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all of us, and my mother, a woman of most excellent sense and judg- ment, made the best possible disposition of her income, with the view of educating her children.
"My father's death left a scar that time could never efface. One of his associates at the bar, in announcing his death to a full bench of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, said: 'I will not attempt to eulogize the dead, but I cannot refrain from saying that I have never known one who more deservedly and universally possessed the esteem of all who knew him.'
"For several years after my father's death we were all kept at home. My mother secured a most excellent governess, a Miss Boyce, who proved most satisfactory, and was liked so much that she soon became part of our household.
" At the age of about fifteen, I was sent to the preparatory school of St. John's College. In 1856, my mother and sisters con- cluded that it was best for me to go to a boarding school, and the Lawrenceville High School, near Princeton, New Jersey, was selected.
"I shall never cease being grateful to my mother for sending me to this school. At the head of it was a very distinguished educator, Dr. Samuel Hamill, well known throughout the country, and the best man I ever knew to train boys in the way they should go. I was graduated at Lawrenceville in the fall of 1859, and from there went to the University of Virginia.
" At the outbreak of the Civil War, I enlisted as a private soldier in the Confederate Army."
General Gill came to Baltimore after the war, and went into the grain business, establishing the firm of Gill & Fisher. This firm is still in existence, and Mr. Charles D. Fisher, the original partner of General Gill, is still a member. General Gill, however, retired from the firm about twenty years ago, to become president of the Mer- cantile Trust and Deposit Company on its organization. He is fond of relating his early experience in the grain trade, which was before the establishment of the present perfect system of elevators and inspec- tions. He said his firm employed its own inspectors and weighers, and he would frequently meet incoming vessels, with cargoes of southern wheat and corn, some distance down the harbor, and have all terms of its purchase and its inspection settled by the time it reached the steamship which was to take it aboard. He prides himself on the fact that, in 1879 and in 1880, his firm sent out about five hundred cargoes of grain to foreign ports.
General Gill married a daughter of Mr. W. W. Spence, and has five children, all daughters. He is still hale and hearty, and in full possession of all his faculties, mental and physical. Few in his employ have the same capacity for work as General Gill; and his tireless energy in the many intricate financial problems with which he has had to deal, has frequently caused astonishment to his asso- ciates and fellow workers.
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JOHN MARRIOTT.
Following close upon the Howards and Porters of the Severn, we find John Marriott, in 1681, living upon Peter Porter's plantation, at Indian Landing. At that time the Indians had made an attack upon his household, and Mrs. Marriott had been compelled to seek her neighbors' protection. She was Sarah Acton, of the Annapolis family.
In his will, of 1718, John Marriott names a large family, viz .: "To son Joseph, my tract, 'Cordwell,' where he lives. To son Emanuel, 'Hereford' and dwelling. To son John, the remaining part of 'Hereford' and one hundred acres of 'Brookslys Point.' To two sons, Augustine and Silvanus, the remainder of 'Brookslys,' and, also, four hundred and forty acres out of 'Shepherd's Forest,' on the Patuxent. I give to John Riggs, fifty acres of 'Shepherd's Forest.' (The English wills show a close connection between Marriott and Riggs). I give to Henry Sewell the sum of forty shillings, and to Wm. Stevens a like amount. To daughter, Ann Gambrill, I give £5. To daughter, Sarah Marriott, I give £30. The balance to my five sons, Joseph, Emanuel, John, Augustine and Silvanus."
Joseph and Augustine were executors. Peter Porter, Wm. Stevens and Edward Benson were witnesses.
John Sewell's wife, Mary Marriott, was a descendant of John Marriott, who was a large land-holder on the Severn River about 1667. John Marriott's wife, Sarah Acton, was a daughter of Rich- ard Acton, who settled on the Severn River, in 1651, at "Acton's Hill," now called "Murray's Hill," Annapolis. He came with that celebrated colony from Sewell's Point, Virginia.
