THOMAS THARP of Sussex, England and Kent County, Maryland

THOMAS THARP Of Sussex, England and Kent County, Maryland. (ca. 1635-1686):

Some ofhis Descendants and their Ancestors, including the Thorpe. Pettyjohn, Bliss, Hawkins, Roane, Henry, Robertson and other families

M. L. Thorpe, Ph.D.

SANTABARBARA, CALIFORNIA .

2010 ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Wishing to express my gratitude to all those who have kindly and generously provided family infJr mation and portraits for this work, I have includ ed remarks acknowledging their contributions in each of their biographical entries. My special thanks are due to two particular contributors whose help has been invaluable: the late Robert Louis Tharp of Wyoming, Ohio, who laid the founda tion for Tharp researchers across the continent, and Scott Alan Neal, the premier expert on all things related to the Pettyjohnn family of America.

Maner lawton Thorpe 181 Santo Tomas lane Santa Barbara, California 93108-2525 TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ...... 1 CHAPTER 1. DESCENDANTS OF TIIOMAS TIIARP GEN'ER.ATION 1 ...... 1 GEN'ER.ATION 2 ...... 6 GEN'ER.ATION. 3...... 9 GEN'ER.ATION 4 ...... 15 GEN'ER.ATION 5 ...... 25 CHAPTER 2. DESCENDANTS OF ANDREW THARP GEN'ER.ATION 6 ...... 52 GEN'ER.ATION 7 ...... 73 GEN'ER.ATION 8 ...... 133 GEN'ER.ATION 9 ...... 189 GEN'ERATION 10 •..••••..•....•••...•••...•••..••••••••.••••••••..• 243 GEN'ERATION 11 .•••••.••••..•••...•••...••••...••...••..••••..•••. 264 GEN"ERATION 12 ••••••.•••••.••••.••••.•.•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 296 GEN'ERATION 13 ••.•.••••...••••.•.••...•••••..•••...•••.•••...•••. 316 CHAPTER 3. ALLIED LINES LINE II. TIIE AUSTIN FAMILy ••.•••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 324 LINE III. THE JORDAN FAMILy .•.••..•.•••..••.•..••••...••.•••.••.. 328 LINE IV. nIE PEGG FN1ILY •....•••....•••...••••..•••••.••••••••••. 333 LINE V. TIlE HAWKINS FN1ILY .•.•••••...•.••..•••.•...•••.•••••..••• 337 LINE VI. nIE JONES FAMILy ...... 355 LINE VII. THE BEJ\lE FAMILY •••.•••••••.•.•••••••••••.••••.•••.•..• 359 LINE VIII. THE CLAYTON FAMILY •.•••••..••••....••••••••••...•••.•• 364 LINE IX. TIIE WORTHINGTON FAMILY •••••.•••••••••••••.•••••••••••••• 367 LINE X. TIIE ROANE FAMILy .•.•..•.•.•...•.•.•...••.••...•••..•.••.. 371B LINE XI. THE UPSHAW FAMILY .••..•••••...••••••.•••••...••••..••••. 403 LINE XII. THE BAlL FAMILy .••.•....••••....••••..••.••.••••..•.••• 408 LINE XIII. THE WILLIAMSON AND UNDERWOOD FAMILIES •••••••••••.••••• 414 LINE XIV. THE ~OM FAMILY •...•.•.•...•.••.•••.••....•.•..••••. 417 LINE ~. TIlE FOX FAMILy ....•••....•••.....•••••.••••.••..••••.••• 424 LINE XVI. nm YOUNG FAMILy .•••.••••••..•••••••.••••...•••••.•.••. 431 LINE ~II. THE HENRY FAMILY ..•••.••....•.••..••••••..••••..••••.• 434 LINE XVIII. THE ROBERTSON FAMILY ...... 445 LINE XIX. THE EARI..S OF 1...EN"OX ....•.•.....•.•.•...••••....•.•.••••• 450 LINE XX. THE STEWART LORDS OF LORN •••.•••••••••••••••.••••••••••• 451 LINE XXI. RULERS OF TIIE WESTERN ISLES •.•••••••••••.•••••••••••••• 454 LINE XXII. THE ERGARDIA AND ISAAC FAMILIES ••••••••••••••••••.•••• 455 LINE XXIII. THE PLANTAGENET/BEAUFORT FAMILY •••••••••••••••••••••• 456 LINE XXIV. THE HOLAND FAMILY ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 458 LINE XXV. THE ZOUCHE FAMILY •.•....••••..•.••••.....•••....•••...• 459 LINE XXVI. DUKES OF BRITTANY ••...•••.••...••••..••••••..•••••..•• 460 LINE XXVII. THE QUINCY FAMILY .•...••••.••.••••....•••...••••..••• 461 LINE XXVIII. THE BEAUMJNT FAMILy .••••...••••••.••••••.•••••••.••• 462 LINE XXIX. THE LORDS OF GAUDWAY AND THE S'IUTEVILLE FAMILy •••.••• 464 LINE XXX. THE MORVILLE AND LANCASTER FAMILIES •••••••••••••••••••• 465 LINE XXXI. THE LONGESPEE FAMILY •••••••••••.•••••.•••••••••••••••• 466 LINE XXXII. THE SALISBURY FAMILY •••.••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 467 XXXIII. THE RIDELISFORD AND FITZ HENRY FAMILIES •••.