A History of Essex
Compiled by Derrick Pitard http://pitard.net/genealogy/home.php
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The Battees
Essex was patented by Lord Baltimore to Fardinando Battee Sr. on August 5, 1664.
Battee was probably from the southeast of England--evidenced in part by the name of this property--and left to join fellow puritans in the America.1 He probably immigrated to America in about 1649 with his whole family, including Millicent his wife, Seaborn his son, and Dina,
Mary, and Ruth his daughters. He was definitely in America by the early 1660s according to the land patents he filed. On 8 July 1663 he and Andrew Skinner surveyed 300 acres of land called
Essex; ten days later (18 July 1663) he surveyed another 300 acres called Hopewell near Herring
Creek (in what was to be St. James Parish), which lay farther south.2 Within the next twenty years, he patented three other properties which abutted Essex: Kent (patented 14 August 1672),
Battee's Due (surveyed 13 Sept. 1677), and Suffolk (patented 18 June 1683).3
The survey for Essex came to 300 acres of land. It is hard to say precisely what the boundaries of the property then were. The deed for Essex describes it as
a parcell of Land (called Essex) lying and being in Ann Arrundell County on the North
Sid of a river in the Said County called West river beginning at a Markt Oak and
running for breadth from the said Oak North one hundred and fifty perches to a Marked
red Oak bounded on the North by a line drawn West from the said Oak for length ffour
hundred and twenty perches to a Marked Oak on the West [. . . ] and so on. The patents (together with Kent, Suffolk, and Battee's Due) lay in the extreme south of the West River Hundred of Anne Arundel County, in what was later to be All Hallow's
1 Loeser, "Corrections and Additions" 505 n. 83. The primary sources for Fardinando Battee and his immediate family are Rudolf Loeser, "Fardinando Battee of Anne Arundel County," Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 37 (1997) 475-521, and his follow-up article "Fardinando Battee of Anne Arundel County: Corrections and Additions," Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 39.4 (Fall, 1998) 491-518. Margaretancestors. Sparrow, Letter to Rudolf Loeser, Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin (1998) 236, suggests that he may have been a Huguenot from the French/Spanish border; Loeser thinks this is doubtful (in Loeser, " Corrections and Additions" 504-05) noting that there several instance of the name "Battey/Battie" in the southeast of England, "especially counties Essex and Suffolk." The name of the farm would seem to indicate an attachment to that part of the world as well. 2 Colonial Families of Maryland, 1600s-1900spitard.net, 57. Hopewell was patented 17 May 1666.
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Parish.4 Fardinando Sr. lived on the Essex property. The deed mentions that "Fardinando
Battee of this province hath due unto him three hundred of land within this province for transporting himself Millicent his wife Seaborn his Son Dina Mary and Ruth his daughters into this province here to inhabit." According to a map created by Dr. Jacob Franklin Sr., the original house stood near what is now the entrance to the farm, in the field across the small lane from what was Charles Parker's house. Next to the house, on his side of the lane, is a stand of trees under which the Battees lie buried.
On 24 September 1684 Fardinando Sr. passed on 127 acres of Kent and Essex and 52 acres of Suffolk to his only son Seaborn, who was "about to enter the state of matrimony."5
Seaborn later passed on these properties to his son Samuel.6 However, Seaborn later predeceased his father in 1687. Fardinando Sr.'s wife Millicent died around the same time, between about 1685 and 1689, and he remarried, to Elizabeth Wood. Fardinando must have been born around 1630—if he immigrated as a young man—so he was quite old by the time of this second marriage. Nevertheless by his second wife he fathered six more children, whose names are recorded in the parish register of All Hallow's, which was established when the
Anglican Church was established in Maryland in 1692.7 These children included another Dinah, born in 1690; Benjamin; Fardinando Jr.; another Mary, who died as a child; John; and Elizabeth.
