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GENEALOGICAL
NOTES AND ANECDOTES
ANTECEDENTS and
DESCENDANTS
of
JOHN NUTHALL of CROSS MANOR
(BEF 10 February 1614/15 - July 1667)
G0505A: John NUTHALL I of CATTENHALL [015]
Birth: 1477, County Cheshire, England
Death: AFT 1506, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England
Marriage: BY 1495, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England
Spouse: *Agnes GRIFFIN (ABT 1479, Cattenhall, County
Cheshire, England - AFT 1500, Cattenhall, County
Cheshire, England) [See The
Visitation at Cheshire of 1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.]
Child 1:   Richard NUTHALL I of CATTENHALL (ABT 1495, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England
- AFT 1518, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England) [M]: m.
*Jane HORTON (ABT 1495, County Cheshire, England - AFT
1518, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England), BY or ABT
1516, County Cheshire, England [See The Visitation at Cheshire of
1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.]
Note 1: Robert Glover, Somerset
Herald in the College of Arms, during the Visitation at
Cheshire in 1580, recorded of John NUTHALL I, "17 E.
4." This means that John NUTHALL I was either born
or known to have been alive in the seventeenth year of
the reign of Edward IV. Of this information, John NUTHALL
II was Glover’s source. Since Edward IV was
proclaimed monarch on 4 March 1461, the seventeenth year
of his reign began on 4 March 1477, thus proposing 1477
as the possible year of birth for John NUTHALL I. Edward
IV died 9 April 1483. [See The Visitation at Cheshire of
1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.]
See The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580,
Made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William
Flower, Norroy King of Arms, with Numerous Additions and
Continuations, Including Those From the Visitation of
Cheshire Made in the Year 1566, by the Same Herald, with
an Appendix, Containing the Visitation of a Part of
Cheshire in the Year 1533, Made by William Fellows,
Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceaux King of
Arms, and a Fragment of the Visitation of the City of
Chester in the Year 1591, Made by Thomas Chaloner, Deputy
to the Office of Arms, edited by John Paul Rylands, F. S.
A. (London 1882). Also refer to Pedigrees Made at the
Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, Taken by Richard St.
George, Esq., Norroy King of Arms, and Henry St. George,
Gent., Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms, and Some Other
Contemporary Pedigrees, edited by Sir George J. Armytage,
Bart., F. S. A., and J. Paul Rylands, Esq., F. S. A.,
printed for The Record Society, 1909.
Note 2: Robert Glover, Somerset
Herald in the College of Arms, during the Visitation at
Cheshire in 1580, recorded of Agnes GRIFFIN that she was
the daughter and heiress of John GRIFFIN of CATTENHALL.
Accordingly, it was through her that Cattenhall passed to
the family NUTHALL. [See The Visitation at Cheshire of
1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.] For the subsequent
history of Cattenhall, and its location on a map, see Cattenhall in Cheshire.
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G0504A:  Richard NUTHALL I of CATTENHALL [014]
Birth: ABT 1495, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England
Death: AFT 1518, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England
Father: John NUTHALL I of
CATTENHALL (1477, County Cheshire, England - AFT 1506,
Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England)
Mother: *Agnes GRIFFIN (ABT 1479, Cattenhall, County
Cheshire, England - AFT 1500, Cattenhall, County
Cheshire, England) [See The
Visitation at Cheshire of 1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.]
Marriage: BY or ABT 1516, County
Cheshire, England
Spouse: *Jane HORTON (ABT 1495, County Cheshire,
England - AFT 1518, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England)
[See The Visitation at
Cheshire of 1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.]
Child
1:
Richard NUTHALL II of
CATTENHALL (ABT 1516, Cattenhall, County Cheshire,
England - AFT 1560 and BEF 1586, Cattenhall, County
Cheshire, England ) [M]: m. *Alice HURLTON of PICTON (ABT
1518, Picton, County Cheshire, England - 1600,
Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England: interment 7 August
1600, St. Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham, County Cheshire,
England), ABT 1538, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England [See
The Visitation at Cheshire of
1580: Hurlton, alias Hurlston, of Picton.]
Child 2: William NUTHALL of
CATTENHALL (ABT 1517, Cattenhall, County Cheshire,
England - BEF 1588, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England)
[M]: m. Margaret GRYMESDICHE
Note 1: Robert Glover, Somerset
Herald in the College of Arms, during the Visitation at
Cheshire in 1580, recorded of Richard NUTHALL I, "20
H. 7." Of this information, John NUTHALL II was
Glover’s source. This means that Richard NUTHALL I
was either born or known to have been alive in the
twentieth year of the reign of Henry VII (Henry Tudor,
Earl of Richmond). Since the coronation of Henry VII
occurred on 30 October 1485, the twentieth year of his
reign began on 30 October 1505, thus proposing 1505/06 as
a possible year of birth for Richard NUTHALL I. [See
The Visitation at Cheshire of
1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.] Henry VII was, in fact,
declared king at the Battle of Redmoor Plain (Bosworth
Field) on 22 August 1485. But Richard NUTHALL II, the son
of Richard NUTHALL I, began engendering offspring about
the year 1539 so that the more likely date of birth of
Richard NUTHALL I must have closer to 1495. It is
possible that, for Richard NUTHALL I, 1505/06 is a date
of confirmation rather than that of christening.
Richard NUTHALL I is known to have been
alive on 10 September in the eighth year of the reign of
Henry VIII. Since Henry VIII was coronated 24 June 1509,
Richard NUTHALL is known to have been alive in 1517/18.
Note 2: Robert Glover, Somerset
Herald in the College of Arms, during the Visitation at
Cheshire in 1580, recorded of Jane HORTON that she was
the daughter and heiress of Roger HORTON. Glover also
recorded that her mother was Alice MANLEY, the daughter
of Sir Thomas MANLEY. Of this information, John NUTHALL
II was Glover’s source. [See The Visitation at Cheshire of
1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.] Like Richard NUTHALL I,
Jane HORTON was either born or known to
have been alive in the twentieth year of the reign of
Henry VII. Her likely date of birth was, in all
probability, closer to 1495.
Note 3: Robert Glover, Somerset
Herald in the College of Arms, during the Visitation at
Cheshire in 1580, recorded of William NUTHALL, "s(ine)
prole," that is, "without issue." Of
this information, John NUTHALL II was Glover’s
source. [See The
Visitation at Cheshire of 1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.]
Note 4 George Ormerod in The
History of the County Palatine and City of Chester,
incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal
and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed.,
revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George
Routledge and Sons, Ludgate Hill, London, 1882) reported
that Margaret GRYMESDICHE, the wife of
William NUTHALL, was living as a widow, at
Northwood in High Leigh, County Cheshire, in the 29th
year of the reign of Elizabeth I (coronated 15 January
1559 [OS]).
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G0503A:
Richard NUTHALL II of
CATTENHALL [013]
Birth: ABT 1516, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England
Death: AFT 1560 and BEF 1588, Cattenhall, County
Cheshire, England
Father: Richard NUTHALL I
of CATTENHALL (ABT 1495, Cattenhall, County Cheshire,
England - AFT 1518, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England)
Mother: *Jane HORTON (ABT 1495, County Cheshire,
England - AFT 1518, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England)
[See The Visitation at
Cheshire of 1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.]
Marriage: ABT 1538, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England
Spouse: *Alice HURLTON of PICTON (ABT 1518, Picton,
County Cheshire, England - 1600, Cattenhall, County
Cheshire, England: interment 7 August 1600, St.
Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham, County Cheshire, England) [See
The Visitation at Cheshire of
1580: Hurlton, alias Hurlston, of Picton.]
Child 1: Anne NUTHALL
of CATTENHALL (ABT 1539, Cattenhall, County Cheshire,
England - ?) [F]: m. William ROBINSON, August 1560, St.
Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham, County Cheshire,
England
Child 2: Margaret NUTHALL of CATTENHALL (ABT 1540, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England - ?) [F]: m. Richard TARBOCK (of
Tarbock, Lancashire, England), 28 January 1561, St.
Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham, County Cheshire,
England
Child 3: Thomas NUTHALL of CATTENHALL (ABT 1550, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England - ?) [M]
Child 4: Dorothy NUTHALL of CATTENHALL (ABT 1551, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England - ?) [F]: m. Thomas GRIMADICH,
24 September 1572, St. Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham,
County Cheshire, England
Child 5: John NUTHALL II of CATTENHALL (ABT 1552, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England
- February 1586/87, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England:
interment 13 February 1586/87,
St. Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham, County Cheshire, England) [M]: m. *Jane NEWPORT (ABT 1554, Sanden, County
Hertfordshire, England - AFT 1588,
Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England), ABT 1573,
Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England
Child 6: Humphrey
NUTHALL of CATTENHALL [M]
Child 7: Elizabeth NUTHALL of CATTENHALL (ABT 1560, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England - August 1601, Kingsley, County
Cheshire, England: interment 15 August 1601, St.
Lawrence's Parish, St. Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham,
County Cheshire, England, ) [F]: m. Richard GERRARD, Jr.
(BEF 1560, Crewood, County Cheshire, England - October
1619, Kingsley, County Cheshire, England: interment 21
October 1619, St. Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham, County
Cheshire, England, ), 15 May 1581, St. Lawrence's Parish,
Frodsham, County Cheshire, England
Note 1: Robert Glover, Somerset
Herald in the College of Arms, during the Visitation at
Cheshire in 1580, recorded of Alice HURLTON of PICTON
that she was the sister of Richard HURLTON. Of this
information, John NUTHALL II was Glover’s principal
- but not exclusive -source. Glover, in recording of
Alice HURLTON of PICTON that she was "vx(or) Rich.
NUTHALL of CATTENHALL" (that is, "the wife of
Richard NUTHALL of CATTENHALL"), also reported that
she was the daughter of Thomas HURLTON of HURLTON and
Elizabeth BIRKENHED, the daughter of Adam BIRKENHED. [See
The Visitation at Cheshire of
1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.]
George Ormerod in The History of the County
Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a
republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's
Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged
by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons,
Ludgate Hill, London, 1882) reported that Alice HURLTON
was living as a widow in the 29th year of the reign of
Elizabeth I (coronated 15 January 1559 [OS]).
Note 2: Thomas
NUTHALL, who was older than John NUTHALL II, is known to
have been sine prole, that is, without issue.
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G0502A: John NUTHALL II of CATTENHALL [012]
Birth: ABT 1552, Cattenhall, County Cheshire,
England
Death: February 1586/87, Cattenhall, County
Cheshire, England
Interment: 13 February
1586/87, St. Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham, County
Cheshire, England
Father: Richard NUTHALL II of CATTENHALL (ABT 1516,
Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England - AFT 1560 and BEF
1588, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England)
Mother: *Alice HURLTON of PICTON (ABT 1527,
Picton, County Cheshire, England - AFT 1552, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England) [See The Visitation at Cheshire of
1580: Hurlton, alias Hurlston, of Picton.]
Marriage: ABT 1573, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England
Spouse: *Jane NEWPORT (ABT 1554, Sanden, County
Hertfordshire, England - AFT 1588,
Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England)
Child 1: Edward NUTHALL of CATTENHALL (ABT 1575, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England - ?) [M]
Child 2: John NUTHALL III of CATTENHALL (1577, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England - AFT
16 August 1644, <London>, England)
[M]: m. Mary HYDE of NORBURY and HYDE (ABT 1578/79,
Norbury, County Cheshire, England - AFT 16 August
1644, <London>, England), ABT 1606,
Norbury, County Cheshire, England [See G0501A: Mary HYDE of NORBURY and HYDE in Antecedents and Descendants of Robert Hyde of
Norbury and Hyde (25 March 1543 - 22 March 1614).]
Child 3: William
NUTHALL of CATTENHALL (AFT 1577and BEF 1584, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England - 1623/24: interment February or
11 April 1623/24, St. Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham, County
Cheshire, England) [M]
Child 4: Richard
NUTHALL of CATTENHALL (1584, Cattenhall, County Cheshire,
England; christened 5 April 1584 at St. Lawrence's
Parish, Frodsham, County Cheshire, England
- 1586, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England: interment
26 December 1586, St. Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham,
County Cheshire, England) [M]
Child 5: Thomas
NUTHALL of CATTENHALL (1586, Cattenhall, County Cheshire,
England: christened 14 May 1586 at St. Lawrence's
Parish, Frodsham, County Cheshire, England
- ?) [M]
Note 1: Robert Glover, Somerset
Herald in the College of Arms, during the Visitation at
Cheshire in 1580, wrote "1580" by the name of
John NUTHALL II. This means that John NUTHALL II was
alive in 1580 and that John NUTHALL II himself was
Glover’s source for the genealogy of the Nuthalls of
Cattenhall. [See The
Visitation at Cheshire of 1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.]
Edward NUTHALL and WILLIAM NUTHALL are
recorded in the Visitation of 1613 for which John NUTHALL
III was the source.
Note 2: Robert Glover, Somerset
Herald in the College of Arms, during the Visitation at
Cheshire in 1580, recorded of Jane NEWPORT that she was
the daughter of Robert NEWPORT of Sanden in
Staffordshire. Of this information, John NUTHALL II was
Glover’s source. [See The Visitation at Cheshire of
1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.] Sanden, however, is in
Hertfordshire, not Staffordshire.
George Ormerod in The History of the County
Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a
republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's
Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged
by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons,
Ludgate Hill, London, 1882) reported that Jane NEWPORT
was living as a widow in the 29th year of the reign of
Elizabeth I (coronated 15 January 1559 [OS]).
Note 3: The Will of John NUTHALL II
was proved, in Cheshire, in 1586.
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G0501A: John NUTHALL III of CATTENHALL [011]
Birth: 1577, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England
Death: AFT 16 August 1644,
<London>, England
Father: John NUTHALL II of
CATTENHALL (ABT 1552, Cattenhall, County Cheshire,
England - February 1586/87, Cattenhall, County Cheshire,
England: interment 13 February 1586/87, St. Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham, County
Cheshire, England)
Mother: Jane NEWPORT (ABT 1554, Sanden, County
Hertfordshire, England - AFT 1588,
Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England)
Marriage: ABT 1606, Norbury,
County Cheshire, England
Spouse: Mary HYDE of NORBURY and HYDE (ABT
1578/79, Norbury, County Cheshire, England - AFT
16 August 1644, <London>, England)
[See G0501A: Mary HYDE of NORBURY and HYDE in Antecedents and Descendants of Robert Hyde of
Norbury and Hyde (25 March 1543 - 22 March 1614).]
Child 1: Elizabeth NUTHALL of CATTENHALL (1607,
Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England; christened 2
January 1607/08 at St. Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham,
County Cheshire, England - ?) [F]
Child 2: Jane NUTHALL
of CATTENHALL (1609, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England; christened
14 May 1609 at St. Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham,
County Cheshire, England - ?) [F]
Child 3: Margaret
NUTHALL of CATTENHALL (1610,
Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England; christened 25 August 1610 at St.
Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham, County Cheshire, England - ?) [F]
Child 4: Alice NUTHALL
of CATTENHALL (1611, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England; christened
7 December 1611 at St. Lawrence's
Parish, Frodsham, County Cheshire, England
- ?) [F]
Child 5: Richard NUTHALL of CATTENHALL (1612/13,
Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England; christened 5
March 1612 at St. Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham, County
Cheshire, England - ?) [M]: m. Unknown
UNKNOWN, BY 1633, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England
Child 6: Catherine
NUTHALL of CATTENHALL (AFT 1613, Cattenhall, County
Cheshire, England - 1624, Cattenhall, County Cheshire,
England: interment June or 25 October 1624, St.
Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham, County Cheshire, England) [F]
Child
7: John
NUTHALL IV [of CROSS MANOR]
(1614/15, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England;
christened 10 February 1614 (OS), St. Mary’s Parish,
Stockport, County Cheshire, England - July 1667, Cross
Manor, St. Mary’s County, Maryland, British North
America) [M]: m. *Elizabeth BACON (1609, England - AFT 27
July 1653, Northampton County, Virginia, British North
America), ABT January/February 1643/44, Hungars Parish,
Northampton County, Virginia, British North America
Child 8: William
NUTHALL of CATTENHALL (AFT 1613,
Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England - January 1626/27,
Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England: interment January 1626/27, St. Lawrence's Parish,
Frodsham, County Cheshire, England, ) [M]
Child 9: Ellen NUTHALL
of CATTENHALL (1624, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England; christened
13 June 1624 at St. Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham,
County Cheshire, England - ?) [F]
Note 1: Robert Glover, Somerset
Herald in the College of Arms, during the Visitation at
Cheshire in 1580, recorded of John NUTHALL III, "aetatis
3 annor’m in 1580," that is, "of the
age of 3 years in 1580." John NUTHALL III,
therefore, was born in 1577. [See The Visitation at Cheshire of
1580: Nuthall of Cattenhall.] John
NUTHALL III is recorded, with his children, in the
Visitation at Cheshire of 1613. Note, evidently, was made
during the Visitation at Cheshire of 1633 of the birth of
Ellen NUTHALL in 1624 and, also in 1624, of the death of
Catherine NUTHALL whose birth appears not to have
occurred by 1613. John NUTHALL IV was born after 1613
and, by 1630, he was resident in Virginia; and this,
perhaps, is the reason for his not appearing in the
records of Visitation. Visitation records, it should be
emphasized, are unofficial; and it is certainly not the
case that, in each generation, all children are actually
listed. Thus Ellen NUTHALL, who was christened in
1624, was not mentioned at the Visitation of 1613; but
her name was added by a later redactor, probably John
Paul Rylands. And Jane NUTHALL, who was christened in
1609, was also not mentioned at the Visitation of 1613;
but, as with her sister Ellen, her name was added by a
later redactor. In the manuscripts, including London,
British Library, MS Harley 1070 (which includes the
original document signed by John NUTHALL III), London,
British Library, MS Harley 1535, and London, College of
Arms, MS C.6, the births of such children as John NUTHALL
III may have engendered between 1613 and 1624 are
unremarked. In any case, since
Richard NUTHALL was the designated heir to Cattenhall,
John NUTHALL IV was fated to make his own way in the
world.
George Ormerod in The History of the County
Palatine and City of Chester, incorporated with a
republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's
Cheshire Antiquities (2nd ed., revised and enlarged
by Thomas Helsby, Esq.: George Routledge and Sons,
Ludgate Hill, London, 1882) reported, on page 99, that
John NUTHALL III was nine years of age in the 29th year
of the reign of Elizabeth I (coronated 15 January 1559
[OS]) and was definitely known to be alive as late as
1642.
Note 2: Robert Glover, Somerset
Herald in the College of Arms, during the Visitation at
Cheshire in 1580, recorded of Mary HYDE that she was the
daughter, perhaps the youngest, of Robert HYDE (HIDE) of
NORBURY and HYDE and Beatrix CALVELEY, the daughter of Sir
William CALVELEY of Yorkshire.
It is known, therefore, that Mary HYDE was alive in
1580; and, if she was perhaps a little younger than her
husband, John NUTHALL III, her year of birth may be
estimated as 1578/79. That Mary HYDE, the daughter of
Robert HYDE and Beatrix CALVELEY, indeed married John
NUTHALL III is verified in Pedigrees Made at the
Visitation of Cheshire, 1613, Taken by Richard St.
George, Esq., Norroy King of Arms, and Henry St. George,
Gent., Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms, and Some Other
Contemporary Pedigrees, edited by Sir George J. Armytage,
Bart., F. S. A., and J. Paul Rylands, Esq., F. S. A.,
printed for The Record Society, 1909 [College of Arms, MS
C. 6, fol. 11].
Sir William CALVELEY, who died 27
October 1570, in Chester, County Cheshire, was High
Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1549 - 50 and had been knighted
by Edward Seymour (<1506>, Wolf Hall, Wiltshire,
England - 22 January 1552, Tower Hill [the Tower of
London], London, England), the Earl of Hertford (since
1537), at Norham Castle, on 23 September 1545. The wife
of Sir William CALVELEY was Elizabeth SNEYD, the daughter
of Sir William SNEYD of Stockeld, Yorkshire. The family
SNEYD, however, is historically associated with
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. In 1547, Sir William SNEYD
was mining coal from the edges of lands which he has
renting at Kidsgrove, Wolstanton, Staffordshire. And Sir
William SNEYD, who died in 1567, was interred at St.
Margaret’s, Wolstanton, Staffordshire. [See The Visitation at Cheshire of 1580:
Hyde of Norbury]
Robert HYDE (HIDE) died 22 March 1614,
in Norbury, County Cheshire, and was interred 5 April
1614 at Stockport, County Cheshire.
Beatrix CALVELEY died in 1624 and was
interred 21 December 1624 at Stockport, County Cheshire.
Note 3: Maps of
Stockport, Cheshire, in 1882:
St. Mary's
Church, Stockport, Cheshire, where John NUTHALL IV was
christened, is at the centre of this map, published in
1882.
Stockport,
Cheshire, 1882
Note 4: George Ormerod (History of
the County Palatine and City of Chester, p. 99), from
the parish records, proved that Richard NUTHALL
engendered Anne NUTHALL (christened 1 September 1633 at
Frodsham), John NUTHALL (christened 5 October 1634 at
Frodsham), and Katherine NUTHALL (christened 9 April 1637
at Frodsham).
Note 5: It is of interest that, at
his death, John NUTHALL III left no Will to be proved in
Cheshire. This means (1) that, at some time previous to
his death, he had already alienated Cattenhall to Sir
Arthur Aston, the son of the Sir Arthur Aston who, as the
agent of George CALVERT, the first Lord Baltimore, was
the proprietary governor of Avalon, and (2) that, at the
time of his death, he was residing outside of Cheshire.
[See Cattenhall in Cheshire.]
The thesis here is that, at some time near to 1642, when
he is last reported to have been active in Cheshire, John
NUTHALL III converted his landed capital into other forms
of wealth. It is by no means clear that his eldest son,
Richard NUTHALL, actually inherited Cattenhall.
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G0500A:
John NUTHALL IV [of
CROSS MANOR] [010]
Birth: 1614/15, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England
Christening: 10 February 1614 (OS), St. Mary’s
Parish, Stockport, County Cheshire, England
Death: July 1667, Cross Manor, St. Mary’s
County, Maryland, British North America (AFT 5 June 1667
and BEF 10 October 1667, Cross Manor, St. Mary’s
County, Maryland, British North America)
Father: John NUTHALL III
of CATTENHALL (1577, Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England
- AFT 16 August 1644,
<London>, England)
Mother: Mary HYDE of NORBURY and HYDE (ABT 1578/79,
Norbury, County Cheshire, England - AFT 16 August
1644, <London>, England) [See G0501A: Mary HYDE of NORBURY and HYDE in Antecedents and Descendants of Robert Hyde of
Norbury and Hyde (25 March 1543 - 22 March 1614).]