•.•••••••••••• 468 XXXIV. THE PLANTAGENET EARL OF KENT •••••...•...... ••..•••••....• 469 ~. 'TIlE WAKE FAMILy •.....••.....•.••.....••....•.•...••••..•••• 470 TABLE OF CONTENTS LINE XXXVI. TdE QUINCY FAMILY OF COLNE QUINCY •••••••••••••••.•••• 472 LINE XXX\,TII". THE FIENNES FAMILy •••., ....•..•••...•.•••.••••.•••••• 473 LINE XXXVIII. 'TIlE OOUI...CX;NE FAMILy •••••••••••••••' ••••••••••••••••• 474 LINE XXXIX. THE BRIENNE FAMILY •.•.••••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••• 475 LINE XL. THE CHATEAUDUN AND ROCHES FAMILIES •.•••••••••••••••••••• 476 LINE XLI. THE FITZ ALAN FAMILY ...... 477 LINE XLII. THE AUBIGNY FAMILY ...... 478 LINE XLIII. EARLS OF CHESTER ...... 479 LINE XI..IV. A DUKE OF NO'RMANDY ••••.••.••.••••••.•.•••.•••••••••.•• 481 LINE XLV. THE MONTFORT FAMILY ...... •...... 482 LINE XLVI. THE V1lU)ON FAMILY .•••.•••••.••••.•.•.•.••••••••.••.••• 483 LINE XLVII. THE MORTIMER FAMILY ...... •...... 484 LINE XLVIII. PRINCES OF GWYNEDD AND KINGS OF DUBLIN •••••.•••••••• 486 LINE XLIX. 'llIE BRAOSE FAMILy •••••...•.•.••••.•..••••••.•.•••..... 488 LINE 1. AN EARL OF HEREFORD AND THE NEUFMARCHE FAMILy ...... 492 LINE LI. PRINCES OF NORTH WALES ...... 493 LINE LII. ANCESTRY OF ANGHARAD ...... 494 LINE LIII. ANCIENT WELSH LEADERS ...... •.•. 495 LINE LIV. THE BRIWERE FAMILY ...... •...... •...... •...... 496 LINE LV. MARQUISES OF SALUZZO AND COUNTS OF SAVOY •••••••••••••••• 497 LINE LVI. THE WARENNE FAMILy ...... •...•...... 498 LINE LVII. THE LUSIGNAN FAMILY ...... •...•...... 499 LINE LVII-I. THE VERE FAMILY EARLS OF OXFORD ••••••••••••••••••••• 5ODB LINE LVIII. PLANTAGENET EARLS OF LANCASTER ••••••••••••••••••••••• 501 LINE LIX. THE CHAWORTH FAMILY ...... •...... 502 LINE LX. THE BEAUCHAMP FAMILY ...... •...•..... 503 LINE LXI. THE MAUDUIT FAMILy ...... •..... 504 LINE LXII. THE SENLIS/ST. LIS FAMILY ••••••••••.•.•••••••••••••••• 505 LINE LXII I . THE NEWBURGH FAMILy ...... 506 LINE LXIV. THE ANCESTRY OF MAUD FITZ JOHN •••••••••••••••••••••••• 507 LINE I..X\l. THE BlGOD FAMILy ...... 508 LINE l..XVI. 'ItIE r1ARSlIAl.. FAMILy ...... •...... 509 LINE LXVII. THE ST. CLAIR/SINCLAIR FAMILY •••••••••••••••••••••••• Sl0 LINE LXVIII. EARLS OF STRATHEARN AND ORKNEY •.•••••••••••••••••••• 512 LINE LXIX. YNGLINGAR KINGS IN NORWAY •.•.••••••••••••••••••••••••• 514 LINE LXX. A SECOND LINE OF KINGS OF NORWAY ••••••••••••••••••••••• 515 LINE LXXI. RULERS OF JUTLAND AND DENMARK ...... •..•...... 517 LINE LXXII. THE DOUGlAS FAMILY ...... 519 LINE LXXIII. THE SUTHERLAND FAMILY ...... 521 LINE LXXIV. THE CRICHTON FAMILY ....•...... •...... 523 LINE I..XX\T. THE DUNBAR. FAMILY ...... 524 LINE LXXVI. THE COMYN FAMILy .....•...... •..... 527 LINE LXXVII. A SECOND LINE FROM DUNCAN 1 ••••••.•••••••••••••••••• 528 LINE ~III. THE ~LPH FAMILY ...... •...... 529 LINE LXXIX. THE STEWART FAMILY, ROYAL LINE ••••••••••••••••••••••• 530 LINE LXXX. THE BURGH FAMILY ••••••••••.••••••••••.•.•••••.•••.•.•• 532 LINE LXXXI. THE lACY FAMILy ...... 533 LINE LXXXII. THE BRUCE FAMILy ...... 534 LINE LXXXIII. DESCENDANTS OF HENRY OF HUNTINGDON ••••••••••••••••• 536 LINE lJOCKIV. THE CLARE FAMILY ...... •...... 537 LINE ~. THE GIFFARD FAMILY ...... 540 LINE ~I. KINGS OF LEINSTER AND MUNSTER ••••••••••••••••••••••• 541 TABLE OF CONTENTS LINE LXXXVII. EARLS OF GLOUCESTER ...... •...•..•.... 543 LINE LXXXVIII. EARLS OF CARRICK ...... 544 LINE LXXXIX. AN EARL OF MAR ...... •....•...... 545 LINE XC. THE WINSTON FAMILY ...... •...... 546 LINE XCI. THE SHELTON FAMILy •••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ,. •••••••• 550 LINE XCII. 11IE PARKS FAMILY ...... •...... 554 LINE XCIII. THE HUNT FAMILY ...... 557 LINE XCIV. 'TI1E HORD FAMILy •••••• ,. ••••••••• ,. •••••••••••••• ,. ••••••• 560 REF'ER.EN'CES ••• ,. ,. ••••• ,. ••••••• ,. •••• ,. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 565 INDEX •••••••••••••••• ,. ••• ,. ••• ,...... ,. •••• " ••• ,..,. •••••••••• 578 SCOTLAND