3 Rudolf Loeser, "Corrections and Additions" 497. There is a difference between the survey date and the patent date; I give the latter since it marks ownership. Loeser doesn't know the patent date for Battee's Due. 4 Loeser, "Corrections and Additions" 498. "Hundreds" were administrative areas that later evolved into election districts. The term is Anglo-Saxon, dating to at least to the 10th century; in the post-Norman conquest land assessment known as the Domesday Book, a Hundred was a tax and legal district of a shire. In 1696, Anne Arundel County consisted of the Town Neck, Middle Neck, Broad Neck, South River, West River, and Herring Creek Hundreds (Quoted from "Maryland Hundreds and Parishes ca. 1696," 28 June 2003, < http://www.combs-families.org/combs/records/md/hundreds.htm>, which takes its information from the Archives of Maryland 23, 17-25, from the Proceedings of the Council of Maryland 1696/70).ancestors. On the Hundreds see
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At his own death in 1706, Fardinando Sr.'s heirs were listed as his wife Elizabeth and various of his children and grandchildren. 8 The will records that he left to his wife Elizabeth
"use and benefitt of my now dwelling house & plantation & all ye lands theereunto belong being by Estimation three hundred acres more or less according as ye patents shall appear and also ye use and Benifitt of ye tract of land Called Hopewell."9 His will also stipulates that after her death, the property is to revert to her sons: "after my afd Wifes Decease [all 600 acres of his land, more or less] may be Equally Divided Between my afd Two Sons Benj:a & Fardinando
Battee ye same by Even & Equall portions to the man each of their heirs Lawfully begotten."10
From their own wills, it is apparent that Benjamin got the 300 acres at Hopewell, and
Fardinando Jr. got the 300 which formed the Essex properties.11
The fact that a full 300 acres of Essex could be passed on here means the property must have been re-consolidated after Seaborn's death; as stated above, the property had been partitioned when Fardinando Sr. had passed some on to his son Seaborn, and Samuel had inherited the parts of Essex which his father Seaborn had owned, so these must have reverted back to Fardinando Sr. if he was able to will them to his wife.12 In fact, soon after Fardinando
Sr.'s death, but before Elizabeth's remarriage, information was collected on the owners of land in Anne Arundel county.13 Essex, described as "300 acres at 6s rent," was then owned by the
"widow Battee."14 Kent, Suffolk, and Battee's Due are all recorded here as being owned by
Samuel. So, as Loeser explains, "at one point there must have been an exchange of tracts, Essex reverting to Fardinando [Sr.] in its entirety and Samuel ending up with Battee's Due."15 The
8 Fardinando Sr.'s will was dated 21 December 1704, and probated 2 April 1706. 9 Quoted in Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 503. 10 Quoted inancestors. Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 503. 11 Benjamin records in his will that he was unhappy about the distribution of the land for some unknown reason; the will is quoted in Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 506-07; and see the noted in Loeser, "Corrections and Additions" 513. The division of the land is also the subject of a deed from Benjamin and Ann Battee to Fardinando Jr. dated 15 Oct. 1718, and quoted by Loeser, "Corrections and Additions" 498. 12 Yeah, I know, its all very confusing. See the family charts in the Appendix for help. 13 Elizabeth Wood remarried to Thomas Hood. See Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 505. 14 Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 505. 15 pitard.net Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 505.
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In 1711, apparently at the death of Elizabeth, 50 acres of Essex and 127 acres of Kent were sold to Willam Barton, a free African-American. At the time, he was a cooper.16 In 1739, he made a deed of gift of Essex (presumably this 50 acres) to Anthony Hill.
Fardinando Jr. married Elizabeth Wooden (or Wooding, the daughter of a John
Wooding) on 11 December 1718. She was a Quaker, born in about 1698. His will is undated, but was probated on 29 April 1745. They had five children: John, Samuel, Elizabeth, Dinah, and Fardinando III. At his death, he left Essex to his second child, and second son, Samuel.
Samuel married Ann Sellman, whose family was from Accomack County, Virginia. His will was probated on 7 December 1767, after which the property must have passed down through his children, starting with his oldest son, another Fardinando. In 1783 an assessment was made of land in Anne Arundel Co. which lists several lands under "Fardinando Battee," including Battee's Due, Essex, Kent, Rick's Neck, and Smithfield. Essex is listed here as having
176 acres.17 I assume that this is Samuel's son Fardinando. It also says that all of these properties are in the "Road River Hundred," which I assume is the "Rhode" River. The older
West River Hundred must have been subdivided by this date. Two different Fardinando
Battees were also elected to the South River Club, on 5 August 1784 and on 3 September 1807.
The first was most likely Fardinando III (d. 1808), the son of Fardinando Jr.; the latter was probably Samuel's son Fardinando (unknown dates).18
16 Mechelle Kerns-Nocerito, Stories Dead Men Tell: A Geophysical Survey in the All Hallows Graveyard
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The property was apparently passed down through Samuel and Ann Battee's children.