A similarity of Christian names again occurs at this time, in England and Maryland, and shows close connections, mentioned so prominently by Sir Bernard Burke, in his Peerage, Landed Gentry and Armory and Heraldry, running back previous to the arrival of William the Conqueror. The Marriotts are also mentioned by Burke as having arrived in England with William the Conqueror- three brothers, viz .: Rudolphus, Guillermus and Augustine Marriott. Burke also states that there was an Augustine Marriott living in London, 1689.
John Marriott, the pioneer in Maryland, named in his will, 1716-18, his children-Sarah Yieldhall, Mary Sewell, Achsah Hall and John Marriott. Sarah Marriott was the wife of Wm. Yieldhall; Mary Marriott, the wife of John Sewell; John Marriott married Nancy Warfield, daughter of Alexander Warfield, and Achsah Marriott married John Hall, of Whitehall, and their daughter, Sarah Hall, married, first, Francis Rawlings, secondly, Captain Henry Baldwin.
Sallie Baldwin, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Rawlings-Hall) Baldwin, married Denton Hammond. Issue, Elizabeth, Camilla and Matthias Hammond. Camilla-Dr. Herbert and had a son, General James Rawlings Herbert, whose daughter, Camilla, married Wm. Pinkney Whyte, Jr. Elizabeth-Richard Cromwell; Matthias
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Eliza Brown; John Marriott, who died 1798,-Elizabeth Davis, daughter of Richard Davis and Ruth Warfield, his wife, the daughter of John and Ruth (Gaither) Warfield.
John Marriott, in his will, 1798, mentions wife Elizabeth. Issue, John, Richard, Ruth, Rachel and Elizabeth Marriott. Richard- Sarah Hammond, daughter of John Hammond, and their son, Gen- eral Wm. Hammond Marriott-Jane McKim; his brother, Richard Marriott, married a granddaughter of Anthony Stewart, of Peggy Stewart fame.
In 1756, Mr. Emanuel Marriott, the son of Mr. Joseph Marriott, - was taxed as a bachelor for the support of the church of St. Anne's, on a schedule of £100.
The will of Augustine Marriott, who held the homestead at Indian Landing, and married Mary Warfield, of John and Ruth Gaither, in 1729, reads as follows: "My wife, Mary, if she does not marry, to hold the whole estate during life. My son, John, to hold 'Shepherd's Forest.' "
His three daughters named were Sarah, wife of Wm. Yieldhall; Mary, wife of John Sewall; Achsah, wife of John Hall, and her three danghters. John Marriott, Joseph Warfield and Joshua Gambrill were witnesses.
John Marriott, the son, married Elizabeth Davis, daughter of Richard and Ruth (Warfield) Davis. In his will, of 1798, he named his sons, Richard, John, Rachel, Ruth, and Elizabeth; wife, Elizabeth; lands, "Lancaster Plains."
THE COLE FAMILY.
Edith Cole, wife of John Mallonee, was the daughter of Dennis Garrett Cole and Rachel, his wife, of Baltimore County, November 8th, 1748. Their children were Thomas, James, William and Leonard Mallonee.
Dennis Garrett Cole was the son of John and Hannah (Garrett) Cole, and Hannah Garrett was the daughter of Dennis and Barbara Garrett. Thomas Stone and Dennis Garrett purchased "Long Island Point" in 1683, and in 1691, Thomas Stone gave his moiety in this land to the children of Dennis Garrett, deceased, and stated it was for his love and affection.
"Long Island Point" was to the east and adjoining "Cole Har- bor," settled by Thomas Cole in 1668, and the latter was covered by the following lines: Beginning at Harford Run on the east, where it flows into the Patapsco River, thence west one mile, binding on the water front to about Sharp Street; thence north about half a mile to Saratoga Street, then east to Harford Run; thence to the place of the beginning, containing 550 acres. John Cole sold Richard Owings, in 1702, 809 acres, "Cole's Choice," in the same section. All of these tracts were described as on the north side of the north- west branch of the Patapsco River, and now covered by Baltimore City from Sharp Street to the east.
