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In 1774, she became the wife of Vachel Worthington, reserving by marriage contract, her own property for William Yieldhall.
Vachel Worthington became the guardian of John Brown's sons with Captain Philemon Warfield (of Alexander) their surety.
Valentine Brown (of Thomas) heir of "Brown's Forest," evidently received his name from Valentine Browne, one of the audi- tors of Her Majesty's Exchequer, previously a Commissioner in Ireland and Scotland for Edward VI and Mary I. His arms were granted him in 1561. The funeral entry of Sir Thomas Browne, Knight of Hospitall, records him the third son of Sir Valentine Browne, Knight of Crofts, by Thomascine, his second wife, sister of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of England.
Valentine Brown (of Thomas) took possession of his estate upon " Brown's Forest," near Columbia. He left no will, but his name- sake and relative, Valentine Brown of 1713, left his estate in the Province to a merchant and goldsmith, of Dublin.
Elizabeth Brown, widow of Valentine (of Thomas) named her sons Valentine and John. Her daughters were Sarah, Sidney and Elizabeth Pierpoint. She named her grandson Amos Brown and made her daughter Sidney her executrix.
Sidney Brown was a witness to the will of Mrs. Ely Dorsey, her neighbor. Her will of 1783, named her nephew, Valentine, son of Thomas, nephew William, son of brother John and niece Sidney Brown.
" Brown's Forest" descended to John (of Valentine) who left it to his wife in 1805. It adjoined Rezin Hammond on the Patuxent in Howard County. It descended to Valentine and Joshua and still later, was sold to Nicholas Worthington (of John). William, E isha and Charles Brown received lands near Fulton, where they still have many descendants.
Joshua Brown (of Thomas) located upon the lower part of "Ranter's Ridge." The upper part was bought by John Dorsey, of Edward, and given to his son Nathan.
Here later lived Governor George Howard. Joshua Brown married a daughter of Christopher Randall and from lands of his estate surveyed "Brown's Addition." In 1757, he and Roger Randall sold "Good Fellowship" to Benjamin Browne.
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In his will of 1774, Joshua Brown left "Ranter's Ridge" to his son John Browne. "To Joshua Browne, Jr., was given 'Whole Gammon' and 'Half Pone.' His daughter Hannah, became Mrs. Hipsley. She inherited her brother Joshua's estate, including 'Brown's Loss' and 'Dorsey's Gain.'"
ABELL BROWNE.
This name is not on the list of our early settlers, yet he came from Dumfries, Scotland. He was Sheriff of Anne Arundel during the exciting revolutions preceding the transfer of the Province to King William.
Finding it impossible to make collections of the levies for county expenses and not wishing to resort to harsh measures, he used his own means to meet necessary expenses. The Archives contain his petition for an extension of official tenure in order that he might recover his outlays.
The Commissioners made an arrangement with his successor for the relief of the petitioner.
Abell Browne in 1692, was one of the Associate Justices of Anne Arundel. He married first, a daughter of Samuel Phillips, of Calvert County, a sister of Mary, wife of Michael Taney, who with Abell Browne, was an executor of their brother-in-law, Ambrose Landerson, of Calvert.
Samuel Browne, son of Abell, appeared later in a petition con- cerning his father's claim to "Harwood," a tract upon Rhode River. In that petition, Robert Browne appears as another son of Abell Browne. He was issue, of the second wife, the heir of "Harwood," which by Abell Browne's will of 1702, was left to son Robert as also " Abell's Lot" on Bush River.
The testator further added: "Should Robert die without heirs, the above property is to go to "my nephews, Samuel and James Browne, sons of my brother James, of Bermuda." This nephew Samuel is claimed by the Browne family to be the Naval officer of 1692, commander of the Phenix from South River to London. There is no other record of Samuel Browne, first son of Abell, by his Phillips wife, but as Samuel Phillips was a commander of a vessel and left his property to his nephew Samuel Browne, the inference seems to point to the latter as the commander. One of these was on Bush River.
