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John Gaither (of Benjamin), of "Bite the Biter," married Agnes Rogers, daughter of Captain John Rogers, of Prince George County ; issue, Evan, Vachel, Zachariah, John Rogers; Mary, wife of Seth Warfield; Sarah, wife of Richard Warfield; Susan and Agnes. Ben- jamin Gaither (of Benjamin) left his estate to his nephew Vachel (of John), who was a captain in the Revolution.
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Zachariah (of John)-Sarah Warfield (of Edward and Rachel Riggs). Major Thomas Gaither, late of the Circuit Court of Baltimore, and his sisters, of Cincinnati, are descendants of James Gaither (of Zachariah). Greenberry Gaither's daughter, Mrs. Matilda Rawlings, has a son, James Brent Rawlings, of Falls Church, Virginia. Evan Gaither (of Zachariah) went to Cincinnati, married Mary Ann Hinkle and left Miss Caroline Riggs Gaither and sisters.
"Bite the Biter" was last held by Evan Gaither and Washington Gaither, who later removed to West Friendship.
Evan Gaither (of John) gave his one-third interest in 9,000 acres of military lands in Kentucky to his brother John; to his sisters Nancy, Sarah and Mary Gaither, "my right in 'Bite the Biter' and in a part of 'Second Addition to Snowden's Manor' and 'Gaither's Chance,' purchased of my brother Vachel; to Nathan Waters and my sister, Susannah Waters, a part of 'Snowden's Second Addition;' To Samuel and Zachariah and my sisters above all the remainder of my estate."
Edward Gaither (of Benjamin) married Eleanor Whittle. She was deeded 100 acres of "Gaither's Collections" by Edward Gaither (of Edward). Their sons all engaged in the Revolution, were Lieu- tenant Greenberry Gaither, quartermaster in Captain Briscoe's Com- pany; Lieutenant Basil Gaither; Ensign Burgess Gaither; Lieutenant Benjamin Gaither, of Major Beall's Battalion. These brothers were all legatees of Benjamin Gaither, the bachelor son of Benjamin and Sarah Burgess.
Lieutenant Greenberry Gaither married Miss Anderson, of Rock- ville, and removed to Kentucky in 1813. Their sons were Dr. Ed- ward and Greenberry Gaither. Dr. Edward Gaither was in the War of 1812 and was at the battle of Tippecanoe. His son Greenberry became Attorney-General of Arkansas. Horace was an attorney and so was his brother, James Anderson Gaither; Thomas was a physi- cian; Brice Gaither, a merchant; John R. Gaither was a farmer. His son, James E. Gaither, was an attorney of Louisville, Kentucky. He holds still a memento of his ancestors-an old dinner bell, taken from the church bell of Rockville, upon which he had engraved its history
Greenberry Gaither(of Greenberry), the Kentucky settler, was Circuit Judge of Kentucky for many years, and left George Gaither, the bachelor.
Brice Gaither (of Edward of Benjamin) removed to Georgia.
Basil and Burgess Gaither, sons of Edward Gaither and Elinor (Whittle) Gaither, went to North Carolina, in 1781, from Maryland.
Basil Gaither represented Rowan County in the State Senate of North Carolina in 1788, and the House in 1790-91-92-93-94-95, and again in the Senate in 1796-97-98-99, and each year following until 1802. He married Margaret Watkins, of Maryland. Their children were Nicholas, Walter, Gassaway,| Basil, Betsy, Nathan and Nellie.
Burgess Gaither represented Iredell County, North Carolina, in the House in 1792-95-96-97, 1800 and 1801. He married Amelia
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(Milly) Martin, of Virginia, September 24, 1791. Their children were Alfred Gaither, born April 26, 1793, on Sunday, 3 o'clock, P. M .; Martin Gaither, born December 20, 1794, on Saturday, 5 o'clock, P. M .; Sarah Gaither, born October 19, 1796, on Wednesday, 4 o'clock A. M .; Elvira Gaither, born August 1, 1798, on Wednesday, 10 o'clock P. M .; Forrest Gaither, born May 26, 1800, on Monday, 11 o'clock, P. M .; Lemira Gaither, born November 15, 1802, on Monday, 7 o'clock P. M .; Milly Maria Gaither, born December 20, 1803, on Thursday, 8 o'clock P. M .; Burgess Gaither, born March 16, 1807; Eleanor Emmeline, born April 6, 1810, Thursday, 10 o'clock; Charles Cotesworth Pinkney Gaither, born May 31, 1812, 5 o'clock, P. M.
