Monday, July 8, 2019

Notebook - Maryland #3

1795 Map of Maryland
Brumbaugh, Gaius. Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County & Church from Original Sources, Volume I, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1975.
Beall, Gentle, Magruder, Linton, Ogle
Brumbaugh, Gaius. Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County & Church from Original Sources, Volume II, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1975.
Gentle, Linton
Clark, Raymond & Sara Clark. Calvert County, Maryland, Wills, 1654-1700, no imprint, 1974.
Calvert County, with St. Mary's and Charles Counties comprises the southernmost part of Maryland, or what is known as southern Maryland. This county suffered the loss of its court house in Prince Frederick in a fire in 1882 when all records were destroyed.
Relatively little has been published of an historical or genealogical nature on Calvert County. The most outstanding volume is Charles Francis Stein's A History of Calvert County, published in cooperation with the Calvert County Historical Society (Baltimore, 1960, 404 p.). In addition to historical topics from 1654 to the 20th century, the book has a genealogy section, pictures of historic houses, and as appendices the Taxables of 1733 and the Tax Assessment List of 1782. Of 235 families in the genealogical section of Mr. Stein's book 53 families - some with variant spellings - are included in our volume of wills from 1654 to 1700.  Other contributions on Calvert County by contrast seem slight.
The listings in the 1790 census of Maryland for Calvert County were lost. The census schedules for 1800 have been published by the Maryland Genealogical Society. Some church registers have been preserved and are available.
The format for will abstracts:
1) Person, location (if given) and occupation (if given) 
 2) Omission of the soul to God phrase
3) inclusion of the body to be buried provision if it is specific & might be helpful in locating the grave
4) each provision of the will
5) listing of executor(s) / executrix
6) signed & seal statement indicating with (x) if person used his or her mark in lieu of signature
7) date will was made
8) date will was probated
9) testators or witnesses to the will
10) before statement - deputy commissary, clerk of court or register of wills
11) source - Wills, Liber & folio (book & page)
12) codicil - where attached
Beale, Joanne, wife of John Beale - not sure who this is or how they connect
  • Son George Reid . . . estate be committed to custody, tuition & guardianship of friends - his godfather George Mackall & John Wauhub, or survivor.
  • Overseers to supervise son George's education and to receive 1 ring and steel pistols
  • Son Robert & daughter Elizabeth legacies left by father, my late husband Robert Tyler.
  • Natural son Peter alias John Mowten is my son, though of a sin of which I am ashamed I do hereby repent & humbly beg God's gracious pardon, 200 acres of land out of parcel of land which my late husband Robert Tyler, he be given a child's share in all of my estate.
  • Youngest son John Beale 200 acres of land.
  • God daughter Elizabeth Coomes 1 year old heifer
  • Friends Jno. Haks for good services & her children instructing them in Literature, good manners and fear of God, 100 acres of land.
  • Appoints husband Jno. Beale, executor
  • Signed: Joanne Beale (seal)
  • Made 6 June 1675, probated 20 July 1675
  • Testators: Thomas Sprigg, John Hale
  • Source: Wills, Liber 2, ff. 346-347
Edwards, John - not sure how or if he is related
  • To loving wife Ann Edwards all . . . real & personal estate during her natural life & after her decease to my daughter Elizabeth Edwards
  • Appoints wife Ann Edwards, Edward Mathew Lewis & Samuel Watkins executors
  • Signed John Edwards (seal)
  • made 10 April 1693, probated 6 May 1693
  • Testators: Richard Keene, S. Watkins, Catharine (x) Lewis
  • Before: Ne: Blakiston, Comsry.
  • Source: Wills, Liber x6, f. 39
Holdcraft, Jacob. Names in Stone, Volume 1, Ann Arbor, MI, 1966 - available on Ancestry.
For both of these works one word of caution should be repeated again and again. Gravestone inscriptions are but one of many resources available to genealogists. My readings are as exact as I can make them, although some differences of interpretation and eve outright mistakes are expected, given the human limitations possessed by us all. But gravestone inscriptions can never be more accurate than the stones themselves, whose general insufficiencies and errors are described in the Introduction which follows.
When, from other sources, errors are discovered or suspected on the stones themselves, it has sometimes been urged that corrections be made within these pages. But even if I could properly weigh all conflicting information so as to make adjustments satisfactory to all, I should in the process be turning away from my initial purpose, namely that of providing these inscriptions as primary source material, one toll among the many which are available to genealogists. In the final analysis genealogists must make their own adjustments through proper research in all sources available to them.
Settlement in the area of today's Frederick County, Maryland began largely during the decade of the 1730's. It was then a pioneer area of scattered farms and no towns. Most of the early inhabitants were of non-English stock. They were strangers in a new land, struggling to eke out a living while establishing their new economy and society.
Most were farmers. Artisans or merchants among them were rare. Their churches were more religious traditions brought from the old country than physical edifices constructed in the new. Church services were held in individual homes or barns whenever itinerant ministers chanced to ride through the area. Their saddlebag records consisted mostly of entries in personal journals and seldom survived he ravages of swollen fordings, rain, snowdrifts or careless heirs.
What registers of vital statistics were kept began only toward mid-century as church notations for baptisms and marriages. The recording in church books of deaths and burials was so much a later thought that genealogists usually rely on probate and administration of estates to reconstruct the lives and families of Frederick County's first inhabitants.
When death came to the early settler's family, interment was usually made in a corner of the family farm. There were no stonecutters to fashion gravestones or carve inscriptions. Even home-made markers were rarely used to designate the site. When they were they were soon lost or covered with forest mold.
Gradually, as families became established, graves were marked with native stones, upon which often only initials or dates were scratched. These crude tokens of remembrance have largely disappeared, crumbled by frost and sun or sinking into the grave's soft earth. As families grew, prospered and intermarried some burial plots expanded into fairly sizable private cemeteries. The first generation has been lost to us, so far as inscriptions are concerned. But the second generation began to remedy this lack by erecting stones, making entries in long neglected family Bibles, drawing on the memories of oldsters nodding by the winter fires. Few of these tales have come down to us and many of the dates recalled by them are uncertain. Note the inscriptions giving age as "about" so many years. . . .
About the be of that [19th] century itinerant stonecutter's made their appearance, working their way from farm to farm, looking for unmarked graves in remote areas and following up stories of recent deaths. With them they carried a wagonload of slate or sandstone slabs. They carved names and erected stones on order. Errors in hasty recollection and in carving were many. But, although sometimes difficult to decipher, these peddlers' stones give us much information we never otherwise would have. Through them, the real beginning of the Family Graveyard, with inscriptions in stone, became a common fact.