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The Cole families, of Old England, appear to have had the same Christian names as the early settlers in Maryland and Virginia, viz .: John, Thomas, William, Skipwith, et al. Cole-Stake Lyne-John Thomas and William. There was a fine monument erected to the Cole family at Petersham, in 1624. John Cole, tenth in line from William Cole, County Devon, 1243. Cole-Marazon-Francis Sewell Cole, esquire, nineteenth in direct descent from Edward, third, and the family long in County Devon. Cole-Woodniem-John Cole, 1614, father of William Cole, officer in Cromwell's Army. James Garrett, Esquire, County Carlow, married Mary, daughter of Colonel Blake, same family as Sir William Garrett, Lord Mayor London, 1555.
Sir Bernard Burke, in his "Armory and Heraldry," gives the Sewell family in England three coats of arms; the Cole family, twenty-two; Stone, thirty; Garrett, three; Kirby, fourteen; Randall, fifteen; Warner, nineteen; Acton, twenty-seven. These names are all shown in the above as Sewall connections.
RAWLINGS.
Much has been written lately concerning this family. As none of the writers seem to have gone to the wills for information, I will reproduce them and leave interested descendants to fit them.
It has been stated that Henry Rawlings, father of Anthony, the public man, was the immigrant. There seem to have been others. The archives are full of Anthony Rawlings, and the chan- cery records add more light. His will of 1652, names sons, John and Anthony, who inherited adjoining lands up on the Patuxent. He names his oldest daughter, Anne, and youngest daughter, Mar- garet. His wife was Jane Rawlings.
In 1676, Elizabeth Rawlings, widow of Nicholas, made an oral will in which she desired Elizabeth Mackey to take care of her child, and to collect from her debtors what was due.
In 1696, Richard Rawlings named his two sons, Richard and John; his daughters were Mary and Elizabeth, and wife Jane.
In 1717, John Rawlings, of Dorchester, named his brother, Anthony, and his nephew, John of Anthony, also his nephew, John King, and his son-in-law, Mark Fisher. His wife was Elizabeth.
Daniel Rawlings, of Charles County, in 1726, held a large estate both there and in Calvert. He left his "home plantation, on St. Leonard's Creek," to my youngest son, Daniel. I confirm unto my son-in-law, John Clare and Elizabeth, his wife, part of 'Elton Head Manor,' called 'Rawlings' Choice,' now occupied by John Clare and his wife, Elizabeth. To daughter, Anne Rawlings, the north part of 'Rawlings' Choice' and five hundred acres of the same tract to son Isaac Rawlings. To daughter Mary Halloway, negroes. Son Isaac and son-in-law John Clare executors. (Seal)."
-DAN RAWLINGS.
John Parran, Wm. Day, and Alexander Parran were witnesses.
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Daniel Rawlings, of Calvert County, in 1748, named sons, Daniel and John, and daughters, Nancy and Margaret. He held tract "Rawlings' Choice" "left me by my father." He bought, also, his brother Isaac's lands.
Of this family upon "Rawlings' Manor," one brother, Isaac, still later, was in Mississippi when that was only a territory. In one of his letters, which I have seen, he wrote that "his brother, Captain Thomas Rawlings, was then at the front with General Jackson in his Indian campaign at Pensacola." After the war, Captain Thomas returned to Calvert, and, at forty years of age, ' married his cousin, Mary Dalrymple, whose mother was Christiana Clare, of John. She was then a girl of fifteen years. Together they lived upon "Rawlings' Choice" and had one son who died in early manhood. This girl of fifteen years, later married another cousin, her first lover, Dr. S. J. Cook, and became the mother of Mrs. J. D. Warfield.
Anthony Rawlings, Jr., of Dorchester, in 1728, left a colt to his father, and named his sister Mary, and cousins, Mary and Charles Daughety. To his brother, John, he left his clothes and silver shoe buckles. Sister Margaret Hail was made legatee of all his personal property and his executrix
Aaron Rawlings, of Anne Arundel County, in 1741, named his wife, Susannah, and sons, Jonathan, Aaron, William and Stephen. The last two inherited "Darnall's Groves," in Prince George County. "My lands in Baltimore County, called 'Brown's Adventure,' to sons and daughter Ann. Aaron to hold the homestead.