This is an exact copy from the family Bible of Amelia Martin Gaither.
Of the children of Burgess and Amelia Martin Gaither-
Alfred married Catharine Erwin, of Morganton, North Carolina, and had one child, Julia, who died unmarried.
Sarah Gaither married Robert Foster and lived in Lexington, North Carolina. They had only two children, Alfred Gaither and Amelia Emma Foster. Alfred Gaither Foster married Letitia Gray and had five children-Robert Alexander, Alfred Gaither, Amelia (Mrs. James A. Gwyn); Elizabeth, who is unmarried; Sarah Letitia (Mrs. Robert Galloway). Amelia Emma Foster married Benjamin Anderson Kittrell; of this marriage there were three daughters: Louisa Melissa Kittrell (Mrs. James Wesson, of Estabuchie, Missis- sippi), Amelia Eliza Kittrell (Mrs. Van Winder Shields, of Jackson- ville, Florida), Sarah Letitia Kittrell (Mrs. Robert W. Lassiter, of Oxford, North Carolina).
Lemira Gaither married William Foster and left five children, Laura, Sarah, Betty, Amelia and Julius.
Maria Gaither married Phillip Pierson and left six children, Gaither, James, Samuel, Susan, Sarah and Emma.
Elvira Gaither married Reid and left four children, Burgess, Oscar and two others.
Emaline Gaither married Abram MacRee and left one child, Emma, who married Chappel Hopkins.
Burgess Gaither married Elizabeth Erwin and left one child, Delia Emma, who married R. C. Pearson. Burgess Gaither had two sons, who died before him. He married a second time and left one son, Burgess Sidney Gaither, of Morganton, North Carolina.
Forrest Gaither married a Miss Caldwell (sister of Judge Caldwell, of Salisbury, North Carolina) and moved to Texas and died there, leaving a large family.
The brothers, Basil and Burgess Gaither, came to North Carolina from Maryland in 1781.
Nathan Gaither (son of Nicholas, son of Basil) had a son named Edgar Basil Gaither, who was Captain of Third Dragoons in the Mexican War. He was afterward State's Attorney for Kentucky and died in 1855 in Kentucky.
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Burgess Gaither, second, was a very talented and distinguished man, holding many prominent positions in the part of North Carolina in which he lived. There is a sketch of his life in a little book, "Prominent living North Carolinians."
GAITHERS IN NORTH CAROLINA.
A copy of my paper on the Gaithers and Burgesses, of South River, Maryland, having reached some descendants in North Carolina, Dr. P. F. Laugenour, of Statesville, North Carolina, has forwarded to me the following additional information of interest. Says he:
"I assume that our early settlers John and Benjamin Gaither were grandsons of John Gaither (of John) and Jane Buck; sons of John and Ann Gaither described by you in your sketch which reads. "'John Gaither and Ann, his wife, were seatedon 'Left Out' (near Dayton, Howard County). Their issue were Benjamin, John, Elizabeth, Ann and Seth."'
Soon after the close of the Revolution a number of Gaithers came from Maryland and settled in what then was Rowan County, but the territory is now embraced in the Northeastern part of Iredell and the part of Davis adjacent to it. Their lands lay on South Yadkin River, Hunting, Rocky, Dutchman, Little Dutchman, and Elisha's Creeks. This territory lies between Turnersburg, Houston- ville and Mockville.
Those who were granted lands by the State from 1784 to 1787 were Burgess, Basil, Benjamin, Johnsie, brothers, Nicholas, Eli, brothers, Benjamin 2nd, Azariah, William and John.
Basil, in 1785, was granted 500 acres of land on Elisha's Creek, near Mocksville, in Davie County. He was wealthy for his day and community and was a member of the Legislature from Rowan County from 1792 till 1802, serving in both branches. (Davie County was cut off from Rowan in 1838.)
His children, according to his will dated 1802, were Martha (Jones), Walter, Gassaway, Nathan, Betsy and Basil. He gave from 200 to 250 acres of land to each of his sons and divided several negroes among his children. He has some descendants about Mockville through his son Basil.
