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THE GRAFTON HISTORICAL SERIES Edited by HENRY R. STILES, A.M., M.D.
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HISTORIC GRAVES OF MARYLAND AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
WITH THE INSCRIPTIONS APPEARING ON THE TOMBSTONES IN MOST OF THE COUNTIES OF THE STATE AND IN WASHINGTON AND GEORGETOWN
EDITED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE MARYLAND SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA
BY HELEN W. RIDGELY
Author of "The Old Brick Churches of Maryland "
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FOREWORD
I IN the history of the early settlements along the Chesapeake and its tributaries, there is found a continuity of English customs adapted to new conditions; and during the sixty years that elapsed between the arrival of the first colonists and the historic period of church building in Maryland, manorial customs in modes of sepulture prevailed. In fact, the burial of the dead on the home plantation-or near the chapel of the Lord of the Manor, as we have reason to believe was the habit among the Catholics-continued even after the enact- ment of laws for the building of churches or the walling in of churchyards.
Some of the most interesting monuments of bygone days have been found on out-of-the-way farms, and even where monuments are wanting, tradition often indicates the spot where some manor lord or Colonial Governor lies buried. The various stones, tablets and traditions, still remaining serve to revive much of Maryland's primitive social life. Had it not been for the vandalism of some and the ignorance of others, much more might be found to supply missing links in county records, or to fill the gaps in carelessly kept parish registers.
The facts collected in this book are the result of an investi- gation set on foot by the Maryland Society of the Colonial Dames of America, with a view to promote a more general knowledge of such things, and to quicken an interest in the preservation of our ancient monuments and places of burial. Isolated stones have been found in fields, by the roadside and beneath dwellings, also in use as doorsteps or as flag-
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stones with the inscriptions turned under. By the efforts of a committee known as the Memorial Committee some of these have been removed to the nearest churchyard, where they stand a better chance of remaining unmolested, while others have been restored, railed in or otherwise protected.
During the process of investigation, unsuspected nooks and corners of interest, left undisturbed by the march of progress, have been discovered, and it is in these sequestered neighbor- hoods that the work of the Memorial Committee has aroused the keenest interest and met with the most cordial response. By the assistance of both men and women recruits, thickets have been penetrated, traditionary graveyards traced, shat- tered tablets fitted together and inscriptions copied or verified.
The gravestone of the earliest date yet found in Maryland lies in Anne Arundel county, that section of the Province which in 1649-50 saw the arrival of the Puritans. Near it is a memorial to Christopher Birkhead, who died in 1676. For more than two hundred years these stones lay at "Birkhead's Meadows." In 1888 they were removed to St. James Parish Churchyard, and their scanty history shows a custom in Maryland-namely, that of burying the dead in private grounds-which has been the cause why so few graves from remote times have been preserved. In fact, the seventeenth- century tombs are limited to thirty-one; though some persons claim that a stone, inserted of late years in the wall of the dwelling at Bohemia Manor, once marked the burial place of Augustine Herman. He speaks of it in his will as his " Monu- ment Stone," and on it describes himself "Bohemian, The First Founder and seater of Bohemea Manner, Anno. 1661." It was doubtless prepared in his lifetime. He died about the year 1686. The seventeenth-century inscriptions will appear among those of the counties where they belong, but a few of the worthies, whose names they commemorate, must find more particular mention here.
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The sudden departure of Christopher Rousby in 1684, for other worlds, opens to us a chapter revealing the jealousy that existed between the King's collectors of customs and those of the Lord Proprietary. Rousby's tomb, which records also the death of his brother John, in 1685, lies on the St. Mary's side of the Patuxent-across the river from the historic seat of the family, "Rousby Hall." Maj. Thomas Truman, another figure on the background of the past, also calls to mind incidents of dramatic significance. Impeached in 1676 for the "barbarous murder" of five Indians, he was subse- quently released, and restored to posts of honor under his Lordship's government. He died in 1684, within a year of his change of fortune. Near him were buried his wife Mary, his brother Nathaniel, Commissioner of the Peace in 1675-76, his brother James and members of his family whose deaths occurred during the following century. After the Rousby and Truman tragedies, it sounds tame to mention persons holding positions as Councillor, Deputy Governor, General of the Military Forces of the Province, or Keeper of the Great Seal. Col. William Burgess, who died in 1686, and Col. Nicholas Greenberry, who died in 1697, divided, and in some cases shared, these honors between them.
