Husband Ralph de Neville 1
Born: 1364 - <Castle Raby>, Raby With Keverstone, Durham, England
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Died: 21 Oct 1426 - Castle Raby, Raby With Keverstone, Durham, England
Buried: Oct 1426 - Collegiate Church, Staindrop, Durham, England
Father: John Neville (Abt 1328-1388) 1
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1 F Catherine Neville (details suppressed for this person)
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Spouse: John de Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk (1392-1432) 2
Husband Robert Neville 1
Born: Abt 1223 - <Raby With Keverstone, Staindrop>, Durham, England
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Died: 20 Aug 1282
Buried: - Church Of The Friars, Minor, Yorkshire, England
Father: Geoffrey FitzRobert de Neville (Abt 1197-Bef 1242) 1
Mother: Joan (Abt 1201-Aft 1247) 1
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1 M Robert de Neville 1
Born: Abt 1240 - Raby, Durham, England
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Died: 1271
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Spouse: Mary FitzRandolph (Abt 1244-1320) 1
Marr: Abt 1260 - Middleham, Yorkshire, England
Husband John Nuthall, Sr. 3
Born: Abt 1552 - Tattenhall, Cheshire, England
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Father: Richard Nuthall, Jr. (Abt 1529-Aft 1552) 4
Mother: Alice Hurlton (1527-Aft 1552) 5
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Wife Jane Newport 6
Born: Abt 1554 - Sandon, Staffordshire, England
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Died: Aft 1580 - Tattenhall, Cheshire, England
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Father: Robert Newport 7
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1 M John Nuthall, Jr.
Born: Abt 1577 - Cottonhall, Chester, England
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Died: Aft 1658 - London, England
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Spouse: Mary Hyde (Abt 1586- ) 8
Marr: Abt 1600 - Norbury, Cheshire, England
Husband Robert Newport (details suppressed for this person)
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1 F Jane Newport 6
Born: Abt 1554 - Sandon, Staffordshire, England
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Spouse: John Nuthall, Sr. (Abt 1552- ) 3
Husband Judge Benjamin Nicholson 9
Born: Bef 1745 - Chestertown, Kent, Maryland, (United States)
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Died: 1792 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, United States
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Marriage: 1771 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, (United States)
Wife Mary Ridgely 10
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Died: 1804 - <Baltimore Co., Maryland>, United States
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Father: John Ridgely, Sr. (Abt 1723-1771)
Mother: Mary Dorsey (1725-1786)
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1 F Mary Nicholson (details suppressed for this person)
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Spouse: Captain Darby Lux, [III] (Abt 1772-1812) 11 12 13
Research Notes: Husband - Judge Benjamin Nicholson
From http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=brucen&id=I1721 :
1. Captain Horse Troop in Revolutionary War.
2. Judge Benjamin Nicholson (bef 1765 Kent Co, MD - 1792 Baltimore)
3. From: "A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789" by Edward C. Papenfuse et al., The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.
Married: Mary Ridgely (?-1804), daughter of John Ridgely (by 1724-1771) and wife Mary Dorsey.
Children: William; Benjamin, John Ridgely (abt 1772-1800), a doctor, who married Matilda Heath Smith; and Benjamin Joseph, who was possibly lost at sea by 1804; Mary, who married in 1798 Darby Lux (abt 1772-1812); Elizabeth; Eleanor; Sarah; and Juliet.
Private Career: Education: studied law.
Religious affiliation: Protestant, buried by Rev. John Coleman, rector of St. John's Parish, Harford County.
Social Status and Activities: Gentleman by 1771; Esq. By 1789.
Occupational profile: lawyer, admitted to the following courts: Queen: Anne's County, June 1765; Baltimore and Frederick Counties, August 1765; Provincial Court, October 1768; Anne Arundel and Cecil Counties by March 1769; merchant, by June 1771 until at least 1773, in partnership with his brother James; planter; mill owner;, 1789-1792 (although the mill land was mortaged shortly before his death, its assets were included in Nicholson's inventory).
Public Career: Legislative service: Conventions, Baltimore County, 2nd-3rd, 1774, 4th, 1775, 5th, 1775, 6th-8th, 1775-1776 (did not attend the 8th Convention). Other state offices: Judge, Court of Admiralty, 1776-1789 (commissioned on October 30, 1776). Local offices: Committee of Observation, Baltimore County, 1776; Chief Judge, Baltimore City Court, appointed 1791. Military service: Captain, Baltimore County Militia, by 1776; Major, Baltimore Town Battalion, Baltimore County Millitia, 1777-1781 (commissioned on September 12, 1777); Captain, Volunteer Troop of Light Dragoons, Baltimore County Millitia, by October 1781; Nicholson undertook the last command at the request of the "youth in his neighborhood", even though it meant accepting a lower rank.