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MAP 1, showing concentrations of Tharp/Tharpe families in 1881. (See the discussion, Introduction p. ii.) INTRODUCTION i The surname Tharp(e) (with or without final e) and also Throup, Throp and Thrupp are among the less frequently encountered variants of the English name Thorp(e). As a common noun the word is defined as fol lows in the A. Merriam-Webster Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd ed.: thorp, thorpe. A group of houses in the country; a small agricultural community; hamlet - now chiefly in names of places and persons, as, Althorp, Mablethorpe. In The Ordnance Survey National Atlas of Great Britain we find many place names of these types and of the Thorpe Layton type, but only seven vil lages in Britain are named simply Thorpe and two are Thrupp - no Throp or Tharp is listed. Clearly the surname was originally given to persons from a local hamlet, without regard to its proper name. The noun thorp(e) was not borrowed from any language. It existed as .' }.ocp (with J.. pronounced as th .in"the") in Anglo-Saxon, meaning "lands, barnyard, hamlet," which in turn survived from a hypothetical reconstruct ed :prehistoric, language, prot9-Indo-European, perhaps spoken five or six thousand years ago to the north of the Caucasus and the Black Sea. His torical linguists have reconstructed the root with alternations, treb trob- trab-, meaning "beam, timber." In addition to Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic languages, forms of this root are found in Latin, Celtic Old Irish and Lithuanian, with meanings such as "farm," "dwelling" and "ham let" (Julius Pokorny, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Worterbuch. Band I, Bern'aad 1!ruriiCh 1':159, i090). The Anglo-Saxons were like many other early tribal peoples in using only single personal names for individuals. Not until the centuries after the Norman Conquest did the English begin gradually adopting SUFnameS, which are usually found in records indebted to Latin or French scribal practices - often one may question whether actual spoken forms are repre sented. Early examples of the Thorp/Throp surname are given by P. H. Raaney and R. M. Wilson (A Dictionary of English Surnames, 3rd ed., Oxford 1995, 445): William de Torp (1158),Ralph de Trop, de Thorp, Throp (from 1263) and Robert de Thorp (from 1287). The dictionary notes Tharp also, dismiss ed as a Thorp variant without examples, perhaps because l;!1e book focuses on ETYMOLOGY rather than PRONUNCIATION, and the variants .are identical in ii INTRODUCfION this respect. The absence of examples of Tharp(e) is unfortunate, as they would lend support to the argument that the variants all arose concurrent ly with the adoption of surnames in England; Tharp, Throup and Thrupp are not merely cases of misspelling or mispronunciation of the name Thorp(e) occurring randomly through the centuries. In fact, it seems reasonable to seppose that Thorp(e) has NEVER been changed to Tharp or Throop or some other variant, but that with the rise of literacy and obsession with stan dard spelling, Tharp is frequently "corrected" to Thorp(e). To cite only two of the many cases attested in this work, when William TharP's will. was transcribed by the }laryland clerk in 1735, the latter spelled the name Thorp or Thorpe throughout the document, and August J. Reifel, in his 1915 book, History of Franklin County, Indiana, turned every authentic Tharp into Thorp. Each old record must be evaluated with this situation always in mind. Since Thorp(e), being the traditional standard or documentary form of the name, has become widely distributed throughout Britain, those seek ing the local origin of a family bearing one of the variant versions such as Tharp enjoy a certain advantage - far fewer counties need be searched. A map showing the concentrations of Tharp(e)s in the 17th or 18th century may never be produced, but such maps are available based on the data fran the 1881 census, and accessible on the web at http:#www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/}lap.aspx?name=THARP&ye ••• http:#www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/}lap.aspx?name=THARPE&y ••• On the map for THARP, one finds the densest concentration in south central Surrey and a larger area in north central Sussex (numbered 1 on }lap 1;. q. v. ) and a lesser concentration in the eastern quarter of Kent (numbered 2) and the south west sixth of Staffordshire (numbered 3). On the map for THARPE the densest concentration of families lies in Berkshire and the adjacent north east sixth of Buckinghamshire (numbered 4), while the lesser concen tration is in the THARP area of eastern Kent (numbered 3). The chan~1O /ire that one will find a 17th century Tharp(e) immigrant to America originated in one of the:. numbered areas. TOO --bio>:mphical entries in this work are -organized within 'three chapters. The first chapter begins with the earliest known member of our Tharp family, immigrant Thomas- Tnarp (ca. 1635-1686), who is assUmedoto INTRODUCTION iii generation 1, and proceeds with all of his known descendants and-their spouses, when known, down to his 63 great great grandchildreri in the fifth generation. (A few people are missing, awaiting future research.) The second chapter focuses on one individual in generation 5, Andrew Tharp (1781-1830), and proceeds with all of his descendants down to his 6-great grandchildren in generation 13, although less effort has been expended on coverage of children born in recent years. In the third chapter a single ancestral line of Tharps, LINE I, is followed, father-to-son, from the immigrant down to his 3-great grandson, Thomas James Tharp (1810-1849). The ancestry of each of the wives of the men in this line is described. These wives came from five families (omitting the two wives of Thomas the immigrant, whose surnames are not known): Austin, Jordan, Pegg, Hawkins and Roane. The family trees are comprised of 94 ancestral lines. Thomas Tharp came to Maryland from Sussex in 1673 and nothing is yet known of his forebears in England. When the relevant parish registers are located, one may expect to see a record similar in outline to the history of the Claytons (LINE VIII in the Hawkins ancestry). William Clayton came from Sussex to America a few years after Thomas Tharp. Thomas was a simple Saxon yeoman, an illiterate man who would only appear in the parish regis ter in connection with births and marriages. Of the third chapter's 94 family lines, 86 families are Roane ances tors. This is because, unlike the Austin, Jordan, Pegg and Hawkins fami lies, the Roanes were descended from landed gentry, titled barons and even royalty, including many personages whose lives were documented in histori cal records, not simply local ecclesiastical ones. Sarah Anne Roane, wife of Thomas James Tharp, was a great granddaughter of Patrick Henry and Henry was a descendant of John of Gaunt, son of the Plantagenet king of England, Edward III. There is a single publication devoted to the ancestry of John of Gaunt: Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners. The Complete Known Lineage of John of Gaunt! Son of Edward III, King of England, and Queen Philippa, Fourth Edition, Baltimore 2002. This thoroughly docllm~nted work lists over 6,300 persons in Gaunt's ancestry, such as. Saxon (Alfred the Great), Norman (William I the Conqueror) and Plantagenet kings of Eng land, emperors and kings of Germany and France (Charlemagne, Louis IX, "St. iv INTRODUCTION Louis"), kings of Norway, Poland, Hungary, grand princes of Kiev, rulers of ancient Persia and Armenia, Byzantine emperors, Muhammad ' the Prophet and his son-in-law Ali, and even biblical personages such as Abraham,"_: David, king of Judah and SolomoR, Jdng"_of Israel. In -the. present work NONE of John of Gaunt's ancestors will be included; those wishing to pur sue this subject should turn to Stuart's book. The 86 lines of chapter 3 are provided to bridge the gap between the Roanes and John of Gaunt. If an ascendant line traces back from later times to an ancestor shared with Gaunt, that line is terminated at that point, with a reference to its con tinuation in Royalty for COIIIlloners (RFC). It should be noted that any per son named in chapter 2 who descends from Thomas James Tharp is a lineal descendant of every person listed in chapter 3 AND in RFC. ORGANIZATION OF THE CHAPTERS