Marriage: ABT January/February
1643/44, Hungars Parish, Northampton County, Virginia,
British North America
Spouse: *Elizabeth BACON (1609, England - AFT 27 July
1653, Northampton County, Virginia, British North
America)
Child
1: Eleanor
NUTHALL (ABT 1648, Northampton
County, Virginia, British North America - AFT 2 July 1696
and BEF 9 May 1704, Northampton Manor, Prince
George’s County, Maryland, British North America)
[F]: m. Thomas SPRIGG (Sr.), Lieutenant (ABT 1630,
Kettering, Northamptonshire, England - AFT 9 May 1704 and
BEF 27 December 1704, Northampton, Prince George’s
County, Maryland, British North America), July 1668, St.
Mary’s County, Maryland, British North America [See
G0499A:
Thomas SPRIGG (Sr.) in Descendants
of Thomas Sprigg (1604 - 14 January 1677/78).]
Child 2: James
NUTHALL (ABT 1649, Northampton
County, Virginia, British North America – AFT 28
April 1685 [Will signed] and BEF 12 June 1685 [Will
proved], St. Mary’s County, Maryland, British North
America) [M]: m. Mary Margaret BOULTON (née
UNKNOWN), BY 1685
Child
3: John NUTHALL V (5
November 1651, Calvert County, Maryland, British North
America - AFT 22 November 1713 [Will signed] and BEF 28
September 1714 [Will proved], St. Mary’s County,
Maryland, British North America) [M]: m1. Eleanor UNKNOWN
(? - BEF 1670), BEF 1663: m2. Barbara UNKNOWN (ABT 1649 -
?), ABT 1670, Maryland, British North America
Child 4: Elias NUTHALL (1652,
Northampton County, Virginia, British North America -
1704, Talbot County, Maryland) [M]: m. Elizabeth BECKWITH
(ABT 1652, <Prince George’s County>, Maryland
- ?), BY 28 April 1679, Prince George’s County,
Maryland, British North America
Other Marriage: 12 September
1660, Hungars Parish, Northampton County, Virginia,
British North America
Spouse: Jane JOHNSON
Note
1: John NUTHALL IV was born
in County Cheshire, England in 1614/15 to John NUTHALL
III and Mary HYDE. Record does exist of his
christening on 10 February 1614 at St. Mary's Parish,
Stockport, Cheshire. The baptismal record, in manuscript
from St. Mary's, is exactly as follows:
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Februarie 1614
Bapt ¾ John the Sonne of John
Nutthall of Catnall was baptized the 10th
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Until 1752, the British were still
using the Julian calendar. And, in Christian usage since
era of Dionysius Exiguus (also known as 'Dennis the
Short,' died about AD 544), the Julian new year occurred
on 25 March, the Feast of the Annunciation. The Gregorian
new year, of course, occurs on 1 January. This means that
the Julian date of Friday, 10 January 1614 is equivalent
to the Gregorian date of Friday, 20 February 1615.
Therefore, it is not possible to doubt that, in 1614/15
John NUTHALL III of CATTENHALL was indeed the father of
John NUTHALL IV.
St. Mary's, Stockport, is an ancient parish originally
comprising the townships of Bramhall, Bredbury,
Brinnington, Disley, Dukinfield, Hyde, Marple, Norbury
(near Stockport), Offerton, Romiley, Stockport, Stockport
Etchells, Torkington, and Werneth. Norbury and Hyde were
the traditional seats of the family HYDE; and the church
in St. Mary's parish appears to have been that with which
Robert HYDE and Beatrix CALVELEY, the parents-in-law of
John NUTHALL IV were affiliated. John NUTHALL IV immigrated to Virginia before 1630 as a servant
indentured, under the name of John NUTWELL, to Hugh HAYES
(1608 - 1637), of Accomac County, Virginia, a cousin of
Captain William STONE (later Governor of Maryland) (ABT
1599, Northamptonshire, England - AFT 3 December 1659
[Will signed] and BEF 21 December 1660 [Will proved],
Avon Manor, Charles County, Maryland, British North
America), husband of Elizabeth SPRIGG. In England, Hugh
HAYES resided at Prestbury, in Cheshire. It was Capt.
William STONE who transported HAYES to Virginia but,
deciding against permanent residence in the New World,
HAYES was back in England by 1637. HAYES died in 1637 and
his estate was administered in the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury. Prestbury, in fact, is a locale with which
the family NUTHALL had ancestral connections [see below, note 2]. About a mile
from Prestbury, there is a village called
"Poynton" and, near to it, an estate called
"Poynton Hall." Prestbury and Poynton are, in
fact, townships both in the ancient parish of St. Peter,
Prestbury itself being the seat of the parish. The fact
that Capt. William STONE, in Virginia, named one of his
tracts "Poynton Manor" may thus indicate further ties to Cheshire. Capt. William
STONE, however, was the son of John STONE (1575,
Northampton, England - 1633, England) and, as it seems,
Dorothy POYNTON (or, perhaps, WILLIAMS). Capt. William
STONE arrived on Virginia’s eastern shore no later
than 1628; and his brothers, who accompanied him, were
John, Matthew, Andrew, and Robert. [See G0500A:
Thomas SPRIGG(E), Note 2 and Note
3 in Descendants
of Thomas Sprigg (1604 - BY 14 January 1677/78).
About William STONE's resistance to the Puritan coup
d'etat in Maryland, see various notes in Descendants of Robert Clarke the
Surveyor (1611 - AFT 14 July 1664 and BEF 21 July 1664).]
[Information in this paragraph comes from
the Genealogical Correspondence of David Armstrong. But also see Alice Norris Parran, Register
of Maryland's Heraldic Families: Period From March 25th
1634 to March 25th 1835: Tercentenary of the Founding of
Maryland, Baltimore, Md., Printed by H. G. Roebuck
& son c1935-38, 2 vols.; Sharon J. Doliante, Maryland
& Virginia Colonials: Genealogies of some Colonial
Families: Families of Bacon, Beall, Beasley, Cheney,
Duckett, Dunbar, Ellyson, Elmore, Graves, Heydon, Howard,
Jacob, Morris, Nuthall, Odell, Peerce, Reeder, Ridgley,
Prather, Sprigg, Wesson, Williams, and Collateral Kin
(Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc.); and Norma Tucker, Colonial
Virginians and their Maryland Relatives.]
John NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor]
apparently escaped from Hugh HAYES and lived among the
Indians, whose language he acquired, along the eastern
shore of Maryland. Eventually, for the price of a hoe, he
was ransomed from the Indians by William JONES and was
returned, "well strapped with ye halyards." In
this regard, it should be noted that indentured servitude
is not a consistent indicator of social rank.
About
the relationship of John NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor] to
Hugh HAYES, Capt. William JONES furnished testimony
on 18 July 1664. Capt. JONES's deposition is concerned
with the identity of the river which, on Virginia's Lower
Eastern Shore, was sometimes called "Pocomoke"
and sometimes called "Wighco." Capt. JONES
appears to have been referring to John NUTHALL IV [of
Cross Manor] as a probable witness to his testimony. The
deposition thus indicates that, in 1664, John NUTHALL IV
[of Cross Manor] was a person sufficiently well-known in
Northampton County, Virginia to be cited in testimony at
law and that, about 1628 or 1629, this same John NUTHALL
IV [of Cross Manor] (as John NUTWELL) had been something
of a fugitive on the Eastern Shore of Virginia:
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"Capt. William JONES,
justice of peace and quorum in his majis county
of North'ton, Virginia, doth declare on oath, y't
about thirty-five or thirty-six years since hee
did offten sale a trading w'th ye Indians in ye
bay of Chessapiack, and well knew ye river
Pokomoke, w'ch lyeth to ye Southward of a little
point described in Capt.
Smith's Mapp w'thout a name, and is so far
Southward as a man can see from ye place
described in Capt. Smith's Mapp for Watkins
point; and doth decirm y't ye said river of
Pokomoke was then soe called, and noe such name
as ye river Wighco, either at y't time tyme or in
ye memory of man before, was applyed to ye river
of Pokomoke, and y't ever since ye said river,
soe scituated as aforesaid, hath bin and is
called by ye name of Pocomoke river. And
farthermore this deponent saith, y't in the time
hee was a married man and a trader in y't bay of
Chessapeak, John NUTWELL
was a boy and servant to Hugh HAYS, and was run
away from his said master, and this deponent gave
a hoe to ye Indians for ye said NUTWELL, and brought him home
again, well straped w'th ye hallyards. Soe farr
this deponent maketh oath. /s/ Will. JONES Sworne
in open court ye 18th of July, 1664" [Henry
A. Wise, et al., Report and
Accompanying Documents of the Virginia
Commisioners Appointed to Ascertain the Boundary
Line Between Maryland and Virginia (with
Appendix, Atlas) (Richmond, Virginia: 1873),
Appendix - pp. 78 - 79. Also see Clayton
Torrance, Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland, p. 486.] |
Capt. William JONES, in fact, was the neighbour of
Gov. William STONE by whom Hugh HAYES had been
transported. [See the patent granted to John HOLLOWAY,
the first wife of Elizabeth BACON who subsequently
married John NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor] in note 4
under G0500A:
Thomas SPRIGG(E) in Descendants of
Thomas SPRIGG (1604 - BY January 1677/78).]
Furthermore, on 25 August 1643, John HOLLOWAY, the first
huband of Elizabeth BACON, the first wife of John NUTHALL
IV [of Cross Manor], named Capt. William JONES among the
overseers of his estate to assist his widow in execution
of his Will. Capt. William JONES, therefore, was required
to deal with John NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor] when, in
January 1643/44, Elizabeth BACON remarried. [See below,
the Will of John HOLLOWAY
in Note 13.]
Capt. JONES's testimony, concerning the Pocomoke - or
Wighco - River, anticipated the formation of Somerset
County in 1666 with geographical reference to the river
under discussion. Thus, the proclamation of Cecil CALVERT
on 22 August 1666:
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Archives
of Maryland, vol. 54, p. 634: Knowe
yee That wee for the ease & benifitt of the
people of this or Province & for the speedy
& more exact administracon of Justice haue
erected & doe by theis prsents erect all tht
tract of Land within this o<u>r province of
Maryland bounded on the south with a Line drawne
east from Watkins point being the North pointe of
tht bay into which the river Wighco (formerly
Called Wighcocomoco afterwards Pocomoke & Now
Wighcocomoco againe) doth fall exclusiuely to the
ocean sea on the east Nanticoke river on the
North & the sound of Chesepiake bay on the
West into A County by the Name of Sothersett
County in honr to our dear Sister the Lady Mary
Somersett & for the great trust &
Confidence wee haue in yor fidelitys
Circumpeccons providences & wisdomes haue
Constituted ordeined & appoynted, & doe
by theis presents constitute ordaine &
appointe you Stephen Horsey William Stevens
William Thorne James Jones John Winder Henry
Boston George Johnson & John White gent:
Commissioners Joyntly & severally to keepe
the peace in Sommersett County aforesaid; And to
keepe & cause to be kept all Lawes &
orders made for the good & Conservacon of the
peace & for the quiett rule & governmt of
the people in all & every the Articles of the
same & to chastice & punish all persons
offending the forme of any the Lawes & orders
of this our province or of any of them in
Sommersett County aforesaid as according to the
forme of those lawes & ordrs shall be fitt to
be done . . . .
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In 1629, Hugh HAYES was about 21 years of age, not
much older than John NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor] who was
then aged fifteen years:
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4 June 1635: Mr. William STONE
patented 1800 acres (in then Accawmacke Co., Va.)
on Hungar's Creek, for the transportation of
himself, his brother Andrew, and 34 servants,
including Hugh HAYS . . . . and Tho. Ward. [Cavaliers
and Pioneers, p. 28] Hugh Hays was age 27
and Tho. Ward was age 25, in June 1635 [See Susie
M. Ames, County Court Records of Accomack
& Northampton, Virginia, pp. 38 - 39.] |
Hugh HAYES eventually returned to his home in
Prestbury, County Cheshire, England where he died after
17 April 1637 and before 12 May 1637. Prestbury, in
County Cheshire, is very near to Norbury, the home of
Mary HYDE, the mother of John NUTHALL IV. In his Will,
Hugh HAYES asserts his relationship to William STONE:
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From: Lothrop Withington, Virginia
Gleanings in England: Abstracts of 17th and
18th-Century English Wills and Administrations
Relating to Virginia and Virginians: A
Consolidation of Articles from The Virginia
Magazine of History and Biography (Baltimore,
Genealogical Publishing Co.: 1980), p. 215.
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"HUGH HEYES [HAYES in Probate
Act, and described as of Presbury,
Cheshire]. Will 17 April 1637; proved 12
May 1637. To my mother Alice HEYES £20
by £4 a year, any residue to James HEYES
als MACKRIN her grandchild. To
my brother James HEYES my horse and
saddle. To his son John, my godson, 50s.,
and to each other child of his 20s.
apeece. To my sister Margerie £10 by
50s. yearly, any residue to Ellin
BACCHUS, daughter to my sister Mary,
deceased. To James HEYES als
MACKRIN 20s. To the son of my Cozen
William STONE in Virginia, my godson, a
cow and her increase which I left in his
ffather's hands. Residue in England and
Virginia to the children of my sister
Margarett BANNASTER, the wife of Benjamin
BANNASTER, and to the forenamed Ellen
BACCHUS equally. Executors: My brother in
law, Benjamin BANNASTER. Witnesses:
Tobias Parnell, Robte. Bulkeley. [Goare,
79]" |
The Will of Hugh HAYES was proved in the
Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
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The river, which was variously named
"Pocomoke," "Wighcocomoco," or
"Wighco," received its names from the
indigenous tribes residing about its banks, that is, the
Pocomokes and the Wicomicos. The speech of the Pocomokes
and the Wicomicos, in which John NUTHALL IV [of Cross
Manor] appears to have been fluent, belonged to the
Algonquian (Algic) family of languages.
Watkins Point takes its name from James
Watkins, a soldier in the expedition of Captain John
Smith in June 1608. Watkins arrived, as a labourer, on
the first supply ship to reach Jamestown in 1608. It was
Smith, indeed, who named the point after James Watkins.
NUTWELL (NOTTESWILLE) is a place-name recorded, in
Devonshire, in the Domesday Book and, with the loss of
the medial w, is most likely the older form of
NUTHALL, both pronounced ['nuhtal].
Language, it must be emphasized, is primarily in speech,
not in writing; and written English is notoriously
unphonetic:
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It is a common
principle that in a compound, when a loss of
stress on the final syllable occurs, phonetic
change may also take place, hence Keswick,
pronounced 'kezik, with the
primary stress on the first syllable, total loss
of the medial "w," and a very weak
stress on the second syllable. Today the
place-names Warwick, Keswick, Norwich, Greenwich,
Dulwich, Chiswick, Woolwich, and Southwark are
pronounced without the medial "w";
Saltwich, Sandwich, Droitwich, Prestwick,
Gatwick, Alnwick, Hardwick, and Nantwich retain
it. In most of the names in the second group the
medial "w" follows a voiced or
voiceless dental stop. [Beryl Rowland, "How
to Pronounce Berwick: A Curious Paradigm of
Chaucer's Bishop Bradwardine," Florilegium
11 (1992), pp. 116 - 123 (p. 121)] |
For "Capt. Smith's Mapp," which Captain
William JONES mentions, and the environs of the Pocomoke
(Wighco) River as John Smith illustrated them, see Captain John Smith: Map of Virginia,
1612.
Record does exist of John
NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor] in Stafford
County, Virginia, in 1640. He became prominent in
Northamptom County and obtained a commission from the
Governor of Maryland to trade among the Indians for
beaver furs, skins and other articles. He was granted
three hundred acres of land in Northampton County,
Virginia 27 July 1645. In 1651/52, while still in
Northampton County, Virginia, he signed the "Oath of
Loyalty" and the "Northampton Protest" to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
A very cogent discussion of these historically
important documents can be found in
"Oath of Loyalty: Northampton County, Virginia,
1651, Somerset County, Maryland, 1689," a paper
submitted by Carolyn Lowman (1997) to the Department of
History, Salisbury State University, from which the
following is extracted:
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"By 1648 Charles I was
captured and was negotiating with Parliament.
This was not good enough for Oliver Cromwell, the
leader of the New Model Army. On December first
of 1648, Cromwell ordered the army to reoccupy
London. "Colonel Thomas Pride was ordered to
purge the commons of dissidents, deducing it to a
'Rump' of about 150 members."(6)
Charles was tried and executed in 1649. The army,
through Parliament, was now in control and was
calling the government a Commonwealth, without a
king or House of Lords.(7)
In October of 1651 the Commonwealth "passed
the first of the Navigation Acts, designed to
break the hold of the Dutch on the carrying trade
between Europe and America and within Europe, and
it embarked on the resultant war in 1652 with the
utmost self-confidence."(8)
"These events are the basis for what was
going on in Virginia, more specifically
Northampton County, in 1651/52. "In March,
1652, Captain Dennis arrived at Jamestown and
demanded the surrender of the colony to
Parliament, and after a slight delay, and no
resistance, the capitulation was ratified on the
12th of the month."(9)
These articles made the colony of Virginia
subject to the Commonwealth. Virginia was to seek
out a new charter from Parliament because she
"should have the ancient bounds and limits
granted by the charters of former Kings . . .
."(10)
The council appointed for the Commonwealth of
Virginia sent its two members from Northampton
County, Nathaniel Littleton and Colonel Argoll
Yeardly, back to collect signatures of the
residents of their county. One hundred and
sixteen people signed the document which stated:
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The Engagm't tendered to
ye Inhabitants of Northampton County,
Eleaventh of March, 1651 (O.S.) Wee whose
Names are subscribed; doe hereby Engage
and promise to bee true and faithfull to
the Commonwealth of England as it is nowe
Established without Kinge or House of
Lords.(11) |
"This oath of loyalty, on its own would
suggest that residents of Northampton County were
loyal to the new government in England. However,
there is another document called The Northampton
Protest which may suggest otherwise. This protest
stems from the problems between the English and
the Dutch, and a lack of representation of
Northampton County in Virginia's Assembly. The
"tax of forty-six pounds of tobacco per
poll" which had been levied on the Eastern
Shoreman was a cause for complaint.(12)
"Parliament, which at first had found much
support on the peninsula, especially among the
middle classes and the tradesman, soon lost
favor."(13)
This grievance combined with laws like the
Navigation Acts and the prohibition of Dutch
trade had eaten away at the Parliamentary Party
in Northampton. A spirit of independence soon
resulted, and influential royalists took
advantage of this. These royalists "appealed
to the people to resist the unjust burdens
imposed upon them by the Assembly at James City,
and to assert their independence of a government
in which their sole participation was to defray
its expense."(14)
People began to assemble daily to listen to the
agitators. "After several days of such
excitement, six prominent citizens of the county
were selected by vote of the people to draw up a
protest against their present condition and to
act in all things as the best interest of the
people might demand."(15)
On March 30th a protest was drawn up by some of
the same people who, days earlier, had signed the
oath of loyalty to the Commonwealth. Stephen
Charlton, Llevyne Denwood, Jno. NUTHALL, Wm.
Whittington, Jno. Ellis, and Steph. Horsey were
the six people chosen to draw up the document.
This was the first "form of a protest
against taxation without representation."(16)
Jennings Cropper Wise, author of Ye Kingdome
of Accawmacke, suggests that this document
"was a direct protest against the authority
of the Commonwealth of England, which from March
12th, to April 30th, 1652, was represented by
Parliamentary Commissioners, not chosen by the
people, nor any section of the people of
Virginia."(17)
If this is the case, why did the people of
Northampton sign the loyalty list at all? It is
impossible to determine exactly why the people of
Northampton changed their minds so quickly.
However, the Northampton Protest appears to be
directed at the Virginia government that was in
power before the Commonwealth took over. If this
is the case, residents of Northampton were most
likely loyal to the Commonwealth, or at least
signed the oath because it was the thing to do.
If Wise's assertion is correct, one could suggest
that force may have been used to obtain the
signatures."
THE OATH
OF LOYALTY
The Engagm't tendered to ye Inhabitants of
Northampton County, Eleaventh of March,
1651" (O.S.) "Wee whose Names are
subscribed; doe hereby Engage and promis to bee
true and faithfull to the Commonwealth of England
as it is nowe Established without Kinge or House
of Lords.
25 OF MARCH
Nathan'll
Littleton
Obedience Robins
Edm. Scarburgh
Edm. Douglas
Peter Walder
Wm. Andrews, Sen'r
Allex Addison
James Barnabye
Jno. Pannell
Sam'll Sone
Jno. Denman
James Berry
Phillip Farrant
Jno. Ellis
Jeffery Minshatt
Georgine Hacke
Rich. Hamby
Edw. Harrington
Nich. Waddelone
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Argoll
Yeardley
Wm. Waters
Wm. JONES
Thos. SPRIGGE
Jno. Dye
X'ofer Major
Wm. Munds
Francis Flood
Stph. Stringer
Zephyr Jarvis
Nice. Scott
Ankh. Hodgskins
Jno. NUTHALL
Wm. Whittington
Wm. Coake
Ben. Cowdrey
Levyne Denwood
Robert Andrews
Ben. Mathews
Jno. Stringer
Allex. Harryson
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Rich.
Vaughan
Thos. Johnson
Dan'll Baker
Thomas Hint
Thos. Higby
Jno. Parkes
Wm. Stanley
Jno. Akers
Robert Harryson
Luke Billington
Randolfe Hutchinson
Nice. Granger
Thos. Truman
Allex. Madoxe
Henr. Armitradinge
Steph. Charlton
Jno. Parramore
Jno. Robearts
Zephyr Dixon
Robert Marryott
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TRICESIMO DIE MARTY 1651 (O.
S., 30 March)
Edm. Mathews
Jno. Custis
Jno. Johnson, Jun.
Farmer Jones
Jno. Dixon
Jno. Taylor
Mathew Stone
Tobine Selve
Rich. Nottingham
Nehemiah Coventon
Francis Morgan
Wm. Ward
Jno. Johnson, Senr.