Wealth During Lifetime: Personal property: assessed value £1,222.17.6, including 13 slaves and 24 oz. Plate, 1783; charged with 14 slaves, 1790.
Additional comment: Nicholson was an executor of the estate of his father-in-law, John Ridgely (by 1724-1771), which was not settled until 1787. His financial troubles by the late 1780s were apparently exacerbated by Ridgely's outstanding debts. In 1791, Nicholson mortgaged 16 slaves, livestock, plantation equipment, and household furniture to Charles (Carnan) Ridgely. Land at first election: 513 acres in Baltimore County, one-half interest in 135 acres in Anne Arundel County, and one-third interest in the lease of a lot in Fell's Point, Baltimore Town (all by purchase), plus an undetermined number of lots in or near Baltimore Town left to his wife by her father.
Significant changes in land between first election and death: purchased 25 acres in Baltimore County, 1775; sold Mary's Baltimore Town lots in 1775 and the Anne Arundel County land in 1779; charged with 4 improved lots in Baltimore Town, 1783. In partnership with Charles Ridgely (1733-1790), Darby Lux (?-1795), John Sterett (1750/51-1787), Samuel Chase (1741-1811), and three others, purchased the confiscated Nottingham Ironworks in 1782, giving Nicholson a one-eighth interest in ca. 4,000 acres of land in Baltimore County; mortgaged his 539 acres in Baltimore County to his brother-in-law, John Ridgely, to secure settlement of the estate of his father-in-law John Ridgely (by 1724-1771) in 1786; mortgaged the one-eighth interest in the Nottingham Ironworks to Charles Ridgely (1733-1790) in 1788; obtained the release of the mortgage on the 539 acres of the land plus a certificate of survey fro an additional 106 acres in Baltimore County; purchased another 530 acre tract, which included a grist mill in Baltimore County, 1789; mortgaged this 530 acre tract and sold his ironworks interest (already mortgaged) to Charles (Carnan) Ridgely, 1791.
Wealth at death: Died: between March 10 and May 2, 1792, in Baltimore County. Personal property: TEV, £2,076.16.5 current money (including 19 slaves, 1 servant, at least 3 books, 54 oz. Plate, beehives, 2 and one-half tons of "ship stuff", and 74 barrels of :fine flour in the mill". Most of his property was already mortgaged). FB, £2.9.3. Land: probably 30 acres in Baltimore County.
4. Maryland and Delaware Revolutionary Patriots, 1775- 1783 Military Records
Baltimore Town and Baltimore County, Maryland, Revolutionary Patriots Listings, Page 195
MyFamily.com, Inc., July 27, 2004
NICHOLSON, BENJAMIN. (1745 - 1792) Son of Joseph NICHOLS0N and Hannah SMITH of Kent County, MD. He married Mary RlDGELY, and their children were: William; Mary, md. Darby LUX; John R., md. Matilda SMITH; Benjamin J.; Elizabeth, Eleanor; Sarah; and, Juliet. Benjamin NICHOLSON was very prominent during the Revolutionary War. He was Baltimore's Representative (or, rather, one of them) to the Association of Freemen on July 26' 1775, and then represented the Upper Back River Hundred at the Association of Freemen on August 21, 1T75. He was elected to the Baltimore County Committee of Observation on September 23, 1775, and was a Delegate to the Provincial Convention. He served on the Baltimore Town Committee of Correspondence, Nov. 12, 1775, and became Captain of the Baltimore County Militia Company No. 2 on Dec. 19, 1775, commanding 62 Privates. He became Captain of Soldiers Delight Company No. 1 on May 13, 1776, and 1st Major in the Baltimore Battalion on May 25, 1776. On September 17, 1777, he was Lieutenant Colonel of Baltimore County Militia 3rd and 4th Classes, under Colonel John Moale. On October 13, 1780, he was Battalion Colonel, Baltimore County Militia, commanding 1,345 troops. Subsequently, he recruited a Troop of Horse in Garrison Forest at the request of the men of that area, and he even was willing to accept the lower rank of Captain (or Lieutenant Colonel) so as to command once again, June 7, 1781. He was also involved in the Baltimore Committee of Confiscated Property in 1782. He died in 1792, and Mary NICHOLSON was his named administratrix, August, 1794. [L~109, RR-50, SS-136, WW~443, FFF-468, BBBB-Z74, JJJ-497, CC-36, G-10. E-13. F-311, BBB-379. BB-2, FF-64, F-303, SS-130, SSS-110, RR-51, EEEE-1726)
5. Maryland and Delaware Revolutionary Patriots, 1775-1783 Military Records Baltimore Town and Baltimore County, Maryland, Military Lists, Page 325
MyFamily.com, Inc., July 27, 2004
COL. BENJAMIN NICHOLSON'S TROOP OF HORSE
BALTIMORE, JUNE 7, 1781