In the private burying ground at Wye House, Talbot county, the only one where the dead of two centuries repose side by side with their descendants of the present generation, Col. Philemon Lloyd, a well-known dignitary, was buried in 1685, and his wife, a namesake of the unfortunate Queen Henrietta Maria, in 1697. The inscription on her tomb is fragmentary. This was erected by Richard Bennett, her son by a former marriage, who died in 1749 and was buried at Bennett's Point. The stones at "Wye" show many a well executed escutcheon; only "the boast of heraldry " is usually accompanied by the inevitable skull and cross bones.
George Robins, another seventeenth-century character,
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settled in Talbot county in 1670. The tract of one thousand acres which came to him under the name of "Job's Content" descended to posterity as "Peach Blossom." On this place now owned by strangers is to be found a promiscuous heap, where young trees and bushes have thriven in spite of the rival claims of marble, brick and stone. A broken arch sup- porting the mass on one side, has served the same purpose as a bit of wreck on a sandy beach, catching and holding what- ever time and tide waft in its direction. Under this drift of the centuries George Robins lies, and strewed about are fragments of his descendants' tombs.
A stone that stands as a monument to the filial piety of a certain Mary Dawson is that of Thomas Impey, and is to be found on the farm of the late James Hazlett in the Bay Hundred district, Talbot county.
The few examples given above furnish an epitome of what is to follow. They call our attention to the people of Mary- land, who acted their part in unsettled times or figured with distinction in positions of authority; or better still, who stood as the exponents of family affection. Also with them lay the germ of patriotism that developed at the time of the Revolu- tion, adding to our history the names of heroes, statesmen and divines.
HELEN W. RIDGELY.
" HAMPTON,"
Baltimore, Maryland.
Members of the Memorial Committee of the Maryland Society of the Colonial Dames of America
MRS. MATTHEW ATKINSON.
MRS. ROBERT ATKINSON.
MRS. JAMES BATEMAN.
*MISS VIRGINIA KING. MRS. FREDERICK VON KAPFF.
MRS. BELKNAP.
MISS MARGARET LEAKIN.
*MRS. A. H. BLACKISTON.
MISS ELIZABETH LIGON.
MISS IDA BRENT.
MRS. JOHN M. LITTIG.
MRS. TRACY BROWNE.
MRS. LLOYD LOWNDES.
MRS. ROBERDEAU BUCHANAN.
MRS. CHARLES B. CALVERT.
MISS SALLIE G. MACKALL.
MISS FLORENCE MACKUBIN.
MISS CAMPBELL.
MRS. JOHN R. MAGRUDER.
MISS MARY C. CARTER.
MRS. THOMAS C. CHATARD.
MRS. BURTON CRANE, nee SMITH. MISS DAVES.
MISS MARY DAVIS.
MISS MARY S. W. PEARRE.
MISS ELLA LORAINE DORSEY.
MISS ISABEL EARLE.
MRS. ALEX. EARLY.
MRS. CHARLES GIBSON.
*MRS. WM. H. GILL.
MRS. W. GOLDSBOROUGH.
MRS. MONTE GRIFFITH.
MRS. C. LYON ROGERS.
MRS. ALBERT L. SIOUSSAT.
MISS V. McBLAIR SMITH. MISS MARY E. STEUART.
MISS HENRIETTA STEUART.
MISS MARY TILGHMAN.
MISS CHARLOTTE THOMPSON.
*MRS. O. HORSEY (Hon. Member). MRS. ROBERT HINCKLEY. MRS. HARRY P. HUSE. MRS. J. J. JACKSON.
*MRS. JOHN MULLAN. MRS. W. C. NICHOLAS. MRS. OWEN NORRIS.
MISS JULIANA T. PACA.
MRS. WM. S. POWELL.
MISS ANNA M. POLK.
MRS. JOHN RIDGELY of HAMPTON.
*MRS. JOHN RITCHIE. MISS LOUISA ROBINSON.
MRS. HENRY ROGERS.
MRS. GEORGE W. S. HALL.
MRS. WM. T. HAMILTON. MRS. K. KEARNEY HENRY.
MRS. GUSTAV LURMAN.
*MRS. DUNCAN CAMPBELL.
MRS. PLOWDEN JENKINS. MRS. J. KINEAR.
MRS. EUGENE BLACKFORD.
* Deceased.
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I 1
Historic St. Anne's, Annapolis. The City cemetery. Facts and fancies about the tombs at "Greenberry's Point." The graveyards at "Whitehall," "Brampton," "Bellefield," "Mt. Stewart" and "Belvior;" a notable group. The Quaker burying ground at West River. Anecdote about a privateer turned pirate. A seventeenth-century worthy buried at "Java" supposed to be of the same family as the author of the "Junius Letters." All Hallows' churchyard. The owner of the brig Peggy Stewart and the historic South River Club. Herring Creek churchyard and the oldest tomb in Maryland. St. Margaret's Westminster and other churchyards.