Burgess Gaither was an important character in Iredell County a hundred years ago and figures on the records in land transaction, etc., rather conspicuously. He married Amelia Martin, who came from near Richmond, Virginia. He represented Iredell in the Legislature, from 1790 to 1801. His old homestead on Rocky Creek above Turnersburg, just opposite Tabor Church, is now owned and occupied by Columbus Hayes. On an elevated plateau near his old homestead, surrounded by a neat stone wall, repose the ashes of this pioneer of a family whose descendants are numerous, without a lettered stone to inform his posterity whose mortal remains were there laid to rest.
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This solitary grave is now in the midst of a cultivated field; twenty-five years ago it was in an old field with a number of very old apple trees about it. There is a tradition that it was his request to be buried at that spot under a certain apple tree. He had a son Charles Cardsworth Pinkney Gaither, who, in 1836, lived in Morengo County, Alabama.
In 1829, Burgess S. sold to his mother his right and title in the old homestead devised to him by his father.
In 1836 his widow sold to Lebetius Gaither, son of Nicholas, the old homestead, "from which she recently moved" (to Morganton). He was the father of the late Hon. Burgess Sidney Gaither, of Mor- ganton, an able and distinguished lawyer of his day and one of the prominent men of the State, who held many County, State and Federal positions and was a member of the Confederate Congress. He was born 1807, located at Morganton about 1830 and died 1893, leaving many descendants about Morganton, among whom are Burgess S., Gaither and Samuel Pearson.
Benjamin, brother of Basil and Burgess, in 1784, was granted land on Bear Creek. In his will, dated 1802, he names the following children, some of whom were small: Thomas, Johnsie, Beall, Basil, Brice, Bruce, Sallie, Henrietta, and alludes to his daughters, Margaret Howard, Elinor Varner and Ann Parker.
Johnsie, a brother of these, was granted land on Elisha's Creek, in 1786.
Of Azariah Gaither nothing is known, except that he was granted 400 acres of land on Hunting Creek, in 1786, adjoining John Gaither.
Eli Gaither, a brother of Nicholas, owned land on Little Dutch- man Creek adjoining Jeremiah Gaither. His will, dated 1809, names Elizabeth, Bruce and William as his children, of whom I can learn nothing.
Nicholas Gaither, whose homestead was on Little Dutchman Creek, in 1793, willed lands on south side of South Yadkin River, to be sold after the death of his wife, the proceeds to be divided among his four sons, Edward, Libetius, Horatio, and Walter. In 1811 the land was sold and bought by Libetius and Horatio.
I know of no descendants of these in this country, except Libetius, born 1783, died 1860, who was father of David Burgess Gaither, who died an old man some fifteen years ago at Newton. Lawyer W. B. Gaither and Captain Junius R. Gaither, one of the leading business men of Newton, are his sons. Libetius had several daughters one of whom married Hall and one Donaldson. A son Junius died a bachelor. One daughter married J. A. Bell.
Benjamin Gaither, second, (in North Carolina,) whose will is dated 1788, died before 1804, that being the date of a sale of land under power of the will, left the following children: John, executor; Jeremiah, second, born 1771, died 1844; Zachariah, born 1772, died 1843; Basil, 1771-1844; Edward, Reason, Rachel and Ann.
Jeremiah, second, was father of Elam, who went to Tennessee and had four sons in the Confederate Army.
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Zachariah has many descendants in the old neighborhood. His children were as follows:
Isham, 1809-1894, father of Enoch; Milton, 1812-1891, father of Spurgeon and Newton J .; Elijah, 1816-1863; Noah, 1819-1854, father of Tom, Zach., Yank., and others; Temperance, 1822, who married Casper Kinder; Asberry, 1824-1891, father of Wiley; Mrs. Dr. Ellis, 1827, mother of Milton; Wiley, 1829, killed in battle at Spotsylvania, May 9, 1864; Alexander Gray, 1832. The mother of all these, except Isham, was a sister of John Taylor, who being well off and having no children, willed his property to her and her children, embracing the old homestead occupied by the late Milton Gaither.