''Inclosed is a roll of a Troop of Horse which I have embodied in the Forest. They have agreed to equip themselves....(but)....lf the State could furnish pistols and swords the Troop might be greatly enlarged and would be in immediate readiness. It was at the solicitation of the youth in my neighborhood that I undertook the embodying and command of the Troop..... You'll find among our number some Veteran Officers, who have left the Continental Service and whilst in served with reputation." (Letter to Gov. Lee)
(Source: Archives of Maryland, Vol. XLVII, page 274)
6. 1783 Baltimore County Tax Assessment
Benjamin Nicholson. Nicholsons Manor, pt, 25 1/2 acres. BA Middle River Upper & Back River Upper Hundred, p. 11. MSA S 1161-2-10 1/4/5/45
Benjamin Nicholson. Welches Cradle, pt, 513 acres. BA Middle River Upper & Back River Upper Hundred, p. 11. MSA S 1161-2-10 1/4/5/45
7. The Treasures of Loch Raven
Information compiled by John McGrain, Baltimore County Historian Mills Near Loch Raven Summary (March 4, 2002)
http://www.marylandfreestate.com/1a.html
Rogers Mill
This colonial mill and its successor paper mill were on the north side of Paper Mill Road, east bank of Gunpowder Falls, a substantial ruin that was discernible before the construction of the new Paper Mill Road bridge in 2001. The first mention of the mill here was in 1773 when Benjamin Rogers advertised that two Irish servants had run away from his mill on the Great Falls of Gunpowder. An early traveler, Ebenezer Hazard, noted in his diary for November 6, 1777: "Crossed the Falls of the Gunpowder at Redgers [sic] Mill." An advertisement for a stray mare was published in the Maryland Journal in 1787 that stated that the animal had gotten lost somewhere between Rogers and Gwynns mills on the Great Falls. In 1787, John Merryman advertised that he had been authorized to dispose of the property of Benjamin Rogers and Charles Rogers, and offered to sell a valuable farm of 530 acres with a grist and a sawmill. In 1792, Mary Nicholson, administrator of Benjamin Nicholson, advertised a large mill on the Great Gunpowder Falls, 17 miles from Baltimore on the road to York. That property was Ranelagh Mills and was the very same one shown on Dennis Griffith's 1795 map of Maryland and Delaware, where it was marked as the "Nicholas" mill, east bank of the falls on the road to Slade's Tavern. In the advertisement of 1800 describing the new election districts, there as mention of William C. Gouldsmith's Mill (formerly Rogers) on the Old York Road at Gunpowder Falls. In 1811, William Copeland Gouldsmith sold a mill on Great Gunpowder Falls to Charles Jessop. The deed in that transaction revealed that the land grant name was "Benjamin's Hills and Valleys." Charles Jessop's ledger survives at the Baltimore County Historical Society and shows that he moved to the Vaux Hall mansion in 1807. Later, he bought several mills, including Boyd's Mill and the Beaver Dam Mill. He referred to the mill nearest to his home as the Oxford Mill, which seems to mean the old Rogers Mill. Jessop's ledger records heavy damage in the flood of August 9, 1817. On January 30, 1822, the ice in the Gunpowder broke and water stood seven feet deep in the first story of the mill. Another flood hit on February 18, 1822. Jessop recorded on March 17, 1825, that William Price, a three-year-old had drowned in the forebay of the mill - that is, in the final sluice leading to the water wheel. The old colonial mill was apparently rebuilt, because a new works, the Marble Vale Mill equipped with four pairs of 4-1/2 foot burr stones and a sawmill was advertised in the Baltimore American of September 17, 1838. At that time, William Tyson was the tenant operator of the mill
Husband William Andrew Zane 14
Born: 26 Nov 1712 - Newton, Gloucester, New Jersey, (United States)
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Died: 1799 - Wheeling, Ohio, (West) Virginia, (United States)
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Father: Nathaniel Zane (1670-1727) 15
Mother: Grace Rakestraw (1670-1741) 16
Marriage: 1744 - <Ohio or Virginia>
Wife Nancy Ann Nolan
Born: Abt 1715 - <Newton, Gloucester, New Jersey, (United States)>
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1 M Ebenezer Zane, Col. 17 18
Born: 7 Oct 1747 - Moorefield, (Hardy), (West) Virginia, (United States)
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Died: 19 Nov 1811 - Wheeling, Ohio, (West) Virginia, (United States)
Buried: - Walnut Grove Cemetery, Martins Ferry, Belmont, Ohio, United States
Spouse: Elizabeth McCulloch (1748-1814) 17 19
