THE GROOM E FAM I LY

A ND C O NNE C TI ONS :

A P ED I GR E E .

G R O O M E FA M I LY

C O N N E C T I O N S

A PED I G R E E .

W ITH B I O GR APHI C AL SKET C HE S

HA R R Y C O NNE LLY G R O O M E

PH I L A D E LPH I A

PR E O F B L I PP I N COTT COM PA NY SS J . .

1 9 0 7 LIB RARY 01CONGRESS Two Comes Received MAY 6 1907

Cooynzht Entry

CO PYRIG HT 1 9 0 7

H ARRY CON NELLY GROOME I NT R O D U C TI O N

TH E late Mr . John Fiske , in a very excellent historical “ ” O s treatise entitled ld Virginia and her Neighbour , says , s - that the pedigrees of horses , dog , and pigeons have a value that is quotable in terms of hard cash . Far more f important , for the student of human a fairs , are the pedi grees of men . By no possible ingenuity of constitution making or of legislation can a society made up of ruffian s and boors be raised to the intellectual and moral level of a society made up of merchants and yeomen , parsons and ” lawy ers . From the latter material the prominent men of m colonial ti es were derived , and on a descent from such men the most characteristic American pedigrees are based . It must be remembered that exactly three centuries have elapsed since the first permanent English settlement was made in this country , and the varied conditions exist ing during this period of time have afforded a sufficient test of the vigor of such lines of blood as have survived ; so that the history of families which originated with English me r chants and mariners from two to three hundred years ago , and which have persisted through successive generations of men prominent in the affairs of their respective co mmu n it ies , must be considered worthy of record . I feel , therefore , that I need offer no apology for the pious task which I v ha e undertaken in the preparation of these notes , and , as

' the interest in gen e alo gy is greatly enhanced by reference to contemporaneous history , I have thought fit to add as an appendix a brief sketch of the early history of Maryland and its institutions under the rule of the Calverts . I have set forth the genealogy of the GROOME family of

Maryland in full , but in the case of female lines I have , as I N T R O D U C T I O N

a rule , recorded only such portions as are essential to the ’ pedigree of my father s children , the construction of which is primarily the obj ect of this work . In some cases , how ever , I have given female lines more or less in detail for the purpose of making clear the relationship of contempo ran eo us members of such families to the members of my

’ father s immediate family . In the arrangement of matter the paternal line is placed

first , and this is followed by its direct female lines in the w O order in which they merge ith it . f the maternal female lines , I am not able to give any information in regard to H ‘ the family of ELIZAB ETH PI ERC E , wife of ENRY CON

N ELLY , but I have given in some detail the very interest A W S ing genealogy of the family of ELI ZA NDRE , wife of 2 HARRY CONNELLY . I n the preparation of these notes I have necessarily laid myself under obligations for much valuable assistance and advice , and for these kindnesses I must again express my sincere thanks .

H . C . G . A IRLI E ,

N W VA . EAR ARRENTON , ,

1 0 6 . December , 9 - To facilitate cross reference , Roman numerals are given in parenthesis immediately after the names of persons to whom they apply , to designate the generation to which such persons belong in the chronology adopted for this purpose . The first ancestor in the longest line of descent 1 A D 1 0 — viz . , Anthony Andrews , . . 5 5 is considered to belong 9 to the first (i) generation , and the children of Samuel

William Groome to the eleventh (xi) generation . The generation numbers of the first ancestors in the shorter lines of descent are reckoned backward from the eleventh . s s Per ons , therefore , whose names are followed by the ame

Roman numeral are of the same generation . The genera tion number in connection with an individual to whom it refers is used only at the beginning of a section . The names of persons through whom the direct line of descent is traced , where they first occur in a section , are

- printed in heavy faced , upright type . Superior numbers are used to distinguish persons whose 3 first names and surnames are the same , as Samuel Groome 9 and Samuel William Groome , no account being taken in this respect of second names . I n transcribing dates from Quaker records numbered months are designated by name , January in all cases being counted as the first month .

C O NTE NT S

R OOME— S 1 2 G SECTI ON TO 7 . h a s Derivation of family— Middlesex family— Collateral branch of Middlesex family— Biographical sketches 1 2 3 of Samuel Groome , Samuel Groome , Samuel Groome and Daniel 2 Groome— Documents— Will of Samuel 2 Groome— Genealogy— B i o g r a p h i c a l 4 $l sketches of Samuel Groome . Charles Groome , ‘ 6 5 J ohn Groome , Samuel Groome , John Charles 7 5 Groome , Samuel William Groome , James Black 9 Groome , Samuel William Groome , Harry Connelly 8 12 Groome , John Charles Groome , Samuel William

Groome , Alexander Coxe Groome and Pierce Francis Groome— Documents— Wills of Charles 1 6 — Groome and Samuel Groome Family names in

in : ailer cluded the genealogy Brain , Heathcote , T ,

O B ailw ard R evet t Moore , Perrin , wen , , , Hynson

Kennard , Bowers , Miller , Page , Dunn , Buchanan

Frisby , Pearce , Ringgold , Cruikshanks , Fisher ,

Po it s Rasin , Wroth , Clayton , , Gibbons , Newman ,

M cCullo u h Perkins , Black , Mitchell , g , Denny ,

Morris , Feddeman , T h o m p s o n , W i n c h e s t e r ,

E aricks o n Dain e rfield , Hungerford , g , Beatty , f Dawson , Campbell , Wallace , Earle , Ho fman

Hayward , Trippe , Brown , Edmondson , Young ,

Adrian , Smith , Wallis , Holden , Miller , Huggins ,

Fulen w ider White , File , Knight , Constable , Evans , ,

Allen , Whittlesey , Williams , Booth , C o l l e t t ,

S e avert f , Frazier , Gawthrop , Green , She field ,

B a la Mayes , Beasley , Stallings , y y , Connelly , McClure Reath , Price , Wright , Upton , Roberts , and Lewis C O N T E N T S

— 0 HYNSON SECTIONS 2 8 TO 3 . p A G E Genealogy— Biographical sketches of Thomas ‘ 1 1

Hynson , John Hynson and Charles Hynson Documents— Family names included in the gene

: Ho le a e r alogy Kelley , Smith , Rodgers , g , Glanville ,

r Harris , Mu phy , Tilden , Carvill , Jones and Groome

— DUNN SECTI ON S 3 1 TO 3 4 . Derivation of family— Genealogy— Biographical 1 2 sketches of Robert Dunn , Robert Dunn and Robert3 Dunn— Family names included in the

: P earke genealogy Porter , Hood , Miller , , Wickes ,

Brown , Hynson and

— B LACK SECTION S 3 5 TO 4 1 Derivation of family— Genealogy— Biographical z — sketch of J ame s Black Family names included

: in the genealogy Wallace , Evans , Scott , Hollins

Do n aldso n Ke rr worth , Rice , , , Sharpe , Corre , Pearce ,

Ho s sin e r Merritt , Gillespie , Parke , g , Wilson ,

Hanson , Cummings , Salsbury , Perkins , Giles ,

Veazey , Craycroft , Mills , Ward , Groome , Stokes

Couper , Young , Welsh , Sartori and Edmundson .

E N— 2 ALL SECTI ON S 4 to 4 3 . Genealogy— Biographical sketches of Elizabeth Sheward Allen and Joshua Allen— Family names

: included in the genealogy Sheward , Humphreys ,

Marr , Broome , Moore , Stokes , Woolman , Austin ,

Engle , Reichert , Groome , Hogan , Perkins , Wood , Heberton and Walker

ONNE — C LLY SECTI ON S 4 4 TO 5 3 . Derivation of family— Genealogy— Biographical ‘ 1 ‘ sketches of John Connelly , Henry Connelly , Pierce C O N T E N T S

P A GE 3 Connelly , Harry Connelly and Harry Connelly

: Family names included in the genealogy Little ,

Vandoren , Pierce , West , Marcia , Eyre , Gibson ,

Gaillard , Painter , Dale , Coye , Morgan , Smyth , ’ O Calla h an g , Vickers , Blackburn , Lear , Binney ,

Krie ar Klink , g , Kennard , Peacock , Andrews , f Groome , Gri fith , Robinson , Carter , Fuller , Foulke ,

Ashhurst , Frazer , Stimson , Wayne , Leiper , Perot , Ward and Vaux

ANDR E — S T WS SECTI ON 5 4 o 7 2 . Derivation of family— Grant of Arms— Genealogy — 4 1 Biographical sketches of John Andrews , Robert 2 5 “ Andrews , Robert Andrews , John Andrews , John 3 Williams Andrews , Henry Wilson Andrews and 5 — — Robert Andrews Documents Family names in

: cluded in the genealogy Lenton , Colley , Palmer , N ewsam , Sanders , Holder , Greening , Cooke , Black ,

Aurin e Lowe , Van g , Callender , Ballard , Wilkerson ,

Randolph , Taylor , Lee , Blair , Neill , Mason , Con

nelly , Wilson , Thompson , Massara , Jones , Fenton ,

Abercrombie , Fisher , Pigman , Parkin , Boyd , Perre

McE n t ee noud , White , Newman , , Lovette , Harris ,

Hale , Day , Wright , French , Stevens , Horwitz ,

McMich ael Poag , Cox , Shaw , Betton , , Tilghman ,

Robert , Bourbon del Monte , Field , Adams , Rod du gers , Zinn , Pont , Godwin and Bradford

APPENDIX— H I STORI CAL SKETCH O F K ENT I S LAND AND OF TH E PALATINATE OF M ARYLAND

G R O OM E

D E R I VAT I O N O F F A M I LY

1 . Members of a Middlesex family of GROOM E were very prominent among the merchants and traders to the Colonies of America during the latter half of the seventeenth a and the early ye rs of the eighteenth centuries , and , although the branch of this family of which the fullest records are 3 found terminated with SAMUEL GROOME ( 1 6 8 5 a collateral branch existed from which I propose to trace the descent of the GROOM E family of Maryland . Before show ing the connection of this collateral branch , however , it has been considered advisable to set forth in full such rec ords of the main branch of the family as are extant .

TH E MIDDLES E X F AMILY

SAM E Ll R M E U OO . 2 . G (iv) The first member of the Middlesex family identified with the Colonies of America 1 c was SAMU EL GROOM E , des ribed in his will as a mariner of f n Ratcli fe , in the County of Middlesex , Engla d . (Will dated 6 8 — t 8 2 rst 1 . C 2 1 s 1 6 . . . August , , probated March , 3 4 P C , 1 Hare , This SAMUEL GROOM E may have originally traded to New England and have settled for a time at Salisbury .

’ Savage s Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New

1 8 : England , Vol . I I , p . 3 , contains the following entry

1 6 0 Groome , Samuel , Salisbury , 5 , a mariner in the Mr lists of inhabitants dignified with the prefix of . , went

1 6 8 home to London before 5 . He may seem to be that ‘ 1 6 6 A Quaker who published , in 7 , Glass for the people of

New England , in which they may see themselves and

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Spirits , and if not too late ; Repent and turn from their ’ Abominable Ways and Cursed Contrivances . 1 2 t b 1 6 6 March o , 5 , SAMUEL GROOM E writes to Mr . : s Richard Preston , in Patuxent , Maryland , as follows Thi

Cran n e may inform you that Mr . g hath Shipped abroad

in a ed Tobacco by which he hath g g to pay for yr . use the sume of Thirteen pounds and Tenne Shillings as Witness my

” hand . (Warrants and Assignments , Maryland , liber 3 ,

1 8 I n 1 6 8 fol . 5 ) 5 he appears in command of the ship “

Dove in the waters of Virginia , a Mr . SAMUEL GROOM E being mentioned as refusing to pay a levy made by the ’ Hen in s Virginia Legislature . ( g Statutes , I , ’ 1 6 6 During Bacon s Rebellion in 7 , Gov . Berkeley , of

Virginia , issued an order to Captain SAMUEL GROOM E and others trading to Virginia ports , requiring them to assist m ’ him against the rebels by the use of their ships . (He ing s

Statutes , I II , 1

SAMUEL GROOME , in command of his ship Globe ,

sailed from London to the Patuxent River , Maryland , June ,

1 6 6 A e t al 7 . ( letter from Wm . Penn . to R . Hartshorne ,

’ d 2 6t h 1 6 6 GR OOM E ated London , June , 7 , refers to SAMUEL s

ship , for Maryland , having just sailed from England .

’

Smith s History of New Jersey . )

William Edmondson , in his journal , says , wishing to go

from the Eastern to the Western Shore of Maryland ,

Samuel Groome , of London , Master of a ship , being there , sent his boat and two men to take me over ’

(Whitehead s East New Jersey under the Proprietors . ) l S A M U E L GROOM E returned to England and made another

1 6 voyage to Maryland in 7 7 , as would seem to be shown by t h an indenture with a certain Jane Widows , November 7 ,

1 6 7 7 , by which she binds herself to serve him for four years , in consideration of her passage to Maryland and other considerations . (Elkton , Cecil County , Maryland Deeds )

Captain SAMUEL GROOME , commander of the ship Globe , applied for a license to trade with the Indians , and a com

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mission granting this license was issued by Chas . Calvert , t h 1 6 8 1 . r 1 Lord Baltimore , . (Maryland Archives ) May , “ 1 6 8 1 , the ship Globe , SAMUEL GROOME , commander , is referred to as sailing from Patuxent River , Maryland . 1 ’ S ” (Maryland Archives . ) SAMUEL GROOM E ship Globe subsequently sailed under the command of Captain Watts , a seizure of skins on board of this ship while in command of

h 1 6 8 2 6t . Captain Watts being recorded May , (Maryland ’

Archives . ) SAMU EL GROOM E is mentioned , in Bruce s

- Economic History of Virginia , as one of the twenty four traders who furnished the greater portion of the supplies imported into the Colonies cf Maryland and Virginia during the latter part of the seventeenth century . 1 t h 1 6 6 This SAMUEL GROOM E purchased , January s , 4 ,

1 2 0 from Henry Sewall and Jane Sewall his wife , for £ ,

0 0 0 lawful money of England , a tract of land containing 5

Elt o n h e ad acres , known as Great Manor , lying upon the north side of the Patuxent River , Maryland . (Annapolis Land Of fice Deeds . ) This land , however , did not come into his possession at this time , and as a substitute a grant of another

t h 1 6 6 0 0 0 2 o . tract of 5 acres was made September , 4 (Ma Elt o n h ead ryland Certificates . ) Manor was apparently

1 6 6 6 . resurveyed for him in . (Maryland Certificates )

0 A tract of 4 5 acres of land , called Donor , lying on the

Choptank River , Maryland , was conveyed to SAMUEL s 2 o t h 1 6 . GROOME , March , 74 , by Robert Story (Annapoli

Deeds . ) l 1 o t h 1 6 1 S A M U E L March , 7 , GROOM E landed in the Prov ince of Maryland 6 5 immigrants whom he had transported “ ” “ from England in the ship William and Mary , at his own

2 0 cost and charges , and demanded 3 5 acres of land as a benefit ” under the conditions of plantation for the trans

rt at io n po of these persons . A warrant for this quantity of

1 1 6 1 . land was issued May 5 th , 7 (Letter of Charles Calvert

1 t h 1 6 1 Cert ifi to Robert Ridgeley , May 5 , 7 , Maryland

1 1 6 2 cates . ) This warrant was renewed February 4th , 7

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(Maryland Certificates) , and continued of record until Sep

h 1 6 I t 1 s t 1 6 8 2 t . tember 4 , 7 7 was executed November , 7 , by John Stanley , Deputy Surveyor under Baker Brook ,

E s q , Surveyor General of the Province of Maryland , who upon that date notified the Governor that he had laid out for SAMUEL GROOME , for three thousand two hundred and fifty acres of land , due by record of a warrant for the

2 t h 1 6 same quantity granted him the 4 day September , 7 7 , “ as appears upon record , a parcel of land called Partner

in ship , lying the freshes of the great Choptank River

1 0 0 0 on the North side of said river , containing acres more or less . A patent for this land was issued to SAMUEL

8 1 6 GROOME , merchant , by Charles Calvert , May th , 7 9 .

2 1 (Annapolis Patents , liber , fol . Another parcel “ ” 2 0 of land for 3 5 acres , granted SAMUEL GROOME , Sep

2 t h 1 6 f tember 4 , 7 7 , called Ratcli fe , lying in Talbot

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County , in the freshes of the great Choptank River ,

was surveyed for him by John Stanley , Deputy Surveyor ,

1 0 t h 1 6 8 8t h November , 7 , and the patent issued May ,

1 6 2 1 1 1 2 7 9 . (Annapolis Patents , liber , fol .

Upon the death of Sir George Carteret , Proprietor of

East New Jersey , trustees were appointed to make sale of Th e the province for the benefit of his heirs . domain was

0 0 purchased , for the sum of £3 4 , by Wm . Penn , Robert

West , Thomas Rudyard , SAMUE L GROOME , Thomas Hart ,

Richard Mew , Ambrose Riggs , John Haywood , Hugh

Hartshorne , Clement Plumstead , Thomas Cooper , and

re - Thomas Wilcox , and deeds of lease and lease were made to the purchasers by the devisees of Carteret on February ’ 2 n 1 6 8 1 — 8 2 d . , (Mulford s History of New Jersey , p .

Each of the twelve purchasers , soon after , sold one

1 half of his right to a new associate , and on the 4th March ,

1 6 8 2 , another conveyance was made to the new body of twenty - four proprietors by his Royal Highness the Duke of York (afterwards James I I) . (Grants and Concessions l 1 6 6 S A M U E L of New Jersey , 4 GROOM E is described

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in this deed as of the Parish of Stepney , in the County of

Middlesex , Mariner .

O rd 1 6 8 n November 3 , 3 , Charles I I issued a letter con o f s firming the grant the Duke of York to the Proprietor , and declaring that it was “ his royal will and pleasure that all persons concerned in the province should yield all due obedience to the laws and government of the grantees an d their heirs and assigns , as absolute proprietors and gov “ ern o rs s thereof . The new body of Proprietor did not

“ immediately devise or digest a system of laws , but they adopted measures for the maintenance of government within the province . They proceeded at once to appoint a Governor , f and their choice for this o fice fell upon Robert Barclay , of Urie , Scotland . The appointment of Robert Barclay as Governor was made with a condition that he

i should not be requ red to reside in the province , but might

” ' ’ f New exercise his o fice by deputy . (Mulford s History of

2 0 8 O 1 6 1 6 8 2 Jersey , pp . n September th , , Thomas 1 Rudyard was appointed Deputy Governor , and SAMUEL

GROOM E , Receiver and Surveyor General of the Province .

6 8 2 t ar 1 1 . u They rived November 3 th , In laying o and allot ting lands , the Deputy Governor , sustained by the Council , adopted a course which was at variance with the views of

GROOME , the Surveyor General , and led to that function ’ ary s being virtually superseded . The Proprietaries in ’

England , however , did not approve of Rudyard s conduct in the matter ; they therefore reaffirmed their confidence in the Surveyor General , and annulled all grants that had ’ s not been regularly surveyed by him . (Whitehead East

1 0 New Jersey under the Proprietors , pp . 3 I t is probable that Rudyard was supposed not to have been wholly disinterested in the transaction of the business “ f s of his o fice . The Proprietors say : We are very ensible ’ o of Samuel Gr ome s honesty and fidelity to our interest , i n his care in seeking out and discovering the best land , and surveying it for our use , and in refusing to comply with the

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particular interest of any there , by accommodating them

re u with lands , or others at their desire , to our general p j d 1 6 6 — 1 0 2 ice . (Grants and Concessions of New Jersey , 4 7 , p . l S A M U E L GROOME wrote a letter to his fellow Proprietors ’ 1 1 t h 1 6 8 in England , August , 3 , reporting to them the work he had done in sounding channels and rivers , and surveying ’ lands in the province (for text vid . Scot s Model , p . He died in the same year leaving unfinished on the stocks at Elizabeth Town (possibly named for his wife) the

first vessel built in East New Jersey . “ The goods , chattels , wares , and merchandise belong ing to the Proprietors of the Province of East New Jersey in the hands of SAMUEL 1 GROOM E at the time of his death were disposed of by action of a Council held at Elizabeth

1 6 8 Town , Essex County , December I st , 3 . (New Jersey

Archives , vol . xiii . )

l S A M U E L E GROOM E m . LIZAB ETH who survived

2 rd 1 0 — him , and died February 3 , 7 3 4 , aged 7 7 years . She f was buried at Ratcli fe , Stepney , Middlesex , England .

(Quaker Registers , Devonshire House , London . ) Her will

2 2 n d 1 0 2 o t h 1 0 is dated April , 7 3 , and was proved June , 7 4 . C (P . C . . , Ash , The children of SAMUEL 1 GROOM E and E LIZAB ETH GROOM E were :

2 SAMU EL (vid . Sec . m 2 t h 1 6 0 o f . E . 0 LIZABETH , , August , 7 , James Brain , Wapping

m 2 1 1 M G . t h 6 o f AR ARET , , December 7 , 7 , George Heathcote , London .

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1 6 8 2 f R at c lifi . M m . 1 o e ARY , , June 5 th , , John Tailer , 6 8 1 2 t h 1 . S . 0 USAN , d February , 3 , aged about 5 years Buried at R lifi at c e .

(Quaker Registers , Devonshire House , London . )

2 R OOM E ‘ 3 . SAMU EL G (v) , son of SAMUEL GROOM E , ff E of Ratcli e , Middlesex , England , and his wife LIZAB ETH

GROOM E , described in the Probate Act Book as of the

Wh it ech a ell Parish of St . Marie , p , Middlesex , was born

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1 6 2 rd 1 6 5 3 ; died November 3 , 9 7 , and was buried at Rat f 2 cli fe . This SAMUEL GROOME is described as a mariner in the Quaker Register of Marriages , Devonshire House ,

London , but more commonly in other records as a mer chant . He made voyages to America , but for the most o part resided in L ndon , conducting from that point an extensive trade with the Colonies . ’ In 1 6 7 8 he is found in command of his father s ship

: Globe , as appears from the following bond and warrant

Know all men by these presents , that I , Samuel Groome , the n o w 1 0 younger , commander of the Globe of London . Bond for £ 5

t o . sterling Chas Calvert , Lord Baltimore . WHEREAS the persons mentioned in the catalog annexed were brought over in the ship above mentioned by Samuel Groome , the Elder , father o f a s the above bound Samuel Groome by the said catalog may appear , and whereas upon the humble request o f the said Samuel Groome the above named Charles , Lord Baltimore , hath promised a general warrant to take up the lands o f the said s e ve ra ll persons amounting in the whole t o n o w o f four score and three , the condition this obligation is such that if the said persons mentioned in this catalog annexed o r any o r either o f them (have been used t o get land) nor shall they by consent o f the said c Samuel Groome the elder or Samuel Groome the younger & .

S U . AMUEL GROOME , J NR

: TH o s GR U L W I N Test . .

- Then follow the names of eighty three persons .

Captain Samuel Groome giving good security that he , nor any other fo r use o f & c . him hath made the within and above rights , due to the o f f owners the ship Globe o London . Then let him have

2 1 6 warrant given under my hand 7 May 7 8 .

2 0 1 8 (Maryland Certificates , liber , fol . 5

SAMU EL 2 GROOM E appears to have had control of his ’ father s property even during his lifetime , for the Proprietors

1 6 8 of East New Jersey , in July , 3 , writing to Lowrie , say , that Groome may feel disposed to return to England when he should hear of the great inclination shown by the son to ’ ” sell his father s property , which he has already a right to .

He probably did sell it , as it was transferred the same

1 6 8 month , July , 3 . (New Jersey Archives , vol . i , p .

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f A letter dated From our Meeting for Su ferings , I n “ t h To London , ye 4 Mo . friends of ye Western ”

Shore in Maryland , and signed by Thos . Hart , John Dew ,

S ix Geo . Watts , and others , acknowledges receipt of £3 3 ,

1 6d 3 s . , . for the relief of distressed Friends , the remittance having been enclosed in a letter directed to SAMUEL GROOM E .

(Record of West River Quarterly Meeting of Friends , Cal vert County , Maryland . Established

1 Middlesex in England . At a Session on the 4th of the

1 6 8 6 Month called January , , Charles Banister , Aaron Under

Fido e Fullo re hill , Thomas , Elizabeth , Elizabeth Grice ,

Lo ckw o rt h Elizabeth , and Sarah Groom (probably the 2 wife of SAMUEL GROOME) , condemned for meeting together r were fined four Nobles each , and the said Charles Baniste ” and Aaron Underhill were committed to Newgate Prison . “ A f ( Collection of the Su ferings of the people called Quakers , ”

for the Testimony of a Good Conscience , Joseph Besse ,

1 London , 7 5 3 , vol . i . ) The discontent of the Puritans in Maryland under the Roman Catholic government of the Proprietors became

active during the last days of the reign of James I I , and in 1 6 8 8 general charges against the administration of Charles

Calvert , third Lord Baltimore , were preferred by Capt . G John oode and others who supported him . In answer to these charges Lord Baltimore directed that certain persons be called before a “ Committee of Plantations to declare

and testify in respect thereto , Mr . SAMUEL GROOME being

included in the lists as a merchant and trader to Maryland .

’ M r o r th e M e mbe rs to be s ummo n ed : y Lo rd B a ltemo e s M em . f

1 t h . 6 8 . 7 . Jan 9 I most humbly begg your Lo rd s h ipps that I may be favored in hav

ing such Inhabitants , Traders , and Merchants as have lived , and dealt t o my Province this five and T w enty years and upwards called before this Committee of Plantations to declare and t e s t ifie before their Lord shipps their knowledge touching the charge in General against me con t ain e d n o d o . Co e in a declaration lately sett forth and sent by Capt . J and 11 15 n w adherents o I n Maryland . B A LT E M O R E . C .

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Of this Province . God grant it may come quickly . I hope when the ship comes thou wilt send the goods I sent for at least those that are most k e e e . necessary for my family . Else I cannot p house I have all my c o n s rn s e e . to thy care , Myself wife and family are in health

RI CH O . JOHNS . — 1 6 8 . ( Maryland Archives , 7 9 3 , p

Lo o t o n s Mr . Jacob , a Baltimore County j ustice , was found to have had a great store of Indian trade ” in his

1 6 2 house in 9 , which was said to belong to Col . Wells and

SAMUEL GROOM E , under whom he traded . (Letter of Nich

Gre e n sb ur CO le E s olas y to Lionel p y , q , Captain General

1 and Governor in Chief in Maryland , dated July 5 th ,

2 “ ” SAMUEL GROOM E , of London , merchant , filed a bill

r rd 1 6 0 of complaint Feb uary 3 , 9 , against James Braine , of

Stepney , London , in which GROO ME describes himself as a

trader to the west Indies in America , and states that Braine came to him on the Exchange in London and offered ” Of O f to let the ship Endeavour , London , two hundred

tons , to sail from Gravesend to Choptank River in Maryland

and thence to return back to London , for three hundred

1 hogsheads of tobacco at £ 4 per ton , and that Braine after

wards denied the agreement . (Chancery Proceedings ,

1 Hamilton , 4 3 Reference is made in letters of William Fit zHugh to bills of exchange drawn on Mr . SAM UEL GROOME , of London ,

2 t h 1 6 1 for shipments to him April 5 , 9 , and at other times .

(Virginia History and Biography . ) SAMU EL 2 GROOM E filed a bill of complaint against Hope

f rd 1 6 - Gi ford January 3 , 9 3 , for the non conveyance of cer

Ho rn e ch urch tain messuages in the Parish of , Co . Essex ,

R e n ard so n 2 6 England . (Chancery Proceedings , y , 4

2 m rd 1 6 8 1 SAMU EL GROOME . , September 3 , , SARAH

M rd 1 0 OORE , who survived him , and died December 3 , 7 4 , l B un h i . She was buried at Fields , London (Quaker Registers ,

Devonshire House , London . ) The children of SAMUEL 2 GROOM E and SARAH (M OORE) GROOM E were : G R O O M E

1 1 6 t h 1 6 8 o f S . ARAH , b March , 3 ; m . Thomas Perrin , London . mer 1 6 1 6 chant , marriage license issued December th , 9 9 ; their 2 issue , Samuel Perrin ; James Perrin ; Thomas Perrin ; Mary

Perrin ; and Sarah Perrin . 3 SAMUEL (vid . Sec . t h 1 6 8 6 m I s t m N NC . 2 o O C . 2 n d O STA E , b August , ; , , John wen ; . , , 1 1 B ailw d ar . September , 7 3 , John 2 t 1 . 2 h 6 8 8 JOHN , d December 7 , , aged 9 months . d 1 1 E . r 6 8 t h 6 0 . LIZABETH , b June 3 , 9 ; d . November 9 , 9 3 1 1 t h 1 6 0 Of . O JOHN , b ctober , 9 . Described as Plaistow , CO . Essex ,

t h 1 1 6 1 1 . 1 6 gent , in his will dated July 7 , 7 , proved July 3 th , 7 .