Basil, son of Benjamin, had five sons, Frank, Ivory, Bruce, Vincent and Azariah, all of whom went West, and three daughters, Nancy Maiden, Polly Forcum and Martha Mason. In 1805 he bought land on Hunting Creek, from Wilson Turner. His will is dated 1842. He died in 1844 and was buried near the residence of Mile Campbell. Of the other sons of Benjamin, second, I know nothing.
John Gaither was granted land on Hunting Creek, in 1786, near where Mile Campbell now lives, adjoining Azariah Gaither. His children were: Jeremiah, first, born 1762, died 1815; Greenberry, John, Sr., and three daughters of whom nothing is known. John, Sr., born 1766, died 1844.
Jeremiah Gaither, first, had two sons, Greenberry, second, who to distinguish him from his uncle, Greenberry, was called "Dockie," and Enos (Een Gaither) and some children by his second wife, who with her children went West after his death, in 1815. A daughter by his first wife also went West.
Enos, 1793-1877 had three sons, viz., Wiley Summers, 1822, who went to Georgia and died young, leaving a son, Wiley, and a daughter, who married Camp; Frank, 1824, went to Atlanta, left one daughter; Burgess, 1826, married in Richmond, Virginia, where he died. He had three daughters, viz., Lamira, who married, first, Robinson, whose children were John, who went to Alabama; Henry, who went to Tennessee; a daughter, who married Hay Powell; another who married D. A. Ratledge, both of Davie County. Her second husband was Jack Campbell, whose children were Tyson, who went to Tennessee; Amos and two daughters.
Elvira, daughter of Enos, married Marshall Turner, is the mother of Watt and Bill, of Cool Springs, besides one son, John Burgess, who died in the Civil War. She is still living at eighty-five years of age.
Darcus married Cam Powell, father of Frank and Jim, of Statesville.
Greenberry, son of Jeremiah, first, (Dockie) 1790-1860, was married twice; his first wife was Mary Tomlinson, daughter of John, who died 1826, about thirty-two years old. Her children were Ivey, father of William C., whose children are Mrs. Bena Houp, Charles, Frank, Oat, Robert, Will and Nellie (Carson) all of Statesville; Caroline, who married Robert S. Colvert, father of John E., Augustus A., Mrs. J. Wes. Nicholson, Mrs. C. W. Stimson, all of Statesville, and
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Mrs. Johnsie, of Charlotte, all of whom are past middle age. Martin Gaither, father of Frank, of Harmony; Betsy, who married William I. Colvert, father of John G., Mrs. J. E. Stimson, and the mother of W. T. and Rev. Walter L. Nicholson, all of Statesville; Ellen, 1823- 1854, first wife of Humphrey Tomlinson; mother of Mrs. Burt Owens, of River Hill; John M. Gaither, 1826-1874, father of Mrs. John Hayes, Lily who married H. F. Laugenour, 1877 and died 1878; Robert F., James and John, of Harmony.
The second wife of Greenberry Gaither (Dockie) was Joana Gray, who was born in 1801 and died July 9, 1857. Her children were as follows: Amos F., who died about 1884, leaving no children. He represented Iredell County several terms in the Legislature; Emily, married Oliver Henry, died 1903, children are Harvey, James F., Mrs. Newton J. Gaither, Mrs. Will Campbell, William S., and Robert; James went to Florida and died there leaving no children; Lavina, 1832-1859, married D. A. Ratledge and was the mother of Thomas Ratledge and Mrs. Dwiggins, of Davie; Emiline Juliana, 1840, only one now living, married J. Martin Turner, whose children are William S., who died 1901, leaving James, Thomas and Lonnie; Sallie, who married Dr. P. F. Laugenour in 1886; Cora, who married W. T. Nicholson; Lizzie, who married William Fraley; Eugene and Latona, all of Statesville; Sarah married Alfred Turner, died 1904, leaving Blanche (Clifford), Daisy (Foster) and Arthur, all of Statesvile. Greenberry Gaither, first, son of pioneer John, has a number of descendants in Iredell. Four sons were: (Hostler) John, father of J. Alfred; Leander, father of Fry and William; William, Greenberry.
