Lancaster, Robert Alexander, 1862- [from old catalog] · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 124
he first of the Banisters in this country was theReverend John Banister,13 a distinguished naturalist, whowas living in Charles City County in 1689, and in the nextyear received a grant of land in Bristol Parish. While ona botanical excursion, in 1692, he slipped and fell fromrocks on the Roanoke… … BATTERSEA, NEAR PETERSBURG less identical with the Battersea estate. He was the fatherof Colonel John Banister, of Battersea, who was a burgessfrom Dinwiddie County, member of the Revolutionaryconventions and lieutenant colonel of cavalry in the Revo-lutionary Army, and in 1778-1779 a member of…
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