Edw. Southren
Jno. Merryfin
Dan'll Chadwell
Jno. Teeslocke
Jno. Coulson
Jno. Michaell
Jno. Cornley
Rich. Newell
Jno. Lee
Phill. Merrydayr
Edw. Moore
Jno. Brillyant
Ambrose Dixon
Wm. Horose
Robt. Blake
Rich Hill
Jno. Hott
Edw. Marshall
Jno. Dolling
Charles Scarburgh
Walter Williams
WM. Stephens
Jno. Thatcher
James Johnson
Elial Hartree
Charles Ratliffe
Jno. Graye
Jno. Willyams
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Randall
Revell
Wm. Smyth
Wm Custis
Tho. Miller
Robert Baily
Jno. Whitehead
Armstrong Foster
Wm. Adrews, Jun'r
Sam'l Calvert
Francis Goodman
Jno. Willyams
Wm. Corner
Rich Smyth
Jno. Rutter
Andrew Hendrye
Antho. Carpnter
Jno. Wise
Wm. Taylor
Jno. Waleford
Mick Richett
Rich Bruducke
Thos. Clarke
Thos. Crecro
Sam'l Jones
Hen. White
X'ofer Calvert
James Adkinson
Wm. Gower
Wm. Boucher
Jno. Johnson, Jr.
Wm. Jordan
Rich. Smyth
David Wheatley
Robert Berry
Wm. Preeninge
Tho. Butterie
Jno. James
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Tho. Price
Rich. Baily
Rich. Hudson
Rich. Alleyn
Jno. Lewis
Jno. Johnson, Senr.
Wm. Gaskins
Nicholas Jueyre
Stephen Horsey
Jno. Robinson
Symon Bailey
Jno. Hinman
Jno. Coulson
Phill. Mathews
Edw. Leene
X'ofer Kirke
Thos. Savage
Sam'll Smothergall
Wm. Colebourne
Alex Maddoxe
Sam'l Powell
James Brewce
Wm. Luddington
Sam'll Robins
Jno. Garnell
David Kiffyn
Jno. Edwards
Wm. Mellinger
Raph'll Hudson
Rich. Teggar
Samuel Goldfine
Wm. Moultor
Wm. Browne
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Recordantur vicesimo die Augusty Ano. 1652.
Teste Edm. Mathews, Cloc.
Cur."
[From Jennings Cropper Wise, Ye Kingdome of
Accawmacke, pp. 134 - 136]
THE
NORTHAMPTON PROTEST
The xxxth of March, Ano. 1652
Wee whose names are und written
this daye made choyce of by the Inhabitants of
Northampton Countie in Virginia to give
Informacons and Insruccons to ye gent Ellected
Burgesses for this prsent Grand Assemblie (in
relacon to such matters as conduce to our peace
& Saftie). And For ye Redresse of those
aggreevances wch (att prsent) wee are capable
& sensible of in our Countie of Northampton.
Imprmis. Wee the Inhabitants of Northampton
Countie doe complayne that from tyme to tyme
(pticular yeares past) wee have been submitted
& bine obedient unto the paymt of publeq
Taxacons. Butt after ye yeare 1647, since yt tyme
wee Conceive & have found that ye taxes were
very Weightie. But in a more espetiall manner
(undr favor) wee are very sensible of the Taxacon
of fforty sixe pounds of tobacco p. poll (this
present yeare). And desire yt ye same bee taken
off ye charge of ye Countie; furthermore wee
alledge that after 1647, wee did understand &
suppose o<u>r Countie of Northampton to bee
disioynted & sequestered from ye rest of
Virginia. Therefore that Llawe wch requireth
& inioyneth Taxacons from us to bee
Arbitrarye & illegall; fforasmuch as wee had
neither summons for Ellecon fo Burgesses nor
voyce in their Assemblye (during the time
aforesd) but only the Singlur Burgess in
September, Ano., 1651. Wee conceive that wee may
Lawfullie ptest agt the pceedings in the Act of
Assemblie for publiq Taxacons wch have relacon to
Northmton Countie since ye year 1647.
The Gent who are (att prsent) to speak inour
behalfe can sufficiently declare what is
necessary to bee expressed to this effect wch wee
referr to them.
Our desire is that there may bee an annual
Choyce of Magistrates in Northmton. And, if our
Countie may not have ye privilege of a peculir
govrmt & propriety (att prsent) granted wth
in our prcincts that then you Request and plead
that all Causes, Suit of Tryalls ( of what nature
soevr) may bee concerned (for future tyme),
determined in our sd Countie fo Northampton.
If there bee a free & genr. all vote for a
Governor wherein they shall Ellect Mr. Richard
Bennett Wee the inhaitants of Northampton Countie
wth unanimous consent & plenary aprobacon
Rendr our voyce for te sd Esq. Bennett.
The people doe further desire that ye Taxacons
for fforty sixe pouds of tobac a heead maye not
bee collected by the sheriffs (until ansrw of the
questions from the Grand Assemblie nowe
summoned).
Witness our hands subscribed the day &
yeare aforesd.
Stephen Charlton
Wm. Whittington
Llevyne Denwood
Jno. Ellis
Jno. NUTHALL
Steph. Horsey
"Recordatr Decimo Mense May, 1652, p. me
Edm. Mathews, Clic. Cur."
[From Jennings Cropper Wise, Ye
Kingdome of Accawmacke, pp. 139 -
140]
Notes:
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6. J.
P. Kenyon, Stuart England (New
York: St. Martin's Press, 1978), 163. 7. Ibid,.
164-165.
8. Ibid,.
169.
9. Jennings Cropper
Wise, Ye Kingdome of Accawmacke or
the Eastern Shore of Virginia in the
Seventeenth Century (Richmond: The
Bell Book And Stationary Co. 1988), 133.
10. Ibid,.
134.
11. Ibid,.
134-135.
12. Ibid,.
137.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid,.
138.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid,.
140.
17. Ibid,.
141.
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It seems likely that the Oath of Loyalty was signed by
the entire population, in Northampton County, of free
white male heads of households.
Richard Bennett, who - in March 1652 - succeeded Sir
William Berkeley as governor of Virginia and who - in the
Northampton Protest - enjoyed the support of John NUTHALL
IV [of Cross Manor], was a Puritan. The only important
change made by Bennett and his Puritan successors, Edward
Digges and Samuel Mathews, was to extend the elective
franchise. Berkeley was restored to office in 1660.
The earliest mention of John
NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor] in Maryland is
dated 8 July 1643:
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Archives
of Maryland, vol. 4, p. 209: Court and
Testamentary Business [Liber P R]:
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8 July 1643 Blanch Oliver widd. &
Admratrix of Roger Oliver demandeth of
John hollis, Thomas Boys and George
Tailor, wastcoat, & 1. monmouth cap
& 2. fishinglines; wch were in the
possession of the said Roger at the time
of his death, & came afterward into
the possession of the said defendts the
said Jo: hollis denieth vpon oath that
any of the said roanoke nor any of the
other goods demanded came into his
possession saving 1. p shoes he ware till
he came home, wch he is ready to deliver;
but he saw a quantity of roanoke in a
pockett wch he desired George Tailor to
take charge of but the certaine quantity
he knoweth not thomas Boys denieth vpon
oath that any of the goods demanded came
into his possession. the said George
Tailor saith vpon oath that all the goods
of the said Rogers as came into his hands
he delivered vnto the plf without any
diminution as he knoweth of, saving 1.
peice of line to the quantity of about 2.
fathoms.
Eod: John NUTTALL being
demanded of the meanes how Roger oliver
came by his death, saith that he saw no
assault made by any one vpon the pson of
the said Roger; nor doth know by what
meanes he came by his death; but abovt 6.
houres or thereabouts as he imagineth
after he was slaine, this depont saw the
said Roger lying in the hold of the
vessell, with onely one wound in his
throat, & a gap vpon his chin, wch he
supposeth was made wth the knife that
wounded him in the throat, & saw a
dutch knife lying close by him, bloudy,
& broken close by the hand, &
more he knoweth not. John hollis likewise
demanded, saith that being vpon the deck,
& called by Thomas Boys to helpe
Roger oliver, he leaped downe into the
hold, & saw an Indian & the said
Roger strugling together, whervpon this
dept knocked the Indian on the head wth
the barrell of a gonne, & presently
after he saw the said Roger fall downe by
a wound wch the Indian had given him as
he supposeth; & being distracted for
some time wth perills of his life in the
hold with other Indians as soone as he
looked vpon the said Roger he saw him
dead, & more he knoweth not of the
meanes how he came by his death.
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John NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor]
settled permanently in Maryland about 1661 and purchased
- from Thomas CORNWALLIS - Cross Manor and St.
Elizabeth's Manor, each 2000 acres, as well as 200 acres
of land on St. Inigo’s Creek. After the move, he
served as Commissioner of St. Mary's County as well as
Justice of the Peace. He died intestate at Cross Manor,
Maryland in October 1667. [See G. N. Mackenzie,
Colonial Families of the United States, p. 694]
Cross Manor, the oldest brick house in
Maryland (Cross Manor Road, Beachville, Maryland), has
been listed on the United States National Register of
Historic Places since 1988.
A power of attorney issued in 1658 in St
Andrew’s parish, Holborne, in London refers to "John Nuthall of London,
Merchant." Thus, from William and Mary
College Quarterly Historical Magazine, vol. 5, no. 1.
(July 1896), p. 40:
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A SERVANT GIRL IN
VIRGINIA1
LOVEING DAUGHTER —— My kinde
love remembred unto you hopeinge of yor good
health as I am att ye wrightinge hereof (blessed
be god) yor Lre I recd dated ye 24th of March
1645 whereby I undrstand of yor health; I have
yor both Lrs and toakens wch wch I wonder you
have not recd any. And I am so much grieved yor
maystr hath dealt so dishonestly by you in
makeinge such a slave of you (wch was contrary to
his promise) yet daughtr bee of good comfort for
I will do what lyes in my powr for you As a fathr
ought for his child. And I would have you to
demand that ffive pounds of Mr Drew whch if he
doe not delivr you ye money god willing I wil be
wth you next yeare wch if he doe not paye you you
(if there bee any Lawe in England or in Virginia)
I will make ye Rogue smart for it: Alsoe I have
sent you a small toaken by the bearer hereof; Mr.
Dodsworth remembers himself unto you and hee wil
be a witness agt him. And as for yr Cloathes wch
he took awaye I will make him reestore them
againe. And I put this man in trust (?) about ye
bussinesse. All ye rest of yor Neighbors shall
iustifye what money and cloathes he had wth you:
Soe I rest desireinge you to please God whatevr
you doe And whersoevr you match wth an honest
man.
Soe I rest
Yor Loveinge ffather
John Corbett2
Recordatr 12 die mense octobr Ano 1649
me Edm: Mathewe clic.
Cur.
1. From the records
of Northampton county, Va.
2. Sarah Corbett,
"the aunt by the Mothers side and curatrix
and lawful assignee of Letitia Luddington the
naturall & Lawfull children of Garttrude
Luddington all of ye parish of St Andrewes
Holburne London," gave a power to John
NUTHALL of London mercht. Ack. in London Aug. 17,
1658. —— Northampton County Records. [Editorial
Note: Gertrude
Luddington, who was certainly deceased by 17
August 1658, appears to have been the widow of William
Luddington who, on 30
March 1651, was - like John NUTHALL of Cross
Manor - a signer of the Oath of Loyalty in
Northampton County, Virginia. William Luddington
seems to have died previous to 28 April 1653. On
4 November 1661, in Hungar's Parish, Northampton
County, Hannah Luddington was married to George
Brickhouse (Will signed 19 November 1688,
Northampton County, Virginia; Will proved 2
January 1688/89, Northampton County, Virginia).
Hannah Luddington is thought to have been another
daughter of William and Gertrude Luddington.]
[Editorial Note:
is an abbreviation meaning pro.]
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John NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor] is shown exercising
this power of attorney on 21 July 1659:
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21 July 1659: Whereas Mrs Sarah
Corbet gardian of ye orphants of Mrs Gartrude
Luddington deceased have given mee Jno NUTHALL of
London, Marcht full power by vertue of a Letter
of Attorney . . . . Now know yee yt I John
NUTHALL haveing power to constitute one Attorny
Or more under mee doe by these presents
Constitute and appoynt my well beloved ffriend Mr
Wll Kendall to demand and receive all Such goods
and Chattles At Edw: Littleton Gent heire of
abovesaid Coll. [Nathaniel] Littleton & Execr
to Mrs Anne Littleton his mother [she deceased
wife of Col. Littleton] . . . . /s/ John NUTHALL
[Northampton County Orders, Deeds, Wills, no. 4,
1657-66, pp. 53-54. Also see Sharon
J. Doliante, Maryland & Virginia
Colonials: Genealogies of some Colonial Families:
Families of Bacon, Beall, Beasley, Cheney,
Duckett, Dunbar, Ellyson, Elmore, Graves, Heydon,
Howard, Jacob, Morris, Nuthall, Odell, Peerce,
Reeder, Ridgley, Prather, Sprigg, Wesson,
Williams, and Collateral Kin (Genealogical
Publishing Co. Inc.: 1998. 2000), 2 vols., vol.1,
p. 417] |
To be sure, John NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor] is the
same as "John NUTHALL, Merchant of London:"
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11 August 1659:
Spoken of as "Mr. John NUTHALL of London,
Merchant" . . . but spoke of himself as
"I, John NUTHALL of Accomack, gent., Atto.
of Mr. Robert Ingram of St. Ives in
Huntingtonshire . . . ," on February 22,
1660, same. [Rappahannock County, Virginia,
Records, 1656 - 1664, pp. 134-35. Also see
Sharon J. Doliante, Maryland
& Virginia Colonials: Genealogies of some
Colonial Families: Families of Bacon, Beall,
Beasley, Cheney, Duckett, Dunbar, Ellyson,
Elmore, Graves, Heydon, Howard, Jacob, Morris,
Nuthall, Odell, Peerce, Reeder, Ridgley, Prather,
Sprigg, Wesson, Williams, and Collateral Kin
(Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc.: 1998, 2000), 2
vols., vol.1, p. 418.] |
John NUTHALL IV’s [of Cross
Manor] marriage, his second, to Jane
JOHNSON is documented in the Hungars parish Records for
1660 - 61 [See William and Mary College Quarterly
Historical Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 3. (January 1910),
pp. 178-181.]
Note 2: Excerpt from: THE HISTORY OF PRESTBURY by A. J. S.Cartmell, M.A.:
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Produced for St.
Peter's Church, Prestbury. On the evening of 11 October 1977 Tony
Cartmell delivered a lecture to the Prestbury
Amenity Society covering the history of the
village since earliest times. His work was
printed in the parish magazine in several
instalments, beginning in the summer of 1982.
However the magazine ceased publication after the
winter of 1983/4 so that the last instalment
never appeared. The full text of the lecture is
now presented according to Tony Cartmell’s
original typescript with a minimum of editorial
alterations. Headings have been introduced . . .
.
Tony Cartmell had been
co-operating with the Editor in preparing the
updated version of his lecture. He died before he
could see the final result. A booklet, dedicated
to his memory and illustrated with pictures
supplied by David Belfield and Barbara Hartley,
was made available by the church during September
2000.
John Swallow, November 2001
The Manor
We have so far been dealing, of
course, with a Catholic church; but the
dissolution of the monasteries closely followed
the last lease. And in 1541 the church, and its
advowson and manor were granted by letters patent
of Henry VIII to the newly created Dean and
Chapter of Chester. There follows a period of ebb
and flow as Protestantism was virtually outlawed
again by Queen Mary and finally reinstated by
Queen Elizabeth.
Meanwhile the less scrupulous
had been taking their opportunities. In 1547 Sir
Richard Cotton obtained the manor and advowson
from the Diocese, it is said by extortion. He let
it to the Grosvenor brothers in 1555, and in 1559
they even presented the new vicar. But in 1579
Queen Elizabeth declared the Cotton title illegal
and then on 19th December, 1579 by Letters Patent
granted all the lands etc. previously held by the
Abbey to a consortium of Sir George CALVELY [1], George Cotton, Hugh Cholmondley,
Thomas Legh, Henry Mainwaring, John NUTHALL [2], and Richard HURLESTON [3] and their heirs for ever at fixed
annual rents. By a Deed of a few days later she
reserved £113.11.4 p.a. of those rents to the
Chester Diocese. In the following year, on 6th
August 1580, for reasons unexplained, all the
others involved gave up all their rights except
for certain tithes within Chelford and Astle, to
Thomas Legh. And from then until this day Legh of
Adlington has been the holder of the manor and
advowson of Prestbury, and therefore the Lay
Rector and Patron of the Parish.
[Notes by the author of this
web page:]
[1] Sir George CALVELY: This was Sir George CALVELEY of the
LEA, not yet traceably related to Sir William CALVELEY of Yorkshire. "CALVERLEY" and
CALVERLY" are variant spellings of the
surname.
[2]
John NUTHALL:
This was John NUTHALL II (ABT 1552, Cattenhall,
County Cheshire, England - February 1586/87,
Cattenhall, County Cheshire, England: interment 13
February 1586/87, St.
Lawrence's Parish, Frodsham, County Cheshire,
England).
[3]
Richard HURLESTON:
This was Richard HURLTON, the brother-in-law of
Richard NUTHALL II.
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Note 3: John NUTHALL IV
[of Cross Manor] and John HOLLOWAY:
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County and
Court Records of Accomack-Northampton, Virginia
1640-1645, edited by Susie M. Ames and
published for the Virginia Historical Society:
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It is ordered by this
court that John NUTHALL in whose custody
the estate of John HALLOWAY Remayneth
shall satisfy pay and deliver forth one
Cowe Calve unto Randell Revell attorney
of William Hockaday weaneable and upon
Reciept therof the said Hockaday or his
assignee shall deliver in HALLOWAY his
specialty unto the said John NUTHALL,
(fol. 236) The deposition of Jeremy Alln
taken in open Court. This deponent saith
that hee heard Michael Rickett say that
hee brought two hogsheads of tobacco
belonging to Randell Revell away from St.
Maryes and did promise to make the sayde
Revell satisfaction for it and thereuppon
the said Rickett demanded a Coppie of the
deposition. |
Nell
Marion Nugent, Cavaliers
and Pioneers (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983), vol. I, p. 158:
Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents &
Grants, 1623-1666:
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[p. 31] Mr. John NUTHALL,
300 acres Northampton County,Virginia
July 27,1645. At the head of Hungars
Creek, adjacent land formerly belonging
to John HALLAWAYE, running Ely. etc. For
transactions of 6 persons: John NUTHALL,
twice; Eliza, his wife; John Towson;
Andrew Ditch; John Evere. |
According to Virginia Immigrants: 1623 -
66, John NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor], in
1645, then living in Northampton County,
Virginia, transported Andrew Ditch and John
Evere.
Virginia Land Office Patents
No. 2, 1643-1651, p. 31: (Reel 2) [Transcribed
and edited by J. C. Marler from the digital image
of the microfilmed manuscript at the Library
of Virginia: Virginia Land Office Patents No.
2, 1643-1651, p. 31: (Reel 2). To facilitate
reading, the text has been lightly punctuated.
The orthography of the text in manuscript has not
been modified.]:
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[p. 31] To
ALL etc. whereas etc.
Now Know Yee1 that I the said Sir. Wm.
Berkeley, Knt., doo with the advice and
consent of the Councill of State
accordingly give and grant unto Mr. John
NUTHALL three hundred acres of land
scituate, lying, and being in the County
of Northampton att the head of Hungars
Creeke bounded on the western part of the
land formerly belonging unto John
HOLLOWAY2 and running easterley upon the
said Hungars Creeke and bounded on the
northerne part thereby and extending
southerly into ye3 woods, the said three hundred
acres of land bounded unto him the the
said John NUTHALL by and for the
transportation at his own proper cost and
charge of six persons into this colony
whose names are in the records mentioned
under this patent TO HAVE AND TO HOLD and
to bee held etc. yeilding and
paying unto our Sovereign Lord the King
his heirs and successors only excepted4 for every fifty acres of land
herein by these presents given and
granted yearely at the feast of St.
Michael the Archangel5 the fee rent of one shilling to
his Majesties use which payment is to be
made seven years after the date of these
presents and not before. dated the 27th
of July 1645. John NUTHALL twice,
Elizabeth his wife, John Towson, Andrew
Ditch, John Evere 1.
Yee: thee.
The initial is the letter thorn,
not the letter y. See Some
Alphabetic Characters Found in English
Manuscripts and in Early Printed Books.
2. the
land formerly belonging to John HOLLOWAY:
See below, Note 13.
3. ye:
the. The initial is the letter thorn,
not the letter y. See Some
Alphabetic Characters Found in English
Manuscripts and in Early Printed Books.
4. only
excepted: In the manuscript,
this is abbreviated as o Ex. No sovereign, of course, is
obliged to pay rent to himself.
5. the
feast of St. Michael the Archangel:
The Feast of St. Michael the Archangel
or, as it is also known in England,
Michaelmas, celebrated in both the Roman
and Anglican rites on 29 September.
Michaelmas is - or was - one of the four
quarter-days when English tenants paid
their rents.
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Note 4: John NUTHALL IV
[of Cross Manor]: 29 May 1656 - 23 Sep
1657:
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Old
Rappahannock Deeds, 1656-1664, Part I:
133 - 135:
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At a county court for
Northampton 23 Sep 1657 . . . Present Lt.
Coll. Edw. DUGLAS, Capt. Francis POTT,
Mr. William KENDALL, Mr. Llellvyne
[Llewellyn?] BERWOOD, Mr. John TILNEY.
This day Mr. William SMART did exhibit to
the Court a Generall Discharge for land
signed by Mrs. Ursula BROWNE Widdow &
Exx. of her late Husband Mr. John BROWNE
deced bearing date the 29th of May 1656
whereby it appearth that all agreemts.
& Bargaines for land between the said
Mr. John BROWNE and the said Mr. William
SMART with the consent of the said
Widdowe Mrs. Ursula BROWNE are made void
& totally disannuled for the said Mr.
SMART his land at Rappahanock & the
said Mr. John BROWNE his land at Accomack
als Northampton County in Virga. &
upon the request of the said Mr. William
SMART the aforesaid Genll. Discharge for
& in Relacon of the said land are
ordered to be recorded. Test. Edm.
MATHEWS Cl Cur Com. Recordat undecimo die
Aprill (ibid., p. 134) This Bill bindeth
me Allex. FLEMING of the County of
Rappahannock . . . to pay or cause to be
paid unto Mr. John NUTHALL of London,
Merchat for the use of Mr. Robert INGRAM
or his heirs of St. Ives in Huntington
Sheire Baker the full & just sum of
6,400 pds. . . . tobo . . . to be paid at
the now dwelling plantacon of Allex.
FLEMING in the Freshes of Rappahannock.
10th day of Nov next . . . year 1660 . .
. for better security I Allexander
FLEMING with consent of my loveing wife
Ursula FLEMING do bind our land &
plantacon we now live on withall the
houseing thereunto & upon belonging
being a parcell of land bought of Mr.
William SMART by my said wife Ursula
FLEMING & re(missing) up into the
hands possession of Allex. FLEMING . . .
by me Ursula FLEMING for ever We the said
Allexander FLEMING & Ursula FLEMING .
