Born: ca. 1700
Died: 1784, Frederick Co., Maryland
Buried: unknown
Married: 1) Dec. 4, 1729 Joseph Ogle in New Castle, Delaware & 2) Adam Henry ca. 1757 in Frederick Co., Maryland
Biography:
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 born in New Castle County and was married there in 1729 to Sarah Winters.
Early in the following year [1737] 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. . . .
"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. . . .
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.
From: 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
Records:
1756 - April 18 - Frederick Co., MD - Sarah is mentioned in her husband Joseph Ogle's will:
Item I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife Sarah to be During her Life the two Negro boys called Robet and Jacob and five hundred acres of Land out of the tract of land I now live on to be laid out by the above said Joseph Wood out of the . . . land . . . to include the Plantation and Improvements . . . be . . . to the . . . not . . . to the Remainder part of the . . . or . . . and after her decease the aforesaid land and improvements and . . . to be equally Divided between all the children of John Ogle and . . .
Item my will and Pleasure is that my well beloved wife Sarah Ogle . . . of . . . the afsd. . . . Joseph Wood . . . to arrive at the age of . . .
Lastly, I so constitute and appoint my Dearly beloved wife Sarah Ogle and my good and trusty friend Joseph Wood my Executors of this my Last will and Testament . . .
1757 - June 6 - Frederick Co., MD - Sarah, widow and executrix of Joseph Ogle, deed for Ogleton, 460 acres recorded.
1784 - April 13 - Frederick Co., MD - Sarah's estate probated.
Children:
Mary
Sarah
Eleanor
Joseph, Jr.
Benjamin
Thomas
William
James
George
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