Robert Selden Garnett (1789–1840), attorney and public official, was born in Essex County. He became a lawyer and sat in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1816–17, and in the United States House of Representatives, 1817–27, first as a Republican and later as a Jacksonian. In 1830 President Andrew Jackson appointed Garnett the customs collector and revenue inspector for the port of Tappahannock, and he served in that capacity for the remainder of his life. He owned sixty-two slaves in 1820 but only seven in 1840. Garnett died at his home in Essex County. His namesake son (1819–61) joined the Confederate army and was the first general from either side to be killed during the Civil War (Biog. Dir. Cong. description begins Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–Present, online resource, Office of the Clerk, United States House of Representatives description ends ; Leonard, General Assembly description begins Cynthia Miller Leonard, comp., The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members, 1978 description ends , 285; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States description ends , 4:50, 60 [3, 16 Feb. 1830]; DNA: RG 29, CS, Essex Co., 1820–40; Richmond Enquirer, 25 Aug. 1840; gravestone inscription in Champlain Estate Cemetery, Lloyds; ANB description begins John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 1999, 24 vols. description ends , 8:738–9).

Marcus Escopiniche (Escopinichi) (ca. 1789–1834), educator, seems to have remained in Connecticut until at least 1824. He later moved permanently to Barbados, where he made his living as a language instructor. A corruption of his name, “scoopinickie,” was for a time playfully used on the island to address a small boy younger than twenty-one. Escopiniche owned two slaves during the last year of his life (The Records of Freemasonry in the State of Connecticut [1859], 364; Frank A. Collymore, Notes for a Glossary of Words and Phrases of Barbadian Dialect [1955; repr. 1970], 92; slave registers, 1813–34 [UkNA: Office of Registry of Colonial Slaves and Slave Compensation Commission]; Saint Philip Parish Burial Register [Barbados Department of Archives, Black Rock]).

Sauveur François Bonfils (Salvatore Bonfiglio) (1796–1849), educator, was born on the island of Corsica. He served in the military under Joachim Murat, king of Naples, graduated from the University of Pisa in 1815, and immigrated to the United States two years later. Over the next fifteen years Bonfils taught various Romance languages in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C. Following a stint as professor of modern languages at the University of Alabama, 1832–36, he operated a female academy in Lexington, Kentucky, and taught at that city’s Transylvania University. Bonfils died of cholera in Lexington (James B. Sellers, History of the University of Alabama [1953], 1:53; DNA: RG 85, PNRNEC; Boston Patriot and Daily Chronicle, 8 Jan. 1818; Newport Rhode-Island Republican, 31 Mar. 1819; New Haven Connecticut Journal, 19 Dec. 1820; Washington Daily National Journal, 22 Mar. 1826; American Journal of Education 3 [1828]: 738; Thomas Waverly Palmer, comp., A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama, 1831–1901 [1901], 23; John D. Wright Jr., Transylvania: Tutor to the West [1975], 164; Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 25 Sept. 1849; gravestone inscription in Old Morrison Crypt, Transylvania University, Lexington).