Accepting, however, the family record, Mr. Samuel Browne seems to have located in Baltimore County, on Bush River as early as 1689, where with Major Edward Dorsey he signed a petition to King William, in favor of restoring the Province to Lord Baltimore. From his son Samuel likely descended Benjamin Browne, of "Good Fellowship," near Woodstock, the family homestead still.
The earliest will in Baltimore County is that of Samuel Browne, of 1713. He named his sons Samuel, James and Absolom.
The above testator was evidently related closely to James Brown, the nephew of Abel, and was no doubt the other nephew.
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Robert Browne, of Abell, sold " Harwood," and bought of Mr. Chapman, a tract on the Patuxent, taken up by Mr. Wright, and named "Wrighton." By his wife, Mary, daughter of Thomas Tin- dale, who granted her "Dinah's Beaver Dam," on Herring Creek, he had the following heirs named in his will of 1728: Abell, John, Robert, Joseph and Benjamin. This last son had a daughter, Eliza- beth Browne, who married Jacob Carr. They joined, in 1772, in deeding their interest in "Wrighton" to John Browne, of Robert, who bought out the remaining heirs.
Abell Browne, the eldest son of Robert, settled in the neigh- borhood of Sykesville. He upset, by a case in chancery, the sale of "Harwood" by his father, and sold his interest in the same, in 1786, to Vachel Dorsey, of Vachel. His wife, Susannah Browne, joined him. Samuel Browne, of Abell, by Elizabeth, his first wife, was one of the "Minute Men" of Governor Thomas Johnson. Five of his relatives were killed in the Revolution.
The issue of Abell and Susannah Browne were Elias, Moses, Ruth, wife of Thomas Cockey, and Rebecca, wife of George Frazer Warfield. Elias Brown-Ann Cockey, and had Thomas Cockey Browne, Stephen Cockey Browne, who was a lieutenant on the Canadian frontier in the War of 1812, and died from consumption by exposure; Elias Brown, Jr., the congressman, and William Browne were the four sons.
Elias Browne, Sr., died a young man, in 1800. His brother, Moses Browne-Mary Snowden. Issue, Frank-Lucinda Edmonds- ton, and had Moses, of Missouri.
Susanna, of Moses, was the wife of Elias Browne, the Congress- man; Ellen Browne was the wife of Edward Dorsey, brother of Chief Justice Thomas Beale Dorsey. Their daughter, Comfort, mar- ried Gilchrist Porter, member of Congress from Missouri; and their daughter, Mary-James A. Broadhead, United States Senator and Minister to Switzerland. Ann Browne, of Moses, married Colonel Steele, of Kentucky. Their daughter, Florence, is now the widow of Senator Vance, of North Carolina. Mary Ann Browne, of Moses, -Westley Bennett, whose daughter, Susan Ann-Stephen Thomas, Cockey Browne, father of Ex-Governor Frank Browne. Rebecca Browne, of Moses,-Dr. Benjamin Edmondston, brother of Frank Browne's wife. Theresa Browne, of Moses,-Larkin Lawrence, All of these, viz .: Edward Dorsey, Frank Browne, Colonel Steele, Dr. Edmondston, and a number of other relatives, went west in 1831.
They formed a great caravan of wagons, with their children, negroes and cattle. Some went to Kentucky, some to Illinois, and others to Missouri, then the far West.
Thomas Cockey Browne, of Elias and Ann Cockey,-Susan Snowden, sister of Mrs. Moses Browne. Their issue were Lewis H. Browne, Stephen T. C. Browne and Prudence Patterson.
William Browne was the father of Mr. Benjamin Browne, of Washington, to whom I am indebted for information.
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Mr. Chas. T. Cockey, of Pikesville, descends from Ruth Browne, of Abell, wife of Thomas Cockey.
Rebecca Browne, of Abell, became the wife of George Frazer Warfield, son of Azel and Susannah (Magruder) Warfield, half- brother of Dr. Chas. Alexander Warfield. His Frazer name came from the Scottish Clan of Frazer, descendants of McGregor.
Lord Lovat was chief of that clan when George Frazer Warfield was named. The latter became a merchant of Baltimore, and built "Groveland" at Sykesville. Their issue were Dr. George Warfield, Lewis, William, Henry, Rebecca, Susanna, Ann Elizabeth.
