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He remained a member of the Virginia Council until his death. (HENING.)
In 1666, he was made Major-General of Militia. He was a friend to the Quakers, and made provision for many needy families. His will was probated in 1675. The bulk of his estate descended to his grandson, Richard Bennett, 3rd, son of Richard Bennett, 2nd, by Henrietta Marie Neale, daughter of Captain James Neale, at- torney for Lord Baltimore, at Amsterdam, and former representa- tive in Spain. Captain Neale came to America in 1666, and repre- sented Charles County in the House of Burgesses. His wife, Anna Gill, was the daughter of Benjamin Gill. Their daughter Henrietta Marie, was named for her godmother, the queen. By her marriage to Richard Bennett, Jr., they had two children, Richard Bennett and Susanna (Bennett) Lowe, ancestress of Governor Lowe and Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
Richard Bennett, Jr., lived for a time upon the Severn. He was in the Assembly of 1666, and was a Commissioner of Kent County, in which he had an immense estate. In his early manhood
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he was drowned. His only son, Richard, succeeded to an estate which made him "the richest man of his majesty's dominion." He died a bachelor, leaving his property to his sister, Susannah Lowe, and to his step-father, Colonel Philemon Lloyd. His tombstone still stands at "Bennetts Point."
Ann Bennett, of Major-General Bennett, became Mrs. Theo- dorick Bland, of "Westover," Virginia. She died at Wharton's Creek, Maryland, as the wife of Colonel St. Legar Codd, of Virginia and of Maryland.
General Bennett and Commander Edward Lloyd were the staunch leaders in opposition to a Catholic proprietary, yet their sons both yielded to the eloquence of the good Catholic lady, Henrietta Marie Neale; whilst a descendant of Commander Robert Brooke, another rebelious subject, took for his wife, Dorothy Neale, sister of Hen- rietta Marie Neale. She was the progenitress of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney. These two Catholic mothers not only united dis- cordant religions, but the former gave to Maryland the following distinguished sons: Governor Edward Lloyd, of 1709, and Hon. Edward Lloyd, his son; Revolutionary Edward Lloyd, and his son, Governor Edward Lloyd, of 1809, United States Senator and grand- father of Governor Henry Lloyd.
She was the grandmother of Dorothy Blake, mother of Charles Carroll, the "Barrister"; grandmother of Hon. Matthew Tilghman and of Richard Tilghman, of "The Hermitage."
She was the grandmother of Governor William Paca's wife; of Edward Dorsey's wife, and of Thomas Beale Bordley's wife. As Maid of Honor to Queen Henrietta Marie, she received a ring, which is now in possession of Mrs. Clara Tilghman Goldsborough Earle, granddaughter of Colonel Tench Tilghman, great-grandson of Anna Gill.
The descendants of this prolific mother are "Legion." They have added many brilliant pages to the history of Maryland ..
THOMAS MARSH.
This first Commissioner of Anne Arundel, coming up from Vir- ginia with William Durand, he surveyed lands, first upon Herring Creek, but later became a merchant of the Severn.
He was an active member in every movement of the early settlers. Having become prominent in the Severn contest, the pro- prietary government, in 1658, refused to recognize his right to lands. His tract known as "Majors Choice," became historic as a long disputed line dividing the Counties of Anne Arundel and Calvert. He assigned a hundred acres upon the Chesapeake to Edward Dorsey and Thomas Manning. The latter in his petition for a title to the land, recorded that it was taken up by Thomas Marsh, who, on ac- count of his rebellion, was unable to secure title to the same.
Thomas Marsh assigned, also, to William Ayres, a tract upon Herring Creek.
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Removing to Kent Island he was made captain of Militia.
In his will of 1679, he named his wife Jane, daughter of John Clements; his son Thomas, and daughters Sarah and Mary.
Ralph Williams, of Bristol, England, residing, in 1672, upon "Towne Neck," made Thomas Marsh, senior, his residuary legatee. He was, also, that same year, a witness to the will of Robert Burle, an associate justice and legislator from the. Severn.
