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" Athanasius and James; the former closely related to the Cherry-field branch, near St. Inigo's, St. Mary's County ; the latter (Col. James), the brother of the bishop of Cincinnati, and the ancestor of the Fenwicks, of Pomonkey, in Charles. -
' John, the uncle of the bishop of Cincinnati ; Enoch, who died in 1827 ; George, late professor of Rhetoric, in the Novitiate of the Society of Jesus, at Frederick, but now living at Inigo's ; the children of Mrs. Young, the sister of Col. Jas. Fenwick ; and pro- bably several others; have represented the family in the priest- hood. John died about 1814.
' Enock, already named, was the president of Georgetown College.
' Edward, the first bishop of Cincinnati, and a very near rela- tion to the Fenwicks of Pomonkey ; and Benedict, the second bishop of Boston, and the brother of President Fenwick, and Pro- fessor Fenwick. Edward died in 1832 ; Benedict in 1845.
" The Rt. Rev. Martin J. Spalding, the present bishop of the diocese. See Elizabeth's will, 1771, W. D. No. 4, p. 347, for the connection with the Spaldings.
" Robert James Brent, a Fenwick on the maternal side, and the unmediate descendant of the Fenwicks of Pomonkey.
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the last link' in a long chain of distinguished law. yers from the provincial era of the Hattons, the Lowes, and the Darnalls, down to the days of a Martin, a Taney, and a Richardson.
' The office was abolished by the late Constitutional Convention of Maryland.
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CHAPTER XXV.
Mr. Philip Conner.
THE time of Mr. Philip Conner's1 arrival cannot be ascertained ; but he came about the year 1645. Under the commandership of Captain Robert Vaughan, in 1647, he was a commissioner of the Isle of Kent ;? sat, the following year, in the Assembly, as an individual freeman;3 and was the member from Kent, in 1649.4 Authorized to issue writs, upon the removal of the captain, in the month of November, 1648;' and the only one of the commissioners retained in office, the succeeding
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' Sometimes spelled "Conyer." Kent Island Records at Ches- tertown. ,
2 Bozman, vol. 2, p. 304.
3 Capt. Vaughan, in 1648, held 24 voices; Mr. Conner, and Capt. Thomas Bradnox sat, simply, as freemen, without any proxies. Lib. No. 2, pp. 293-294.
* Lib. No. 2, pp. 488-489.
· Bozman, vol. 2, p. 343.
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month, by a Roman Catholic governor;1 he fortu- nately, about four years later, escaped the censure of the Puritan commissioners." Free from entan- glements of every sort-giving great satisfaction, for a period of many years, by his manner of . administering justice-he was elevated, near the close of his life, to the honorable post of com- mander of the county.3 His career, in every par- ticular, was marked with discretion ; and we might suppose he was a Roman Catholic, living in a Protestant county. But, while no satisfactory clew can be found in his own words or deeds; from the pen of a contemporary, we have the proof, that he was a Protestant.‘
The will of this early colonist is lost. But from his inventory, it appears, he died about 1660. Judging from the same paper, he lived in a style
1 Upon Captain Vaughan's re-instatement. Bozman, vol. 2, p. 344.
2 Vaughan, in 1652, was removed by the Puritan commissioners. See the names of the commissioners sent, in Bozman, vol. 2. p. 454. But Bozman's inference is false. They did visit the island. See Kent Island Records, at Chestertown.
' Sce oldest Land Records, at Chestertown.
' The evidence, which is obtained from the will of Thomas Allen, will be given, in a note to the sketch of Capt. Banks's life.
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superior to the ordinary level of comfort, at that period.1 He held "Conner's Neck," "The Wood- yard Thicket," and other tracts, upon Kent Island ;? and there, lived his descendants also, for several generations. It seems, there was a branch of the family in Dorchester and Somerset; and he has probably a descendant living at Chestertown. His son, Philip,3 died, about 1700, upon the Isle of Kent,' then a part of Talbot ; and his grandson, of the same name, in 1722, leaving two brothers and three song.5
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1 The inventory is found in a Record of Wills, and Proceedings in Testamentary cases, beginning in 1657. He had 120 head of cattle, and 34 hogs ; 7 feather beds, and 6 rugs ; 2 pair of cur- tains, with valance ; 2 flock beds, with 2 rugs ; 3 diaper table- cloths; 18 napkins; 8 chairs ; 12 wine glasses ; and a great variety of other articles.