Rebecca-Richard Holmes, a Virginia gentleman of large wealth, who removed to Maryland, and settled near Norbeck. Their son, George Holmes, bequeathed $5,000 to Hannah Moore Academy. Ella Holmes-Jno. R. D. Thomas, of the Baltimore Bar.
Susanna Warfield was an authoress and accomplished musician. She composed the ode used in the inauguration of President Wil- liam Henry Harrison. Her homestead, "Groveland", descended to her brother, Lieutenant William Henry Warfield, a graduate of West Point, a devout Christian, who devised it, after the death of his sister, to the Episcopal Church. It is now known as Warfield College.
Ann Elizabeth Warfield bcame Mrs. John Wade, residing for many years at the St. James Hotel; dying without issue in her eighty sixth year.
Dr. George Warfield removed south for his health. He married Sarah Brooke Bentley, daughter of Caleb. Their son, the late Lewis M. Warfield, of Savannah, married Phebe D. Wayne, grandniece of Judge James Wayne , of the Supreme Court of United States, and daughter of Thomas Smyth Wayne. Issue, Louis M. Warfield, Jr., graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and Edith Wayne Warfield, of Savannah.
Other descendants of Samuel Brown, the naval officer, will be found in the history of Howard County.
COL. NICHOLAS GASSAWAY.
Nicholas Gassaway came to South River in 1650. He came with Richard Owens and his wife, Mary, who settled in the same neighborhood.Nicholas Gassaway assigned the lands due him unto Thomas Bradley, stating therein that he came in 1650.
In 1663, a tract of land called "Poplar Ridge," on the north side of South River, was laid out for him. It adjoined Captain Thomas Besson, whose daughter, Hester, as shown in Captain Bes- son's will, became the wife of Nicholas Gassaway. John Besson, her brother, had "lands adjoining son Nicholas Gassaway." In 1677, Mr. Gassaway took up "Charles His Purchase," on the Gun- powder, and "Gassaway's Ridge" in 1679; "Gassaway's Addition" in 1688. In 1678, he was Captain of the Provincial Militia; in 1681, was Major. The archives give his letter concerning the insolency of the Indians. In 1684, with others, he was a commissioner to establish
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ports of entry; was Justice in 1684. In 1687, he joined Major Edward Dorsey and Captain Edward Burgess in a letter refuting the pretended invasion of the Indians. In 1691, he was assistant Com- mander of the Rangers, and, at the same time, one of "The Quorum." He was also a lieutenant under Colonel John Coode.
Colonel Gassaway came into possession of "Edward's Neck," taken up by John Edwards. In transferring that tract to Mr. Anthony Ruley, he recorded, "That it came to him by inheritance."
His will of 1691 reads: "First. I give to son Nicholas, my dwelling and lands in "Love's Neck," and seven negroes; to son John, three hundred acres in the Gunpowder, and after his sister Hester Groce's (Grosse) decease, the land she lives on and fifty pounds and furniture. To son Thomas, lands upon South River and nine negroes. To sons Nicholas and Thomas, seven hundred and eighty acres on Gunpowder, in two tracts, to be divided equally between them. To my danghter, Hester Groce, ten pounds sterling. I give to my daughter, Ann Watkins, two negroes; to my daughter, Jane Gassaway, £200 sterling; to my daughter, Margaret Gassaway, £200 sterling, and a negro each. (This daughter married Thomas Larkin, of John.) I give to my grandchildren, John Wat- kins and Elizabeth Groce, the sum of ten pounds sterling, per year, to be paid out of 'fund left me by my uncle, John Collingwood, of London, merchant, and in possession of my cousin, Samuel Beaver.' My son, Thomas, to be under the tuition of his brother and sister, John and Ann Watkins, until he come of age. My sons, Nicholas Gassaway, John Watkins and his wife, and my son, Thomas Gassaway, to be executors."
This will was proved at a Court held at Captain Nicholas Gassaway's, on the 27th of January, 1691. This act shows his importance in the province.