Elizabeth, Samuel Battee's youngest child, lived from 1749 to 1822, and was the last of the
Battees to own Essex. It had remained in the Battee family for 158 years.
The Franklins
It then passed to the Franklin family. Elizabeth's older sister Anne had married Jacob
Franklin (Jr.) on March 5, 1776, in Anne Arundel County.19 They had six children: Mary, Jacob,
Samuel, Anne, Benjamin, and Thomas. Jacob, and his father Jacob Sr., were Episcopalians, though they were descended from a Quaker family, and Jacob Sr.'s wife Mary Giles was also a
Quaker.20 All of them were married in the West River Meeting, which had been founded in the late 1600s (by George Fox himself, the founder of Quakerism, according to the plaque by the
Burying Ground).21 Franklin graves are still in evidence at the burying ground, and evidently
Battees were buried there too, though their graves are not in evidence any more.22 As with the Battees, the Franklins had appeared in Anne Arundel County in the latter half of the seventeenth century. Robert Franklin, the immigrant, purchased land in Anne Arundel county on 7 May 1674 called "Beverdam Branch."23 His son Robert Jr. had married
Artridge Giles in 1697 at West River Meeting, at which
Elizabeth Battee the wife of Fardinando Sr. had been present.24 Jacob Sr. was born in 1702; it was he who Benjamin Franklin
19 Again—seeancestors. the Appendices for help with sorting out all of these folks. 20 The Franklin family history is partially described in John Hall, The Hall Family of West River and Kindred Families (Denton, MD: Rue Publishing, 1941) 218-21. On Mary Giles' family see Hall 228-29. 21 The records of the Meeting are published in Henry Peden, Quaker Records of Southern Maryland (Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books, 2000). 22 There is also a gravesite in a grove of trees on the Essex property where, family tradition has it, Battees were buried. 23 Donna Valley Russell, First Families of Anne Arundel County, MD (______) 45. 24 pitard.net Peden, Quaker Records 17.
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When Elizabeth Battee died in 1822, she left Essex to Benjamin Franklin, the son of Jacob
Jr. and Anne. His portrait was in the parlor at Essex (picture). He, however, died later that same year, on 30 December 1822. From Benjamin, Essex passed to his minor nephew, Samuel
Franklin Jr., the son of Benjamin's older brother Dr. Samuel Franklin Sr. This seems to be quite an inheritance to pass to the boy, since his father was still alive. In any event Samuel also soon died; somewhere between 1822 and 1830 he drowned in College Creek while he was attending
St. John's College in Annapolis.26 He died intestate, and Essex passed to his four younger sisters: Rachel, Harriet, Nancy, and Maria.
Rachel Franklin married Dr. Franklin Waters, and over the next several years he gradually bought out the other three sisters' interests in the farm.27 Harriet, who married
Thomas Hyatt Lansdale (1808-1878), deeded her 1/4 interest to him on 27 December 1838;
Nancy, who married her first cousin Dr. Thomas Jacobs Franklin (1813-1896),28 deeded her 1/4 interest to him on 8 July 1853; and Maria and her husband Robert Freeland deeded their interest to him 27 May 1856. Maria and Robert's portraits are also in the parlor at Essex, and were great friends of the Waters, often coming down from Baltimore to visit. According to John Lansdale
Sr.'s notes, his "Uncle" Robert Freeland (that is, his great uncle) said that Franklin Waters had had the portraits painted "to preserve her beautiful face." They are certainly a handsome couple.29 By 1856, then, the farm had fully passed from the Franklin family to the Waters. Dr.
Franklin Waters moved to the farm in 1851. By then, the farm had been in the Franklin family
25 The Lansdales are descended from Jacob Sr. and Mary Giles via two of their children, Rachel and Jacob Jr., since their grandchildren married each other: Mary Waters, the daughter of Rachel Franklin and Arnold Waters, married Samuel, the son of Jacob Jr. and Anne Battee. See the Appendices on the Franklin family for more information. 26 St. John's hasancestors. no record of him in their alumni database. 27 The Waters family are another old Anne Arundel family. On them see Harry Wright Newman, Anne Arundel Gentry vol. 2 (1971; rpt. Delaware: Colonial Roots, 2003) 394-495; the relevant group is descended from Samuel Waters (1674-1749) on 399-448—Dr. Franklin Waters is discussed on 435-36. Also see Hall, The Hall Family 175-190. 28 Nancy and Thomas Jacobs have common grandparents in Jacob Franklin II and Anne Battee: Nancy's father is their third son Samuel; and Thomas Jacob's father is their youngest child Thomas. See also note 26, below. pitard.net
____ This draft of this essay is dated 1/22/11. for 29 years. Yet though they did not all continue to own the farm, these four sisters and their families continued to be very close, and formed a core of relationships which dominated the history of the property for the next century.