' Lib. No. 12, pp. 572-573. See also Rent Roll for Queen Anne's ; for a copy of which, I was indebted, through the kind agency of Judge Chambers, to the late Hon. William Carmichael.
' Lib. No. 12, p. 572.
4 Will of Philip, 1701 (Lib. T. B. p. 350), who gives his son, Philip, " Conner's Neck ;" . " to his other children Nathaniel, and Charles, "The Wood-yard Thicket." Disposes also of a tract, supposed to be his, on the Elk River.
. Will of Philip (witnessed by Nathaniel and Charles. Lib. A. & D .. No. 2, p. 196) gives a tract, when recovered, in Kent, near Morgan's Creek, in equal parts, to his sons James, Nathaniel, and
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Charles. Will of Nathaniel, his brother, is found in Lib. C. C., No. 2, p. 150. Nathaniel names his son-in-law, Mathew Brown ; his daughter, Letitia Brown; and his granddaughter, Mary Brown. There is also the will of John Conner, a merchant of Chestertown, whose children were James and Isabella. He died about 1750.
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CHAPTER XXVI.
Mr. William Bretton.
MR. BRETTON arrived, with his wife, Mary (the daughter of Thomas Nabbs), and one child, within three years from the landing of the Pilgrims.' He soon afterwards held a large tract upon Britton's Bay ;" and many years, lived in Newtown hundred ; was a soldier at St. Inigo's Fort, at a very critical period, in the administration of Gover- nor Calvert ;3 and the register of the Provincial Court, under Governor Green, with the power, during the lieutenant-general's absence, to sign writs, "under the governor's name;"+ kept some of the most important records of the province, till the
1 He arrived in 1637. Lib. No. 1, p. 69.
' In Newtown hundred, and held of the Manor of Little Britain, and also called "Little Bi.' ton" (Rent Roll for St. Mary's and Charles, vol. 1, fol. 24) ; bounded on the south by the Potomac, on the cast by Britton's Bay, on the west by St. Clement's Bay, and partly by St. Nicholas's Creek, on the North. Lib. No. 1, p. 69. He certainly lived in Newtown, in 1649. Lib. No. 2, p. 459.
' Lib. No. 2, p. 281. * Lib. No. 2, p. 226 ; and p. 228.
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arrival of Mr. Hatton, in 1649;' and was the clerk of the Protestant Assembly in 1650 .? In the legislature of 1648, he held four voices, three of them certainly+ from Newtown; probably the fourth also. And, from his familiarity with the records, as well as his general knowledge of busi- ness, we cannot but presume he was one of the most influential members of the Roman Catholic Assembly in 1649. He is also worthy of remem- brance, in consideration of the fact, that he founded one of the first Roman Catholic chapels of the province "-a chapel which was erected and sustained by the pious members of his own church in Newtown,' and in St. Clement's hundred ; which
1 Lib. No. 2, p. 448. 2 Bozman, vol. 2, p. 383.
' Lib. No. 2, pp. 293-294.
4 Lib. No. 2, pp. 287-288.
$ Lib. No. 2, pp. 488-489.
' Lib. S. 1658 to 162, Judgments, p. 1026.
" There is evidence, upon various Records. The deed, itself, recites the " unanimous" agreement. And Col. Jarboe, and Wil- liam Tattershall (planters upon Britton's Bay, and relations of the R. C. privy councillo · Mr. Pile), gave, each of them, a legacy : the former, in 1071, to une Father of "St. Ignatius's Chapel," for the use of the "poor Catholics ;" the latter, about 1670, to the " Reverend father" of the same chapel. See Wills, Lib. No. 2, 1674 to 1704, p. 67 ; and Lib. No. 1, 1635 to 1674, pp. 391-392. Other cases could be cited.