The first two chapters are organized by generations numbered from 1, the earliest known, to 13, the most recent. Each Tharp descendant, what ever his or her surname, is provided with a biographical entry in the appropriate generation, and is assigned an individual number according to the individual's seniority within the generation. The elder sibling comes before the younger, and the children of the elder sibling precede those -ef the younger sibling. This system allows every Tharp descendant to be in dexed with his or her unique personal number, consisting of a generation number followed by a hyphen and a within-generation seniority number. For example, Edwin Ward Bliss is numbered 7-15 and his entry will be found by turning to the part of chapter 2 in which GENERATION 7 appears at_ the top of the pages and then locating the 15th entry in that generation. Edwin's wife Carrie B. H. Stone, unlike Edwin was not a Tharp descendant. She is indexed as ('7-15). Spouses' numbers are in parentheses. Preceding the entry of each person is written in capitals a heading with ms:olthef:_ pa£

Bliss, the heading is: CHILDREN OF PHILEMON AND MARTHA THARP BLISS (6~9), which is the first heading to be found before Edwin's entry. It is some three pages back, immediately above the entry for Edwin's elder brother. Headings are placed just above the eldest among a group of siblings. To find the children of Edwin and Carrie, search the consecutively numbered INTRODUCTION v headings in GENERATION 8, and after the entries for Edwin's elder bro ther's children will be found the heading CHILDREN OF EDWIN AND CARRIE STONE BLISS (7-15). Readers who assiduously attend to the generational and parental headings will soon have no difficulty navigating the somewhat unconventional organization of the first two chapters. The third chapteraxmsts. largely of patrilineages, the father-to-son lines leading from generation 1, the earliest known ancestor, to end in a daughter who married into another such line. More than one person will occasionally be entered in the same generation (these will be siblings or cousins),.because these individuals are lineal ancestors of persons in more recent generations - this is due to a cousin intermarriage somewhere down the line. This was a not infrequent phenomenon among royalty and nobility. Each line is given a Roman numeral and identification, but in a few instances in which the daughter ending one patrilineage marries the first or second generation of another patriline, the two lines are thus linked into one simply for convenience in presentation. At the end of each of the 94 lines in chapter 3 is a reference to the location by line and generation of the husband"whom the terminal daughter married. For example, at the end of LINE XXIII. THE PLANTAGENEl/tlMUFORT FAMILY is a notice (Joan Beaufort married Sir James Stewart, LINE XX, generation 11). At the end of LINE XX the notice refers one to LINE XVIII, and there the notice leads to LINE XVII, and so on, through LINE X to LINE !. THE THARP FAMILY. All 94 lines can be similarly traced to any descendant of Thomas James Tharp. {LINES IIfihroughcIX a18.o .carr.be. traq!d to any descendant of Andrew Tharp." 'M>

