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

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Brumbaugh, Gaius. Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County & Church from Original Sources, Volume II, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1975.

Gentle, Linton

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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

Notebook - Pennsylvania No. 2, Part 2

Bean, Theodore. History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1884.  missing pages 133-138.

Among the various nationalities that settled Montgomery County the German was an important one, and their descendants at this day within its limits are the most numerous. In less than a year after the landing of William Penn a colony of Germans, chiefly from Creisheim and Creyfelt, arrived in October, 1683, and shortly afterwards founded the village of Germantown. The Proprietary had been among them in their native land, and encouraged them to come. Here liberty of conscience had now been proclaimed, and an exemption from tithes, though neither was tolerated in Great Britain, or even to a very limited extent along the valley of the Rhine where also were the frontier lines of powerful France, and the frequent wars of Germany, the results of which combined were all powerful incentives to emigration to those more peaceably and liberally disposed. To facilitate this a company was organized at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and numerous pamphlets circulated throughout Germany in the language of its people, setting forth the peculiar advantages of the distant colony. Hence it need not be a wonder that the weaker of the persecuted sects were disposed to come first, for not matter however strong the attachments of nativity, the Fatherland presented from their experience in the past no bright or sanguine future. The doctrines of the

Notebook - Pennsylvania, No. 2, Part 1

Boyer, Carl. Ship Passenger Lists Pennsylvania & Delaware (1641-1825), Newhall, CA: Boyer, 1980

Naturalizations, Germantown, Pa., 3/7/1691-2; Copia Naturalisationis of Francis Daniel Pastorius and of 61 Persons More of German Town from William Penn, Esq., National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 28 (1940), 7-8 [Lancour No. 129].

William Penn, Proprietary of the Province of Pennsilvania, etc. On the King & Queen's authority, to all to whom these Presents all come Sends Greeting, etc. Whereas:

• Paul Wolff
• Willm Rittinghuysen
• Claes Rittinghuysen - land owner

High and low Germans, Inhabitants and Owners of land in German-Town and in the County of Philadelphia, being foreigners, and so not freemen, according to the acception of the Law of England, Have requested to be made freemen of the said Province, pursuant to the Powers granted by the King's Letters patent, and Act of Union and Naturalization, etc. made in this Government, Now Know ye, that for the further Incouragement of the Industry and Sobriety of the said Inhabitants, And for the better and further Security of their Estates reall and personal, to them and their heirs, They the said Inhabitants having Solemnly

Notebook - Mom's Families No. 5

Armstrong, Zella.  Notable Southern Families, Volume 2, Baltimore, MD: Publishing Co., Inc., 1974.

The first settlers on Borden's Manor were Ephraim McDowell and his family.  They were soon followed by Archibald Alexander, John Patton, Andrew Moore, Hugh Telford, John Matthews, the Prestons, Paxtons, Lyles, Grigsbys, Stewarts, Wallaces, Wilsons, aruthers, Campbells, McClungs, McRaes and others who becmae founders of some of Virginia's distinguished families.

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Armstrong, Zella. Notable Southern Families, Volume 3, Baltimore, MD: Publishing Co., Inc. 1974.

Descendants of Sir Thomas de Parke contemporary of William the Conqueror in America:

Sir Robert de Parke 1630 to Connecticut
Daniel Parke vestryman of Williamsburg Church, VA, 1676
Thomas de Parke / Parkes in Virginia in 1670 - descendants in North Carolina and Tennessee

McGavock / McDowell / Cloyd line still no evidence of how Margaret (Cloyd) Speer fits in.

In Memoriam March 6th

1737 Wilhelmina (Dewees) Rittenhouse wrote her will.  She was born ca. 1665 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands the daughter of Garrett & Zytian (Lieuwes) Dewees.  Wilhelmina married Nicholas Rittenhouse in New York in 1689 and they had nine children: Sophia, William, Peggy, Mary, Maria, Catherine, Susanna, Henry and Mattias.  She is buried in the Mennonite Cemetery in Germantown, PA.

June 15th

Very happy birthdays to:

1666 – Nicholas Rittenhouse son of William Rittenshouse.  He died in 1734.

1728 – Hannah Lathrop daughter of Esq. Samuel & Deborah (Crow) Lathrop.  She died in 1732.

1808 – Benjamin Johnson in Richland, PA son of Benjamin & Abigail (Roberts) Johnson.  He married Tacy Strawn in Pennsylvania.  Benjamin died 1849 in Pennsylvania at age 41.

 

May 29th

Births:

1631 Samuel Denton in Halifax, England son of Richard Denton.  Samuel immigrated to America ca. 1650.  He married Mary Rock Smith in Hempstead, NY 1656. She was born 1640 in Dorchester, MA the daughter of John Rock & Elizabeth (Gildersleeve) Smith.  They had at least one son.  Samuel and Mary died within five days of each other in 1713 in Hempstead.  The Rock Smith family used the name to distinguish themselves from several other Smith families of the Long Island area.