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also bore the name of " the patron saint of Mary- land." 1
A mystery clouds the latter part of his life. About 1651, he married Mrs. Temperance Jay .? Misfortune seems soon after to have attended him ; and his "son " and " daughter" received " alms," at a moment of deep distress.3 Nor can his will be found ; or his posterity traced. But there is no doubt whatever, he was one of the Roman Catholic Assemblymen of 1649. He held a tract bounded by St. William's Creek ;4 the most striking part of his cattle-mark (a fleur-de-lis)" was a favorite device
' St. Michael was one of the guardian angels. But St. Ignatius was generally regarded the patron saint. See Father White.
2 Lib. S., 1658 to 1662, Judgments, p. 336-337 ; and p. 1026.
' " There was given to Mr. Bretton's son and daughter an alms, they being in extremity of want." See Statement of Ralph Croutch, at London, in 1662; Lib. B. B., 1663 to 1665, p. 22. Mr. Croutch was one of the executors of Edward Cotton, a colouist.
* Lib. S., 1658 to 1662, p. 1026.
" To prevent mistakes aud disputes, as well as felonies (for many of our early plantations had but few fences, and the flocks and herds often wandered through thick forests, which have long since disappeared), the 'aw of the province required, in the strictest manner, every colonist to register his cattle-mark. On p. 459, in Lib. No. 2, we find :-- " William Bretton, gent .. recorded bis mark of hogs and cattle, viz. : Over and underkeeled, ye right car, commonly called a fleur-de-lis ; cropt ye left car. Which is
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with the members of his church, at that period ; ' his name is not among the signers of the Protestant Declaration ;? and the very phraseology, in his gift of the church-lot, has the unmistakable marks of his sympathy with the faith of the Roman church, and (independently of other evidence) is sufficient to satisfy a reasonable mind.3
the true and only mark of ye said William Bretton." It will be observed, that the fleur-de-lis (or heraldic lily) differs from the lily of the garden, in having three leaves instead of five. See Burke.
' It was a part of the mark of Doctor Thomas Matthews (Lib. No. 2, p. 511), of Col. William Evans (Lib. S., 1658 to 1662, p. 25), and of Doctor Thomas Gerrard (Lib. S., 1658 to 1662, p. 117). These gentlemen were, all, Roman Catholics. See confession of Mathews, Lib. No. 3, p. 157 ; will of Evans, Lib. No. 1, 1635 to 1674, p. 331; and the faith of Gerrard, in the case of the Rev. Francis Fitzher- bert, in another note. I perceive no instance, at this period, in which the fleur-de-lis, as a part of the cattle-mark, was adopted by any Protestant.
' He was in the Assembly when the Declaration was drawn up and signed. But he was not one of the signers.
' The following is from Lib. S. 1658 to 1662, Judgments, p. 1026 :
" April ye 12, 1662. This day came Mr. Wm. Bretton, and desired the ensuing t be recorded : viz.
" AD PERPETUAM REI MEMORIAM.
. " Forasmuch as divers good and zealous Roman Catholic inhabit- ants of Newtown, and St. Clement's Bay, have unanimously agreed, amongst themselves, to erect and build a church or chapel whither -
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they may repair on Sundays, and other holy days appointed and commanded by Holy Church ; to serve Almighty God ; and hear divine service. And the most convenient place for that purpose, desired and pitched upon, by them all, is on a certain parcel of the land belonging to Wm. Bretton, gentleman. Now know ye, that I, William Bretton, of Little-Bretton, in ye county of St. Mary's, in the province of Maryland, gentleman ; with the hearty, good-liking of my dearly beloved wife, Temperance Bretton ; to the greater honor and glory of Almighty God, the Ever-Immacu- late Virgin Mary, and all Saints ; have given, and do hereby freely for ever give, to the behoof of the said Roman Catholic inhabitants, and their posterity, or successors, Roman Catholics, so much land, as they shall build ye said church or chapel ou ; which, for their better convenience, they may frequent, to serve Almighty God, and hear divine service, as aforesaid ; with such other land adjoining to ye said church or chapel, convenient like- wise for a churchyard, wherein to bury their dead ; containing about one acre and a half of ground, situate and lying on a dividend of land called Bretton's Outlet, and on the east side of ye said dividend, near to ye head of the creek called St. William's Creek, which falleth into St. Nicholas's Creek, and near unto the narrowest place of ye freehold of Little-Bretton, commonly called The Straits," &c., &c.
