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Captain Thomas Todd
(1619-1675)
Anne Gorsuch
(1638-1694)
Major Thomas Todd
(1660-1725)
Elizabeth Bernard
(1653-)
Thomas Todd IV

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Elinor Dorsey of Hockley

Thomas Todd IV 1 2

  • Marriage (1): Elinor Dorsey of Hockley

  Research Notes:

Elinor Dorsey's first husband.

From Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, p. 49:
The old homestead ["North Point"], that has always been owned by Thomas Todd, descended to Thomas Todd, 4th. He married Eleanor Dorsey, of "Hockley." They left a son Tomas, 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 [Todd Lynch]--Samuel Owings, Jr., of Owings Mills.


Thomas married Elinor Dorsey of Hockley, daughter of Caleb Dorsey of Hockley in the Hole [son of Capt. John] and Elinor Warfield. (Elinor Dorsey of Hockley was born on 4 Mar 1715 in St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States and died on 6 Oct 1760.)


Sources


1 Warfield, J. D, <i>The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland.</i> (Baltimore: Kohn & Pollock, 1905), pp. 48-49.

2 Dorsey, Maxwell Jay, Jean Muir Dorsey, Nannie Ball Nimmo, <i>The Dorsey family: descendants of Edward Darcy-Dorsey of Virginia and Maryland for five generations, and allied families</i> (Orig. Pub. M. J. Dorsey, 1946; reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997.), p. 155.


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