The Waters
Dr. Franklin Waters built the core of the present house at Essex in 1852-53. Records of this are at Essex still. It was large, comfortable farmhouse. It had a front porch raised about a foot from the ground and made of very wide, heavy pine boards, and a long banister on the stairway, extending 2 floors, which was made in Baltimore. He and his wife clearly used the property to develop the strength of the house and the family well into the following century.
Their centrality is in part signaled by the couple's decision to own Essex themselves, rather than collectively with Rachel's sisters, as well as by building the new house. Yet they kept very close familial connections with relations developed through her sisters; the link with Maria and her husband is just one example. The Dr. and his wife were also first cousins, since both claimed
Jacob Franklin Sr. and Mary Giles as grandparents.30
Several relics of Essex's past as a slave farm date from this time. The house behind the main house was originally a slave cabin. It has been renovated, but its fundamental structure remains as an example of the kind of cabin which was typical for rural Maryland servants in the mid-19th century. It was built at the time Franklin Waters built the main house, in about 1852.31
Also, in the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis there are copies of orders to pay for the service of two former slaves, one for the service of Frederick Gray, a former slave of T.J.
Franklin (presumably Thomas Jacobs Franklin, Nancy Franklin's husband), dated 23 November 1864; and secondancestors. for the service of Richard Jackson, who had been a slave of Franklin Waters,
29 I discuss the Freelands and these portraits further in "The Freelands and Essex." 30 See note 23, above. 31 "Inventory of African-American Historical pitard.netand Cultural Resources," 29 June 2003,
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Company G, and Jackson in Company H) which was organized in Baltimore in late March of
1864, and which distinguished itself in various battles in Virginia and North Carolina until the end of the war. These orders to pay were made during the war; the only reasons I can think of why owners would have received such payment is if they had specifically released the slaves for military service (they are called "former slaves" in the documents). And the only reasons I can see for doing this are because they had Union sympathies, because they saw the war going against the Confederacy, because they wanted or needed the money, or some combination of these. More research needs to be done on this.
Connections abound between the Waters (and Franklin and Lansdale) children, grandchildren, and further, and are worth noting though they take us forward by a century.
Harriet married Thomas Lansdale, and it would be to their grandchild John that the farm would be deeded in 1934. Today, several photo albums from Essex exist with pictures from the latter half of the nineteenth century. One is of Richard Hyatt Lansdale
("Uncle Dick"), a son of Harriet and Thomas. A second is a baby picture from the next generation of William Hartshorne, a grandson of Thomas Hyatt and Harriet via their daughter Ella
Mariah (see picture); he entered Haverford College in 1909, so the picture must have been taken around 1892. The
Hartshornes were a well-known Quaker family from
Montgomery County into which Ella Mariah (known as Nellie) ancestors.Ella Maria Hartshorne
32 MSA SC 2443-1-29, and MSA SC 2443-1-41. Both men enlisted on 31 March 1864: Jackson mustered out on 15 June 1865, and Gray was last listed as "Absent in hospital since Aug., 1864, Co. M. O. rolls." See L. Allison Wilmer, et al., History and Roster of Marylandpitard.net Volunteers, War of 1861-65 (Baltimore, 1899) 261 ff. Gray was listed as living in Baltimore in 1880.
____ This draft of this essay is dated 1/22/11. had married. That these images of the families of Rachel and all three of her sisters can be collected at Essex today is evidence of the care which Rachel and Franklin Waters no doubt took to keep those attachments strong.33
Franklin Waters died on 27 March 1879, and he and his family are buried at Christ
Episcopal Church in Owensville.34 At his death Dr. Waters deeded Essex to his wife Rachel, who died ten years later, on 15 August 1889. She in turn deeded it to her youngest daughter
Rachel Alice Waters, who went by "Miss Alice," but whom the whole family affectionately called "Aunt Jig." She had three older sisters (Mary, Catherine, and Olivia), and two older brothers (Samuel Franklin and Franklin). She never married, however, and was the last of her siblings to survive. On 25 June 1934, she deeded the farm to John Lansdale Sr., and when she died in April of 1939 he received ownership of the farm. It had been in the Waters family for 83 years.