Could not this interesting little chapel's history yet be writ- ten ? The deed surely indicates, with sufficient distinctness, the spot where it stood. It is dated the "tenth" of November 1651.4
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CHAPTER XXVII.
Mr. Richard Browne.
. NOTHING is known of the ancestry, birth-place, or posterity of Mr. Browne ; and less, indeed, of his own immediate life, than that of any member of the Assembly in 1649. A part of the obscurity arises from the fact, that two persons of his name lived here about the same period; the one hav- ing arrived about the year 1638;1 the other, during the month of July, 1648." The former, it seems, took the "oath of fealty," "June 27th, 1647;"' and the latter, the "14th of November," 1648.' The name of " Richard Browne" also appears among the members of the preceding
1 He was one of the securities, that year, upon the bond of Lieut. Wm. Lewis, the Roman Catholic. See Lewis's case, in .Bozman, vol. 2, } 598.
' Lib. No. 2, p. 45S.
' Council Proceedings, from 1636 to 1657, in the Executive Cham- ber, p. 144.
Council Proceedings, p. 145.
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Assembly ;' and is affixed, about a year later, to the Protestant Declaration .? One of them (the emigrant of 1648) usually had the prefix of " Mr.", or the addition of "gentleman." The other, proba- bly, belonged to the class of yeomen.3 The former lived upon Clement's manor, the latter part of 1649.4 The residence of the latter, during the same year, it is now impossible to give. We may suppose, the " gentleman " was the member of the Assembly ; and also one of the persons of consideration, in the province, who signed the Declaration. But the evidence of the Assembly- man's identity with the Protestant, is, by no means, conclusive. The result of the investigation is any- thing but satisfactory.
1 Lib. No. 2, pp. 488, 480.
2 See Declaration, Bozman, vol. 2, p. 672.
. 3 He rarely bad either the prefix or the addition.
4 Lib. No. 3, pp. 96, 97. The plantation upon the manor was bought (see Lib. No. 2, p. 508) "June 29, 1649 ;" and sold, by " Richard Brown, gentleman " (see Lib. No. 3, pp. 101, 102), " unto George Manners and his assigns," in the year 1651.
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CHAPTER XXVIII.
Mr. George Manners.
Bur little also can be gleaned from the records relating to the life of Mr. Manners. Enough, however, remains to warrant the supposition, he was a soldier in the march under Colonel Price, in 1647, against a hostile band of eastern-shore Indians ;' and we know he held a seat in the
' The Nanticokes and the Wicomicks. Bozman ( vol. 2. p. 310) doubts if the "expedition " ever "took place." That it did, is evident. "Jas. Lindsay, at ye request of Capt. Jno. Price, saith upon his oath, that Lieut. Win. Lewis was the first man, that drew sword, and entered the house, pulling the mat from off the house; and brought forth out of the house an Indian woman, and a child ; delivering her to the guard, at ye march on ye Eastern shore, sometime in July last ; and further he saith not. George Man- ners deposeth the same, and addeth further, that at the entering of the house, Lt. Lewis gave the word . Give fire.' And an indian bolting out of ye heise, the said Lt. Lewis commanded his party to give fire upon the Indian also. And when both parties came together, Capt. Price commanded the whole party to march, and! bid them not to wrong, or take any thing from any Indian, or shoot at any Indian. And so they marched near upon two miles
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Assembly of the province, during the years 1649' and 1650 .? We have also the evidence of the fact, that he was a Roman Catholic. Present at the signing of the Declaration, he did not affix his name. Upon the test questions of 1650, he acted with the Roman Catholic members of the Assemn- bly.3. And he gave a legacy to the church, of which he was a member. He died in 1651,4 leaving his sons William and Edward, and his daughter Barbara.
back again, not shooting any gun. But the Indians, gathering in great companies about our men, shot a man of ours in the rear. And then Capt. Price commanded the company to give fire ; and not beforc. Walter Gweast deposeth idem ad verba." See Lib. No. 2, pp. 306-307.