The Foremans, of "Clover Fields" and "Rose Hill," and other representative families of Eastern Maryland, descend from this first Commissioner.
HAWKINS.
Closely allied to Bennett, Lloyd, Meeres, and others of the Nansemond settlers, several families of Hawkins were early set- tlers in the province. John Hawkins, through his attorney, Nicholas Wyatt, assigned unto Giles Blake one hundred acres, due him for transporting himself into the province. Henry Hawkins named " his brother Philemon Lloyd," and left his property to Edward Lloyd, Susanna Bennett and Maria Bennett.
Ralph Hawkins was on the Magothy River in 1657. He had sons, Ralph and William, to whom he left "goods out of England." His wife was Margaret Hawkins. William Hawkins wife, Eliz- abeth, received from Thomas Meeres " a riding horse."
Thomas Hawkins, of Poplar Island, named "Margaret Hall, daughter of Edward." His wife was Elizabeth.
Matthew Hawkins, of the Severn, was one of Edward Lloyd's first commissioners, in 1650. From his daughter Elizabeth, came State Senator George Hawkins Williams, and Mr. Elihu Riley, the historian of Annapolis.
From John Hawkins, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Dorsey, descended Mr. James McEvoy, Dr. Frank Martin, Augustus W. Martin, Mrs. Dr. Mills, and Miss Fannie Martin, des- cendants of Dr. Samuel B. Martin, the "old defender," and his wife Ruth Dorsey Hawkins.
The Hawkins, of Queenstown, sent down a judge of the provincial court in 1700, and a surveyor-general of customs. Through the Fosters and Lowes, they were connected with Lord Charles Balti- more, the Lloyds, De Courseys, Marshes, Tilghmans and Chambers.
"Very interesting memorial remains," says Davis, "are now in possession of the vestry of Centreville, showing a massive piece of silver plate in excellent preservation."
HENRY HAWKINS.
An interesting case in Chancery gives us a view of some of our early fathers. The case is an inquiry to ascertain the owner of "Nathaniel Point," in Talbot County, on Wye River. Colonel Ed- ward Lloyd called a commisison of Mr. William Coursey to take depositions, and Captain John Davis gave this record:
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"Mr. John Scott told me that a certain bachelor's tree, up on the road passing through 'Nathaniel Point' got its name from the sale of said point by Mr. Nathaniel Cleeve to Mr. Henry Hawkins for a case of spirits. Upon the delivery of the goods, Mr. Henry Hawkins, Mr. Nathaniel Cleeve, Wm. Jones, Henry Catlin and four others, all bachelors, under that tree consumed the whole case of spirits and at the conclusion of the feast, Mr. Cleeve before all, pub- licly expressed his entire satisfaction with the bargain.
Mr. Henry Hawkins held the tract, and delivered it over to his kinsman, Colonel Philemon Lloyd, whose son was the party to the Inquisition. This transfer was confirmed by three of the bachelor party.
HENRY CATLIN.
This Commissioner and neighbor of Edward Lloyd, was a Justice and Burgess of Virginia. He was also an active supporter of the Independent Church in Virginia. He came up in 1649, bringing " his wife Jane and his son," (stepson), presumably Richard Horner. He did not remain long, but, in 1661, assigned his estate to Matthew Howard, who resurveyed it as "Howards Inheritance."
JAMES MERRYMAN.
A neighbor of Henry Catlin, and a member of Lloyd's first com- missioners, James Merryman, in 1662, assigned his certificate for five hundred acres to John Browne, of New England. He left no will, or other records. The Merrymans, of Hayfield, may thus des- cend.
John Browne held this grant and assigned it to James Rigbie, who sold to Colonel Nicholas Greenberry.
THOMAS MEERES.
Thomas Meeres was an important member of the Virginia As- sembly before coming up to be one of Lloyd's council. He was high in the church. He was an active participant in the Severn contest and was upon the committee which arrested Governor Fen- dall. He was a Justice of Anne Arundel, in 1657, and a delegate to restore the records in 1658.
