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DIVISION III.
Family History, Genealogy and Biography. CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
If this volume could contain sketches of all the leading families in Dorchester County, and printer's ink was free for publishing them, the author would cheerfully devote days and months to make honorable mention of the names of hundreds of excellent citizens whose social influence and business pursuits have largely developed the wealth and fame that belongs to the county. In the selections made for pub- lication, neither wealth, name nor fame has influenced the choice, but the jurist and statesman, politician and "divine," have been placed on the same plane with their constituents and people they served by permission, whose course of con- duct and vocations in life have built strong our institutions of State.
While much has been duly said about soldiers and civil offi- cers that give them prominent reference in this history, yet they were only a small fraction of the good and great peo- ple of Dorchester County. The noblest heroes that the Creator ever made are the dutiful, toiling masses. To this class of our ancestry, fathers and mothers, sons and daugh- ters, of the industrial fields of manual labor, the county owes its true worth and financial greatness. Many of our grand and great-grandparents were born in humble homes, lived without honorable mention, labored without public notice or praise, died with an untold history, and now rest in long-
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ago-forgotten graves. To them we owe a great share of gratitude for our present surroundings and happiness.
THE AIREY FAMILY.
Rev. Thomas Airey was born at Kendal, Yorkshire, Eng- land, in 1701. He came to the Province of Maryland in 1726, was inducted into the office of Priest of Great Chop- tank Parish, of Dorchester County, in 1728, by letter from the Lord Proprietary, Charles Calvert, Governor of Mary- land.
Rev. Thomas Airey. was the second Rector of Christ Church, Cambridge. He married, first, Elizabeth Pitt. Children by the first wife were:
I. Mary, who married Thomas Martin, of Talbot County in 1772.
2. Elizabeth, married Geo. Gale, of Somerset County. Left issue.
3. Sarah, married Capt. William Haskins, of Dorches- ter County, in 1759. Left issue.
4. Frances, married Thos. Ennalls.
5. Anne, no record.
6. Joseph, no record.
7. Leah, married Andrew Skinner Ennalls, son of Thomas and Ann Skinner, his wife.
8. John, married Elizabeth Edmondson.
9. Louisa, married Robert Gilmore, of Baltimore, Md.
The second wife of Rev. Thomas Airey was Milcah, widow of John Gale, of Somerset County, and daughter of Henry Hill and his wife, Mary Denwood.
The children of Rev. Thos. Airey and his second wife were:
I. Thos. Hill Airey, married Mary Harris, of Queen Anne's County, daughter of Thomas Harris and his wife, who was a Miss Edmondson.
2. Milcah, married, I, Robert Pitt, of Virginia; 2, Thos. Firmin Eccleston in 1782; 3, Thomas Martin, of Talbot County, in 1788.
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Robert and Milcah Pitt left one son, Samuel Wilson Pitt, who married Mary Scott in 1793. Their children were:
I. Robins, no record.
2. Charles, married Rosanna Colston.
3. Matilda, married George Winthrop.
4. Eliza, married Wm. Hooper.
The children of Milcah Pitt, nee Airey, and Thos. Firmin Eccleston, were :
I. Leah, married Govert Haskins.
2. Thos. I. H., married Sarah Ennalls Hooper.
The Airey family left many descendants, some of whom are still surviving in numerous family lines. Harry Gilmore of C. S. A. fame, descended from Louisa Airey.
WILLIAM C. ANDERSON AND HIS ANCESTRY.
The maternal grandfather of Wm. C. Anderson was Dr. Edward White, of Cambridge, Md. Curtis Anderson mar- ried Mary White, daughter of Dr. Edward White and Mary , his wife. They had one surviving son, Thos. W. Anderson, who was baptized a Methodist in infancy by Bishop Francis Asbury in 1814. Thos. W. Anderson was, in early childhood, left an orphan, and was raised by Thomas White, son of Dr. Edward White. He married Miss Eliza- beth K. Eccleston, daughter of James Eccleston.