. . unto Mr. John NUTHALL for the use of
Mr. Robert INGRAM or his assignes for the
full terme of 99 years . . . . that is to
say all my part as to dower . . . we sett
our hands & seals jointly this 11th
day of August 1659 in presence of John
[his mark] HUSS, John COOPER. s/ Allex.
FLEMING, Ursula [V] FLEMING |
ibid., 134 - 135:
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I John
NUTHALL of Accomack gent. Atto. of Mr.
Robert INGRAM of St. Ives in Hungtington
sheir do constitute & appoint my
loveing Friend Mr. John HALL of
Rappahannock Merchant my true &
lawful Attorny . . . to arrest &
implead to judgment Mr. Allexander
FLEMING of the County of Rappahanock late
[sic] husband of Ursula FLEMING the
Widdow of Mr. John BROWNE of Accomack
& Exex. to her said deced Husband Mr.
John BROWNE of the County of Accomack for
a debt due by Specialty under both their
hands to the said Ingram & upon
composition with said FLEMING I do hereby
authorize my said attorney to resigne to
& possess the said FLEMING with a
parcell of land being formerly bound over
by the said Mr. FLEMING & Ursula his
Wife for the said Debt for the terme of
99 years according to said Bill . . .
22nd of February 1660. /s/ John NUTHALL; Wits: Edmond
DOBSON, Silvester [ST] THATCHER. Recordat
the 23 of Apr 1661 p me Wa. GRANGER Cl
Cur Rappa. (Old Rappahannock
County, Virginia Deeds & Wills,
Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Antient Press,
McLean, Virginia)
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Note 5: John NUTHALL IV
[of Cross Manor], Thomas CORNWALLIS, and
Cross Manor:
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Archives
of Maryland, vol. 49, Preface, p. 13:
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[xvi:
Letter of Transmittal] The matters
brought before the Provincial Court
during the four years included in this
volume are very numerous and cover a
variety of subjects. Apart from the legal
interest, which makes special mention
here of several of the cases well worth
while, many of the entries have
sufficient historical, personal, or human
interest to render them especially
deserving of the reader's attention.
Perhaps the majority of the cases are
suits for debt brought before the court
in order to secure a judgment against the
debtor, and execution against his
property and person, the latter resulting
in imprisonment, if the debt were not
paid. Considering the comparatively small
population of the Province at this time
and the fact that innumerable suits for
small matters were also brought in the
county and manorial courts, the large
amount of litigation is surprising. To
attempt to present anything like a
complete analysis or comment upon all the
cases brought before the court which are
recorded in these proceedings, would
extend this introduction to formidable
proportions. It does seem desirable,
however, to comment upon a few of the
cases which are of special interest. In 1661, John NUTHALL, a
Virginia merchant, purchased from Thomas CORNWALLIS two important manors of two
thousand acres each on St. Inigo's River,
St. Mary's County, known as CORNWALLIS's Crosse Manor and St.
Elizabeth's Manor. The seller and his
wife Penelope, and the purchaser, were
all in England at the time the deed was
executed, although it was not recorded in
Maryland until two years later (pages
3-6). It is known that NUTHALL settled on
his Maryland manor and died there about
seven years after his purchases were
made.
Provincial
Court Proceedings, 1663 [Liber B
B]:
This Indenture made the
ninth day of August Ano Dni 1661, &
in the thirteenth yeare of the Reigne of
or Souereigne Lord Charles the Second, by
the Grace of god King of England Scotland
ffrance & Ireland, Defender of the
ffayth &c: Betweene John NUTTHALL of
Northhampton County in Virginia marcht of
th' one part, And Thomas CORNEWALLEYS of Maryland in America Esqr
& Penelope his wife [1] of th' other part, All the sd
prties now being in England. Whereas the
sd Thomas CORNEWALLEYS & Penelope his wife By
their Indenture of Bargaine and Sale
Bearing date the day of the date of these
prseflts, And sealed & deliuered att
one instant of time together wth these
prsents, Haue gyuen graunted bargeyned,
sold aliened enfeoffed & confirmed
unto the sd John NUTTHALL his heyres
& Assignes for euer All that &
those his Two Manno' & Mannors
whereof the one is called CORNEWALLEYS Crosse, & therein conteyned
Two Thowsand Acres of Land or
thereabouts, And th' other of the Mannors
is knowne by the name of St Elizabeths,
And therein likewise is conteyned Two
Thowsand Acres of Land or thereabouts,
Both of them being scytuate lying &
being in Maryland in America aforesd,
& now are in the tenure or occupaon
of the sd Thomas CORNEWALLEYS & Penelope his wife their
undertenents or Assignes, With all &
singular Rights members &
appurteflces whatsoeur of or to the sayd
mannors both or eyther of them belonging
or in anywise apperteyning or accepted,
reputed or taken as part or parcell
thereof, And other things in the sd
Indenture more particularly mentioned,
And allsoe those Two hundd Acres of Land
now in the possession of the sd Thomas CORNEWALLEYS or his Assignes, lying &
being on the north side of the Creeke
called St Inigos Creeke in Maryland
aforesd ouer against part of the sd
mannor called CORNEWALLEYS Crosse aforesd, wth all
easments Comodities & appurtenances
whatsoeur to the sd Two hund Acres of
Land belonging or apperteyning, And the
Reuertion & Reuertions, remainder
& remainders, Rents issues &
profitts of the sd Mannors Lands &
premises (Except as therm is excepted)
And hath allsoe by the same Indenture
sold seuerall seruants goods Chattles,
Cattle & other things the perticulars
whereof are men’oned in a scedule
indented thereto annexed, As by the sd
Indenture of Bargaine & Sale amongst
Diuers & sundry Couenants agreemts
matters & things therein conteyned
(whereunto for more certainty relacon
being had) much more fully & plainly
doth & may appeare. Now this
Indenture Wittnesseth That it is hereby
declared, prouided condiconed & fully
agreed uppon by & betweene All the sd
parties to these prsents for themselues,
their heyres Executors & assignes
That if the sd John NUTTALL his heyres
Executors & Assignes & euery of
them doe fayle & not pay unto the sd
Thomas CORNEWALLEYS
his heyres Executors adthistrators or
assignes the sume of Twelue hundred
pownds [2] of lawfull money of England
att or in the now dwelling howse of
Thomas Tolson merchant att the White
horse scytuate in Cateaton streete in
London [3] in manner & forme
following, That is to say Three hund'
pownds [4] thereof on or before the last
day of August, wch shall bee in the yeare
of our Lord God one thowsand six hundred
sixty & Two, Three hundred pownds
more thereof uppon or before the last day
of August, wch shall bee in the yeare of
our Lord God One Thowsand six hundred
sixty and Three, Three hundred pownds
more thereof, uppon or before the last
day of August wch shall bee in the yeare
of our Lord God One Thowsand six hundred
sixty & ffowre, And the other Three
hundred pownds residue of the sayd sume
of Twelue hundred pownds uppon the last
day of August then next ensuing, wch
shall bee in the yeare of our Lord God
One Thowsand six hundred sixty &
ffiue without fraude or delay in part, or
in all, in any payment or payments
contrary to the forme aforesd, That then
from & after any such failer of
payment made as aforesayd The sayd
Recyted Indenture of Bargaine & Sale
And all Couenants Agreements matters
& things therein Conteyned And all
& Euery the Estate & Estates
Bargaines Sales & Assignmts of the sd
mannors messuages Lands Seruants Goods
Chattles and all other the premises
thereby conueyed or intended to bee
assured to the sayd John NUTTHALL his
heyres Executors Adthistrators or
Assignes shall cease, determine and bee
uoyd and of none effect to all intents
& purposes, as if the same had neuer
been made, Any thing therein conteyned to
the Contrary notwthstanding.
Neuerthelesse for that it is the
expectaon & Reall Intent & true
meaning of all the sayd parties to these
prsents That the sayd John NUTTHALL shall
send & aduenture goods &
commodities from Virginia & Maryland
both or one of them by Sea to London
therewth to rayse and pay the sayd Twelue
hundred pownds in manner & forme
aforesayd, Hereuppon It is now expresly
declared prouided & fully agreed
uppon by and betweene all the sayd
parties to these prsents for themselues
their [p. 5] heyres Executors
Admistrators and Assignes That if the
sayd John NUTTHALL his heyres Executors
Admistrators & Assignes shall really
& bona fide yearely Lade or shipp
sufficient goods & merchandizes for
London, wherewth to pay the sd yearely
payment of Three hundred pownds from time
to time And that by any Reall Casualty
att Sea or otherwise the sayd goods shall
bee lost, taken by Enimies or Pyrates,
cast away or miscarry, wth god forbid And
tht good & due proof e shall bee made
thereof in London That then & in such
Case or Cases noe forfeiture shall happen
by such delay of payment soe occasioned,
Soe allwayes that all the sume of Twelue
hundred pownds and Interest att six pr
cent pr Annü for what shall bee for
borne longer then the tyme of payment bee
fully payd before the end of flue yeares
to bee accounted from the day of the date
of these prsents All Casualities &
excuses whatsoeuer then layd asyde Any
thing aforesd to the contrary
notwithstanding And the sayd John
NUTTHALL for himselfe his heyres
Executors Admistrators & Assignes
doth Couenant promise graunt & agree
to & wth the sayd Thomas CORNEWALLEYS his heyres Executors
Admistrators & Assignes & euery
of them by these prsents That the sd John
NUTTHALL his heyres Executors
Admistrators or Assignes shall & will
well and truly pay or cause to bee payd
unto the sayd Thomas CORNEWALLEYS his heyres Executors
Admistrators or Assignes all the sd
somme, of Twelue hundred pownds for &
in full satisfaction of the sayd purchase
by Three hundred pownds yearely as
aforesd or att the furthest wthin ffiue
yeares next after the date hereof
according to the tenor true intent &
plaine meaning of these prsents, And for
that the sayd John NUTTHALL in tendeth to
pay the ffirst Three hundred pownds out
of his owne proper present Estate, And
the Remainder is by him his heyres or
Assignes to bee raysed out of the mannors
Lands Goods & premises
aforementioned, Now It is declared and
agreed uppon That after such payment made
of the sayd first Three hundred pownds,
It shall lawfull for the sd John NUTTHALL
to sell parcell of the premises, as hee
shall see good to rayse monies for
payment of all or any part of the
Remayning Nine hundred pownds, Prouided
hee imploy the money soe raysed for such
payment, and for noe other use, Which
Sales the sd Thomas CORNEWALLEYS & Penelope his wif doe by
these presents ratify & confirme,
& are to stand & Remaine in full
force & effect. And Lastly it is
prouided & agreed by and betweene the
sayd parties to these presents for
themselues their heyres Executors and
Assignes That in Case of Mortality or any
other necessary casualty any seruants
goods Cattle or other things menconed in
the Schedule aforesayd shall bee wanting
& cannot bee deliuered, Then the sayd
John NUTTHALL his heyres Executors or
Assignes shall eyther [p. 6] receaue full
satisfaction therefore to their content
or abatement shall bee made out of the
first moneys, according to the ualuation
thereof in the Scedule.
In wittnesse whereof
the parties aforesayd to these prseflt
Indentures interchangeably haue putt
their hands & seales.
Dated the day &
yeare first aboue written.
Signed Sealed &
Deliuered in prnce of
John NUTTHALL
Thomas Toulson a Seale.
Gawin Corbin
Leonard Bates Ser
This Present Coppy
written on Two sides of paper Joyned
together wth my Seale in hard wax doth
agree word for word wth the originall in
London this 20th Sept. 1662.
Ita attestor rogatus et
requisitus
Jo. Marius Nots Pubcus
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[1] Thomas
Cornewalleys of Maryland in
America Esqr & Penelope his
wife: Thomas CORNWALLIS (ABT
1600, <Maryland Point, County
Essex>, England - 1676,
Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk,
England), who seems to have had
had some residential association
with Maryland Point, County Essex, England,
married Penelope WISEMAN about
1657. It is possible that
Penelope WISEMAN was the
kinswoman of Jane WISEMAN (ABT
1578, Upminster, County Essex,
England - 1622, County Essex,
England), the daughter of George
WISEMAN (ABT 1540, County Essex,
England - ABT 1603, County Kent,
England) and Martha STRANGMAN
(ABT 1540, Hadley Castle, County
Essex, England - ABT 1630,
Upminster, County Essex,
England), married in 1566, County
Essex, England. Jane WISEMAN was
the wife of James NUTTALL (ABT
1577, Wennington, County Essex,
England - BEF July 1637,
Rochford, County Essex, England),
married about 1600. James NUTTALL
was the son of Charles NUTTOW
(NUTTALL) (1535, Bury Parish,
Lancashire, England - January
1581/82, Wennington, County
Essex, England) and Margaret FARR
(ABT 1550, Great Burstead, County
Essex, England - ABT February
1619, Rochford, County Essex,
England), married ABT 1575,
County Essex, England. It is
sometimes thought that James
NUTTALL and Jane WISEMAN were the
parents of John NUTHALL of
Cross Manor and
that, about 1618, John
NUTHALL of Cross Manor must have been born in
Rochford, County Essex. But,
since John NUTHALL of
Cross Manor is
known to have had a mother,
father, and sister alive in
London during the 1640s; and
since James NUTTALL is known to
have died by or previous to July
1637, it seems unlikely that
James NUTTALL could have been the
father of John NUTHALL of
Cross Manor. The
parish register of St.
Mary’s, Stockport, Cheshire,
does show a baptism in 1619 for
John NUTHALL, the son of John
NUTHALL.
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Daniel Defoe, Tour
Through the Eastern
Counties of England
(1722)"Passing
Bow Bridge, where the
county of Essex begins,
the first observation I
made was, that all the
villages which may be
called the neighbourhood
of the city of London on
this, as well as on the
other sides thereof,
which I shall speak to in
their order; I say, all
those villages are
increased in buildings to
a strange degree, within
the compass of about
twenty or thirty years
past at the most.
"The
village of Stratford, the
first in this county from
London, is not only
increased, but, I
believe, more than
doubled in that time;
every vacancy filled up
with new houses, and two
little towns or hamlets,
as they may be called, on
the forest side of the
town entirely new, namely
Maryland Point
and the Gravel Pits, one
facing the road to
Woodford and Epping, and
the other facing the road
to Ilford; and as for the
hither part, it is almost
joined to Bow, in spite
of rivers, canals, marshy
grounds, &c."
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From Appleton’s
Cyclopædia of American Biography
(New York: 1888), vol. 1:
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CORNWALEYS
or CORMWALEYS,
Thomas, pioneer, b.
about 1600; d. in Burnham
Thorpe, Norfolk, England,
in 1676. He was the son
of Sir William and
grandson of Sir Charles CORNWALEYS, who was
ambassador to Spain under
James II. In the planting
of the colony at St.
Mary’s, CORNWALEYS took a leading
part, and for twenty-five
years his influence was
conspicuous in the
councils and course of
the province. He
commanded the force
against Claiborne in
1635, and opposed the
code sent out by Lord
Baltimore for adoption by
the general assembly in
1638, on the ground that
the freemen had the right
under the charter to make
their own laws. He was
appointed deputy governor
in 1638 by Leonard
Calvert, who also
deputized him to act as
lieutenant-general during
the visit of the governor
to England in 1641. On
Calvert’s return,
with instructions from
the proprietary, CORNWALEYS refused to be
sworn in as a member of
the new council, for some
reason which does not
appear, but which
doubtless had reference
to the political struggle
then going on in England
between the king and
parliament. He was
appointed
commander-in-chief of the
expedition against the
Indians in 1642, and
protested in the general
assembly against the
governor and his servants
being exempted from
military service. He led
the expedition against
the Indians in 1643, and
in 1644 resumed his place
in the council. His manor
of CORNWALEYS Cross was on
the head of St.
Mary’s river, in
Maryland. It was plundered by
Ingle and his crew,
and in 1646 he brought an
action of trespass
against Ingle in the
courts of Westminster
Hall, laying his damages
at £3,000. The suit was
settled upon Ingle’s
assigning him property
and claims in Maryland
and Virginia in
satisfaction of the
demand. On 7 March 1652,
he received a grant of
4,000 acres beyond the
Port Tobacco creek. He
became a member of the
general court, 25 Nov.,
1652, appointed assistant
governor to Gov. Fendall,
20 Nov., 1657, upon the
restoration of the
government to Lord
Baltimore from the
puritan occupation under
Claiborne. He returned to
England, sailing 2 June,
1659. |
From Exploring
Maryland's Roots: Library:
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Thomas
CORNWALLIS (c.
1605 - 1675/76): Thomas
CORNWALLIS was one of the
first investors in the
colony of Maryland and
one of its leading men.
He was born into a noble
Catholic family in
England in 1605, but as a
second son he could not
hope to inherit land in
England. Instead, he
decided to come to
America, and in 1634 he
accompanied Leonard
Calvert to Maryland as
one of the original
Commissioners of the
colony.
As Commissioner,
CORNWALLIS advised the
Governor about important
matters. During the
colony’s early
years, CORNWALLIS served
as captain and chief
military officer. He led
the soldiers in a number
of battles, especially in
the Kent Island region.
William Claiborne of
Virginia resented that
his lands had been
included in the grant to
Lord Baltimore and
refused to submit to
Maryland’s
authority. CORNWALLIS was
involved in several naval
battles over Kent Island
in 1635 and in 1638 he
led an expedition that
took control of the
island for the Calvert
family. He also fought
against the Indians in
1643.
CORNWALLIS combined
his military power with
economic success. He
established the first
mill in the colony and
built a large framed
house as an example to
others.1
Although CORNWALLIS grew
some tobacco, he earned
most of his money by
investing in the fur
trade.
Like many
merchant-planters in the
colonies, CORNWALLIS
served as a creditor to
his poorer neighbors,
lending money and then
collecting interest. At
one point in 1642,
CORNWALLIS had debts due
him in the amount of
40,056 pounds of tobacco,
or about 664 pounds
sterling.2
All of these activities
helped make CORNWALLIS
wealthy. At one point, he
seems to have been the
richest man in Maryland.3
But CORNWALLIS lost
much of his land and
money when a radical
Protestant, Richard
Ingle, began attacking
Catholic settlements in
St. Mary’s in 1644.
Ultimately, CORNWALLIS
returned to England, but
his early role in
Maryland as an investor
as well as a political
and military leader was
important to the
colony’s success.
1
Lois
Green Carr, Russel R.
Menard, and Louis
Peddicord, Maryland...
At the Beginning. Annapolis,
MD: Hall of Records
Commision, Department of
General Services, 1984,
p.9.
2
Aubrey
C. Land, Colonial
Maryland: A History.
Millwood, NY: KTO Press,
1981, p.29.
3
Timothy
B. Riordan, The
Plundering Time: Maryland
in the English Civil War,
1642-1650.
Unpublished draft
manuscript, 1997, Chapter
2, p.14.
SOURCES:
- Carr, Lois Green,
Russel R. Menard, and
Louis Peddicord, Maryland
. . . At the Beginning. Annapolis,
MD: Hall of Records
Commision, Department of
General Services, 1984.
- Land, Aubrey C., Colonial
Maryland: A History.
Millwood, NY: KTO Press,
1981
- Maloney, Eric John, Papists
and Puritans in Early
Maryland: Religion in the
Forging of Provincial
Society, 1632-1665.
PhD. Dissertation, State
University of New York at
Stony Brook, 1996.
- Riordan, Timothy B., The
Plundering Time: Maryland
in the English Civil War,
1642-1650.
Unpublished draft
manuscript, 1997.
- Papenfuse, Edward C.,
et al. A Biographical
Dictionary of the
Maryland Legislature,
1635-1789, 2 vols.
Baltimore and London: The
Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1979.
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For a brief account of Thomas
CORNWALLIS as a fighting officer
in the merchant marine of the
Society of Jesus, see note
3 and note
4 under G0498A:
Robert CLARKE the SURVEYOR in
Descendants
of Robert Clarke the Surveyor
(1611 - AFT 14 July 1664 and BEF
21 July 1664).
[2] Twelue
hundred pownds: In AD 2000, this would
be equivalent to UK£110,927.95
or US$168,610.49.
[3] the
now dwelling howse of Thomas
Tolson merchant att the White
horse scytuate in Cateaton
streete in London: In the 1640s,
"The White Horse" on
Cateaton Street, in the London
(Middlesex County) parish of St.
Lawrence Jewry, was owned by
Thomas STONE, a merchant
who was the uncle
of Capt. William STONE.
The relationship between Gov.
William STONE and his uncle,
Thomas STONE, is proven by the
following transactions:
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Archives
of Maryland,
vol. 4, pp. 376 - 378:
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Court and
Testamentary Business,
1647 — 8:
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March ffeb. 4o
[1647/48]: Nouerint
uniuersi per prntes me
Thoma Weston ciuem et
Ironmonger London teneri
et firmiter obligari
Thomae STONEs Ciui et
habr London in
quadragintis libris bonae
et legalis moneta
Angliae. Soluend eidë
Thomae STONEs, aut suo
certo attorn. executor.
vel admistrator suis. Ad
qua quidë soluone bene
et fideliter faciend.
Obligo me, hered.
executor. et admistrator.
meos per prntes Sigillo
meo Sigillat. Dat.
Vicesimo die Julij Annis
Regni Dni nri Jacobi Dei
grä Angliae ffran: &
Hibern. Regis fadei
Defensoris &c: decimo
nono. Ac
Scotiae quadrigesimo
quarto 1641 Tho: Weston
Sigillat. et delibrt. in
prntia
mei
Henr. Lawrence Ser
John Hutton.
____________________________
The
Condicon of this obligaon
is such That if the wthin
bownd Thomas Weston his
Exequutors admistrators
or assignes doe well
& truly pay, or cause
to be payd to the wthin
named Thomas STONEs, his
exequutors admistrators
or assignes, the sume of
Three hundd pownds of
lawfull money of England,
att or in the now
dwelling howse of the sd
Thomas STONEs scituate in
Cateaton streete in
London in forme following
(tht is to say) on the
one & twentith day of
January next, ensuing the
date wthin written one
hundd & fifty pownds
& on the one &
twentith day of July then
next ensuing other one
hundd & fifty pownds
in full paymt of the sd
somme of three hundd
pownds. Then this
obligaon to be uoyd, or
els to stand in force.
Thomas
STONE of London Merchant
aged 68 yeares or there
abouts deposeth tht
Thomas Weston formerly of
London Ironmonger
standeth indebted unto
the sd Tho: STONE
principall debt besides
interest the summe of one
hundd & thirty fiue
pownds by Bond, as by
accompt sent Capt Willm
STONE
prme
Thomas STONE
Jurat.
10o
August 1647.
____________________________
Robt:
Aylett
Mary-Land the 3d January.