Marr: 1767 - Wheeling, (Ohio), (West) Virginia, (United States)
2 M Isaac Zane 20 21 22 23
Born: 26 Nov 1753 - Moorefield, Hardy, (West) Virginia, (United States)
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Died: 6 May 1816 - Zanesville, Muskingum, Ohio, United States
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Spouse: Myeerah (Abt 1757-1816) 22
Marr: 1776 - Wheeling, Ohio, (West) Virginia, (United States)
Death Notes: Husband - William Andrew Zane
May have died in 1779.
Research Notes: Husband - William Andrew Zane
William was a direct ancestor of Zane Grey (1872-1939) through his son Ebenezer Zane.
Research Notes: Wife - Nancy Ann Nolan
Source: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/AF/individual_record.asp?recid=13549324&lds=0&frompage=99
Death Notes: Child - Ebenezer Zane, Col.
Died of jaundice age 64 in 1811
Burial Notes: Child - Ebenezer Zane, Col.
In Memory of Ebenezer Zane
who died 19th November 1811 in the 66th year of his age.
He was the first permanent inhabitant of this part of the western world, having first begun to reside here ...
He died as he had live, an honest man.
Birth Notes: Child - Isaac Zane
Per www.wyandot.org/emigrant.htm (Larry Hancks), he was born in Berkley County, Virginia.
According to familysearch.org, Moorefield, Hardy, [West] Virginia.
Husband Christopher Randall 24 22 25
Born:
Christened: Abt 1666 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, (United States)
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Buried: 25 Feb 1684 - Anne Arundel Co., Maryland, (United States)
Marriage: 31 Jan 1678 - Anne Arundel Co., Maryland, United States
Noted events in his life were:
• Inventory, of his estate, 20 Mar 1685
Captain Richard Owings owed the estate a considerable amount of money.
Wife Johanna Norman
Born: Abt 1668 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, (United States)
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1 F Hannah Randall 26 27
Born: 1682 - <Baltimore Co.>, Maryland, (United States)
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Died: 1740 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, (United States)
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Spouse: Nathaniel Stinchcomb, [Jr.] (1671-1710) 28 29
Marr: 1697 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, (United States)
2 M Christopher Randall, Jr. 26 30 31
Born: Abt 1682 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, (United States)
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Died: 2 Feb 1735 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, (United States)
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Spouse: Anne Chew (Abt 1704-1739) 32 33 34
Marr: Abt 1719 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, (United States)
3 M Thomas Randall 25 35
Born: Abt 1684
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4 M Justice Thomas Randall 36 37
Born: Abt 1685 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, (United States)
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Died: 9 Mar 1722 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, (United States)
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Spouse: Hannah Bale (1713-1793) 38
Research Notes: Husband - Christopher Randall
FamilySearch.org AFN: WRPH-84 has christened abt 1666 in Baltimore Co. The place does not make sense (see below).
From Side-Lights on Maryland History, vol. 2, pp. 418-419:
"Christopher Randall, the first of his line in the Province of Maryland, was destined to become the progenitor of a poet and patriot--Colonel James Ryder Randall--whose 'Maryland, My Maryland' has given him international fame, and whose stirring words set the hearts of every true Marylander a thrill.
"Christopher settled in Anne Arundel County, where, in the years 1679 and 1680 he is recorded as having several tracts of land surveyed and entered in Lord Baltimore's Rent Rolls. These were Randall's Fancy, Randall's Purchase, and Randall's Range, which, with other tracts, aggregated many hundred acres. Dying intestate, in the year 1684, his estate was administered on by Mathew Howard. In the returns and distribution, his wife was shown to be named Johanna, and his sons, Christopher Randall, Jr., and Thomas Randall. A daughter also received her portion. Later, all the children of Christopher Randall were located in Baltimore County, in which Randallstown still perpetuates their name and possessions (Inventories and Accounts, volume 8, folio 372, Land Office, Annapolis Records).
