Capt. Basil Dorsey

  Research Notes:

Source: The Dorsey Family by Maxwell J. Dorsey, Jean Muir Dorsey and Nannie Ball Nimmo,2006, p. 155. Twin brother of Achsah Dorsey.

Also:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdannear/firstfam/dorsey/d25484.htm#P25484 d. 1799
and
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdannear/firstfam/dorsey/d7853.htm#P7853
Which is right? Is first a son?

From The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland by J. D. Warfield (Baltimore, 1905), pp. 61-62:
[The will of Hon. John Dorsey reads, in part:]

'To grandson, Basil, of Caleb, my plantation on Elk Ridge, called "Troy." If no issue, to my grandsons, John and Caleb, of Caleb. My son, Caleb, to be my administrator.--JOHN DORSEY. (Seal).'

"Mrs. Plesance Dorsey became Mrs Robert Wainwright. Her tract, 'The Isle of Ely,' was sold by her grandson, 'Patuxent John Dorsey,' to Basil Dorsey, of Caleb, whose homestead, 'Troy Hill,' was the former residence of Hon. John Dorsey."

Basil married Sarah Worthington. (Sarah Worthington was born on 2 Feb 1715.)