Captain Nicholas Gassaway, Jr., was a merchant of South River. He sold, in 1698, lot No. 28 in Londontown, to Thomas Ball, of Devon, England, merchant. His wife, Anne Gassaway, survived him, and became Mrs. Samuel Chambers, who continued the business at Londontown. At "Gresham," on South River neck, the home of Cap- tain Nicholas Gassaway, was placed a stone which reads: "Here lyeth interred, the body of Nicholas Gassaway, son of Colonel Nich- olas Gassaway, who departed this life the 10th day of March, anno dom., 1699, and in the 81st year of his age."
"Gresham" later became the property of Commodore Mayo, and is now owned by Mrs. Thomas Gaither, of Baltimore. The stone, with her permission, has been removed by Mr. Louis Dorsey Gassaway, to the grounds of St. Anne's Church, Annapolis.
John Gassaway, next son of Colonel Nicholas, in 1698, married Elizabeth Lawrence, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Lawrence, the Quakers. Their son and executor was Nicholas Gassaway. Cap- tain John Gassaway was buried in All Hallows, 1697.
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His widow, Elizabeth Gassaway, married John Rigby, and was buried in the Quaker burial ground, one mile west of Galesville, on West River, in 1700. Nicholas Gassaway, the son, will be noticed in Howard.
Captain Thomas Gassaway, youngest son of Colonel Nicholas, married Susannah Hanslap, daughter of Major Henry Hanslap. His will, of 1739, names his heirs: "I give to my wife, Susannah, my plantation for life; after her decease, to son Henry: to son John, all remaining lands adjacent to him: to Thomas, 500 acres where he now lives in Baltimore County: to Nicholas, 280 acres on the Gunpowder: to daughter Elizabeth Howard, 250 acres in Balti- more County called "James' Forrest': to my grandson, John Beale Howard, one lot in Annapolis: to Gassaway Watkins, 100 acres on which he now lives. Wife and son, John, executors."
John Gassaway, executor of the estate, married Sarah Cotter. Their heirs were named in his will, and, also, in the records of " All Hallows."
From notes in possession of the Boyle family, the following references to Captain John Gassaway are given:
" Annapolis, June 17th, 1763 .- Last Thursday, died at his plantation near South River, after a long and tedious indisposition, in the 55th year of his age. Captain John Gassaway, a gentleman who was for a number of years in the Commission of the Peace; three years sheriff and eight years one of the representatives for this county; in all which public trusts he gained applause. He was exemplary in his several relations of husband, parent, master, friend and neighbor, and has left behind him the character of an honest and upright man."
His daughter, Ann, married Gassaway Rawlings. Their daugh- ter, Ann,-Samuel Maccubbin, in 1788. Eliza Gassaway Rawlings became Mrs. Sanders and Mrs. Richard Alexander Contee. Eliza Gassaway Contee-Dennis Magruder.
By Captain John Gassaway's will, of 1762, the home planta- tion was to be held by wife Sarah, and then by Nicholas, heir-at- law. Nicholas heired, also, the plantation of his uncle, William Cotter, on Rhode River, and two other tracts purchased of Thomas Rutland and James Cadles. To him, also, "I give my silver spurs. To my daughter, Ann Chapman, a lot of negroes. To son, Thomas a lot of negroes and my silver hilted sword. To my granddaughter, Sarah Johns, negroes and my stone studs set in gold, also a lot of stock. To my beloved wife, my silver watch." He directs his executors to sell several tracts of land, and appoints his wife and Thomas executrix and executor.
Nicholas Gassaway, heir-at-law, made no objection. Mrs. Sarah Gassaway renounced the administration and asked for her third part of the estate.
The will of Captain Thomas Gassaway, the executor of Captain John, shows a liberal guardian of the poor. "To my wife, Mary, my dwelling plantation during life. To brother Nicholas, my gold
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seal and silver-hilted sword, and all my lands purchased of Charles Stewart. To my cousin, Thomas, son of Henry; to cousin Henry, son of uncle Nicholas; to cousins Susannah and Elizabeth Howard; to my uncle, Henry, all the money he is owing me; to Rebecca Welsh, widow; to John Jacobs, my teacher; Elizabeth Purdy, a widow; Sarah Burgess, widow; Ann Stewart, widow, all twenty pounds," with as many more legacies to the needy. His personal estate was left to his nephews and nieces. His wife, Mary, execu- trix, in 1773. Through his deed, of 1768, the grounds of the Parish Church of "All Hallows," were granted to Rev. David Love, rector; Henry Hall, Richard Williams, Jr., Wm. Ijams, Richard Watkins, Lewis Lee, Richard Beard, Jr., vestrymen, and Plummer Ijams and Richard Burgess, church wardens.
