Richard Dorsey ^{1 2}

  Research Notes:

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:]

'I give to my two grandsons, Samuel and Richard, of Caleb, my son, my plantation on South River, called "South River Quarter," it being the remainder of a tract given to my son, Caleb. In case of no issue, the same to go to granddaughters, Achsah and Sophia of Caleb...
.--JOHN DORSEY. (Seal).'

  Birth Notes:

4. F. Edward Wright. Anne Arundel County Church Records of the 17th and 18th Centuries. Family Line Publications, Westminster, MD.
(from http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdannear/firstfam/dorsey/d7435.htm#P7435)

  Noted events in his life were:

• Inherited: "South River Quarter," jointly with his brother Samuel, from his grandfather Hon. John Dorsey, 1715. This was a plantation on the South River, a remainder of a tract given to their father Caleb Dorsey.

Richard married Elizabeth Beale before Nov 1735.