"On August 5, 1686, 'Account was rendered by Johanna Randall, Administratrix of Christopher Randall, deceased, as well as of the goods and chattels of said deceased' (Ibid., folio 142).
"The Rent Rolls of Lord Baltimore for Anne Arundel County, folios 82 and 83, give the record of the following lands belonging to Christopher Randall, the first in Maryland.
"Randall's Purchase, 103 acres, surveyed April 23, 1680, for Chrisopher Randall, on 'Ye north side of Severn River.'
"Randall's Range, 100 acres, surveyed July 17, 1680, on Magothy River, and Randall's Fancy, surveyed July 8, 1679, on ye north side of Severn River."
Research Notes: Wife - Johanna Norman
FamilySearch.org AFN: WRPH-99
Source Side-Lights on Maryland History with Sketches of Early Maryland Families by Hester Dorsey Richard, Baltimore, Maryland, 1918, vol. 2, pp. 418-419 has name only as Johanna.
Death Notes: Child - Christopher Randall, Jr.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paxson/southern/randall.html#HannahRandall has d. 2 Feb 1734 but signed will 23 Sep 1734. One has an error.
Husband Edward Norwood 39
Born: 1644 - <Maryland, (United States)>
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Father: Captain John Norwood (1605-Bef 1672) 39 40 41
Mother: Anne Harrington (1613-1674) 39
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1 M Edward Norwood 39
Born: Abt 1685
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Died: by 1729
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Spouse: Ruth Owings (Abt 1696-1732)
Husband Edward Norwood 39
Born: Abt 1685
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Died: by 1729
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Father: Edward Norwood (1644- ) 39
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Wife Ruth Owings
Born: Abt 1696 - Anne Arundel Co., Maryland, (United States)
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Died: Apr 1732 - Baltimore Co., Maryland, (United States)
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Father: Captain Richard Owings, "the Settler" (1659-1716) 42 43 44
Mother: Rachel Roberts (1660-Bef 1729)
Children
Research Notes: Husband - Edward Norwood
Ruth was widowed in 1729 when deeded "Owings Addition" by her brother Richard.
Research Notes: Wife - Ruth Owings
May be the same person as Ruth Owings listed here with Rachel Beale as her mother. Sources list two different individuals as husband of Ruth Owings -- John Norwood and Edward Norwood. One could be in error. The "other" Ruth Owings married Edward Oursler.
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http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/family_group_record.asp?familyid=1811568&frompage=99 - b. 1696, d. Apr 1732, mother Rachel Beale.
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http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/family_group_record.asp?familyid=5426141&frompage=99 b. 1696, d. Apr 1732 & has her mother as Rachel Roberts.
http://www.owingsstone.com/getperson.php?personID=I270&tree=owingsstone has Ruth Owings b. 1696, mother Rachel Robert.
Source: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/AF/family_group_record.asp?familyid=1811568&frompage=99 lists two daughters named Ruth Owings, one born in 1696, d. 1732, the other born 1708.
Were there really two? That would eliminate some of this confusion - two mothers, two daughters.
Were there two mothers named Rachel, each with a daughter named Ruth??
The case for two daughters named Ruth:
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.snacestry.com/~paxson/southern/owings.html (compiled by MJP Grundy, 2002): "On 3 Nov. 1729 Richard [Owings, Jr.] and his wife Sarah made a deed of gift of 'Owings Addition' to his sister Ruth NORWOOD, and on 24 May 1732 they gave Ruth, identified as 'spinster', for her 'natural life' 32 acres of 'Owings Addition' also to her."