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St. Mary's county and one of the earliest of the Jesuit missions. Historic homesteads. All Faith churchyard. St. Joseph's churchyard, also the graveyards of St. Aloysius, the Sacred Heart, St. John's, St. Francis and St. Nicholas where repose the Roman Catholic dead. Chaptico church- yard and its traditions. The "Three Notched Road," "Trent Hall," and some seventeenth-century worthies. Charlotte Hall and the Dent Memo- rial. The "Plains," "Cornfield Harbor," "Fresh Pond Neck," "Porto Bello," "Ellenborough," "Deep Falls." The ancient but now defunct "City of St. Maries." The first burial place on record in 1658.
CHAPTER III 50
Calvert county, a peninsular with historic coves and creeks. The refuge of a deposed commander of a county. An epitaph from Whitechurch, England, a connecting link with the Old World. A Popish priest tried after death, showing the celebrated act of Toleration in abeyance. An- cestors of the first Governor of the State. "Hallowing Point" and some- thing about ferries. Christ Church, its early promoters and its monuments. Middleham chapel, its ancient bell and its graveyard. The lady who mar- ried two husbands, but died at the age of 75, having lived half that time a widow. Port Tobacco, Charles county. One of the oldest stations of the
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Jesuits. "Rose Hill" and the Gustavus Browns. "Paynton Manor" and the Stones. "Equality" and the Hansons. St. Mary's Roman Catholic church and extracts from the church register of Upper and Lower Zacaiah and Mattawoman congregations. Indian arrow heads. The Smallwood monument. A list of those interested in the repairs of old Durham church in 1792. The Piccawaxen churchyard. Another Jesuit mission and St Peter's cemetery. "Marshall Hall," "Pamonky." .
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A jaunt through Prince George's county. Old St. Barnabas, its memo- rial windows and its churchyard. "Covington's Fields." "Ranelagh." "Belair." St. Thomas' church near Croome and the home of Maryland's first bishop. The Waring genealogy on an eighteenth-century tomb. "Brookfield." "Brookfield Manor." Tribute to a young wife. St. Paul's churchyard. The undertaker Joy and his horses "Brightly" and "Sprightly." Magounskin and the Greenfield tombs. Wanton destruction at "White's Landing." The "Burnt House" farm. Oldfield's chapel. The old gentle- man with the plaited beard. The glebe of Trinity parish and the old grave- yard. "Birmingham," "Montpelier," "Oakland" and other estates of the Snowden family. The Calverts of Riversdale.
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The venerable age of Baltimore county. Harford county an offshoot. The site of a defunct town on the Bush river. A name on an ancient tomb unlocking some of the local history of the past. How Spesutia church got its name. Those buried in its churchyard. "Pretty Betty Martin, tip-toe fine." Vandalism. Churchyards of different religious sects. "Priest Neal's Mass House" and a Jesuit burying ground. Aquila Deaver and Lafayette. Abingdon and the first Methodist college for higher education in the world. "My Lady's Manor" and the Manor church and churchyard. Old St. John's and the defunct town of Joppa. Patapsco Hundred and the first St. Paul's churchyard. The historic name of Jones perpetuated for more than two hundred years in "Jones' Falls."
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The Garrison Forest church and churchyard. A man who "enjoyed the respect and esteem of a select acquaintance." "Saters" the oldest baptist meetinghouse and its graveyard. Druid Hill Park and the graves of its original owners. Family burying grounds of the Hunts, the Howards, the Talbotts, the Merrymans, the Harrymans, the Nisbets, the Cockeys, the
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Jessups, the Roystons, the Peerces, the Ridgelys, the Taylors, the Stans- burys and the Hillens. St. John's churchyard, Worthington Valley. The Worthington tombs and others. Howard county: some of the Ellicott and Dorsey graves. Historic Christ church. The Rt. Rev. Thomas Claggett again. "Doughoregan," the old manor house in Carroll county where lived Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of the Declara- tion of Independence.
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All Saints parish churchyard. Frederick. A memorial to Thos. John- son the first governor of the State of Maryland. Linganore cemetery and traditions of Asbury. "Pleasant Fields." Mt. Olivet cemetery and Francis Scott Key. The Roman Catholic Cemetery and Chief Justice Taney. The priests' cemetery at Emmittsburg. The burying ground of the Elder family at "Pleasant Valley" mission. Washington county and the founder of Hagerstown. St. John's graveyard and that of the Lutherans. River- view cemetery and more vandalism. Mountain View cemetery and the old Lutheran churchyard, Sharpsburg. "Fountain Rock." "Rockland." The "Vale." Alleghany county, and a "soldier of the Revolution."