  • Beall, Basil, 12 June 1796 - 27 Apr. 1877 - Browningsville, Bethesda Methodist Church, in Montgomery County near boundary line
  • Beall, Enoch 25 Oct. 1796 - ? 1870 age 73-1-? eroded stone Libertytown, Fairmount Cemetery
  • Beall, Enoch 27 Mar 1791 - 5 May 1870 78-1-8 Libertytown, Fairmount Cemetery
  • Beall, Leven C. 1 Jan. 1809 - 6 Dec. 1882 Buckeystown, St. Joseph's Carrolton Manor Catholic Church, Manor Woods Road
  • wife Catherine 7 Sep. 1800 - 7 Feb. 1847 Buckeystown, St. Joseph's Carrolton Manor Catholic Church
  • Beall, Priscella (sic) widow of Hezekiah 20 Dec. 1876 age 87 [b. 1789] Browningsville, Bethesda Methodist Church
  • Beall, Priscilla 7 Feb. 1806 - 9 Apr. 1866 Browningsville, Bethesda Methodist Church
  • Beall, Tilghman T. 1 Apr. 1802 - 8 Jan. 1819 Petersville, St. Mark's Episcopal Church.
  • Beall, William Murdock 5 Nov. 1823 age 82 [b. 1741] Frederick, Mount Olivet Cemetery. Largest & most famous of Frederick County cemeteries.
  • Beall, William Murdock 16 Mar. 1789 - 23 Apr. 1847 Frederick, Mount Olivet Cemetery.
  • wife Frances 8 Nov. 1791 - 25 Jan. 1852 Frederick, Mount Olivet Cemetery.
  • son William M. 23 Apr. 1817 - 19 Apr. 1823 Frederick, Mount Olivet Cemetery.
  • Brooke, Chas. Thompson son of Richard & Lydia 9 Feb. 1798 - 19 Mar. 1815 Emmitsburg, St. Joseph's Catholic Church
  • Brooke, John Baptiste 19 Apr. 1811 age 36 [b. 1775] Emmitsburg, St. Joseph's Catholic Church
  • Brooke, Roger 11 Apr. 1755 - 26 Oct. 1825 Emmitsburg, St. Joseph's Catholic Church
  • Coy, George son of John & Magdalena 27 Aug. 1845 0-6-16 Sabillasville Harbaugh Family Cemetery, East of village and a bit south on MD Rt. 81.

Holdcraft, Jacob. Names in Stone, Volume 2, Ann Arbor, MI, 1966 - available on Ancestry.

  • Ogle, Aron son of Benjamin & Rebecca 12-25 Feb. 1781 Graceham Moravian Cemetery. The railroad and highway separate cemetery from church, which is about 500 feet to the south and was established in 1758. The Graceham Moravian Church Register numbered deaths consecutively. Until about 1840, stones bore corresponding numbers. On comparing stones with the Register, surprisingly few were missing. Where such do occur the compiler has drawn upon the Register to fill the gaps. Stones in this old section are purposely flat, men south of a center aisle, women to the north and children at the back or eastern end. Families thus are separated. The newer section is arranged conventionally.
  • Ogle, Benjamin 20 June 1822 age 62 [b. 1760] Emmitsburg Presbyterian Cemetery on US Hwy. #15 north of town. Church building is in town; no edifice at the cemetery.
  • Ogle, Catherine wife of Benjamin 17 Dec. 1884 age 75 y, 3 m. 16 days [b. 1809] Graceham Moravian Cemetery.
  • Ogle, Daniel 16 Aug. 1805 - 8 Dec. 1865 Uniontown, Pipe Creek Cemetery. West side of Uniontown Pike (MD Rt. #84) south of Clear Ridge in Carroll County. Scharf, p. 824 calls this the German Baptist Cemetery.
  • Ogle, Elizabeth see Elizabeth Devilbiss
  • Ogle, Ephraim 8 May 1829 - 4 May 1911 Johnsville, Beaver Dam Brethren Churches. Off Green Valley Road (MD Rt. #75) on the Beaver Dam Road. There are two Brethren churches here, at opposite ends of the cemetery, one an Old Order and one Reformed. A fence once divided the two sections of the cemetery, but this has been removed and it may be regarded as one cemetery.
  • wife Mary A. 7 June 1832 - 28 Dec. 1914 Johnsville, Beaver Dam Brethren Churches.
  • son Thomas E. 10 Dec. 1880 - age 16 y, 3 m, 7 days [b. 1864] Johnsville, Beaver Dam Brethren Churches.
  • Ogle, George W. 29 Nov. 1831 - 6 Aug. 1898 Creagerstown, St. John's Lutheran & Reformed Church. A Union congregation until 1908. The old church was left for the Reformed, who by 1941 had become inactive, and a new St. John's Lutheran Church was built alongside.
  • wife C. Elizabeth 4 Mar. 1837 - 13 Jan. 1914 Creagerstown, St. John's Lutheran & Reformed Church
  • Ogle, Harriet died 1848 no age Frederick, Reformed Cemeteries (abandoned). Although the records of the Evangelical Reformed Church (today merged into the United Church of Christ) began with a churchbook purchased in 1749, it was not until 1764 that Daniel Dulany Jr., deeded the church its lot #64 on Church Street between Market and Court Streets, where the Trinity Chapel now stands. A church building completed 1764 survived various remodelings and renovations until it was finally replaced in 1880-82 by the present Trinity Chapel. The clock tower remained undisturbed. In its rear was an early burial ground, which likewise survived until May 1881, when excavations preparatory to its abandonment were begun.
  • Ogle, Louisa daughter of Rev. Upton & l. Beall Ogle 6 Dec. 1838 - 2 July 1839 Frederick, All Saints Episcopal Cemetery. On the north side of East All Saints Street. Original church building completed with help of tax levied by an Act of Assembly in 1750. Constructed on East All Saints Street of brick brought from England. A burial ground surrounded the original church and was in use for many years. . . . In 1814 the old church building was torn down and its material was used for a new church on site of present Parish House on Court Street. This alleviated crowded conditions only temporarily. In 1852 Mt. Olivet Cemetery was formed and burials in All Saints virtually ceased.
  • Ogle, Mary see Mary Sweeney
  • Ogle, Mary wife of Samuel 31 Oct. 1782 - 28 Nov. 1861 Frederick, St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Third & East Streets, Established in 1845. Includes reinterrals from original burials at the Novitiate of the Society of Jesus, located on Chapel Alley between East Second & Third Streets opposite present church.
  • Ogle, Mrs. Mary died in the year 1820 Walkersville, Israel Creek Cemetery. On Woodsboro Pike (MD Rt. #194) at Devilbiss Bridge Road. When copied, it was a pig yard. Suffered additionally from widening of Devilbiss Bridge Road. Later the Glade Valley Grange began a renovation and maintenance program which has made this place a beauty spot. Many early inhabitants of Walkersville (once Georgetown) are buried here.
  • Ogle, Mary E. see Lt. Thoms P. Hammitt
  • Ogle, Rebecca see John Devilbiss
  • Ogle, Thomas 21 July 1850 age 66 y 6 m 3 d [b. 1784] Johnsville, Beaver Dam Brethren Churches.
  • Ogle, Thomas A. 4 Feb. 1837 - 10 Nov. 1913 Frederick, Mount Olivet Cemetery. Largest and most famous of Frederick County cemeteries.
  • wife Annie L. 18 Jan. 1837 - [blank] Frederick, Mount Olivet Cemetery.
  • Porter, William b. Chester Co., PA 1729 - 1802 Emmitsburg Presbyterian Cemetery
  • wife Sarah age 73 no date; erected by daughter Eleanor Patterson Emmitsburg Presbyterian Cemetery
  • Beall, Mary wife of Wm. Murdock Beall 26 Apr. 1810 age 68 [b. 1742] Frederick, All Saints Episcopal Cemetery
  • Beall, Mary Ann daughter of William Murdock Beall 29 Nov. 1817 age 46 [b. 1771] Frederick, All Saints Episcopal Cemetery