C . F OX (P . C . , , E t h 1 6 LIZABETH , b . December 7 , 9 4 .

( Quaker Registers , Devonshire House , London . )

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Provisions of the will of SAMU EL GROOM E , of London ,

2 t h 1 6 . rd Merchant . Dated April 7 , 9 7 Proved February 3 , 1 6 8 C 9 . (P . C . . , Lort ,

TO daughter Sarah all those my messuages etc . in the parish Of H avering

Ho rn e ch urch co . 1 0 0 and , Essex near Rumford , being about £ per

o n 0 0 1 8 annum condition she pay to my daughter Constance £ 5 at .

To son Samuel Groome all those my messuages etc . in the parish of Aio t

co . Hartford , also my messuage wherein I now dwell in Mansell ’ co M idd 1 0 Street in Goodman s Fields , . . for years . s o n TO my said Samuel all my lands plantations and tenements etc . and o r also all other my estate , goods etc . in Maryland elsewhere in A meri ca . R To s o n . at clifiFe o r my said Samuel all my messuages , lands , etc in else where in England which I have in possession and am entitled to by virtue Of the last will and testament Of my late father Samuel Groome

deceased . TO my brothers in law John Tay lle r and Thomas Moore and to my friend o n e fo r John Tanner hundred guineas in trust my said son Sam . to o f S h e fo r be by them with the consent my wife , if be living , applied ut o f s o n the putting o my said . D n s o n r T . o o o . my dau Constance all those my lands etc in g , near Stony

Stratford , co . Northampton . TO my two youngest children John and Elizabeth Groome all those my

Have re ll co . S ufi o lk messuages etc . near alias Havering , Essex and . T 0 o my said wife £ 5 . To Of 2 my cozens Daniell and Samuel Groome , sons Daniell Groome , £ 5 2 1 each at .

To Ta lle r . John y , Thomas Moore and John Tanner all lands etc in Grany m F e ve rs h a . and , co Kent , occupied by Thomas Moore , in trust to fo r suffer my said wife to take the rents etc . her own use during her

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life and after her decease to such Of my said children as my wife

shall appoint . Whereas I have advanced £ 3 0 0 upon an Act o f Parliament made in the fourth year O f the reign o f King William and the late Queen Mary entitled an Act fo r granting certain rates and duties Of Excise upon

0 0 t o Beere etc . I give the said £3 my said children Sarah , Samuel

and Constance . s z— m Residuary Le gat e e y wife and my five children . — Ove rs e e rs z my brothers in law John T aylle r and Thomas Moore and

friend John Tanner . — E xe cut rix z m y said wife . — r n t t r z S i e : S in e t t . . Witnesses Harbert p g , Will p g , Fr Harding 1 6 Codicil , dated Nov . 3 , 9 7 , revoking the legacy Of the messuage in Man s o n sell Street given to Samuel , and bequeathing the same to his wife for her life with remainder of term t o son Samuel : And whereas I have purchased an annuity Of £ 4 0 Of B art h o lmew Soames Of r w k u Little Th o l o c o f S uflo l Esq . which is issuing o t o f the manor of ' h rl w ufi s T o o . S . o n Great , co I give the same to my said Samuel and ” his heirs . — S rin t t . e . Wits Jacob Brent , Harbert p g , Fr Harding

3 2 4 R OOM E OO . SAMU EL G (vi) , son of SAMUEL GR M E , Wh it ech a ell of p , Middlesex , England , and his wife SARAH

M o t h 1 6 8 ( OORE) GROOM E , was born March 3 , 5 , at Wheeler

Wh it ech a ell Street , p , Middlesex . (Quaker Registers , Devon shire House , London . ) He is said to have gone beyond seas

1 1 into Virginia about 7 4 where he died . (Chancery Pro cee din s 1 1 —1 8 v B ailw ard R e n ardso n g , 7 4 7 5 , Groome . , y ,

o t h His death must have occurred prior to June 3 ,

1 1 v 7 5 , that being the date of the chancery suit Groome . B ailw ard is , in which the fact of his death recited , and he is evidently the person of this name who is buried at Herring ’ u Creek , St . James Parish , Anne Ar ndel County , Maryland ; s : the Parish Register , p . 44 , containing thi entry Samuel

2 8t h Groome , merchant , buried July , Soon after ’ his father s death he was sent to Holland , where he appar ’ 1 0 ently remained until after his mother s death in 7 4 . O v (Chancery Proceedings , wen . Groome , Hamilton , ’

He was one of the executors of his mother s will , and was a defendant in two or more chancery suits incidental to the settlement of her estate , the principal of which was

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v Groome . Groome (Hamilton , this being a bill of com plaint by his sister E LI ZAB ETH GROOM E . This property was v B i . l . a w ard in litigation after his death ( vid Groome ,

R e n ardso n y , 2 1 0 In 7 9 he appointed Captain DANI EL GRO OM E , of the ship Heston , his attorney with full power to administer the property in Maryland inherited from his father . (Annapolis L Land Records , liber P . . , p .

3 “ SAMUEL GROOM E , of London , merchant , purchased

from Seaborn Tucker , Anne Arundel County , Maryland ,

I st 1 1 2 e July , 7 , a tract of land called Chevey Chas , lying in

2 0 0 s Baltimore County , containing about acre . (Baltimore

County Deeds . ) 3 1 1 t h 1 1 July , 7 3 , SAMU EL GROOME , of London , mer o f s chant , purchased two tracts land from William Nichol , ’ n as of Calvert County , Maryland , one k own Price s Venture ,

1 2 in Cecil County , consisting of 5 acres , and the other called

s 0 0 New Castell , also in Cecil County , con isting of 4 acres .

(Annapolis Deeds . ) The purchase of the tract of land called Chevey Chase 3 may have been made by SAMUEL GROOM E through h is 2 agent , Captain DANI EL GROOM E , as Levin Donwood , the

' de bo m s n o n i administrator in Maryland of his father , n

1 1 2 7 , states that he cannot file an account until he hears from one SAMUEL GROOM E , merchant , of London , having

f s Of e fect the deceased in his hands . (Testamentary Pro cee din s 2 2 s g , Maryland , , Thi would imply that 3 SAMUEL GROOM E had not at that time left England . SAMUEL3 GROOM E was said to have disposed of his effects v B ilw . . a ard in England before going to America (Groome ,

R e n ardso n y , An inventory of the goods and chattels of SAMUEL3

“ GROOM E , late of London , merchant , was taken August

1 t h 1 1 3 , 7 3 , by Samuel Harrison and Solomon Burkhead , and

6 1 s d a . . s appraised as of the v lue of £ 9 , 7 5 (Inventorie and

Accounts , Maryland , liber 3 5 , fol .

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SAM UEL3 GROOME apparently died intestate and indebted to Levin Donwood , a Quaker of Somerset County , Mary 6 5 8d Of 0 . . land , in the sum £9 9 , The same Levin Donwood

’ 1 2 1 S filed an account in 7 as SAMUEL GROOME administrator , as follows :

d m r Of a . Account Levin Donwood Of Samuel Groome late of London , c h a r e t h meret . decd . the said accountant g himself with all and singular goods , chattels and credits as per

inventory . also the sum of

and prays allowance & c . also prays allow ance for the just sum Of which the said deceased did justly stand indebted unto him at the time Of his decease as per account appears and is allow ed £ 9 9 0 : 0 6 : 0 8 Payments made £ 1 3 : 1 7 : 0 2

1 0 0 1 Balance received by the administrator . £ 7 : 0 1

Balance due the administrator £ 8 2 0 : 0 5 : 0 7

The above account being preferred to the administrator viz . Levin Don n o t wood , he was of capacity to attest the same by reason of his very . great indisposition Of body so that h is reason hath left him without any hope O f abatement

. . H PK Test SAM O INS , Dep . Comm .

The above account is made up by virtue of commission . ( Inventories

D . . and Accounts , Maryland , liber A . , fol

A private law was enacted by the Maryland Assembly

“ O 1 0 t h 1 2 ctober , 7 7 , empowering certain commissioners to e vend and dispose of the lands whereof Samuel Groom , the younger , died seized , or was mortgagee , in fee or other

O f wise , within this Province ; as also to sell and dispose so much of the said land as w ill satisfy Betty Gale and Levin

Gale , executors of the testament of Levin Donwood , late of

8 2 0 d : s : . Somerset County , deceased , the sum of £ 5 7 , stand ing due from the said Samuel Groome , the younger , to the said Levin Donwood and yet unsatisfied , to the said Betty ” ’

Gale and Levin Gale , his executors . (Bacon s Laws of

Maryland , liber L . 5 , fol .

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Under the provisions of this act , James Hollyday and

Henry Hooper , commissioners , sold to Geo . and John Gale ,

2 o t h 1 September , 7 3 3 , the tract of land called Partnership , I S A M U E L 1 s t 1 6 8 surveyed for GROOME , November , 7 , and 1 Of f the tract land called Ratcli fe , surveyed for SAMUEL

1 o t h 1 6 8 GROOME , November , 7 .

Under the provisions of the same Act of Assembly , Wal

ter Smith and Roger Matthews , commissioners , sold , April

2 1 st 1 , 7 3 5 , to Geo . and John Gale , tracts of land called ’ ’

Austin s Chance and Austin s Addition , in Calvert County ,

and Chevey Chase , in Baltimore County , for the sum of 6 m s £ 4 , , to satisfy Levin Gale and Betty Gale , executors

Of 8 2 0 s d Levin Donwood , £ , 5 . 7 . , due from SAMUEL GROOME , the younger , to said Donwood . (Annapolis Deeds . )

OF TH E S X F COLLATERAL B RANCH MIDDLE E AMILY .

O 1 R OOM E E 5 . J HN G (iv) and LIZAB ETH his wife , of f Stoke by Nayland , Su folk , England , had a son born to

1 6 1 6 6 them in 5 4 and another in 5 . (Parish Register , Stoke 1 by Nayland . ) Apparently only one son survived JOHN

e 2 6t h 1 6 GROOME , as in his will , dat d December , 7 9 , proved

1 st 1 68 0 C December , (P . C . . , Bath , he mentions only D one child , ANI EL , whom he makes executor and residuary legatee .

1 l 6 . R OOM E o HN DANIEL G (v) , the son of J GROOME , E of Stoke by Nayland , and his wife LIZAB ETH GROOM E

A E E 1 6 8 0 1 6 0 married NN E R V TT in and died in 9 . (Quaker 1 Records , Devonshire House , London . ) This DANI E L

‘ f GROOME , of Stoke by Nayland , a fords the most likely clue D 2 to the identity of AN I EL GROOM E , the father of DANI EL 4 GROOME and SAMUEL GROOM E , hereafter referred to ; but

n i 1 the con ect on S only a matter of inference . In addition l DA NI E L to the two sons thus ascribed to GROOME , it is A 6t h known that he had one daughter , NN E , baptized June ,

1 6 8 6 . . (Parish Register , Stoke by Nayland )

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l DA NI E L f GROOM E su fered imprisonment in London ,

1 6 8 with other Quakers , in 3 for refusing to swear the oath f of allegiance having been o fered and refused , the sen

’ tence Of prwmumre was executed against Samuel Cooper

O 1 1 6 8 A and Daniel Groome , ctober 3 th , 3 . NN E GROOM E subsequently petitioned the King for the relief of her hus “ f band . ( A Collection of the Su ferings of the People called

Quakers , for the Testimony of a Good Conscience , Joseph

1 Besse , London , 7 5 3 , vol . i . ) It will be noted that about this time members of the Middlesex family were also affected by the persecution to which the Quakers in England were subj ected by King James I I (vid . Sec . i n

2 7 . 1 6 In the will of SAMUEL GROOM E dated 9 7 (vid . ” 2 Sec . 3 ) a bequest is made to his cozens DANI EL GROOM E “ s and SAMUEL GROOM E , minors , described as the son of l DA NI E L 1 6 0 GROOM E , who , as we suppose , died in 9 , and whose children at the date of this bequest would therefore have been orphans . Although the relationship indicated by the word “ cozens as used at that time might have been that of nephew , such a relationship would not have 2 been possible in this case , as SAMUE L GROOM E had no brother named Daniel . We must therefore regard the word as having been used in its present sense , and , as these cousins were under age at the date of the will , we may con ’ Of sider them as of the generation the testator s children . l DA NI E L It will thus be seen that , whether the identity of 2 n GROOME , k own to be the father of DANI EL GROOM E and “ SAMUEL GROOM E , has been correctly established in other respects , he was without question a member of a collateral branch of the Middlesex family of GROOM E and doubtless 1 the son Of a brother of SAMUEL GROOM E . The near relationship of DANI EL 2 GROOM E and SAMUEL4 GROOM E to the main branch of the family is shown by the fact that DANI EL 2 GROOM E appears as next friend and ” 3 2 guardian of JOHN GROOM E , son of SAMU EL GROOM E , in

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G R O O M E the name O f the wife of his cousin SAMU EL GROOM E (from whom , it will be remembered , he received a legacy on com ing of age) as well as the name of SAMUEL 2 GROOM E ’ S eldest daughter ; the name of his second daughter was A Of NN E , presumably the name of his mother ; the name E his third daughter was LIZAB ETH , presumably the name of his grandmother and also a name occurring in three gen e ra t io n s of the main branch of his family ; the name of his ’ fourth daughter was JAN E , the name of one of his wife s M G sisters ; the name of his fifth daughter was AR ARET , the M name of his wife ; and the name of only one child , I LCAH , remains unaccounted for .

GE NE A LOGY

S A M U E 4 G R O O E ’ L M . 8 . (vi) , of St Paul s Parish D Kent County , Maryland , (assumed to be) the son of ANI EL A R E V E TT GROOM E and NN E ( ) GROOM E , of Stoke by Nayland ,

f 1 6 1 6 8 Su folk , England ; died 7 7 or 7 . (Inventory of his

2 n d as . property by J Piner and Wm . Ringgold , February , 1 7 6 8 ) SAMUE L 4 GROOM E is described as a mariner in sundry

1 2 1 2 1 2 deeds dated 7 3 , 7 4 , and 7 4 . A family Bible , pur 4 1 8 0 2 chased in by his grandson , Dr . JOHN GROOME , con tains an entry to the effect that SAMUEL $ GROOM E arrived at Worton Creek (Kent County , Maryland) from England . ’ In 1 7 2 4 SAMUEL GROOM E acquired by purchase a tract of

1 0 0 land called Exchange , on Worton Creek , consisting of ’ w acres , being a portion of a tract kno n as Cornwallis Choice ; in 1 7 2 8 he purchased a tract of land called Far mouth , on Worton Creek , originally in Baltimore County , but at the date of the deed in Kent County , Maryland , consisting of 2 0 0 acres ; in 1 7 3 7 he purchased 5 0 acres of land , being another portion of the tract known as Corn ’ in 1 2 1 0 0 Of wallis Choice ; 7 4 he purchased acres land , ’ being another portion of the tract called Cornwallis Choice .

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4 (Kent County Deeds . ) SAMUEL GROOME appears as a commissioner and justice of the peace for Kent County in

1 1 7 4 0 and 7 4 3 . (Commission Book in Maryland Historical ’

Society . ) He was elected churchwarden of St . Paul s Par ’ r 1 t h 1 2 6 ish , April , 7 . (St . Paul s Parish Records . ) SAM 4 UEL GROOM E died intestate , an administration account 1 t h 1 6 being filed June 7 , 7 9 , by CHARLES GROOM E and John

Waltham . (Administration Accounts , Kent County , Mary land . )

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. M G H S SAMUEL GROOM E m AR ARET YN ON , dau . of 1 H S M G H S H S CHARLES YN ON and AR ARET ( ARRI ) YN ON , of

: Kent Island , Maryland , and had issue

° 1 t h 1 1 S . ARAH , b November 3 , 7 9 .

A N N . 1 1 2 . E , b July 4th , 7 3 5

S . 1 1 2 . S G r . AMUEL , b July 3 th , 7 5 Described as AMUEL ROOME , J , 1 6 merchant , in deed dated 7 5 . His issue , Margaret (m . John ilde n 2 8t h T Kennard ; issue , Samuel Groome Kennard , b . July , t h 1 111 1 8 . 8 7 5 , d November 7 , 4 5 ; . Sarah and Sarah (m .

Major James Bowers) . 1 t h 1 2 E . 8 . LIZAB ETH , b September s , 7 3 6t h 1 0 D N . O A IEL , b ctober , 73 , d . without issue . C H A R L E S 1 (vid . Sec .

2 t h 1 m . O . 1 1 J AN E , b ctober 5 , 7 3 5 ; , December 5 th , 7 5 7 , Thomas

Miller . t h 1 M G . AR ARET , b September 5 , 7 3 9 .

. 1 2 m M C 8 . 1 1 I 8t h 6 . . . 8 IL AH , b September th , 7 4 , d Dec , 7 ; , Jan st , 1 1 6 s o n o f 7 4 , John Page , Ralph Page and Elizabeth Page ; their 2 . . 2 2 n d 1 6 1 6 . . issue , James Page , b Aug , 7 ; John Page , b Dec 3 th , 1 6 l 6t h 1 8 . . I 0 . A 7 ; Henry Page , b Feb , 7 7 ; Milcah Page , b pril st ,

1 (1 . 1 8 7 7 4 ; and Elizabeth Page , 7 7 .

1 9 . C H A R LE S G R O O M E (vii) , of Chester Parish , 4 Kent County , Maryland , son of SAMUEL GROOM E and ’ M G H S ri AR ARET ( YN ON) GROOME , of St . Paul s Pa sh , Kent

2 n d 1 2 County , Maryland ; born March , 7 3 ; died March

2 t h 1 1 9 , 7 9 . 1 CHARLES GROOM E , described as a farmer , purchased at different times the following tracts of land : from Thomas

Ho efull 1 0 Perkins a tract called p Unity , 5 acres , February

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2 o t h 1 6 1 , 7 (Kent CO . Deeds , liber J . from Richard ’ 6 8 Hynson a tract called Rickett s Farm , acres , September

2 d r 1 8 0 . 3 , 7 (Kent CO . Deeds , liber D from Henry ’ 2 0 O 1 8t h Brooks a tract called Pope s Chance , acres , ctober ,

1 8 7 4 (Kent Co . Deeds) ; with John Kennard from Arthur

2 2 0 2 t h Bryan a tract called Worton Manor , acres , May 5 ,

1 0 7 9 (Kent Co . Deeds , liber B . from John Kennard

1 his share of the tract called Worton Manor , January 9 th ,

1 1 7 9 (Kent Co . Deeds , liber B . He was made registrar t h of Chester Parish , Kent County , Maryland , February 4 ,

1 6 6 7 , shortly after the parish had been created by an Act ’ of Assembly from parts of St . Paul s Parish and Shrewsbury 1 Parish . CHARLES GROOM E held the position of registrar of

Of Chester Parish until the day his death . He and John

Waltham , as administrators of SAMUEL GROOME , filed an

t h 1 6 account June 7 , 7 9 , and he filed another account as sole

2 t h 1 6 Ac administrator , January 7 , 7 7 . (Administration 1 ’ S counts , Kent Co . ) An inventory of CHARLES GROOM E

2 1 st 1 1 Co estate , filed July , 7 9 (Kent . , Md . , Inventories) ,

2 S showed that he died possessed of 5 negro slaves . CHARLE

1 1 GROOME died of smallpox , the year 7 9 being memorable in Kent County for the general inoculation of the inhabitants to arrest the ravages of that disease .

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m M . CHARLES GROOME . , I st , ARTHA DUNN , dau of 3 D A M B ro ad n o x ROB ERT UNN and NN E ( I LLER) DUNN , of ,

: Kent County , Maryland , and had issue

“ D ANIEL (vid . Sec . 1 JAMES (vid . Sec .

M 1 2 1 6 . ARTHA , b . February th , 7 3

2 t h 1 8 . S 2 0 t h 1 6 . ARAH , b . February , 7 5 , d April 5 , 7 9 Her will , d 1 2 t h 1 8 r 8 . dated February 4 , 7 9 , was probated May 3 , 7 9 z 2 t h 1 8 2 . CH A R L E 2 t h 1 6 . S . , b February 5 , 7 7 , d July 7 , 4 , unmarried O I~I N *1 J (vid . Sec . ‘ 1 8 8 . W 1 1 1 (1 . ILLIAM , b . March 9 th , 7 7 , prior to 7

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m 2 n d K . . CHARLES GROOME . , , SARAH ENNARD (d Sept

1 1 t h : , and had issue

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2 d 1 2 md 1 2 M C . . n IL AH , b Sept , 7 7 3 , d . Sept . , 7 9 .

2 rd 1 ANN , b . July 3 , 7 7 5 ; m . James Buchanan ; their issue , Mary

Ann Buchanan (m . Richard Frisby) . 6

U . SAM EL (vid Sec .

2 d 1 . . H . r ENRIETTA , b March 3 , 7 7 9 , m William Pearce E E . 2 o t h 1 1 O 1 . 8 . LIZAB TH , b April , 7 , d ctober 7 9 4 l 2 d 1 m 1 2 s ia s M . n I 0 8 . 8 o ARY , b March , 7 5 , , st , , J Ringgold ; their 2 m 1 8 2 6 issue , Josias Ringgold ( . , Dec . , , Ann Eliza Cruikshanks) ; Sarah Ann Ringgold ; Charles Ringgold ; Mary Ann Ringgold m 6 t 1 2 . . h 8 ( , Feb , 7 , Dr . Jacob Fisher) ; Henrietta Groome 111 Ringgold ( . Joseph Rasin) ; and William Groome Ringgold ; I m 2 md B e n a m in . , , j Blakiston Wroth ; their issue , Charles Wroth ; 2 K in w in Wroth ; Elizabeth Wroth ; Benjamin Blakiston Wroth m 1 . 6 1 . 8 8 ( , Nov th , 4 , Anne Caroline Clayton) ; and William

111 . P o t s Groome Wroth ( Mary i ) . 2 WILLIAM H YNSON (vid . Sec . l E P H O 1 1 o s C . rd . J HARLES , b ctober 3 , 7 9

By direction of the Vestry of Chester Parish CHARLES 1 G ROOM E wrote the following letter to the Rev . Philip

t h 1 6 Hughes under the date of August 4 , 7 9 .

D EAR S IR : I am directed by the Vestry to acquaint you that they have ordered me to register your induction whenever you please to pro duce it , and have given orders for your admission into the church any time when y o u will attend . And the Vestry would be glad if you will

- t o t h 1 6 . preach at the Church morrow August 5 , 7 9

(Chester Parish Records . )

A R WILL OF CH LES GROOME .

K e n t Co u n t M a r la n d Wi lls liber a e ( y , y , , 7 , p g

Of GOd I A , I , l , n the name I men Char es Groome of Kent County

State of Maryland , being sound and disposing memory understanding , o f considering the certainty Of death , uncertain the time thereof , being f desirous to settle my worldly a fairs , thereby be the better prepared to leave this world , when it shall please God to call me hence , do there 8: fore make publish this my last Will Testament , in manner form is s a following , that to y .

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us e o f F i rs t . I give and bequeath unto my dear wife the all my o r Of lands except that tract parcel land , I bought Of the State , called ’ o n Tildens Forest , during her widowhood , all the crops that shall be

said lands , at my death , all debts due to my estate , towards paying all

my just Debts , supporting and Educating bringing up my young o ut o f children , the profits arising from said lands , outstanding Debts .

But in case my wife should die before my debts be paid , and children

Educated and brought up , then and in that case my will and desire is s o n o f that my James Groome , should take possession the above men t io n e d o f lands , in order to settle and pay the balance said debts , if there

be any left unpaid , support Educate bring up my said youngest $ o f children , until they come age , with what portion they may have , and s o n if my James Groome should die , before this my last will be sufficient , s o n then my will desire is that my John Groome , should take possession o f e ad van t i e said lands , hav and enj oy every privilege g and be under every obligation , as my son James would have been if he had lived . I te m o f o f , My will and desire is that the tract land I bought the ’ ilde n s state called T Forest , be sold by heirs at their discretion , when they may think it most convenient and advantageous , the money arising from the sale , to be equally divided between my sons , Daniel , Charles

John Groome , my daughter Sarah Groome . I tem s o n me , I give and bequeath unto my Daniel Groome , all my n groes he has in his possession , except Tush , and my book accou t I have against him no more . But in case my Estate Should be obliged t o pay Of s o n fo r S any Debts my Daniel , that I am security the same , hall be o f taken out his portion Of the sales of the land , I have given him , and if n o t enough to satisfy said Debts or claims , he shall allow it in my book account I have against him .

I tem H n , I give bequeath unto my two sons Samuel , William y s o n o r n o n Groome , all that tract parcel of la d lying Worton Creek , I o f bought Arthur Bryan , John Kinnard , to them and their heirs law o f h is fully begotten , if either said sons should die without such heirs , o part to g to surviving one , and if both should die without such heirs , the said land shall then be divided between all surviving sisters o f my present wifes children . I tem is , My will and desire is that all my negroes , except what given o r already will be mentioned hereafter , after my wifes third part be taken o ut s o n be divided between all my children , except my Daniel , who has h is share given already . I tem o f , I give unto my son John Groome , his choice all my horses . I tem o f , My will is that all the residue my personal Estate after my wifes third part is taken o ut be equally divided between all the children

o f G . my present wife , and my daughter Sarah roome I tem , My will desire is that all my three negro men , Philip , Tush , Na r w a . p be free after my death , at the end Of the same year I tem o f , My will desire is that after my heirs comes in possession my home plantation that they shall pay unto my five daughters , Milcah ,

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Ann , Henrietta , Elizabeth , Mary Groome , three hundred pounds cur rent money , in four years after they take possession , the former debts paid , otherwise my said daughters shall have liberty to take in possession all that part Of my land I purchased Of Richard Hynson , sell and dis Of pose the same at public vendue , the money arising from the sale o f S thereof be equally divided between , if either my said daughters hould o f t o die before they come age , I will their portion be divided between the others . I te m is , My will and desire that if in case my sons James Groome , o r s o n my John Groome , Should not to stand abide by fulfill their o f s o n part this my will , then in that case I give bequeath unto my James Groome all my home land plantation to him and his heirs law s o n fully begotten , and if he Should die without such heirs , to my John

Groome . I tem Of is , My meaning intention the above will not to debar my s h e o f o f wife in case shall marry , her Dower , my real estate , except the land I bought O f the State called Tilde n s Forest . o f And lastly , I do appoint my dear wife Sarah Groome , executrix

1 0 t h 1 1 . this my last will . Dated . March Anno Domini , 7 9

H E C G . Witnesses , AR . VERITT . HARLES ROOME

P E . JOSE H VERITT , Sen W C t h 1 1 K . ILLIAM HI S . Probated May 7 , 7 9

— 1 NOT E Th e land held by CHARLES GROOME at the time of his death and bequeathed in the above will w as disposed of by his heirs as follows : JOHN 4 GROOME sold his interest in the tract called Tilden ’ s Forest to his 2 G 2 n d 1 8 0 1 S D G brother CHARLES ROOME , May , ; ARAH KENNAR ROOME , 1 o f G r 1 t h widow and executrix CHARLES ROOME , having died September , 1 ’ 1 8 0 0 G s l as Ho e full , JAMES ROOME o d the tracts known p Unity , Pope s ’ 1 arm 2 n d 1 8 0 2 Chance , and Rickett s to Samuel Wallis , March , ; JAMES 6 GROOME sold his interest in the land o n Worton Creek . to SAMU EL G 2 n d 1 8 0 2 ROOME , March , , for 5 shillings and for the further consider ation that SAMU EL6 GROOME should educate WILLIAM 2 H YNSON GROOME 1 I P G CHA R L E S G Co . and JOSE H ROOME , minor sons of ROOME (Kent Deeds , U 6 G M2 H G liber T . SAM EL ROOME and W ILLIA YNSON ROOME sold a 2 f 1 1 8 1 0 ; part o Worton Manor to William Hosier , April 4 th , CHARLES ’ GROOME sold 1 0 8 acres o f the tract known as Tild en s Forest to Luke 6 1 1 8 1 2 U . , ; , R , Howard , Sept 7 th James Buchanan Mary inggold SAM EL 1 G 2 H N G P C G S N , S S ROOME , WILLIAM Y O ROOME and JO E H HARLE ROOME ’ t o sold a part o f the tract known as Tilden s Forest Luke Howard ,

o t h 1 8 1 . August 3 , 7 (Kent County Deeds , liber B

4 DAN E L R OOM E Of 10. I G (viii) , Kent County , Mary ’ D CH S M TH ( ) , land , son of ARLE GROOM E and AR A UNN GROOME O of Chester Parish , Kent County , Maryland ; born ctober

0 2 8t h 1 8 t h 1 8 . , 7 5 died November 9 , 5

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D ’ ANI EL GROOM E purchased from John Wilson , April

2 rd 1 8 8 1 6 3 , 7 , a tract of land called Green Branch , 7 acres , ’ 1 1 in Kent County , and a tract called Perkins Addition , 5 acres , in the same county , (Kent Co . Deeds . ) D ’ . M S t h ANI EL GROOM E m ARTHA GI B BON (b . Jan . 7 ,

6 2 8 th 1 . . : 7 7 ; d Dec , and had issue P G W ERE RINE ILLI AM (vid . Sec .