William C. Anderson, son of Thos. W. Anderson, and Elizabeth K. (Eccleston), his wife, now reside in Cambridge. He is clerk to the Board of County Commissioners, being appointed in October, 1894.
COL. E. E. BRALY.
Col. E. E. Braly, proprietor of Hotel Dixon, in Cam- bridge, Md., came from the Rigg's House in Washington, D. C., and opened a hotel in Cambridge in 1887. His affa- ble manners and excellent management have attracted pub- lic patronage that has made his business both profitable and progressive.
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His qualifications and characteristics of the true type of a gentleman were inherited from an English-German ances- try.
Up-to-date business men, like the Colonel, are making Cambridge a model city of modern conveniences.
THE BROOKE FAMILY. (Genealogical Notes, Dr. Christopher Johnson.)
Michael Brooke enters his demand for rights 24th June 1654, for himself, his wife and two servants (Land Office, Lib. ABH, fol. 380). 5th April, 1662, he enters rights for 400 acres given him "by way of gift from the Governor and Council" for public service done (Land Office, Lib. 5, fol. 59). He was Justice of Calvert County, 1655 (Md. Archives, X, 413), and 1658 (Lib. S, fol. 54). He was one of the Provincial Commissioners of Maryland, 1655-56 (Md. Archives, iii, 317, 320). He represented Calvert County in the General Assembly or House of Burgesses, 1657-1660 (Md. Archives, i, 359, 382; Lib. S, fol. 26). 10th February, 1663-64, Francis Brooke, relict of Michael Brooke, of St. Leonard's Creek, Calvert County, was granted administra- tion in the estate of the said Michael (Lib. BB, fol. 190). His widow, Frances, subsequently married Henry Trippe, of Dorchester County, who, in 1665, demands, as her hus- band, the renewal of a warrant for land which had formerly issued to Michael Brooke (Land Office, Lib. 9, fol. 26). Michael Brooke and Frances, his wife, had issue; one son: I. Dr. John Brooke, of whom further.
Dr. John Brooke, son of Michael and Frances, lived at first in Calvert County. 6th February, 1667, John Brooke, of Calvert County, Chirurgeon, heir apparent to Michael Brooke, deceased, acknowledges to have received of Henry Trippe full satisfaction for two-thirds of the estate of said Michael as per inventory (Lib. FF, fol. 553). He removed
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later to Dorchester County, perhaps in consequence of his mother's second marriage, and there took prominent part in public affairs. He was Justice of Dorchester in 1671, 1676, 1680 and 1689 (Lib. CD, fol. 431; Md. Archives, xiii, 244; xv, 131, 326), and represented the county in the House of Burgesses, 1681-84, 1688 and 1692 (Md. Archives, vii, 227, 341, 457; xiii, 20, 153, 253).
Dr. John Brooke was twice married. His first wife, whom he married in Calvert County, was Katherine, widow of Robert Stevens. 14th April, 1669, a scire facias issued to the Sheriff of Calvert County, at the prosecution of Daniel Jenifer and Mary, his wife, executrix of William Smith, deceased, against John Brooke and Katherine, his wife, late Katherine Stevens, administratrix of Robert Stevens (Lib. CD, fol. 403). His second wife, who survived him, was named Judith. Dr. John Brooke and his second wife, Judith, both died in 1693. It is difficult to determine from the wills what issue he had, but it is clear that he had, with other issue, two daughters, both by the first wife, viz :
I. Anne Brooke, married, I, Thomas Cooke; 2, John Stevens.
2. Mary Brooke, married Joseph Ennalls.
Anne Brooke, daughter of Dr. John and Katherine, his first wife, married, first, Thomas Cooke, of Dorchester County, who died in 1692-93. In his will, dated 25th Janu- ary, proved 7th March, 1692-93, he appoints his wife Anne his executrix and mentions four children, two sons and two daughters, viz:
I. Babington Cooke.
2. John Cooke.
3. Anne Cooke.
4. Mary Cooke.
Before 1696, Mrs. Anne Cooke, widow of Thomas, mar- ried John Stevens, of Dorchester County. 16th May, 1696, came John Stevens and Anne, his wife, executrix of Thomas Cooke, late of Dorchester County, deceased, and exhibited
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their account, etc. (Test. Proc. Lib. 24, fol. 162). By her second husband she had at least one daughter :
I. Sarah Stevens, married Thomas Woolford (see Stevens family).
NOTES.