CHAPTER VIII . 171
Old traditions preserved by the Monocacy Cemetery Society of Mont- gomery county. The Rock Creek mission, the "Nancy Carroll" chapel and an interesting graveyard. Some of the old family graveyards of Montgomery county in which we find the names of Crabb, Griffith, Johns; Bowie, Davis, Dorsey, Magruder, Cooke, Hempstone, Trundle and others.
CHAPTER IX 184
Kent Island and Col. Wm. Claiborne. The first churchyard on Broad creek. Bennett's Point and its graves. "Bolingly," Queenstown. "The Hermitage" and its quaint epitaphs. Public cemetery at Centreville. Old family servants in the Earle lot. "Readbourne." St. Luke's, Church Hill. A revolutionary worthy and his political creed. "Meadow and Vale." "Ripley." "Cloverfields." St. Paul's churchyard and its beautiful oaks. Tablet in Emmanuel church to a "good Woman." Public cemetery near Chestertown. The "Whitehouse" farm. Shrewsbury church and church- yard. Quaint inscriptions. Gap in tombstone records left by the removal to Philadelphia of the Cadwalader tomb. Graves at Hillsborough, Caroline county. Nathan Trifett, a centenarian. The Roman Catholic cemetery.
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CHAPTER X
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Ancient parishes at Talbot county. The Whitemarsh churchyard. Res- toration of the Robert Morris tomb. A return from the grave, the experi- ence of a rector's wife. "Plinhimmon." "Peach Blossom." "Orem's Delight." "Belleville." "Mt. Pleasant." "Hope." "Isthmus." "Pleas- ant Valley." "Grosses." "Delmore-end." An old Edmondson place. "Wye," for more than two and a half centuries, the home of one family. The burial ground and quaint inscriptions. St. Luke's, Wye Mills, and its traditions. St. Michael's and an early rector. "Rich Neck" and a fortunate couple described by the husband in an epitaph: "In love and Friendship all our years were spent, In Moderate wealth and free from want, con- tent." "Spencer Hall." "Hampden." "Spring Hill cemetery, Easton. The Quakers of Tred Avon and Wenlock Christison. A day when there were no old maids and when widows were scarcely allowed time for mourn- ing.
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Cecil, a part of Baltimore county until the year 1674. Site of first Balti- more town. Parishes of North and South Sassafras. Early rectors and vestrymen of St. Stephen's. St. Mary Anne's, North Elk. Augustine Her- man and Bohemia Manor. Six generations buried in the Baldwin-Milli- gan-McLane graveyard. "Success" farm and Cromwellian traditions. What an "Old Mortality" of Cecil county has to say. The churchyards of Somerset county. Old Monie churchyard and the Stoughton tomb. The cradle of the Presbyterian church in America. Burial place of Rev. Francis Mackemie, the first pastor. Madam Mary Hampton. Her father the Irish baronet, her three husbands and her distinguished sons. "Tus- culum." "Workington." "Westover." "Cedar Grove." "St. Bartholo- mew's or the Green Hill church. An interesting page in its history. Spring Hill or the Quantico church. All Hallows, Snow Hill. The Presbyterian churchyard. "Beverly." Old Dorchester county parishes. The ancient churchyard at Cambridge. Tribute of a disconsolate husband. The "Old Brick Church," Vienna. Restoration of the churchyard.
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The District of Columbia once a part of Maryland. Georgetown a social center long before the Federal city was thought of. Some of the nota- bilities living there early in the nineteenth century. The "Holland House of America " and its graveyard, now extinct. Oak Hill cemetery. A victim
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of the Baltimore riot of 1812. His stately funeral. How Arlington passed from the hands of the Lees. The grave of the first bishop consecrated in America. Something about the first of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. The grave of Charles L'Enfant. The plan of the city of Washington, so beautifully realized, his only monument. The oldest places of burial in the city now no more. Partial list of bodies removed. The Congressional burying ground. Rock Creek cemetery-a churchyard covering fifty acres. Worthies who edited the first newspapers published in the Capitol. The Broad Creek churchyard. Some relatives of Joseph Addison. " Oxen Hill " and " Barnaby."
ILLUSTRATIONS
Slab from the Francis Sourton tomb
Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
The Burning of the Peggy Stewart 20 A Tablet in Middleham Chapel, Calvert County 50
Top of the Tomb of John Rousby 60 Portrait of General William Smallwood 70
St. Paul's Church and Churchyard, Baltimore
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St. Thomas's Church, Garrison Forest . 120
The John Eager Howard Statue
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The Vault Yard at "Hampton," Baltimore County
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Christ Church, Queen Caroline Parish, Howard County
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The Graveyard at Wye, Talbot County 212
The Old "Tred-Avon" Friends' Meetinghouse 222
St. Mary Anne's, or North Elk, Parish Church .