PARTIAL LIST OF SHIPPERS BY THE "GEORGE," PETER BENNETT, MASTER, showing those who booked passage between October 3 and November 28, 1672, bOtmd from London for New York and New Jersey in December. LINE I GENERATION 1 1

THOMAS THARP OF SUSSEX, ENGLAND AND KENT COUNTY, MARYLAND

1. Thomas Tharp was probably born in co. Sussex, England some time in the 1630s. As with most of the details of his life in England, these are based on informed guesswork. In 2008 we remain unhappily ignorant of the precise date and place of his birth, or even of which of the over 400 parishes in Sussex he lived in, yet we do possess one precious nugget of information: in an old history of Delaware (John T. Scharf, History of Delaware 1605- 1888. Volume II, Philadelphia 1888, 1193) the author, writing about the fifth governor of Delaware reports:

Governor William Tharp was born November 27, 1803, and died January I, 1865. His great-grandfather was John Tharp, of Sussex County, England, who settled in Kent County, Delaware.

The governor probably learned this family tradition from his father, both being quite unaware that it contained significant errors: John Tharp was certainly born in Tuckahoe Hundred, Talbot Co., Maryland. The inInigrant ancestor was John's grandfather Thomas. There is, however, reason to be lieve that the Sussex part of the tradition is valid. Refer to Map 1 and its discussion in the introduction, above. Sometime perhaps in the 1650s Thomas Tharp married an unknown wife and the couple had two children, Thomas and Mary, birth order likewise un known. This is clear from Thomas's will. It seems a fair inference that Thomas's wife died during the 1660s or early 1670s, since he left England in 1672 without her and ren~ried after he reached America. The first solid record of Thomas discovered so far was a consequence of his deCiSion to emigrate to America. The search for a ship record com patible with a voyage originating in Sussex yielded the following (Peter W. Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants 1661-1689, Baltimore 1990, 199) :

1672 14 Sep - 4 Dec Shippers by the George, Mr Peter Bennett, bound from London for New York and New Jersey: John Person, Joseph Canham, John Harbin, Christopher Dynot, Thomas Thorpe, John Beale, George Cole, John Barton, Samuel Saynock, Nathaniel Herne. (Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London WCZA ILR, record num bers E190753/53/6, 54/1) A photocopy of record 53/6 (q.v.) lists Cole, Harbin, Dynot, Beale and Tharp, boarding between October 3 and November 28 (Tharp) and bringing 2 GENERATION 1 aboard various quantities of kersey and other sorts of woolen cloth. Ap parently at that time these goods were a favored and easily portable medium of exchange for those expecting to establish themselves in America. In this record of the "George" we encounter for the first but not last time a clerk's misleading propensity to substitute "Thorpe" for "Tharp." Of this trans-Atlantic voyage, no record is found, but it is likely that the ship paused briefly at a New York port and then sailed on to Delaware Bay and up the Delaware River to such West Jersey ports as Salem, Woodbury or Burlington. The Quaker William Clayton traveled in 1677 from Sussex to London and then to Burlington on this route. John Beale, the "George" passenger and also a Quaker, reached Upland (later Chester) Co., Pennsyl vania before 1677. (Clayton and Beale's lines are found within the allied lines chapter.) From any Delaware K!ver lBlld1l1g it is only a Short jour= ney to Maryland's eastern shore. Thomas Tharp appears in Maryland provincial records in 1673 (Gust Skordas, ed., The Early Settlers of Maryland, Baltimore 1968, 462): Thorpe, Thomas Liber 17, Folio 463 Transported 1673.

"Transported" here means that Thomas's passage, like that of many immi grants of limited means, was paid by another colonist, in his case a man in Calvert Co., Maryland (Peter W. Coldham, Settlers of Maryland 1679- 1700, Baltimore 1995, 172 - from microfilm SR7366): Thorpe, Thomas Transported by John Abington of Calvert Co. before August 1680 (Liber 28[CB 2] Patents 1680-81, Folio 34) In the year after his arrival, Thomas, having converted hi.s woolens into: tobacco , the local 'Clkir"ency, purchased .lanct in Langford 1;lay If\mdred

(Liber A, Folios 323-29). tUI abstract of the deed, with identifying let ters inserted after mentioned landmarks, is as follows: April 20, 1674. Jacob Johnson and Hannah his wife to Thomas Tharpe, all of Kent Co., for 4,300 pounds of tobacco and cask, all that par cell of land 'called Pentridge "which I bought of Patrick Sullivant and his wife lying on a Creek called Langford bay in the County of Kent" beginning at a marked oak [A] standing by the Creek side going unto a marked bounded tree [A'] of a parcell of land formerly laid out for Thomas Hill and running up the said Creek for 80 perches to a marked oak [B] and from the said oak [A] north west for the length of 400 perches and from thence [C] Northeast 80 perches, &c.,con- GENERATION 1 3