The will of Dr. John Brooke is dated 24th January, 1692-93, and was proved 21st March, 1692-93. Mentions testator's grandchild, Babington Cooke; grandchild, John Cooke; Joseph Ennalls, who married testator's daughter; granddaughter, Martha Lawrence, under 16 years of age; bequests to Daniel Sherwood, Edward Hambleton and Ralph Dawson, Junior. (Annapolis, Wills, Lib. 7, fol. 26.)
Judith Brooke (widow of Dr. John), dated 11th July, proved 7th December, 1693. Mentions the chief testatrix is now pregnant of; daughter-in-law (i. e., stepdaughter), Mrs. Anne Cooke; daughter-in-law, Mary Ennalls, and her eldest daughter, Mrs. Mary Sherwood; Anne Cooke, the younger, and Mary Cooke; John Cooke, son of Mrs. Anne Cooke; Martha Lawrence; testatrix's sister, Barbara Thorp; bequests to John Sands and John Jones, Margery Smith and her child, James Chambers; Katherine Clayland, under 16 years old; Richard Dawson; Andrew Booth; Mary Sherwood, the younger; Katherine Sherwood; Margaret Hambleton, wife of William Hambleton; Grace Hopkins, the elder; Mrs. Col- lins; Daniel Sherwood and Edward Hambleton; Richard Collins; beloved friend, Mr. Hugh Sherwood, the elder, of Talbot County, executor. (Annapolis, Wills, Lib. 7, folio 33.)
7th May, 1723. John Stevens and Anne, his wife, and Babington Cooke, all of Dorchester County, to William Ennalls, of said county, tract of 50 acres called "The Adven- ture," in Dorchester County. Anne Stevens, daughter of John Brooke, late of Dorchester County, Chirurgeon, deceased, and wife of above-named John Stevens, deputes her friend, John Eccleston, to acknowledge this deed for her. (Dorchester Co. Rec., Lib. 8, old, fol. 57-58.)
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THE CARROLLS.
IN FIDE ET IN BELLO FORTE
Arms of Carroll, Cbiets of Ely, king's County, Treland.
The Maryland Carrolls have borne a prominent part for over two centuries in the social, professional and political development of the State.
Among those who have been especially prominent may be mentioned Rev. John Carroll, first Roman Catholic Arch- bishop in this country; Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, a name preeminent in the history of the country; Charles Carroll, Barrister of Annapolis, whose brilliant articles are acknowl- edged to have been leading factors in molding public senti-
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ment in colonial times; Thomas King Carroll, one of the Legislative Governors of Maryland; John Lee Carroll, Gov- ernor at a later period; Anna Ella Carroll, "the unrecognized member of Lincoln's Cabinet," and Dr. Thomas King Car- roll, an eminent physician of the Eastern Shore.
The Carrolls trace their ancestry in unbroken line to the Carroll who led the Elyans, A. D. 1014. When some of the family emigrated from Ireland to this country, they settled first in Virginia, and came to Maryland about 1640, where they have lived for successive generations to the pres- ent day.
It is only of the immediate ancestors of those living in Dorchester County that this history permits further mention. They first became identified with the country about 1840, when Gov. Thomas King Carroll removed there with his family from Kingston Hall, Somerset County, Md., the an- cestral home of this branch of the Carrolls.