His will of 1674, shows him a man of means. His daughter, Sarah Homewood, son John, and wife Elizabeth shared each one- third of his estate. To the latter was given his "jewels, plate, bills, and bonds."
John married Sarah, daughter of Philip Thomas. One daughter, Sarah, was their only heir. She became Mrs. John Talbott. They sold "Pendenny" to Captain John Worthington. This tract was Captain Worthington's homestead, just opposite the Naval Academy. It was also the homestead of Commander Edward Lloyd, who as- signed it to Thomas Meeres, who made the Quaker Society the final court of resort, in case of any dispute of his will.
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The will of John Meeres left "lands bequeathed by my father, Thomas Meeres, adjoining brother-in-law John Homewood," to daughter Sarah Talbott.
He left legacies to the children of his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Coale, and referred to his brother-in-law, Samuel Thomas.
HOMEWOOD.
James, John and Thomas Homewood were all upon the Magothy. James was Commissioner under Edward Lloyd, in 1650.
John Homewood was a later Commissioner of Anne Arundel. His wife, Sarah Homewood, was a daughter of Thomas Meeres. She again became the wife of John Bennett, a Commissioner to lay out Annapolis in 1694. She was the legatee of Henry Howard, in 1683, who gave her "a seal ring with a coat of arms, and a hooked ring with the initials F. C."
John Homewood and Henry Howard were intimate friends.
Both were legatees of John Pawson, of the city of York, Eng- land, who, in 1677, also named his friend, Dr. Stockett, in his list of legatees. The Worthingtons and Homewoods were united in marriage still later.
CAPTAIN GEORGE PUDDINGTON.
Honored as one of the first Commissioners under Edward Lloyd and unanimously named as one of the first legislators of 1650, Captain George Puddington took at once a foremost place in the new county.
Of his wife, the following record from the Virginia Magazine of History, is of interest: "Colonel Obedience Robins, of "Cherry- stone," born 1601, was a member, in 1632, of the first County Court of Accomac, and was a brother of Edward, merchant of Accomac. His name and associations seem to indicate that he was of Puritan affinities. His wife was the widow of Edward Waters, of Bermuda. When a girl of sixteen, Grace O'Neil arrived at the Bermudas in the ship "Diana." Becoming Mrs Waters, they removed to Eliza- beth City, now Hampton, where their first son, William, was born. He became an active citizen of Northampton. Upon the death of Edward Waters, the widow became the wife of Colonel Obedience Robins. Jane, the wife of George Puddington, a member of the Maryland Assembly, from Anne Arundel County in 1650, was a sister-in-law of Colonel Obedience Robins."
Captain Puddington took up "Puddington Harbor," "Pudding- ton Gift," and "West Puddington."
In 1667, he was an associate justice of Anne Arundel. He left no son. His will was probated by Colonel William Burgess, in 1674.
Captain Edward Burgess, named for his grandfather, Colonel Edward Robins, was Captain Puddington's residuary legatee. The sons-in-law of Captain Puddington were Ex-Sheriff Robert Franck- lyn; Hon. Richard Beard, the surveyor; and grandson Neal Clarke.
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All named in his will as follows: "son-in-law Robert Francklyn; to each of my son Richard Beard's children; to each of my grandson Neal Clark's children; to George Burgess, William Burgess and Sus- anna, children of Captain William Burgess, legacies. My loving wife Jane, and Edward Burgess the rest of my estate."
PHILIP THOMAS.
With his wife Sarah Harrison and three children, Philip, Sarah and Elizabeth, Philip Thomas came from Bristol, England, in 1651. He was granted five hundred acres, "Beckley," on the west of the Chesapeake.
To this he added "Thomas Towne," "The Plains" and " Philip's Addition." On this he erected his homestead, "Lebanon," a view of which is still preserved. On his lands stands Thomas Point Light- house.
His neighbor was Captain Wm. Fuller, the provincial leader. With him, Edward Lloyd, Richard Preston, Samuel Withers went to St. Leonards, and delivered up the captured records. With this act he gave up political adventures and joined the Society of Friends, under George Fox. ' The Quaker Society was made the final court to settle his estate.