M U . . . . ARTHA D NN , m J L Newman w M G 111 . AR ARET , William Ne man .

GABRIEL . 1 8 r w s r L . b u S h e v . AVI NIA , d August , 4 9 , unmarried ; buried at Church

(Shrewsbury Parish Records . ) o f (From Journal Peregrine William Groome . )

1 R OOM E 1 1 . JAMES G (viii) , of Kent County , Maryland , l S on CHA R L E S M of GROOME and ARTHA (DUNN ) GROOME ,

1 8 1 6 0 of Kent County , Maryland ; born September th , 7 ;

1 8 2 died 4 . 1 S S JAM ES GROOME m . SARAH PERKI N , dau . of Col . I AAC S S PERKIN and ANN PERKIN , of Kent County , Maryland , and had issue :

l I S A A C PER KINS (vid . Sec . 3 CHARLES D . (vid . Sec . 2

1 . . W . ( JAMES , without issue

THOMAS B .

( Kent County Wills . Letters Of Mrs . Sarah A . Holden 5

. . O . . . and Charles M Groome ld Kent , Geo A Hanson )

4 1 D R . O H N G RO O M E 2 . J (viii) , of Elkton , Cecil S M County , Maryland , son of CHARLE GROOME and ARTHA

1 6 1 8 1 8 0 2 n d . (DUNN ) GROOM E ; born May , 7 9 ; died May th , 3 4 JOHN GROOM E was educated at Chestertown , Maryland , and studied medicine under Dr . George Wallace , of Elkton , o w here he subsequently practised . He purchased from J ’ s e h Wallas t o n 2 0 0 p acres of land known as White s Folly ,

O 1 1 8 0 0 Co . . ctober 5 th , (Cecil , Md , Deeds) , and from Mary ’

Scott , his wife s sister , a tract of land known as By Chance

t h 1 8 1 1 O 2 o . and Adventure , 3 9 acres , ctober , 5 (Kent Co

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O 1 8 t h 1 8 1 1 ( Kent County Deeds . ) n January , , he pur chased from the widow of Owen Kennard a lot in the town of Easton , Maryland , on which he afterwards built the house which served as his residence . (Talbot County

n Deeds . ) (The k ocker from the front door of this house was transferred in 1 9 0 0 to the door of the Mansion House at

Airlie , near Warrenton , Virginia . )

6 m 1 M G D 1 8 6 SAMUEL GROOME . , st , AR ARET ENNY (b . 7 , h L NO 1 1 t . . . d . Dec . , (Talbot County Deeds , liber J ,

3 5 , P

6 m 2 n d O 1 s t 1 8 1 2 D SAMUEL GROOM E . , , ctober , , EB ORAH

M S 2 n d S ORRI (died January , daughter of JAME

M S : ORRI , and had issue

M D m 2 t h 1 8 0 ANN ATIL A , . , November 5 , 4 , Philip Henry Feddeman

their issue , Morris Groome Feddeman . I m t h 1 8 0 William M E . ARY LIZABETH , , June 9 , 4 , Smyth Thompson ;

their issue , Elizabeth Morris Thompson ; Samuel Groome m 8 1 8 6 Thompson ( . , July th , 4 , Caroline Nixon Winchester) ;

m 2 8t h 1 8 6 . Sarah Matilda Thompson ( . , Feb . , 7 , Frederick G $ E a ricks o n ) ; Mary Rebecca Thompson ; William Augustine m t h 1 8 Thompson ( . , June 9 , 7 5 , Florence Hungerford) ; and

Charles Doudle Thompson .

O w h o . ther children , did not survive their parents

6 WILL OF SAMUEL GR OOME .

N 8 a e Talbo t o un t M ar la n d Wi lls libe r B . o . ( C y , y , , , , p g

S G o f I AMUEL ROOME , the Town of Easton , in Talbott County , and o f state Maryland , merchant , In the first place I manumit , and set free all my negroes , and mulatto slaves , but their freedom shall not take effect untill their respective 3 5 years Of age . But it is my will and I direct that if o r either of them Shall at any time before the arrival at the t o o f said age , freely and fully consent to removal the Colony Liberia , o f and emigrate thither under the direction the Colonization Society , S s um O f they hall be immediately free , and shall have the Twenty Dollars each out of my estate .

I give and devise unto my niece Lavinia Groome , an annuity of

for the term O f 1 0 years from January next .

After paying all my debts , I devise the residue to my two children ,

Anna M . Groome , and Mary E . Groome .

I appoint my brother William Hynson Groome , sole executor of this my last w ill and testament .

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In case my daughters shall die without issue , I direct that my estate u shall be divided into three eq al parts , and go to my brother William H .

Groome , my sister Mary Wroth , and my niece Mary Ann Frisby , daughter

f t h . 1 2 8 8 . o my sister Nancy Buchannan . Will dated 9 March T D D S Witnesses , HEO ORE ENN Y , AMUEL GROOME . H D N . AMMON , S AMUEL T . KENNARD .

A certificate , of which the following is a copy , was pre 8 sented to Captain JOHN C . GROOM E , of Philadelphia , in

1 0 6 9 , by the son of the negro to whom it was issued .

Of t o : State Maryland , Talbot County , wit I hereby certify that by the last Will and Testament Of Samuel Groome late of Talbot County

f 1 1 8 2 8 aforesaid , deceased , proved in my O fice on the 7 th day Of March , , r ff he gave freedom to all his negroes , their f eedom to take e ect at the

-fiv h irt e . respective ages of T y years , and I further certify that Wm H . Groome came and proved to my satisfaction that the bearer hereof call —fi ve ing himself George Reason , aged about thirty years , black complexion , 6 o n about 5 feet inches high , with a small scar his left leg , and raised in the County aforesaid is o n e o f the Identical negroes mentioned in and set free by said last Will and Testament . In Testimony of which I hereto subscribe my name and affix the f fi 2 f A D 1 6 1 . o 6 t h o . 8 seal my Of ce this day February , R C CERTE . N . I E , (S EAL) Register of Wills for

Talbot County .

14 2 HYN ON R OOM E . WILLIAM S G (viii) , son of 1 K CHARLES GROOME and SARAH ( ENNARD) GROOME , of Tal

1 1 8 8 bot County , Maryland ; born June 3 th , 7 ; died January

t h 1 8 6 9 , 9 .

2 H S m 1 t h 1 8 WI LLIAM YN ON GROOM E . , November 3 , 3 3 ,

8 0 . E M K 2 n d 1 . LIZAB ETH ATI LDA ENNARD (b . May , 7 ; d Jan t h W K K . O 4 , dau of EN ENNARD and ANN ENNARD , and had issue :

“ 2 t h 1 8 8 CHA R L E OW N t h 1 8 m . s . E , b September s , 3 4 ; , November 4 , 5 ,

1 8 . 1 D ain e rfie ld . 1 Helen Virginia g (b August 9 th , 3 7 , d March 5 th , D ain e rfie ld dau . Of Theodoric Bland g and Ann Eliza D ain e rfie ld S o t t s lvan ia (Thornley) g , of p y County , Virginia ; their 6 6 O 2 rd 1 8 . D ain e rfie ld . issue , Virginia g , b ctober 3 , , d Novem m 6 t h 1 8 6 . 6 t h 1 8 6 D ain e rfi e ld . ber , 9 ; Helen g , b June , 9 ( , l l rd 1 8 8 . Feb . 3 , 9 , Eugene Luber Beatty) ; Samuel Mosley , b

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O 2 1 1 1 1 8 D a in rfi ld o t h 8 . e e ctober , 7 , d August 3 th , 9 7 ; g Mosley ,

O 2 t h 1 8 w h o . b . ctober 7 , 7 3 ; and five others , died in infancy D 2 t h 1 8 6 m 6 t h 1 8 6 2 ANN KENNAR , b . November 7 , 3 ; . , February , , ‘ O Elias . Dawson , Of Easton , Maryland ; their issue , Elizabeth

2 1 1 6 m O G . s t 2 1 8 . roome Dawson , b November , ( , ctober 9 th , t h 1 8 8 . o 7 , Milton Campbell) ; William Groome Dawson , b March 3 , 6 m 2 2 n d 1 1 8 . 8 8 4 ( , January , 9 , Myra Phelps Wallace) ; Edith 1 1 8 6 1 1 8 6 8 Dawson , b . November 5 th , 7 , d . September 7 th , ;

6 t 1 6 m O 1 6 . 2 h 8 . Anna Kennard Dawson , b July , 9 ( , ctober th ,

1 8 8 8 Ofil e , Matthew Tilghman Goldsborough Earle) ; Edith y 2

1 1 8 1 . . O Dawson , b September 9 th , 7 ; Elias . Dawson , b Feb

1 m 2 I t 1 0 0 f rua r 6 t h 8 . s y , 7 3 ( , January , 9 , Blanche H . Ho fman) ; m 1 1 8 . and Claude Brownrigg Dawson , b . November 7 th , 7 4 ( , 2 I 1 0 0 November st , 9 , Charles Eccleston Hayward) . 5 t h 1 8 2 1 1 S . 6 t h 8 WI LLIAM H YN ON , b May 4 , 3 9 , d . August , 4 . 10 twins t 1 1 h 8 . 1 8 U T . SAM EL HOMAS , b May 4 , 3 9 , d August 7 th , 3 9

2 rd 1 1 2 t 1 1 S E . 8 . h 8 . ARAH LIZABETH , b November 3 , 4 , d November 9 , 4 1 1 8 2 1 t h 8 . S A . . 8 USA N MELIA , b June 7 th , 4 3 , d November , 4 3

6 t h 1 8 2 1 M E . 1 t h 8 . ARY LIZABETH , b March , 4 5 , d . May 7 , 4 5 1

2 0 t h 1 8 6 m . 2 8 t h 1 1 B W . 8 RO ERT ILLIAM , b August , 4 ; , September , 7 , l E n n a l s . . t h Of . I . Elizabeth Trippe (d Jan 4 , Newtown , L ;

1 1 8 . their issue , Elinor Condit , b . December 9 th , 7 4 , d Novem 8 2 0 1 2 O t 1 t h 8 . h 8 6 ber , 9 ; William Hynson , b ctober 4 , 7 ; and 2 1 6 1 . 8 8 . Robert Condit , b February th , 7

ER E R NE LL AM R OOM E 15 . P G I WI I G (ix) , of D ’ M Easton , Maryland , son of ANI EL GROOME and ARTHA S (GI BB ON ) GROOM E , of Kent County , Maryland ; born March

1 t h 1 8 0 1 2 . 9 th , 7 9 4 ; died May 5 , 7

G 1 1 8 t h 1 8 1 PERE RIN E WI LLIAM GROOM E m . st , August , 9 ,

M : ARI A CELINDA B ROWN , of New York , and had issue

o t h 1 8 2 0 . o 1 M E t h 8 . ARIA LIZA BETH , b . August 3 , , d January 3 , 7 5 ; m l 1 8 November , 3 9 , Thomas Scott Dawson ; their issue , Thomas

Scott Dawson ; Ella Groome Dawson ; and Maria E . Dawson (m . IVillia m Col . Horace Leeds Edmondson issue , Leeds Edmond m s o n . , Perry Groome Edmondson , and Alice Leigh Edmondson ; , 5 m . n d I s t . . . 2 , Gov James Black Groome [vid Sec , , Philip

R . Fendall Young [vid . Sec . $

8 2 . W 1 8 2 2 . 1 ILLIAM , b . March , , d February , 3

1 8 2 . E 1 8 2 . LIZA BETH , b . Dec . , 3 , d May , 4

2 md 8t h G . 1 PERE RIN E WI LLIAM GROOM E m , January ,

A . 1 8 E . 3 7 , LIZA ANN DRIAN No issue (From Journal of Pere grine W . Groome . )

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1 E R K N R OOM E 1 6 . I SAAC P I S G (ix) , of Kent County , l A M E S Gro o M E S Maryland , son of J and SARAH (PERKIN )

GROOM E , of Kent County , Maryland ; born in Kent County ; 8 8 d 1 . . January , 3

I S m 1 6 1 8 2 E I A A C . S PERKIN GROOM E , January th , 3 , MI LY

1 6 1 8 0 1 E . SMITH (b . May th , 3 , d . March st , and had issue :

D 2 2 1 8 t h 1 . . M . . 8 ARI ETTA , b January 4 , 4 , d August , 3 5 4

1 1 1 8 2 . I H t h 1 8 2 . W LLIAM ENRY , b . July 7 , 5 , d August 4 th , 5 2 E F F E ISAAC J R S O N (vid . Sec .

2 t h 1 8 2 . 2 t h 1 8 1 E E . O MILY , b . ctober 9 , 9 , d March 4 , 3 . “ 2 t h 1 1 2 t h 1 2 C . 8 8 . 8 . HARLES , b February , 3 , d March 4 , 3 2 1 t 1 8 111 1 s t 2 t h 1 8 S . s ARAH ANN , b January , 3 3 ; . , August 5 , 5 7 , 2 t h o f Hugh Wallis (d . November 7 , Kent County , Mary

m 2 2 1 0 . n d 6 t h 8 8 . land ; . , July , , Rev Levi Lincoln Holden (d

o t h April 3 , 8 d 1 1 8 2 r 8 . t h . U T . SAM EL HOMAS , b February 3 , 3 5 , d September 7 , 3 5

1 1 8 . S t h 8 6 . 1 USA N JANE , b . December 4 , 3 , d August 4 th , 3 7

d 1 B D A f . r o 8 8 . RA INER SHBURY , Petersburg , Virginia , b July 3 , 3 He t h was a soldier in the Confederate Army , and died January 5 ,

1 8 6 . 4 , at Fort Delaware

( Letters of M rs . Sarah A . Holden . )

3 R OOM E Of 17 . CHARLES D . G (ix) , Kent County , l A M E S S Maryland , son of J GROOME and SARAH (PERKIN ) ’ M 1 8 0 0 GROO E , of Kent County , Maryland ; born ; died

1 t h 1 88 May 7 , 4 .

3 S m 2 t h 1 8 2 CHARLE D . GROOME . , May 9 , 5 , SARAH A .

M a n 2 2 n d : I LLER (d . J . , and had issue

5 m 1 M O 1 . 8 8 6 . CHARLES . , b . ctober , 3 4 ; , 3 , Mary A Huggins ; their

m 1 6 . t h 8 F . . 1 8 issue , Willis , b 4 ( , December s , 9 4 , Margaret 3

T . F . White ; issue , Arthur , Marietta , and Margaret James

m 2 1 1 8 6 6 . . n d 1 0 . Perkins , b . ( , Dec , 9 , Florence N File) ; and

H 1 1 8 6 8 . 8 8 0 . Essie . , b . , d ’

E (1 . . VELINA , without issue ‘ P K w ( 1. . JAMES ER INS , ithout issue 1 M ( . . AR I ETTA , without issue A 1. S . ( ARAH , without issue . 2

P T . JOSE H , d . without issue . s

f . (Letters O Charles M . Groome )

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1 O 5 HAR LE R OOM E 8 . Of COLON EL J HN C S G (ix) , ’ Elkton , Cecil County , Maryland , son of Dr . JOHN GROOM E E B and LIZAB ETH J ENN ETTE ( LACK) GROOM E , of Elkton , Cecil

e 8 t h 1 8 0 0 County , Maryland ; born Jun , ; died November

o t h 1 8 6 6 3 , JOHN 5 CHARLE S GROOME graduated from Princeton Col

1 8 1 Of lege , 9 , as the first honor man his class . He studied f law in the O fice of Judge Chambers , of Chestertown , Mary

Lit ch field land , and subsequently graduated from the Law

O f College . He entered upon the practice law at Elkton ,

1 8 2 2 1 8 Maryland , in . In 3 3 he was elected to the Maryland

Senate to fill an unexpired term , and upon its expiration

re - 1 8 he declined election . In 5 7 he was nominated as inde pendent candidate for Governor of Maryland , having the indorsement of the Democratic party . He was defeated ,

Of Of receiving , however , a majority the vote the State out

Of Of - - side the city Baltimore . He served as aide de camp on f the sta f of Thomas Ward Veazey , Governor of Maryland ,

1 8 — 1 8 8 3 5 3 .

5 S m 6 t h 1 8 6 JOHN CHARLE GROOME . , December 3 , E B S R R . LIZAB ETH IDDLE LACK , dau of Judge JAME I C E B M S B LACK and ARI A E . (STOKE ) LACK , of New Castle ,

: Delaware , and had issue

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A M E B C K . J s LA (vid Sec . 7 1 6 1 8 6 0 . 2 2 n d 1 8 . O C . J OHN HARLES , b December , 3 9 , d ctober th ,

2 m 2 t h 1 8 6 . M S K rd 1 8 . ARIA TO ES , b . September 3 , 4 ; , April 7 , 4 , Hon 1 2 William M . Knight , Of Baltimore , Maryland ; their issue , William

1 1 8 6 e . Knight , b . April 3 th , 5 ; John Charl s Groome Knight , b t h 1 8 8 8 t h 1 8 6 6 . 2 September 9 , , d July 7 , ; Elizabeth Black 2 8t h 2 8t h 1 8 6 8 . O Knight , b . September , ; Ethel Knight , b ctober , 8 1 8 . 1 1 7 3 ; James Groome Knight , b April 3 th , 7 5 ; Maria Stokes R 1 1 8 . Knight , b . February 7 th , 7 7 and ebecca Knight , b Septem

2 rd 1 8 8 0 . ber 3 , 1 m 1 1 6 6 E B CK 1 1 8 . 8 LIZABETH LA , b . July 7 th , 4 4 ; , June 3 th , , Albert t Of Cons able , Elkton , Maryland ; their issue , Alice Constable ,

6 1 8 8 8 . 1 1 8 6 . 1 b . August 4 th , 7 , d July th , ; Arline Constable , b 2 m 2 2 n d 1 8 1 . z 2 ud 1 8 0 . March , 7 ; Albert Constable , b July , 7 ( ,

6 t h 1 0 6 . June , 9 , Emily Evans) ; John Groome Constable , b Sep 2 t h 1 t h 1 8 2 . tember s , 7 ; Henry Lyttleton Constable , b March 7 ,

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t h 1 8 8 O 2 . c t . t 1 1 8 . . h 0 7 5 ; Reginald Constable , b Jan 7 , 7 (m 5 , 9 5 ,

Rebecca Steele Evans) ; Katharine Young Constable , b . August

2 h 1 2 1 1 8 . t 8 8 st , 7 9 ; William Pepper Constable , b March 7 , ; and

1 1 8 8 . Mary Constable , b . April 4 th , 4 1 m 1 8 2 N . 1 1 8 . I . JA E , b March 7 th , 4 7 ; , January 3 st , 7 , Dr John Jan

vier Black , Of New Castle , Delaware ; their issue , Elizabeth O o 1 2 t h 8 . Groome Black , b . ctober 3 , 7 ; Groome Black , b June

8 t h 1 8 . 1 1 8 , 7 4 , d September 3 th , 7 7 ; Armytage Middleton Black ,

t h 1 m t h 1 8 . 2 o O 8 . b November , 7 5 ( , ctober 4 , 9 9 , Henry Lee t . 2 h Fulenwider issue , John Janvier Black Fulenwider , b July 4 , 2

2 t h 1 8 8 0 . 6 t h and John Janvier Black , b . July 9 , , d Feb . ,

1 8 8 1 . “

8 . rd 1 8 0 . W H P G . 1 1 ILLIAM ENRY A E , b February 3 th , 4 9 ; d May 3 , 5

D R A M E U W I L L I E . S A M G R O O M 1 9 . U (ix) , of f ” O . Elkton , Cecil County , Maryland , son Dr JOHN GROOM E E B and LIZAB ETH J ENN ETTE ( LACK) GROOM E , of Cecil

2 6t h 1 8 0 2 1 1 t h County , Maryland ; born July , ; died May ,

1 8 - Of 43 , and was buried in the burying ground the Head of Christiana Presbyterian Church , Newark , Delaware . SAM UEL7 WI LLIAM GROOM E graduated from the Jefferson

Medical College in Philadelphia , and returned to Elkton to

2 t h 1 8 2 practise medicine . May 9 , 4 , he was elected cornet Of of the Elkton Troop Cavalry , commanded by Captain

Of Samuel Hollingsworth . At the time his death he was president of the Elkton Lyceum .

7 m 2 6t h 1 8 0 SAMUEL WI LLI AM GROOM E . , January , 3 ,

E W A Of S A LIZAB ETH SH E ARD LLEN , dau . JO HUA LLEN and

A M A : NNA ( OORE) LLEN , of Philadelphia , and had issue

“ C 1 t h 1 8 . N . 1 1 1 2 0 8 . JOH HARLES , b February 9 th , 3 , d February , 3 1 A t 1 2 m 2 o t 1 AN N N . 8 h 8 . h 8 A LLE , b July , 3 ; , November , 5 4 , Charles

r o t h . Chauncey Whittlesey (died March , son Of Gen

o f . Chauncey Whittlesey , Middletown , Conn ; their issue , Chaun d 1 8 6 O . 1 2 n t h 8 . . cey Whittlesey , b . ct 9 , 5 5 , d Sept , 5 ; Elizabeth 1 6 1 2 t 1 8 . . 8 6 . 2 1 s O Groome Whittlesey , b June , 5 7 , d ct th , ;

t 1 1 t 6 h 8 . 8 h Nancy Allen Whittlesey , b . March , 5 9 , d April , 1 8 m 2 1 s t 1 8 6 0 . 5 9 ; Alice Groome Whittlesey , b . May , ( , March 2 rd 1 88 6 3 , , Joseph Carson Williams) ; Lucy Randolph Whittle

s e . 6 t h 1 8 6 1 6 1 8 8 6 y , b Feb . , 3 , d . July th , ; Iva Whittlesey , b . 2 1 8 1 8 6 1 . 6 Dec th , 4 ; Charles Chauncey Whittlesey , b . July th ,

1 8 6 6 . 1 t h 6 . 6 1 8 8 . 8 6 , d March 5 , ; Edith Whittlesey , b Jan th , 9 ,

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1 \V it l s . 1 8 1 . No v 1 1 8 8 6 h t e e . Lillie y , b March 4 th , 7 , d 7 th , ; and ' 1 8 m . 1 1 0 0 V it t 1 s . 1 \ h e c . Groome y , b Jan 7 th , 7 3 ( , June 7 th , 9 , 3 h a . 1 8 t M rie Henriette Booth ; issue , Charles Chauncey , b May , $ 1 1 2 th 1 0 2 1 s t 0 1 G . 9 , and roome , b July , 9 3 , d . Sept . , M L 9 W L L M SA U E I I A (vid . S e c . The following resolutions were passed by the Elkton

Ma 1 1 t h 1 8 : Lyceum , y , 4 3

R e s o lved h a s , That this Lyceum received with deep and unfeigned O f f O . regret the melancholy intelligence the death its late President , Dr

SAMUEL W . GROOME .

“ R es o lved fo r , That in token Of respect the memory Of the deceased the members o f this Lyceum will w ear the usual badge of mourning fo r f the space o thirty days .

R es o lved , That the members of this Society will attend the funeral o f the deceased . R es o lved Of Cec i l , That a copy these resolutions be published in the h i i D m c W g and Cec l e o ra t .

’ R es o lved , That in further token of respect for the memory Of the deceased this Society adjourn . C THOS . M . OLEMA N , V . President , ’ M A K A . c LL . H C . , acting Sec y

2 2 E FFE R ON R OOM E 0. I SAAC J S G (x) , of Peters l I S A A C S E burg , Virginia , son of PERKIN GROOM E and MI LY

. d E (SMITH ) GROOM E , of Kent County , Marylan ; born Feb ru ar 1 1 8 2 y 3 th , 7 .

2 E F F E R s ON 1 s t 1 8 E ISAAC J GROOM E m . , June , 5 3 , LI ZA

B ETH COLLETT (d . May 3 I st , at Baltimore , Maryland and had issue :

7 t h 1 8 m 2 W . o t h WI LLIAM ALLIS , b August 3 , 5 4 , at Baltimore ; . , July 7 ,

1 8 Lut it ia S e a ve rt 1 t h 7 9 , ; their issue , Alma Elizabeth , b June 9 ,

1 8 8 0 (m . Joseph Frazier ; no issue) ; Herbert Revere , b . Janu m 2 r s t 1 8 8 . 1 1 t h 1 8 8 6 ary , 3 ; Mabel Estelle , b January , ( . , 1 2 2 t h 1 0 December 5 , 9 4 , Charles Madison Gawthrop ; issue , Charles

2 8 t h Madison Gawthrop , b . September , Blanche Wallis ,

t h 1 8 8 8 . 1 2 . 2 8 t h 8 b December , ; Sadie Lelia , b September 7 , 9 ;

t h 1 . S e a ve rt . O 8 and Edith , b ctober 4 , 9 4 3

. c 1 6 t h 1 8 6 m . s t 1 8 8 C P K . ISAA ER I NS , b June , 5 ; , Mar h , 3 , Ida Estelle VVilliam sb ur Green , at g , Kansas ; their issue , Walter Brainerd ,

. 1 8 t h 8 8 . 1 8 b September 7 , 4 ; Edgar Howard , b August , 7 ; “ t h 1 8 2 2 8 t h James Perkins , b . May 7 , 9 ; and Virgil Gladys , b . July , 1 89 9 .

E 1 6 8 8 . . . 1 8 MILY , b 5 , d 3

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un ex Governor of Maryland , having been elected to fill the

ire d f p term of the Hon . Pinkney White , and held this O fice

1 8 6 1 8 1 8 8 until 7 . From 7 9 to 5 he represented the State of

1 8 8 6 Maryland in the United States Senate , and from to

1 8 0 f Of 9 held the O fice of Collector Customs at Baltimore , having been appointed by President Cleveland .

5 B m 2 t h 1 8 6 JAM ES LACK GROOM E . , February 9 , 7 , A L G H L S LI C E EI H EDMONDSON , dau . of ORAC E EED S M D W S E DM ND N E . O s O DMOND ON and ARI A E ( A ON ) , of Bal

: timore , Maryland , and had issue

m h 1 8 . 1 0 M M . t t h ARIA ED ONDSON , b February 9 , 7 7 ; , December ,

1 0 B a l a 9 4 , Atwell C . y y , Lieutenant , Royal Engineers , British A rm n e l B a l a Army ; their issue , Alice Leigh y Groome y y , b .