1644
Copy
Mr Weston's lre as
far as concernes
&c:} Sr I haue
receiued yor lre of the 2
past: Besides what is
uppon yor Vncles accompt
yor Brother Mr Jno STONE
had of me many yeares
past a parcell of Tob:
wch though I never saw
him since, I had notice
from him made 70 & od
pownds. I desyre you will
write to yor Vncle, &
uppon his informaon, what
tht was, & what is
due, I will by gods help
make you satisfaction. I
haue bene in great care
of tht Bond. But the last
yeare when I thought to
haue gone to London, I
had all my goods taken
from me by Bassett the
Vice-Admirall of
Cornwall. wch though
hitherto detayned by him,
I hope is not lost, for I
had order from the King
to stop his proceedings.
And the Country being
troublesome I could not
travell to make an end of
the busines. But the
goods is yett in his
hands, in a howse whereof
he hath one Key, & I
another. By reason
whereof I was forced to
come over meanely
prouided, & the
little goods I had was
forced to engage for hyre
of the ship I came ouer
in, whereof I haue not
any thing left, worth
speaking of. &c: Yor
Louing ffreind to command
Tho:
Weston
____________________________
Endors.
To Capt William STONE
this dd. Accomack.
Know
all men by these prnts
tht I Thomas STONE of the
Citty of London
haberdasher, haue made
assigned, & in my
steed & place by
these prnts haue putt
& constituted my
louing Cossen, Capt Willm
STONE of Accomack in
Virginia Marcht my true
& lawfull Attorney,
for me & in my name,
to ask, demand, sue,
recouer & receiue of
the Exequutors
Admistrators or Assignes,
of Thomas Weston,
formerly of Virginia
deceased all such somme
or sommes of money
wtsoeur dew to me the
Thomas STONE, by Bond,
Bill, or Accompt from the
sd Tho: Weston Gyuing
& granting to my sd
Attorney full power &
lawfull authority to sue,
arrest, imprisone, &
condemne, & forth of
prison againe to deliur
& giue a full
discharge, &
generally to doe all
things requisite in the
premisses. Or to make or
more Attorney vnder him
for the recouery of the
abousd debt or debts, as
if I were in person. And
I doe confirme &
ratify, all tht my sd
Attorney shall doe, or
cause to be done by
uertue of these prnts.
Wittnes my hand &
seale the last of July
Ano Dni 1647.
And
in the three &
twentith yeare of the
reigne of Or
Souereigne Ld King
Charles. Loco + Sigilli
per me Thomas
STONE
Sealed
& deliuered in the
prnce of
Rich:
Chandler
John Edwards.
____________________________
Bee
it knowne unto all men by
these prnts tht I Capt
Willm STONE of the County
of Northampton in
Virginia Mercht by uertue
of a lre of Attorney from
Tho: STONE of the citty
of London haberdasher
haue made, assigned,
& in my stead &
place by these prnts haue
putt & constituted my
louing ffreind John
Rosier of Appamattucks
Clark my true &
lawfull Attorney, for me
& in my name to ask,
demand sue, recour of
Thomas Weston formerly of
Virginia deceased, due to
the aforesd Tho: STONE,
all such somme or sommes
of money, by bond bill,
or accompt from the sd
Tho: Weston deceased.
Gyuing & granting to
my sd Attorney full power
and lawfull authority, to
sue, arrest, imprisone
& condemne, &
forth of prison againe to
deliur & giue a full
discharge, &
generally to doe all
things requisite in the
prmisses. And to make one
or more Attorney under
him, for the recouery of
the abouesd debt or
debts, as if I were in
person. And I doe
confirme & ratify all
tht my sd Attorney shall
doe, or cause to be done
by uertue of these prnts.
Wittnes
my hand & seale the
22 day
ffeb. Aiio Dni 1647.
& in the 23 yeare of
the Reigne of or
Souereigne Ld Kinge
Charles &c:
Sealed
& deliuered in the
prnce
of
Lo: + Sigilli
Mathew STONE
William STONE
Rand + Revell.
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| [Anglo-Dutch
School (ABT 1666): The
Great Fire of London,
about 8:30 PM, Tuesday, 4
September 1666, as seen
from a boat near Tower
Wharf. The full moon is
rising above London
Bridge, St. Paul's is at
the centre, and the Tower
of London is on the
right. Copyright ©
London Museum] |
The parish of
St. Lawrence Jewry, in which
Thomas STONE - in the White Horse
on Cateaton Street - was to be
found, was ravaged by the Great
Fire which devastated London 2 -
5 September 1666. It was on 4 and
5 September that the parish went
up in flames. The parish of St.
Lawrence Jewry was again put to
the torch, on 29 December 1940,
by courtesy of the Third Reich,
under bombardment from Goering's Luftwaffe.
[4] Three
hund' pownds: In AD 2000, this would
be equivalent to UK£27,731.99 or
US$42,152.63. Since Thomas
CORNWALLIS, who retired to
England in 1659, was willing to
sell his estate to John NUTHALL
on the "installment
plan," himself financing the
transaction for which he required
payment in the hard currency of
England ("lawfull
money of England") rather
than the soft currency of the
colonies ("poundes of
tobacco"), CORNWALLIS
displayed considerable confidence
- to the amount of £1200 (in AD
2000, equivalent to
UK£110,927.95 or US$168,610.49)
- in the faith and credit of John
NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor]. In the highly
stratified social structure of
England in the seventeenth
century and in lieu of a
"credit rating,"
CORWALLIS would have been most
unlikely to have entered into a
transaction such as that with
anyone whose rank and reputation
were less than comparable to his
own. Rank and reputation, of
course, were as much in function
of ancestry and breeding as of
economic success, if not even
more so. To this account,
it should be added that, in
religion, Thomas CORNWALLIS was a
Roman Catholic.
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To see the location of Cross Manor and St. Elizabeth's
Manor, go to St. Mary's County
Manors: 1637 - 1690. [Source: St. Mary's
Families <http://www.stmarysfamilies.com/>]
Note 6: The following
missive establishes that, as
of 16 August 1644, the father, mother, and sister of
John NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor] were residing in London,
England:
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A LONDON MERCHANT TO HIS
BROTHER IN VIRGINIA1 London
the 16th of August 1644.
LOVEINGE BROTHER,
Since my last to you (beinge twoe yeares
since) in regard to yor 42 hogds of tobaco sent
<by> Richard Inglea
I have not recd any from yo, (though then advised
of Mr Ingles bad dealings in not deliveringe ye
tobac. accordinge to bill of Laddinge) But
<he> hath detayned them ever since in his
hands; beinge damnified <recte:
indemnified> att Spain (?) (neither would
<he> delivr them although I have pd the
Customs upon the discharge of the shipp And
tendered him his fraight) relesse for
<which> would delivr upp the bill of
Ladeinge; & give a receipt upon ye same: wch
is contrarie to ye Customs of Mrchants, And
besides <I> could not then have sued for ye
damage. Therefore since his comeinge into England
I have arrested him & his ownr for them; And
was contented to have referred it to men (?) to
end ye difference. but nothinge will satisye, but
what Lawe will give them; wherefore be sure not
by words (or deeds) to condeme what I have done,
but tell him you have given mee powr to receive
them —— And what I doe you will stand
to, otherwise you wil be out the owner comge
Suite and they will keepe the tobac.
I take it very unkindly att yor hands; neithr
yt you have writt to mee in all this tyme; nor
sent any thinge to make me good the money I pd
upon yor bill of Exchange; and disburst for
Custome of ye tobac. Knowing by my Lre. they did
keepe the tobac from mee —— It should
seeme (if I doe not receive the tobac.) that I
must Loose ye money I have disburst for you. Let
me advise you hereafter —— to bee more
punctual wth mee, or any othr (whomer, you shall
corredpd wthall.) I praye bee carefull in sending
yor Lets to mee, And <I> inclose one in mr
STONES2
Packett, And get mr NUTHALL3
to doe the like, in his to his father. mr
Hutchinson I have not seene this twelve monthes
& more —— hee beinge gon out into
ye parlamts service —— the three
Kingdomes beinge now upp in armes. I pray god
send us an end of this unnaturall war that wee
may inioye peace and a free trade (as formly).
Remembr my kinde Respects to mr NUTHALL and tell
him his fathr, mother & sistr are all in good
health. Soe wth my daily prayrs for yor welfare
wch you must bee carefull to look aftr by yor
indeavr; I committ you to ye teccon of the
almighty and remayneth:
Yor evr Loveing Brother
Jonth: Phillips:b
Direct yor Lres as formrly att mr Wills his
house in Marks Lain ovr agt ye Lord Bareings; you
may send a powr genrall to receav. any goods or
otherwise that you shall send mee. Inclosed is mr
NUTHALLs Lre. from his fathr. You shall rec.
anothr Lre. from mee.4
[Northampton County Orders, Deeds,
Wills, no. 3, 1645-51, p. 188b. Also see William
and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine,
vol. 5, no. 1. (July 1896), pp. 40-41; and Sharon J. Doliante, Maryland &
Virginia Colonials: Genealogies of some Colonial
Families: Families of Bacon, Beall, Beasley,
Cheney, Duckett, Dunbar, Ellyson, Elmore, Graves,
Heydon, Howard, Jacob, Morris, Nuthall, Odell,
Peerce, Reeder, Ridgley, Prather, Sprigg, Wesson,
Williams, and Collateral Kin (Genealogical
Publishing Co. Inc.: 1998. 2000), 2 vols., vol.1,
p. 414 - 415.]
1. From
the records of Northampton county, Va.
2. Capt.
William STONE, first of Virginia ——
subsequently deputy governor of Maryland.
3. Mentioned
in the Northampton Records as a London
merchant and justice of Accomac ——
subsequently a justice of St. Mary's county, in
Maryland.
4. January, 1649,
recorded.
Editorial Note:
is an abbreviation meaning pro.
Further Editorial Notes:
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a.
Richard Ingle: This
was the virulent Puritan who
plundered Cross Manor in 1644.
See above, note 1.
About Richard Ingle, the
following is from Exploring
Maryland's Roots: Library:
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Richard
Ingle
(1609-1653): Richard
Ingle was sometimes
called “that
ungrateful
Villagine” by those
living in Maryland,
because when he took
control of
Maryland’s
government in 1645, he
allowed his men to
destroy the property of
many Catholic settlers.
We do not know much
about Ingle’s
background. He was born
in England, and probably
came from a middle-class
Protestant family. He
could read, so he most
likely had some
schooling. Eventually he
became a trader and a
ship captain.
At first, he was very
friendly with the leaders
of Maryland, whose goods
he transported back and
forth to England. At one
point he was described as
the chief trader to
Maryland.1
However, when civil war
broke out in England,
Ingle sided with the
radical Protestants, or
Puritans, against the
King.
Ingle had a temper,
and after some
disagreements with the
Catholic leaders of
Maryland, Ingle decided
to attack the colony in
the name of Parliament.
In 1645 he sailed his
ship, the Reformation,
to Maryland and attacked
the settlement of St.
Mary’s. He made
prisoners of the colony's
leaders and brought two
Jesuit priests back to
England in chains.
Wealthy Catholic
settlers like Thomas
CORNWALLIS had their
property stolen or
damaged. CORNWALLIS
estimated his losses to
be £2623, a fortune in
Maryland at the time.
Ingle claimed to have the
permission of the new
English government, but
many colonists thought he
was no better than a
pirate. In the end, the
English court forced him
to turn over some money
to Cornwallis to make up
for what he had taken in
Maryland.
1
Timothy
B. Riordan, The
Plundering Time: Maryland
in the English Civil War,
1642-1650.
Unpublished draft
manuscript, 1997, Chapter
2, p.20.
SOURCES:
- Maloney, Eric John, Papists
and Puritans in Early
Maryland: Religion in the
Forging of Provincial
Society, 1632-1665.
PhD. Dissertation, State
University of New York at
Stony Brook, 1996..
- Riordan, Timothy B., The
Plundering Time: Maryland
in the English Civil War,
1642-1650.
Unpublished draft
manuscript, 1997.
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b. Jonth:
Phillips: The
recipient of this letter was
possibly Robert Phillips who, in
1647, acquired land in northern
Northampton County, not far from
the holdings of John NUTHALL [of
Cross Manor].
Upper
Northampton County, Virginia
On 7 October
1642, John HOLLOWAY obtained land
in the region marked here as 55.
[See below,
Note 13.]
This is the property on which
John NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor]
resided upon his marriage, in
January 1643/44 to John
HOLLOWAY's widow, Elizabeth
BACON. Adjacent to this land were
the properties of Capt. William
STONE and Capt. William JONES. On
27 July 1645, John NUTHALL IV [of
Cross Manor] obtained a further
300 acres of land in the region
marked here as 57. [See above,
Note
3.] In 1647, Robert Phillips
obtained land in the region
marked here as 52. [Source: Ghotes
(Genealogy and History of the
Eastern Shore) of Virginia]
Historical
knowledge of the proprietors,
patentees, and tenants of
Northampton County, Virginia
during the 17th century is
extremely well developed. During
the 1640s, the only male
householder surnamed NUTHALL
residing in Northampton County,
Virginia who could have had
parents and siblings living in
England was John NUTHALL IV [of
Cross Manor].
On 9 August 1637, John GRAVES
patented 600 acres in Elizabeth
City County near the upper end of
the Back River, "due in
right of descent upon his father
Thomas GRAVES who transported at
his own costs himself, Katherine
GRAVES, his wife, sons John
GRAVES, the patentee, and Thomas
GRAVES, Jr., and 8 persons: Henry
Singleton, Thomas Edge, Robert
Phillips, Thomas
Griggs, Thomas Phillips, Francis
White, William Symber, Jone
Packett." Had John GRAVES
arrived earlier than 1616, he
would have been entitled to
receive an extra 50 acres as an
"ancient planter." So,
it is likely that Robert
Phillips's date of transport was
after 1616.
It is noteworthy that the
properties of John GRAVES were
near the York County line and
almost directly opposite Hungar's
Creek in Northampton County
(formerly Accawmacke) on the
Eastern Shore, where his father
had lived and where his sisters
were still living at that time.
The manuscript of this patent
is preserved on microfilm at the
Library of Virginia [Land Office
Patents No. 1, 1623-1643 (v.1
& 2), p. 443 (Reel 1)].
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Note 7: John NUTHALL IV
[of Cross Manor]: The Case of Nicholls v.
NUTTALL:
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Archives
of Maryland, vol 49, p. 14 (Preface):
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A case presenting
considerable human interest was that
involving a young girl named Hester
Nicholds. Hester, who had been born in
the province, was indentured as a servant
in 1659, when ten or eleven years old, by
her father John Nicholds, an impoverished
planter, to Thomas CORNWALLIS, one of the founders of
Maryland and a man of the highest
standing. CORNWALLIS
and his wife went to England a few months
later, and the girl was then sold with
his other servants to Thomas (sic
John) NUTHALL. At the February, 1662,
session of the Provincial Court, the
father of the girl asked to have the
indenture cancelled and Hester released,
asserting that CORNWALLIS had violated his promises that
she would be treated as if she were his
own child and only be required to wait on
his wife, and that she would be taught to
read and sew, but that instead of this
she had been sold to NUTHALL as an
ordinary indentured servant. One of the
witnesses who testified in behalf of
Hester was a certain Edward West. NUTHALL
was represented by his attorney Daniel
Clocker. The case was tried before a jury
which decided that the contract had been
violated, and the court ordered that the
girl be released (Arch. Md. XLI;
515-516). CORNWALLIS
then appealed the case to the General
Assembly, and it was tried September 18,
1663, before the Upper House. He was
represented by William Calvert, his
attorney, who requested a rehearing on
the ground of error. CORNWALLIS declared that the girl had been
bound by an ordinary indenture and that
he had made no promises as to the kind of
service that she was to perform, that he
had taken her very reluctantly out of
pity for her and her father, as she was a
"rude raw ill bred child" not
fit for his wife to take to England as an
attendant, where good maids were
plentiful. He adds that West, the only
witness at the trial,testified falsely as
he wished to marry the girl. He asks that
the case be sent back to be retried in
the Provincial Court, sitting at a court
of chancery, on the ground that,
involving as it did the interpretation of
a contract, it should not have been tried
before a jury, and the Upper House so
ordered (Arch. Md. I; 464 - 466, 481).
The record of the rehearing is to be
found in this volume. Sitting as a court
of chancery the case came before the
Provincial Court at its February 11,
1664, session, when CORNWALLIS was represented by Josias
Fendall as his attorney. It was urged by
Nicholds that the indenture be declared
invalid because no consideration was
named in it and because the girl had not
been bound before a magistrate. The court
by a vote of three to two, the Chancellor
and the Governor, voting with the
majority, held that it was valid and
Hester was required to serve out her
seven years (pages 122, 137). We do not
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Maryland, Assembly
Proceedings (September - October, 1663):
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Upper
House Journal, 1659 - 1669 Fryday Sept. 18th. [1663]
Present Philip Calvert
Esqr. deputy Leiutennt. & Chancellor
Henry Sewall Esqr. Secretary Jerome White
Baker BROOKE
Edd Lloyd and Henry Coursey and John
Bateman Esqrs.
Then Came from the
Lower howse Wm. Calvert Esqr. &
Thomas Motley and brought this petn. from
Capt. Thomas CORNWALLIS. (vizt)
To the Honoble. the
Leiutennt. Generall & Chancellor.
with the rest of the Councell assembled
in the Vpper howse of parliamt. & to
the gent. of the Assembly for the
Province of Maryland.
The humble petn. and
Complaynt of Tho: CORNWALLIS Esqr. one of the first &
cheife Adventurers for the planting and
Inhabiting the foresd. Province Sheweth
That whereas the Complt
as itt is well knowne hath att his greate
Cost and Charges from the first planting
of this Province for the space of twenty
Eight yeares been one of the greatest
Propagators & Jncreasers thereof by
the yearely Transportacon of servants
whereof divers hauc been of very good
Ranck and Quallity, towards whome and the
rest he hath alwayes been soe carefull to
discharge a good Conscience in the true
pformance of his promises and obligacons
that he was never taxed with any breach
thereof though itt is also well knowne
& he doth truly averr itt, that the
Charge of soe greate a family as he hath
alwayes mayntayned was never defrayed by
their labor.
Now soe itt is that the
Compit intending to returne out of this
Province into England with his wife there
to Reside, [p. 163] and to leave the
managemt of his affayres in this Province
with Richard Hotchkeyes and Mrs. Anne
Tilney one John Nicholls an Inhabitant of
this Province who had been long and much
indebted to the Complt. and from yeare to
ye are forborne by him without ever
takeing one penny of him for the damage
of non payments being growne very poore
and vnable by his labors. to pay his
debts, and mayntayne himselfe wife and
Children did some two or three moneths
before the Complts departure for England
in the yeare 1659 sell the Complt his
plantacon And more to lessen his Charge
did by the me diation of the sd Richd.
Hotchkeys Mrs. Anne Tilney and others
earnestly Importune the Compit. & his
wife to take his eldest daughter named
Hester being abt. 10 or 11 yeares ould,
an Apprentice for five yeares which the
Compit refused and yett att last by the
earnest sollicitacon of the sd Nicholls
him selfe and others in his behalfe. And
in Commiseracon of his poore Estate and
the sd childs who was in a very poore
Condicon for want of Cloathes as well
Linnen as woollen, did Condiscenci to
accept her for seaven yeares, And
accordingly an Jndenture was drawne
Signed & Sealed by the said Nicholls
and his daughter in the prsence of the sd
Hotchkeys and John Abington without any
other Condition than wt was Conteyned in
the sd Jndentr. And whereas in a petn. to
this honoble. Courte the 11th of February
1661 Itt is falsly alledged by the sd.
Nicholls that the Compit did earnestly
press him for his sd daughter promising
she should doe nothing else but wayte
vpon his wife who itt is well knowne
wanted noe Attendants of fart better
fashon, And was shortly intended to goe
for England with the same mayd she
brought with her, with noe Resolucon as
was well knowne to the sd Nicholls of
returning againe into this Province. And
to bee att the Charge of transporting or
keepeing such a Rude Rawe ill bred Childe
for or [p. 164] in England where Servants
of all sorts may be had on Easyer
tearmes, is altogether Improbable yett
how otherwise she should doe nothing else
but wayte vpon his wife or that he the sd
Capt. should take as much Care for her as
his owne Child which is also Sworne by
his Confederate Edward West, he humbly
desires this honoble. Court to take into
their serious Consideracon as alsoe the
last Clause of the sd Nicholls his petn.
wherein he Craves that his daughter may
not be made a Slaue a tearme soe
Scandalous that if admitted to be the
Condicon or tytle of the Apprentices in
this Province will be soe distructive as
noe free borne Christians will ever he
induced to come over servants, of all
which falsetyes the Nicholls and West
were soe Conscious (as the Compit hath
reason to beleive that they waved the
Judgemt of this Honoble. Bench to whome
itt solely and properly belonged to take
Cognizance of what is lawe or Equity And
Crave a Jury to whome by the lawes of
England and Maryland itt belongs to take
Cognizance only of matters of fact, And
Consequently the Jndentr. being proved or
Confest must haue found for the deft for
were the legallity or equity of Bonds or
Covenants when proved or Confest to be
decided by a weake and Jgnorant Jury, The
Complt vnder a favorable Correccon humbly
offers itt to the judicious consideracon
of this Courte what need would there be
of Lawyers to dispute doubtfull Cases nor
of learned judges to determine them but
only to sitt as Cyphers to confirme
ignorant and illegall verdicts And
whereas there is noe other Wittnes pduced
by the sd Nicholls to prove his false
suggestions but the foresaid Edward West
whose misdemeanors. towards the Complt
when he was last in this Province is soe
notorious that itt neede not be repeated
though vpon his humble submission Jt was
for giuen him by the Complt whose Servt.
he had been that he also liues in the sd
Nicholls his howse. And as the Compit is
informed had a designe to marry his sd
daughter, In Consideracon of all which
prmisses with the illegallity of the
Verdict [p. 165] wherein the Complt
without ever being heard or any Wittnes
in his behalfe Examined is asperst vpon
Record with fraud and deceit, which he
abhorrs, And is in his Conscience
altogether Innocent haueing att that tyme
as is well knowne neere twenty Servants
to mayntayne And had noe need of soe
vseles a Servant to increase his charge
but only in charity to the sd Child &
her father who in 3 yeares tyme never
challenged any such promise as he now
suggests of the Complts. nor att his last
being in Maryland ever complayned to him
of her imploymt. or keepeing which was
yett noe other then as one of his
Ordinary Mayd servts as doubties he would
haue done had there been truth in the
oathe or allegacon made in his absence to
this honoble. Court. To whome in parliamt
or Chancery by the lawes Customes &
usages of Engld and this Province itt
belongs to releive the jnjured agt
Surreptitious judgmts. nothing being more
ComOn in this nacon then reversing of
Judgmts. vpon writts of Error in the
equity or legallity of the proceedings
which being Evident in the foresd verdict
he humbly prayes itt may be vacanted
& the ordr thereupon Reversed,
whereby yor pet' may haue his Reputacon
vindicated, The Servant or sattisfaccon
for her tyme restored to the Rt. Ownor.