Nead, Daniel. The Pennsylvania-German Settlement of Maryland, Lancaster, PA: Press of the New Era, 1914
Johnson, Magruder, Beall, Parks, Gentle
Parran, Alice. Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families, Baltimore, MD: H.G. Roebuck & Son, 1935.
Manors, formerly called Baronies, and in later times Lordships, are of still more ancient date in England, than the establishment of the Feudal Law. They were large Districts of Land held by noblemen, and great personages. Certain tracts of these lands called the "Demesne Lands" were held by the Lords for the use of their families and servants while other parcels of the estate known as "Tenemental Lands" were distributed to the tenants for their use and occupation. The balance of the grant being unimproved and uncultivated, was dedicated to public roads and for common pasturage for both the Lord and tenants.  These public lands were called and titled "Lord's Waste."
In 1633 a Charter was given by the King to Lord Baltimore empowering him to found a settlement in America to be known as Mary-Land in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria. The nineteenth Article of the Charter provided for the erection of Manors and it read as follows:
"We also by these Presents do give and grant license to the same Baron of Baltimore, and to his heirs, to erect any parcels of land within the Province aforesaid into Manors and in every of those Manors to have and hold a "Court Baron Court Leet" and all things which to a Court Baron do belong; and to have and keep view of "Frank Pledge" belonging."
It can be plainly seen that authority to erect and create a Manor was given to Lord Baltimore by the 19th Article of the Charter. The question now arises, is what constitutes a Manor and under what rules of laws does it arise? There were three methods by which a Manor could be created and they were as follows:
I. Lord Proprietary Grant. Those erected in the name and for the use of the Lord, Proprietor and for which as a man does not convey to himself grants or patents, did not pass.
II. Manors erected by Special Grant. Those which were erected by the special orders of the Proprietor, for the benefit of his relations, with particular conditions and privileges.
III. Statutory Manors arising by way of the Plantation Acts. Those which assumed that name after all conditions of Plantation had been fulfilled.
The last type of Manors are, of course, more numerous than the other two, because they were given as an inducement to the bold and hardy adventurers, who left their friends, relatives and comforts in England, to come to the wild and uncultivated lands of the New World, in an attempt to establish a colony.
The first of the Plantation Acts under which these Manors were given, was passed at Portsmouth in August 1636, and it provided that every one thousand, two thousand or three thousand acres granted to an adventurer to be created into a Manor, and to be called by such name as the adventurer should desire, with all the powers of Court Leet and Court Baron. The Manors were granted under the terms of the Act of 1636, until prior to the Indian War, when it was decreed, that beginning with the feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary in 1642, and to continue until new or other "Acts of Plantation" for the said province should be published, that any adventurer who should bring with him twenty men, between the ages of sixteen and fifty years, each armed with a musket, a sword and a belt, a bandolier and flask, ten pounds of powder and forty pounds of bullets and shot, should be granted two thousand acres of land, which were to be erected into a Manor to him and his heirs forever in socago tenue. On August 20th, 1648, all former Conditions of Plantation were revoked. In July, 1649, new Conditions of Plantations were enacted which provided that two thousand acres of land should be erected into a Manor and should be granted unto every adventurer or planter who transported twenty persons of British or Irish descent to Maryland. The granting of Manors continued under the Condition of Plantation until 1683, when the system was abolished.  . . .
Instruction Sheet & Abbreviations Used in Genealogical Part - This is not biographical, but historical lineage and "pleasing incidents" of people and places. "Family lore" moderately included, with membership mentioned to rights of registrants affiliated with epoch making societies. Periods from Adam to the end of the Colonial American regime, which ends with the War of 1812-14. . . .
Maryland was a palatinate, and the only state that was with a complete Proprietary Government, the Baron Court and the Court Leet. A manorial system and a Lord of each true Manor.  perfect example is given in "St. Clement's Manor" the manor of Thomas Gerrard, Lord. Granted by the King and named a manor in its text. Ordered by Lord Baltimore, Cecilius Calvert, and carried out by Leonard Calvert, Lieut. Gov. of the Province of Md.  or in America.  . . . Many so called Manors have no proof that they were aught but a name, and in that case were purely a fanciful title, and it is an historical error and a modern presumption, and often a real estate intrigue.
Erection of the Counties of Maryland - The order is arranged, not alphabetically, but according to the date of erection.
  1. St. Mary's - called in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The establishment was on Feast of Annunciation, March 25th, 1634 at St. Clement's Island, in the Potomac. (Final date of erection as a county was 1637, after surveyors arrived, square miles 269.1.
  2. Kent - named for the county in England, erected 1642. 281 square miles
  3. Anne Arundel - named for the wife of Cecilius Calvert, Lady Anne Arundel, daughter of Lord Arundel of Wardour Castle, erected 1650, 430.4 square miles.
  4. Calvert - named for the Lords Proprietor, 1650, 216.8 square miles
  5. Charles - named for Charles III, Lord Baltimore, 1658, 462 square miles
  6. Baltimore - named for Proprietary's Irish Barony, meaning bilte mor or large town, 1659, 646.8 square miles
  7. Talbot - named for Grace Talbott, daughter of George Calvert, 1st Lord Baltimore, who married Lord Talbott 1662, 267.1 square miles
  8. Somerset - named for Mary Somerset, sister of Cecilius Calvert, 1666, 328.6 square miles
  9. Dorchester - named for the Earle of Dorset, friend of the Calvert family, 1668, 573.2 square miles
  10. Cecil - named for Lord Baltimore, Cecilius Calvert, who was named for Sir Robert Cecil, who was the most influential friend of the Calvert family, 1674. 374.6 square miles
  11. Prince George's - named for Prince George of Denmark, 1695, 479.6 square miles
  12. Queen Anne's - name for Queen Anne of England, 1706, 363.4 square miles
  13. Worcester - named for the Earl of Worcester, 1742, 491.5 square miles
  14. Frederick - named for Frederick, sixth and last Lord Baltimore, 1748, 660 square miles
  15. Caroline - named for Caroline Calvert, sister of Frederick & wife of Sir Robert Eden, 1773, 317.4 square miles
  16. Harford - named for Henry Harford, who ended the regime of Proprietary Government, 1773, 439.8 square miles
  17. Washington - named for Gen. George Washington, as the first county erected for the State of Maryland, 1776, 457.3 square miles
  18. Montgomery - named for Gen. Montgomery, 1776, 517.6 square miles
  19. Allegany - an Indian name meaning beautiful stream oolikhanna, 1789, 440.5 square miles, Alleghaney is old spelling.
  20. Carroll - named for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 1836 445.3 square miles
  21. Howard - named for Col. John Eager Howard, the elder, 1851, 249.1 square miles
  22. Wicomico - named for an Indian town, 1867, 368.9 square miles
  23. Garrett - named for John Garrett, president of the B&O Railroad, 1872, 681 square miles.
Beall (Shipley): Registrants under Landed Gentry through the right of descent from . . . Ninian Beall.  Estates "Sam's Beginning," "Dunn Back" and "Dumbarton."
Lineage of Ninian Beall, whose record in Md. from 1650 was outstanding. He came as an indentured Cromwellian Prisoner, served thirty-five years, lived to be 92 - was six feet, 7 inches all, and his remains were removed after years and this was proven.  His thrift and perseverance made him an outstanding character in his day. He lived at "Fife Large," near what is now Georgetown, DC. His youngest son, George, the one Georgetown is named for and not for George Washington, as many think. George Gordon owned this tract first; it was called "The Wilderness" and he acquired it from Leonard Mackall who m. Catherine Beall.  This is now known in Washington as Q Street, N Street, and 30th Street. The Beall family were people who stood pioneer life with find physique, and the family gave generously its sons to the American Revolution. It is said more sons than any other family and many High Ranking Officers from Colonel to Brigadier General.  Gen. Samuel Beall , a grandson, was known as one of The Immortal Twelve, of the Stamp Act. His eldest son Brooke Beall, was known for his hospitality and charming wife; George Washington was often a guest at his beautiful home. George Beall m. Eliz. Brooke, dau. of Barbara Dent & Thomas Brooke. He was born at Marlboro 1695, d. at Georgetown 1780. The Dumbarton House of Georgetown emulated American Revolutionary ancestry, rather than Colonial distinction, because fame came during that 1776 period; it was fifty-three years after coming to Md. before Ninian received a Grant - 1703. He was then 78 years old - b. in Scotland 1625, at Fifeshire; and enjoyed even at that time of life fourteen years remaining in comfort on his Plantation. He was voted by the Legislature a gift for service most faithfully performed in the protection of Maryland against the Indians - 1699.  His sons and grandsons all served in various American Wars - to 1812-14.  Founder of American Branch: Colonel Ninian Beall - name of first wife not known.  He had two sons born in Scotland:
