Archibald BRISTOW, REV.

                   SOURCES:  1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
                Nicholls of Gilbert, AZ
            2. FHL Book #976.948/H24, "History of Jessamine County, KY.
            3. FHL Book #929.273/B776b, "Bristow-Douglass", by Julia J.
               Bristow, (p.21-22).
            4. Book #929.209769/Gen,"Genealogies of Kentucky Families
               Filson Club Quarterly", (68,79,80,86,87) by John Walton.
            5. Book #RG975.5/Gen, "Genealogy of Virginia Families" Vol.#1
               [A-Ge], Tyler Quarterly (pp. 263,264,267) by M.E. Bristow.
            2. IGI - Kentucky - My Batch #8915204 (p.24) Baptism and Endowed
            3. 1998 Ancestral File - info. added
            4. 1997 Ordinance Index - info. added

OCCUPATION:  Lawyer - US Congressman -"Studied Law and divided his time
               between his profession and farming.

NOTES:  Information from the above books.  A Unionist Congressman from
         Member of House Committee to consider the treat of bothe secession
         and the Anti-slavery movement - He adopted conciliatory attitude,
         As for slavery, he believed in gradual emancipation. He provided
         for the emancipation of his own slaves. But he argued that the
         property rights of others slaveholders should be respected as long
         as thelaws protecting them were in effect. These laws, however,
         he argued could be changed by a vote of the people.---- He was a
         man of property who lived in a stately manor house.
          He was a United States Congressman and did much in his day to
         build up the walls and sustain the Methodist Episcopal Church
         (South).

LINEAGE:  BRISTOW, Francis Marion [5], Archibald [4], James [3],_____ [2],
            John [1].  (Book RG975.5/Gen) page 264
             BRISTOW, Francis Marion [6], Andrew [5], John [4], John [3],
           Nicholas [2], John [1].  (Book RG975.5/Gen) page 259.
            (A discrepancy)
            His family probably descends from John[1] of Virginia - Age 16
           years old - found wandering around colony in 1663 indentured for
           seven years.

NOTES#2:   Francis Marion Bristow, lived for 26 years on a farm near
             Nicholasville.  He early moved to Todd County, Kentucky.  With
             his father, who had settled in Jessamine County in 1790.  In
             1830-1831, elected to Kentucky Legislature - in 1846 - he was
             in Senate & Menber of State Constitutional Convention in 1849.
             In Congress during the years 1854 & 1859.
                  

                   SOURCES:  1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
               Nicholls of Gilbert, AZ
            2. Book #RG975.5/GEN, "Genealogies of Virginia Families", By
               M.E. Bristow, Vol.#1 [A-Ge], (p. 264-265), Orlando Public
               Library, Orlando, Flordia.
            3. FHL Book #929.273/B766b, "Bristow-Douglass", by Julia J.
               Bristow, (p.21-22).
            4. Daughters of American Revolution Lineage Book, Vol.#130,
               (p.177-178), Vol.#87 (p.209)
            5. Book #569.121/Gal, "National Society - U.S. Daughters of
               1812", (p.67).
            6. IGI-Kentucky - Extracted #C517991  (p.1136)
            7. 1997 Ordinance Index
            8. 1998 Ancestral File (nil)

NOTES: 1.  No children by wife #3 Maggie Riggs
                  

                   SOURCES:  1. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell
               Nicholls of Gilbert, AZ
            2. Daughers of American Revolution Lineage Book, Vol.#103
               (p.38,237), Vol #157 (p.141), Vol.#44 (p.138)
            3. Book #RG975.5/Gen, "Genealogies of Virginia Families",
               Vol.#1[A-Ge], (p.265) By M.E. Bristow
            4. 1998 Ancestral File - nil
            5. 1997 Ordinance Index - info. added