This testator's wife was Susannah Beard, the daughter of Stephen. Her will closes the Rawlings previous to the Revolution. In 1762, she named her sons, Aaron, Moses, Richard, daughter Mary, and four married daughters, Ann, Susannah, Rachel and Elizabeth. Her son, Aaron, and son-in-law, Gassaway Watkins, executors.
The further records of this family have been already published.
THE SEWELLS OF VIRGINIA.
Henry Sewell came to Virginia from England previous to 1632. He gave his name to "Sewell's Point" at the entrance to Elizabeth River, opposite to Fortress Monroe. His wife was Alice Willoughby, daughter of Thomas Willoughby, who came to Virginia in 1610, and was Justice of Elizabeth City, 1628; Burgess, 1629-32, and Councilor, 1644-50. At the court holden May 31st, 1640, Henry Sewell and Captain Sibley were authorized to build a church at Mr. Sewell's Point. August 2nd, 1640, Captain Thomas Willoughby, Esquire, Captain John Sibley, Mr. Henry Sewell, Mr. Edward Wind- ham and Mr. William Julian, are to pay for themselves and others; the church minister, Mr. Thomas Harrison.
Peter Porter's name appears in 1641. He, in 1650, settled in Maryland, at the head of Severn River, "Peter Porter's Ridge."
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In 1641, the orders of the Court directed that this parish church should be built at Mr. Henry Sewell's Point at the cost and charge of the inhabitants, and chapel of ease at Elizabeth River.
Henry Sewell had two children, Anne and Henry. Anne was born 1634, and married Lemuel Mason, son of Francis Mason. Henry Sewell, the younger, was born 1639. Henry Sewell, the elder, was elected to the House of Burgesses from Elizabeth City, in 1632, and from Lower Norfolk County in 1639. He died, 1644, and at a Court holden same year in Lower Norfolk County, at the house of Ensign Thomas Lambert, February 20th, "The Court doth think fit and orders it, Mr. Matthew Phillips, the administrator of Mr. Henry Sewell ,deceased, shall within ten days satisfy and pay to Mr. Thomas Harrison, clerk, one thousand pounds of tobacco, and satisfaction in consideration for the burial and preaching of the funeral sermon of Mr. and Mrs. Sewell, deceased, and for breaking ground in the chancel of the church for the burial of Mr. and Mrs. Sewell.
Mr. James Warner was elected, in 1649, Church Warden at Sewell's Point, and, in 1651, settled on the Severn River, Maryland.
At a Court, holden February 25th, 1649, the opinion is con- cerning the estate of Henry Sewell, with the consent of John Holmes, overseer, with Lemuel Mason and Anne, daughter of Henry Sewell, witnesses, agreed the estate of Mr. Matthew Phillips, late deceased, be responsible for the estate ofHenry Sewell, and Mrs. Ann Phillips administratrix of said Matthew Phillips, responsibility to be left to the decision of four disinterested persons. Henry Sewell, the younger then ten years old, to be sent abroad by orders of the Court for seven years, in charge of his kinsman, Mr. Thomas Lee. A deposi- tion taken in 1662, shows Henry Sewell, the younger, to have been born, 1639, and a deposition taken in 1672, shows Henry Sewell, the younger, deceased sine prole.
The custom in England at this time, of giving the same christian name to two or more sons was not uncommon, for instance, Henry the elder, Henry the younger, and Henry the middle. The Mary- land settler was evidently of this family.
There were quite a number of people in the vicinity of Sewell's Point about 1650, who came up to Maryland and settled on or near the Severn River. Among them, Edward Lloyd, Cornelius Lloyd, Matthew Howard, Thomas Todd, William Crouch, James Horner, Nicholas Wyatt, Thomas Howell, Thomas Gott, William Galloway, Peter Porter, James Warner, Richard Acton and others.
The following is an account sales, in 1638, for Henry Sewell, Sewell's Point, Virginia, from his factor in London, England, of tobacco sent over in the ships, America and Alexandria, and for one-half of a cargo in a shallop with sassafras roots, sold in England, and showed the cash receipts to have been £650, 19s. and 6d.
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MUSTER ROLLS-REVOLUTIONARY WAR SEWELLS.