Husband Thomas Sprigg, Lord of Northhampton Manor
Born: 1630 - Kettering, Northamptonshire, England
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Died: 29 Dec 1704 - Prince George's Co., Maryland, (United States)
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Father: Thomas Sprigg (1604- ) 45
Mother: Ann (1610- ) 46
Marriage: 1 Sep 1668 - Kettering, Northamptonshire, England
Wife Eleanor Nuthall 47
Born: 1645 - Northampton Co., Virginia, (United States)
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Died: 16 Mar 1701 - Prince George's Co., Maryland, (United States)
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Father: John Nuthall III (1620-1667) 48
Mother: Elizabeth Bacon (Abt 1609-Aft 1653) 49
Children
1 F Martha Sprigg 50 51 52
Born: 1677 - Calvert, Maryland, (United States)
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Died: 13 Nov 1742 - Charles Co., Maryland, (United States)
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Spouse: Thomas MacKay Prather (1673-1712) 53
Marr: Abt 1698 - Prince George's Co., Maryland, (United States)
2 F Ann Sprigg 54
Born: 1679
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Died: Bef 1780
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3 M Thomas Sprigg
Born: Abt 1669
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Died: 1736
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4 F Elizabeth Sprigg (details suppressed for this person)
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5 M Oliver Sprigg (details suppressed for this person)
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Research Notes: Husband - Thomas Sprigg, Lord of Northhampton Manor
From: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3143362&id=I631844474 :
Thomas Sprigg, a well to-do planter, arrived in America in about 1650.
On 18 Jan 1658, a patent was issued to Thomas Sprigg who had transported to Maryland "Himself, Catherine, his wife, Verlinda Roger, Edward Bushell, Nathaiel Sprigge and Hugh Johnson." The patent was for a tract of 600 acres, called "Sprigley," on Chester River. Thomas Sprigg called one of the tracts he took up "Kittering" and another "Northampton." Ultimately, Thomas Sprigg owned nearly 1000 acres of land and is considered instrumental in developing Prince George County, MD.
His year of birth has been placed based on a deposition made in 1665 in which he gave his age as 35 years. Another deposition made in 1694 gave his age as 64 years.
His first wife, Kathryn, was living on 17 Aug 1661; she was probably a sister of Governor Stone of Maryland, who in his will, dated 3 Dec 1659 and proved 21 Dec 1660, mentions "my brother Sprigg;" and Thomas Stone, son of the governor, executes an assignment, 3 Aug 1662, 'to my uncle Thomas Sprigg."
In 1651 Thomas Sprigg was living in Northampton County, VA, but by 1660-61 he had settled in Calvert County, MD, on or near "Resurrection Manor," and later at "Northampton," Prince George County. In 1661 he and John Nuthall signed the "Submission to Parliament."
Thomas Sprigg fought against the Nanticoke Indians. He was Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum for Calvert County in 1658-67-68-69-70-74. Com. High Sheriff of Calvert County, 1 Apr 1664 to May 1665; he was also one of the first gentlemen to be made Justice of the Peace and Gentleman Justice of the Quorum for Prince George County, 1696.
"Lt." Thomas Sprigg was a signer of the Association Address to King William III congratulating him upon his escape from "Conspiracy and Assassination."
In 1696 he endorsed a round-robin letter from ship-owners and commanders of the fleet excusing delay in sailing to England on the ground of "illness among the men, backward crops, and desertions to Penna."
Maryland Calendar of Wills: Volume 3, pg 48
Sprigg, Thomas, Sr.,Prince George's Co., dated 9 May 1704;
Proved 29 Dec 1704.
To son Thomas, ex., plantation and land of Northamton and Kellering, which have not been disposed of; also 1/3 of patent 500 A. in manor of Colington.
To dau. Martha Prather and hrs., 1/3 of residue of 500 A. lying near Jonathan Prather's.
To dau. Oliver Nutthall, residue of afsd. patent lying near Jonathan Prather's.
To Thomas Stockett, grandson Thomas Stockett, Oliver Stockett, and each of sd. Thos. Stockett's child.,
To daus. Elizabeth Wade and her child., Ann Gittens and her child., Oliver Nutthall and her child., and Martha Prather and her child., personalty.
To daus. afsd., residue of estate; division to be made by Sam'l Magruder, Sr., Edward Willett and John Smith at Mattapany.
In event of death of son Thomas, sons-in-law Robert Wade, Phillip Gittens and Thomas Prather to assume executorship.
Test: Thomas Lucas, Sr., Thomas Lucas, Jr., Dorothy Lucas. 3. 443.
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Thomas Shepard 19,139 1 PG £3,2.8 Mar 16 1698 Apr 6 1699
Appraisers: Thomas Sprigg, William Affotts.
List of debts: James Beale.
Administrator: James Beale,
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Coughing, Thomas, (nunc. ) 15th Aug., 1662;
27th Oct., 1662.
Character of estate not shown.
Exs.: Matthew Stone, Thos. Sprigg, Thos. Trueman.
Test: Wm. Calvert. 1. 161
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