  • Thomas Beall md. Elizabeth Bateman
  • John Beall
The second wife of Ninian Beall was Ruth More - daughter of Richard More ( or Moore) of Calvert Co., MD.  Issue 8 children, of these:
  • Ninian Beall Jr. md. Elizabeth Magruder  - 2 children Samuel  & Mary
  • Jane Beall md. Archibald Edmonstone
  • Charles Beall md. Mary (-?-)
  • Hester Beall md. Col. Joseph Belt
  • Margery Beall md. 1) Thomas Sprigg, & 2) Col. Joseph Belt, widower of her sister Hester
  • Mary Beall md. Andrew Hamilton
  • George Beall  md. Elizabeth Brooke - dau. of Col. Thomas Brooke & his wife Barbara Dent & the granddaughter of Robert Brook of DeLaBrooke and his wife Mary Baker.
Will of Col. Ninian Beall - In the name of God, Amen, I, Ninian Beall, of Prince George's County in the Province of Maryland, being indisposed in body, but of sound and perfect memory, God be praised for these same, and, considering the mortality of human nature, and uncertainty of life, doe make, ordain, constitute and appoint this to be my last Will and Testament in manner and form following: Vist. Impris. I give and bequeath my Soul into the hands of Almighty God, in hopes of free pardon for all my sins, and as for my Body, to be committed to the earth from which it came, to be decently buried at the discretion of my Trustees hereafter mentioned.
Item. I will and bequeath that all my debts and funeral charges be paid first and satisfied, and as for what portion of my worldly goods as shall be then remaining, I bequeath and bestow in the manner following:
Item. I doe give and bequeath unto my son George, my Plantation and tract of land called the "Rock of Dumbarton," lying and being at Rock Creek, and containing four hundred and eighty acres, with all the stock thereon, both cattle and hogs, them and their increase unto my son George, and unto his heirs forever.
Item. I doe give and bequeath unto my said son George Beall, his choice of one of my feather beds, bolster and pillow, and other furniture thereto belonging, with the cows and calves, and half of my sheep from off the Plantation I now live on, unto him and his heirs forever.
Item. I doe give and bequeath unto my son-in-law Andrew Hamilton, my negro woman Allie, unto him and his heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my granddaughter, Mary Beall, the daughter of my son Ninian Beall, deceased, the one-half part of all moveables or personal property of cattle and hogs, horses, household goods, after my legacies before bequeathed are paid and satisfied, unto her the said Mary Beall, and to her heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath to my grandson, Samuel Beall, the remainder part of Bacon Hall, together with the plantation and orchard, tobacco houses thereunto belonging (with this proviso) that when he comes of age of one and twenty, that he make over by a firm conveyance, all his rights and title that he hath unto a certain Tract of Land called Same's (or Sam's) beginning on the south side of the road, goeing to Mount Calvert, unto he said Mary and her heirs forever, but if my said grandson should happen to die before he arrive to be at that age, to make over the land so as aforesaid, then I doe give and bequeath unto my said granddaughter Mary , the whole tr act of Bacon Hall, with the houses and orchard thereon, unto her and her heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my grandson, Samuel Beall, my water-mill lying on the Collington Branch, Iron Work Houses, and all other materials thereunto belonging, unto the said Samuel and his heirs forever.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son-in-law, Joseph Belt, a part of a tract of land called Good Luck, containing two hundred and forty-five acres, he allowing unto my heirs the sum of four thousand pounds of tobacco, according to our former agreement, he deducting what I doe owe him on his books for several wares and merchandises, to the said Joseph Belt and unto his heirs forever.
Item. Whereas I owe several debts, I doe empower my Trustees hereafter named, to enable them to pay the same, to sell a certain tract of land, called Recovery, lying and in the freshes of Patuxent River, near the head of the Western Branch, to be sold, it containing four hundred acres, the aforesaid tract of land bequeathed unto my son Belt, is adjoining thereunto.
Item. I doe give and bequeath unto my son Charles Beall, a book of Bishop Cooper's work, "The Acts of the Church and Chronicles of King Charles the First and King Charles the Second," and I doe request and oblige my son Charles and my son George to send for a dozen books entitled "An Advice to Young, Old and Middle Age," set forth by one Mr. Christopher Ness, these books to be distributed among my grandchildren and godsons.
Item. I give and bequeath to my son Charles, a thousand acres of land, called Dunn Back, lying on the south side of the Great Choptank, on a creek called watt's Creek, unto him and his heirs forever.
And lastly, I doe make, ordain, declare and appoint my grandson, Samuel Beall to be my sole and whole executor of this my last will and testament. And I doe devise my loving son, Charles Beall, Joseph Belt, and George Beall, to doe and perform my devises as above expressed, and to set and doe for my Executor until he arrive at the age of one and twenty, hereby revoking and annulling all other Wills by me at any time heretofore made and signed.
And I doe devise my said sons to use their best care and endeavor that my two grandchildren, the children of my beloved Ninian Beall, deceased, to be brought up and have Trustees to this my last Will, to make their appearance every Easter Tuesday, or any other time as they shall think a more fitting time, at my dwelling plantation, yearly, to inspect into all the affairs thereof, and of a yearly increase of all the creatures upon my plantation and at the Mill, for and on behalf of my two grandchildren, who are to be joint sharers therein, my granddaughter to have her part on the day of her marriage.
In testimony whereof, I have, to this my last Will and Testament, set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord, One thousand, seven hundred and seventeen.
Ninian Beall {Seal}
  • Beall: Samuel Beall, Jr. md. Eleanor Brooke Beall, issue 8 children [only 7 listed]:
  • Verlinda b. 1736 md. William Dent
  • Richard Beall b. 1738 md. (-?-)
  • Walter Beall b. 1737
  • Brooke Beall b. 1742 md. Margaret Johns d. 1798
  • Thomas Beall b. 1744
  • Amelia Beall b. 1747 md. Thaddeus Beall
  • Samuel Beall, 3rd b. 1748 In Revolutionary Army, a great general
Historical Incidents of Ninian Beall - A man of staunch moral courage and thrift. A typical American of pioneer days - 33 years of age when he arrived in MD and without means, gaining confidence for thirty or more years. In 1684 he became a Burgess from P.G. Co. (then it was Calvert Co., MD before the erection in 1695 of P.G. Co.) A chief military officer of Calvert Co., MD. A member of Assembly sent to treat with the Indians - 1697-1699; was subject of an Act of Gratitude passed by the Gen. Assembly for distinguished service. Under his supervision 200 Presbyterian immigrants from Scotland entered MD along the Potomac River - they named the settlement New Scotland.  Ninian Beall gave a deed for land there to build a church and presented a silver communion service in 1707 (parts of which may still be seen today). He was a man of huge stature - 6 ft. 7 in. He became owner of large tracts of land which are now where the town of Georgetown is built at Washington, D.C.
Ulrich - Rittenhouse: Registrant under the dignity of Historical Personages of Ancient Austria & Germany, to the family of Pennsylvania, prominent in the Revolution time, 1776 - Wilhelm and Nicholas Rittenhouse.
Ahnentafel of Sarah Amelia Rittenhouse:
1. Sarah Amelia Rittenhouse md. Dr. James Harry Ulrich
2. James Rittenhouse
3. Mary Josephine Croggs
4. Charles Rittenhouse
5. Amelia Van Buskirk
8. Nicholas Rittenhouse
9. Sophie Brandt
16. Martin Rittenhouse
17. Sara Detwiler
32. Nicholas Rittenhouse
33. Sarah Kolb
64. William
128. Nicholas
129. Wilhelmina Dewees

