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In 1652, Richard Preston was commanded, by authority of Parliament, to levy and raise one able bodied man out of every seven of the inhabitants of the Patuxent, from the mouth of said river as far as Herring Creek, with victuals, arms and ammunition, to meet at Mattapania, and be thence transported for the service under Captain William Fuller.
Colonel Preston's petition, signed by sixty of his neighbors, in 1652, to Richard Bennett and William Claiborne, Commissioners of Parliament, was a stirring appeal for their rights. It was followed
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by another of similar tenor in 1653. Bennett and Claiborne replied that these petitioners should secure their rights, advising them to stand fast.
Then followed the struggle of the Severn.
John Hammond, in his pamphlet "Hammond vs. Heamans," records that he alone seized the records at Richard Preston's house. Yet, in 1655, "attachment was granted Richard Preston on the estate of Captain William Stone, to be liable to satisfy unto Richard Preston the summe of twenty-nine pounds for gunnes and ammunition, taken from the house of said Preston by Josias Fendall, one of Captain Stone's officers and complices, in the last rebellion."
Richard Preston's name stands either at the head or next to Captain Fuller's in all official acts of that period; and during the absence of Wm. Durand, Secretary, the records were ordered to be kept at his house. It is interesting to note the peculiar transition in the early religious faith of these Virginia leaders. We find them making stringent laws against Quakers, yet some of the most aggres- sive leaders soon joined the Quakers. Captain Wm. Fuller, Wm. Durand, Richard Preston, Wm. Berry, Thomas Meers, Philip Thomas, Peter Sharp, changed their faith; and even Richard Bennett suc- cumbed before his death. Richard Preston's will left several tracts of Eastern Shore lands to his daughters; but most of his Patuxent estate to his son James, if he be living, or will come into the province, to be held by him until his grandson, Samuel Preston, shall attain to the age of twenty-one years. To his kinsmen, Ralph Dorsey, John and James Dorsey, he willed a portion of personality and real estate, in Calvert.
Samuel Preston later removed to Philadelphia, and left a long line of descendants.
Mr. Dixon, who came into possession of this historic homestead, has taken a pride in preserving the old building, which, though now delapidated through age, stands alone as the one relic of a revolu- tion, one hundred years before our Revolution for Independence .- (ALLEN in Colonial Homesteads.)
DAVIS.
Seventy-five Davises are recorded among our "Early Settlers," during the decade of 1660-1670.
Sir Thomas Davis was of the London Company, to settle Vir- ginia, and he came over in "The Margaret," to James City, in 1619. During that same year he was in the Assembly of Virginia from "Martin's Brandon."
In 1637, Thomas Davis was granted a plantation of three hun- dred acres for transporting six settlers. In 1642, his plantation was upon the east side of the Elizabeth River, in Nansemond County, from which most of our Virginia pilgrims came up to Maryland in 1650. Upon Herring Creek, in the very midst of these settlers, I find a Thomas Davis. But in the absence of any testamentary
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records, or Rent Roll records, in his name, previous to 1700, I am inclined to believe that Thomas Davis, Sr., wife Mary Pierpoint, whose will was made in 1743, but not probated until 1749, may be called the settler
The will of Thomas Davis, Sr., shows that he had accumulated a good estate. He names his dear wife, Mary, to whom is given all his personal estate. "To grandson, Caleb Davis, son of Richard, I give the lands where his mother, Ruth Davis, now lives, called 'Duvall's Delight,' two hundred acres. To son Thomas, 'Laswell's Hopewell.' To son John, 'Davistone' and 'Whats Left, 'adjoining. To son Samuel, lands in Prince George. To son Robert, "Ranters Ridge.' To son Francis, 'Pearl' out of 'Diamond' and 'Davis Addition' from 'Grimestone.' Wife Mary, John and Francis, executors. Personal estate, after death of wife, to go equally to five sons and five daughters."
Richard Davis was then dead, and Thomas Davis, Jr., followed soon after. Both wills probated in 1749.
Thomas Davis, Jr.,-Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Gaither. He names his sons, Ephraim and Amos; daughters, Mary and Sarah. To them was left a part of "Snowden's Second Addition." "To daughter, Betsy Davis, I give 'Benjamin's Lot.' " This was the mother's part of Benjamin Gaither's estate, and in her will as Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, she names her son, Amos, and her daughters, Mary Norwood and Sarah, wife of Edward Burgess, and daughter, Betsy Davis. Ephraim Davis, of Thomas and Elizabeth (Gaither) Davis, inherited the homestead at Greenwood. His wife, Elizabeth, was from the house of Cornelius Howard, of Simpsonville, and as his widow became the wife of Wm. Gaither.