This estate was claimed by his son, Samuel Thomas, through a verbal will which Edward Talbott, his brother-in-law resisted. The question was finally decided by the Society in favor of all the heirs.
Sarah Thomas, the English born daughter, married John Meeres; Elizabeth became the third wife of William Coale, and still later the wife of Edward Talbott; Martha became Mrs. Richard Arnold.
Samuel Thomas-Mary Hutchins, of Calvert, whose mother was Elizabeth Burrage. Their daughter Sarah-Joseph Richardson; Elizabeth-Richard Snowden, son of Richard and Mary (Linthicum) Snowden; John Thomas-Elizabeth, daughter of Richard and Eliza- beth (Coale) Snowden; Samuel Thomas-Mary, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth (Coale) Snowden; Ann Thomas-Edward Fell, of England.
Philip Thomas, eldest son of Samuel and Mary Thomas-first Francis Holland, leaving a son William Thomas; second, Ann, daughter of Samuel Chew and Mary his wife. Their issue were Samuel, Philip, Mary, Elizabeth-Samuel Snowden, Richard- Deborah Hughes; John Thomas resided at West River, wrote poetry and was President of the Maryland Senate. He married Sarah, third daughter of Dr. Wm. Murray-Anne: Philip, John and Sarah. Samuel, eldest son of Philip and Ann Chew Thomas, removed to Perry Point in the Susquehannah, and married his cousin Mary, daughter of Samuel and Mary Snowden Thomas; issue, Ann, Philip, . Saml. Richard Snowden, John Chew and Evan William. Samuel was a minister of Friends, and married Anna, daughter of Dr. Chas. Alexander Warfield: Evan William-Martha Gray: John Chew, 4th,
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son of Samuel, and Mary Thomas resided at Fairland, Anne Arundel: was member of Congress, in 1799, and took part in the election of President, in which three days and thirty-five ballots were required to select Thomas Jefferson. He married Mary, daughter of Richard and Eliza (Rutland) Snowden, of Fairland.
Having married an heiress and becoming a large slave holder, he lost his membership in the Quaker church, which he only regained by manumitting one hundred slaves. He sold his homestead for $50,000.
The Thomas family, of Maryland, has already been fully traced in the Thomas Book. Some descendants will be found more fully in this work, in the biographical sketches of three governors of Mary- land representing different branches of Philip Thomas' descendants.
FAMILIES CONNECTED WITH GOVERNOR FENDALL.
Governor Fendall's official life has already been noted. He closed his life as a Marylander and left a distinguished line. His son Colonel John Fendall, of "Clifton Hall," born 1672, married Elizabeth Hanson, widow of William Marshall.
Benjamin Fendall, " of Potomack," born 1708, married Eleanor Lee, daughter of Philip Lee and Sarah (Brooke). After her death, he married Priscilla Hawkins, widow of John and daughter of Alex- ander Magruder. His daughter, Sarah Fendall, was the beautiful wife of Colonel Thomas Contee, of "Brookefield." This estate was originally the homestead of Major Thomas Brooke, who received many thousand acres on the west side of the Patuxent. His initials, T. B., cut on a boundary stone, gave the name to the village "T. B."
The village of Nottingham stands on a portion of his grant.
In 1660, Major Thomas Brooke was commissioned major of the Colonial forces. His vessel brought over many settlers. In 1673, he became a member of the General Assembly. He married, in 1659, Eleanor Hatton, daughter of Hon. Richard Hatton, of London, whose children came with their uncle, Hon. Thomas Hatton, of the Council. He fell in the battle of the Severn in 1655. "Brooke- field" descended to his son, Thomas, whose mother married Henry Darnell, of "The Woodyard," land commissioner under Lord Balti- more, his brother-in-law.