O 8 1 0 . ctober th , 9 5

9 22 S A M U E L W I L L I A M G R O O M E X Of . ( ) , Phila 7

P a . delphia , , son of Dr . SAMUEL WI LLI AM GROOM E and E W A Of LI ZAB ETH SH E ARD ( LLEN ) GROOM E , Elkton , Mary

rd 1 8 land ; born December 3 , 3 5 . 9 SAMUEL WI LLI AM GROOM E was born in Elkton , Mary

Of land , and at the age fifteen , his father having died some years previously , was taken to Philadelphia by his mother to be educated . He entered the Protestant Episcopal

Academy , and , after completing his education at that insti t ut io n , he engaged in mercantile business in Philadelphia . He was first connected with the wholesale dry - goods house of C . W . Churchman , and afterwards formed a partner

-in ship with Theodore Emery the coal business . He was

1 8 connected with Edward J . Etting , iron broker , and in 7 9

. . B formed a partnership with J F ailey , under the name of

. . B . J F ailey Company , iron commission merchants He Of was a member the German Club of Philadelphia , the

Of Philadelphia Club , a founder the Philadelphia Fencing and Sparring Club , and of the Philadelphia Gun Club , being the first president of the latter organization . He was also a member of the University Barge Club and was

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Of 1 8 6 1 elected commodore the Schuylkill Navy , , and served — as such by re election until 1 8 6 7 9 m A W . 1 1 t h 1 8 6 0 S MUE L I LLIAM GROOM E , January , , N A W S 2 AN CY NDRE CONN ELLY , dau . of HARRY CONN ELLY E A W S and LIZA ( NDRE ) CONNELLY , of Philadelphia , and had issue : H A R R Y C ONN Y * E LL (vid . Sec . OHN “ CH A R * S . 2 J LE (vid Sec . 4) A A D R * E IZ N W S . 2 1 s t 1 8 6 m L E . t h , b November , 4 ; , April 5 , 1 1 8 8 8 . . 1 8t h s o n , Thomas Reath (b Jan , Of Philadelphia ,

Of Benjamin B . Reath and Emma Wood Reath , Of Philadelphia ; 2

. 2 n d 1 8 0 their issue , Thomas Reath , b November , 9 ; and Nancy

. O 2 t h 1 8 Andrews Reath , b ctober 7 , 9 4 . 12 SA M U WI IA M * 2 E L LL (vid . Sec . 5 ) A X A ND R C OX * LE E E (vid . Sec . P I R C F R A I * E E NC S (vid . Sec .

23 . M A OR H A R R Y CONNE Y GR OOM J LL E (xi) , 9 of Airlie , Fauquier County , Virginia , son of SAMUEL WI L LIAM GROOM E and NANCY ANDREW S CONN ELLY GROOM E ( ) , 1 8 6 0 of Philadelphia ; born November 7 , . HARRY CONN ELLY GROOM E was born at the residence 2 NO 2 0 of his grandfather , HARRY CONN ELLY , . 3 7 Walnut

Street , Philadelphia . He was graduated from the Protes tant Episcopal Academy in 1 8 7 6 and entered the Univer sit Of 1 8 8 0 y Pennsylvania in the class of , from which insti t ut io n he was , however , unable to graduate owing to the

financial embarrassments of his father . He entered the

’ f 1 8 8 u latter s O fice in 7 , where he remained ntil the autumn

1 8 8 1 8 8 Of 0 0 of 3 . In 4 he purchased a farm 7 acres in Wythe ”

County , Virginia , called Locust Hill , in partnership with 8 f S . O . O his brother , JOHN CHARLE GROOM E , and W Moore

1 8 8 Wytheville , Virginia . He returned to Philadelphia in 9 . He served as resident secretary of the Philadelphia Country

Club in 1 8 9 1 and introduced the game of golf in Philadelphia . He was instrumental in introducing the game of polo in

* The persons whose names are thus indicated are the subjects Of the pedigree which forms the f ramework o f this volume .

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Philadelphia in 1 8 9 0 and was for several seasons captain of

1 8 the local team . In 9 4 he accepted an appointment as an assistant cashier of Customs under John R . Reade , Collector of Customs at Philadelphia during President Cleveland ’ s second administration

His connection with the State militia of Pennsylvania , w 1 8 8 ith which he was prominently identified , began in 3 , w Of hen he was elected a member the First Troop , Phila delphia City Cavalry . He served with this organization

1 8 8 for eleven years , being appointed corporal 9 , sergeant 1 8 0 1 8 9 , first sergeant 9 4 , and elected second lieutenant

1 8 Of 9 4 . As a member this troop he was in riot service at

Pa 1 8 2 Homestead , . , 9 . He resigned his commission Decem

1 8 ber , 9 4 , and was appointed first lieutenant and adjutant

Of . . the Third Regiment Infantry N G P . by Colonel Robert

1 8 1 8 6 Ralston , March , 9 5 . In 9 he was appointed Assistant

- Adjutant General , with the rank of major , by Brigadier

General John W . Schall , commanding the First Brigade

“ ” 1 8 N . G . P . In 9 7 he brought out a Military Handbook ,

” Of a compilation some pretensions , prepared for the use

Of re co m the National Guard of Pennsylvania , which was

mended for the guidance and instruction of the N . G . P . in all matters not otherwise prescribed by competent au ” in - thority , a circular published by the Adjutant General

-G of Pennsylvania in August of that year . Maj or eneral P George R . Snowden , commanding the Division N . G . . ,

- — 1 8 8 appointed him aide de camp , in 9 , and in this capacity he attended the mobilization of the Pennsylvania militia at Mount Gretna on the outbreak of the war with Spain . As general Officers of the militia with their staffs were not f o fered commissions as such in the volunteer army , Major GROOM E accepted a commission as first lieutenant and ad j utant of the Third Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry , May

1 s t 1 8 8 , 9 . This regiment was ordered to Chickamauga and attached to the First Brigade , Second Division , First Army

2 8t h Corps . May Lieutenant GROOME was appointed Acting

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Assistant Adjutant - General Of the brigade to which h is

’ da s lat e r regiment was attached , but a few y was relieved of duty at his own request , his regiment having been trans ferred to the Third Brigade , Provisional Division , Fifth

re - Corps , formed to enforce General Shafter at Tampa , O where it immediately proceeded . wing to inadequate transportation , however , the Third Pennsylvania remained at Tampa and was subsequently assigned to the Third s B rigade , Second Division , Fourth Corp . The regiment

1 st proceeded from Tampa to Ferdinandina , Fla . , July 3 ,

2 t h thence to Huntsville , Ala . , August 7 , and from there

1 0 t h was ordered back to Philadelphia , arriving September , and was mustered out of the United States s ervice Octo

2 2 n d 1 8 8 w as ber , 9 . Maj or GROOM E placed on the retired

r t h 1 8 list N . G . P . Feb uary 9 , 9 9 .

1 8 e In 99 he acquir d an estate near Warrenton , Vir ginia , where he now lives . He organized the Fauquier

1 0 2 s Club at Warrenton , 9 , and served as its pre ident until ’ 1 0 s 9 5 . He was elected a vestryman of St . James Church ,

n a 8t h 1 0 1 0 V . Hamilto Parish , , April , 9 4 , and again in 9 5

1 0 6 1 0 M and 9 . In 9 5 , in collaboration with his wife , ARY Of GROOME , he edited an anthology verse , under the title of Saddle and Song , published in Philadelphia in the

h as Of same year . He been a member the following organizations and clubs : Germantown Hare and Hounds

Club , Philadelphia Riding Club , Philadelphia Fencing and

Sparring Club , Germantown and Merion Cricket Clubs , Of P Delta Psi Fraternity , College Boat Club of the U . . , Of P Philadelphia Barge Club , Alumni Association of U . . ,

Philadelphia Polo Club , Philadelphia Country Club , Amer ican Hunt and Pony Racing Association , Rose Tree Fox

Hunting Club , Radnor Hunt , Warrenton Hunt , Chevy ’

Chase Club (Washington , D . Young Men s Democratic O Association (of Military rder of Foreign Wars ,

Army and Navy Club of New York City , St . Anthony , Of University , and Rittenhouse Clubs Philadelphia , Metro

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Of C politan Club Washington , D . . , and Fauquier Club of Warrenton , Virginia .

H rd 1 8 8 ARRY CONN ELLY GROOM E m . I st , April 3 , 3 ,

E D 1 8 6 2 LIZAB ETH UN BAR PRI CE (b . June 9 , ; d . September 2 6 R A M , dau . of I CHARD PRI CE and NNA ARI A D ( UNBAR) PRICE , of Philadelphia .

H 2 md O 1 8 1 8 ARRY CONN ELLY GROOM E m . , ctober th , 9 9 ,

A L S G I s t 1 8 6 2 t h NN E OUI E WRI HT (b . July 3 , 5 ; d . April 7 , W dau . of CHARLE S B RI STO WRI GHT and SUSAN

T W S G : ( O N END) WRI HT , of Philadelphia , and had issue

S T W N N D t 1 0 0 h . USAN O SE , b . November s , 9

H rd t h 1 0 ARRY CONN ELLY GROOM E m . 3 , July 7 , 9 5 ,

M H S U P t h . ARY A KELL TON (b . December 5 , dau of E DGAR WOOD U P TON and E LIZAB ETH GIRDLER (E V AN S) P U TON , of Peabody , Mass .

8 24 . CA P TA IN OH N CHAR S GR OOM J LE E (xi) , of 9 N Philadelphia , son of SAMUEL WI LLIAM GROOM E and ANCY A W S NDRE (CONN ELLY) GROOME , of Philadelphia ; born

2 o t h 1 8 6 2 March , , at Philadelphia . JOHN 8 CHARLES GROOM E was graduated from the Prot e st an t 1 8 Episcopal Academy in 7 7 , and engaged in mer can t ile 1 88 business in Philadelphia until 3 , when he joined his brother HARRY CONN ELLY GROOM E in the purchase of a farm known as Locust Hill , in Wythe County , Virginia . He resided on this property from the time of his marriage

1 8 8 8 S till , when he returned to Philadelphia , and was hortly afterwards made treasurer of the Almy Manufacturing

1 8 Company . In 9 7 he accepted a position with Hutchinson

1 0 2 Company , wine merchants . In 9 he established him self as a wine merchant and importer under the name of

Groome Company . He was elected an active member of the First Troop

1 88 2 Philadelphia City Cavalry in . He was appointed cor

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1 8 8 poral in 1 8 8 7 and sergeant in 9 . He was elected cornet in 1 89 4 and first lieutenant six months later in the same

1 8 6 . year . In 9 he succeeded General E Burd Grubb as f captain , to which O fice he w and again

1 0 6 in 9 . As a sergeant ing

P 1 8 2 a . . the riots at Homestead , , in 9 He commanded the

P a 1 1 t h troop in riot service at Hazleton , . , September to

2 8t h 1 8 , 9 7 , and again in the same section of the State ,

O 8 1 2 t h 1 0 2 ctober th to November , 9 .

2 1 st Upon the declaration of war with Spain , April ,

1 8 8 9 , the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry , under the

Of command Captain GROOME , participated in the mobili zat io n of the National Guard of Pennsylvania at Mt . P a . Gretna , , and was mustered into the United States ser

t h 1 vice May 7 . June 7 th Captain GROOM E formed a squad ron composed of the three cavalry troops of the National Of Guard Pennsylvania , and as senior captain assumed t h command . July 7 this squadron was ordered to proceed from Mt . Gretna to Camp Alger at Dunn Loring , Virginia , where they were attached to the headquarters of the Sec

2 t h ond Army Corps . July 4 the squadron was ordered to

N 2 8t h Of Newport ews , and on the day the same month the Of First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry , under command

Captain GROOM E , was detached from the squadron and k embar ed for Puerto Rico . The troop landed at Ponce , 6t h Puerto Rico , August , under orders to report to General

Gua m A a o . . . . Brooke at y H Troop , Sixth Cavalry , U S , ’ GR OOM E s being added to Captain command , he proceeded

r Gua amo to Ar oyo and thence to y , where he arrived on

1 August 3 th , and was directed by General Brooke to cover the left flank of the line Of battle then being formed for an attack on the Spanish earthworks immediately in front Of

. b e the American forces . Meantime the Peace Protocol tween the two governments had been signed and General

Brooke received orders to suspend all military operations . September 3 rd the troop embarked at Ponce for the United

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Of vo lun States , and arriving home were mustered out the

2 1 s t teer service November . Among the notable incidents in the history of the First Troop during the period of C aptain GROOME ’ S command

1 0 1 Of - were the erection , in 9 , a new armory on Twenty third

Street , between Chestnut and Market Streets , and a luncheon given in this armory , to President Roosevelt , on Washing ’ 0 1 . ton s Birthday , 9 5 , at which Captain GROOME presided The Department Of Pennsylvania State Police having

1 0 been created in 9 5 , Captain GROOM E was given command Of with the title Superintendent by Governor Pennypacker , f July I st , and directed to e fect its organization . This force was to consist of mounted men who were to be divided into f four troops and established in di ferent localities of the State .

1 0 6 The organization was completed in March , 9 , and the efficiency of the force was amply demonstrated during the strike riots which occurred in the summer of the same year . Captain GROOM E was elected secretary of the Ph iladel

1 8 phia Horse Show Association in 9 5 , and succeeded Mr .

1 8 A . J . Cassatt as its president in 9 9 . He has been the del egat e from the Philadelphia Country Club to the Polo ’ 1 8 1 Association since the latter s organization in 9 , and has been a member Of the executive committee Of the National

1 0 1 f Polo Association since 9 . He has been at di ferent times a member of the following organizations : Philadelphia

Club , Racquet Club , Markham Club , Merion Cricket Club ,

Philadelphia Cricket Club , Radnor Hunt , Lima Hunt , u Upland H nt , Army and Navy Club of New York , and the

Philadelphia Historical Society .

“ m 1 1 8 8 S . AG S JOHN CHARLE GROOME , April 5 th , 4 , NE

R S O 1 s t E W PRI C E OB ERT (b . ctober 3 , dau . of D ARD R S M E V S R S OB ERT and ARTHA PRI C E ( AN ) OB ERT , of Phila

: delphia , and had issue

t 1 8 A G R h 8 . NES OBERTS , b . February 9 , 5

M 1 0 t h 1 8 8 6 . ARTHA , b . March , 9

t h 1 8 . C . JOHN HARLES , b January 4 , 9 7

G R O O M E

27 . P I E R CE F R ANCI S GR OOM E (xi) , of Paris , “ N A N Texas , son of SAMUEL WI LLIAM GROOM E and ANCY

W S Pa DRE (CONN ELLY) GROOME , of Philadelphia , . ; born

6 th 1 8 November , 7 7 . PI ERCE FRANCI S GROOME was born at Philadelphia and educated by a private tutor and at the Protestant E pis co

1 888— 1 pal Academy , 9 . After completing his education he found commercial employment in Philadelphia for a few years , after which he went to Texas and lived there on a

1 8 cattle ranch until 9 7 , when he entered the service of

Mc Fadde n O f Geo . H . Bro . , Philadelphia , cotton mer chants . He was first assigned to duty at cotton agencies in Texas and afterwards to their shipping department at Gal

O f fl veston . He was a survivor the great Galveston ood of

1 0 0 9 , and rendered important public service in the repression

re - Of of outlawry during the establishment civil authority .

He was reassigned to duty at the cotton agencies in Texas ,

1 0 first at Temple in 9 3 and afterwards at Paris , being placed

f 1 0 6 in charge O the agency in the latter place in 9 . He

Of enlisted in Battery A , National Guard Pennsylvania , in f 1 8 6 . O 9 , serving four months He became a member the

O 1 0 . rder of Masons , September , 9 4

S m t h 1 0 0 F . PI ERCE RANCI GROOME , December 4 , 9 , t h B SS L W S . . S E I E CECI L E I (b . Nov 9 , dau of JAME L W S M E S L W S WI LLIAM E I and ARY LLEN (WIN TON ) E I , of

: Missouri , and had issue

1 0 t h 1 0 . b . July , 9 3

t 1 0 6 h . M N C . ARY AN Y , b March 4 , 9 HY N S O N

GE NE A LO GY

H M A l H Y 28 . T O S N S O N Of r (iv) , Kent Island , Ma y

1 6 2 0 land ; born about . (Court Proceedings , Kent County ,

Maryland . ) l THOM A S H S 1 6 0 YN ON settled in the Isle of Kent in 5 ,

1 6 2 and appears as Clerk of Kent County in 5 . (Court Pro ce e din s 1 6 2 g of Kent County , liber A , fol . 49 In 5 ’

Lord Baltimore s government was overthrown , and Stone , the Proprietary Governor , was deposed by four commis sio n ers representing the Commonwealth of England . These

I st 1 6 2 commissioners appointed , July 3 , 5 , nine local com f missioners to administer the a fairs of Kent Island , of whom 1 THOMAS HYN SON was one . The Parliament subsequently being dissolved , the government of the Province of Mary land passed into the hands of a commission , acting under

1 s t the authority of the Lord Protector , which on March ,

1 6 5 4 , appointed Philip Conner Commander of the County of Kent ; seven commi ssioners were named to assist the 1 H S Commander of the Island , THOMAS YN ON being one , and 1 H S being also one of the Quorum . THOMAS YN ON appears

1 6 f u in 5 5 as High Sheri f of Kent Co nty (Court Proceedings ,

in 1 6 Kent County , liber A , fol . and 5 9 he represented

Kent County in the House Of Burgesses .

1

H S . THOMAS YN ON m . GRACE (vid chart in possession

Of . : Mrs Thomas Hill) , and had issue

l J o HN (vid . Sec . C H R L E S 1 A (vid . Sec . “ ’ T f 1 1 O . HOMAS , churchwarden St Paul s Parish in 7 4 and vestryman

1 2 2 in 7 .

HENRY . 5 5 H Y N S O N

Copy of Commission recorded in Court Proceedings of Kent 6 6 County , liber A , fol . .

W o f HEREAS , the reducing , settling and governing Virginia , and all o f the English plantations within the Bay Chesapeake , was referred to Co m certain Commissioners , by order from the Council of State for the mo n w e a lt h o f fo r England ; AND whereas , the Governor and Council this o f Province Maryland , in Obedience and conformity to the said order and

power , have authorized and deputed the persons , whose hands are here Of unto subscribed , for settling the Isle Kent , and the rather for that reason ff Of some di erences , and complaints by the inhabitants , there , against R V . G N Capt OBERT AU HA , the chief in place and command upon the said fo r admin is Island , the course of j ustice , and keeping courts the better t rat io n : thereof , hath been of late discontinued T o f P L HESE are , therefore , in the name the KEE ERS OF THE I BERTY E N G N D OF LA , by authority Of Parliament , to signify , and declare , that

o ut . P P for the present , till further order Of England , Mr HILI CONNER , R N GG D B R A D N x H N M G N o . . Mr . THOS . I OL , Mr . THOS . , Mr E RY OR A , Mr

C . . P W CK . N W . NI BRO N E , Mr THOS . HYNSON , Mr JOSE H I ES , Mr JOH R P P . N HILLI S , and Mr JOH U SSELL , be Commissioners for the said Island ,

o r f P P r . o . o and that they , any four them , whereof Mr HILI CONNER , Mr R t . N GG D o n e o THOS I OL to be always , shall have power hear and deter f t o fo r r mine all di ferences , and call courts that pu pose as Often as they o f ff fo r shall see cause , to make choice a Sheri , and a Clerk keeping Rec t o ords , and Execution Of Writs , and all other process , and act in all in h ab things for the peace , safety , and welfare Of the said Island , and the it an t s o r o r thereof , as they the former Commissioners did , might do , by virtue Of their commission from the Lord Baltimore , and the Governor

Council Of this Province under him . R E Q UIRI N G all the inhabitants o f the said Island t o take notice o f O this rder , and to conform themselves accordingly , as they will answer the contrary at their peril . f K I st o f u 1 6 2 o ur o . Given under hands , at the Isle ent the 3 day J ly , 5

: B N N RI E ETT , E D : L D A LOY , T : M HOS ARSH , LE : R NG O S T O .

Copy of Commission recorded in Court Proceedings of Kent

fo l County , liber A , . 9 7 .

W o f Ch ie fe M G C an d A HEREAS by exercise the A ISTRA Y , dministra tion Of the Goverment , over England , Scotland , Ireland , and Dominions b e l o n in e L D P R OTE C thereunto g g , doth now reside in his Highness the OR TO R C N C ; assisted with a OU IL ; In whose name all writs , process , Corn Graun t s o r M G mitions , orders are to runne ; AND from whom all A IS 5 6 H Y N S O N

C o r TRA Y , and powers , in the three Kingdoms , Nation aforesaid , and the D t o OMINIONS thereof , is be derived ; P N C M N D l aw full AND this ROV I E OF ARYLA , by power from the s u A U TH O R I TI E preme Of the Commonwealth of England , formerly and since L D P C C N n o w b e e in e C D from the OR ROTE TOR , and OU SELL , g OMMITTE , to E s Co l o n ll e . the Honorable Richard Bennett , q , and Wm Claiborne , is t o G N N E N G N D subscribed the present OVER ME T OF LA , and established CO M M I TI ON GR A U NTE D o f H G N therein , by a in the name his I H ESS the

L D P C . . . . OR ROTE TOR , unto Capt Wm Fu ller , Mr Ritch Preston , Mr . Wm . n L E dw d . o . o . e . Durand , Mr . Loyd , Capt J Smith , M r . Strong , Mr .

n o . . . . . Lawson , Mr . J Hatch , Mr Wm Parker , Mr Ritch Wells , and Mr . f r o rd rin e dir ct in Go ve rn in e F . o e e e A Ritch Ewen , the g , g and g , all the F A Y R s OF M ARYLAN D :

T F . . HERE ORE the sayd Capt Wm Fuller , and the rest Of the Commi t io n e rs h o uld e n P D C 2 8t h o f , present at a Court at ROV I EN E , the Day feb ruari 1 6 A C C OR D I NGE t o o f 5 4 , order this Court in Pursuance , Of the o f fo r Discharge that trust , which is Committed to them , the more eassie AD N o f o f and speedy MI ISTRATION Justice , Conservation the peace , pre ven t io n fo r Of insurrections and disturbances which may arise , and the s u re ss in e o f L D P C pp g Of the same H AVE in the name the OR ROTE TOR ,

. Co n n ie r and doe by these presents nominate , and appoint M r Phillip Ch iefe P N C Commander , Of the County Of Kent , within the ROVI E OF M ND G I V I NGE Graun t in e o f ARYLA , and g , in the name his Highness , the

L D P C o f . G m OR ROTE TOR England , etc , unto the sayd Ph illip o ier , Power Aut h o rit ie CO U NTI E t o COM M A U ND and , in the sayd , all persons therein , rel at in e I NS U R in all things g necessarily to the defence thereof , from the C N o f IND N o f n RE TIO S IA S , and attempts any persons whatsoever , u law lib e rt ie fully made , against the peace and Of the people , as also to Com A D N N o f maund them , in that which concerns the due M I ISTRATIO JUS C R G o f TI E and I HT , the Execution Lawes , upon delinquents and the l aw full and necessary use o f the M ILITIA . R E QU I R I NGE the people Of the sayd Co un t ie t o bee subject to all his l aw full Co mmaun ds AND d o e , also wee by these presents Nominate and

Th o . appoint Mr . Joseph Wickes , Mr . Ringgold , Mr . Thomas Hynson ,

n o . . . . . Mr . J Russell , Mr Henry Morgan , Mr Wm Eliot , and Mr Henry Co mmit io n e rs fo r o f A t o Carline , to bee the sayd County Kent SSISTANT Co n ier w h o P D N o f the sayd Mr . Philip ( is hereby appointed RESI E T Co mmit io n fo r o f o f the ) the Conservation the peace , Administration E X E CU TI NGE o f DG N t o in difere n t l Justice , and right JU ME T all persons y , e in all Causes , Of which they shall bee allow d Capable to have Cognizance , fo r and the present as they have formerly done , untill further order bee Co mm it io n ers published , AND that any foure Of the sayd whereof Mr . r Th o Co n ier o r . o r . . o . . Philip , Mr Joseph Wickes , Mr Tho Ringgold , Mr t o o n e t o K ee e Hinson , bee all ways , shall have power p Courts , at such times and in such places as to them shall seem Convenient and necessary ,

ro ces s u e n a s . AND that all writs , p , warrants , p , etc , which concerne the Co n ie r County Court , shall bee signed by the sayd Mr . Philip , but in his 5 7 H Y N S O N

e x t rao rd in a rie o r absence by Mr . Joseph Wickes , and upon sudden occa S aft ie O f re ve n t in e tion , which endangers the the County , p g or suppress inge Of any dangerous action , the nearest Commissioners shall have power ‘ o ut w S h e rifi e o r Of to give a arrant , directed to the Constable and in case m E x t re it ie o n e . depute to serve the same , AND lastly the sayd Mr Philip Co n ie r O f , and the sayd Commissioners are Required to Cause the Clerk t h e ire Court to transcribe the Court pro s e d in gs and to deliver them to s ix G the Secretarie Of the Province , every Months , at the ENERALL

P R OV I NC I A L L COU RT .

1 6 GIVEN at Providence under my hand this first day O f March 5 4 . W F ILL ULLER ,

W ILLIAM DURAND .

O 1 HYN ON 29 . COLON EL J HN S (v) , of Kent Island , l THOM A S H S H S M aryland , son of YN ON and GRAC E YN ON ,

1 0 of Kent Island , Maryland ; died 7 5 , and was buried at ’ 1 0 t h 1 0 St . Paul s Church , May , 7 5 1 H S JOHN YN ON , as a commissioner of Kent County under the government of the Calverts , sat as one of the judges over courts held for the said county on the following dates :

2 8t h 1 6 2 t h 1 6 t h September , 7 4 , January 5 , 7 5 , December 7 ,

1 6 2 t h 1 6 6 6 t h 1 6 6 2 o t h 1 6 6 7 5 , March 5 , 7 , April , 7 , April , 7 ,

2 t h 1 6 6 O o t h 1 6 O 2 8 t h 1 6 8 June 7 , 7 , ctober 3 , 7 7 , ctober , 5

2 2 n 1 68 6 d . Of and June , By virtue a new commission , he

Of took the oath commissioner and j ustice of the peace ,

t h 1 6 8 Of November 4 , 5 . He was a member the House of

1 6 — — 6— Burgesses , 9 4 9 5 9 9 7 . He was appointed a commis sio n er Of and justice the peace by Sir Francis Nicholson ,

1 6 1 6 O 1 8t h 1 6 Royal Governor , June th , 9 7 . n November , 9 7 , ’ he was chosen a vestryman of St . Paul s Parish and on the records of that parish he is referred to as Col . JOH N H S HYNSON . A JOHN YN ON is described in the records of

f 1 0 Shrewsbury Parish as Sheri f of Kent County in 7 5 .

1 H S A : JOHN YN ON m . NN E and had issue

’ - o f 1 8 JOHN (a pew holder St . Paul s , April th , ‘ 1 2 m 1 t . 1 O . . s N . S . ATHANIEL , d 7 ; , , Hannah (buried at St ’ “ NO V 2 1 2 t . 6 h . Paul s . , their issue , Nathaniel , b Jan th , 1 0 1 1 2 2 n d 6 1 1 7 9 , d . 7 ; Mary ; and Hannah ; m . , August th , 7 4 , “ 2 t h 1 m . O Mary Kelley ; their issue , Nathaniel ( , ct . 9 , 7 3 5 ,

5 8 H Y N S O N

1 r r Mary Smith) ; Martha ; and Rebecca . Nathaniel Hynson e p e

1 1 6 1 1 sented Kent County in the House Of Burgesses in 7 , 7 9 , 1 2 0 1 2 1 7 , and 7 . S ARAH . E LIZABETH , m . Rodgers .

. Ho l a r H l a r e e o e e . J ANE , m Philip g ; their issue , Nathaniel g

M . ARY , m Glanville .

1 3 0. C H A R L E S H Y N S O N (v) of Kent Island , Mary 1 H S H S land , son of THOMAS YN ON and GRACE YN ON , of

Kent Island Maryland . CHARLES HYN SON was appointed Clerk Of the Kent

2 8t h 1 6 1 6 1 6 County Court November , 9 3 , and June th , 9 7 , he was appointed a commissioner and justice of the peace for Kent County by Sir Francis Nicholson , Royal Governor . ’

He was elected a churchwarden of St . Paul s Parish , Novem

1 8t h 1 6 a 6t h 1 0 8 ber , 9 7 , and a vestrym n , April , 7 .

1 H S m 2 t h 1 6 8 M G CHARLES YN ON . , March 5 , 7 , AR ARET

H S m 2 n d ARRI (who . , , James Murphy) , dau . of WI LLIAM

H : ARRI S , and had issue

“ T 1 8 m O 1 1 1 0 HOMAS , d . 7 3 ; . , ctober 9 th , 7 , Wealthy Ann Tilden , Of dau . Marmaduke Tilden and Rebecca Wilmer Tilden ; their “ t h 1 1 8 2 m . o issue , Charles , d . 7 ( , November 3 , 7 3 9 , Phoebe Car

' vill) Martha ; Waltham ; and Mary (m . Thomas Jones) . CHARLES (represented Kent County in the House of Burgesses 1 7 3 9 WILLIAM (represented Kent County in the House Of Burgesses 1 7 5 7 — 1 8 1 6 2 1 6 . 7 5 , 7 7 3 He inherited a property called Poplar Hill — o n Langford Bay from his grandfather William Harri s Kent I County Wills , E . C . , fol . M A R G A R E S A M E L 4 G R O O M E t h 1 6 . T , b . September 7 , 9 7 , m U

(vid . Sec .