The abused servts. and apprentices of
this Province righted, by all which if
the sd Nicholls or any other pson finde
themselves aggreived the Compit is ready
to answere any Bill that shall be
Exhibited legally agt. him, Provided he
haue notice & sufficient tyme given
him for itt. And will putt in sufficient
security to stand to the Judgemt. of this
honoble. Court, for all damages that
shall be adjudged agt. him Provided the
plt may doe the same where by he may
knowe how to gett such sattisfaccon for
vnjust molestacon and Slander, as the
Courte shall Award And he shall pray
&c.
[p. 166] Ordered
that this petn. be Endorsed lett justice
be done, & sent to the Leiutennt.
Generall to sett his hand to itt.
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Archives of Maryland,
vol. 41: Provincial Court Proceedings, 1661. p.
515 [Liber P C R, p. 908, Nicholls v. NUTTALL
(per Daniel Clocker, attorney)]:
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At a
Provinciall Cort held at St Marys 11th
February 1661 Feb.
11
Present Charles Caluert
Esqr Gouernor
Philip Caluert Esqr Chancellor- [An order
Henry Sewall Esqr Secr
and Baker BROOKE Councellor.
William Hatton John
Nicholls Peter Mills Wm Lucas Wm Bretton
Foreman sworne with the rest aboue
written . . . business is printed in 3
Md. Arch.
To the Right honoble
the Leiuetennt Generall and the rest of
the
Councell &c
The humble peticon of
John Nicholls on the behalfe of his
daughter Easter Nicholls Humbly sheweth
That whereas yor peticonrs daughter being
a Freewoman borne in this Province, and
Capt Thomas CORNEWALLIS often pressing
yor peticonr that she might come and liue
with him to wayte on his wffe did at his
request and desire putt his said daughter
to him he promising him she should doe
nothing else but wayte on his wffe as by
seuerall wittnesses yor petr can make
appeare
Now soe it is may it
please yor honors that the sd Capt
CORNEWALLIS haueing sould most parte of
his Estate in this Country to one Mr John
NUTTALL and yor petrs daughter amongst
the rest of his Seruants alsoe Contrary
to equity and justice the said NUTTALL
refuses to deliuer her up to yor petr
without an order of this honoble Cort
The prmisses considered
yor petr humbly craues an order of this
honoble Cort for her freedome soe that
yor poore petrs daughter may not be made
a slaue And he shall pray &c.
Whereupon was pduced
this Indenture which is as followeth
This Indenture made the
second of February 1658 Betweene John
Nicholls and Hester Nicholls of the one
parte and Thomas CORNEWALLIS and Penelope
his wffe on the other parte Wittnesseth
that the said John and Hester Nicholls
doth couenante promise and Grant to and
with the said Thomas CORNEWALLIS and
Penelope his wffe that the said Hester
Nicholls shall serue the said Thomas
[CORNWALEYS]. . . their Assigns shall
finde and allowe the sd Hester meate
drinke [p. 909] Apparrell and lodging In
Wittness whereof the John Nicholls &
Hester Nicholls haue hereunto sett their
hands & Seales the day & yeare
aboue written
John Nicholls his marke
I HH
Hester Nicholls + her
marke
Sealed and deliuered in
the ptsence of Rich. Hoskeys John
Abington
Edward West sworne in
open Cort Sayth That Capt CORNEWALLIS did
promise the said Nicholls that his
daughter should doe nothing but wayte on
his wffe and that he would leaue her with
Mrs Tilney to teache her to reade and to
sowe And make her fitt to wayte on his
wffe and would take as much care for her
as his owne Child and further sayth not.
They putt themselues to
the Tryall of a Jury.
warrt to the Sherr. to
impannell a Jury, The sherriffe ret. his
writt and warned.
John Hammond
William Heard
German Gillett
Rich Russell
Wm Tettersall
Peter Carwardine
Geo: Wright
Christopher Jones
Rich. Collett
Tho: Griffyn
Wm Greene
Henry Pennington
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Archives of Maryland,
vol. 41: Provincial Court Proceedings, 1661. p.
516 Provincial Court Proceedings, 1661. [Liber P
C R]:
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John
Hammond Foreman being Sworne together wth
the rest aboue written withdrew, for a
while and then brought in their verdict vizt Wee finde this Indenture
illegall deceitfull and voyd . . . .
ordered that the said Easter Nicholls.
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Archives of Maryland,
vol. 49: Provincial Court Proceedings, 1663 -
1664, p. 137 [Liber B B]:
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10
February 1663 [Fol.
166] Capt Thomas CORNEWALLEYS by his
Attorney Josias ffendall Esqr Vid.
appeales from the order of the
Prouinciall Court, to the Court in
Chancery, according to an order of the
Gour & Councell in Assembly for th
rehearing of the whole cause. And the sd
Attorncy Capt Josias ffendall, mouing the
Board, desyreth to know, why the serut in
question Hester Nicholds should not serue
according to her Indenture?
To wch the ffather of
the sd Hester John Nicholds sayth, That
that Indenture is inualid, for tht a
ualuable is nott allowed in the same
Indenture, as it ought. Then the Attorney
prayeth the Court to deliuer their
opinions, whither that Indenture, now
read in Court bee inualid or not?
Mr Secretary sayth,
That the Indenture is insufficient
because there is noe Consideraon allowed
in the sd Indenture att the exspiraon of
her, the sd Hesters time, And alsoe for
tht shee was not bownd before a
magistrate, wch hee conceiueth ought to
bee done, & requisite Mr Jerome Whyte
the same Mr Baker BROOKE contra (Vizt)
That Indenture is ualid. Chancelor the
same wth Mr BROOKE. Leiut Grall, That the
Indenture is ualid & good. Whereuppon
it is ordered tht the sd Hester Nicholds
serue her former master according to her
Indenture.
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Note 8: John NUTHALL IV
[of Cross Manor]: 1665, Goes to England:
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Archives
of Maryland, vol. 49: Provincial Court
Proceedings, 1664-65, p. 414:
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3 March 1665 [Liber B B] Persons that sett up
theire names this Prouinall Court
John Sherm sues out for
Quietus Est as Administrator uppon the
Estate of Bartholemew Cadd -- Not
Vnderwritt
Cornelius Howard sues
out for Quietus Est as Administrator
uppon the Estate of John Sisson -- Not
Vnderwritt
John ffloyd sues out
for Quietus Est as Administrator uppon
the Estate of William Edwin -- Not
Vnderwritt
Sarah Boules sues out
for Quietus Est as Administratrix of her
Husband William Bowles -- Not Vnderwritt
These are to Giue
Notice unto all men that John Bailey doth
Reuoke a letter of Atturney which about
two yeares since hee Granted unto Reymond
Staplefort for the recouering of the said
Balleys debts, And therefore forbidds any
man to pay any thinge unto the said
Staplefort of wt belongs unto the said
Bailey this 3d March 1665.
John NUTHALL Gentn
declares that he is intended this prsent
yeare for England -- Not Vnderwritt
[p. 505] George
Bradshaw declares that he is intended
this prsent yeare for England -- Not
Vnderwritt
Dauid Scaly declares
that he is intended this prseflt yeare
for England -- Not Vnderwritt
Capt Thomas Mannyng and
William Dorrington Gentn they declare
that this prsent yeare they are intended
to depart the prouince for New England --
Not Vnderwritt
Richard EDELEN declares
that he is intended this prsent yeare for
England -- Not Vnderwritt [Note: Richard
EDELEN was the father-in-law of John
Baptist BOARMAN. See Note
41 under G0498A:
Robert CLARKE the SURVEYOR in Descendants
of Robert Clarke the Surveyor (1611 - AFT
14 July 1664 and BEF 21 July 1664).]
Henry Tripp declares
that he is intended this prsent yeare for
New Yorke -- Not Vnderwritt
Gasper Guerin declares
that he is intended to depart the
prouince this prsent yeare Which was
Vnderwritt thus.
Mr Gasper Guerin is
indebted unto Mary Mogg the relict of
Francis Mogg the full & Just sume of
Nine hundred poundes of tobacco and
Caske, as appeares by his specialty
bearing date the second of Aprill 1664 --
[Liber B B] There being
noe more Bussinesse this Court to be
Called or Tryed, The Leiutennt Generall
Adjournes the Court and appoints the next
Prouinciall Court to be held on the
second Twesday In June next being the
13th day thereof [Note:
The date is reckoned here according to
the Julian calendar, fixing the year as
1665.]
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Note 9: The Estate of John
NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor]:
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Archives
of Maryland, vol. 57: Provincial Court
Proceedings, 1667 - 68, p. 243:
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13 February 1668 [Liber F F] Ordered that Daniel
Jenifer the Administratr of John NUTHALL
gent late of the Cross Mannor decd doe
deliuer in an Accompt of the Estate of
the said NUTHALL next Court and that the
said Jenifers Bond be deliuered up and
the Administracon soe to him Comitted to
be reuokt and that Other Admcon thereon
be committed to some other person as the
Court shall then think fitt.
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Note 10: John NUTHALL IV
[of Cross Manor], Division of Estate:
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Archives
of Maryland, vol. 5: Proceedings of the
Council of Maryland, 1667 - 75, p. 34:
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Att a Councell held
att Mattapenny the first of Sept 1668: Prsent Charles Caluert Esqr
Gouernor
Jerome White
Philip Caluert Esqr Chancellor
Baker Brook Esqrs Counceliors
Coll: Wm Euans
[Liber H H] Vpon
request made by John NUTHALL Thomas
SPRIGG & Nico Young the Admrs of John
NUTHALL late of the Cross mannor gent
decd was taken into Consideracon the
distributing of Estate Personall of the
said decd. Ordred that the same be
diuided equally amongst the three
children (uizt) John James and Elioner
NUTHALL now wife to the aforesaid Thomas
SPRIGG, and that Security be giuen by
each person that what debts or Claimes
soeuer shall be Justly made by any person
out and from the said Estate hereafter
shall be sattisfyed out of each persons
part or porcon soe allotted them --
Further Ordered that on munday next the
said personall Estate be gott and brought
together that a ueiw may be made thereof
and equally diuided as aforesaid --
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Note 11: James NUTHALL, John
NUTHALL V, and the Disposition of Cross Manor:
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Archives
of Maryland, vol. 57, Preface, p. 43:
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John NUTHALL also
sold, July 21, 1669, two important manors
in St. Mary's County, Cross Manor and
Elizabeth Manor, to Walter Hall (p. 557).
It is of interest to note that the house
of the lord of the manor is spoken of
either as the "manor house" (p.
557) or as the "mansion house"
(pp. 284, 285). In one case, however,
when a house that was burglarized is
referred to as a "mansion" it
is not clear whether "mansion"
is here used in the legalistic sense,
applied as the word was then to any
burglarized dwelling, or in its more
usual sense of a manor house or other
dwelling of importance (p. 621). |
Archives of Maryland,
vol. 57: Provincial Court Proceedings, 1670, p.
557:
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Maryland
ss Memorandum: That On the One &
twentith Day of [p. 101] July in the 38th
yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c
Annoq Doni One thousand six hundred sixty
nine Livery seizin & possession of
the Crosse Mannor house wth all the
Members Lands & appurtenences &
also Elizabeth Mannor wth all the Members
Lands & appurtenences to the same
Mannor Belonging Or appertaineing was by
John NUTTHALL Delivered (by turfe &
twigg & possession) to Walter Hall To
The use of him the said Walter his heires
& assignes for ever in the presence
of J Blomfeild
Richard Moy
John Blomfeild and
Richard Moy make Oath tht they saw Livery
& seizin made by the above named John
NUTTHALL to the above named sd Walter
Hall in fonme abovesaid
Before me this 7th Day
of October 1670
Philip Calvert
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Although his ownership of St. Elizabeth's
Manor and Cross Manor is likely to have assumed
an act of fealty, it is not at all probable that,
in the palatinate of Maryland, John NUTHALL IV
[of Cross Manor] enjoyed any such feudal
privilege - if privilege it can be called - as
the expense and responsibility of a manorial
court, that is, of court leet and court baron.
However, the method of "Livery seizin &
possession" which occurred between John
NUTHALL V and Walter Hall suggests the
persistence of feudal symbols, if not that of
feudal substance.
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Archives of Maryland,
vol. 65: Provincial Court Proceedings: 1672/73,
pp. 82 - 84:
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[Liber M
M] This Indenture made the Thirteenth day
of ffebruary in the One & fortieth
yeare of the Dominion of Caecilius &c
Annoq Doni, One thousand Six hundred
Seaventy two. Between James NUTHALL of
Calvert County in the Province of
Maryland planter of the one part. And
Walter Hall of St Maryes County in the
same Province gentt of the other part.
Wittnesseth. That the said James NUTHALL
for and in Consideracon of Sixteene
Thousand pounds of Tobacco in Casque to
him in hand Paid by the said Walter Hall
the reccpt Wherof the said James NUTHALL
doth hereby Acknowledge and thereof and
of evry part thereof & parcell
thereof. Doth hereby absolutely &
Clearly exonerate accquit and discharge
the said Walter Hall his heyres Executors
and Administratrs for ever by these
prseflts. Hath Given graunted bargained
and Sold enscoffed and Confirmed and by
these presents doth Give Graunt Bargaine
Sell enscoffe & Confirme unto him the
said Walter Hall his heyres and Assignes
for ever. All That Parcell or Tract of
Land Late in the Tenure or Occupacon of
him the said James NUTHALL or his
assignes Lyeing and being in St maryes
County afforesaid. beeing part of a
Devident of Land Cothonly called or
Knowne by the name of CORNWALLIS Crosse Mannor. Begining at the
Quarter Creeke and so run ning along the
Side of the old ifeild that the Crosse
Mannor House standeth on To the Path way
that Goeth to Long Neck. And from thence
along the said Path till it Comes to John
Burgesses old ifeild. And from thence to
George Wright Outward Lyne. and so into
the woods to St Inogoes Mannor.
Conteyneing by Esteemacon One Thowsand
Acres more or lesse. Togeather with all
& singular the houses Ediffices
buildings Yards Gardens Orchards Woods
Underwoods Rights Benefitts Jurisdiccons
Priveleges and Proffitts Thereunto
belonging or in any wise Appertayneing,
To Haue & to Hold the said Parcell of
Land and all & singular other the
prmisses hereby graunted bargained and
sold or mentioned to be herein or hereby
barga[ined] graunted and sold. with their
and every of their Rights Members and
Appurtenances whatsoever, unto the sayd
Walter Hall His Heyres and assignes for
ever, To the onely Proper use and behoofe
of him the said Walter Hall his heyres
and [p. 21] assignes for ever. And the
said James NUTHALL for himselfe his
heyres Executors & Administratrs and
every of them the Said Parcell of Land
and all and Singuler other the premisses
before graunted bar gained & sold
with the Appurtenflces. unto the said
Walter Hall and his heyres To the onely
prop use & behoofe of the Said Walter
Hall his heyres and assignes for ever,
against him the said James NUTHALL his
heyres & assignes and all and evry
other person & persons what soever
Lawfully Claymeing by from or under him
or them or any of them. Shall and will
Warrant and for ever Defend by these
presents: And the said James NUTHALL for
himself e his heyres Execu tors &
Administrators, doth hereby Covenant
Promise graunt and agree to and with the
said Walter Hall his heyres and assignes
and every of them in Manner and forme
ifollowing that is to say That he the
said James NUTHALL at the tyme of the
ensealeing & delivry of those
presents is and untill A good pure
perfect and absolute estate of
Inheritance of all and Singuler the
before graunted prrnisses and every Pt
thereof shall be Lawfully vested Settled
& Executed in and upon the said
Walter Hall and his heyres according to
the true Intent & meaneing of those
presents shall remayne Continue and be
Seized of and in the said parcell of Land
and all & singuler other the prmisses
in and by these presents graunted
bargained & sold with their
Appurtennces of A good Pure perfect and
absolute Estate of Inheritance in
ifee-Simple. without any Condition
reversion remainder or Limittacon of any
use or uses estate or estats in or to any
person or persons whatsoevr. To alter
Chainge Defeate Determyne or make Void
the same. And that the said James NUTHALL
at the tyme of the makeing &
ensealeing of these presents hath full
Power good Right and Law full Authority
to graunt bargaine sell and Convey all
and Singular the before hereby graunted
or men tioned to be graunted Premisses
with their and evry of their Ap
purtenfices. unto the said Walter Hall
his heyres and assignes in manner &
forme as afforesaid. And that he the said
Walter Hall his heyres and assignes and
every of them shall & may by force
and virtue of these presents from tyme to
tyme and at all tymes for ever hereafter
Lawfully Peaceably, and Quiettly haue
hold use Oc cupie Posesse and enjoy the
said parcell of Land and all other the
bargained premisses with the
Appurtennances. and haue Receive and take
the Rents Issues and proffits thereof To
his and their owne proper use and behoofe
for ever, without any Lawfull Lett Suite
Trouble Denyall Interruption eviction or
Disturbance of the said James NUTHALL his
heyres or assignes. or of any other
person or persons whatsoeur Lawfully
Claiming by from or under him them or any
of them. or by his or their Means Act
Consent Title interest [p. 22] privity or
Procurement. In
Wittnesse whereof the Partyes first
abovenamed haue hereunto Interchangably
Set their hands and Seales the day and
yeare first abovewritten Sealed and
Delivered in the marke of the ptsence of.
Tho. Innes
James fl NUTHALL. Seale
Jno Blomfeild
feb. the 13th 1672
9 sds Acknowledged in
oppen Court by the abovenamed James
NUTHALL the day & yeare abovesayd
Robert Ridgely Cler.
Cur. Prov.
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Note 12: Elias
NUTHALL: Claims Upon the Estate of John NUTHALL IV
[of Cross Manor]:
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Archives
of Maryland, vol. 5: Proceedings of the
Council of Maryland, , 1667 - 75, p. 98:
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[Liber A M]: At a
Meeting of his Excellency and Council [p.
77] at Saint Marys the 22d day of
November 1671: Present
His Excellency Charles
Calvert Esqr Captain General and chief
Governor of Maryland
Philip Calvert Esqr Chancellor
the honble William Calvert
Councillors
Edward Fitzherbert
Upon the Petition of
Elias NUTHALL formerly presented to his
Excellency one of the Sons of Iohn
NUTHALL late of St Marys County Gent
deceased for that whereas the said John
NUTHALLs Estate was Ordered upon the
division thereof that if another Child of
the said John NUTHALLs shall appear the
said Child should have a part or portion
of the said Estate equal to what the rest
of the said John NUTHALLs Children had
and the said Elias remaining a Servant in
Virginia at this time the said Elias
Craved that his said Childs part might be
allotted him and that his freedom might
be purchased out of it It is by the Board
Ordered that Mr John and James NUTHALL
and Thomas SPRIGG Gent who married the
daughter of the said John NUTHAL deceased
appear before his Excellency and Council
at the City of St Marys the sixth day of
december next and bring with them such
Papers and Accounts as they have
belonging to the estate of the said John
NUTHALL deceased that [p. 78] his
Excellency and Council hearing the Cause
and when they know what was the true
Value of the said John NUTHALLs Estate
they may take such Order in the premises
as to Law and Iustice appertain.
At a Council held at
the City of Saint Marys the 6th day of
December 1671.
Present
His Excellency Charles
Calvert Esqr Captain General and Chief
Governor of Maryland
Philip Calvert Esqr Chancillor
the honble William Calvert Esq. &
Edward Fitzherbert
John NUTHALL and James
NUTHALL Sons of John NUTHALL late of
Saint Marys County decd and Brothers to
Elias NUTHALL now a Servant in the Colony
of Virginia appeared here this day and
did engage to the Board here that they
would buy Elizabeth Bradshaw Servant unto
william Claw of St of Saint Jeroms and
will send her down into Virginia &
endeavour to exchange her for their
Brother Elias who remains a Servant as
aforesaid and if his freedom cannot by
her being sent down be procured then they
will give more Tobacco & it is by the
Board Ordered that all Reasonable Charges
that they shall be at in freeing their
said Brother they shall be allowed out of
his Childs part.
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Note 13: Issues
Concerning Elizabeth BACON:
Elizabeth BACON’s age was listed
as 26 when, on 10 August 1635, under the name of
Elizabeth HOLLOWAY, she sailed from England to Virginia
on the "Safety." The "Safety," owned
by John Thierry, was a ship the displacement of which was
200 tons. The voyage of 10 August 1635, which included
144 passengers, was arranged by charter on 5 July 1635
between William Anthony and John Graunt (Grant) of
London, the ship’s master. [See Public Records
Office Class E 157/20, ff.56-56v, 10 August 1635 - The
Register of passengers leaving the Port of London and
licenses to pass beyond the sea (Christmas 1634 -
Christmas 1635). Exchequer; King's Remembrancer class,
list of records II, p.151.] Elizabeth BACON was first
married to John HOLLOWAY (BEF 1611, England - August
1643, Northampton County, Virginia, British North
America), in Virginia, about 1631. By profession, John
HOLLOWAY was a physician. Two children of this marriage
are said to have been Elias HOLLOWAY (ABT 1631,
Northampton County, Virginia, British North America - BEF
25 August 1643) [M] and Mary HOLLOWAY (ABT 1635,
Northampton County, Virginia, British North America - BEF
25 August 1643). But, about them, there seems to be no
certain knowledge except that, if they were indeed the
children of John HOLLOWAY, they were not among his
survivors. The only surviving child of this marriage was
Priscilla HOLLOWAY (AFT 25 August 1643 and BEF January
1643/44, Northampton County, Virginia, British North
America - ?), who seems to have been the first wife of
William STEVENS (died 23 December 1687, at Rehoboth
plantation, Somerset County, Maryland, British North
America) who was second married to Elizabeth
<KEYSER>. Thus, on 1 November 1651, John NUTHALL of
CROSS MANOR gave security for the estate of Priscilla
HOLLOWAY, orphan of Dr. John HOLLOWAY. [Northampton
County Orders, Deeds, Wills, no. 4, 1651-54, p. 46]. That
John HOLLOWAY had only a single surviving child, born
after his death, is understood from his Will, dated 25
August 1643 and recorded, in Northampton County, 9
September 1643:
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In the name of God amen, I John
HOLLOWAY being very sick & weake of body but
in prfect sence & memory blessed bee to God
doe make and ordayne this my last Will and
Testament in manner and forme following (vizt) First,
I bequeath my soule to God that gave it and my
body to the ground from whence it was taken to
bee interred with solemn and decent buriall, in
sure & certayne hope of resurrection to
eternall life through the blesses merritts of
Christ Jesus my only Redeemer.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my
loveing wiffe Elizabeth HOLLOWAY (shee paying and
satisfying all my debts) This yr Rent Cropp upon
the ground both corn and Tobacco, And our
Sr'vannt named Edward Reeves to her sole and
pp'use & benefitt. And as for all other
goods, Cattle, Chattles, Swine &c what soevr
else I stand now possessed of (only my land
excepted), My Will and desire is that it Shalbe
equally divided betweene my loveing wiffe
Elizabeth as aforesd and my young child wth which
shee travelleth If it please God shee bee safely
delivred of it, and the sd child live; But
otherwise it it bee the Will and pleasure of God
my sd child should dye before it comes of age,
Then my will is my Childs parte together wth the
land undisposed of by this Will should come and
redound unto Alexander Mountney Junior and
Elizabeth Turner to bee equally shared betweene
them. And for the Estate in England due unto me
my Will is, it shalbe equally divided betweene my
loveing wife and my child, shee my sd wiffe to
bee the guardian of it untill it comes to age and
to have the use of my plantation and all my other
goods untill it or any other of my legatees comes
to age, And in fine the survivor to take the
deceaseds p'te they dying wthout lawfull heires
of their own body. And shee marrying to put in
good security for the same.