Mary Darnall, at fifteen, became the wife of Charles Carroll, attorney-general for Lord Baltimore. Their son, Charles Carroll, Jr., was the father of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. Major Thomas Brooke and wife were Catholics. Clement Brooke, the son, married Jane Sewall, daughter of Major Nicholas Sewall, and Susanna, daughter of Colonel William Burgess. Elizabeth Brooke, of Clement, became the mother of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
Colonel Thomas Brooke, of "Brookefield," was repeatedly elected to the General Assembly, and a member of his lordship's
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Council, becoming, in 1720, president of that body. He belonged to the Church of England. His second wife was Barbara Dent, daughter of Colonel Thomas Dent and Rebecca Wilkinson, his wife,
Sarah Brooke married Philip Lee, of "Blenheim"-Issue: Richard Lee, of "Blenheim," and Thomas Lee, father of Governor Thomas Sim Lee, whose son, John Lee, gave the name to another, and later governor of Maryland, John Lee Carroll, of "Doughoregan Manor." Governor Fendall's descendants are traced in "The Bowies and Their Kindred."
CAPTAIN THOMAS TODD.
Thomas Todd passed his youth in England. He patented land in Elizabeth City, Virginia, in 1647. The "Rent Rolls" of Anne Arundel show, that Thomas Todd, shipwright, surveyed a lot “on ye south side of ye Severn River." It was a portion of the present city of Annapolis. There was a contest in Chancery over the title to this survey. It was decided against him, yet Lancelot Todd, of Baltimore County, in 1718, sold it to Bordley and Bladen. Thomas Todd resided there, in 1657; he was appointed, by Governor Fen- dall, one of the justices of Anne Arundel.
The mansion of Charles Carroll, of Annapolis, was built upon his survey.
Thomas Todd took up lands on Fells Point, Baltimore County, and later patented land, including some seven hundred acres on the Eastern Shore. He is supposed to have been the son of Robert Todd, of York County, Virginia, in 1642.
In 1664, Thomas Todd located at North Point. He also held an estate, "Toddsbury," in Gloucester County. Virginia, still held by his descendants. In 1674-5, he was a Burgess in the Assembly of Maryland, from Baltimore County. He married Ann Gorsuch, daughter of Rev. John Gorsuch, rector of Walkham, Herfordshire, whose wife was Ann, daughter of Sir William Lovelace. Her brother Charles Gorsuch married Ann Hawkins, as shown by the West River Quaker records.
Thomas Todd, before sailing for England, with eighty-seven hogsheads of tobacco from his plantation, wrote a letter to his son, Thomas, of "Toddsbury," Virginia, saying: "All my desire is to see you before I go, for I fear I shall never see you, as I am very weak and sick. I want some good cider to keep me alive, which I suppose you have enough of. We intend to set sail to-morrow, if it be a fair wind." He died at sea. His will was probated in Balti- more, Annapolis and Virginia. His widow, Ann married David Jones. Her son, James Todd, married a daughter of Mountenay, and upon their estate was started the City of Baltimore.
Thomas Todd, 3rd, who styled himself "The Younger," was the inheritor of ""North Point," and the father of Thomas Todd,
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4th, and Robert Todd, to whom he left his large estate. The old homestead, that has always been owned by Thomas Todd, de- scended to Thomas Todd, 4th. He married Eleanor Dorsey, of " Hockley," They left a son Thomas, and four daughters, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Francis and Mary. The first three inherited "Shawan Hunting Ground," a beautiful estate adjoining Worthington Valley. Mary Todd inherited "Todds Industry," and other tracts upon the Patapsco. She married John Worthington; Elizabeth Todd-John Cromwell; Eleanor-John Ensor; Francis-George Risteau; Mrs. Eleanor Todd-2nd William Lynch. Their daughter, Deborah- Samuel Owings, Jr., of Owings Mills.
Thomas Todd, 5th, left sons, William, Dr. Christopher, Bernard, George and Thomas.
Mr. Thomas Bernard Todd, the present owner of "North Point," president of the school board of Baltimore County, descends from Bernard Todd.
Lancelot Todd, neighbor of Cornelius Howard, in his will of 1690, named "his kinsman Lancelot Todd."