taining 200 acres [80 by 400 perches] more or less. Witnesses: Richard Lowder, Ebenezer Blackiston Settling upon this tract, Thomas Tharp became a resident of Langford's Bay Hundred, which lay in northern Kent Co. between Chester Lower Hundred on the east and Swan's Creek Hundred on the west. His land was actually just a minor portion of "Pentridge," which encompassed 1 ,000 acres when originally patented in 1670 by William Hemsley (Henry C. Peden, Jr., "Tract Index to Kent COtmty Land Patents, 1640-1787," Inhabitants of Kent COtmty, Maryland 1637-1787, Westminster, Md., 1994, 63. Jacob Johnson, Patrick Sullivant and Richard Lowder are all mentioned as Kent Co. resi dents in Peden's collection. Richard Lowder's 1696 will was ~~tnessed by a mysterious John Tharp - who was he?) At some still tmknown date within the next few years Thomas married, second, Elizabeth --, apparently a woman much younger than he. Seven and one-half years after buying his plantation Thomas sold its northern half to George Givon (Vol. 6 Liber K Deeds 1681-85, Folio 14). An abstract of this deed, with identifying letters again inserted, reads as follows: November 20, 1681. Thomas Thorp and Elizabeth his wife of Kent Co. to George Gi von of the same COtmty, for 2,500 potmds of tobacco and cask, one moiety or half-part of a tract of land known as Pentridge, beginning at a marked oak [B] and rtmning down a Creek called Lang ford Bay Creek for 40 perches tmto another marked oak [n] and from said oak [n] northwest 400 perches and from thence [E] 40 perches until it joins [F] a parcel of land belonging to the heirs of John Humphrey and now in possession of George Givon, containing 100 ac cres [40 by [100 perches]. Wi tnesses: Charles Tilden, John Beules Acknowledged in Novembei~ Caurt 1681 & Th~Thorp Recorded by Elias King of the Cotmty of Kent EliZEJ Thorp

From the description contained in the records a scherratic drawing of Thomas Tharp's parcel, 1,320 feet lvide and 6,600 feet long, can be reconstructed approximately itS shown on the left. Peden (op. cit., "Abstracts of Kent Court Proceedings, 1647-1676," 146) -+-~'E gives details of other conveyances of "Pent- ridge" parcels of land in 1676. s ___ G~TI_ON__ i ___ _

On some unknown date within the four years that followed the land sale Elizabeth Tharp deserted her husband Ill1d children, apparently ab- sconding with the sale proceeds in currency, and fleeing with one James Carle to one of the other colonies. No other mention of Carle, whose name may i::e inaccurately recorded, has ever been found. TheGe facts are revealed in fhomas's Nov. 10, 1685 will, a document containing sufficient points of interest to warrant its presentation verbatim (Prerogative Court. Wills. Liber 4, Folios 233-234, 21 Novew~r 1686 [Maryland State Archives S538, Maryland Hall of Records 1284, 1-11-1-61):

In the name of God Amen the tenth day of Nov'ber 1685.1 Thomas Thorp being sick in body but of good and perfect memory thanks be to allmighty God for [it] and calling to remembrance the uncertaine [ty] of this transitory life and that all flesh must yealde unto death when it shall pleas God to call I doe make constitute ordaine and declare this my last will and Testament in maner and forme fol lowing revoeking and adnulling by these p'sents all wills or will by me formerly made by word or writing and this to be taken only for my last will and Testament, and First I commit my soale unto God my Saviour and redeemer in whome and by the merrits of Jesus Christ I tnL~t and believe assuredly to be saved and to have full rp~ssion and forgiveness of all my sins and my body. to be buried in such place where it shall please my Exect'r hereafter named to appoint. And now for the seteling of my temporall Estate and such goods chat tIes and debts as it has pleased God far above my deserts to bestow upon me I doe order give and dispose the same in maner and forme following that is to say, First I will that all the said debts and duties that I owe in right or conscience to any manner of p'son or p'sons whatsoever shall be well and truly contented and paid or ordained to be payed by my Ex ect'r hereafter named within convenint time after my decease. Item I give and bequeath unto my son William Thorp all my reall Es tate of Land and if he dye before he is of age I give and bequeath the said Land unto my daughter Elizabeth, Thorp and if my s'd Son William and daughter Elizabeth doe dye without heaires I give and bequeath the said reall Estate to Robert Erick and his heaires for ever. Item I give and bequeath two heifers one three years onld and the other two years old one of them marked with two flouer delileas and two wholes in thiere heares unto my above said daughter Elizabeth. Item. I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas ThJrp one shilling. Item I gi~e and bequeath unto my daughter Mary Tharp one shilling. Item. I d1sposses my rebellious wife Elizab

March the 25, 1687. Game before me John Burlas and was sworne upon the Holy Evanglist that he was a witness to the above will and saw him the said Thomas Tharp signe seale and deliver the said Will as his true act & deed - taken before me William Harris From the Testamentary Proceedings (Liber 13, Folio 494): April 26, 1687. Was exhibi[te]d the last will and Testament of Thom as Thorp late of Kent Co. dec'd proved by two of the witnesses there unto before me WID Harris the which was ordered recorded. Although close association with Qhakers (Friends) was inescapable in the eastern shore of Maryland during the years Thomas Tharp lived there, nothing indicates he was himself a member of the sect. Henry Hosier, Sr., who signed the will but as a Quaker did not take oaths, was appointed m'1d served as one of the constables of Langford's Bay Hundred in 1686 (George A. Hanson, Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland. Notes Illustrative of the Most Ancient Records of Kent County, Maryland, &c., Baltimore 1876, 322, 324). The form of Thomas's will would have been unacceptable for a Quaker, and Thomas.,was mentioned only posthtnnOus1y in the minutes of the Third Haven (Tread Avon) Friends' Meeting centered in neighboring Talbot Co. (Tred Avon Friends' Meeting. Vol. I, [probably] April 1688, 173-74):