 Ahnentafel of Mary Hagershoff
1. Mary Hagershoff md. George or Gorgius Rittenhouse
2. Sir Gorgius Rittenhousen
4. Conrade / Charles Rittenhousen
5. Mary of Bavaria (maybe this Mary md. Bathasar?)
10. Emperor Charles Vth
11. Mary md. Bathasar (huh?)

 1. Bathasar
2. Henry Nicholas, Ferdinand 1st
3. Anne of Castile
6. Philip the Handsome
7. Joanna
12. Maximilian 1st
13. Mary of Burgundy
14. King Ferdinand
15. Isabella of Arragon & Castille
26. Charles the Bold
Parran, Alice. Series II of Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families, Baltimore, MD: H.G. Roebuck & Son, nd.
The Ogles were seated in Northumberland, Eng., long before the Norman Conquest; for we find authentic confirmation by deed of William the Conqueror to Humphrey de Ogle, of all liberties and royalties in his manor of Ogle. Sir Robert Ogle, Knight of Ogle, eighth in lineal descent from Humphrey, was granted the right to fortify his manor and erect it into a castle. One of the family was appointed as Governor of the Province of Maryland by Sir Charles Calvert, 5th Lord Baltimore, on Sept. 16, 1731, and took the oath of office Dec. 7, 1731. In 1742 he was succeeded by Sir John Bladen, a brother-in-law of Lord Baltimore, as Governor of the Province, who was removed in 1747 and Samuel Ogle reappointed, returning March 12, 1747, on His Majesty's ship Foulkstone from England, where he had been staying with his bride, Ann Tasker (b. 7 Oct. 1728, d. 1762) daughter of the Hon. Benjamin Trasker, President of the Council and Deputy Governor of Maryland, by his wife, Ann Bladen (b. 1696, d. 170??), daughter of Nathaniel Bladen, Hernsworth, England, and Isabelle Fairfax, his wife, daughter of Sir William Fairfax (1616-92) of Strenton.
Gov. Samuel Ogle and his wife, Ann Trasker, were presented with the estate of "Belair," containing 3600 acres and one of the finest homes in the province, by the Hon. Benjamin Trasker. Their town house was "Ogle Hall," of Annapolis, MD. Issue - 
  • Anna b. Nov. 6, 1743, d. June 9, 1747
  • Mary b. 1745, d. Aug. 1808 md. John Ridout, Secretary to Governor Sharpe
  • Samuel Ogle b. July 9, 1747, d. Sept. 9, 1748
  • Benjamin b. Feb. 7, 1749, d. July 9, 1806 md. 1) Rebecca Stilley, 2) Henrietta Margaret Hill
  • Meliora b. Sept. 13, 1750 md. James Anderson a banker of London, England
Taylor (Digges) 1635-1937

  • Arms - blazoned: quarterly - 1st & 4th, azure, on a chief sable two boars' heads argent; 2nd argent, a chevron ermine between three greyhounds azure; 3rd a chevron ermine between three mullets azure 
  • Crest - a dexter arm embowed in armor the hand grasping a javelin. 
  • Motto - Consequitor quodeunque petit - He accomplishes what he undertakes
  • [Arms, Crest & Motto - probably have nothing to do with our Taylors]

James Taylor of Carlisle, England b. 1635, among the English gentry who established homes in Tidewater country, VA. The section in which he settled became known as Caroline County in 1727; md. 1) (-?-); issue: James & Jame; md. 2) (-?-); issue: Anne, Mary died in infancy, Mary [2d], Edmund, John.
John Taylor md. Catherine Pendleton of New Kent Co., VA issue: Edmund (md. Ann Lewis), John (md. (-?-) Lyne), James, William (md. (-?-) Anderson), Mary (md. (-?-) Penn), Joseph (md. Frances Anderson), Catherine (md. Moses Penn), Philip (md. Mary Walker), Isabella & Elizabeth.
James Taylor md. Ann Pollard issue - 1 daughter, 1 son John Taylor of Caroline Co.
John Taylor of Caroline Co., VA - Lieut. Col., Commanding First Legion; author of the following four books: 