Thomas Davis, the son, inherited the homestead. He was in command of a company, and was at the front in the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania. He was, also, President of the Board of Trustees of Brookeville Academy, and was succeeded by his son, Allen Bowie Davis, of "Greenwood."
Taking the name of his distinguished grandfather, General Allen Bowie, Mr. Davis has made a reputation which goes beyond the borders of his state.
As an agriculturist, he advanced to the highest success. As an educator, he was always at the front. President of the Board of the Academy, of the Public School Board and President of the Board of the Agricultural College, he struggled hard to locate that institution near his own home, where the natural soil was far better suited for a "Model Farm." Mr. Davis wrote a very good little text book upon agriculture to be used in the public schools as an entrance to the College of Argiculture.
His first wife was Comfort Dorsey, daughter of Chief Justice Thomas Beale Dorsey. The mother of his children was Miss Hester Wilkens, of Baltimore. His only son, William, died in Montana, where he had married a daughter of Bishop Whipple. His sister, Hester, died unmarried. Misses Rebecca and Mary Dorsey Davis
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having retired from the beautiful old homestead, now reside in Balti- more. Many relics of the homestead were donated by them to the Rockville Historical Society.
Robert Davis, of Thomas and Mary, was seated upon "Ranters' Ridge," near Woodstock. His wife was Ruth Gaither, daughter of John and Elizabeth. Their issue are found in the following trans- fer of 1772, viz: "John Davis, oldest son of Nicholas, son of Robert, Sr., and Ely Davis; Robert Davis, Thomas Davis and Ichabod Davis, sons and devisees of Robert Davis, Sr., deed 'Ranter's Ridge' to Rezin Hammond." Another transfer in the name of Ruth Ran- dall, still later Ruth Nelson, widow of Robert Davis, and widow of Nathan Randall, joined Caleb Davis, the legatee of both Nathan and herself, in deeding a portion of "Good Fellowship" to Mr. Knight. Still later Caleb, of Baltimore, deeded his interest in "Good Fellow- ship" to several Baltimore agents. He was the father of Hon. Henry G. Davis.
Richard Davis, of Robert, was the celebrated defender of Balti- more, in 1814. His descendants still hold portions of the large estate of Robert Davis. They are William and Richard Davis and their descendants.
Richard Davis, of Thomas and Mary, was located near High- land, Howard. He married Ruth, daughter of John Warfield and Ruth Gaither. They had sons, Richard, Thomas-Mary Sapping- ton; Caleb-Lurcetia Griffith, of Orlando. His inheritance was "Duvall's Delight," on Patuxent. His daughter, Elizabeth-Philip Welsh. This Caleb was not, as has been stated, the father of our Democratic candidate for Vice-President. His brother, Thomas, lived upon the Sappington estate near "Warfield's Range" and "Laurel." This estate has only recently passed from the Davis name.
Sarah Davis, of Thomas,-Colonel Henry Griffith, whose son heired, through Mrs. Mary Davis and Dr. Francis Brown Sappington, a tract near Laurel.
John Davis, of Thomas and Mary,-Anne Worthington; Francis Davis, of Thomas and Mary,-Anne Hammond, daughter of John and Anne (Dorsey) Hammond, and had Thomas Davis, who settled in Carroll County. He was in the Revolution. His sons were, Henry, George and Dr. Frank Davis. The first two have many descendants in Baltimore. Mr. Harvey Davis, of Howard, is a grandson of Revolutionary Thomas Davis. Zachariah Davis, brother of Thomas, was located near Mt. Airy, in Carroll. His son, William Davis, was the father of Eldred Griffith Davis, the popular collector of taxes in Washington, D. C.
Mary Davis, of Thomas and Mary,-John Riggs, of "Riggs' Hills." Ruth Davis, of Thomas and Mary,-Joshua Warfield, of "Lugg Ox,"' whose mother, Elizabeth (Duvall) Warfield, married second John Gaither, whose daughter, Ruth-Robert Davis, of Woodstock.
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In addition to this line of Thomas Davis, of Anne Arundel, there were several William Davis's-father and son. The latter held an estate of Captain John Welsh. There was also a Henry Davis, and from him likely descended Professor Davis, of St. John's College, the father of Hon. Henry Winter Davis.
JOHN RANDALL, SENIOR.