' Lib. No. 2, pp. 488-489.
2 Lib. No. 3, p. 47.
' See, for the sake of illustration, Bozman, vol. 2, p. 389 ; and Lib. No. 3 (Land-Office Records), p. 57.
' The possessions of our forefathers, besides their lands and ser- vants, consisted chiefly of flocks and herds. "I give and bequeath to the church one red cow-calf." See will of Mr. Manners, Lib. No. 1, 1635 to 1674. p. 32. "Church," without an express decla- ration to the contrary, always, during that period, siguified the Roman Catholic. And t, > gift was in token of the testator's faith. See (ex. gra.) the wills of the well-known Roman Catholics, Robt. Clarke, and Barnaby Jackson. See also, on the other hand, the note to p. 235 of this volume.
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CHAPTER XXIX.
Captain Richard Banks.
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ASSUMING, that Captain Banks was one of the Pro- testant members of the Assembly in 1649 ; we are struck with the magnanimity, which subsequently marked his career. Of his ancestry, nothing is posi- tively known ; and it is doubtful if he left any de- scendants. But we are informed of the fact, that he married Margaret Hatton, the widow of the secre- tary's brother." He arrived in 1646 .? His house was robbed by Ingle's accomplices ;' and he arrested, about the same time, five Indians," who were suspected of "felony," but soon afterwards tried and acquitted. In the Assembly of 1648, he represented twenty-four freemen ;' and we know.
1 Lib. No. 1, p. 440.
2 Lib. No. 2, p. 458 ; an ' Lib. A. B. and H., p. 15.
2 Robbed of tobacco sold to Capt. Cornwallis. Lib. No. 2,
p. 303.
" They were Paturents. Lib. No. 2, p. 343.
. On the 20th of January (O. S.) he held, from New-town,
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he sat in the same body, during the year 1649.1 In 1652, he held the responsible post of a council- lor, under the sway of the Puritans ;? yet in 1655, he was on the side of Governor Stone. Satisfied of the purity of his intentions, the victorious party, within a few months after the battle, gave him a discharge;' but the following October (having "done something" offensive at the election of burgesses), he was required to give security for his "good abearance."" From all, that can now be ascertained, we have reason for the belief, that his character was in the highest degree estimable. Ilis pledge for the redemption, from captivity, of an orphan child, is honorable to his memory ;&
" 19 proxies " (Lib. No. 2, pp. 287, 288) ; and, on the 28th of the same month (p. 293, 294), " 24 voices."
' Lib. No. 2, pp. 488, 489.
" Bozman, vol. 2, p. 681.
3 "Lient. Richard Banks and Thomas Tunnell, being found in arms against the present government ; and pleading they were misled by the protestation of Capt. Stone, who said, he had power from the Lord Protector ; and also did surrender a fort upon the first summons ; are discharged from further trouble, in the action, upon their submissie and good forbearance to the present government." Lib. No. 3, p. 138, Proceedings of the Provincial Court, April Term, 1655. 4 Lib. No. 3 p. 156.
3 An order was passed by the Assembly for the ransom of Thos.
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and illustrates a trait, for which he seems to have been distinguished. His acceptance of an office under the Puritans, suggests the idea that he was a Protestant ; but liis subsequent sympathy with the government of the proprietary, and the part he took in the contest of 1655, would render the supposition extremely doubtful. A colonist of his surname (probably his son), was unquestionably a member of the English church;' and this fact strengthens the opinion, that the Assembly-man of 1649 held the same faith. But the probability is weakened by the further fact, that the name of BANKS occurs very frequently upon the records ;
Allen's two children ; and they were required to serve the persons who might advance the money. But on " the 15th of September. 1650, lieutenant " (subsequently captain) " Banks freely engageth himself to satisfy the 900 pounds of tobacco and cask, for the redemption of Thomas, the son of Thos. Allen, deceased ; accord- ing to the order of the Assembly for that purpose ; without any consideration of servitude, or any other consideration whatever. but his free love, and affection. Witness his hand, ye day and year abovesaid. Richard Banks." See the Assembly's Order (Lib. No. 3, p. 42-43) for the payment to the Indians ; and Capt Banks's Engagement, Lib No. 3, p. 26.