Thomas Tharp sent an accompt of a friends in England that was Con= cerned with Bryon CAnealia and there is due from Bryon Qnealias Es tate (as he sayes) 2000 lb of tobacco and £.10.10. The Executors of Bryon CAnealia not all being here the Concerne is deffered untill next monthly meeting. 6 GENERATION 1 AND GENERATION 2 Tharp's name came up once more at the next monthly meeting: Att our joint Quarterly for both shores at our meeting house at the head of Trade haven Creek the 18th day of the third month [May] 1688 ••• as to the Concern that Thomas Tharp has left with the meeting Abraham Morgan affirmes that he heard Bryon CAnealia say that that Debt was fully satisfied. Therefore this meeting desires the Execu tors to write to England to Certifie the same and the papers are to be returned to John Pitt. Two points of interest in these minutes - the Quakers, with their appre ciation of literacy, were punctilious in spelling Thomas's name, and the latter had at least one communication from England in the l680s. CHILDREN OF THOMAS AND -- - THARP (l-la)

1. Thomas Tharp, birth order unknown, was probably born in Sussex, England in the l650s, and was thought by his father in Maryland to be still living in 1685. 2. Mary Tharp was also probably born in the l650s in England and was believed to be living, marital status unknown, in 1685. CHILDREN OF THOMAS AND ELIZABETH -- THARP (1-1 b) 3. Elizabeth Tharp, birth order unknown, was born in Langford Bay Hundred, Kent Co., Maryland in the l670s or l680s. Like her half-siblings above, she is known so far only from her father's will. 4. William Tharp was probably born in Langford Bay Hundred in 1682, a date based on his deposition made in 1747 (R. Bernice Leonard, Talbot County, Maryland Court Records. Book 9. 1745-1751, Easton, tH., 1988, 39): p. 117. Aug. 181747. Deposition of William Tharp of Talbot, aged 65 years •••• Of William's first eighteen years of life, beginning at age:4 under the care of Robert Erick in Kent Co., we know nothing at all. The first rec ord of him is of his marriage, from the vestry book of St. Peter's Parish Church in Easton, Talbot Co., which is located about 25 miles :in a straight line from his birthplace in Kent County. In 1710 (new style) William married Jane Austin, the third daughter : of Thomas Austin of Talbot Co., presumably in an Anglican ceremony fSl •. FeteJ:O'·s ·Pai:LshOlUrch

Records 1681-175~ 65, renumbered from original page 38):

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William Tharp & Jane Oistone was married the 8th day of January An~D~ 1709. "Oistone," properly Oistin, is a variant form of Austin (derived from ear lier Augustine - see . "The Austin Famlly, II LINE II), The date 1709 must be converted to 1710: prior to 1752 the new year of the old style calendar was on March 25, the day 1710 then began. In 1716 the name Wm. Tharpe appears for one of the witnesses of the will of Quaker John Keld, a Talbot Co. cooper and planter, and the husband of Elinor Austin, one of Jane Tharp's elder sisters. The will was dated July 21, 1716 and was proved on Aug. 28, 1716 (Liber 4, Folio 189 - Jane Baldwin, ed., Maryland Calendar of Wills. Vol. IV. Wills from 1713 to 1720, Baltimore 1914, 60). On Nov. 2, 1717 William purchased 50 acres of land in the branches of Tuckahoe Creek, part of "Ashton" (correctly, "Austin") from Dennis Larey. In 1733 William Tharp was listed as a taxpayer of Tuckahoe Hundred in a group of four taxables: himself and sons John, Thomas and Isaac, evidence that all were over age 15 (F. Edward Wright, Citizens of the East ern Shore of'faaryl-and 1659-1750, Silver Spring, Md., 1981, 28). This Hun dred lay along Tuckahoe Creek, then the boundary between Talbot and Queen Annes (now Caroline) Counties. In 1735 William Tharp purchased of John Jordan a tract called "Coleraine," now in Caroline Co. near Hillsboro, but using the old names, in Queen Annes Co. near Tuckahoe Bridge (Queen Annes County, Maryland, Land and Property Index, 1729-1737 RT #A, p. 403 - LDS Film No. 0014342). "Coleraine" is only about 15 miles from William's birthplace in Kent County. Also in the year 1735 William Tharp wrote his will, though it was not probated until 1752 (Talbot County Wills, 1752. Liber 29, Folio 143):