Nicholas Gassaway, of Captain John of South River, in 1791, named his son, John, to whom he gave all his real estate, provided he did not marry before twenty-one years old. His daughters were likewise required to remain single until twenty-one years. To John, "I give my clock, watch, gold seal, my silver spurs, one silver strainer and one silver tankard." To his daughters, Mary and Sarah Cotter Gassaway, he also left silver memorials, and all bonds, notes and open accounts, equally. "Doctor Robert Pottenger, my relative, to be my executor."
Dr. John Gassaway, son of the above testator, in 1800, made the following will, which was probated, 1812: "Intending shortly to go to Europe, I desire to record my will. I wish to be buried in my graveyard on my place called 'Cotter's Desire to Wm. Gass- away,' in Prince George County. I wish a sermon by some respect- able devine of the Protestant religion. I give all my personal and real estate, except what I give to my daughter Caroline, (daughter of Eliza Newman:) First, one-half of my real and personal estate to my sister Mary Gassaway, during life; the other half, with above exception, to my sister Sarah Cotter, while during life. I give to my daughter Caroline, the sum of fifteen pounds per annum, until fifteen, and ten pounds until twenty. Whenever she marries, I give her thirty pounds, to be paid by my two sisters, or their heirs.
Henry Gassaway, oldest son of Major Thomas and Susannah (Hanslap) Gassaway, was the founder of the Annapolis branch.
He took up "Wrighton," and sold it to Horatio Sharpe; he sold his interest in the homestead to his brother, John, Horatio Sharpe and Joseph Dick, and removed to Annapolis.
His first wife was Rebecca Chapman Gassaway. Their son, Thomas, born 1747, was the legatee of his cousin Thomas. Thomas Gassaway, of Henry, was Deputy Sheriff and Register of Wills at Annapolis prior to 1790, when his widow, Elizabeth Brice Gassaway, made a deposition concerning the Rutland estate. He was succeeded by his half-brother, General John Gassaway, an officer in charge at Annapoils during the War of 1812.
Louis C. Gassaway, of Thomas, was an attorney, and trustee in numerous transfers and estates. In 1811, John, Henry and Louis C.
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Gassaway were voters in Annapolis, when electors for Senators were chosen. In 1818, John and Louis Gassaway voted for Representa- tives in Congress, and for two delegates to the General Assembly. The marriage register at Annapolis shows the following records: "1787, Henry Gassaway and Margaret Selman; 1788, John Gass- away and Mary Quynn; 1791, John Gassaway and Elizabeth Price; 1807, Henry Gassaway and Levinia Killman."
General John Gassaway left an only daughter, Louisa, who left her house and lot in Annapolis to "her dear friend, Miss Whit- tington." Louis C. Gassaway-Rebecca Hendry. Issue, Louis Gardner, Charles, John, Augustus, Thomas R., Sophia and Amelia Gassaway, Rebecca, Hester, Wm. Hendry and Mary Elizabeth.
Louis Gardner Gassaway-Ellen Brewer. Issue, Rebecca- Wm. Bryan; Hester-Nicholas B. Worthington. Issue, Ann- I. H. Hopkins; Mary Eliza and William Hendry-Emily Clayton. Augustus Gassaway-Emily Whittington. Issue, Renna-Mr.Caulk.
Louis Gardner Gassaway, Jr., only child-Marion B. Dorsey, daughter of Michael, of Howard County. They had only two children, Louis Dorsey Gassaway and Ellen Brewer, wife of Lieu- tenant Ronald Earle Fisher, United States Cavalry, who has only recently returned from the Philippines.