D C D N . Also OR AS , JU ITH , JA E , and ANNE Copy of Commission and Dedimus Potestatem recorded in the Proceedings of a Court held for Kent County , August

2 t h 1 6 4 , 9 7 .

Of William the Third , by the Grace of God , England , Scotland ,

& c . France and Ireland , King , Defender of the Faith

‘

Hin s o n M r . . TO Mr . William Frisby , Mr . John , Hans Hanson , Mr

. Thos . Smyth , Mr . James Smith , Mr . John Whittington , Mr Charles

5 9 H Y N S O N

o f Hynson , Mr . Thomas Ringgold , Mr . Philip Hopkins , Kent County , : Gent . Know ye for the great trust and confidence We have in your Fidel itie , circumspection , prudence and Wisdom , have constituted , ordained and appointed and by these presents Doe constitute and Ord ain e and appoint you the said William Frisby , John Hynson , Hans Hanson , Thomas

Smyth , James Smith , Charles Hynson , Thomas Ringgold and Philip o n t l kee e Hopkins , Commissioners , j y y and severally to p the Peace in Kent County and t o keep and cause t o be kept all Lawes and orders for the co n s e rvacio n of the peace and for the quiet rule and Government Of s o the people , in all and every Articles Of the same and Chastize and pun ish all persons Off ending against the forme o f any Of the Lawes and Orders o ur i of this Province , or any Of them in Kent County aforesa d , according

O . to the Lawes and rders , shall be fit to be done Wee have also constituted and appointed y o u and every four or o f o u more Of you which y the said William Frisby , John Hynson , Hans Hanson and Thomas Smyth o r one Of y o u are always to be o n e Of the Commissioners to Enquire Of the Oaths Of good and Law full men Of your o f I n ch an t me n t s County , aforesaid , Of all manner Felonies , Witchcrafts , , S o ce rie s Ma ick I n ro s sin s E x t o r , g art , Trespasses , Forestallings , g g , and f tions whatsoever , and Of all and singular other misdeeds and O fences , o f whatsoever , Of which Justices the Peace , in England , may or ought t o o r o r Lawfully Enquire , by whomsoever wheresoever done perpetrated , o r o r r which hereafter shall be done pe petrated in the county aforesaid , O o f o u against the Lawes and rders this Province , Provided y proceed o r not in any Of the cases aforesaid to the life Members , But that in every such case y o u send the Prisoners with their Indictments and the whole matter depending before y o u to the next Provincial Court t o be holden o ur for this Province , whensoever and wheresoever to be holden , there d A n d d o e A to be Try e . further Wee hereby uthorize and Impower you o ut Writ t s t o o f O to issue , Process , and Attachments , and hold Plea yer Te rmin o r and , in all actions , real , personal and mixt , and after Judg t o ment , Execution to award in all causes civil , according the Lawes , orders and reasonable cust o m e s made and provided in this o ur Province f o f Maryland except in matters relating to Titles o Land . In which cause s o e Tr e d civil to be y , Excepting as before Excepted , Wee do constitute and appoint Y o u the several and respective persons aforesaid to be : An d d o e Y o u Judges as aforesaid therefore Wee Commend , that you diligently Intend the keeping Of the Lawes and Orders Of all and singul ar o t h e rt h e o f premises , and at certain days appointed , according to Act Y o u Assembly , in such case made and provided , and at such place as o r o f o u as s h all b e h alfe or any Four more y aforesaid , in that appoint , y o u make Inquiry upon the premises and perform and fulfill the same in e W t o forme afor said , doing therein hat Justice appertaineth according O Cus t o me s Of o ur to the Lawes , rders and reasonable this Province , and therefore Wee Command the S h e riff O f our County by virtue Of these o n o u o r presents , that at the place and the dayes , aforesaid , that y any

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3 1 . Members of this family were among the early 1 D settlers of Kent Island , Maryland , ROB ERT UNN (vid . Sec . 3 2 ) appearing as a land - owner in 1 6 49 and being j oined by his

S 1 6 2 S D brother PA CO in 5 . PA CO UNN left the island about

1 6 6 6 Of , having disposed his land , and settled in Elizabeth

City County , James River , Virginia , where he reached some

Old prominence , as upon the solitary record book of that

1 6 8 8 1 6 8 Of county now extant , he appears in and 9 as one ’ his Maj esty s justices , his colleagues being such men as

An t h Thomas Wythe , Captain . Armistead , etc .

GE NE A LOGY

R O B E R T ‘ D U N N 3 2. (iv) , of Kent Island and Broad

1 6 0 1 2 nox , Kent County , Maryland ; born 3 ; died May th ,

1 6 6 7 . 1 D ROB ERT UNN settled on Kent Island , Maryland , about

1 6 the year 49 , at which date his name appears on the rec ords Of Chestertown in a land transaction with one William 1 t h 1 6 2 D —five Body . April 5 , 5 , ROB ERT UNN and sixty other freeholders Of the Isle of Kent subscribed allegiance l R o B E R T D to the Commonwealth of England . UNN appears in 1 6 63 as representing Kent County in the House of Bur

1 6 6 8 gesses . In he appears as Clerk of the County Court

1 6 1 6 6 and April th , 9 , he was appointed commissioner of

E s fo r I am indebted to Edwards S . Dunn , q , Of Philadelphia , the information o n which my notes in regard to the early members o f h is — H family are based . C . G .

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f Kent County and a member of the Quorum , which o fice he

1 6 1 1 6 6 held until 7 . In 9 he also appears as a Burgess for

1 6 1 Of Kent County . In 7 he was appointed keeper the Standard of Weights and Measures for his county and in

1 6 f Of f 7 3 , High Sheri f of the county , both which O fices he

16 0 — held until the time of his death . About 7 7 5 he removed Of from Kent Island to the head Langford Bay , on the mainland , where he settled upon a tract of five hundred

Of n B ro adn o x acres land , k own as .

l R B E R T D m 1 6 2 6 O . 1 UNN , 5 or 5 3 , JOAN PORTER , daughter of WI LLIAM PORTER and SUSANNAH PORTER and widow of

: JOHN HOOD , and had issue

6 6 S N N . 1 USA AH , b prior to 5 . 1 6 6 . JANE , b . prior to 5 R 6 CC . 1 6 . EBE A , b prior to 5 “ W 1 6 6 . ILLIAM , d . 5 A C 1 6 8 . LI E , d . 7 O B E R 2 R T (vid . Sec .

R O B E RT 2 D U N N B ro adn o x 3 3 . (v) , of , Kent County , 1 Maryland ; son of ROB ERT DUNN and JOAN (PORTER) DUNN ;

1 6 6 0 1 2 born about ; died 7 9 . “ ’ R D ul s OB ERT UNN was one of the founders of St . Pa

1 6 Parish in 9 3 , and served as a vestryman for eight years

1 0 1 1 h is R between 7 3 and 7 5 . He (or son OB ERT) was a

1 2 2 member of the Maryland House of Burgesses in 7 .

“ R D 1 2 t h 1 6 6 OB ERT UNN m . st , prior to March 4 , 9 ,

M : ARY (d . and had issue

R O B E “ R T (vid . Sec . “ 2 1 6 ( 1 o t 1 1 0 8t h . h . JAMES , baptized May , 9 9 , prior to December 3 , 7

I s t 1 0 1 . JANE , baptized March , 7 “ f 1 W . o . ILLIAM , m Martha Miller , daughter Michael Miller M ARY .

“ R D 2 n d o t h 1 1 0 OB ERT UNN m . , prior to December 3 , 7 , M P E A R K E ARY , widow of JOHN .

6 3 D U N N

RO B E RT 3 D N N V i Of B ro adn o x 3 4 . U ( ) , , Kent R “ D M County , Maryland , son of O BERT UNN and ARY DUNN ;

1 6 6— 8 1 born about 9 9 ; died 7 4 5 . R O B ERT“ DUNN resided on the estate originally acquired ’ by his grandfather , but which during his father s lifetime and his own had been increased until it comprised about one thousand acres of land . He was a commissioner for

r Kent County , appea ing as Judge of the County Court in

1 6 1 8 Of 7 3 to 7 3 , and is designated as one the Quorum in h i 1 1 0 1 . s 7 3 7 , 7 4 , and 7 43 He (or father) was elected a ’ 1 2 churchwarden of St . Paul s Parish in 7 5 and a vestryman

1 2 8 1 2 in 7 and 7 9 .

R “ D A M M “ OB ERT UNN m . NN E I LLER , daughter of I C HAEL

M : I LLER , and had issue

R CC . . EBE A , m Joseph Wickes “ 1 0 t h 1 2 8 1 8 1 I st 1 0 A JAMES , b . June , 7 , d . 7 ; m . , 7 5 , Martha nne m 2 n d . Brown ; . , , Elizabeth Hynson D n t h 1 1 ARIUS , b . Ju e 4 , 7 3 .

H K . 1 6 1 EZE IAH , b May th , 7 3 4 . M A R TH A C H A R L E S l G R OO M E . 2 1 s t 1 1 ( , d May , 7 7 ; m . vid .

Sec . B LA C K

D E R I VAT I ON O F F A M I LY

- 3 5 . This family was O f Scotch Irish descent and be A M E S ‘ B L AC K longed to the Presbyterian Church . J (vi)

with his wife and children emigrated from Londonderry ,

1 0 Ireland , in 7 4 , and settled in . Kent County , Maryland .

GE NE A LO GY

A M E S 2 B L A K ’ 3 6 . C J (vii) , of Black s Cross Roads , S 1 B Kent County , Maryland , son of JAM E LACK , of London

1 2 o t h derry , Ireland ; born 7 3 , in Ireland ; died November 3 ,

1 Of 7 9 4 , Newark , Delaware , and was buried at the Head

Christiana Church . JAM ES “ B LACK ’ S biography must be found in an Obituary

Creer : address by the Rev . John y “

Mr . James Black was a warm friend to his country , and early took an active part in defence of her rights and r privileges ; his usefulness , Open and candid depo tment , procured the love and esteem of a large circle O f acquaint

n ce s a . He served his country with reputation for several years s in places of public trust , and his fellow citizen have , on several occasions , fully manifested the confidence they Of reposed in him . In his extensive and various branches business for many years , he was much esteemed for his

probity and punctuality . By his industry he acquired a large fortune , and was able and ready to relieve the dis tressed ; his sincere friendship and piety endeared him to many , especially those who were intimately acquainted

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d with the octrines of Christianity ; a lover of the truth , and truly exemplary for sobriety , and a steady performance

Of the duties enjoined by our holy religion .

In his death , the public hath lost a faithful servant ; the religious society to which he belonged , a worthy and useful member ; and his family , a careful and indulgent head .

“ S B 1 1 1 t h 1 6 2 JAM E LACK m . st , May , 7 , JENN ETTE

1 1 2 2 n d A W WALLAC E (b . 7 4 , d . April , dau . of NDRE

E : WALLAC E and LEANO R WA LLACE , and had issue

L Z A B E TH E NNE E E I J T T (vid . Sec .

A N N . rd 1 6 1 6 , b August 3 , 7 5 , d . January , 7 7 . “

. rd 1 6 . t h 1 . JOHN , b November 3 , 7 7 , d June 9 , 7 7 5 “

I t 1 0 . 2 o t h 1 1 G G . s EOR E , b May 3 , 7 7 , d November , 7 7 .

M . 1 1 . . ARY , b April 7 th , 7 7 3 , m James Scott

“ S B 2 n d 1 1 M G JAM E LACK m . , February 4th , 7 7 5 , AR ARET

E V S 1 1 . . : AN (b 7 4 4 , d September 3 th , and had issue

t h 1 1 M G . 2 6 . AR ARET , b November 4 , 7 7 5 , d . September , 7 7 A NN 1 t h 1 2 o t 1 0 . 0 . h 8 , b November , 7 7 7 , d July , 3 , m . Captain William

Hollingsworth .

“ S B rd 2 2 md 1 8 0 M JAM E LACK m . 3 , November , 7 , ARY

R 1 6 1 0 t h Of I CE (b . 7 5 , d . September , dau . Judge

E V R : AN I C E , and had issue

ud 1 8 1 1 1 6 N . z . 8 . JA E , b November , 7 , d May 9 th , 7

t 1 1 M . h 8 . 2 t h 8 . ARTHA , b August 9 , 7 3 , d September 7 , 7 3 “ R C . JAMES I E (vid . Sec t h 1 rd 1 6 1 S . 2 8 . 8 . ARAH , b September 4 , 7 7 , d December 3 ,

t 1 1 6 h 8 t h 8 . C N M . O ATHERI E ARIA , b ctober s , 7 9 , d . January 9 , 5 , m

John Donaldson .

N . O 1 2 1 1 1 1 8 . JA E , b ctober th , 7 9 , d . December 7 th , 4 4

M G . O 1 1 . 1 AR ARET , b ctober 7 th , 7 9 3 , d November , 7 9 3 .

3 LL AM B LA K S “ B 7 . WI I C (vii) , son of JAM E LACK , of

Londonderry , Ireland , is known to have married and to have had children . He , or his descendants , subsequently settled in the Carolinas . 6 6 B L A C K

MA HA B LA K S “ B R T . 3 8 . C (vii) , dau of JAM E LACK , A W “ K of Londonderry , Ireland , married NDRE ERR , and had issue :

M . . ARY KERR , m Sharpe , Of Kentucky

t h . o f . S . e AMUEL KERR , m dau James Corre , Of Kent County , Md

E . . LIZABETH KERR , m Henry Pearce ; their issue , Sarah Ann Pearce

P . ATTY KERR , m . Benjamin Merritt ; their issue , William K Merritt ;

George A . Merritt ; and Adeline K . Merritt . R JAMES KER . “

ND W 111 . A . RE KERR , m Hannah Gillespie ; their issue , Mary ( Francis

CO . . G . Parke , Of Cecil , Md ; issue , Andrew Kerr Parke) ; George

G and James Black . Ho s sin r C . e . HARLOTTE KERR , m Joseph g

“ 3 9 . E OR E B LA K Of Fairfields u G G C (vii) , , Kent Co nty , S “ B Maryland , son of JAM E LACK , of Londonderry , Ireland ;

1 died January , 7 9 7 .

“ G B m 1 0 M G E GEOR E LACK . , 7 7 , AR AR T WALLACE , dau . of

A W E : NDRE WALLACE and LEANO R WALLAC E , and had issue

“ t h 1 2 2 t h 1 0 m . . O 8 . JAMES , b January 4 , 7 7 , d ctober 7 , 4 ; , December f 1 2 t h 1 8 . o , 7 9 , Margaret Wilson , dau John Wilson and Mary i h i Perkins W lson ; t eir ssue , Susan Wilson (m . Col . Alexander “ m t 1 . h . 8 Al Baird Hanson) ; and John Gustavus ( , June 4 3 3 ,

phonsa Cummins) .

A N N . . , m James Salsbury “ GEOR GE . “ 111 f l . Co . N . o JOH , Mary Perkins , dau Isaac Perkins ; their issue , An n Eliza ; Jane ; and Caroline . E LIZABETH , m . Giles . A NDREW THOMA S

Z B H E E TT E B L K 40. E L I A E T N N AC J (viii) , dau . “ o f JAME S B LA CK and JENN ETTE (WALLAC E) B LACK ; born

2 t h 1 6 t h 1 8 1 January 4 , 7 3 ; died May 7 , 7 .

E B 1 2 rd LI ZAB ETH JENN ETTE LA CK m . st , January 3 ,

1 8 G 1 7 7 , her cousin Dr . GEOR E WALLACE (b . 7 5 3 , d . June

1 1 6 E : 7 th , 7 9 , lkton , Maryland) , and had issue

“ B CK W C 1 0 t 1 8 rd 1 h 8 . 8 2 JAMES LA ALLA E , b . June , 7 , d September 3 , 5 ,

Natchez . 6 7 B L A C K

M W C 1 1 1 m 8 . t h 8 6 . ARY ALLA E , b . September 7 th , 7 9 , d July 9 , 7 ; , 2 t h 1 8 1 2 September 4 , , Gov . Thomas Ward Veazey ; their issue ,

James Wallace Veazey , Joseph Wallace Veazey , Ellen Matilda ‘ Veazey , Elizabeth Black Veazey (m . Benjamin B . Craycroft ; “ issue , Benjamin B . Craycroft and Thomas Veazey Craycroft) ,

and Mary Emma Veazey (m . Dr . Samuel E . Mills) . l t 1 1 1 h (1 . 2 1 8 2 m E P H W C . OS . . J ALLA E , b February 5 , 7 9 , Sept th , 7 ; ,

1 1 8 2 F June 7 th , 5 , Elizabeth Ward ; their issue , George . , d . 8 “ “ 1 8 ( 1. s . November , 4 ; Jame , in infancy ; Joseph Veazey , b April

6 1 0 2 1 2 1 o d . 1 m 1 8 . t h 8 6 th , 3 , November th , 9 5 ( , April 5 , 7 , Cor

nelia C . Price ; issue , Mary Elizabeth and Veazey Ward) ; Mary

1 8 . Caroline , d . 7 7 (m Edward Ward) ; John Charles Groome ;

. 2 t h 1 8 6 . 1 1 8 8 . and Laura Virginia , b February 9 , 3 , d May 9 th , 9

R :t B m 2 n d D . O H N E . LIZAB ETH JENN ETTE LACK , , J G R O O M E (vid . Sec .

4 4 1 . G R E B LA K JUD E JAMES IC C (viii) , of New e S“ B M R Castl , Delaware , son of JAME LACK and ARY ( I CE)

“ 1 1 8 rd 1 8 B . LACK ; born May 4th , 7 5 ; died September 3 , 3 9

4 B m 1 0 6 M A 8 . R . 1 JAMES I CE LACK , February 5 th , , ARI E

S : STOKE , of Philadelphia , and had issue

m M 2 t h 1 8 1 0 O 1 1 8 . ARY , b . December 7 , , d . ctober 7 th , 7 4 ; ,

2 t h 1 8 2 . . 4 , 3 , Dr James Couper , of New Castle , Delaware E DD E 1 1 8 1 6 1 0 t h R . . LIZABETH I L , b February 5 th , , d September , 5 6 t 1 8 6 m h . 1 0 2 . 9 ; , December , 3 , Col John Charles Groome , of

Elkton , Maryland (vid . Sec . m S 2 I 1 8 1 6 t h 1 8 . ARAH , b . November st , 9 , d . December , 9 3 ; , May “ N 1 . . . . 1 2 t h 1 8 , Y , U ; , 4 Commander William S oung S their t h 2 t h 1 8 2 . 2 8 k Y , . . , 4 , A , issue , James Blac oung b Jan 9 d ugust

2 md 1 8 6 . m . 1 8 2 . 9 ( , Nov , 5 , Elizabeth T Welsh) ; Betty Conrad t 1 m 1 1 8 h 8 6 . 2 t h 1 8 . Y . A . , 4 , , 5 ( , 5 , oung , b ug 9 3 d March July th

t h 1 8 6 . 1 8 6 ) ; R Y , . . 4 , 4 , 3 , Samuel Welsh obert oung b Feb d “ 1 1 8 8 2 t h 1 8 8 . . . August 9 , 7 ; William S Young , b Dec 7 th , 4 ,

1 0 t h 1 0 6 . d . June , 9 ; Katharine Maria Donaldson Young , b m 2 rd 1 8 8 2 o t h 1 8 8 . O . 2 t h 1 8 6 . March 7 , 5 , d July , 4 ( , ct 3 , 3 ,

Frank A . Sartori) ; and Philip R . Fendall Young , b . September m t h 1 8 8 1 8 8 . , 4 , , A L E th , 5 ( December 9 5 lice eigh dmondson 5 m [Widow o f James Black GrOo e J) .

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Jersey (who obtained a divorce from him in and had issue :

“ 6 8 2 . 1 8 0 . G . 1 0 RENVILLE , b , d (drowned) m ) 1 8 1 8 . 1 0 M 2 t h 8 0 . . 8 ARIA , I August 7 , 4 , d January th , 4 5 ; , 4 , Judge Of Emanuel Reichert , Lancaster , Pennsylvania . E L Z B E H S H E W A 1 1 6 . 8 0 I A T R D , b June 5 th , , Baltimore , Mary “ d 1 1 t h 1 6 D R . S A M E L 8 8 . land ; . February , , Philadelphia ; m U W L L A M G R O M E v I I O ( id . Sec .

m 1 S 2 t 1 . 1 1 h 8 0 8 8 . 6 t h 8 ARAH , b . April 7 , , d May 7 th , 7 5 ; , June , 3 3 , 2 8t h James Hogan ; their issue , Cecelia Hogan , b . December ,

1 2 1 8 0 . 1 0 8 . 1 O 3 5 ; Maria Allen Hogan , b April th , 4 , d ctober , 9 5 ;

O 1 1 8 2 and Charles Meigs Hogan , b . ctober 3 th , 4 . “ 1 1 0 t h 1 8 0 G N M O 8 . RE VILLE OORE , b . ctober , ; d April 7 , 4 , Natchez ,

Miss . (killed in a cyclone) , cotton commission merchant and

member Of Natchez Guards . A 2 1 1 2 1 1 m t h 8 . 8 . C D N . ORNELIA ELI E , b August 7 , , d August 9 th , 9 5 ; , 1 O 8 t h 1 8 Of ctober , 3 5 , Henry Perkins , Salem , Massachusetts ; “ 1 s t 1 8 6 m their issue , Henry Allen Perkins , b . July 3 , 3 ( . , April

o t h 1 6 . . 8 . 3 , 4 , Mary F Wood , of Bordentown , N J ; divorced 2 8 t I 1 8 8 6 . h May st , ; no issue) ; Edward Lang Perkins , b May ,

m 1 2 1 8 2 t h 8 8 . d . 4 3 ( . , January 4 , , Caroline A Heberton [ March

1 t h 1 8 8 . 2 rd . 3 , issue , Cornelia Allen , b July 7 , 4 , d August

6 t h 1 1 rd . 8 3 , and Francis Moore Perkins , b June , 5

d . rd m 1 1 8 8 . ( . , June 9 th , 9 , Franc A Walker [ May 3 , no issue)

1 A B E L M E o f U M O O R (vii) , of Trenton , New Jersey , son CYR S OORE M A M E E G G N and ARY ( USTIN) OORE , m . LIZABETH N LE their issue , RE VILLE , “ P C A NN A 2 t h 1 8 0 C A . YRUS , ARON , ATIEN E (b . (b December 7 , 7 ,

1 2 t h 1 8 6 . at Trenton , New Jersey ; d . November , 9 , at Philadelphia ; m H A A L L E “ S E G G . J O U N ) , LIZABETH , JOHN , and EOR E A N NA MOORE was o n e of the little girls chosen by the ladies of Trenton t o scatter flowers before Washington on h is passing the bridge at that

1 8 o n place April , 7 9 , his way to New York to be inaugurated first Presi Of P NC dent the United States . Her sister ATIE E also took part in this reception . C O NN E L LY

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1 44 . The parentage of the brothers JOHN CONNELLY , l l HE NR Y GE OR GE CONN ELLY , and CONNELLY has not been ascertained . I t is probable , however , that their ancestors emigrated from Ireland and settled in some locality other than Philadelphia , to which place this branch subsequently removed .

GE NE A LO GY

1 45 . O ONNE LLY COLON EL J HN C (viii) , of Phila

2 t h 1 2 delphia , Pennsylvania ; born December 5 , 7 5 , died

rd 1 8 2 O February 3 , 7 , and was buried at ld Presbyterian

Church , corner of Fourth and Pine Streets , Philadelphia . l J o HN CONN ELLY was commissioned ensign in a company of artillery raised by Benjamin George Eyre at the begin ning of the Revolutionary War . This company was one of the three raised by the three brothers , Jehu , Manuel , and Benj amin George Eyre , and known as the Associated ”

Companies of Philadelphia . At the battle of Trenton the Associated Companies were formed into a regiment under command of Colonel Jehu Eyre . (Penna . Archives . ) JOHN 1 CONN ELLY was commissioned captain of the Eighth

1 1 8 0 Company of this regiment , April 5 th , 7 . He served with distinction during the war and retained his connection with

8t h 1 this company until July , 7 9 5 , when he was commis sio n e d major of the Artillery Battalion of Pennsylvania .

2 n d 1 8 0 0 si - August , , he was commis oned lieutenant colonel and subsequently colonel of artillery , which commission

1 8 0 8 he held until .

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An active philanthropist , he rendered valuable service in the relief an d aid of his fellow - citizens during the yellow

in 1 fever epidemic 7 9 3 , for which he received the thanks of the citizens of Philadelphia assembled in public meeting

2 2 n d 1 on March , 7 9 4 . In 1 7 9 4 he was appointed a prison inspector under the

1 0 1 provisions of the Act of 7 9 and served as such until 7 9 9 .

The criminals of that day , by reason of the system in vogue , were made objects of infamy by being exposed constantly to public view , and they were sunk into greater depths by being allowed to indulge in drunkenness and vice within the prison walls if they had the money to purchase those indulgences . Colonel CONN ELLY threw himself with all his energy and philanthropy into prison reform , and with

1 8 1 1 great success . Dr . James Mease , writing in of Mr .

0 CONN ELLY , says of him , T Mr . John Connelly and Mr .

C . Lownes may be justly ascribed the merit of bringing to the test of the fullest and most successful experience the humane principles of the new penal code . Those gentle men were appointed inspectors o f the prison at an early period , and upon them devolved the arduous task of break ing down all difficulties arising from the long continuance of that most disgusting , that foul system of discipline which ” had long disgraced the management of the j ails . 1 s Colonel JOHN CONN ELLY was a Democrat in politic , O and as such he was elected to the State Senate , ctober ,

1 8 0 9 , from the City and County of Philadelphia and the

County of Delaware , to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Dorsey , and served during the ses

t h 1 8 0 2 o t h sion commencing December 5 , 9 , ending March ,

1 8 1 0 . During his service , Governor Simon Snyder having sent to the Legislature a message recommending the aboli tion of capital punishment , he made a motion in the Senate

looking to that end , and supported it by a masterly and

powerful argument . In the final vote on locating the capital f at Harrisburg , he voted in the a firmative . Among other

7 2 C O N N E L L Y legislation he obtained w as the extension o f the charter of the Rector , Church Wardens , and Vestrymen of the ’ United Episcopal Churches of Christ Church and St . Peter s

2 t h Church in the City of Philadelphia , granted June 4 , ’ 1 6 7 5 , so as to include St . James s Church , then recently

1 8 1 1 built . In he declined a renomination to the Senate , but in 1 8 1 2 he was elected and served as a member of the House

1 8 1 of Representatives of the Commonwealth . In 3 he was a member of the Philadelphia Committee of Public Defence

1 8 1 in the war against Great Britain , and in 4 a member of the War Committee of Correspondence .

In perfect accord with his humane character , he became ,

1 8 1 8 in November , , a member of the Committee of Cor respondence to aid in preventing the extension of slavery

1 8 2 into new States . In 4 he was a candidate for Presidential

Elector in the interest of William H . Crawford . Governor Simon Snyder appointed and commissioned him auctioneer for Philadelphia , a position he held for many years . As the first named of the incorporators of the P en n sy l as vania Railroad Company , he was designated to act

as president of the new company , and empowered to act

t h 1 8 2 such until December 9 , 3 , when an election was to f Of be held , at which the o ficers the company were to be chosen . Mr . Connelly thus became the first president in

Pennsylvania of a railroad company , and that company bearing the same name as the great Pennsylvania corpora

- tion of to day , its proj ected line being intended to cover the same ground as that which is now partly occupied by ” the Philadelphia Division . (History of the Penna . R . R .