John Gaither, Sr., son of John, 1766-1844, was twice married. His children were as follows: two by his first wife, the others by his second, who was Drucilla Beall, who died September 29, 1872, in her eighty-ninth year. Elvira, married Samuel Albea; Sina married Elijah Campbell, who came from Maryland about 1790. Her children were Milus, Fry, Lewis, William, who was killed in the war; Elvira, wife of D. M. Campbell; Belt and David, all of whom are dead, or very old; Asa Burgess Friason, father of Dr. John B., of China Grove; H. Clay, of Statesville; Mrs. J. E. Colvert; William T., (Major Bill) 1826-1885, father of Turner, Dr. Beall, Ernest, Lum and several daughters. Mrs. Mary S. C. Morrison, of Jonesville, now eighty-seven years old, mother of James, Clay, Lum, Filmore and Mrs. Poindexter.
Descendants of the seventh generation from these pioneer settlers in North Carolina are now numerous in this country. Many members of the family went West, or South, as far back as seventy- five years ago.
GREENBERRY RIDGELY.
Greenberry Ridgely, heir-at-law of Colonel Henry, inherited " Hickory Ridge" and "Partnership," both adjoining each other at Highlands. There stands, to-day, just west of Highlands, his elegant
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old brick mansion, with its brick stables, near the brick-walled grave- yard of his family. It is now the estate of the late Samuel Hopkins. " Hickory Ridge" extends east of Highlands and embraces the present property of Mr. Ferdinand Pue. "Partnership" continues on east to Fulton.
Greenberry Ridgely was long a member of the vestry of Queen Caroline Parish. His wife was Lucy Stringer, daughter of Dr. Samuel and Lydia (Warfield) Stringer. She inherited a portion of " Warfield's Contrivance" at Guilford. Their heirs were Greenberry Ridgely, Jr., and Nicholas, who heired the homestead after the death of Mrs. Ridgely. Richard and Henry held "Baker's Quarter," Frederick heired "Ryan's Quarter." "To my four daughters, Ann, Lydia, Elizabeth and Sarah, £300 each." His will was probated 1738, with Azel Warfield, Launcelot Dorsey and Isaac Mayo witnesses.
Greenberry Ridgely, Jr., removed to Frederick County. Henry Ridgely, attorney-at-law and captain in the Revolution, married Matilda, daughter of Judge Samuel Chase, and resided in Baltimore; he became Judge; his daughter Emily became Mrs. Hollingsworth.
Nicholas Ridgely became the Baltimore merchant and married Eliza Eichelberger, whose daughter, Eliza Eichelberger Ridgely, married John Carnan Ridgely, son of Governor Ridgely, of Hampton. Elizabeth Ridgely-Dennis Griffith; Ann Ridgely married Dr. Francis Brown Sappington, and with him removed to Liberty.
Sally Ridgely died a maiden at the home of her sister in Liberty. Frederick Ridgely became a noted surgeon.
Richard Ridgely, executor of the estate, became a distinguished attorney-at-law, advocate in the Court of Chancery and a Judge. His name appears in numerous transfers of real estate in Howard. He refused to stand for a seat in Congress. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Ely and Deborah Dorsey. Her inheritance was "Dor- sey's Hall" upon "Dorsey's Search," which became the residence of Judge Ridgely. His will of 1824 records: "I desire no sermon to be preached at my funeral; the services to be held before a few invited friends; my body to be buried in the cemetery of my wife; to son Edward D. Ridgely I leave my library. To my sons-in-law, Robert Nelson and Richard Battie, and son, Edward D. Ridgely, I grant all my real and personal estate, in trust, with power to sell my plate, household furniture and divide the proceeds equally among my son Edward and daughters Betsy, Debby, Matilda and Sophia; their estates are not to be in the control of their husbands. To my granddaughter, Elizabeth E., daughter of my son, Daniel B. Ridgely, $2,000. To my son Richard's children, $1,500 each." He removed to Kentucky as an engineer, and in 1810 married Jane Price, daughter of Colonel John Price, of the Revolution, who settled in Jessamine County, Kentucky.
Captain Ridgely had two sons, Commodore Daniel Boone Ridgely, who married Joanna Clem and died in Baltimore, 1868, and Richard
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Henry Ridgely, who married in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Martha Nantz, in 1838; issue, Richard and Jane, who married Mr. Peckover, of Cynthiana, Kentucky.