Louis Dorsey Gassaway is assistant cashier of the Farmers National Bank, of Annapolis, and recorder of the ancient South River Club. He married Miss Mary Brooke Iglehart, daughter of Wm. T. Iglehart, of Annapoils, whose mother was a descendant of the first Thomas Harwood, of South River. Through her, Mrs. Gassaway is connected with descendants of Rev. Henry Hall, the first rector of St. James Parish (1698): descended, also, from Colonel Ninian Beale, of Calvert County (1676): from Colonel Joseph Belt, of Prince George. Her mother was Katherine Spottswood Berkeley, of Virginia.
The head of the Berkeley family in England, is the Earl of Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire. One of the Maryland family was entertained there, and taken into the dungeon where Edward, the Second, was murdered, and where his bed still stands.
Mrs. Iglehart and Mrs. Gassaway are thus descended from Governor Spottswood, of 1710; from King Carter; from the first Nelson, father of the governor; from Robert Brooke, of the Virginia branch of Brookes.
WILLIAM RICHARDSON, OF WEST RIVER, ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.
A friend of William Penn, he came to Virginia in the "Paul," of London, in 1634. He removed to Maryland in 1666, and became a member of the Lower House of the Assembly from 1676 to 1683. He was frequently the bearer of messages to the Upper House with instructions from Parliament.
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During his service, he was upon the Committee of Security and Defense of the Province, and of the Committee upon Laws for the Province. With Henry Ridgely, Edward Darcy, Nicholas Gass- away and others, he was, in 1683, also, upon a committee to erect a building for the Courts and Assembly, and for keeping the records of the Secretary's office in this Province.
On December 19th, 1682, William Penn met Lord Baltimore at West River, and after an interview upon their divisional line, Penn set out, the Lord Baltimore accompanying him several miles, to the house of William Richardson, and from thence two miles further to a religious meeting of his friends, the Quakers, at the house of Thomas Hooper.
William Richardson married Elizabeth Talbot, widow of Richard, and daughter of Matthias Scarborough. She brought to him "Talbott's Ridge" adjoining "His Lordship's Manor," surveyed in 1662.
Among the early land grants at Annapolis, are those in the name of George Richardson, for transporting himself in 1661; and Lawrence Richardson, about the same time. The latter was upon the Severn. His will, of 1666, named his daughter, Sarah Richardson, and sons, John and Lawrence Richardson.
Sarah Richardson became the wife of Joshua Dorsey, of " Hock- ley," who sold his interest to his brother, Hon. John, and removed to the estate of his wife. This descended to their only son, John Dorsey, by whom it was sold, his wife, Comfort Stimpson,' assent- ing, to Amos Garrett.
John Richardson came from London and took up a series of grants aggregating 13,000 acres.
Thomas Richardson took up some 5,000 acres. He is believed to have been the proprietor of Thomas and Anthony Richardson, of White Haven, in 1722-41.
Wills of six William Richardsons are on record at Annapolis, running from 1698 to 1775. William Richardson held, in 1677, one thousand acres in Anne Arundel. All of this family were men of means and education, holding important positions in the province.
They had issue, William, born 1668; Daniel, 1670; Sophia Elizabeth, died young, and Joseph, born 1678, married Sarah Thomas. There were, also, two twin daughters, Sophia and Elizabeth, born 1680. William Richardson, Sr., died 1697, and his will is probated at Annapolis.
William Richardson, Jr., married Margaret Smith. Daniel Richardson married Elizabeth Welsh, daughter of Major John Welsh by his second wife, Mary, step-daughter of Nicholas Wyatt. They had issue, John, Lauranah, Daniel-all dying young. The remaining heirs were, William, Elizabeth-Wm. Harrison, and Sophia-Charles Dickinson, of Talbott County, 1725. Daniel Rich- ardson married, second, Ruth (Ball) Leeds, widow of John Leeds, of Talbot County. Issue, Daniel and Benjamin.
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William Richardson, of Daniel and Elizabeth Welsh, resided in Talbot County, and married Ann Webb, daughter of Peter Webb, of Anne Arundel County. Issue, Peter and William, who was Colonel of the Flying Camp, in the Revolution. He married Eliza- beth Green: was Treasurer of the Eastern Shore, and lived to be ninety-two years old, with many great-grandchildren.
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