Co . , W . B . Wilson . ) Colonel JOHN 1 CONNELLY was one of the trustees named in the Charter of the First Presbyterian Church , Phila

2 1 s t 1 6 delphia , granted September , 7 9 , and was annually re - 1 8 0 2 elected until , when he was elected elder , which position he held until the time of his death . (Records

First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia . )

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He was elected a member of the Hibernian Society in

1 0 Co 7 9 . (History of the Penna . R . R . . , W . B . Wilson . )

1 JOHN CONN ELLY m . I st , at Burlington , N . J . , March

o h 1 8 r 1 h 1 8 t 0 A L . t O 3 , 7 , NN E ITTLE (b April , 7 4 , d . ctober

2 t h : 9 , and had issue

t 1 2 1 1 8 1 . 1 8 h 8 . JAMES , b . January 5 th , 7 , d January , 7 “

2 8 . 2 2 n d 1 8 . 1 JOHN , b . March , 7 , d March , 7 4 Q G E R E 1 1 8 1 O G . t h . . , b September 3 , 7 3 , d September , 7 9 3

1 1 8 . 1 8 . MARY , b . April 7 th , 7 5 , d April , 7 9 3

M . 1 1 8 2 t h 1 8 . JOHN , b . January 7 th , 7 7 , d . March 9 , 5 5

ANN LOUISA (vid . Sec .

t h 1 2 . 2 t h 1 8 2 2 . . 1 o O THOMAS , b August , 7 9 , d ctober s ,

1 111 2 n d 1 0 t h 1 8 1 E JOHN CONN ELLY . , November , 5 , LLEN

VANDOREN . No issue .

46 H E N R Y 1 C O N N E L LY . (viii) , of Philadelphia ,

n rd 1 8 2 2 Pen sylvania , died February 3 , . l HE NR Y CONN ELLY was engaged in mercantile business Of in Philadelphia , and was elected a trustee the First Presbyterian Church of that city in 1 8 1 0 and was re - elected annually for several years . Some years before his death he m re oved to New Hope , Delaware , where he operated a cotton mill of which he was the proprietor .

m 1 t h 1 8 0 0 E H ENRYI CONN ELLY . , December 3 , , LIZAB ETH

C : PI ER E , and had issue

l P I E R E C (vid . Sec . H A R R 2 Y (vid . S e c.

E N 1 2 1 8 0 8 . . LEA OR , b . July th , (d in infancy) 4 1 s t 1 8 8 8 m . 2 t h 1 8 0 . JOHN , b . December 7 , 9 , d ; , , Angelica West ; m . 2 n d their issue , Elizabeth , Mary Cornelia , and Madeline ; , , 2 o t h 1 2 $ e . 8 6 Felicit Grandpr ; their issue , Georgine , b March ,

m 1 8 1 8 8 6 . . ( . , January th , , Eugene A Marcia) 3 3 1 8 6 . G G 1 2 t h 1 8 1 . EOR E , b . November , 3 , d 5 George Connelly 1 8 2 8 entered the University of Pennsylvania in , was graduated

1 8 1 from that institution in 3 , and subsequently received the M o f Ze IOS O h ic degree o f A . . He was one the founders of the p Literary Society and o n graduating divided first honor with 3 Dr . John W . Faires , George Connelly delivering the Latin

salutatory address and John W . Faires delivering the Greek 3 O salutatory address . George Connelly resided in New rleans ,

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where he was a prominent cotton factor and an adherent of

the Confederacy . He died unmarried . 2 t h 1 8 2 1 M G . 2 1 2 1 t h 8 . AR ARET , b May 4 , , d June 5 , t h 1 8 2 2 E N . 2 t h 1 8 2 1 . 2 LEA OR , b May 4 , , d May 4 ,

1 4 7 . O ONNE LLY GE RGE C (viii) , of Philadelphia ,

1 . Pennsylvania , died , 7 9 3 , of yellow fever

l GE OR GE 1 CONNELLY married (his wife dying , 7 9 5 , of yellow fever) and had issue :

~ t h 1 2 2 6 t h 1 8 8 . MARY PENN , b . June s , 7 9 , died March , 4 , unmarried A o f fter the death her parents , Mary Penn Connelly was taken charge o f by her grandmother and afterwards adopted by her 1 C N 1 8 1 B et h le uncle Colonel JOHN O NELLY . In 3 she went to h f s e o . hem , where passed the rest her life She was confirmed ,

and became a member of the Moravian Congregation , March 1 s t 1 8 2 2 B e t h le 3 , . She was well known and highly respected in

hem . (Records of Moravian Church , Bethlehem , Pa . )

(Supposed to have had another daughter o r a son . )

1 48 . ANN O ONNE LLY L UISA C (ix) , daughter of JOHN A L CONN ELLY and NN E ( ITTLE ) CONNELLY , of Philadelphia ;

1 1 8 8 1 t h 1 8 2 born November 4th , 7 ; died April 9 , 3 .

2 L S m 1 o t h 1 80 6 ANN OUI A CONN ELLY . , July , , MANUEL

E I st 1 t h YRE (b . Feb . , 7 7 7 , d . Feb . 9 , of Philadelphia , l MA NU E L E M G son of YRE and ARY (WRI HT) EYRE , of Phila delphia , and had issue

1 8 2 . P P 2 t h 1 8 0 . JULI ET HILLI S EYRE , b . April 9 , 7 , d July , 5

M E . ARY YRE (vid . Sec 3

2 1 1 0 1 6 1 8 1 0 . t h 8 . U E . MAN EL YRE , b May 9 , , d July th , d N N E 2 t h 1 8 1 1 . O r C . JOH O NELLY YRE , b September 7 , , d ctober 3 , 1 8 4 9 , unmarried .

1 2 1 s t 1 8 . L 2 t 1 . h 8 . ANN OUISA EYRE , b . Sept . 4 , 3 , d Jan , 4 4 , unmarried

HARRI ET E YRE (vid . Sec . m 2 n d 1 t h 1 8 8 . . E 2 t h 1 8 . LLEN E YRE , b . Dec . 5 , 7 , d July 7 , 9 ; , Jan , 1 1 8 8 3 , Dr . Charles Bell Gibson , Of Philadelphia ; their issue , 1 8 2 t h 1 8 . . I Sarah Gibson , b . May 5 , 3 9 , d Aug st , 3 9 ; Charlotte 8 1 8 0 . 2 o t h 1 8 0 . . 1 Gibson , b May , 4 , d Nov th , 4 ; William t h 1 8 2 rd 1 8 1 . . 2 Gibson , b . Aug . 3 , 4 , d Feb 5 , 7 7 ; Mary Elizabeth

d 1 8 6 . . 1 m O . 2 n t h 8 . Gibson , b . March 5 , 4 3 ( , ct , 5 , Dr Edwin S

Gaillard ; issue , Ellen Eyre Gaillard , E dwin White Gaillard ,

G . W . Smith Gaillard , Charles Bell Gibson Gaillard , William Eyre

Gibson Gaillard , Marion Hollingsworth Sims Gaillard , and Frank 7 5 C O N N E L L Y

8 t h 1 8 ) ; , . A . , 4 Paschal Gaillard James Cheston Gibson b ug 5 , 2 6 t h 1 . 1 0 1 G . . t h 8 8 . d July , 4 7 ; Charles Bell ibson , b Sept , 4 7 , d

A u 2 o 1 t h 1 8 8 . . t h 8 August 7 , 4 ; Beverly Tucker Gibson , b g , 4 9 , ” 8 1 1 8 6 . l s t 1 d . 7 ; Ann Louisa Gibson , b August 3 , 5 ; Charles 1 t 1 6 1 t h 8 . 2 o h 8 Bell Gibson , b . June 9 , 5 3 , d May , 7 ; Ellen Eyre 2 6 t 1 8 2 t 1 8 h . 8 h Gibson , b . Jan . , 5 5 , d May , 5 5 ; and Manuel rd 1 8 . . 2 2 n d 1 8 Eyre Gibson , b . November 3 , 5 7 , d Aug , 7 7 . 4 1 1 1 t 1 8 U E 8 8 . 2 h MAN EL YRE , b . December th , 9 , d August 9 , 7 9 ; m 5 8 1 0 O 8 1 . . ctober th , 4 , Eliza Painter ; their issue , Manue , b Feb $ m 1 1 t h 1 8 2 . . 8 6 6 5 , 4 ( , Jan 5 th , , Letitia Dale ; issue , Manuel , $ Ge luch Manuel , , Ellen Dale , Mary , and Gerard Dale) ; Mary ,

8 t h 1 8 2 t 1 . . . . h 8 0 . b Dec , 4 3 , d Jan 5 , 7 , unmarried ; Ellen , b

8 2 1 m 1 1 1. . 8 t h 1 8 . ( 8 8 . . Dec 9 th , 4 5 , Sept , 7 ( , Feb , 7 4 , Charles

m 1 m 2 d 8 8 . Coye) ; and Frances Augustine , b . Aug . , 4 ( , June 1 1 8 1 4 th , 7 , Joseph Morgan ; issue , John Eyre Morgan , Robert

Churchman Morgan , Charles Coye Morgan , Ellen Eyre Morgan ,

t . Frances Augustine Morgan , and Webs er Lowman Morgan) M N C K 1 1 2 1 2 8 t h t h 8 . AHLO DI ERSON EYRE , b . April 3 , , d August ,

m 1 1 1 8 8 2 . 8 O ; , June 5 th , 5 9 , Isabella livia Carrell Smyth ; their

t 1 m . 1 1 1 . 6 0 h 8 . 8 issue , Virginia , b Apr . 4 , ( , Aug 5 th , 9 , Lawrence ’ l n l O Ca l a h a o t 1 8 6 1 m . 1 8 8 6 . h g ) ; Katherine , b April , ( , , Edgar

m 1 8 0 1 1 8 6 2 . Vickers) ; Charles Connelly , b . March 4 th , ( , 9 , m O 1 6 1 8 6 . Eva Blackburn) ; Isabella livia , b . March th , 3 ( ,

t 1 1 . 1 s 8 . July , 9 , Blackburn) ; and Arthur Hale , b Jan l o t 1 8 6 h . , 9 l m I L N . 1 1 2 t 1 0 1 . W S O 8 . h EYRE , b April 5 th , 3 , d September 4 , 9 ; , ‘ o t h 1 8 6 August 3 , 5 , Louisa Lincoln Lear ; their issue , Lincoln , 2 t h 1 8 111 t h 1 8 8 w . . 2 0 8 b July 4 , 5 7 ( June , , Marianna Hay ood V z V ils o n . O . Binney ; issue , Lincoln Lear and Virginia) ; , b ct o t h 1 8 8 - I 1 1 m 8 6 . . 3 , 5 ; Manning Kennard , b . March 3 st , ( , Aug 3 1 1 8 8 6 4 th , , Clara Klink ; issue , Wilson Lear) ; Richard Derby , m 2 6 t h 1 8 6 . 2 I s t 1 8 K ri ar . . e b Feb , 9 ( , June , 9 3 , Elizabeth g ;

1 6 1 8 2 . issue , Elizabeth) ; and Louisa , b . Jan . th , 7

m 1 I t 1 8 2 . 1 8 G E . s VIR I NIA YRE , b June , 5 ; , July 3 th , 5 4 , Manning

Kennard . C A P 2 1 2 1 1 1 t h 8 8 . 8 RI HARD LSO EYRE , b . January 9 , , d March 5 th , 3

l 4 9 . R E V P I ER CE ONNE LLY . C (ix) , of Florence , 1 E C Italy , son of H ENRY CONN ELLY and LIZAB ETH (PI ER E)

8 1 8 8 t h 1 0 . CONN ELLY , of Philadelphia ; born August 9 , 4 , died 5 ‘ PI ER C E CONN ELLY entered the University of P en n sy l vania in 1 8 1 8 and was graduated from that institution

1 8 2 1 A M in , subsequently receiving the degree of . . He afterwards studied law and was admitted to the bar but

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C O N N E L L Y

2 5 0. H A R RY C O N N E L L Y (ix) , of Philadelphia , son 1 E C of H ENRY CONN ELLY and LIZAB ETH (PI ER E) CONN ELLY ,

o t h 1 8 0 6 t h of Philadelphia ; born June 3 , ; died February 9 ,

1 8 6 3 , and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery , Philadelphia . 2 r HARRY CONN ELLY , afte his education had been com

l e t ed p , removed from Philadelphia to Roseville , near New ark , Delaware , where he subsequently became the proprietor of extensive cotton mills . The operation of these mills necessitated visits to the Southern States during which he laid the foundation of friendships with many prominent Southern men ; for the remainder of his life these associations f O produced in him a strong a filiation with the South . n his

1 8 0 return to Philadelphia , about 4 , he engaged in business as an importer and dealer in wines , and his establishment at Seventh and Chestnut Streets eventually became famous as t h a rendezvous of e public men of the day . He numbered among his friends Henry Clay and many of the leading men of Kentucky . He was a close personal friend of James

A . Bayard , of Delaware , and John W . Forney , in his

“ 2 Anecdotes of Public Men , speaking of HARRY CONN ELLY and his place of business , says , I have met in this dark back room , with its low cobwebbed ceiling , most of the public characters between 1 8 4 5 and 1 8 6 0 In company

ff r . e e with Senator Bayard , Mr Connelly was the guest of J a t son Davis Montgomery , Alabama , when Mr . Davis received the news that Fort Sumter had been fired upon

1 2 t h 1 8 6 1 April , , by the Confederate battery at Fort John son . After the outbreak of the Civil War , although he con 2 t in ue d to reside in Philadelphia , HARRY CONN ELLY was outspoken in his advocacy of the cause of . the Southern

States , and until the time of his death his name was promi nent on a list of persons in Philadelphia who were suspected of communication with the Confederate Government , and at one time he was in constant expectation of arrest . He had determined to resist arrest , and stated publicly that he would not be taken alive . The circumstances of his death 7 8 C O N N E L L Y

n were never k own . His body was found in the Delaware

River at Philadelphia , and , although the finding of the coroner ’ s jury was that death had been caused by acci

o f dental drowning , many his friends believed that he had been killed by a political adversary .

2 m 2 t h 1 8 2 8 E HARRY CONN ELLY . , July 4 , , LIZA ANDREWS , 2 An drew sia dau . of ROB ERT ANDREWS , of , near Wilmington ,

Delaware , and ANN E (MASON) ANDREWS , of Bordeaux ,

: France , and had issue

1 8 2 2 6 t h 1 8 0 . M . ANUEL EYRE , b 9 , d . July , 3 1 8 1 2 1 E . . 8 . LIZABETH , b 3 3 , d April th , 3 7 N N C A N E W S 1 6 1 8 8 A Y D R , b . August th , 3 , at Roseville , Delaware ; S A M U E L 9 L L A M G R O O M E . W . m I I (vid Sec . 3 HARRY (vid . Sec .

2 5 1 . E YR E E MARY (x) , daughter of MANUEL YRE L S and ANN OUI A (CONN ELLY) EYRE , of Philadelphia ; born

6 h 1 1 8 t 1 8 0 8 . November , ; died July 7th , 7 3

1 E m t h 8 2 R E C L E S 1 . MARY YRE . , February 5 , 9 , Dr OB ERT

F F F 2 6t h ELD GRI ITH (d . June , of Philadelphia , and had issue

2

B E L E F E D 2 rd 1 8 2 . C S L . . RO ERT GRIFFITH , b Dec 3 , 9 , d February 2 8 t h 1 8 6 6 , , unmarried . t h 1 8 8 2 L 1 1 8 . . 1 1 ANN OUISA GRIFFITH , b . June 5 th , 3 3 , d Sept , ,

unmarried . m 1 1 8 6 M E 1 8 1 8 . ANUEL YRE GRIFF ITH , b . Jan . th , 3 7 ; , Sept 5 th , 4 , 1 t h Mary Ellen Robinson ; their issue , Mary Eyre , b . June 9 ,

m . 1 8 6 . 1 0 t h 1 8 8 Ge o 5 ( , November , 9 , Cuthbert Carter ; issue , 3 o t h 1 8 6 Robert Carter) ; Anne Louisa , b . April 3 , 7 ; Robert m 1 1 8 E l e s fe ld 2 t h 1 8 6 8 . g , b . November 5 , ( , April 7 th , 9 5 , Eliza

beth Wilmer Fuller ; issue , Elizabeth Wilmer) ; and Ellen m 6 1 0 0 2 1 s t 1 8 8 . Robinson , b . January , 7 ( , June th , 9 , Roland

Roberts Foulke) .

2 5 2. E YR E E HARRI ET (x) , daughter of MANUEL YRE L S and ANN OUI A (CONN ELLY) EYRE , of Philadelphia ; born

1 d 1 8 0 1 8 1 6 r . February 3 th , ; died April 3 , 9

7 9 C O N N E L L Y

1 E m 1 2 1 8 HARRI ET YRE . , March th , 3 5 , JOHN ASHHURST

1 8 Feb . th , of Philadelphia , and had issue :

l A D t h 1 8 m R I H R L W U . . C 8 . o t S AS S , , ; , h , 1 8 6 1 E I HH R T b Feb 5 3 May 3 , 2 . 1 1 8 6 2 Sarah Frazer ; their issue , Harriet , b June 5 th , ; Richard

2 t h 1 8 6 . rs t 1 . 0 8 0 Lewis , b . Dec , 5 , d March 3 , 7 ; Frazer , b . July

6 2 o t h 1 t 1 8 . h . 8 6 m . o . 1 2 1 0 2 3 , 7 ; Mabel , b Dec , 9 ( , Nov th , 9 ,

. 2 rs t 1 8 6 Frederick Jesup Stimson) ; and Roger , b June , 7 , d .

1 9 0 4 . 2 2 rd 1 . t h 1 0 0 m U 8 . JOHN ASHH RST , b August 3 , 3 9 ; d July 7 , 9 ; . , Dec . 3 8 1 8 6 I th , 4 , Sarah Stokes Wayne ; their issue , John , b . Dec . 3 st ,

1 8 6 . 2 2 n d 1 8 6 5 ; William Wayne , b May , 7 (m . Ellen Eyre

. . 1 1 8 6 m . O 1 . 1 8 1 Gaillard) ; Mary Jane , b Jan 3 th , 9 ( , ct 5 th , 9 ,

F a s s o ux 1 . O . 1 8 0 Edward y Leiper) ; Anna Wayne , b ct 3 th , 7 E lis t o n No v 2 . . . t h 1 . 8 (m Rev Perot) ; Sarah Wayne , b 9 , 7 4 ; 1 8 6 O Astley Paston Cooper , b . 7 ; and Emma Matilda , b . ctober

1 1 8 8 2 . 7 th ,

o t h 1 8 1 . t h 1 M E U . O . 8 . ANUEL YRE ASHH RST , b ct 3 , 4 , d May 7 , 4 5 t 1 . 8 1 . E U h 8 . 1 8 LIZABETH ASHH RST , b March 5 , 4 5 , d March th , 4 5

3 5 3 . ONNE LLY HARRY C (x) , of Philadelphia , son 2 E of HARRY CONN ELLY and LIZA (ANDREWS) CONN ELLY , of

t h 1 8 1 Philadelphia ; born February 7 , 4 , at Philadelphia . HARRY3 CONN ELLY was educated at private schools in

Philadelphia , and entered the University of Pennsylvania

1 8 6 5 . He was expelled from that institution in December ,

1 8 1 8 8 t o 1 8 6 2 f 5 7 . From 5 he was in the law o fice of Ben

1 8 6 2 j amin Harris Brewster . In he entered the banking

8 6 ad Co . 1 house of P . F . Kelly and , and in 4 he was mit t e d to membership in the Philadelphia Stock Exchange . He continued in active business as a stock broker until

1 8 0 . 9 , when loss of hearing compelled his retirement He was president of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange 1 8 8 4

1 8 8 to 5 . He was a contributing member of the Volunteer Fire Department of Philadelphia from 1 8 6 0 until the date of the organization of a paid Fire Department by the city (about He was a member of the University Barge

Club , the Philadelphia Club , the Pennsylvania Club , the

Zelo s o h ic Z Reform Club , the p Society , the eta Psi Frater

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n it y , and the Southern Club of Philadelphia . He was for ’ many years a vestryman of St . Clement s Parish , Phila delphia .

3 1 s t N 1 2 1 8 6 8 HARRY CONN ELLY m . , ovember th , , ANNA

O 2 . 6t h . A . WARD (died ctober , dau of Gen AARON

WARD and MARY (WATSON) WARD , of Westchester County , NO i New York . ssue .

3 2 n d r 1 t h 1 8 HARRY CONNELLY m . , April , 7 4 , SARAH

. A x A x V U . C V U WALN , dau of RI HARD and MARY (WALN)

VA U x : , of Philadelphia , and had issue

Y A 2 t h 1 8 . GLA D s . , b ugust 9 , 7 7

AV 1 2 t h 1 8 8 . ERYL , b . February , 5 A N D R EW S

DERIVAT I O N O F FA M I LY

5 4 . The ancestors of the ANDREWS family of the man Alex t o n orial estates of , in the County of Leicester , and of Pisb ro ke , in the County of Rutland , England , originally came from France during the Norman dynasty . Certain members of this family took an active part in the First Crusade in Palestine in 1 0 9 7 under Duke Robert of Nor m andy , and in a later Crusade at the battle of Salado in Valencia the family was again represented in the following of Sir James Douglass , who had borne from Scotland the

S heart of King Robert in a ilver casket . During the battle Douglass found himself and his immediate following sepa rated from the main army and hard pressed by the Moors . Taking the casket from his breast he cast it before him into the thickest of the fight , and , crying , Now , thou , w pass thou on ard as thou wert ever wont to do , and h is Douglass will follow thee or die , he and little band

pressed fiercely in , and , although Douglass himself was killed , the casket was regained and carried back to Scotland . The survivors of this feat of arms were afterwards accorded the right to bear on their crests a lion holding a heart in his paw .

By the grant of arms to Anthony Andrews , recorded ’ O 2 8t h 1 8 in the Heralds College of Arms , London , ct . , 5 3 , Of the history and rank the family is described heraldically , by the emblazonry and insignia on their arms . The charges

‘ fl s on the shield , Azure , a cross ermine , between four eur

’ de lis gold , indicate the origin of the family in France and u their having taken part in the early Cr sade . The crest ,

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‘ O - n a torse silver and azure a demi lion , the tails forked

gold , a crown argent , and holding in his dexter paw a ’ k heart gules , represents an ac nowledgment for distin

uis h e d g military services during the Crusades . The Helmet ‘

and Mantling , Mantled gules double argent , helmet in

’

profile argent five bars gold , as shown in the emblazoned

arms , in the College of Arms , London , indicates that the

family was an eminent and distinguished one in England . These arms are supposed to have been borne by this family

1 8 before the College of Arms was established in 4 3 . They were reissued and placed on record there , in accordance with the rules , orders , and regulations of Heraldry estab ” lish ed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth . (Preface to

Genealogy of the Andrews Family and Alliances , by 5 Robert Andrews . ) GRANT OF ARMS

5 5 To S I N C V L E R . ALL AND , as well Nobles and Gentiles as others t o un de rst o o de : whom these presents shall come , be seene , heard , read , or D E R I C K E rin ci all f . . G T o I Sr ILBERT , Knight als Garter , p p King Armes , : f ras m vch avn ien t l O . o c send greeting in r lord God , everlasting as y from ve rt vo s o f the beginning , the valiant and acts excellent personnes , have c o m e n de d t o svn d r m o n vme n t s beene the World and posterity , with y

o f d e s e art s t h . and remembrances their good , amongst which the chiefest vs val o f S and most hath beene the bearing ignes in shields , called armes , being d em o n s t raco n s and tokens o f pro w e s and valoir dive rsl e y dis t rib vt e d d e s e art s o f m e rit t in , according to the qualities and the personnes g v rt v s d o e t h . e e the same to intent , that such , as by their , add and shew S o f forth to the advancement of the common weale , the hine their good co n ve rs aco n ract ize Co men d life , and in dayley p of things worthy and able , may therefore receive due honor in their lives , and also derive and — Co n t in ve the same s vcce s s ive ly to their posterity forever Amongst the mb r o f P isb ro k Co vn t o f t w o h . n o e W e , ANTHON Y ANDRE S in the y land n o t n o t Gentleman , knowing what armes his ancestors have bore and C N I D m y n din g t o shew forth any other than he may l aw fvlly beare . I N O S B C fvrt h e r d e cl ara co n w o rt h n e s o f RA ON WHEREOF , and for of the y the W re ve s t said ANTHONY ANDRE S and at his instant q , I , the said Garter ,

rin ci all avt h o rit o f ffi co mit t e d p p King of Armes , by power y my o ce , to me vn d e r o f by tres patente , the great seale England have assigned , geven , vn t o W t o h is i and GRANTED the said ANTHON Y ANDRE S , and poster ty t h e e s e CR E A S T n forever ARMES A ND , to be bor e in manner and forme s a s re E rrn n e heerin declared and set forth . That is to y , , a crosse , y ,

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b e t vix t fo vre F lo ve r l vc e s o vld azvre , de g , on a torce , silver and , a demy

t a le s e ff o rc o vld : h o vld in lyon , the y e e g a crown argent g in his dexter l e s : l e s d o vb le d : l a n e l Paw a hart Mantled , argent as more p y y w w t : c h h . appeareth , depicted in this Margent all . said armes , Helmet , — Cre a s t a rc le I Mantles , Torce and , and every part and p therof the said o rd e n e vn t o Garter doe by thees presents , y and set forth the said ANTHONY W h is ANDRE S and to posterity forever , and he and they , the same to have . vs e S h e w fo rt h t m e 8 : hold , , beare , and at all y tymes hereafter in Shield , o r o w n e leas vre Coat Armour , or otherwise , at his their liberty and p , t h o r : without impediment lett . Interruption of any person personnes : rin ci a ll IN W ITNESS WHEREOF I the said Garter p p King of Armes , have Signed t h e e s e Presents w ith my o w n e hand and have h e re vn t o put the seale o f my o ffice with the seale of my armes dated the x x vm t h day 1 x x vt h ar R ai n o ur S o vve rai n e of October 5 83 . In the y e e of the g e of g E f v n f o Go d . e e e o lady LIZABETH by the grace Q England , France and f o & c . & c : Ireland , defender the faith , , 1 D e t ricke 19 G . als Garter

prin cipall Kinge of Armes . This is a t rve copie o f the Origin all now re ma y n in g in ye custody o f : Edward Andrews , Esq grandchild o f ye above written Anthony Andrews . t h f b rva r 1 6 8 Examined the s day o F e y 3 . ; l e a Wm . New , Clarencieux

Jere . Talbot , Wm . Dugdale Blanch Lyon I certify that the above is correctly copied from an entry in the first

2 2 8 o f . volume of Grants , page , preserved in the College Arms , London

G . A . Lindsay ,

Portcullis .

2 8t h 1 8 . London , Eng . June , 9 3

GE NE A LO GY

A NT H O N Y l A N D R E W S Ale x t o n 5 6 . (i) , of , in the

Pisb ro ke County of Leicester , and , in the County of Rutland ,

1 0 England ; born 5 3 . 1 L ANTHONY ANDREWS m . DOROTH EA ENTON , of Alin

: wele , in the County of Northampton , and had issue

E D W A R D I (vid . Sec . 2 ANTHONY , m . the dau . of Anthony Colley , of Glaston , in the County “ o f . Rutland ; their issue , Anthony (m their issue , Mar

garet , d . unmarried) .

FANNY .

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A N D R E W S

1 JOHN ANDREWS emigrated to America , under the patron

1 6 age of Cecil Calvert (Lord Baltimore) , about the year 5 4 , and settled in Calvert and Anne Arundel Counties , in the

Province of Maryland . Nl J OH ANDREWS m . MARY and had issue : O H N2 J (vid . Sec . ‘ EDWARD . B H N Y A NT O .

2 THOMAS . ‘ NATHANIEL . ‘

CU . MAR S , m Rebecca their issue , Sarah , Daniel , Rebecca , 2 Marcus , and Isaac .

ELI ZAB ETH .

MARIA .

O H N 2 A N D R E W S 6 0. J (v) , of Dorchester County , l o HN Maryland , son of J ANDREWS and MARY ANDREWS ; born in Anne Arundel County , Mary land .

2

. C G : JOHN ANDREWS m ALI E GREENIN , and had issue M O S E S ‘ (vid . Sec . JOHN $ J AM E S K ‘ WILLIAM . J O S E P H K THOMAS $

IHARY .

ELEANOR .

JOAN .

