private family cemeteries within Nansemond county, such as are early families of Borland, Godwin, Jones, Prentis to name but four of hundreds.
Father: Dr Thomas Wood Borland b: 9 DEC 1779 Scotland.
Mother: Harriott Godwin b: 17 SEP 1787 Virginia.
Marriage: Temperance Ramsey b: ABT 1814 in Northampton county, North Carolina
Married: 25 APR 1837 in Northampton county, North Carolina
Known Children
Harriott Godwin Borland b: 18 MAR 1838 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
George Boyd Borland b: BEF 1840 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
Fanny Green Borland b: 2 FEB 1842 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
Thomas Roscius Borland b: 3 MAR 1844 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
h/o Temperance Ramsey.
"As a lawyer and a man he was above reproach. He was extremely nervous and mercurial, and very dainty in his choice of associates. This was his only political service, for his feeble frame succumbed at an early date and with him passed from Hertford county the name of Borland. His brother Solon became US Senator from Arkansas and Minister to Nicaragua. Dr. Euclid Borland, a wealthy and courtly planter of Louisiana, long retained veneration for his native place and continued to revisit it."
He was likely named for Greek Sextus Rosicus of America and his friend Cicero.
Birth: 1st of three known children in Nansemond county, Virginia
Roscius was;
"The young but gallant and high-strung..."
1st of three known children
attorney, appearing in August Term, 1830, of Court with license signed by Leonard Henderson, C. J. and John Hall and Thomas Ruffin, Associate Justices and took oath of an attorney. He in 1835
"...had won the confidence and respect of his people and was elected County Attorney...",
succeeding James Sydney Jones III as Hertford county attorney when Jones removed to Alabama.
"Roscius had been elected [1835] to serve in North Carolina's House of Commons"
[with Kenneth Rayner, John Vann was in Senate] so wrote Benji B Winborne in 1906.
Marriage bond in Northampton County, NC for Roscious C. Borland and Temperance Ramsay on April 19, 1837.
From 521 pages of BORLAND family materials acquired 1944, "Collection Mss. 65 B66", at The College of William & Mary's, Earl Gregg Swen Library, herein prefixed (WM),
Census: 1840, age 30 to 39 Hertford county, North Carolina with family and seven slaves.
Occupation: attorney
A letter of 8 December 1846 to George Godwin, Suffolk, Virginia from F M Capehart, Murfreesboro, North Carolina stating he intends on 17th,. to bring Roscius families remains to Suffolk for burial (no names, could be any/all. George Boyd, Fanny Green, Temperance, Roscius Cicero????).
It seems most strange that we found nothing regarding his wife Temperance's life or death. One theory (?) is: wife "Tempe" died shortly before August 1845 when Roscius deeded property to brother Euclid, then as son Thomas wrote, his father died 1845, which had to be either in November or December, reportedly in Mississippi with brother Euclid.
Death: thought to be in Marshall county, Mississippi on brother Euclid's plantation, so wrote Judge Winborne in 1906.
Burial was undoubtedly in one of the many unrecorded and unknown private family cemeteries within Nansemond county, such as are early families of Borland, Godwin, Jones, Prentis to name but four of hundreds.
Father: Dr Thomas Wood Borland b: 9 DEC 1779 Scotland.
Mother: Harriott Godwin b: 17 SEP 1787 Virginia.
Marriage: Temperance Ramsey b: ABT 1814 in Northampton county, North Carolina
Married: 25 APR 1837 in Northampton county, North Carolina
Known Children
Harriott Godwin Borland b: 18 MAR 1838 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
George Boyd Borland b: BEF 1840 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
Fanny Green Borland b: 2 FEB 1842 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
Thomas Roscius Borland b: 3 MAR 1844 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
"As a lawyer and a man he was above reproach. He was extremely nervous and mercurial, and very dainty in his choice of associates. This was his only political service, for his feeble frame succumbed at an early date and with him passed from Hertford county the name of Borland. His brother Solon became US Senator from Arkansas and Minister to Nicaragua. Dr. Euclid Borland, a wealthy and courtly planter of Louisiana, long retained veneration for his native place and continued to revisit it."
He was likely named for Greek Sextus Rosicus of America and his friend Cicero.
Birth: 1st of three known children in Nansemond county, Virginia
Roscius was;
"The young but gallant and high-strung..."
1st of three known children
attorney, appearing in August Term, 1830, of Court with license signed by Leonard Henderson, C. J. and John Hall and Thomas Ruffin, Associate Justices and took oath of an attorney. He in 1835
"...had won the confidence and respect of his people and was elected County Attorney...",
succeeding James Sydney Jones III as Hertford county attorney when Jones removed to Alabama.
"Roscius had been elected [1835] to serve in North Carolina's House of Commons"
[with Kenneth Rayner, John Vann was in Senate] so wrote Benji B Winborne in 1906.
Marriage bond in Northampton County, NC for Roscious C. Borland and Temperance Ramsay on April 19, 1837.
From 521 pages of BORLAND family materials acquired 1944, "Collection Mss. 65 B66", at The College of William & Mary's, Earl Gregg Swen Library, herein prefixed (WM),
Census: 1840, age 30 to 39 Hertford county, North Carolina with family and seven slaves.
Occupation: attorney
A letter of 8 December 1846 to George Godwin, Suffolk, Virginia from F M Capehart, Murfreesboro, North Carolina stating he intends on 17th,. to bring Roscius families remains to Suffolk for burial (no names, could be any/all. George Boyd, Fanny Green, Temperance, Roscius Cicero????).
It seems most strange that we found nothing regarding his wife Temperance's life or death. One theory (?) is: wife "Tempe" died shortly before August 1845 when Roscius deeded property to brother Euclid, then as son Thomas wrote, his father died 1845, which had to be either in November or December, reportedly in Mississippi with brother Euclid.
Death: thought to be in Marshall county, Mississippi on brother Euclid's plantation, so wrote Judge Winborne in 1906.
Burial was undoubtedly in one of the many unrecorded and unknown private family cemeteries within Nansemond county, such as are early families of Borland, Godwin, Jones, Prentis to name but four of hundreds.
Father: Dr Thomas Wood Borland b: 9 DEC 1779 Scotland.
Mother: Harriott Godwin b: 17 SEP 1787 Virginia.
Marriage: Temperance Ramsey b: ABT 1814 in Northampton county, North Carolina
Married: 25 APR 1837 in Northampton county, North Carolina
Known Children
Harriott Godwin Borland b: 18 MAR 1838 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
George Boyd Borland b: BEF 1840 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
Fanny Green Borland b: 2 FEB 1842 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
Thomas Roscius Borland b: 3 MAR 1844 in Murfreesboro, Hertford county, North Carolina
Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.
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