This founder of a distinguished line of sons of Maryland, was born in what is now Richmond County, Virginia, then a part of Westmoreland Co., in 1750. He was the youngest son of Thomas Randall, who came from England in the early part of that century; settled in Westmoreland County, married Jane Davis, a daughter of a Virginia planter; became a large land holder and a member of the Court of Justices in the Northern Neck of Virginia. John put him- self under the tutelage of Mr. Buckley, of Fredericksburg, an arch- itect and builder, who designed and constructed many of the most celebrated colonial residences and public buildings in Virginia and Maryland. He came to Annapolis in 1770, where he designed and constructed several of the most admired specimens of colonial archi- tecture, among the rest, what is now known as the Lockerman or Harwood House, on Maryland Avenue, Annapolis. He was an earnest upholder of the rights of the colonies in the years preceding the Revolution, but earnestly protested against the repudiation of debts due to the inhabitants of Great Britian, as by published signed protests of that day appear. At the outbreak of the Revolution he was a merchant in Annapolis and was appointed, under a commis- sion from the Governor and Council and afterwards by a resolution of the Continental Congress, as Commissary in the Army. He served during the Revolution as an officer of the Maryland Line and many of his letters are in the Archives of Maryland. Returning to Annapolis after the war, he established himself there as a merchant. President Washington appointed him Collector of the Port of Annapolis and he held that position, or that of Navy Agent, until his death in 1826, He married Deborah Knapp, of Annapolis, who survived him with eleven children and died at Annapolis in 1852, ninety years of age.
DANIEL RANDALL.
Daniel Randall, son of John Randall, the elder, was in active service during the War of 1812, as a volunteer, and thereafter was commissioned as Paymaster in the Regular Army. He served as such during the Indian Wars and the Mexican War under General Scott and was at the time of his death in 1851, Assistant Pay- master General and in charge of the Pay-Department of the Army.
He was highly esteemed and Fort Randall, then on the frontier, was named after him, as evidence of his universal popularity.
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HENRY K. RANDALL.
Henry K. Randall, another son of John Randall, the elder, was in the militia during the War of 1812; was then appointed an officer in the Custom House in the City of Baltimore; was an Agent of the Government in closing up the affairs of the Choctaw Nation in Geor- gia and for many years afterwards was Chief Clerk of Revolutionary Pensions in the Treasury Department. He married Emily, daughter of Thomas Munroe of Washington, D. C. and died in 1877, survived by her and two daughters, Mrs. William B. Webb and Mrs. Henry Elliott. He was a large real estate holder in Washington and did . much to advance the prosperity of that city.
HON. ALEXANDER RANDALL.
Honorable Alexander Randall of Annapolis, son of John Ran- dall, the elder, was born at Annapolis in January 1803; educated at St. John's College, from which he obtained his B. A. and M. A. degrees; practiced law for over fifty years in Annapolis, for over twenty years in partnership with his nephew, Alexander B. Hagner, afterwards Justice of the Supreme Bench of the District of Columbia. He was appointed Auditor of the Court of Chancery by Chancellor Bland. In 1841 he was a member of the Congress of the United States, but declined a re-nomination; was elected by the Whig Party. His colleague from the double district, as then constituted, was Honorable John P. Kennedy. He prepared, as member of the Com- mittee on the District of Columbia, a Code of Laws of Maryland, since the separation of the District, which were deemed important to be adopted by Congress for the District, and they were added to the District Code.
He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1851 of Maryland and in 1864 was elected Attorney General of Maryland. In 1877 he retired from the practice of law and became the President of the Farmers National Bank of Annapolis, of which he had been a Director and the Attorney from early life. He died November 20th 1881 at his residence, in Annapolis, leaving twelve children sur- viving him. He married Catharine, daughter of Honorable William Wirt, Attorney General of the United States, who died survived by five children ;- his second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. John G. Blanchard, Assistant Rector of St. Paul's Church, Baltimore City, who survived him with seven children.
During many years Mr. Alexander Randall was a Vestryman of St Anne's Church, Annapolis and a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College. He was a delegate to the Diocesan Conventions of his church for many years, and several times a deputy from Maryland to its General Conventions. He founded and managed for many years, as president, the Annap- olis Water Company, and its Gas Company; and was one of the active promoters and directors in its first railroad company (the
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Annapolis & Elk-Ridge), and telegraph company. He led a most active and useful life-as a lawyer, as a citizen and as a Christian -and left a large family of carefully educated and trained children, who represent his influence for good, both in Maryland and in other states.
BURTON RANDALL, M. D.