1 " Declaring myself hereby to be a Christian, and to hold the Catholic faith, as it is established by the canonical doctrine of the Church of England, into which I was baptized." Will of Thos. Bankes, in 1084, Lib. G., p. 126. Catholic is, here, expressly defined
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and that many who bore it, were not at all related to each other. Accident, however, sometimes rewards the diligence of the student., From an incidental source, we have the proof, that Captain Banks was a Protestant.1
1 " Now for the disposal of my children," says Thos. Allen, " I would not have them live with any Papist. For my eldest son, Thomas, if he pleases to live with one of the overseers of this my will ; he may, during his pleasure." Capt. Banks was one of the overseers. See the Will, Lib. No. 1, 1635 to 1674, p. 15. In the same paper, he suggests to his overseers to offer another son to Mr. Phil. Conner, who had expressed a desire to adopt one of the children. The will is dated in 1648 ; and written, under great anxiety, from an apprehension of violence, or some other cause. The next thing, we learn, is the captivity of his orphans among the Indians He was an Assembly-man in 1648.
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CHAPTER XXX.
Mr. John Maunsell.
, MR. MAUNSELL' arrived, as early as the year 1637;' and lived in St. Clement's hundred in 1642.3 It would seem, his residence about ten years later, was in the same part of St. Mary's county ;' and either there, or in the adjacent hun- dred of Newtown,' we cannot but suppose, he may be traced, during the year 1649, when he held a seat in the General Assembly of the province. He did not take up many tracts of land ; and all his possessions were indeed rather small; but he is generally styled "planter " upon the records. And, while his name is not often connected with important events in our early history, yet surely
: Spelt also " Mansell."
2 Lib. No. 1, pp. 68-69. .
' Records of the Executive Chamber, Proceedings of the Assem- bly, Lib. 1637 to 1658, pp. 209-215.
' Lib. B. B., 1663 to 1665, Judgments, pp. 153-154.
· Lib. A. B. and H., p. 167.
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two incidents demand a notice-the plunder of his house by Ingle's piratical party 1-and his relation- ship towards the memorable Assembly of 1649.' The evidence of his faith in the Roman Catholic church, is purely circumstantial, but not the less conclusive or satisfactory. The inference is drawn from the absence of everything (so far as his life can now be illustrated), like the least taint of dis- loyalty toward the proprietary ; from the historical traditions connected with the' name of " Maun- sell; "3 from the faith of the gentleman, under
1 " John Maunsell maketh oath that about five years since (when Richard Ingle, mariner, and his accomplices, plundered divers of the inhabitants of this province of Maryland) divers per- sons of his, the said Ingle's party, plundered and took away from this deponent's house, in Maryland aforesaid, one hogshead of tobacco, which then had been paid, and belonged to Mr. Cuthbert Fenwick, or to Capt. Thos. Cornwallis ; and that John Rablay, of Virginia, was then in company of them that so plundered and took away the said tobacco ; which Rablay was one of them, that was most active and busy in employments of that nature.
"Jurat, 5 die November, 1619, coram me,
" THOS. HATTON." Lib. No. 2, p. 524.
2 Lib. No. 2, pp. 488. 489.
" The name of one distinguished, but fifty years later, in the Roman Catholic missions of Maryland. The records are lost, and I cannot trace the relationship ; but presume he was a member of the same family. Thomas was his first name.
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whose special care, and immediate auspices, he came to Maryland ;1 from the year of his arrival, so distinguished for the large number of Roman Catholic emigrants,? and so near the landing of the original Pilgrims at St. Mary's, as to warrant the presumption (apart from other reasons), that he was a disciple of the same church ; from the hosti- lity manifested (chiefly, indeed, toward Captain Cornwallis, but partly, also, we may suppose, against himself) by the Catholic-hating, Puritan pirate ;' from the well-known Roman Catholic prefix to a tract surveyed for him;+ from the absence of his name (a fact of very great weight) from a Declaration signed by so many of the most prominent Protestants, including (it would seem) some of his neighbors ; but especially from the
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