John Sewell, June 3rd, 1778, served during the war.
James Sewell, second battalion, Colonel William's regiment, October, 1780.
John Sewell, fourth battalion, July 27th, 1776.
Joseph Sewell, 1776, Captain Goldsborough Company.
John Sewell served until 1781.
John Sewell, 5th Regiment, 1776.
John Sewell enlisted in Captain Goldsborough Company, 1776. Charles Sewell, July 2nd, 1776.
Daniel Sewell, enlisted July 4th, 1776.
William Sewell, 1776, discharged 1779.
Clement Sewell, May 4th, 1777, promoted Maryland Line, September 14th, 1777.
William Sewell re-enlisted, June 4th, 1778; Maryland Line April 4th, 1779.
John Sewell, June 8th, 1778; corporal 1779; sergeant 1780. William Sewell, March 11th, 1776, 4th Infantry.
Hon. Grover Cleveland, ex-president of the United States, is a descendant of the Sewell family
Margaret Borodale married Rev. Jonathan Mitchell. Their daughter, Margaret - Major Stephen Sewell. Their daughter, Susannah-Rev. Aaron Porter. Their daughter, Susannah-Aaron Cleveland, whose son was William Cleveland, who had a son, Rev. Richard Falley Cleveland, who was the father of Grover Cleveland -eighth in direct line from Rev. Jonathan Mitchell, and seventh from Stephen Sewell.
THE SEWELLS OF THE SEVERN.
"Sewell's Point," upon which the Independent Churchmen had built their conventicle in 1638, and upon which the coming James- town exhibition will be held, sent to the Severn, along with many others, a descendant of Henry Sewell, the prominent pillar of that church.
Henry Sewell of the Severn, made surveys with the Howards in 1662. He settled near James Warner, another member of the Virginia church, and later, married his daughter, Johanna.
From a case in chancery, the following history is established. By James Warner's will, his daughter, Johanna, heired " Warner's Neck." It was "not to be disposed of by none from them, but his said daughter and her heirs forever." It was, in the face of that will, later sold by James Sewell, son of Henry and Johanna to Samuel Howard. Henry Sewell, Jr., contested this sale on the plea of entail. The Provincial Court passed upon it, but, after the death of all the original parties, it was carried to the Court of Chan- cery, which reversed the decision of the Provincial Court.
The Rent Rolls show that it was handed down by Philip How- ard to his widow, and by her next husband, Henry Pinkney, was
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held in the Howard estate. The will of James Warner names Samuel Howard and Henry Sewell, "sons." To the first he left a "broad cloth suit;" to the latter, a suit of "stuffe."
Henry Sewell, Jr., remained upon the homestead. He took up "Sewell's Fancy," and bought a part of "Duvall's Delight" upon the Patuxent, from Charles Carroll. In his will, of 1726, he named Mary, his wife, and Samuel, Mary, Henry, Joseph, Philip and John Sewell. Having bought, of Richard and Adam Shipley, their father's purchase of "Howard and Porter's Range," this tract was left to his sons. "Hereford," the Marriott tract ,was also in pos- session of Henry Sewell, the testator of 1726. This may have come through his wife, Mary, a Marriott. This tract was closed out by the heirs to their brother John Sewell.
John married Hannah Carroll, daughter of Daniel Carroll, at St. Anne's, Annapolis, May 30th, 1721. Hannah and Daniel Car- roll, of Daniel, were baptized at St. Anne's March 2nd, 1713. Daniel' Carroll married Elizabeth Purdy, at "All Hallows," 1730. John and Hannah (Carroll) Sewell had John, born 1725, and Henry, 1723, and were baptized at " All Hallows," July 4th, 1726.
John, of John and Hannah Sewell, married Mary Marriott, daughter of Augustine and Mary (Warfield) Marriott, 1729. Issue, John, born 1761, Achsah, 1768, Augustine, Sarah and Mary Sewell.
John Sewell, son of John and Mary (Marriott) Sewell, married Lydia Baldwin, in 1804, daughter of James and Sallie (Rawlings) Baldwin. Issue, John, Sarah, Matilda, Eliza and Mary Sewell.