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Entrance to an Old Family Burying Ground
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HISTORIC GRAVES OF MARYLAND AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
HISTORIC GRAVES OF MARYLAND AND THE DISTRICT OF. COLUMBIA
CHAPTER I
T HE early history of Maryland is so closely interwoven with that of the county which provided it with its final seat of government, that there is hardly an old graveyard in Anne Arundel but yields a record of important names.
A survey of the city of Annapolis in 1718, gives to the Church Circle an area of 94,025 feet. At that time all the citizens were nominally parishioners of St. Anne's, and the churchyard was their common burial ground. It was more than twice as large as it is now, extending as far as the present Court House, and into the grounds of the Executive Mansion. By the year 1786, every inch of the space was full, and much of it had been used over and over again. A piece of land, given to the parish by Elizabeth Bordley about the year 1790, supplied the pressing need for a larger graveyard, and this, until within recent years, was always known as St. Anne's cemetery.
Most of the bodies around the church were removed to the new place of burial; and in course of time the churchyard itself became confined within its present limits. Some of the broken gravestones have found their way into the street crossings near St. Anne's; others have been utilized in various ways. In one case fragments have been made to serve the purpose of steps to the wing of the Brice House. These,
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through the courtesy of Mr. Martin, owner of that historic mansion, were removed from their position and turned over for the purpose of investigation. On the under side of one of them were discovered the words: "died July 14th, 1765." The rest of the inscription had become obliterated, but by searching among the obituaries of the Maryland Gazette, a probable clew was found by which to reconstruct the whole. "Sunday last died here of smallpox at the house of her brother, Mr. Chief Justice Brice, Mrs. Anne Denton, widow, a gentlewoman of pious and exemplary life and conversation." The date of the Gazette where this extract appears is Thurs- day, July 18, 1765.
John Brice, the Chief Justice mentioned above, was the son of John Brice of Haversham, England. He outlived his sister about one year. Besides the position he holds in local family tradition, he is among those to whom compli- mentary allusions are made by Governor Sharpe in his correspondence with Lord Baltimore preserved in the Mary- land archives. Designated by his Excellency as a man of "Good Abilities and Fortune," he is recommended to the Lord Proprietor as a gentleman fitted to fill the vacancy in the Council left by the death of one of its members. This position, however, he never held, as he died shortly afterward.
To return to St. Anne's and its funeral records, one reads in the Register of 1707-the oldest volume preserved-of the burial of such distinguished personages as "His Excellency John Seymour, Capt. Gen., also Governour of the Province and Vice Admiral," August 5, 1709; of "Marylandia, daugh- ter of His Excellency John Hart, Governour," September, 1716; of "Madam Margaret Lasonby, aunt of His Excellency Charles Calvert, Governour," August 8, 1722.
Among the interments mentioned is also that of Capt. Ezekiel Gillis, which took place on January 9, 1749, at Mrs. Hill's, South River Neck. This entry points to the
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existence of an old burial ground which so far has escaped identification by members of the Memorial Committee.
In the cemetery of St. Anne's are to be found many names familiar to the older residents of the capital, as well as to the kindred families throughout the state; such, for instance, as Calvert, Mackubin, Randall, Steele, Murray, Maynadier, Steuart, Shaw, Nicholson, Mayo, Brewer, Harwood, Gram- mar and Munroe. The oldest date is 1763. It is preserved on a slab inscribed with the initials M. & E. In point of age that of Fr. de la Landelle, a French officer, comes next. He was born in Brittany, France, and died in 1800. A third without dates bears the names of John Kilty and William Kilty, "Brothers, and revolutionary officers" and on the title-page of The Landholders Assistant, printed early in the nineteenth century, and appearing in nearly every gentle- man's library of that day, we find the same name perpetu- ated. Besides these are other ancient stones of later date:
Osborne Ridgely, born 1742, died 1818.
Thomas Duckett, died in 1806 in his 64th year;
Miss Elizabeth Fulks, died in 1830 in her 73rd. year.
Mrs. Mary Miller, died in 1830 in her 71st. year;
Sarah Ann Terry, died August 29th, 1841 aged 68 years;
John T. Barber, Esq., died April 6th, 1822, in the 51st. year of his age. Honorable Peter Rich, late a delegate from Caroline County, departed this life on the 30th day of January A. D. 1805.
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