Burton Randall, M. D., youngest son of John Randall, Sr., was graduated as a physician at the University of Pennsylvania, and was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States Army. He had a long and active service through the Creek, Seminole and other Indian wars; through the Mexican War and on the frontiers. Dur- ing the Civil War he had charge of various important hospitals and army posts. He married Virginia Taylor, a niece of General Zachary Taylor, who survived him with two children. When he retired, in 1869, he held the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army, and settled at Annapolis, where his family still resides.
JOHN RANDALL, JUNIOR.
John Randall, Jr., eldest son of John Randall and Deborah (Knapp) Randall, lived and died in Annapolis, leaving no descend- ants. He was a farmer and also a partner with his father in the merchantile firm of Randall & Son, at Annapolis. He married Eliza Hodges, of Anne Arundel County, and died in 1861.
HON. THOMAS RANDALL.
Hon. Thomas Randall was the second son of John Randall, the elder. After graduating from St. John's College, Annapolis, he studied law in the office of Chancellor Johnson, the elder; was an officer of the regular army during the War of 1812, severely wounded in one of the battles near Niagara, captured by the British and carried to Quebec; made a remarkable escape from prison during the depth of winter, but was recaptured and exchanged after the war; was Captain of Artillery, in 1820, but resigned and practiced law in Washington, D. C .; was appointed by President Monroe, a Special Agent of the United States in the West Indies, to endeavor to stop the depredations of pirates in that part of the world; was appointed, in 1826, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Florida, where he settled and practiced law, with his nephew, Thomas Hagner, in Tallahassee; was appointed Adjutant General under Governor Call, during the Seminole War. He married Laura, eldest daughter of the Hon. William Wirt, and left surviving him, in 1877, three daughters and numerous descendants.
RICHARD RANDALL, M. D.
Richard Randall, M. D., son of John Randall, the elder, was a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl- vania; settled in Washington, D. C., where he had a large practice.
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He was one of the founders and the president of the African Colon- ization Society, and finally went out to Liberia as Governor. He died there of African fever, a martyr to the cause of African Colon- ization.
HON. ALEXANDER BURTON HAGNER.
Hon. Alexander Burton Hagner, born July 13th, 1826, in Washington, was son of Peter Hagner, for many years a First Auditor of the Treasury, and Francis Hagner, who was a daughter of John Randall, the elder, of Annapolis, Maryland. Mr. Hagner grad- uated at Princeton University, in 1845, read law and practiced law in Annapolis, with his uncle, Hon. Alexander Randall. He was one - of the leaders of the Maryland Bar and engaged in many important cases, civil and criminal, in the lower courts and in the Court of Appeals. Also, in many important Naval Court Martials, among others he was of counsel for the defence in the celebrated prosecutions of Mrs. Warton for poisoning General Ketchum and Eugene VanNess. He served as special judge in a number of cases in Maryland, under the single judge system, which prevailed prior to the adoption of the Constitution of 1867, where the regular judge was disqualified from sitting. He was elected to the House of Delegates of Maryland, in 1854, and was Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means; was a candidate for Congress, in 1857, and again in 1874, but was defeated. In 1860, he was a Presidential Elector on the Bell and Everett ticket. In 1879, he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Bench of the District of Columbia, and held that posi- tion until his resignation of it in 1903. During his long service on the Bench, he presided in many important trials and wrote many elaborate and important opinions. Among the chief of these is the opinion in what was known as "The Potomac Flats Case," involv- ing the government ownership of the extensive flats opposite the City of Washington. Judge Hagner wrote that opinion, which was adopted by the Supreme Court of the United States, and which is one of the most important cases in its results upon the District welfare, and one of the most learned and able opinions to be found in our law reports. He married Louisa, daughter of Randolph Harrison, of Virginia, and they live in the City of Washington, D. C.
HON. JOHN WIRT RANDALL.