John Sewell, of John and Lydia Sewell, married Juliet Gambrill, daughter of Augustine and Maria (Woodward-Baldwin) Gambrill. Issue, Augusta-Rev. W. L. Welch; John died single; Charles- Elizabeth Whitney. Issue, Burnett S. Sewell and Juliet Gam- brill Sewell.
Juliet Sewell, daughter of John and Juliet (Gambrill) Sewell, married Summerfield Baldwin. Issue, Charles, Summerfield, Juliet, Dorothy and Willard Baldwin.
Matilda Sewell married George Savage. Issue, George, John, Lydia and Rev. Riley W. Savage. Sarah Sewell married Benja- min Clark. Mary and Eliza Sewell died single.
Mary Sewell, daughter of John and Mary (Marriott) Sewell, married Patrick Orme, of Montgomery County, and left two children -Mary-a Mr. Newlin, and Rebecca-Dr. Perry, of Washington, D. C. Mr. Orme married a second time, and left three daughters. One married Richard Sewell, another Mr. Bailey, and the third, Mr. Landstreet, all of Baltimore City.
Augustine Sewell, of John and Mary (Marriott) Sewell, married. Mary Pitts, 1784, daughter of Thomas Pitts, of William. Issue, John Marriott Sewell, a prominent merchant of Baltimore; Mary -Francis Baldwin, of James of Edward. Issue, John, James F., Thomas Pitts, Mary Pitts, Susan and Sallie Baldwin.
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Juliet Sewell-Thomas Worthington, and left a son, Thomas Worthington. Juliet (Sewell) Worthington married a second time, Augustine Sappington. Issue, Nicholas and Mary Sappington.
Augustine Sewell, Jr., died single. George Sewell died, age sixteen. Charles Pitts Sewell died, age six years. Eleanor Sewell, daughter of Augustine and his second wife, Anne, married James Gaskins. Issue, Emily Stewart, Edward and Thomas Gaskins.
Sarah Sewell, daughter of John and Mary (Marriott) Sewell, married Thomas Pitts, in 1782, of Thomas of William, and brother of Mary Pitts, who married Augustine Sewell. Issue, Achsah and Thomas Pitts.
The Sewells and their allied families were among the very earliest settlers in Maryland, and held land where both Annapolis and Baltimore are now located.
The old Sewell homestead near Indian Landing at the head of the Severn River, Anne Arundel County, has been in the possession of the family since 1673, and is still owned by the descendants of the Sewells. It was surveyed for John Marriott, in 1673, and in his will, dated 1718, he left it to his sons, John, Silvanus and Augustine Marriott. Sarah, the daughter of Augustine and Mary (Warfield) Marriott, held it until 1773, when it was transferred to John Sewell and his wife, Mary Marriott, a daughter of Augustine Mar- riott, and sister of Sarah Marriott. In 1791, John Sewell trans- ferred it to his son, John Sewell, and it has been in the family ever since.
The first church built in this section was known as the Cross Roads, now Baldwin's Memorial; and the members of the Protestant Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal Churches worshipped together. The first trustees were John Sewell, Matthias Hammond and Augustine Gambrill.
(This matter was given to the author before its publication in the Sunday "Sun," and by request, is republished.)
Extract from a letter written many years ago by one of the Sewell family.
"Our great-grandfather, John Sewell, married Miss Mary Marriott, who was born on the old Marriott estate near the Indian Landing at the head of the Severn River. John Sewell, who died 1805, and his wife, Mary Marriott, who died 1800, lived to a good old age on the old Sewell homestead, situated on the Annapolis and Baltimore road, about eleven miles distance from Annapolis, and adjoining the Marriott estate.
"A sister, Sarah, married William Yieldhall. They had no children, and left all their possessions to Thomas Furlong, whom they had reared and educated under peculiar circumstances. And this deed of kindness was never forgotten by our family, so characteristic of the Sewells and their love of hospitality.
" Achsah Sewell, daughter of John and Mary (Marriott) Sewell, married Leonard Mallonee, at that time a class leader in the Metho- dist Church; and, to give you some idea of the ways of Methodism
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