James Carroll, of St. Mary's County, Md., married Araminta Thompson in 1745. One of their sons, Col. Henry James Carroll married Elizabeth Barnes King, daughter and heiress of Thomas King, of Kingston Hall, Somerset County, Md., a member of a family as distinguished and hon- orable in Ireland as the Carrolls. They had two sons, Thomas King and Charles Cecilius. The latter lived at Kingston Hall until his education was completed, and after- wards studied law in Baltimore in the office of the eminent lawyer, John V. F. McMahon, and was admitted to the bar there. He served several terms in the State Legislature, but soon after his marriage he removed to St. Louis, Mo., where the rest of his life was spent in the practice of his pro- fession. He married Annie Smith, of Snow Hill, Worcester County, Md., daughter of Isaac P. Smith, and who had three sisters and three brothers; Rosina married Dr. Gove Sauls- bury, Governor of Delaware; Margaret married Daniel M. Bates, Chief Justice of Delaware; Sarah Elizabeth married George H. Martin, of Philadelphia.
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Her brothers were Dr. A. Hamilton Smith and Edward S. Handy, and Isaac Smith Handy who had their names changed to inherit property-all of Philadelphia. Charles Cecilius Carroll and Anne Smith had two sons and five daughters: Edward C. Carroll, of Vickburg, Miss .; Charles C. Carroll, of St. Louis, Mo .; Mrs. Nellie Carroll Taber, of Keokuk, Iowa; Elizabeth and Anne, who died in St. Louis, and Margaret Handy Carroll, who married Dr. Thomas King Carroll, of Dorchester County, Md.
Thomas King Carroll, Governor of Maryland in 1829, was born at Kingston Hall, Somerset County. He gradu- ated at Princeton with high honors at an early age. Re- turning to Maryland, he studied law in the office of Ephraim King Wilson, who was named for Thomas King, and was the father of the late E. King Wilson, U. S. Senator from Maryland. After being admitted to the bar he was associ- ated in practide with Robert Goodloe Harper, the son-in-law of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. While in Baltimore he married Juliana Stevenson, daughter of Dr. Henry Steven- son, one of the leading physicians of the day, and especially noted for having introduced inoculation for smallpox, converting his private mansion on Parnassus Hill into a hos- pital to be used for that purpose.
Upon the death of his father, Thomas King Carroll returned to Kingston Hall, living there until he removed to Dorchester County, in 1840. He was elected to the Leg- islature, attaining his majority only the day before taking his seat, and was the youngest member ever elected to this Assembly. He was a gifted and cultured man, of unimpeach- able integrity and lofty character. He continued to serve in the Legislature until that body elected him Governor. It may be mentioned here that some member of each genera- tion of the Carrolls represented the people in the Assembly from the formation of the State Government to the Civil War.
At the expiration of his term as Governor, Governor Car- roll retired to private life, the only office he afterwards held
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being Naval Officer of the Port of Baltimore. He died at his residence in Dorchester County, in October, 1873, and is buried in the cemetery of Old Trinity Church, where also his wife and five of his children are interred.
Governor Carroll was the father of the following children, all of whom were born at Kingston Hall: Anna, Ella, Henry, James, Juliana. Thomas King married Margaret Handy Carroll; Henrietta Stevenson married Dr. John Chew Gib- son, of Talbot County; Ada married Dr. Wm. J. Bowdle, of Dorchester County; Sallie married Thomas Cradock, of Bal- timore County.
Anna Ella Carroll was the most distinguished and brilliant woman Maryland ever produced, and during the Civil War gained a national reputation by her services to the govern- ment. Her sympathies were enlisted for the national cause, and she began a series of articles that at once attracted the attention of Lincoln and the administration. As the author of the "Tennessee Campaign," she soon became famous. Though her claim to this is incontestably established by doc- uments still on file in the Congressional Library in Washing- ton, and acknowledged by Lincoln himself and nearly all of the leading men of the day, in private letters to her (now in the possession of a member of the Carroll family), she never received public recognition.