M O S E S I A N D R E W S 6 1 . (vi) , of Cecil County , Mary 2 C G AN land , son of JOHN ANDREWS and ALI E (GREENIN )

1 2 0 . D R E W s ; born 7 , in Dorchester County , Maryland

‘ K : MOSES ANDREWS m . LETITIA COO E , and had issue

'Z

M O S E S . ‘ H . JO N (vid . Sec z 1 1 2 6 0 ( . 8 A M E S . 1 , J , b 7 , in Cecil County , Maryland , 3 in Newcastle

County , Delaware ; m . Elizabeth their issue , Martha

. In (m . Samuel Black) ; Abigail (m John A . Lowe) ; Eliza ( . ’ John Van A urin ge ) ; Alexander ; William ; Louisa ; Rebecca ; 1 111 d a u h min t h . h S e ; Willison ; and Henry ( and had issue , five g 2

R . ters and a son , Henry ) l 6 R O B E R T (vid . Sec . 3 )

P O L Y D O R E . A N D R E W S

“ R E V . O H N A N D R E W S D . D . 6 2. J , 1 an d County , Maryland , son of MOSES ANDREWS LETITIA

K t h 1 6 (COO E) ANDREWS ; born April 4 , 74 , in Cecil County ,

2 t h 1 8 1 Maryland ; died March 9 , 3 . He was buried in Christ

Church Cemetery , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . JOHN 4 ANDREWS graduated from the University of Penn

1 6 O sylvania in 7 5 . rdained priest of the Episcopal Church ’ 1 6 in England 7 7 . In charge of St . Peter s Church , Lewes ,

Delaware , upon his return from England and remained there several years , leaving there to take charge of St . ’ ’

John s Church , York , and St . John s Church , Carlisle , Penn n sylvania , with missionary jurisdiction in Cumberla d and

1 0 1 . York counties , Pennsylvania , from 7 7 to 7 7 5 He then ’ accepted charge of St . John s Church , Queen Anne County ,

Maryland , and remained there until the commencement of the Revolutionary War , when , not considering himself absolved from the oath of allegiance to England at the time of his admission to Holy Orders (although a decided Ameri

in can politics) , he did not think himself at liberty to cancel that obligation and assume another to the United States . He therefore became disqualified for the public exercise of his profession , and removed again to York , Pennsylvania , b where he esta lished a classical academy , which he con ducted with distinguished reputation and success . When the independence of the United States became firmly estab lish e d and acknowledged , he resumed the exercise of his clerical functions by the acceptance of the parish of St . M n Thomas , Garrison Forest , Baltimore County , aryla d , of

1 1 8 2 which he was the rector from April 3 th , 7 , to April ,

1 8 7 5 . His superior talents and acquirements in classical literature were so conspicuous that when t h e Protestant

1 8 Episcopal Academy was instituted in Philadelphia in 7 5 , he was solicited by the unanimous vote of the trustees to accept the charge of the same . The degree of Doctor of

Divinity was conferred on him by Washington College ,

1 8 Maryland , in 7 5 . He was principal of the Episcopal

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1 8 1 8 Academy , Philadelphia , 7 5 to 7 9 , and was professor of moral philosophy in the University of Pennsylvania from 1 7 8 9 to 1 8 1 3 ; also vice - provost of said University

1 8 1 8 1 0 1 8 1 0 1 8 1 7 9 to , and provost of the same to 3 . (Gene l 5 alogy of the Andrews Fami y and Alliances , by Robert

Andrews ,

4 JOHN ANDREWS m . ELIZAB ETH CALLENDER , dau . of C G ROB ERT CALLENDER and FRAN ES (SLOU H) CALLENDER , of

: Carlisle , Pennsylvania , and had issue

R O B E R T 2 (vid . Sec .

LETITIA .

MARY . $ JOSE P H 5 JOHN (vid . Sec . 3 WILLIAM NEILL . G GEOR E . Z B ELI A ETH CALLENDER . 5 2 n d 1 0 O 2 d 1 8 2 . W . . r ED ARD , b August , 7 9 , d ctober 3 , 5 G MARY BEN ER . Copy from the record of a meeting of the Church ’ s Lew est o w n Wardens and Vestrymen of St . Peter Church , ,

d 1 6 : Delaware , ye 3 day of August , 7 7

K o ll o ck Present ; Jacob , Daniel Meney , Church Wardens ; John

o r . Clowes , Samuel Paynter , Ross Woolf , Jacob Kollo k , J , Luke Shields ,

William Lewis , Daniel Mintz , John Rodney and John Russell , Vestrymen ; which day the Rev . Mr . John Andrews produced to the said Church War ’ o f dens and Vestrymen , his credentials being admitted into Priest s O h is rders , and license to preach in Pennsylvania ; also a letter dated ye 2 1 st o f 1 6 February , 7 7 , from Daniel Burton , Secretary to the Venerable o f and Honorable Society for Propagation the Gospel in Foreign parts , which was read before the said Church Wardens and Vestrymen , and ’

s o o f . accepted with gratitude , far as it concerned the Church St Peter s , t o aforesaid . The Vestry then agreed meet at the church aforesaid to consider the affairs o f the said church o n Wednesday next being the eighth day o f this instant . They also ordered that the letter aforesaid is as : from Dr . Burton be entered in their book , which followeth , viz

GENTLEMEN :

o f 1 l t h o f I have recd . your letter the November last and com m un ic at e d o u it to the Society , who are very glad that y have made t o choice o f so worthy a person as Mr . John Andrews recommend for 8 8 A N D R E W S

o f your minister . He is in pursuance your request , appointed to be a mis s io n ary in your country . From the recommendations which he brought with him and the conversation I have had with him I make no doubt but that he will acquit himself in every part o f his character with credit o u and usefulness , and therefore hope that y will testify your regard both t o him and to the Society , by contributing in a genteel and liberal manner toward his decent support .

I am Gentlemen with much regard , o b e dt Your most humble servant ,

. U D B RTON .

B G F eb 2 I 1 6 . A IN DON STREET , WESTMINSTER , y st , 7 7

To the Church Wardens and Vestrymen o f Lewes in Sussex County o n

Delaware , Pennsylvania .

The following obituary on the character of the late Dr . 4 Th eo lo i cal M a azi n e JOHN ANDREWS was published in the g g ,

1 1 8 1 : June 9 th , 3

o f The loss which society has sustained by the death the late Rev . o f o f Venerable and Learned Provost the University Pennsylvania , Dr . fo r fo r Andrews , calls as justly and as loudly public regret as it does the x m tear o f aff ection and the Sigh o f friendship . This excellent and e e lar o f o n 2 t h o f p y man closed his period probation Monday , the 9 March , f 1 8 1 6 t h o f . o 3 , in the 7 year his age The various requirements science and the singular assemblage o f virtues which constituted and adorned his character can only be justly estimated by those who enjoyed the high privilege o f intimate and familiar intercourse with him . AS a public character his usefulness was extensive and important . The distinguished institution in which he for many years exercised his talents , and over o f o f t o which he presided at the time his death , owes much its celebrity o f his direction and discipline . His perfect knowledge his native lan guage rendered him one o f the most accurate composers and elegant No r readers that combined knowledge , taste and judgment could form . was he less skilled in the Greek and Latin languages . His minute and o f judicious observation men and manners , the wide range which he com m an de d o f classical lore and general information , aided by a remarkably i accurate and retentive memory , rendered his colloqu al powers unri v A s all e d . a theologian he was well versed in systematic divinity and ecclesiastical history and was an able and zealous defender o f the do c o f trines the Protestant Episcopal Church . He was richly endowed by nature with all those excellent qualifications which are necessary to give dignity to character and real value to human action . He was an impress ive and eloquent preacher ; a correct , critical and copious linguist , and an e o f be lle s lettres extensive and accomplish d professor and literature . Such were a few of the unrivalled powers o f intellect which excited the o f w h o admiration and commanded the respect all knew him . Pious with 8 9 A N D R E W S

o ut austerity , devout without ostentation , his sentiments were formed $ un d e fil e d and his conduct regulated by that pure and religion which , equally un in fiue n ce d by the folly o f enthusiasm o r the credulity o f super

s t it io n o f . , rendered the constant tenor his life exemplarily virtuous

l R E V R OB ER T 6 3 . . ANDREWS (vii) , of Williams 1 burg , Virginia , son of MOSES ANDREWS and LETITIA K (COO E) ANDREWS , of Cecil County , Maryland ; born in

1 8 0 Cecil County , Maryland ; died 4 , and was buried in the r churchyard of B uton Parish , Williamsburg , Virginia . 1 ROB ERT ANDREWS entered the University of P en n sy l

6 1 6 6 M 1 A . vania in 7 3 and graduated in 7 . The degree of

1 1 was conferred on him by that institution in 7 7 . After acting as tutor for some years in the family of John Page ,

1 2 of Virginia , he went to England in 7 7 and there took O O Holy rders in the Church of England . n his return to Virginia he was made professor of moral and intellectual philosophy at William and Mary College , Williamsburg . He at one time acted as private secretary to Governor Nel

1 8 1 son , and served as commissioner in 7 , with Dr . James

Madison (afterwards President of the United States) , to determine the boundary line between Virginia and P en n sy l

i van a . 1 m ROB ERT ANDREWS . , I st , ELIZAB ETH BALLARD , dau . of ROB ERT BALLARD , of Princess Anne County , Maryland , and had issue :

3

B O . RO ERT , resided in New rleans “ JOHN , unmarried , resided in Richmond , Virginia .

CATHERI NE , m . Joseph Wilkerson .

ANNE , m . William Randolph , son of Peyton Randolph and Lucy o f ( Harrison) Randolph , Wilton , Virginia ; their issue , Elizabeth

Randolph ; Robert Randolph ; and Catherine Randolph (m .

George Taylor ; issue , Lucy Taylor , m . Charles Carter Lee) . Z B ELI A ETH .

1 8 . m 2 n d . ROB ERT ANDREWS . , , MARY B LAI R (b 7 5 , d

1 . January 9 th , dau . of Judge JOHN B LAI R , of Virginia

No issue . ‘ (Letter of Henry White Andrews . )

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2 R O B E RT A N D R E W S An dre w s ia 6 4 . (viii) , of , near 4

. D D Wilmington , Delaware , son of Rev JOHN ANDREWS , ,

AND R E w s 1 and ELIZAB ETH (CALLENDER) ; born May , 7 7 4 , at

1 1 t h 1 8 2 York , Pennsylvania ; died Aug . , 4 , at Philadelphia , and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery , Philadelphia . 2 ’ ROB ERT ANDREWS graduated from Mr . Brown s Acad

Ow in sb ur emy , g g , Maryland , and from the Episcopal Acad emy of Philadelphia . He became engaged in mercantile

1 8 business in Philadelphia and later , in 7 9 , in an extensive shipping business at Bordeaux , France . He remained in

1 8 2 2 France until , when he returned to the United States

An drew sia and subsequently resided in Philadelphia , and at , near Wilmington , Delaware .

2 ANR D E W m N S . ROB ERT , I st , ELIZAB ETH EI LL (died

1 8 0 2 . . , at Toulouse , France) No issue

2 2 n d 2 t h 1 8 0 ROB ERT ANDREWS m . , December 7 , 4 , at

1 8 Bordeaux , France , ANN E MASON (b . July , 7 3 , d . An alo st an C dau . of Gen . JOHN MASON , of Island , D . . , and C C Clermont , Fairfax County , Virginia , and REB E A (FENTON)

* : MASON , and had issue

E L Z A t 6 . 2 h 1 8 2 1 8 0 . I , b . , Bordeaux , France ; d July 4 , 7 ; m H A R R 2 C O NNE L L Y Y (vid . Sec .

NA NC Y (vid . Sec .

No mention of the marriage of General JOHN MASON to REB ECCA o r o f o f is FENTON , the existence their daughter ANNE MASON , made in

o f . the records the MASON family . and in this respect they are incomplete Although nothing is known o f RE B E CCA FENTON further than the fact S h e o f that lived at the time her marriage to MASON in Georgetown , t o Maryland , and that she bore him a daughter , her marriage him is proved by the testimony o f seven merchants o f good standing of B o r o f deaux , France , two of whom were natives Maryland , and all but two citizens o f the United States . This testimony was elicited in the pro ce din s e g by ANNE MASON before the Civil Tribunal at Bordeaux , in lieu f o the presentation by her of a certificate of birth registry , upon her B 2 W marriage to RO ERT ANDRE S . Under the French Civil Code it is required that persons about to contract marriage shall produce their o f o f o f certificates registry birth , but , as stated in the decree the Civil B 2 W Tribunal of Bordeaux , RO ERT ANDRE S and ANNE MA SON were per

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2 rd 1 6 1 8 1 ROB ERT ANDREWS m . 3 , June th , 3 , MARY

1 8 t h G . . O MAR ARET WI LSON (b 7 4 , d ctober 4 , dau . P K of H ENRY WI LSON and MARY (HO INS) WI LSON , of Mary

: land , and had issue

8 JOHN W ILLIAMS (vid . Sec . 3 HE NRY WILSON (vid . Sec .

1 8 1 . 1 8 0 . MARY ANTOINETTE , b . 9 , d 7 ; m Louis N . Massara ; no

issue . 6

1 8 2 2 . 1 8 6 . W . Ph il ade l ED ARD CALLENDER , b , d 4 ; m Mary Jones , of ’ phia ; their issue , Edward .

O 5 5 . 6 J HN ANDREWS (viii) , of Philadelphia , son of ’ JOHN ANDREWS and ELIZAB ETH (CALLENDER) AND R E w s ;

2 0 t h 1 8 born February , 7 3 , at Garrison Forest , Maryland ; d 1 8 6 0 ied , and was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery , Phila delphia . JOHN 5 ANDREWS was educated at the Episcopal Acad

1 8 0 1 emy in Philadelphia . He went to Bordeaux , France , , and was associated with the commercial house of his brother

1 8 1 0 ROB ERT . He returned to Philadelphia in , and was engaged in mercantile business ; he was for many years cashier of the United States Bank in Philadelphia , remaining

mit t e d it s o f , upon being made known to the Tribunal that no registers t o birth were kept in the United States , substitute therefor , and with ff f o . the same force and e ect , the testimony witnesses These witnesses testified that it was within their complete knowledge that A NNE MASON B CC le iti mate was the daughter of JOHN MASON and RE E A FENTON , her g fath er a n d mo th er . MASON placed his daughter in the care o f Mesdames Dure au and ’ Lab o r d au h y in Bordeaux , the child s mother probably surviving her g ’ ter s birth only a short time . ANNE MASON grew up and was educated in ” o f France and there met and married ROB ERT ANDREWS . Letters MASON 5 W o f B W to ANDRE S and to his daughter (in the possession RO ERT ANDRE S , o f o f ff New York) , at the time their marriage , evince the greatest a ection fo r - the latter and much solicitude for her future well being , and express ’ the writer s intention to recall his daughter to h is home (then presided f over by his Second wife) upon the completion o her education . In the W t o letter to ANDRE S , MASON announces his determination make the same F o r o f provision fo r ANN E as for his other daughters . the history the “ o f MASON Family in other respects , vid . The Life and Letters George ” Mason , Kate Mason Rowland .

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S 6 7 . O COLON EL J HN WILLIAMS AN DREWS (ix) , 2 of Philadelphia , son of ROB ERT ANDREWS and MARY

G t h 1 8 1 MAR ARET (WI LSON ) ANDREWS ; born June 4 , 4 , at

d 1 8 8 1 Bor eaux , France ; died August , , and was buried in O ’ ld Swedes Church Cemetery , Wilmington , Delaware . JOHN 8 WI LLIAMS ANDREWS was educated at the Military

Co s School at Mount Airy , Pennsylvania , and at Dr . gg ’ e well s Acad my at Northampton , Massachusetts . He also attended a full course in the medical department of the

University of Pennsylvania , but never practised his pro fe ssio n An drew sia . He settled on his farm called , near

St o ckfo rd Wilmington , Delaware , and subsequently at , New

Castle County , Delaware . He took an active part in mili f tary a fairs in the State of Delaware , and organized the First

- Troop , Delaware Light Dragoons , a well known military

1 8 company . He served as captain of this troop from 4 7 to

1 8 5 5 . He was colonel of the First Regiment , Delaware

1 8 6 1 1 8 6 Infantry Volunteers , during the Civil War , to 3 .

He was for many years a vestryman of Trinity Church ,

Wilmington , Delaware .

8 Au JOHN WI LLIAMS ANDREWS m . MARY N EWMAN (b .

1 8 1 2 n u d d a . gust , 4 ; d . February , of JOHN B EAU C LERC N EWMAN and ANN HARRISON (CLEMENT) N EWMAN ,

: of Philadelphia , and had issue

B 5 RO ERT (vid . Sec .

MARY NEWMAN (vid . Sec .

9 : t 1 0 1 1 8 8 . 2 h W . JOHN N E MAN , b September 3 th , 3 , d December 7 , 9 3 m 2 rd 1 8 6 M c E n t e e . , February 3 , 5 , Lucy ; their issue , James 10 2 1 t t h 8 6 6 . 2 h Newman , b . April 9 , ; and John Sedgwick , b May 5 , 9 1 8 7 3 . General John Newman Andrews was graduated from 1 8 6 0 the United States Military Academy at West Point , ,

served with distinction through the Civil War , and was after w as wards o n frontier duty fo r many years . He appointed 8 1 8 6 2 I s t 1 8 8 6 captain , th Infantry , 4 ; maj or , Infantry , ; lieu

- 2 t h 1 8 1 l 1 2 tenant colonel , 5 Infantry , 9 , and co onel , th Infantry , 1 8 6 O o f w as a 9 . n the outbreak the war with Spain he p

- o f 1 8 w a s pointed brigadier general volunteers , and in 9 9 placed w n A h is o . on the retired list , U . S . . , at request

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m 6 2 8 t h 1 0 0 . 1 1 8 . rd ELLA , b . July 3 th , 4 , d April , 9 ; , January 3 ,

1 8 6 6 . , General James H Wilson ; their issue , Mary Wilson , b . 1

O 1 m 1 1 8 1 . o t h 8 6 6 . ctober 3 , ( , April 4 th , 9 , Henry B Thompson ; 2 Th o m issue , Mary Thompson , Catherine Thompson , Henry B . p

son , Elinor Thompson , and James H . Wilson Thompson) ; Kath t h 1 8 0 erine Wilson , b . November 5 , 7 ; and Eleanor Wilson , b . O 1 t h 1 8 0 8 . ctober 9 ,

3 6 8 . O HENRY WILS N ANDREWS (ix) , of Phila 2 G delphia , son of ROB ERT ANDREWS and MARY MAR ARET

8t h 1 8 1 6 (WI LSON) ANDREWS ; born January , , at Bordeaux ,

t h 1 8 0 France ; died August 7 , 9 , and was buried in Laurel

Hill Cemetery , Philadelphia . 3 H ENRY WI LSON ANDREWS was educated at the Military Co s School at Mount Airy , Pennsylvania , and at Dr . gg ’ s well s Round Hill Academy , Northampton , Massachusett . He afterwards entered the Sophomore Class of 1 83 6 at the

University of Pennsylvania , but did not graduate . After

an absence abroad of several years , he returned to Phila

delphia , and engaged in commercial business with Henry

en Wilson in the West India trade . Subsequently he was gaged in general merchandise brokerage business and was

an - $ - attach of the United States Custom House .

3 1 1 H ENRY WI LSON ANDREWS m . st , November 9 th ,

1 8 . 1 8 1 8 2 2 4 5 , MATI LDA N . WHITE (b November th , ; d .

O 2 rd ctober 3 , dau . of H ENRY WHITE and JAN E P . : WHITE , of Philadelphia , and had issue

4 1 8 m 2 t h 1 1 . 1 8 . 8 HENRY WHITE , b December th , 5 5 ; , December 5 , 9 , 6 N v 2 t h t o . Frances Marie Wilson (b . 4 , their issue , Rober 5 2 t h 1 8 2 . O Callender , b . September 5 , 9 ; Henry White , b cto

1 1 t h 1 1 0 1 8 . t h . ber , 9 7 ; and Evelyn , b February 9 , 9

3 m 2 n V d . H ENRY WI LSON ANDREWS . , , MARY A LO ETTE , an d had issue :

B A 2 t 1 6 1 t h 1 8 8 8 8 h 8 . . ERNEST HER ERT , b . ugust , 3 , d March 7 ,

1 2 t h 1 8 6 8 . . VIOLET WILSON , b . March , , m Llewellyn Jones

Z 6 9 . ELI ABETH CALLENDER ANDREWS (ix) , dau . 5 of JOHN ANDREWS and MARGARET (AB ER CROMBI E) AN

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r o t h 1 8 1 6 1 6 DREWS ; born December , ; died December th ,

1 8 rd 1 8 4 5 ; married , July 3 , 3 3 , NATHANI EL SAYRE HARRIS

2 th : (b . September 9 , of Philadelphia , and had issue

‘ D D W . . 1 t h 1 8 . JOHN ANDRE S HARRIS , , b . July s , 3 4 ; m I 6 t h 1 8 6 2 t h st , November , 5 , Almy Sophia Hale (d . Feb . 7 , m . 1 1 8 . their issue , Alan Hale , b . Feb 9 th , 5 9 ( , April 2 8 t h 1 8 8 6 2 n d 2 n d 1 8 6 1 , , Helen Marie Day) ; m . , April , , Anna 2 2 t h 1 8 6 2 Cole Wright ; their issue , John Andrews , b . Feb . 4 , m o t h 1 8 6 ( . , Dec . 3 , 9 , Georgiana French) ; and Elizabeth 2 t 1 . h 8 6 Andrews , b Jan . 4 , 4 .

t h 1 8 8 . h 1 . W . . t 8 META ANDRE S HARRIS , b Feb o , 3 , d April s , 3 9 8t h Z B 1 1 1 8 m . . 2 ELI A ETH CALLE NDER HARRIS , b . Dec . th , 3 9 ; , Sept , 1 1 8 6 5 , Francis Bowes Stevens ; their issue , Alexander Stevens , 2

1 8 6 6 . . I I b August 3 st , ; Francis Bowes Stevens , b July st ,

1 8 6 8 . t h 1 0 . , d September 4 , 9 5 (m Adele Horwitz) ; Elizabeth t 1 2 h 8 6 . Callender Stevens , b . November s , 9 (m Richard Stevens) ; 1 t h 2 1 8 2 . Meta Andrews Stevens , b . August th , 7 , d August 4 , 1 8 t h 1 8 7 3 ; and Theodosius Fowler Stevens , b . December 7 , 7 9 .

I t , 1 2 1 1 t h 1 8 6 W V s 8 . . ED I N STE ENS HARRIS , b . August , 4 , d May , 4

t h 1 8 . U C K 1 1 8 . 1 J LI A STO TON HARRIS , b . June 3 th , 4 4 , d May s , 4 5 1

t 1 m . V W h 8 . HENRY LEA EN ORTH HARRIS , b . December 4 , 4 5 ; , Aug

1 1 8 2 . 9 th , 7 , Emily Kent Poag ; their issue , Dora Andrews , b 2 t 1 m N V 2 1 0 8 . I h O . Aug . 9 , 7 3 ( , st , 9 5 , Douglas Farley Cox) ;

2 ' 2 0 t h 1 8 Henry Leavenworth , b . August , 7 5 ; and Emily Sayre , t 1 . o h 8 8 . b November 3 , 5

‘ 2 n d 2 n d (NATHANI EL SAYRE HARRIS m . , November ,

1 8 : h e o do sius 4 7 , Juliana Stevens , and had issue T Fowler ,

1 st 1 8 8 2 n d 1 8 0 born August 3 , 4 , died March , 5 , and Julian

1 8 1 2 t h 1 8 Sayre , born January I st , 5 , died January 7 , 7

7 0 5 . ANN ON . BAYNT ANDREWS (ix) , dau of JOHN ANDREWS and MARGARET (AB ER CRO MBI E) AND R E w s ; born

1 8 1 1 2 8 th 1 8 8 2 1 8 6 June I st , ; died April , ; married , May , 3 , l E DW A R D : T . SHAW , and had issue

1 8 . 8 . W W . 1 JOHN ANDRE S SHA , b 3 7 , d 3 9 l 0 m 1 8 6 1 W 1 8 . ANN BA YNTON SHA , b . 4 ; , 5 , Samue Betton ; their issue , 1 1 8 2 t h 1 8 6 . Edward Betton , b . May s , 7 , d November 5 th , 7 5 ; $ t h 1 8 2 . O 2 n d 1 8 . O and Samuel Betton , b . ctober , 7 9 , d ctober s , 9

m 1 8 6 M c Mic h ae l . W W 1 8 1 . META ANDRE S SHA , b . 4 ; , 3 , Walter (d

0 t h 1 8 6 m . M c M ic h a e l . 1 their issue , Mary , b February , 5 ( , 1 2 8 t h 1 8 8 8 November , , Benj amin Chew Tilghman ; issue , Ben 2 j amin Chew Tilghman , b .

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m ‘ 1 6 1 8 . r o t 1 . h 8 8 JENNIE , b July th , 5 9 ; , June , 5 , Charles Breck 2 A ; , A , . A I s t dams their issue Charles Breck dams b ugust ,

1 8 8 . 2 t 1 . h 8 0 . 7 ; and Helen M Adams , b April 7 , 9

t 1 2 o h 8 . ELLA , b . January , 7 3

8

7 2. . MARY NEWMAN ANDREWS (x) , dau of JOHN

WI LLIAMS ANDREWS and MARY (N EWMAN) ANDREWS , of

An dre w sia , near Wilmington , Delaware ; born February I st , ‘ 1 8 6 1 1 8 G 3 ; married , July 4th , 5 7 , TH EODORE RO ERS , of

: Dunleith , near Wilmington , Delaware , and had issue

t 1 m ‘ G . h 8 8 I s t 2 . o t h 1 8 6 ANNIE RO ERS , b May 4 , 5 ; , , June , 7 , George

Z . Z . o t h 1 8 ; , R , , . inn their issue Mary inn b November 3 7 7 , d 2 1 t h 1 0 Z . 1 1 8 8 January 9 , 9 3 ; and George inn , b May 5 th , 3 ; ‘ m 2 md 1 8 2 d u . I , , June st , 9 , William Pont ; their issue , Marion 2 u rd 1 8 d . d u Pont , b May 3 , 9 4 ; and William Pont , b . February t 1 8 6 1 1 h . , 9 2

U C C G . 1 8 6 0 . 1 0 6 THEODORE BEA LER RO ERS , b August , , d December , 9 ; w 3 B . 8 . 1 8 . m Lula God in ; their issue , Theodore eauclerc , b 7 ‘ G 1 8 6 HELEN RO ERS , b . December , 3 ; m . Thomas B . Bradford ; 2

. 1 8 0 . 2 2 n d their issue , Thomas Bradford , b February 9 , d May , 1 8 9 9 A P PE ND I X

H TO R CAL KETC H O F KENT SLAND AND OF T IS I S I , HE PALAT NATE O F M ARY LAND I .