Daniel B. Ridgely (of Judge Richard) married Miss Hammond and left one daughter, Elizabeth Dorsey Ridgely.
Judge Ridgely's daughters were Mrs. James A. Sangston, Mrs. Deborah Neilson, Mrs. Matilda Chase Baer and Mrs. Sophia Battie. His granddaughters were Mrs. Dare, of Calvert, and Mrs. Dr. Joseph Graham Ridgely, of Cincinnati. Judge Ridgely's large estate included "Dorsey's Search." This was bought by Caleb and Charles W. Dorsey, who divided. The Stockett property was also held by Judge Ridgely's executors.
CECIL, OR CISSEL.
Arthur Cecil, of St. Mary's, died in 1690. He left two sons, James and John. The former went to Virginia, the latter had a son Zephaniah Cecil, who settled in Howard District, upon Snowden's Second Addition. Two sons, William and Samuel, and two daughters, Elizabeth Smallwood and Nancy Warfield, were his heirs. The Cecils, of Anne Arundel County, near Millersville, descend from William Cecil, who married Miss Pumphrey.
Samuel Cissel married, first, Susie Gartrell Belt and had one daughter, Susie, who married James Turnbull, and one son, Samuel, who married Margaret Belt. He spelled his name "Cissel." A notice of the death of his son, George Washington Cissel, states that he was born in Washington, in 1834, and that his mother was a niece of John H. Bell, of Tennessee. He was one of nine children, each inheriting a farm in Howard and Montgomery County. His farm was in North Laurel. He removed to Washington and went to milling. He was a Commissioner of the District of Columbia and Vice-President of the Farmers' Bank. His beautiful home was Oak Crest, with ample grounds in Georgetown. One son, S. Sewell Cissel, by his first wife, is now a member of the milling firm. The surviving widow is Mrs. Agnes Moore. The brothers of George Washington Cissel were John Bell, Benjamin Gartrell, Chas. Alexander, Thomas Bell, William H., John, Samuel, Nathan and Edwin G. The first Samuel Cissel married, second, Isabella Bell, by whom he had Osborn, Zephaniah, Benjamin G., Philip, James, Richard, Sarah and Margaret. Two of these sons, Osborn and Benjamin, went to Indiana. Philip purchased the other heirs' interest in "Hammond's Gist." Richard Cissel removed to Montgomery County and was County Commissioner for several terms.
Samuel Cissel, second, after purchasing a farm for each son, bought a home near Sligo, where he died in 1864.
Benjamin G. Cissel, of "Paternal Gift," married Mary Ann Childs and had issue: Mary Hortense Virginia Cissel, Samuel Nathan, a student at the Agricultural College, who died in 1880, William Wash- ington Lee Cissel, physician and Clerk of Howard County Court, and Byron Vernon Cissel, Professor of Chemistry in St. John's College.
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Dr. Cissel married Cordelia Bell Cissel and Professor Cissel married Mary Ada Cissel.
In Howard County to-day are children of Philip Cissel, of " Hammond's Gist," viz .: Wilbur, Claude, C. E. Marvin and Philip Cissel, all farmers; also, Harry G., Charles A. and Frederick W. Cissel, sons of Charles Cissel, of "Sappington's Sweep," all farmers.
ROBERT RIDGELY, THE ELK RIDGE MERCHANT.
Hon. Robert Ridgely, of St. Inigoes, left to his oldest son, Robert, "Friend's Choice," 800 acres in Worcester County, "which, though at present in possession of the Duke of York, yet I doubt not, will be within the patent of Lord Baltimore." To Robert, also, a "tract of 600 acres in Somerset." Robert Ridgely, Jr., could not have secured the Worcester lands, for he made no reference to it in his will, but authorized a commission to sell his Somerset lands to pay his debts. He died in 1702, making no mention of his children. His widow became Mrs. Elizabeth Goldsmith. There were several chil- dren. Robert Ridgely, their son, was a merchant of Elk Ridge in 1728. His wife, Sarah, inherited "Freeborn's Progress," adjoining "Dorsey's Search;" it was conveyed by them to Thomas Howard for five shillings; still later, it was mortgaged to James Carroll, and in 1744 Robert Ridgely granted Charles Ridgely a bill of sale of all his growing crops.
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