The Lansdales
At this point, then, Essex passes to the Lansdales. John Lansdale Sr.'s grandmother
Harriet Franklin, who had deeded her interest Essex to Franklin Waters in the 1850s, had married Thomas Hyatt Lansdale.35 His mother Jemima Hyatt was apparently descended from
33 One further connection goes beyond Essex, though it is worth noting, since it is referred to often in John Lansdale Jr.'s life of his father (John Lansdale, A Life [1993]). It takes us a generation back, to the Franklins. The youngest of the children of Jacob Franklin Jr. and Anne Battee was Thomas Franklin (1786-1865). His son, Thomas Jacobs Franklin (1813-1896) in turn had a son by his first wife Josephine Harris (Nancy Franklin was his second wife), named Joseph Harris Franklin (1851-1884). J.H. Franklin graduated from VMI in 1871, and unfortunately died young. His son, Harris Franklin (1880-1937), was the third cousin and a great friend of John Lansdale Sr., who felt his death deeply (they shared GG Grandparents).ancestors. One of the pictures in the Lansdale album at Essex is of Harris and his younger brother Edmund. Harris Franklin and his wife Carol Wilson (d. 1990) are buried at the West River Burying Ground. 34 This is Lot no. 17. A certificate at Essex dated October, 1971, in the name of John Lansdale, Jr., says the lot "is hereby certified to have been duly endowed for perpetual care and assigned to the said "John Lansdale Jr." his heirs and assigns forever." 35 Information on the Lansdales comes from Lansdale, John Lansdale, A Life; Maria Horner Lansdale, Two Colonial Families: Lansdale and Luce (Philadelphia:pitard.net privately printed, 1938); and the notes of John Lansdale Sr. and Jr.
____ This draft of this essay is dated 1/22/11. the Hyatts who founded Hyattsville in Prince George's County.36 Thomas and Harriet had moved west to Triadelphia, on the Pautuxet River in Montgomery County, and were quite successful there, running a mill. The town is now covered by the Triadelphia Reservoir. He was also a member of the state legislature, serving in 1864 when a new constitution was drafted for the state at the end of the Civil War.37 They had six children: Samuel, Richard Hyatt, Mary
Jemima, Thomas Franklin, Elizabeth Franklin, and Ella Mariah.38 Thomas Franklin, the fourth child, had married Elizabeth Wimberly Strain, and had died in 1891; they are buried at All
Hallow's Chapel in Davidsonville. He was therefore a first cousin of "Aunt Jig," since they had common grandparents in Dr. Samuel Franklin and Mary Waters—and his son John Lansdale
Sr., then, was her first cousin once removed.39
John Lansdale Sr. did not move to Essex right away. He did a lot of renovation beginning in 1946 and 1947 (at which point the Skinners, who had been living there, moved out), including the addition of the wings containing the library and the office. Records of this are at Essex. He moved to Essex in September of 1949.40 He also bought Cherry Branch, which adjoins Essex along the Galesville Road (MD 255). This wasn't the only land he bought and sold. In 1940 he bought 200 acres of Cumberstone, but sold it the same year to Albert
Woodfried of Galesville. This was part of the property once owned by the Giles family, most of which, according to his notes, was owned by Woodfried in 1940.41 He also bought and sold the properties of Anti-Lebanus and Suffolk which adjoin Essex to the south and west, respectively.
36 The fullest history of the Hyatts is in Luther Welsh, Genealogy of the Hyatt and Welsh Families (Independence, MO: Lambert Moon, 1928); also see Donna Lou Cuttler, The History of Hyattstown, Maryland (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), though this seems not to help much for our genealogicalancestors. history. 37 For a brief description of T.H. Lansdale and Triadelphia, see The Sandy Spring Museum at
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He died on 2 May 1961, and is buried at All Hallow's Chapel in Davidsonville, next to his wife May Mannen. At his father's death, his children John Jr. and Sally inherited Essex; John bought out his sister's interest within several years. He was living in Cleveland, and did not then move to Essex full time. In 1971 they sold their house in Cleveland and moved to Essex as their primary residence. In the early 1974 he "retired" to Essex.