Secretary Stanton said of her: "Her course was the most remarkable in the war. She got no pay and did the great work that made others famous." Governor Hicks of Mary- land attributed largely to her influence his success in keeping the State in line. It is to be hoped that future historians may some day accord to her the justice denied her in life. She died in Washington, D. C., where she had lived for some years, in February, 1894, and her remains were brought to Dorchester County and interred beside those of her father and mother.
Some of the letters, reports and documents concerning Miss Carroll's military services have been reproduced and compiled in her biography.
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No history of Dorchester County would be complete with- out more than a passing mention of Dr. Thomas King Car- roll, who, as a man and as a physician, so ably sustained the reputation of his distinguished ancestors. His influence was felt throughout the county both in public and private life. Probably no one man made an impress so imperishable, or contributed so largely, to the shaping of those events which have marked the advancement of the people in this county.
Thomas King Carroll, son of Governor Thomas King Car- roll, and Juliana Stevenson, was born at Kingston Hall, Som- erset County, August 31, 1821. Graduating at Washington Academy, he began the study of medicine under Dr. Samuel Chew of Baltimore, and at once exhibited a peculiar talent and ability for the profession. Graduating in 1846 from the University of Maryland, he opened an office in Baltimore, where he practiced for a short time. Receiving a petition from the citizens of Dorchester County asking him to settle there, he complied with their request and began the real work of his life, which he dedicated with heroic devotion to those among whom and for whom he lived for over half a century.
In acknowledgment of his services in this capacity, a beautiful monument, "erected by the people" to his memory, was dedicated June 12, 1901, in the cemetery of Old Trinity Church-the only monument ever erected in the State to a private citizen, and probably the first one ever erected to a physician by the spontaneous offerings of his patients and friends. The memorial services, attended by a concourse of people from all parts of the county and State, attested the love, honor and respect in which they held the memory of one whose loss to them was irreparable.
Dr. Carroll was a man of versatile talents. A judge once said of him, after hearing his testimony in an important case: "That the law had lost a brilliant star which the medical pro- fession had gained."
He possessed in a remarkable degree the power of mag- netism, attracting all with whom he came in contact, and
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instinctively creating that feeling of faith and trust so essen- tial to the success of a physician. In the memorial address was said of him: "The record of his half-century of pract tical work fulfilled the promise of his native talent and cultivated mind, and, looked over from the standpoint of modern science, justifies the reputation which he securely established as a successful and learned practitioner of the healing art. He added a generous heart to a well-stored mind, and the two, acting in perfect unison, made him respected for his skill and beloved for his personal traits of character. * It was a pleasure to know him; it ought to be an inspiration to remember him. His chief thought was to do his duty; his chief passion to relieve pain, to comfort and to cure."
His was a nature thoroughly imbued with the high ideals and possibilities of a noble profession, and so well did he live up to them that wherever his name is known it stands for the purest type of a gentleman and ideal physician. Though it is as the physician that Dr. Carroll's name will be transmitted to posterity, he served the people none the less faithfully and advantageously when they entrusted their pub- lic interests to his keeping. He was three times elected to the State Legislature, twice to the House of Delegates and once to the Senate, withdrawing his name as candidate for United States Senator to return to the practice of his pro- fession. During his terms in the Legislature he was an acknowledged leader, and instigated and carried through many bills of lasting benefit to the people of the county, and from which this, the third generation, is now profiting. Par- ticularly is this the case in regard to public education, as he framed and was instrumental in having passed the bill for the establishment of the first free schools in Maryland.
After his term in the Senate expired, he never again held or sought public office, yet he exerted a marked influence in local affairs to the year of his death, which occurred at his home, "Walnut Landing," January 9, 1900. He was a man, take him all in all; we shall not look upon his like again.
CARROLL TOMBS. CHURCH CREEK.
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Dr. Carroll married in December, 1852, Miss Margaret Handy Carroll, of St. Louis, Mo., and had eight children : Thomas King, Charles Cecilius, Harry Stevenson, Margaret Handy, Victor C., Julia Stevenson, Vivian and Nellie Calvert. The coat-of-arms of Maryland and the State motto were adopted from those of the Calverts, who are connected by marriage with this branch of the Carrolls.