The latter married Elizabeth, daughter of Mary Rockhold. Their two danghters were Ruth Dorsey, wife of Michael, and Sarah Dorsey, wife of Edward.
As Lancelot, Jr., sold the surveys taken by Captain Thomas Todd at Annapolis, he must have been the heir of James Todd, an important man in the early days of Baltimore. See case in Chancery, wherein Daniel Dulany, attorney-general for the Proprietary, enters suit against Edmund Jennings, who married the widow of Thos. Bordley, for the restoration of grant bought by Bordley and Larkins, from Lancelot Todd, representative of Thomas Todd, the surveyor. It is a very interesting review of the title to the site of Annapolis.
COLONEL WILLIAM BURGESS.
Two of the South River settlers from Virginia, were brothers- in-law and neighbors.
They were Colonel William Burgess and Richard Beard. Their wives were thus recorded in the Virginia Magazine of History: "Ed- ward Robins, born in England 1602, came to Virginia in the bark Thomas, in 1615. He was of Northampton, now Accomac County, and built "Newport House," now Eyreville. His daughter Eliza- beth married William Burgess, of Maryland. His daughter Rachel married Richard Beard."-(Standard, Vol. 3.)
After William Stone, of Northampton, became the first Protes- tant governor, Beard and Burgess removed to Maryland. The next record from the same source mistakes the son for the father, when it states: "Beard made the first map of Annapolis." It was Richard Beard, Jr., surveyor of Anne Arundel, who made the map. His father died in 1675, before Annapolis had been named. William Burgess began, at once, his commanding career. In 1655, he was
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one of the Council of War to condemn Governor Stone,-the very man he had followed to Maryland.
In 1657, he was named, first by Governor Josias Fendall, a commissioner and associate justice of the new County of Anne Arun- del. Declining to take the necessary oath, on the ground it was not lawful to swear, his plea was rejected and another name was sub- stituted. In 1660, when Governor Fendall had been banished, and Philip Calvert had succeeded him, William Burgess sent in a peti- tion reviewing his former refusal to take the oath, and ascribing it to the influence of ill-advised friends. He announced his deter- mination, henceforth, to devote his remaining days to the service of the proprietary. His petition was favorably received and he was set free without fine or trial.
In 1661, he was placed in command of the South River Rangers, and was ordered to send all Indian prisoners to St. Mary's for trial. In 1663, he was placed at the head of the Anne Arundel Commission- ers.
In 1664, he was high sheriff of Anne Arundel. Upon receiving orders to go against the Indians, he named his successor, Major Rich- ard Ewen, from whose family he had taken his second wife.
In 1665, Charles Calvert, son of Lord Baltimore, having suc- ceeded his uncle Philip, honored William Burgess in the following commission :
CAPTAIN WILLIAM BURGESS,
Greeting,-Whereas, Diverse Forraing Indians have of late committed divers murthers upon our people, I have thought fitt to raise a sufficient number of men. Now know ye that I reposing especial confidence in your fidelity, courage and experience in martial affaires, have constituted, ordained and appointed you Commander-in-Chief of all forces raised in St. Maries, Kent, Charles, Calvert and Anne Arundel Counties.
Given under my hand, 34th year of his Lordship's Dom., 1665. CHARLES CALVERT.
Then follow instructions for the campaign.
Major Thomas Brooke was ordered "to raise forty men and march to Captain William Burgess, in Anne Arundel, there to receive orders from him as Commander-in-Chief. Ordered that Captain William Burgess raise by presse, or otherwise, thirty men with arms and ammunition to proceed according to former orders."
CHARLES CALVERT.
Some Seneca Indians had killed several English settlers in Anne Arundel. The following reward was offered: "One hundred arms length of Roan Oake, for bringing in a cenego prisoner, or both of his ears, if he be slain." In 1675, Colonel William Burgess and Colonel Samuel Chew were ordered to go against the Indians on the Severn.
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In 1679, it was ordered, "That Colonel Burgess supply Balti- more County with twenty men from Anne Arundel, for the defense of that county."
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