  1.  An Inquiry into the Principles & Policy of the Government of the United States, 1814
  2. Arator: Series of Agricultural Essays, 1818
  3. Construction Construed & the Constitution Vindicated, 1820
  4. Tyranny Unmasked, 1822
He md. Lucy Penn, daughter of John Penn (3), signer of the Declaration of Independence, and whose father was William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania. Issue: John, Edmund, William, Henry, James, George, two daughters died in childhood.
Rice, Millard. This Was the Life: Excerpts from the Judgment Records of Frederick County, Maryland, 1748-1765, Redwood City, CA: Monocacy Book Company, 1979. - available on Ancestry.
1753 - Proprietary for adultery, £5. Ninian Beall and Michael Jones became sureties for the fine "to keep the child of[f] the County."
1753 - Dr. Richard Brooke sues George Beall on a debt, the outcome of which is not indicated.
June Court of 1753 - Josiah Beall, Gentleman, was Sheriff.
In a criminal suit of the Lord Proprietary against Abraham Trotter, charged with stealing "with force and arms one hand gun of he value of 500 pounds of tobacco," the property of Charles Carroll, Trotter claims his innocence and a jury is impaneled as follows: Samuel Beall Sr., . . . John Hopkins, . . Richard Beall, . . . Nathaniel Beall.  The jury found Trotter guilty and the Court ordered that "he be set upon the pillory for the space of one hour and that afterwards he be set to the whipping post and there receive on his bare body 30 lashes well laid on . . . according to the Act of Assembly in such cases late made and provided." . . . "Samuel Beall in Court here swears that Daniel Carroll old him that he would remit Abraham Trotter's fourfold [fine] provided the same Abraham Trotter was sold out of the said Carroll's neighborhood."
"Mary Price aged (as it is said) one year and 8 months is here bound unto Richard Smith until she arrives at the age of 16 years. The said Richard Smith promises to cause the said Mary to be learned to read distinctly in the Bible and at the expiration of her time of servitude to give her freedom dues agreeable to Act of Assembly." - possibly our grandmother, she's the right age.
November Court of 1753 - A new list of appointments of Constables for the various Hundreds include:
James Crabtree - Linton Hundred
August Court of 1755 - Ninian Beall, son of Ninian, asks for a license to keep a public house "at the Sugarland Road," which is granted.  Lucy Beall asks for a renewal of her license to keep her tavern in George Town.
March Court of 1760 - Margaret Drapier brings suit against John Preston and wife Mary. She states "that she hath ever been accounted esteemed and reputed amongst good honest and prudent men as well as her neighbors . . . to be of good name, character, honest behavior and adversation and hath all her life lived and continued untouched and unsuspected of the crime of fornication and incontinancy or such like enormous crime and that because thereof several young men of good name and character had at several times desired to take her to be their wife and inparticular one John Ogle of Frederick County, farmer, before the speaking and publishing of the false and scandalous words hereafter mentioned did with great fervancy and protestations of love and sincerity solicit the said Margaret to consent to be his wife."  She also states that she was at the time "a sole unmarried, pure, chaste and honest virgin" and that Mary Preston knew all these facts and maliciously undertook to prevent her marriage by stating in hearing of many and good and true that "Margaret hath a bastard son" and "a child who calls her sister to cloak the said Margaret's disgrace."  She further states that because of these malicious slanders her suitor abandoned her and her reputation has been ruined to the extent of £130 current money.
Both plaintiff and defendants submit their case to the Court and a jury is impaneled, consisting of William Pritchett, Thomas Hogg, James Henthorn, William Duval, Edward Bucey, Zachariah Magruder, Middleton Smith, Joseph Ray, Joshua Harbin, John Ray, Jr., Charles Harding and Thomas Nickolls, Jr.  The Jury finds the defendants guilty and Margaret is awarded £10 current money and 2,052 1/4 pounds of tobacco for her costs.
Richard Snowden sues Benjamin Harris on an open account, whose items include the following:

  • 2 Dutch blankits 14/-
  • 1 quire of wrighting paper -/9
  • 3 yards bead ticken [bed ticking] 3/-
  • 1 thimbell -/2

In another suit on open account, we find these items:

  • 1 linnen wheel 7/6
  • 1 reel 4/-
  • 1 churn 3/-

June Court of 1760 - Samuel Beall was Sheriff
August Court of 1761 - Thomas Norris and Joseph Doldridge who were appointed to view a proposed road "through the mountains do say that by viewing the same that a road may be made from Stoner's Mill across Mount Missery and by Gasber Smith's from thence near Ambrose's Mill, from thence near Captain Ogle's late dwelling place, then to Ogle's ford on Monocacy, then to strike the new road from George Trucks' to Baltimore County line."
Proclamation Establishing the Court of Frederick County, Maryland, December 12, 1748 - This day, to wit, the 13th day of December Anno Dom, 1748 Nathaniel Wickham, Junior, Gentleman, produces the following commission of the peace and Dedimus Postestem [we have given power] which was publicly read in these words . . .
November Court of 1763 - The Court established Cumberland and Fort Frederick as new Hundreds. They appear in a new list of constables as follows . . .
Mordecai Beall - Monocacy Hundred, Upper Part
Caleb Litton - Fort Frederick Hundred
The Court appointed road overseers, including the following:
From Major Ogle's ford to John Biggs' ford on Monocacy and from Biggs' ford to the Glade: William Barrick.
Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Baltimore City & County from the Earliest Period to the Present Day, Philadelphia, PA: Louis Everts, 1881.
Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Western Maryland Being a History of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany & Garrett Counties . . . Vol. 1, Philadelphia, PA: Louis Everts, 1882.
Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Western Maryland Being a History of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany & Garrett Counties . . . Vol. II, Philadelphia, PA: Louis Everts, 1882.
Tracey, Grace & John Dern. Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721-1743, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., nd - available on Ancestry
Rocky Ridge - A small but significant settlement near today's Rocky Ridge opened the way for development of the section of northern Frederick County extending west from Miller's Bridge to Loys Station. The area was near the German Monocacy Road as well as Cartledge's Old Road so that travelers from Pennsylvania bound for Virginia or for Jonathan Hager's place in today's Washington County often encountered here the sole habitation for miles around. The two earliest settlers, Joseph Ogle and Henry Munday, were of English descent, but were born in this country. Both had experienced the rigors of the Conojohelar border "war" and, like Reisner, Bankauf and some of the others, had then sought more peaceful surroundings in the Monocacy area. Both were looked to as leaders. And both eventually had extensive landholdings in the Monocacy area.