Item. My desire is if it please God
my Child should outlive my wife, That my sd
loveing wiffe would give my best Bible to it my
sd child.
Item. I give and bequeath unto John
Bedle two Cowes and the bedd he now lyeth on, my
redd wastecoate I now weare, with a redd pr. of
drawers & my hatt, one young Ewe Goate and my
gunn wth the crooked stock and one young Ram
Kidd.
Item. I give and bequeath unto Peter
Lang that parcell of land I bought &
purchased of Richard Smyth and Thomas Smyth as by
patent will playnely appear, one cowe called Snow
wth her Bull calfe and one other cowe wth calfe
out of my flocke heere at home, one little flock
bedd, boulster and rugg, one ewe goate wth kidd,
one breeding sow; one muskett and one book called
Raine on ye Ephesians, and one young
bull to bee putt and delivred unto Mr. James
Barnaby and John Bedle unto whose trusty care I
committ the sayde Peter desireing &
requireing them for God's Sake to take special
care for his good and Godly education.
Item. I give unto Mr. James Barnaby
my cloath shute lyned wth otter skine with capp,
and all things belonging to it, one ewe goate,
and Mr. Dormans worke.
Item. I give unto John Tilney all my
Phisick and Chirurgery wth the chest Instrumts,
and Lancetts, all my phisicall and Chiurgicall
bookes Latin & English, one male brasse
morter and Pestle, one Cesterne. And my desire is
that the sayde John Tilney shall possesse &
enjoy that hundred acres of land hee made choice
of by the bridge untill such time as the lawfull
heyres thereof come to age, and then peaceably to
redelivr it to the sd heire wth tenntable house
of twenty five foote long upon it.
Item. I give unto Mr. John Rosier my
Greeke Testament in folio.
Item. I give unto Mr. Philip Taylor
Ursines Cattechisme.1
Item. I give unto Anne JONES the
younger daughter of Willm JONES,2
one ould ewe goat.
Item. I give unto Gabriell Searle one
heifer wth calfe which is att prsent att Ffrancis
Martins & one young Ewe goat wth kidd.
Item. I give unto William Martin one
Ewe goate.
Lastly I ordaine and appoint my deare &
loveing wiffe to bee my full & sole Executrix
and Mr. Phillip Taylor, Mr. Alexander Mountney, Mr. William JONES,
& Mr. James Barnabe my overseers of this my
last Will & Testamt to wch sd ffoure my
overseers I give and bequeath to each of them one
steere in Recompence of their paines and care,
desiring them to help and assist my sd Executrix
in all things shee shall stand in neede of them,
And to see the reall p'formance of this my last
Will as aforesd, for the Confirmacon whereof I
hereunto sett my hand & seale this 25th day
of August 1643. Signed Sealed & delivred in
the presence of us
John Rosier, John William
John Tilney, John Ffullard
/s/ John HOLLOWAY
THE
SEALL
Recordat nono die Septembirs Anno Dini
1643, p' me Edwynn Conaway Cler Cur.
The debts yt John HOLLOWAY owe att prsent to
my best rembrance are these,
To Mr. Barnabe ffoure Cowes, three sowes wth
pigg & a boarr, twelve laying henns & a
Cock, one Goose & Gander, one pr's of
sheetes, one ffeather bedd, boulster & Rugg,
one Iron Pott of ffour gallons, one brasse
kettle, one Iron pestle, one henn Turquie &
Cock.
To Thomas Evans, one heifer wth calfe to bee
pd in September.
To Dolby, one Cowe wth calfe to bee pd in
March.
To Millicent, one cowe to be pd in March for
his wages.
To John Fullard, one cowe wth calfe to be pd
at ye cropp.
To Richard Savage, one weaning calfe.
As for the rest of my debts both what I owe
& what is to mee oweing is to the best of my
knowledge sett down in my booke wth mine own
hand.
/s/ John HOLLOWAY
Record atr eadem die & Anno ut Supra
p'me Edwynn Conway Clr.
[Northampton County, Virginia Orders, Deeds,
etc., No. 2, 1640-45, pp. 257-259. On pages
285-287, the inventory of John HOLLOWAY's estate
is recorded. It was taken 4 September 1643 and
shows that HOLLOWAY died before that date and
after 25 August 1643.]
1. Ursines Cattechisme:
The scholarly reformer, Zacharias Ursinus
(Zacharias Baer) (18 July 1534, Breslau, Silesia
- 6 March 1583, Neustadt an der Haardt,
Rheinpfalz), was the principal author of the Heidelberg
Catechism, first published in January 1563.
Previous to this, he had written a Small
Catechism which was mostly assimilated by
the later and larger work. About Ursinus, see R.
Scott Clark and Joel Beeke, "Ursinus, Oxford
and the Westminster Divines," in The
Westminster Confession into the 21st Century:
Essays in Remembrance of the 350th Anniversary of
the Publication of the Westminster Confession of
Faith, 3 vol. ed. Ligon Duncan (Ross-Shire,
Scotland: Mentor, 2003).
2. Willm
Jones: At least since 7 October
1642, when he patented 1300 acres of land in
Northhampton County, John HOLLOWAY had been the
neighbour of Captain William JONES who, in 1664,
deposed that John NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor], as
of 1628 or 1629, was indentured to Hugh HAYES.
See above, note
1. Also see Captain John Smith: Map of Virginia,
1612. By his patent of
7 October 1642, John HOLLOWAY was also neighbour
to Capt. William STONE:
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To all pr. WHEREAS etc.
NOW KNOW yee that
I the said Sir William ^sender
Berkeley, Kt., doe,
with the consent of the Counsell of
State, accordingly give and graunt unto
John HOLLOWAY Thirteen
hundred acres of Land scituate, lying,
and being in the Countie of Northampton
at Hungars Creeke beginning at the old
man's Neck then so arising Easterly up
the maine Creeke and bounded on the
Northerne parte therewth, on the West and
Southerne part by a branch of the said
Hungars Creeke separating this land and
the desindants of
Capt. William STONE and William JONES,
finally invironed
on theEastern parte by the
maine woods . . . . [For the complete
text of this patent, with explanations,
see Note
4 under G0500A:
Thomas SPRIGG(E) in Descendants
of Thomas Sprigg (1604 - BY 14 January
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Elizabeth BACON’s date of
immigration is not known; but her voyage of 10 August
1635, returning to Virginia, indicates the presence of
family in England with which she was still in touch.
For no sufficient reason, Elizabeth
BACON is often said to have been the daughter of Col.
Nathaniel BACON, Sr. (christened 29 August 1620, Burgate,
County Suffolk, England - 16 March 1692, Williamsburg,
York County, Virginia, British North America: interment
18 March 1692, Yorktown, York County, Virginia, British
North America), President of the Governor’s Council
in Virginia (1657), Burgess from York County (1659),
acting Governor of Virginia (1689-90), and first cousin,
once removed, of Col. Nathaniel BACON (Jr.), this latter
being notorious (or esteemed) as the leader of
Bacon’s Rebellion (1676). The wife of Col. Nathaniel
BACON, Sr. and the putative mother of Elizabeth BACON was
Elizabeth KINGSMILL (1625, James City County, Virginia,
British North America - 2 November 1691, King’s
Creek, York County, Virginia, British North America), who
was herself the only surviving child and heiress of
Richard KINGSMILL (BEF 1616, England - BY 26 September
1638, Virginia, British North America) and Jane UNKNOWN
(dead BY 26 September 1638). Elizabeth KINGSMILL had
siblings, noted when she and they were residing in 1624,
at the "Neck of Land" near James City,
Virginia, named Nathaniel, five years of age, and Susan,
one year of age. Elizabeth KINGSMILL was first married to
Col. William TAYLOE on 26 December 1638. Because Col.
Nathaniel BACON, Sr. and Elizabeth KINGSMILL were
themselves childless, the KINGSMILL estate, at the
"Neck of Land," passed from them to their
niece, Abigail SMITH (11 March 1656, Colchester, County
Essex, England - 12 November 1693, York County, Virginia,
British North America) and her husband, Maj. Lewis
BURWELL II (1653, Fairfield, Gloucester County, Virginia,
British North America - 19 February 1711, Carter’s
City, Gloucester County, Virginia, British North
America). It is, therefore, impossible that Col.
Nathaniel BACON, Sr. and Elizabeth KINGSMILL were the
parents of Elizabeth BACON; and Col. Nathaniel BACON was
styled "senior," as is commonly acknowledged
among historians, only to distinguish him from his
swashbuckling younger cousin. If it be admissible - as it
seems to be - that Elizabeth BACON was indeed the
kinswoman of Col. Nathaniel BACON, Sr., then it is rather
more likely that she, though not much his elder, was his
paternal aunt than that she was his daughter and,
therefore, it is more likely that she was one of the
untraced daughters of Sir James BACON (1567, Friston
Hall, County Suffolk, England; christened 12 October
1567, St. Dunstan’s, London, England - 17 January
1617/18, Friston Hall, County Suffolk, England , England; interred 11 February 1617/18, St.
Giles’s, London, England) and his cousin, Elizabeth
BACON (ABT 1573, Hessett, County Suffolk, England -
1649).
Originally interred at King’s
Creek, Elizabeth KINGSMILL now lies in St. Paul’s
Churchyard in Norfolk, Virginia. Her gravestone, which
shows the arms of TAYLOE impaling KINGSMILL, distributes
honour among families. Her epitaph reads:
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Here lyeth the
Body of
Elizabeth wife to the
Honorable Nathaniel
Bacon Esq'r who departed
this Life the Second Day of
November one Thousand
Six Hundred Ninety one in
the Sixty-Seventh Yeare
of her age. |
Col. William TAYLOE, of London,
England, was the brother of Thomas TAYLOE and, in 1640,
was recorded as the heir to property in Virginia. He
appears to have died in Chiskiake after 1665 and before
1661. In England, in August 1661, administration of the
estate of "William TAYLOE of Virginia" was
granted to Thomas TAYLOE, his brother, by the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury. Col. William TAYLOE left his estate
to his nephew, Col. William TAYLOE, the younger, of
Richmond County, Virginia. This latter was Governor of
Virginia.
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From: "Isle
of Wight County Records VII: Historical
Sketch," William and Mary College
Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol., 7, No.
4, April, 1899, pp. 205-315: Deed of George FAWDON for 1500 acres to
Mrs. Ann SMITH whom he intends to make his wife,
30 Oct. 1654.
Witnesses,
Richard Clark, Thos. WOODWARD.
Memorandum to the deed next
above: "All of which above mentioned
jointure and Dowry the nuptials being now
celebrated, Wee George and Ann FAWDON do oblidge
ourselves never to alienate, Release or in any
way alter without the consent and approbation of
our father-in-law, Nathaniel BACON [1] and our Mother Ann his wife with our
Brother William SMITH."
Signed George FAWDON, Ann
FAWDON.
Witnesses, Thos. WOODWARD,
Richard Clark. Recordature 16 Martii, 1654-5.
[1] "Nathaniel BACON, Sen., was son of Rev. James BACON and Martha
WOODWARD. He was the cousin of Nathaniel BACON,
Jun., the Rebel. He appears to have married,
first, Ann SMITH, a widow, who was perhaps Ann
BASSETT, as Capt. William BASSETT calls Nathaniel
BACON brother. He married next Elizabeth
KINGSMILL, widow of Col. Wm. TAYLOE. His
grandmother was Elizabeth HONIWOOD, celebrated
for her charities. Nathaniel BACON's aunt Bridget
married Sir Thomas LYDDALL, and their son Col.
George LYDDALL lived in New Kent, Va. So here was
a regular net-work of relatives -- cavaliers --
settled at this time in Virginia: Nathaniel
BACON, Sen., Thomas WOODWARD, assay-master of the
mint to Charles I., Sir Philip HONIWOOD, George
LYDDALL, Capt. William BASSETT, Col. Robert
Abrahall, Col. Joseph Foster, &c." Thus,
John B. Boddie. See WOODWARD
pedigree in Familiae Minorum Gentium IV.,
p. 1300, Keith's Ancestry of Benj. Harrison.
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Abigail SMITH, the wife of Maj. Lewis
BURWELL II, was the daughter of Anthony SMITH (ABT 1630,
Colchester, County Essex, England - 1667, Virginia) and
Martha BACON (ABT 1634, <Burgate>, County Suffolk,
England - ). Martha BACON was the daughter of Rev. James
BACON (1595, London, Middlesex, England - 9 November
1649, Burgate, County Suffolk, England), the Rector of
Burgate, and Martha WOODWARD, (12 June 1597, Upton cum
Chalvey, Buckinghamshire, England - 25 August 1670), the
daughter of George WOODWARD and Elizabeth HONEYWOOD
(HONIWOOD). Her siblings were William BACON (ABT 1618,
Friston Hall, County Suffolf, England - ?) [M]; Thomas
BACON (christened 29 August 1620, Bury St. Edmunds,
County Suffolf, England - 1657, Westmoreland County,
Virginia, British North America) [M]; Elizabeth BACON
(ABT 1622, <Burgate>, County Suffolk, England - ?)
[F]: m. Thomas BURROWS, 16 September 1647; Anne BACON
(christened 18 November 1631, Burgate, County Suffolk,
England - ?) [F]: m. Unknown WILKINSON; and Nathaniel
BACON (Sr.) (christened 29 August 1620, Burgate, County
Suffolk, England - 16 March 1692, Williamsburg, Virginia,
British North America: interment 18 March 1692, Yorktown,
Virginia, British North America) [M]: m1. Ann BASSETT
(1620 - 1692/93): m2. Elizabeth KINGSMILL (1625, James
City County, Virginia, British North America - 2 November
1691, King’s Creek, York County, Virginia, British
North America).
Rev. James BACON was the son of Sir
James BACON (1567, Friston Hall, Finsbury, County
Suffolk, England; christened 12 October 1567, St.
Dunstan’s, London, England - 17 January 1618,
Friston Hall, Finsbury, County Suffolk, England:
interment 11 February 1618, St. Giles’s, London,
England) and his cousin, Elizabeth BACON (ABT 1573,
Hessett, County Suffolk, England - 1649). The siblings of
Rev. James BACON were Unknown Daughter BACON (ABT 1599,
<London, Middlesex>, England - ?) [F]; Unknown
Daughter BACON (ABT 1601, <London, Middlesex>,
England - ?) [F]; Nathaniel BACON (15 May 1593, Friston
Hall, Finsbury, County Suffolk, England - 1644: interment
7 August 1644, Friston Church, County Suffolk, England)
[M]: m. Elizabeth Anne LEGROSSE (or DEGRASSE), ABT 1619,
Norfolk, England; and William BACON (1596/97, <London,
Middlesex>, England - 1660 [Will dated],
Northumberland County, Virginia, British North America)
[M]: m1. Ann UNKNOWN: m2. Margaret UNKNOWN.
Nathaniel BACON (Jr.) ("the
Rebel") (2 January 1647, Friston Hall, Finsbury,
County Suffolk, England - October 1676, Gloucester
County, Virginia, British North America), husband of
Elizabeth DUKE (christened 17 December 1650, Benhall,
Suffolk, England - ?: daughter of Sir Edward DUKE, first
married in 1674 and second married to Capt. Thomas
JARVIS), was the son of Sir Thomas BACON (BEF 29 August
1620, Friston Hall, Finsbury, County Suffolk, England -
ABT 1657, Westmoreand County, Virginia, British North
America) and Elizabeth BROOKE (ABT 1622, Yoford, County
Suffolk, England - 2 January 1646/47). Sir Thomas BACON
was the son of Nathaniel BACON and Elizabeth Anne
LEGROSSE (or DEGRASSE) and was, therefore, the grandson
of Sir James BACON and Elizabeth BACON.
[See W. Randolph Tayloe, The Tayloes
of Virginia and Allied Families, by W. Randolph
Tayloe (Berryville, Virginia: 1963); Rev. Horace Edwin
Hayden, Virginia Genealogies - A Genealogy of the
Glassell Family, (Genealogical Publishing Co.,
Baltimore, 1966), p.86; Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis,
"Kingsmill on the James River, James City
County," Tidewater Virginia Families, Vol. 5,
No. 2, August/September 1996, p.83-85; Virginia Land Register, Vol. 1,
p.600; "Historial and Genealogical Notes," William
and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. 6 (1897), p.125;
George McCue, The Octagon, by George McCue
(American Institute of Architects Foundation, Washington
D.C., 1976), p.9; Genealogy of the Virginia Family of
Lomax by one of the Seventh Generation in the Direct Line
(1913) p.49; Roberta Love Tayloe, Return to Powhatan -
Growing up in Old Virginia, (1985) p.5; Peter Wilson
Coldham, English Estates of American Colonists -
American Wills and Administrations in the Prerogative
Court of Canterbury: 1610-1699 (Genealogical
Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1980), p.57; Malcolm Hart
Harris, Old New Kent County, Virginia, King William
County, St. John's Parish (1977), p. 422; Lt. Col.
James W. Doyle, Jr., "Saint Stephen's Parish, King
and Queen County, James Madison and the Bill of
Rights," Tidewater Virginia Families, Vol. 5,
No. 1, May/Jun 1996, pp. 9-17; Lt. Col. James W. Doyle,
Jr., "The Mayflower Comes to Virginia: 1633," Tidewater
Virginia Families, Vol. 3, No. 4, Feb/Mar 1995, pp.
208 - 216; and Nell Marion Nugent, Cavaliers and
Pioneers (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1983), vol. I.]
Note 14: James NUTHALL was
transported to Maryland in 1663. His Will is dated 28
April 1685 and was proved 12 June 1685. It mentions his
wife Mary, his son James, his daughters Elizabeth and
Mary, his wife’s two sons (from a previous marriage)
John and James BOULTON, and his nephew John, the son of
his brother John.
By 10 August 1686, Mary BOULTON, as
Margaret NUTHALL, was married to James BIGGER.
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Maryland
Indexes
Marriage References
MSA S 1527
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NUTHALL, James,
married by 1685, Mary BOULTON, widow
(Liber 4: 110). BIGGER,
James, married by 10 Aug 1686, Margaret,
executrix of James NUTHALL (INAC 9:98;
10:184).
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Note 15: James NUTHALL: Marking
Kine
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Archives
of Maryand, vol. 57: Provincial Court
Proceedings, 1668, p. 347:
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Sept the 10th 1668 Robert King of St Marys County
marriner desired the marke of his Cattle
might be recorded is as followeth ---
Under haued on the Right Eare,
underkeel'd & oucr keel'd and a peece
taken out of the top of the left eare.
ditto die
James NUTHALL of st
marys County gent desired the marke of
his Cattle might be recorded which is as
followeth --- Cropt on both Eares a hole
in both Eares Ouer keel'd on both Eares
and under keel'd on the left Eare
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Note 16: William Dare v. John
NUTHALL V, 1678:
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Archives
of Maryland, vol. 68: Provincial Court
Proceedings, 1678, p. 41:
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[Liber N N] Wm Dare
Admr, John Parker agt, John NUTHALL} John
NUTHALL late of Calvert County planter
other wise called John NUTHALL of St
Maryes County agt was Sumoned to Answer
unto Wm Dare Admr of all & singuler
the Goods Chattells rights & Creditts
which were of John Parker deceased of a
plea that that he render unto him the
sume of ffifteen thousand two hundred
& fourteen pounds of Merchantable
tobacco & cask which from him he
unjustly detaineth And whereupon the said
Wm Dare by Robert Ridgely his Attor ney
saith, that whereas the said John NUTHALL
the tenth day of June One thousand six
hundred & Seventy by his certaine
writeing obligatory sealed with the Seale
of the said John NUTHALL & here in
Court produced whose date is the day
& yeare aforesaid, did binde himself
e his heyres Exrs Admrs & assignes in
the penall sume of ffifteen thou sand two
hundred & fourteen pounds of tobacco
& cask for a Valuable consideracon by
him the said John NUTHALL in hand
allready received to pay or cause to be
paid unto the said John Parker English
Mrchant his heyres or assignes the neat
quantity of Seven thousand Six hundred
& Seven pounds of the like
Merchantable tobacco & cask To which
payment well & truely to be made att
some convenient place in St Maryes County
att or before the tenth day of October
next ensueing the date of the same
writeing obligatory the said John NUTHALL
did binde himself and his heyres Exrs
Admrs or assignes Yet the afore said John
NUTHALL the aforesaid sume of Seven
thousand Six hundred & seven pounds
of tobacco to him the said John Parker in
his life tyme, nor to the said William
since his death to whom Adminis tracon of
all & singuler the Goods Chattels
rights and Creditts which were of the
said John Parker in his life tyme since
his death hath bin comitted according to
the tenour of his said writeing
obligatory although often thereunto
required Hath not paid, but the same to
p. 713 pay hath denyed & as yet doth
deny, by reason whereof action hath
accrued to the said Wm as Admr of the
said John to require & have of the
said John NUTHALL the said penall sume of
ffifteen thousand two hundred &
fourteen pounds of tobacco according to
the tenor of the writeing obligatory
aforesaid And thereupon he bringeth his
suite ---- And the aforesaid Wm Dare
bringeth into Court here the Letters of
Admcon to him granted upon the Estate of
the said John Barker that itt may appeare
to the Court here that he thereof hath
the Admcon. And the said John NUTHALL in
his proper person cometh & defendeth
the force & injury when &c and
saith, that as to three thou sand One
hundred forty nine pounds of tobacco part
of the sume in the declaracon menconed he
cannot gainsay, for that the same
remaines due upon the aforesaid writeing
obligatory, the residue thereof being
aliready satisfied & paid Therefore
itt is considered by the Court here this
day to witt the Eleventh day of October
in the third yeare of the Dominion of
Charles Lord Baltemore &c Annoq Doni
1678 that the said Wm Dare Admr as
aforesaid recover against the said John
NUTHALL as well the aforesaid sume of
three thousand One hundred forty &
nine pounds of tobacco part of the debt
afore said & As also five hundred
Seventy two pounds of tobacco costs of
suite And the said John NUTHALL in mercy
&c And the said John of the residue
of the debt aforesaid may goe from thence
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Note 17: John NUTHALL V: The
Maryland Revolution of 1689:
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An Address from
the Protestants of Calvert County to His Majtie.