In 1984, John Lansdale Jr. received from the county an easement for Essex (though not
Cherry Branch) that sold the property's development rights to Anne Arundel County in return for the amount which price which the development of the land would have then brought.
Because of this the property can only be used for agricultural purposes, and the easement binds present and future owners of the land. Six plots on the Essex property are reserved from the easement, and can used to develop private dwellings.
At the 200th anniversary of the Constitution, in 1987, John Lansdale registered Essex as a
Bicentennial Farm, one which had been in one family since the Revolutionary War. Only about two dozen farms in the area are similarly designated. Signs commemorating this, and the easement, are at the property's entrance.
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Appendices (see the website for C-F)
A. List of owners of Essex
B. The genealogical connection between Fardinando Battee Sr., and John Lansdale Jr.
C. Chart of Battee Descendants (selected)
D. Chart of Franklin Descendants (selected)
E. Chart of Waters Descendants (selected)
F. Chart of Lansdale Descendants (selected)
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Appendix A: List of Owners of Essex
There may have been other family members who had title to the property between the death of
Fardinando Battee Sr. and Elizabeth Battee (d. 1822).
Fardinando Battee Sr. (abt. 1630-1706)
Elizabeth Battee (his wife, who owned it as his widow until her death (d. 1718)
Fardinando Battee Jr. (1697-1745; son of Fardinando Sr. and Elizabeth)
Samuel Battee (d. 1767, son of Fardinando Jr.)
Elizabeth Battee (1749-1822)
Benjamin Franklin (1783-1822)
Samuel Franklin
Rachel, Harriet, Nancy, and Maria Waters Franklin
Dr. Franklin Waters (1804-1879)
Alice Waters (1852-1939)
John Lansdale Sr. (1882-1961)
John Lansdale Jr. (1912-2003)
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Appendix B: the genealogical connection between Fardinando Battee, the original owner of Essex, and John Lansdale Jr. This is not, however, a list of owners of Essex.
(1) Fardinando BATTEE Sr. b. about 1630 d. about 1706, Anne Arundel Co. & Elizabeth Wood d. May 1718
(2) Fardinando BATTEE Jr. b. April 22, 1697, Anne Arundel Co. d. 1745, Anne Arundel Co. & Elizabeth WOODEN b. about 1698 m. December 11, 1718, All Hallows, South River Parish, Anne Arundel Co.
(3) Samuel BATTEE d. December 1767 & Ann SELLMAN b. September 25, 1725, Accomac, Accomack Co., Virginia d. after December 1767
(4) Anne BATTEE b. December 29, 1747/8, Anne Arundel Co. d. December 29, 1788, Anne Arundel Co. & Jacob FRANKLIN Jr. b. November 21, 1743, Anne Arundel Co. d. October 28, 1819, Anne Arundel Co. m. March 5, 1776, Anne Arundel Co.
(5) Dr. Samuel FRANKLIN b. November 21, 1780, Anne Arundel Co. d. October 22, 1821, Anne Arundel Co. & Mary WATERS b. January 19, 1782, St. James Parish, Anne Arundel Co. m. January/July 17, 1807, Prince George’s Co.
(6) Harriet FRANKLIN b. 1813 d. 1886 & Thomas Hyatt LANSDALE b. 1808 d. 1878 ancestors. m. December 10, 1834, Prince George’s Co.
(7) Thomas Franklin LANSDALE b. October 10, 1844, Triadelphia, Montgomery Co. d. January 31, 1891, Davidsonville & Eliza Wimberly STRAIN b. January 16, 1853, Memphis, Tennessee d. November 22, 1906pitard.net m. February 5, 1880, St. John’s Church, Olney
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(8) John LANSDALE Sr. b. June 24, 1882, Triadelphia, Montgomery Co. d. May 2, 1961, Essex & May Hamilton MANNEN b. March 3, 1884, Paris, Kentucky d. August 5, 1958, Essex m. March 3, 1911, Oakland, California
(9) John LANSDALE Jr. b. January 9, 1912, Oakland, California & Metta Virginia TOMLINSON b. September 4, 1913 d. October 31, 2001, Essex m. June 17, 1936, Trinity Church, Houston, Texas
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