In the name of God Amen This 30th day of August in the year of our Lord Christ 1735 I William Thorp of Talbot County being sick and weak of Body but of Perfect Mind and Memory blessed be God and call ing to mind the mortality of my Body and that [it] is Appointed for all men once to Dye Do make my last will and Testament in Manner and form following first Principally I give and Bequeath My Soul into the hands of Almighty God hoping for Salvation of the same thro' the ~rits of Jesus Christ my Saviour and as for my Body I Comnend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian and decent Marmer at the Dis cretion of my Executor hereafter mentioned and as touching Such Worldly Estate where with it pleases God to bless me with in Life I 8 GENERATION 2 give devise and Bequeath the same in manner and Form following. Item: I leave and Bequeath To my well beloved wife Jane Thorpe her Riding Horse Bridle and Saddle with the feather Bed and all the Furniture Belonging there unto which I now lye upon and fifty acres of Land which I purchased of Denis Lary During her Life and after her Decease to my son John Thorpe and his Heirs for ever Except one acre which I bequeath as a Burying Place not to be sold or Disposed of - moreover my will is that my wife shall have the free use of and liberty of that Parcell of Land which I purchased of John Jor dan During her widowhood and afterwards to return to my son Thomas Thorpe and his heirs for ever - and my will is that my wife shall have all the Woolen and Linnen that I have now in my House that was bought for her use. Item - I leave and Bequeath unto my son John Thorpe a feather Bed. Item - I leave and bequeath to my Son Isaac Thorpe a Mare and Colt which he has now in Possession with Bridle and Saddle and one feather Bed. Item I leave and bequeath to my Daughter Mary Thorpe a young male colt going on Two years old. Item I leave and Bequeath to my son William Thorpe a walnut Table. Item my will is that my four youngest Sons, Abner, Joseph, Ogle and William shall be free at 20 Years of Age If it happens that my wife either Marry or dye otherwise to stay with her till full age. Item I leave and bequeath to my Daughter Jane Thorpe an Iron Pott of 2 Gallons Measure. Item I leave to my Daughter Elizabeth Thorpe an Iron Kettle containing in measures Two Gallons. Item I leave to my wife a New chest and Small Trunk. Item I leave to my son Thomas Thorpe all Cooper Tools - Item I constitute and ordain my Loving wife Jane Thorpe my full and sole Executor and I will that after all my Funeral Charges and Lawfull Debts [are] paid that the Remainder of my Estate Shall be Equally divided amongst my Seven Youngest children Beginning at my Daughter Mary and do hereby utterly Revoke disallow and AnnulI all other wills Testaments Legacies or Bequests by me before this time Named Will'd or Bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and none other to be my last [will] and Testament. IN witness Whereof I have here unto Set my Hand and Seale this Day and Year first above written ~s Willi~~ Thorpe mark Signed Sealed Published Pronounced by the Said William Thorpe as his last will and Testament in the Presence of Sim. Keld, Susannah Keld, James Shield There are indications, such as William Tharp's absence from tax records, to believe that he died about 1748 and was predeceased by his wife. On SCALE A Langfords Creek, Langfords Bay Hundred, Kent County, Maryland.: Thcmas Tharp bought 200 acres in 1674 j 1:250,000 B "Austin," Tuckahoe Hundred, Ta loot C01mty, Maryland: William Tharp, son of Thomas, acqired 50 acres upon his marriage in 1710 arx:I. 50 more acres }:ly purchase in 1717 j C "Coleraine," Queen Annes COlmty, Maryland: William Tharp bought SO acres in 1735 and John Tharp, son of William, acquired 50 a,:res upon h is marriage about 1739. Ii , .1 •

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I ), 1 , !L~ •• f GENERATION 2 AND GENERATION 3 9 Aug. 7, 1750 William and Jane's sons John and William sold land inherited from each of their parents - it is difficult to see how this was managed when their father's will was not probated until 1752:

On the Back of the Foregoing Will Was Thus Written - Talbot County Ct - Simon Kild one of the Subscribing witnesses to the foregoing will made Oath on the holy Evangelist Almighty God that he saw the Testator William Thorpe sign the same will but can not remember that he heard him Publish and declare the Same to be his last Will and Testament, that he saw the said Testator sign the said Will in the sight Presence and Hearing of James Shield one of the other Subscribing Witnesses to the said will. That at the Time of his signing he was to the best of the apprehension of this Depon ent of sound and disposing mind and memory and that he this Deponent and said witness Shield subscribed their names Respectively to the said Will at the Request of the said T[estator] and at his Request this first Day of December Anno Domini 1752 before me John Nicholls Court of the County aforesaid Further testamentary proceedings were recorded in 1754, but are of little interest. CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND JANE AUSTIN THARP (2-4) 1. John Tharp was born in Tuckahoe Hundred, Talbot Co., Maryland about the year 1711, an estimate made in consideration of his parents' marriage in early 1710. Since we have no firm birthdates for any of this generation their births are guessed to be about two years apart, following John's. Around, say, 1739 John Tharp married Elizabeth Jordan, who was born about 1720 to James Jordan, died 1733, and Barbara, his wife, of Queen Annes County, Maryland. In William B. Tharp's book on this family (Genealogy of the Tharp Family of Delaware, Farmington, Del., 1941, 3) the author cites an old document naming John's wife as Elizabeth, but none of his other information about this couple is ac=ate. In a list dated Feb. 6, 1749 (all dates converted to new style), John Tharp was counted with his brothers Isaac and Ogle among the men of Capt. John Ehlory's Queen Annes Co. militia company (F. Edward Wright, Citizens of the Eastern Shore of Maryland 1659-1750, Silver Spring 1981, 76). About 1750 a number of Tharp family members began moving about 20 or so miles east into the "Delaware Counties of Pennsylvania" (becoming the state of Delaware in the 1770s). John and his brother on Aug. 7, 1750