Joseph Ogle (1707-1756) - grandpa - was the grandson of one John Ogle (1649e-1684) who had come from England as a very young man - actually as a boy in his mid-teens. He was a member of the expeditionary force under Colonel Richard Nicolls which in 1664 wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch and began English history in what we know today as New York. Young John Ogle also participated later that year in the sequel expedition under Captain Robert Carr directed against the Dutch fort at New Amstel on the Delaware. That expedition was likewise successful, and the fort was renamed New Castle. There John Ogle settled to build a family and acquire considerable land in what is now the northern part of Delaware. His grandson Joseph Ogle, son of Thomas Ogle and Mary Crawford, was born in New Castle County and was married there in 1729 to Sarah Winters.
Sometime before 1735 Joseph Ogle joined Thomas Cresap west of the Susquehanna River in what is today Pennsylvania. On June 20, 1735 Pastor Stőver visited the area, perhaps for the first time, and baptized Joseph Ogle's daughter Mary, born April 15, 1735. He indicated in his Journal that the Ogle residence was at Catores, i.e., the Codorus Valley in which the city of York was later founded.  [It should be remembered that the place names given in Stőver's Journal were the home locales of the children's parents, not necessarily where the baptism took place.]  Andrew & Mary McGuill [Magill], also of Catores, were the child's sponsors, and they, too, had a child baptized that day. Josep & Sarah Ogle were its sponsors. But on the next day, June 21st, Sarah Ogle and Hannah Crysop were sponsors for the baptism of a child of John Low, whose residence was recorded as Canaschochele, or Conojohela Creek [Canadochly Creek, now], some ten miles east of the Codorus Valley, where this Creek flows into the Susquehanna below Wrightsville. Thomas Cresap also lived at Conojohela, and on July 21, 1735, a month later, Josep Ogle, Andrew McGuill, Philipp Erns Grűber, Charlotta Friederica Grűber, Francis Foy and others, stood as sponsors for four of Cresap's sons.
Although allegedly the Annapolis land records did not show it, Ogle claimed to have purchased his land, a part of "Great Meadow" on the south side of the Codorus, from Magill. There in his buckwheat field on September 23, 1735 the so-called Conojohela War flared up. Andrew Magill, then in his sixties, was attacked by Sheriff Robert Buchanan and others from Lancaster County across the Susquehanna. On November 24, 1736 Ogle witnessed the burning of Col. Cresap's home by Sheriff Samuel Smith of Lancaster County. Ogle seems not to have been a party to the defense of the house, being ordered from it and staying during the siege in a thicket some 300 yards away. After the house burned down, Cresap, who was wounded in the shoulder, and one or two other men were taken up the River toward Wright's Ferry as captives. One man had been shot to death and another may have escaped. Mrs. Cresap, Rachel Evans, [Frances Cannon] the wife of William Cannon, and John Lowe's daughter survived.  Joseph Ogle was still in the area on May 6, 1736 when, accompanied by Thomas Cresap, he was surveying on the west bank of the Susquehanna with Thomas Guin and Thomas Franklin.
Early in the following year Joseph Ogle abandoned the Susquehanna and Codorus Valleys to make his first survey in the Monocacy area. On April 5, 1737 he surveyed 250 acres near the present site of Loys Station, midway between today's town of Thurmont and the Monocacy River at Miller's Bridge.  Quite understandably he called the tract "Peace."  Its beginning point according to the certificate of survey was on the east side of "Little Captain's [Owens] Creek below Arnold Livers' land."  This was one of the most important road junction points in early western Maryland, for here came together Cartledge's Old Road, the German Monocacy Road, a road connecting to the Manor Monocacy Road via Stull's Ford, the road to Robert Wilson's and the road to Pipe Creek and present Carroll County. On January 1, 1745 Ogle enlarged "Peace" to 1,000 through a resurvey whose name indicated no doubt his subsequent prosperity. He called it "Peace & Plenty." In his 1756 will Ogle referred to this land as "the plantation where I now live." He devised it to his wife Sarah.
Further land acquisitions of a very sizable nature followed, making Joseph Ogle one of the wealthiest land owners of his day. On June 17, 1745 Thomas Cresap surveyed "Middle Choice" for Joseph Ogle. It was located on Longs Mill Road between Ogle's Ford, now known as Stull's Ford, and Rocky Ridge. Lawrence Creager purchased the land and had it resurveyed in 1750. "Fountain Low" was surveyed on February 16, 1748 as 1,050 acres beginning on the west side of Hunting Creek. It was a resurvey of Philip Crever's "Hunter Lot" and lay between Michael Reisner's plantation and present-day Creagerstown. Joseph Ogle conveyed parts of this parcel in 1753 to Reverdy Ghiselin, Christopher Edelin and Nathaniel Wickham and by his will devised 50 acres to his son Jehu Ogle, "where his house now stands." Two parcels were surveyed for Ogle in today's Hauvers District, "Hog Hall" in 1749 and "Grazing Ground" in the Friends Creek area in 1751. The latter was sold in 1754 to John Miller. "Content," surveyed in 1750 as 210 acres, had the same beginning point as did "Peace."  It was enlarged to 685 acres by a survey in land at Graceham. Much later, in 1787, "Content" was resurveyed into "Good Fortune." "Farmer's Delight" was surveyed in 1752 near Ogle's Ford. Its subsequent conveyances included 150 acres to Peter Messner, 180 acres in 1769 to Martin Rouzer and 100 acres in 1770 to Christian Koone. Finally, "Ogleton" was surveyed in 1753 as a resurvey of Samuel Reed's "Creave" and the land surrounding it. "Creave" was described as being "below the ford that leads from the mountain to Pipe Creek."  The tract lay on the west side of the Monocacy River from Mumma Ford to near the mouth of Double Pipe Creek. "Ogleton" was patented, after Joseph Ogle's death, to his widow Sarah in 1757. She and her second husband, Adam Henry, conveyed parts of it in 1764 to Henry Neff and to John Griffith.
To the November 1741 Prince George's County Court a petition "of several of the inhabitants about Pipe Creek and Monocacy hereby sheweth that these petitioners being destitute of convenient roads from their several settlements toward the landing of proper places to transmit their goods and apprehend unless your Worships take the inconvenience we labour under into consideration it will remain so too long. Your petitioners hereby humbly pray your Worships that commissions may be issued for one good road from the Mountain near William Elder's through that part of the country most convenient for the inhabitants about Pipe Creek and Monocacy aforesaid, and that John Justice, William Roberts, Neal Poulson and William Elder, or any two of them, be appointed to lay out the same." The resulting road passed Joseph Ogle's homestead. The northwestern end of the road reached William Elder's "Slate Ridge" and was a part of Cartledge's Old Road. The eastern end passed Henry Munday's place, approximating today's State Route 77 through Rocky Ridge and Miller's Bridge.
There were other road descriptions which made reference to Joseph Ogle's place. In 1754 that portion of the German Monocacy Road which passed from Keysville across the Monocacy River at Mumma Ford and continued on toward Ogle's place via today's Appolds Road was known as Ogle's Wagon Road.  What is today called Stull's Ford across the Monocacy between Longs Mill Road on the north and Oak Hill Road on the south, although now no longer used, was for many years known as Ogle's Ford. Road overseers were appointed annually, at least from 1750 to 1763, for the section of the Manor Monocacy Manor road described as running "from Major Ogle's Ford to John Biggs' Ford."