THE DENWOOD FAMILY. (Genealogical Notes, Dr. Christopher Johnson.)
Levin Denwood settled in Virginia before 1633 and was one of the Justices of Northampton County in 1654 and 1657 (Northampton Co. Rec.). A certificate was issued to him 23d March, 1640, for 550 acres due him for transporting himself, his wife and other persons (Northampton Co. Rec., Lib. I, fol. 162). In 1665 he was living in Accomac County (Lib. 1663-66, fol. 102) and probably died not long after. His daughter, Mary, married Roger Woolford, who settled in Somerset County, Md., and it was probably this connec- tion that determined the removal of the Denwood family from Virginia to Maryland. The following entries from the Land Office at Annapolis throw light upon their removal: Ioth July, 1665, Roger Woolford enters these rights, Levin and Sarah Denwood, John Wells, Martha Robinson, and Owen Mackara (Lib. 8, fol. 486). 13th February, 1667, Roger Woolford, of Somerset County, proved rights for transporting Mary, Thomas, Elizabeth and Rebecca Den- wood, Richard Prinum, Barbara Gilbert, Thos. Somers and Elizabeth Gradwell (Lib. 11, fol. 229; Lib. 12, fol. 359). 17th November, 1670, Liveing Denwood, of Somerset County, proved his right to 50 acres for transporting his wife, Priscilla (Lib. 16, fol. 13). 13th June, 1671, Levin Denwood, of Somerset County, proved his right to 50 acres for transporting his son, Levin, out of Virginia into this pro- vince (Lib. 16, fol. 302).
Levin Denwood and Mary, his wife, had issue :
I. Arthur Denwood.
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2. Thomas Denwood.
3. Levin Denwood, of whom further.
4. Luke Denwood.
5. Susanna Denwood, married Thos. Browne.
6. Mary Denwood, married Roger Woolford (see Wool- ford family).
7. Elizabeth Denwood, married, 4th July, 1669, Henry Hooper (see Hooper family).
8. Rebecca Denwood, married, 15th November, 1679, Neh. Covington.
9. Sarah Denwood, married - Hicks.
Levin Denwood, son of Levin and Mary, removed, as above stated, from Virginia and settled in Somerset County, Md. In his will, proved 9th May, 1724 (Annapolis, Wills, Lib. WD, No. I, fol. 507), he leaves to Martha and Mary Woolford, "the two daughters of my cousin (i. e., nephew) Levin Woolford," two parcels of land between Rock Creek and the Devil's Island Thoroughfare, "which my late brother- in-law Woolford and I purchased between us." By Priscilla, his wife, he had issue as follows :
I. Levin Denwood, born 6th November, 1670.
2. Arthur Denwood, died before 1723; married Esther , and left issue.
3. Elizabeth Denwood, born 7th May, 1674; died, 1736; married George Gale and left issue.
4. Mary Denwood, born 2d May, 1676; died, 9th Decem- ber, 1735; married, 16th November, 1697, Henry Hill, and left issue.
THE DORSEY FAMILY.
The Dorseys of Maryland, descend from the Lord Darcy, of Essex County, England, where they were made Earls of Holderness at the time that Norman Darcy went into Eng- land from France with William the Conqueror, bearing with him the same coat-of-arms and motto of his ancestors of the old French nobility back to the time of Charlemagne.
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As the immediate gift of the Conqueror, Norman Darcy received no less than thirty-three Lordships in the County of Lincolnshire alone while of his descendants, the Archæo- logical Society of Essex County says, "One of the most ancient and opulent families in Essex was that of Darcy." The name of Osbert Darcy is mentioned in the Dooms Day Book as one of the King's Thanes, 1066.
The name of "Darcy," which was so written by the early colonial settlers, soon became changed in form to Dorsey in this country.
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