G 1 6 0 6 KIN JAMES I , in , issued a charter under which Virginia , Eng ’ land s first permanent colony in America , was established . This docu ment defines Virginia as extending from the 3 4t h to the 4 st h degree of s a - latitude and one hundred miles inland from the e coast . A second 1 6 0 charter , issued in 9, describes this territory as extending from sea to o f - sea . The privilege colonization was granted to two joint stock co m pan ie s known as the First and Second Colonies . The territory allotted “ o f o f to the First Colony , under the title The Treasurer and Company o f Adventurers of the City London for the Colony of Virginia , extended between the 3 4t h and 4 I st degrees of latitude . Under thi s charter the o ut 1 first party of colonists sent by the London Company landed , May 3 th , 1 6 0 o n o n o f 7 , a peninsula the north bank the Powhatan River , named by them the James River , at a point afterwards known as Jamestown . The aff airs of the young colony were administered by the Company until 1 6 2 4 , when its charter was annulled and Virginia became a royal govern

it s . ment , governors being appointed by the Crown From this time the V —e n da z Vi r i n i a ui um n t . province was known as the Kingdom of irginia , g q Among the settlers in Virginia under the charter of the London Company was an Englishman of a good Westmoreland family named 1 6 2 1 William Claiborne , who arrived in Virginia in and soon took rank 1 6 2 among the leading men of that colony . In 7 we find him actively engaged in trade with the Indians and , in this connection , authorized by the Governor o f Virginia to ascertain by exploration the source and ex o f tent the Chesapeake Bay , a waterway included in the boundaries of that colony , but hitherto unexplored . Claiborne soon after the above o f date became secretary the colony , and as such was sent to England in

1 6 1 o n . 3 a mission , the object of which will subsequently appear While in England he succeeded in obtaining , as a personal concession , a license “ to trade in any and all parts of North America not already pre -empted by monopolies . Returning to Virginia , Claiborne , under his own inter re t at io n p of this concession , lost no time in establishing a settlement of Virginia colonists o n an island in Chesapeake Bay a few miles south of the

Patapsco River . This was Kent Island , and here it was that the first settlement in the territory afterwards to be known as Maryland was

1 6 1 . made , in the year 3

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’ Although Claiborne s co up do m a i n had given to the Virginians the

first foothold in Maryland , that province was to be colonized through F o r other agencies . these the Calvert family of Yorkshire , England , w o f ere responsible , and with the destinies of that family the history

Maryland is closely interwoven for nearly a century and a half . George

Calvert , the first member of this family with whom we are concerned , w as 1 80 a s born about 5 , and entered public life in England an under secretary in the State Department . He was a strong advocate o f the o f W Spanish marriage , and enjoyed the favor King James , by hom he 6 1 1 6 1 1 . o f was knighted in 7 In 9 he was appointed secretary state , and

1 2 w a s in 6 5 raised to the Irish peerage as Baron Baltimore . Calvert was a member of the Roman Church and had long cherished the plan o f establishing a colony in America where religious toleration should pre o f 6 2 . 1 o f vail In pursuance this plan he obtained , in March , 3 , a grant the great southeastern promontory o f Newfoundland . This territory o f received the name Avalon , the form of government adopted being that o f a palatinate and as such was modelled after the Bishopric o f u o f o f D rham , the last the three great palatinates Chester , Durham , and Kent , established by William the Conqueror for the better defence f of the marches o his kingdom . The powers gran ted to Calvert as Lord Proprietor under this charter are supposed to have been the greatest ever bestowed by the Crown upon a subject .

George Calvert , after a winter spent at Newfoundland , abandoned 1 6 2 o f that colony and received from Charles I , June , 3 , a grant the terri

c o t h tory lying north of the Potomac River , extending then e to the 4 degree o f latitude and comprised between the s e a - coast and about the t c h art r w as 8 o h degree o f longitude . The e drawn up by Calvert with his own hand and was in the main a copy of the Avalon charter . He died , 1 6 2 however , before it had received the royal signature , but in June , 3 , the same charter was issued to his son , Cecilius , second Lord Baltimore . ’ This territory received the name of Maryland , after Charles s Catholic queen , Henriette Marie , known in England as Queen Mary . The first expedition to Maryland under the Baltimore charter sailed “ ” N V 2 2 1 O . 6 o f 0 0 from England , , 3 3 , in a ship called the Ark , 3 tons “ a 0 burden , with an attendant pinn ce called the Dove of 5 tons burden . “ It consisted o f twenty -two gentlemen adventurers and three hundred laborers under the command of Leonard Calvert , brother to Cecilius , whom the latter had appointed governor of his new province . This expedition , after touching at Barbadoes and Point Comfort , sailed up the Potomac 6 ’ w 2 1 o n . n o and landed , March 5 , 3 4 , St Clement s Island , known as Black ’ is t o n s Island . Two days later the settlers bought from the Algonquin ff ’ Indians a village situated on a blu overlooking the St . Mary s River , ’ f which became known as St . Mary s . Land in the vicinity o this settle ment had s o lon g been cleared and cultivated by the natives that the

Maryland planters were soon able to produce ample crops , and , owing to the exhaustive warfare which the neighboring Indians were waging with each other , the settlers were exempted from the hardships to which the

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ffi the characteristic duties of his O ce , collected all taxes , held all elec tions , and made the returns . The county court in Maryland resembled the courts presided over by the j ustices of the peace in Durham , and was presided over by the commissioners of the county . The commissioners o f o f a county were appointed by the governor , and with the authority conservators of the peace at common - law were authorized to hold county o f courts . For the purposes minor jurisdiction a number o f manors were fo r o f created , each with its court baron and court leet , the transaction h almo t e o r local business , corresponding to the manorial court of Durham .

Above these was the provincial court , over which the governor sat . - A This court dealt in common law , chancery , and admiralty . ppeals from the provincial court could be taken to the council sitting as an ” f upper house in the assembly . The j udges o the provincial court to gether with the chief executive offi cers of the colony composed the coun cil , over which the governor presided . The Maryland assembly , which constituted the radical di ff erence between the governments o f the two palatinates , was at first a primary assembly , and at its first session in “ ” 1 6 3 5 was composed of all the freemen , or all who chose to come , and s at 1 6 8 in the same room with Leonard Calvert and his council . In 3 the primary assembly was abandoned as cumbrous , and for purposes of mili tary levy the province was divided into hundreds , and each hundred sent ’ a representative to the assembly at St . Mary s . Later the county b e

o f 1 6 0 came the basis representation in the assembly , and in 5 the council began to sit as an upper house . The most interesting of the above institutions of government in 1 6 Maryland was the manor . In 3 5 Lord Baltimore directed that every “ 2 0 0 0 grant of acres should be erected into a manor . The manor was the o n land which the lord and his tenants lived , and bound up with the land were also the rights o f government which the lord possessed over the ” o n tenants and they over e another . These manors were little self governing communities . The court leet was l ike a town meeting ; all b — freemen could take part in it . It enacted y laws , elected constables , fi f . bailif s , and other local of cers It impanelled its jury with the steward f of the manor presiding as judge , took cognizance of minor of ences , such as poaching , vagrancy , and fraudulent dealing . The court baron was an s at institution in which all the freehold tenants as judges , determining questions o f law and of fact and deciding all matters in dispute between f h is o . the lord the manor and tenants , such as rents , trespass , and escheats By this court also actions for debt were decided and transfers o f land made . In the life upon these manors there was a kind of patriarchal completeness ; each was a little world in itself . There was the great it s - house , with generous dining hall , its panelled wainscot , and its family ’ o f portraits ; there was the chapel , with the graves the lord s family beneath its pavement and the graves of common folk out in the church yard , there were the smoke houses , and the cabins of negro slaves ; and

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- — tenants , with ample land about them held on leases of one and twenty ” ve ars .

t o o f To return now Kent Island , which formed the bone contention between Maryland and Virginia and engendered animosities which played ’ an important part in the early history of Lord Baltimore s colony . As o n 1 6 1 we have already seen , a settlement was made this island in 3 by

William Claiborne . consisting of Protestant colonists from Virginia .

These settlers at once proceeded to establish themselves permanently , and soon dwellings were built and mills for grinding corn , while gar dens were laid out and orchards planted , and farms stocked with cattle . A clergyman was duly appointed to minister to the spiritual needs of

1 6 2 the little settlement , and in the next year , 3 , it was represented in the No Virginia House of Burgesses by Captain Nicholas wonder , then , that rumors of the Baltimore charter , which comprised Kent Island and wrested from the Virginians the lucrative prospect of an extension of trade along the shores of the Chesapeake , a territory which they had justly considered to be their own , so alarmed them as to prompt an imme diate protest to the king . This protest was made through their secretary of state , William Claiborne , who was sent to London by Governor Harvey 1 1 for that purpose in 6 3 . The objections of the Virginians were discussed 1 6 n o t in the Star Chamber July , 3 3 , but it was decided to disturb Lord ’ Baltimore s charter . Not despairing , however , of retaining Kent Island . which Claiborne probably regarded as a strategic point in a scheme for extending his trade northward , he petitioned the king , in the autumn of 1 6 o f 3 3 , to protect his interests and those Virginia in Kent Island , in the S h is e r hope , hould petition be grant d , of discouraging Lord Baltimo e and inducing him to make his settlement elsewhere than o n the shores of

Chesapeake Bay . While this petition was pending , however , Leonard ’ h is Calvert with expedition arrived at St . Mary s , and , although Lord Baltimore was subsequently instructed by King Charles not to molest ’ o n Claiborne s settlement Kent Island , it was obvious that the territory o f w a s h ad Maryland otherwise lost to the Virginians . Lord Baltimore instructed h is brother to approach Claiborne in a friendly spirit and to f o n of er him and his settlement any assistance possible , the distinct S understanding , however , that Claiborne hould consider himself a tenant o f the Lord Proprietor in Maryland , and not a tenant of the Crown in

. o f Virginia These overtures , under the advice the governor and council o f Virginia , Claiborne declined , and Lord Baltimore , alarmed by a threat ened uprising of a tribe of Algonquin Indians which he believed had been 1 6 instigated by Claiborne , directed Leonard Calvert , September , 3 4 , to re seize Kent Island , arrest Claiborne , and hold him prisoner until the c i t o f e . p further instructions Claiborne , however , escaped to Virginia , and h is partners in London were able to procure from the king the order t o Lord Baltimore n o t to molest his possessions just referred to . No

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’ 1 6 conflict occurred until April , 3 5 , when a ship of Claiborne s was seized in the Patuxent River by an agent of the Maryland government for trading without a license , confiscated , and subsequently sold with all ” her cargo . Claiborne immediately sent the Cockatrice , a heavily r S a med sloop , to make reprisals on Maryland hipping ; but Lord Balti ’ “ 2 1 6 more s government was alert , and April 3 , 3 5 , the Cockatrice was met and captured by two armed pinnaces commanded by Thomas Corn 1 0 t h wallis after a brisk fight . On May there was another fight in the o f Wi h co c o m o c o harbor the Great g at the mouth of the Pocomoke , in which Thomas Smith commanded for Claiborne and defeated the Mary landers after more bloodshed . After this victory Claiborne maintained undisputed possession of the island for the next two years , when his Lon Clo b e rl don partners , y and Company , dissatisfied with their receipts from the Maryland trade , sent George Evelin armed with a full power of attorney from them to take possession of Kent Island and directed s Claiborne to come to London to settle h i accounts . Upon arriving in ’ o f Maryland , Evelin decided to recognize the authority Lord Baltimore s government over the island and invited Governor Calvert to take pos 1 6 session . This was done in December , 3 7 , by the governor in person “ o f with a party armed men , and Evelin was appointed Commander of the Island . The commander of the Isle of Kent was authorized to choose a coun “ t o cil and call a court or courts , and to hear and consider all causes and actions whatsoever civil not exceeding in damages or demands the value o f o f ten pounds sterling , and with the criminal j urisdiction a j ustice of

. 1 6 8 the peace in England At a meeting of the Maryland assembly , 3

3 9 , the powers of the commander were more definitely fixed . A court of “ o f o f record was created , known as the Hundred Court Kent , which the commander of the island was to be the j udge and from which court ’ an appeal lay to the county court at St . Mary s . The provincial court

1 6 2 was also authorized to sit occasionally at Kent Island . In 4 we find that three commissioners for the Isle of Kent were appointed by the governor with such powers as appertained to the commissioners of a county , and at this date Kent may be considered to have been finally absorbed by the province o f Maryland and may henceforth be regarded as in whole or in part one of its counties . After Evelin had been estab

s d o f s o li h e as commander Kent Island , he caused the arrest of many persons fo r debts owed to Clo b e rly and Company that an insurrection V ensued , and Governor Calvert again found a isit to the island necessary to enforce his authority , and the result of this visit was the appointment n w t in 1 6 3 8 of William B rai t h ay e as commander of the island . The Mary land assembly then passed a bill of attainder against Claiborne , and all ’ his accessible property was seized fo r the benefit of Lord Baltimore s 1 6 treasury . In February , 3 9 , Giles Brent was appointed commander of the Isle o f Kent with military powers and for temporary purposes . He o n apparently remained in commission the island only a few months , as it appears that B rain t h w a y t e was acknowledged by the governor as

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A P P E N D I X believed that the Puritan government in England would revoke Lord ’ Baltimore s charter , and their willingness to settle in his territory was apparently based upon the conviction that it would not much longer be h is . ff 1 6 2 The trend of a airs seemed to corroborate this view , for in 5 the re Parliament sent four commissioners , supported by its warships , to v c e i e the submission of the colonies of Virginia and Maryland . Of these o n e u commissioners was Richard Bennett , a P ritan elder who had fled from Virginia and been kindly received by Governor Stone in Maryland , w as and another the indefatigable agitator , William Claiborne . After receiving the submission of Virginia , Claiborne was reinstated as secre tary o f state under a Roundhead governor chosen by the House o f Bur gesses , Governor Berkeley having resigned and retired to his plantation . . ’ Claiborne and Bennett then repaired to St Mary s , and demanded that Governor Stone and his council should Sign a covenant “ to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established without ” o f King or House Lords . This they agreed to do , but the further demand , ’ that all writs and warrants should run no longer in Baltimore s name , ”

o f . but in the name the Keepers of the Liberty of England , was refused f an d Stone for this refusal was removed from o fice , a provisional govern ’ ment established , but a few months afterwards , upon Stone s agreement ’ to accede to all the commissioners demands , he was reinstated .

“ About this time Captain Robert Vaughn , who had succeeded Wil B rain t h w a t e 1 6 o f liam y , April , 4 7 , as commander Kent under the Balti w as more government , deposed by the Parliamentary commissioners , and a new government fo r the island was established by the appointment o f e nine commissioners , with all the powers formerly app rtaining to the o f t o commander and his council . The general oath allegiance the Com m o n w e alt h of England tendered by Bennett and Claiborne was signed t h 1 6 2 - S ix o f April 5 , 5 , by sixty freeholders the island , which number may be considered to have been practically the entire adult male population at that time . Kent county afterwards embraced not only the original island bearing that name but also the whole of the eastern shore of the

Chesapeake , its present limits being gradually defined by the boundaries of new counties which from time to time encroached upon its terri w as 1 6 6 1 tory ; thus , Talbot county taken from Kent in , Somerset in ’ 1 6 6 6 1 6 6 1 6 1 0 6 , Dorchester in 9 , Cecil in 7 4 , Queen Anne s in 7 , Worcester

1 2 1 1 6 w as a in 7 4 , and Caroline in 7 7 3 . In 9 5 Kent Island p rted from the t o county which it had given its name and attached to Talbot county , ’ 1 0 6 o ut but , when in 7 Queen Anne s county was carved of the original

o f - boundaries Kent , the much disputed island was given to it , and in h as S this relation it ince remained undisturbed . We have seen that in 1 6 5 2 Governor Stone had been reinstated in Offi ce by the representatives of the Parliament upon his agreement to w allow rits to run in the name of the Keepers of the Liberty of England , 1 6 but in 5 3 , after Cromwell had dissolved the Rump Parliament , Stone ff announced , upon receipt of an order from Lord Baltimore to that e ect ,

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o f that he should issue them as formerly in the name the proprietary . o f The result this action , as well as of other controversies between Governor o o f w as re - o f St ne and the Puritans Providence , the appearance Bennett ’

. 1 6 and Claiborne at St Mary s in July , 5 4 . Stone was again deposed , o f and the government was placed in the hands a council , with one Wil as liam Fuller its president . Writs were issued for the election of an o r assembly , under which no Roman Catholic could vote be elected , and in this way a house was obtained that w as almost entirely composed of o f Dissenters . One the first acts o f this body was to enact a law securin g o f freedom conscience , practically , to Puritans only . The government o f the province was now conducted under the magistracy of His Highness the Lord Protector over England , o f o f instead by the authority the Parliament . Among other acts Fuller , ’ o f as the executive the Lord Protector s government , appointed Philip 1 6 o f o f Conner , March , 5 4 , commander the county Kent , and named seven commissioners to serve under him . While these events were trans piring , Lord Baltimore had received in England the news that Stone had permitted himself to be deposed without opposition , and , feeling that the chief menace to the continuance of his charter and the exercise o f his authority under it had been removed by the dissolution of Parliament , di

re ct e d t o . O Stone assert his authority , if necessary by force n receiving ’ o f 1 0 Lord Baltimore s instructions , Stone gathered a force 3 armed men and marched against the settlement at Providence . He was met by Fuller o f 1 in command 7 5 men , and in the battle which ensued Fuller assisted by the guns o f two armed merchantmen completely routed Lord Balti ’ more s little army and captured Stone and other leaders . After this vic tory the Puritan supremacy in Maryland seemed to be permanently estab

lis h e d o f o f S . , but as a matter fact it was hort duration Bennett and other Puritan leaders in Virginia visited London and$ attempted to have Lord ’ Baltimore s charter revoked , but , as Cromwell considered himself the assignee o f the Crown and as such a successor to all its rights and obliga ’ a s tions , Baltimore s charter was sound under the protectorate as it had 1 6 been under the rule o f the Stuarts . In 5 7 a compromise between the ff Puritans and Lord Baltimore was e ected , the latter promising complete amnesty for all offences against his government from the beginning , and giving his word never to consent to the repeal of his To l e rat io n Act of

1 6 4 9 . Upon these terms Virginia withdrew her opposition to his charter , and indemnified Claiborne b y extensive land grants fo r the loss of Kent o f Island . Lord Baltimore appointed Captain Josias Fendall governor

1 6 6 the province in 5 , and sent out his brother , Philip Calvert , to be sec t r in e f re a y . The Puritan faction yielded their contentions after some fe ct ual 1 6 8 resistance to the new governor , and in March , 5 , the authority o f Cecilius Calvert was again paramount throughout his palatinate . ’ Thus ended a controversy o f some thirty years duration between the sister colonies of Maryland and Virginia . o f 1 6 8 The death Cromwell in 5 , followed the year afterwards by the o f abdication his son Richard , and the unsettled condition of English

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1 6 6 0 politics until the accession of Charles I I in May , , again disturbed ’ the stability of Lord Baltimore s sway in Maryland . We have seen that ' after Fuller s victory on the banks of the Severn in 1 6 5 5 the Puritans h e ld o f o f control all branches the government in Maryland , and , although only three years afterwards their ascendency was unexpectedly terminated . the smouldering embers o f the disturbances o f that time had not yet o f been entirely extinguished . Added to these causes unrest was a wide spread dissatisfaction with the duties imposed by Lord Baltimore on 1 6 tobacco for export . In 4 7 the assembly had granted to the Lord Pro prie t o r a duty of ten Shillings per hogshead on all tobacco exported from w as 1 6 that colony . This act modified in 4 9 by an act imposing a similar duty on all tobacco carried by Dutch vessels if not bound to an English

1 6 port . In 5 9 Lord Baltimore directed Governor Fendall to have the o f 1 6 o n act 4 7 explicitly repealed , the condition that the assembly should grant him two shillings on tobacco exported to British ports and ten

Shillings when shipped to foreign ports . This demand was unpopular , 1 6 6 0 and the assembly which met in February , , to discuss it and other matters , was ripe for sedition . It appeared also that Governor Fendall was disloyal to Lord Baltimore , and considered this a fitting time for ’ the province to assert its independence o f the proprietor s authority . o f 1 6 Consequently , when the assembly repealed the excise act 4 7 without enacting any substitute therefor , and sent a message to Governor Fen dall to the e ff ect that they judged themselves to be a lawful assembly without dependence upon any other power now existing within the prov ince , Fendall was found to be in accord with them , and , after overriding o f o n e o r the objections Philip Calvert and two others , the council was abolished . Fendall resigned his commission from the Lord Proprietor , and in lieu of it accepted one from the assembly , which body now de cl are d it a felony for any one in Maryland to acknowledge Lord Balti ’ ’ o f F e n d all s more s authority . When the news treachery reached London , it found Charles I I seated firmly on the throne . All persons were at once ’ instructed to respect Lord Baltimore s authority over Maryland , and Sir o f William Berkeley , governor Virginia , was ordered to bring the force of that colony to his aid if necessary . Lord Baltimore then appointed o f re his brother Philip to the governorship Maryland , whereupon the bellion instantly collapsed , and the ringleaders were seized and punished by banishment and confiscation of property . Such was the end of Fen ’ dall s rebellion . 1 6 6 1 In Cecilius Calvert sent his only son , Charles , to be governor

o f . the palatinate , and Philip Calvert remained as chancellor The internal ff a airs of the colony having been peacefully adjusted for the time , the . proprietary government w as now to turn it s attention to the encroach 1 6 8 ments o f foreign colonists o n its eastern frontier . Since 3 parties of Swedes had been establishing themselves o n the west bank of the Dela 1 6 ware River near the present sites of New Castle and Wilmington . In 5 5 o f Peter Stuyvesant , the governor of the Dutch colony New Netherlands . despatched an armed party against these settlers , overcame them , and

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River and between Maryland to the south and the Five Nations to the o f h is north . A study boundaries showed Penn that he had inadequate s e a re access to the , and , being bent on obtaining a good outlet in this spect , as a royal favorite he was able to gain permission to push his south ern boundary twenty miles forward , and later to obtain from the Duke of York the land o n the west shore o f Delaware Bay which the Dutch had taken from the Swedes and the retention of which by the former had ’ ’ been the object of Augustine Herman s mission to St . Mary s . In Spite o f o f vehement protests on the part the Calverts , this territory west of the Delaware was extended until it included the area o f the present o f state of Delaware , the whole of which was thus cut out the original territory o f Maryland . 1 6 Meantime , in 7 5 , Cecilius Calvert died , full of years and of honor . His administration o f the aff airs of a country on whose shores he had never trod for three and forty years had been both broad - minded and sagacious . With infinite tact he had resisted the conflicting political influences which had prevailed in England during his lifetime , and , when we consider that the colony had been established for Roman Catholics o f and governed by a Roman Catholic family , and that the souls which it contained at the time of his death about t hree —fourths Were dis o n e - o f senting Protestants , sixth members of the Church England , and - o f h is only one twelfth were Roman Catholics , the quality political skill ’ can readily be appreciated . At the time of Cecilius s death indications o f disquietude in Maryland were not lacking . The dispute over the ex port tax on tobacco had been compromised in 1 6 7 1 by the passage o f an S act granting two hillings on the hogshead , but this compromise was only reached after a struggle of eleven years . Another contention ex ist e d between the lower house of the assembly and the proprietary gov m n t e rn e in regard to the rights of the burgesses . The latter claimed that they sat by the inherent right of Englishmen to representation in a f legislative assembly and in this respect resembled the House o Commons . The Calverts held that the lower house s at only by authority given in the charter , and that it constituted only an instrument of government ’ under the proprietor . Charles Calvert s accession to the barony as third o f Lord Baltimore , upon the death his father , Cecilius . did not strengthen the hands o f the proprietary government . Charles was more narrow - S minded and less public pirited than his father , and the presence in their midst for the first time of the Lord Palatine brought home to the Mary landers more clearly the oligarchical character of their government . The Opposition by the people of Maryland to the Calverts ’ government was based on a well - founded charge of nepotism in the distribution of f S public o fices ; on the fact that the heriffs , who were appointees of the o f governor , were the only j udges elections and were not responsible to ’ 1 6 6 the county courts ; that in 9 , by the assertion of the proprietor s t h e ff prerogative , su rage was restricted to freeholders owning fifty acres of land or property to the value o f fifty pounds sterling ; and that in sum moning the members elect to the assembly the governor arbitrarily

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i omitted the names of such persons as were peculiarly antagon stic to him . 1 6 6 These grievances found expression in 7 in an incipient rebellion , led by two persons named Davis and Pate . This movement was in sympathy ’ with Bacon s rebellion in Virginia , and , although an armed force was gathered in Calvert County , for the purpose of intimidating the govern ment , the movement collapsed on the death of Bacon in Virginia , and the o t e l two leaders , Davis and Pate , were hanged by Governor N y , Charles

Calvert at that time being absent in England . Distrust of the govern ment on the part of the people w a s increased by an episode which occurred

1 6 8 . h is in 4 Charles Calvert in that year again visited England , leaving s o n o n e young , Benedict Calvert , in the governorship , with George Tal an bot , Irishman and a kinsman of the Calverts , acting as regent . Disputes had occurred between Lord Baltimore ’ s government and the collectors o f o n revenue for the royal treasury , which resulted in a demand Lord 2 0 0 o f Baltimore , by Charles I I , for 5 pounds sterling , which sum he claimed to have been defrauded by the interference of the Maryland f 1 6 8 government with his revenue o ficers . Late in 4 Talbot killed one of the collectors in a quarrel on board a ship of the royal navy lying at St . ’ o f Mary s . The captain the vessel delivered Talbot to the governor of

Virginia for trial , but Talbot subsequently made his escape to Maryland ff and o ered himself for trial there . The council , mostly kinsmen of ’ Talbot s , declined to try him or take any action in the matter unless a royal order was received to send Talbot to England to be tried there . Before this was done Lord Baltimore interceded with James I I and s e ’ ff w cured Talb o t s pardon . The e ect of this occurrence as to make the government appear lax in its allegiance and remiss in its duties to the

Crown . 1 6 8 8 o f The flight of James I I in thus found the Protestants Maryland , fo r for various reasons , ripe revolt against the government of the Romanist 2 2 1 6 8 Calverts , and when William and Mary succeeded , January , 9 , the majority of the population in a state o f hostile tension awaited the action f o f . o the council As a matter fact , Lord Baltimore had at once despatched an emissary from London directing the council to proclaim t h e new sov

e re i n s . g , but the messenger died on the voyage When Calvert became

o f . aware this , he despatched another , but it was then too late In April , “ 1 6 8 fo r 9 , an Association in Arms the defence of the Protestant Religion and fo r asserting the right o f King William and Queen Mary to the Prov ince o f Maryland and all the English Dominions w as formed by John Co o de o n e and others , and , as colony after another proclaimed William and Mary and still the Maryland Council ignored their accession , the movement gathered strength until in July of the same year Co o de with ’ 7 0 0 armed followers appeared before St . Mary s and demanded the sur ff o f . render the government No resistance was o ered , and the Council

fled to a fort on the Patuxent , but a few days afterwards surrendered . Co o de then prepared an account o f these proceedings and forwarded them to King William asking him to assume the government o f the province . This proposition and the proceedings which led up to it seemed to meet

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’ t h s ci re aci as the king s approval , and he accordingly issued a f against 1 6 1 the Baltimore charter , and in 9 sent Sir Lionel Copley to the province

as its first royal governor . ’ ’ ’ The change of government eff ected by Co o de s co up d eta t did not bring with it the freedom from administrative exactions which the Prot t e s t an t s o f Maryland had expec ed . Taxes were at once levied for the o f o f o u support the Church of England , and , as only a small part the p p o f lation were members that church , the tax was generally unpopular , o f both Puritans and Papists resenting its imposition . The method col le ct in as er ca i ta g the tax was also odious , consisting it did of a p p levy of forty pounds of tobacco from rich and poor alike . Catholics were treated f with great intolerance . The further immigration of members o the Roman Church was prohibited and the celebration o f mass in the province for A s c o — bidden . a further blow to the religionists of the former proprietor , 1 6 an assembly convened in 9 4 by Sir Francis Nicholson , who succeeded as o f Sir Lionel Copley royal governor , changed the seat government ’ from St . Mary s to Anne Arundel Town , formerly the Puritan settle w a s ment of Providence . The new capital called Annapolis , and Governor Nicholson founded there in 1 6 9 3 a public school which was known as ’ King William s School and w a s the first of a number of similar in s t it u tions established at that time throughout the province . The last decade o f the seventeenth century was given over to ceaseless wrangling in re gard to church matters . Almost every year saw some new act passed by o n e party t o which the assent o f the Crown was denied through the o f opposition of another party . The early years the eighteenth century , however , found the dissenting Protestants free from political exactions o f and unmolested in the exercise their religious worship , but still subject to the tax for the support o f the Church of England . No amelioration o f o n the hardships imposed the Romanists had occurred , but , on the

o f . contrary , the persecution this sect had increased Acts had been passed making the celebration o f mass punishable by imprisonment for life and offering a reward o f o n e hundred pounds sterling to any o n e who apprehended a priest in the performance of this function ; any Catholic keeping a school o r taking a youth to educate could be punished by a sentence of life imprisonment ; a Catholic sending his child abroad to be educated w as fined one hundred pounds ; no Catholic could purchase real estate ; test oaths impossible to Catholics were offered to every P a pist youth on coming of age , and upon his declining to take them he was declared incapable o f inheriting land and his nearest kin of Protestant faith inherited in his stead ; also , when extra taxes were levied for emer

e n cie s . g , Catholics were assessed at double rates In addition to hard o f ships caused by the religious exactions the royal government , Mary land found that S h e was now subject to royal requisitions o f both men and money for military purposes . Marylanders therefore at this time o f began to look back with regret to the days proprietary rule , and its re - ff w as establishment , which was soon to be e ected , far from unwelcome to the people at large .

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