William Herbert (Sr.)

William Herbert married Sarah Carlyle Herbert Person Sarah Carlyle Herbert Eldest daughter of and ; her marriage to carried into the Herbert family. Mother of (held the house 1781-1827) and (m. Thomas 9th Lord Fairfax 1800); great-grandmother of . , the eldest daughter of John Carlyle Person John Carlyle b. 1720 · d. 1780 Scottish-descent merchant born in Carlisle, England, in 1720; one of the eleven founding trustees of Alexandria in 1749, and builder of the stone Carlyle House at the head of what … and Sarah Fairfax Carlyle Person Sarah Fairfax Carlyle b. 1728 · d. 1761 Second daughter of of Belvoir; in 1748 married , anchoring the Carlyles into the Fairfax network. Her sister Anne Fairfax was the wife of Lawrence Washington of Mount Vernon … , in the years before the Revolution. Through that marriage the Herberts entered the Alexandria merchant elite — Carlyle’s mercantile shipping firm John Dalton Person John Dalton d. 1777 Alexandria merchant; partner of in the firm Carlyle & Dalton from c. 1755 until his death in 1777. & Carlyle had dominated the early-town waterfront for nearly twenty-five years by the time Herbert appears in the family records as a son-in-law ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .

Spencer (1910) records seven children for the marriage:

1. John Carlyle Herbert Person John Carlyle Herbert b. 1777 · d. 1846 Eldest grandson of via his mother and his father ; held from 1781 to 1827, the longest single ownership in the house's history. Member of Congress from Maryland 1816-1820. (1777-1846), who inherited 121 North Fairfax Street Place 121 North Fairfax Street Stone Georgian mansion built in 1753 by Scottish merchant John Carlyle; headquarters in April 1755 for General Edward Braddock's Congress of five royal governors planning the … on his uncle George William Carlyle Person George William Carlyle b. 1766 · d. 1781 Only surviving son of by his second wife ; inherited in 1780 at fourteen and was killed at fifteen at the Battle of Eutaw Springs as a cadet in Light Horse Harry Lee's Legion. ’s death at Eutaw Springs in 1781, held it for forty-six years until 1827, and represented Maryland in Congress 1816-1820.
2. William Herbert (Jr.), who married Henrietta Maria Dulany, daughter of Benjamin Tasker Dulany. Their son Arthur Herbert Person Arthur Herbert b. 1829 · d. 1919 Co-founder of Burke & Herbert Bank (1852), Confederate officer in the 17th Virginia Infantry, and longtime master of "Muckross" on Seminary Hill. Born at Carlyle House; died on the … (1829-1919) co-founded Burke & Herbert Bank Business Burke & Herbert Bank founded 1852 Alexandria-based bank founded in 1852 by John Burke and Arthur Herbert as a stock-and-real-estate commission firm. The oldest continuously operating bank in Virginia and one of the … in 1852 and is the best-known nineteenth-century Carlyle-Herbert descendant.
3. Margaret Herbert Fairfax Person Margaret Herbert Fairfax d. 1858 Eldest daughter of and who in January 1800 married ; the surviving British Lords Fairfax of Cameron line descends from her in the maternal line. , who in January 1800 married Thomas 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, vesting Carlyle blood in the surviving British baronage.
4. Sarah Herbert, who married Rev. Oliver Norris.
5. Anne Herbert (died unmarried).
6. Eliza Herbert (died unmarried, 1865).
7. Lucinda Herbert (died unmarried).

Through the descendants of points 1–3, the Carlyle line on the female side reaches into Maryland politics, the post-1827 Alexandria banking establishment, and the British baronage of Cameron. William Herbert Sr. was, like Carlyle and most of his peers, an enslaver — the household inventory recorded in the family papers at his death lists enslaved persons by first name only.