On May 10, 1748 Joseph Ogle joined Stephen Ramsburg in making depositions to the Council of Maryland concerning the practice of forcing German settlers to pay excessive quitrents on their land. When it came time to organize Frederick County and separate it out of the parent Prince George's County, Captain Joseph Ogle, Nathaniel Wickham, Jr., Major Thomas Sheredine, Thomas Franklyne, Thomas Beatty, Daniel Rawlins and Captain John Dorsey were appointed Commissioners to lay out the boundaries. Governor Samuel Ogle's proclamation of December 12, 1748 establishing the Court of Frederick County was addressed to 23 individuals who were constituted as justices to organize the Court. Included were Joseph Ogle and his neighbor Henry Munday. The March Court of 1749 appointed Edward Beatty, Joseph Ogle and Joseph Wood to lay out the road from "Captain" Ogle's Ford to Biggs Ford, and the August Court of 1751 named Nathaniel Wickham, Joseph Ogle, Thomas Stoddart and John Middagh to arrange with a contractor to build a bridge over Israel Creek near Thomas Beatty's place.  The same Court appointed John Darnall and Joseph Ogle to serve as referees in a suit between Dr. Richard Cooke and Robert Debutts. Clearly Joseph Ogle was looked to as a leader in the affairs of the fledgling County.
Joseph Ogle was mentioned by the early Moravian missionaries as a friendly host who helped them with accommodation and transportation on their journeys through Maryland to Virginia. Matthias Gottlieb Gottschalk described his journey of 96 miles from Germantown in Virginia to Captain Ogle's in April 1748. He managed 36 miles on the first day and the remaining 60 miles on the following day, arriving at Captain Ogle's at midnight. In instructions to Brother Joseph he noted that "Captain Ogle and Jacob Weller are both very dear hosts of the Brethern" and that "Kanigetschick [Conococheague] was situated 28 miles from Captain Ogle's across the little Blue Mountain toward the northwest where Jonathan Hager is our dear host . . . If Brother Joseph leaves Captain Ogle's house early Wednesday morning and rests during the hottest part of the day, he can be at Gottfried Mang's house in good time to stay overnight. Captain Ogle might also give Brother Joseph the little gray horse which he had presented to Brother Lighton and which he does not need at all. Thus the journey across the fearfully extended mountains might be made much easier and the night lodging in the valley or on the mountain which are both very unhealthy places, could be avoided."  On October 21, 1749 Brothers Schnell and Brandműller visited the ailing Captain Ogle.
How Ogle himself felt about the Moravians is best revealed in a conversation he had with Pastor Henry Muhlenberg on the latter's visit to Frederick in June of 1747. Muhlenberg's account shows most clearly Ogle's disappointment and dissatisfaction with the English ministers and with Lutheran itinerants such as Carl Rudolph. Quite obviously he preferred the human qualities of his Moravian visitors to the stiff orthodoxy of such as Muhlenberg.
Despite the variety of locales where their children were born, Joseph and Sarah Ogle listed in the records of the All Saint's English Church in Frederick all their births, except that of a last son George whom he named in his will. These children were: Jehu born 1731, Mary 1735, Sarah 1739, Eleanor 1741, Joseph, Jr. 1743, Benjamin 1747, Thomas 1749, William 1751, James 1753 and George.
By 1755 the war clouds were gathering, presaging the coming French & Indian War.  On July 9th General Braddock met defeat near Fort Duquesne. But Joseph Ogle did not live to see the threat developing against the outposts of western Maryland. He passed away on April 29, 1756.  . . .
Joseph Ogle's 1756 will cryptically noted that "Mary and Peter Butler have parted from each other." Still, when Captain Butler wrote his own will in 1764, he named his wife Mary as executrix.  After his death she married Henry Brawner and in 1779 as "Mary Brawner, late widow and relict of Peter Butler," released her rights of dower n the sale of "College Green" to Alexander Ogle. Butler does not appear in early land records before 1743, although in June of 1742 the Prince George's County Court fined him 500 pounds of tobacco, based on testimony of Thomas Cresap that he had neglected his duty as a road overseer.  Subsequently his land interests included, in addition to "College Green," other parcels called "Good Will," "Paradise," "Magruder's Thicket," "Locust Thicket," "Paradise Enlarged" and "Butler's Lot." The latter was surveyed near the head of a small draft of Fishing Creek next to "Miller's Chance." This was later resurveyed from 120 to 296 acres.
Joseph Ogle's son William served in the Dunmore War under Thomas Cresap's son Michael Cresap and was present at the signing of the Dunmore Treaty. He also served with Daniel Cresap, Jr. during the Revolution. With his wife Mary Cresap, whom he married in 1777, he had twelve children. Joseph Ogle's daughter Sarah Ogle married her cousin Thomas Ogle in 1756, and their daughter Judith became the wife of Nathaniel Livers. Son Benjamin Ogle married Rebecca Stilley, daughter of Peter Stilley.
Benjamin Ogle (1715-1779) and Alexander Ogle (1730-1783), brothers of Joseph Ogle, also came to Frederick County. Benjamin first appears in 1741, signing the petition for a road from William Elder's to Pipe Creek.  Presumably he lived with his brother Joseph Ogle until the latter's death in 1756. He then moved west into today's Washington County where he died in 1777.  His sons Joseph, Jacob and Thomas Ogle pushed on into the Ohio Valley, where their exploits on the frontier are recorded in the Draper Papers.  Joseph Ogle married Prudence Drusilla Biggs, daughter of Benjamin Biggs and granddaughter of Henry Munday. Their land on Buffalo Creek in today's Brooke County, West Virginia was adjacent to that of Silas and Joseph Hedges. Commissioned a Captain in 1776 by Governor Patrick Henry, Joseph Ogle experienced many bloddy encounters and proved himself a fearless frontier fighter. Jacob Ogle, an ensign in is brother's company, met death in Foreman's Massacre. Thomas Ogle, also a Captain was killed in the Sandusky Expedition. In 1785 Joseph Ogle sold his land on Buffalo Creek and moved on to Illinois Territory. Ogle County in Illinois was named for him, though he never lived within its confines.
Alexander Ogle was still a boy when the first two decades of settlement in the Monocacy area ended. Another two decades would pass before he made his appearance in Frederick County. He did so on December 16, 1763 as "Alexander Ogle of New Castle County," grantee of 250 acres of "Williams Project" on the west bank of the Monocacy River near the mouth of Fishing Creek. Later he interested himself in land investments in the panhandle area of today's West Virginia, where his nephews had settled. But he himself never moved west of the Monocacy Valley. On the west side of Devilbiss Bridge he built his residence and mills, whose remains may still be seen today. He was a lifelong miller and supplied flour to the troops during the Revolution. In 1783 he devised his home and mills to his wife Martha, while the land in Ohio County, [West] Virginia went to his daughter Martha, wife of John Wood. His other children included Elizabeth (wife of George Devilbiss), Rebecca (wife of John Devilbiss), Alexander Ogle Jr. (husband of Mary Beatty), Jane (wife of Adam Link and Mary (wife of Samuel Cock). . . .
Not often were road petitions as detailed as the one which included the Rocky Ridge area, as presented to the November Court of 1752 by Dr. Charles Carroll He asked that a "road be cleared and made a public road from the waggon road under the South Mountain about half a mile to the southward of the Meeting house [the original Monocacy Lutheran church] and to the northeast side of the plantation of Michael Risener [approximating today's Kelly's Store Road] and from thence to Mr. Ogle's sawmill and thence to Owens Creek about two miles below Mr. Ogle's house, and a little below the mouth of Beaver Dam Branch, thence to Monocacy below the plantation of David Baily, thence through Mr. Munday's land to the mouth of Little Pipe Creek and across the said Great Pipe Creek unto the Fork between both and up the said fork to the main waggon road that leads to William Farquers [Union Bridge] as the same has been lately marked by Matthew Sparks at the instance and charge of your petitioner.
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