Hon. John Wirt Randall, son of Hon. Alexander and Catherine (Wirt) Randall, born at Annapolis, Maryland, March 6th, 1845; educated at St. John's College, Burlington College, New Jersey, and Yale University; read law in his father's office, who was then Attorney General of Maryland; admitted to the Bar in 1868. He was soon after appointed Register in Bankruptcy for the Fifth Con- gressional District of Maryland, by Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the United States, who had been a student in the office of William Wirt (Mr. Randall's grand-father) whilst Mr. Wirt was Attorney General of the United States. Mr. Randall served three
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terms as Councilor of the City of Annapolis; revised and codified its Ordinances and By-laws; served one term (1884) in the House of Dele- gates, and four terms (1888, 1890, 1896 and 1898) in the Senate of Maryland. During the last named session he was President of the Senate, and was a capable and dignified presiding officer. He remodelled the financial systems of the City of Annapolis and of Anne Arundel County, by abolishing the old Collectors of Taxes and creat- ing and regulating the Treasurer System; remodelled the Public School System of the City of Annapolis, and provided by-laws and a bonded debt for the erection of the present fine public school buildings of Annapolis, and their management; was the author, in 1884, and introducer of the Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly establishing " Arbor Day" in Maryland, and, in 1898, of the highly approved Road Laws of Anne Arundel County, and of many other valuable general and local statutes. On the retire- ment of his father from the law-firm of Randall & Hagner, he succeeded him as a member of that firm; and after the retire- ment of the Hon. Alexander B. Hagner from the firm, by reason of his elevation to the Supreme Bench of the District of Columbia, he associated with him his brother, Daniel R. Randall, recently State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County-constituting the law-firm of Randall & Randall. Mr. Randall has been, since 1879, a director of the Farmers National Bank of Annapolis, and since 1881, its president. He has been, since 1874, a Vestryman and the treasurer of St. Anne's Protestant Episcopal Church, and a member of the Board of Visitors and Governors of St. John's College, since 1881.
He has represented his parish for many years, in its Diocesan Conventions, and, in 1901 and 1904, was chosen by that Convention one of its Lay Deputies to the General Triennial Conventions of that church.
He has been president of the Maryland Bankers Association and of the Maryland Civil Service Reform Association, as well as of various industrial companies, organized to promote the prosperity of his native city.
He is fond of historical studies and has contributed a number of papers and addresses on such subjects. In 1895, at the request of the "Baltimore Sun," he wrote for that paper, a series of articles upon what was then known as "The Eastern Shore Law," consid- ered historically and legally being the law, then prevailing, which required that one of the two United States Senators from Mary- land should always be a resident of the Eastern Shore. In 1899, he was selected by the City of Annapolis, to deliver an address, as its representative, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the settlement of Annapolis, and the passage of the Religious Tolera- tion Act, and delivered in the hall of the House of Delegates, an address, which was published by the city in pamphlet form, and much admired for its scholarly and historical ability. The same year he delivered, before the Maryland Bankers Convention, on invita- tion, an address on "Colonial Currencies," showing the peculiar-
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ities of the tobacco, wampum and fur, or peltry currencies of the early colonies, which was considered as a masterly treatment of the subject, and was published by the Convention. Some of Mr. John Wirt Randall's other published addresses have been, "Divorce, and the Marriage of Divorced Persons," a defense of the existing canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church on the subject. "The Cen- tennial of Maryland's First Banking Institutions," delivered before the Convention of the Maryland Bankers Convention, in 1904. "Some of the Wonders of Astronomy;" "Christian Manliness;" "Lovers of the Beautiful, How They May Show Their Faith by Their Works," an address delivered before the Philokalian Society at St. John's College, etc.
He married Hannah Parker Parrott, daughter of P. P. Parrott, of Arden, Orange County, New York, in 1879. They have four children, three daughters and a son. Their eldest daughter was married, in 1902, to Wm. Bladen Lowndes, son of Ex-Governor Lloyd Lowndes. Mr. Randall owns and occupies his father's old homestead, one of the most beautiful and interesting of the old historic houses in Annapolis, with ample grounds about it, facing upon the State House Circle.
AMOS GARRETT, FIRST MAYOR OF ANNAPOLIS.
When Annapolis had arisen, in 1708, to the dignity of a city. Amos Garrett, its wealthy merchant, was its mayor. He was one of the largest land holders in the county, and though a bachelor, he seemed to buy lands simply to accommodate those who needed money. These tracts were all later resurveyed under the title, " Providence."
There is no better evidence of the Christian character of this English merchant than that exhibited in his will, which I herein condense, It was made in 1714. "I, Amos Garrett, merchant, desire, if I dye in Maryland, to be interred after the third day of decease. That there be in the house now occupied by Mr. Howell, on my plantation, preached a funeral sermon, and that the gentle- man remind all present to employ their time in doing good. That my executor purchase a marble tombstone. I desire that my dear mother, two sisters, brother-in-law, any of my nieces or nephews, to see it performed. That at my funeral, there be not given such plenty of liquors as is usual, but that many people coming from far thereto, may have wine and cakes. And, if it cannot be gotten ready at my funeral, as soon after my decease as possible there be bought by my executor, at the best hand, one thousand pair of men's and women's deerskin gloves, and ye same time be delivered out to the poorest of my customers, husband and wife, widower or widow, batchelor or old maid, each one pair, and an account be kept to whom delivered.
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