To their most Exclt Majties King Willm and Queene
Mary.
The humble and hearty Address of yor Majties
most dutiful and loyall Protestant Subject
Inhabitants in Calvert County in yor Majties
Province of Maryland under the Dominion of
the Rt Honble Charles Lord Barron of Baltamore
etc.Dread Sovereignes.
We have at this distance to our
great comfort and felicity beheld and admired
your Majties like the Sunne in the Firmanent not
only dispersing all malitious and threatening
Clouds of Popery but also nurrished and
cherrished the Church of England the which we
hope will prove a sweete smelling flower to your
Majesties and your posterity for ever.
We humbly beseem yor Majties to
believe that we have a full sense of this our
present happinesse and esteem this last blessing
of Almighty God not only an an earnest of His
merciful kindness unto us and such as shall
succeed us but as of a royal stamp of heaven upon
your Majties dignity and undertakings.
We take the boldness to assert
yor Majties that we will behave ourselves in all
the Circumstances of duty and loyalty as
senseable and worthy of so great a blessing as by
me shall not deface the Character,which (if soe
small remote a handfull can add anything to yot
Majesties Service) shall be for ever legable in
our Actions and effections.
We esteem this our Interest and
Duty and therefore pray that Almighty God by whom
Kings reign and who hath so signally crowned your
Majesties with this favour would add length to
your days and Tranquility. These are and shall be
for ever our apprehensions and wishes which being
sincere and hearty imbouldene us to lay before
your most sacred Majesties our at present most
deplorable condition which is that several
persons who call themselves Protestants have
overturned the Lawfull and peacable Government
here of the Lord Baltemore under pretence of
doing your Majties Service, whereas in truth we
have just cause to believe, and doubt not but
your Majesties will find they intended noe other
than to gratifie their own ambitions and
mallitious designes this not being the first tyme
that some of the Ringleaders of them have
attempted to make a rupture in the peace and
government of this Province being persons that
little regard either religion or justice furthur
than to carry out their designes but denying us
the benefitts of Lawes and Priviledges due to
Englishmen terming us worse than Papists for that
we would not joyne with them in overturning the
said Government of the said Lord Baltemore whom
we were well assured at the same time was a
subject to your Majesties whose Orders to
proclaim you there we dayly wished and hoped for
the lives and conversations of which persons as
also of us the subscribers we presume to say that
divers merchants in London and Traders hither are
capable to give a satisfactory account of these,
terrifieing us with Troops of armed men and
hauling several of us to prison with martial
force and sometimes showing no cause why which
seems so much the more uneasey us for that we
have lived many happy days under the Government
of the Lord Baltemore and his Agents and enjoyed
peacably and freely the exercise of our religion,
libertys and properties and never had just cause
to pray any other Government But now ernestly
pray and humbly beseeche your most sacred
Majesties will be pleased with all the convenient
speed as may be either to reestablish the said
Lord Baltemore in his Ancient power and
Government or by such other wayes and means to
order the Settlemt of this your Majesties
Province as in justice shall seem to you most
meet and convenient That we may again reape the
benefit of the Laws of England as heretofore we
have done is the humble petition and desire of
those which cannot esteem any happiness more
agreable than in being, Dread Soveraignes
Your Majties most Loyall
dutiful and obedient
Subjects and Servants
Geo.
Lingan
Jno Smith
Thomas Johnson
John Smith
Richard Smith junr
Wm W Whittington his marke
Waltr Smith
W A Keroyd
Enock COMES
Joseph Hall
Will BROOKES
Nathan. Veitch
Henry Orton
John Pawman
Robert Davy
Jno Veitch
Robert RI Johnson The mark of
Elisha Hall
Hugh Chinton
Francis Buxton
Richd Rake
Jno T Maydowe the mark of
John Faney
Wm x Wood the mark of
Francis FH Hutchins the mark of
Richard Looke
Jon Leach Junr
Roger Skime
Saml Holdeworthy
Edward Dickinson
Jno Holdeworth
Tho. Clagett
Wm Dawkins
Rd Clarke
Jos. Edwards
Joseph Wright
Mitch. Dandy
Robert Shepheard
Richd Keene
William Hutchings
Hugh Hepenell
William Winning
John NUTTHALL
James Veatch
Symon G V Garling the mark of
Edward E Blackburne the mark of
Wm ChaplaineJames Ante
Dann. Rawlings
Wm TurnerJames Wamless the mark of
Morris Davis
Wm x Kidd the mark of |
John x
Hyatt the mark of
Sm S F Fouller the mark of
Wm W Needham
John Bullock
John x Austin his mark
Josiah Willson
Edward Wood jnr
Joseph Wilson
Martin H Beale mark of
Chas x Cole the mark of
Henry Cox
Thomas Hills
James Downall
Daniel Browne
Benjamin Hall
Tho. Blake
Henry Doakes
Francis Masdin
Richard R E Emirs his mark
John Manning
George x Sealing the mark of
Ja. Crawfford
Wm Wilkeson
Henry Lowe
Nathaniel Mannying
Ashd. Colhil
Thomas Simmons junr
John Reade
John Terner
Tho. Beevin
Alexander Lewis
Humphrey Swift
Thomas J Lingeart
Paul Kisbe
Jon Leech sennor
Georg. Young
John E PeeCock the mark of
Ambrose Leach
Benjamin E. Enins the mark of
Jonathan x Smith the mark of
Jno Scot
Wm Wadsworth
John x Kent the mark of
John Sollers
Peter p Fouler his mark
John Sunderland
William W Cheath
Fran. Freeman
George Bussee
Hezekiah Bussee
Christopher B Beane mark of |
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Note 18: John NUTHALL IV
[of Cross Manor], John NUTHALL V, and John
NUTHALL VI: Chronological Evidence
John NUTHALL V was transported to
Maryland by his father in 1663. He served as a Court
Justice for St. Mary’s County in 1699. Elise Greenup
Jourdan, in Early Families of Southern Maryland (8
vols.), vol. 2, states that he was an innkeeper. John
NUTHALL V left a Will, dated 22 November 1713 and proved
28 September 1714:
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Maryland
Calendar of Wills: Volume 4 (13.728):
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Will written 22
November 1713, proved 28 September 1714:
John NUTHALL Sr., Gentleman, St. Mary's
County 22 November 1713; 28 September
1714 to grandson Breant NUTHALL, at age
21 years, and granddaughter Elinor
NUTHALL, at 16 years, personalty. To son
John executor, residue of estate, real
and personal, and reversionary legatee in
event of death of either grandchild
aforesaid during minority. Testators:
Edmund PLOWDEN, Thomas SPRIGG, Dorthy
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Abtracts of the
Inventories and Accounts of the Prerogative Court
of Maryland. 1697-1700 Libers 16, 17,
18, 19, 19 1/2 A, 19 1/2 B, vol. 5, compiled by
V. L. Skinner. Published by Family Line
Publications:
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04 October
1714 (Inventories and Accounts, Liber
36B, pages 21 - 22, Hall of Records) An
Inventory of the Goods and Chattels of
Mr. John NUTHALL Senior (Jr.) Deceased
[Note: This is the estate of John NUTHALL
V.] Appraised by
us underwritten Sworn Appraisers this 4th
day of October 1714. £ s d. £184.12. 6.
/s/ John CLARKE, John READ. Testis: Edmd
PLOWDEN, Elinore NUTHALL, Wm. (his X
mark) COMBS (Source?) [Note: Skinner
lists as John NUTTHALL, Sr. Elinor
NUTTHALL and William COMBES (but never
indicates marks in his abstractions.]
16 November 1714
Maryland Prerogative Court records.
36B.49 Inventory. John NUTHALL, Jr.
£238.2.5. [Note: This is the estate of
John NUTHALL VI.]
Appraisers: Robert
CLARKE, John REED. Creditors: Edmond
PLOWDON, Will. COMBS (Skinner . . .)
The October 1714 record
is John NUTHALL V and the November 1714
record is John NUTHALL VI, who married
(1) in1694, Mary BRENT, by whom he engendered Brent
NUTHALL and (2) Elinor SPRIGG by whom he
engendered Elinor NUTHALL. In 1689, John
NUTHALL V signed the Calvert County
Protestant Petition with Enoch COMBS (Sr.
or Jr.). Elinor NUTHALL I, daughter of John
NUTHALL IV [of Cross Manor],
married Thomas SPRIGG who, by his first
wife, Katherine GRAVES, engendered Sarah,
widow of John PEARCE and last wife of
Enoch COMBS of Prince George's County
(thought to have been Enoch COMBS, Jr.)
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Abstracts of CHANCERY
COURT RECORDS of Maryland, 1669-1782,
Debbie Hooper, Family Line Publications,
Westminster, Maryland 21157, 1996:
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Page 39: 3
August 1717. Depositions taken regarding
the birth and lineage of Edmund PLOWDEN
and Brent NUTHALL of St. Mary's County:
Rev. Mr. Nicholas Gulick, age ca.
70, that some 24 years ago he married
John NUTTHALL, Jr. of St. Mary's County
and Miss Mary BRENT of Stafford County,
Virginia. (Liber CL, p. 362). 3 August 1717. Deposition of
Susan Evans, age. ca. 65, that
20 years ago this October, she was sent
for as a midwife to Mrs. Mary BRENT [1], sister to Margarett BRENT and
wife to John NUTTHALL, Jr., at the house
of said NUTTHALL. She delivered a male
child who is now known by the name of
Brent NUTHALL. The deponent always
understood that Mary BRENT was the wife
of John NUTHALL, and that Margaret BRENT
was the wife of George PLOWDEN, late of
St. Mary's County Both of them were
sisters of William BRENT of Stafford
County, Virginia, who lately died in
Great Britain. The deponent further
states that Brent NUTHALL is the only
surviving son of Mrs. Mary BRENT. (Liber
CL, p. 363).
Pages 49 and 50: 8
October 1721. Deposition taken regarding
the right of Brent NUTHALL to title of a
tract in St. Mary's County called Cross
Mannor. (1) Robert CLARKE of St. Mary's
County, age ca. 71, said that he
very well knew John NUTHALL the elder,
the grandfather of Brent NUTHALL, and
that he and the deponent were the same
age, except that said John was as much
older than the deponent as March til
November. The deponent would be 71 on the
fifth of November next. [2] (2) Levina Twisden of St.
Mary's County, age ca. 71, that
she knew John NUTHALL, the
great-grandfather of Brent NUTHALL and
father of John NUTHALL, the grandfather
of said Brent NUTHALL. John the
great-grandfather lived on land called
Cross Mannor about 54 years ago, when she
came to this country, and where he died
about 53 years ago last July. (3) William
COMBS of St. Mary's County, ca.
50. (4) Charles Calvert of St. Mary's
County, Gent., age ca. 59, who
was son of William Calvert. (Liber CL, p.
748-750).
[Notes by the author of
this web page:]
[1] Mrs. Mary BRENT: In the 17th and 18th
centuries, the epithet "Mrs."
did not connote marriage so much as it
signified ladies of a certain age. Thus
it was that wives of any age and
spinsters, of middle age and beyond, were
both ordinarily addressed as
"Mrs."
[2] The
deponent would be 71: The deponent was Robert
CLARKE, Sr. As is known
from the Will of Robert CLARKE the
SURVEYOR, dated 14 July 1664, Robert
CLARKE, Sr. was born in March 1651/52. He
was, therefore, yet to complete his 71st
year of age by the date of his
deposition, 8 October 1721. About the
date of birth of Robert CLARKE, Sr.,
Robert CLARKE the SURVEYOR, who was
uncommonly literate, who would have
certainly been in possession of his son's
baptismal record, and who would have
known the date or dates of his son's
confirmation and first communion in the
Church of Rome, cannot have been
mistaken. [See note
33 under G04898A:
Robert CLARKE the SURVEYOR in Descendants
of Robert Clarke the Surveyor (1611 - AFT
14 July 1664 and BEF 21 July 1664).]
The deposition says
that John NUTHALL V was older than Robert
CLARKE, Sr. as the difference between
March and November. So, given the fact
that Robert CLARKE, Sr. was born in March
1651/52, John NUTHALL V must have been
born in November 1651. That "the
deponent would be 71 on the fifth of
November next" does not mean that
Robert CLARKE, Sr. was born 5 November
1650. It does mean that, as of 5 November
1721, exactly as on 8 October 1721,
Robert CLARKE, Sr. would be - as he was
already - in his 71st year. It may be
deduced, then, that it was John NUTHALL V
who was born 5 November 1651.
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Note 19: Elias NUTHALL:
Elias NUTHALL was a servant in Virginia
in 1671 when his father's estate was divided and, in that
same year, he petitioned the Council to obtain a share of
the estate in order to purchase his freedom.
On 9 February 1680, Elias NUTHALL
questioned Thomas Banks’s administration of the
estate of George and Frances BECKWITH, whose daughter -
Elizabeth - he had married.
On 9 October 1687, Elias NUTHALL
surveyed his land, amounting to 300 acres, called
"Nutwell’s Choice" in Talbot County. It
was about this time that Elias NUTHALL moved to Talbot
County.
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Archives
of Maryland, vol. 8: Proceedings of the
Council of Maryland, p. 507:
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8 April 1692 [Liber K] Upon a Petition
preferred by Elias NUTWELL of Talbot
County setting forth that whereas he had
Surveyed & laid out for him the ninth
day of October 1687 a tract of Land for
300 Acres called Nutwells Choice lying in
the aforesaid County on the east Side of
back Wye betwixt the Land of Robt King Wm
Coursey and Irisham Thomas and whereas
there is & likely to arise some
dispute between him the said NUTWELL
& the other three Persons mentioned
concerning the meetes & Bounds of
their respective Lands wherefore the
better to ascertain the meetes &
Bounds of his the said NUTWELLs Land he
hath humbly prayed & it is granted
unto him an order of this Board for
special warrant to issue forth of the
Land Office for the Resurvey of the said
NUTWELLs Land Called Nutwells Choice
according to the true antient meetes
& bounds thereof not Running within
the Lines of any former or more antient
Survey or Land reserved for his Ldshp the
Ld Baltemores use Cer retur together with
a fair plat to this Board with all
Convenient speed
In the accounts of
Daniel Clocker, dated 17 April 1689,
Elias NUTHALL is shown as being in debt
to the estate of James Yore and was
called a "runaway."
Daniel Clocker 10.232
Account SM £99.5.3 April 17. 1689 #62234
The amount of the
inventory also included Payments to: Hon.
Col. William Diggs, Frances Catterton,
Sollomon Jones, Walter Woolverston, John
Darnall, Anthony Underwood, John
Lewellen, Robert Cole, Ann Martin, Thomas
Bufurford, Richard Gardiner, Thomas
Grunwin, Thomas Courtney, Maj. Boarman,
John Backer (dead), Charles Quigley,
Thomas Spink, Henry Fox, James Regon,
John Baker, John Addison, Thomas Hinson
(Administrator of John Hartwell), Philip
Lynes, William Rosewell,Henry Exton,
Justinian Tennison, John Luellin, Andrew
Abington, William Bevan, John Blomfeild.
List of debts: William
Culverhouse (dead insolvent), Thomas
Prickett (dead insolvent), Thomas Price
of Cecil County (dead insolvent), Richard
Whitby (gone to England), Seth Sergent
(dead insolvent), Mark Good (no such
person), Hugh Baker (dead insolvent),
Jacob Johnson (runaway), Evan Davis (dead
insolvent), Abraham Reed (dead
insolvent). Joseph Wildblood (dead
insolvent), Obidiah King, (runaway),
Michaell Rogers (runaway), Thomas Window
(dead insolvent), Mathew Turner
(runaway), Eustatius Turine (dead
insolvent), Walter Jeffery's (dead
insolvent), William Cocks (dead
insolvent), Robert Davorshire (runaway),
Thomas Window (runaway), Thomas Tillett
(runaway), George Hodgson (dead
insolvent) Thomas Wynn (dead insolvent),
Elias NUTWELL (runaway).
Administratrix:
Patience Yore (relict), wife of James
Yore.
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On 30 April 1702, Elias NUTHALL was
shown as being in debt to the estate of Jacob Sayer of
Talbot County and was said to be "worth
nothing."
Note 20: Elizabeth BECKWITH was
the daughter (or "orphan") of George BECKWITH
(BY 1631, Calvert County, Maryland, British North America
- BY 28 April 1679, Calvert County, Maryland, British
North America) and Frances HARVEY, who were married BY 8
February 1658. Frances HARVEY was the daughter of
Nicholas HARVEY (BY 1637, Calvert County, Maryland,
British North America - BY 8 February 1658, Calvert
County, Maryland, British North America) and Jane
UNKNOWN.
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Maryland
Indexes
Marriage References
MSA S 1527
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NUTHALL, Elias, m. by
28 April 1679, (N), orphan of George
BECKWITH of CV Co. (INAC 6:46). NUTTALLS, Elias, m. by 28 April
1679, (N), dau. of George BECKWITH (INAC
6:46).
BECKWITH, George, of CV
Co., m. by 8 Feb 1658, Frances, dau. of
Nicholas HARVEY, dec. (ARMD 10:259;
65:679).
BECKWITH, George, m. by
1692, Frances HARVEY, dau. of Nicholas
and Jane, of CV Co. (MWB 6:1; INAC 9:476;
MCHR PC:433).
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G0499A:
Eleanor NUTHALL [009]
Birth: ABT 1648, Cross Manor, St. Mary’s County,
Maryland, British North America
Death: AFT 2 July 1696 and BEF 9 May 1704,
Northampton Manor, Prince George’s County, Maryland,
British North America
Father: John NUTHALL IV
[of CROSS MANOR] (1614/15, Cattenhall, County Cheshire,
England; christened 10 February 1614 (OS), St.
Mary’s Parish, Stockport, County Cheshire, England -
July 1667, Cross Manor, St. Mary’s County, Maryland,
British North America)
Mother: *Elizabeth BACON (1609, England - AFT 27 July
1653, Northampton County, Virginia, British North
America)
Marriage: July 1668, St.
Mary’s County, Maryland, British North America
Spouse: Thomas SPRIGG (Sr.), Lieutenant (ABT 1630,
Kettering, Northamptonshire, England - AFT 9 May 1704 and
BEF 27 December 1704, Northampton, Prince George’s
County, Maryland, British North America) [See G0499A:
Thomas SPRIGG (Sr.) in Descendants
of Thomas Sprigg (1604 - 14 January 1677/78).]
Child 1: Martha SPRIGG (1677,
Northampton Manor, Calvert [later Prince George’s]
County, Maryland, British North America - AFT 19 June
1742 [Will signed] and BEF 13 NOVEMBER 1742 [Will
proved], Charles County, Maryland, British North America)
[F]: m1. Col. Thomas McKay PRATHER [Frederick Militia]
(1673, Prather Hall, Swan Creek, Calvert County,
Maryland, British North America - BY 15 March 1712,
Orphan’s Gift, Prince George’s County,
Maryland, British North America), 1698, Prince
George’s County, Maryland, British North America:
m2: Stephen YOAKLEY (deceased BEF 29 January 1733,
<Charles County>, Maryland, British North America)
Child 2: John SPRIGG (AFT 1
September 1668, <Northampton Manor, Calvert [later
Prince George’s] County>, Maryland, British North
America - BEF 16 March 1700, Calvert County, Maryland,
British North America) [M]
Child 3: Elias SPRIGG (AFT 1
September 1668, <Northampton Manor, Calvert [later
Prince George’s] County>, Maryland, British North
America - BEF 9 May 1704, Calvert County, Maryland,
British North America) [M]
Child 4: Mary SPRIGG (1671, Anne
Arundell County, Maryland, British North America - 27
January 1694, South River Parish, Anne Arundel County,
Maryland, British North America [F]: m. Thomas STOCKETT
(17 April 1667, Anne Arundell County, Maryland, British
North America - death / interment: 30 October 1732, All
Hallow’s Protestant Episcopal Church, South River
Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, British North
America), 12 March 1689, All Hallow’s Protestant
Episcopal Church, South River Parish, Anne Arundel
County, Maryland, British North America
Child
5:
Eleanor ("Olive") SPRIGG (BEF 1669 and EST 1668, Northampton Manor,
Calvert [later Prince George’s County], Maryland,
British North America - BY 9 February 1727/28, Prince
George's County, Maryland, British North America) [F]:
m1. Thomas HILLEARY, Lieutenant Colonel (ABT 1637,
Danbury, Yorkshire, England - AFT 2 February 1697 and BEF
16 March 1698, Prince George's County, Maryland, British
North America), BY 1681, Calvert County, Maryland,
British North America [See G0498A: Thomas HILLEARY
in Antecedents and Descendants of Thomas Hilleary
(ABT 1637 - AFT 2 February 1697/98 and BEF 16 March 1698).]; m2. John NUTHALL VI (ABT
1675, Maryland, British North America - BY 16 November
1714, St. Mary’s County, Maryland, British North
America)
Child 7: Anne SPRIGG (ABT 1677,
Northampton Manor, Calvert [later Prince George’s]
County, Maryland, British North America - BY 8 December
1720, Maryland) [F]: m. Phillip GITTENS (GITTINGS) (ABT
1674, Calvert County, Maryland, British North America -
BY 25 January 1720, Prince George’s County,
Maryland, British North America), ABT 1695
Child 8: Elizabeth SPRIGG (1679,
Northampton Manor, Calvert [later Prince George’s]
County, Maryland, British North America - AFT 28 October
1714) [F]: m1. Captain Robert WADE (ABT 1668, Calvert
[later Prince George’s] County, Maryland, British
North America - AFT 4 December 1713 [Will signed] and BEF
2 February 1714 [Will proven] Prince George’s
County, Maryland, British North America), 1698, Prince
George’s County, Maryland, British North America:
m2. William PENSON (1679 - 1740), BY 28 October 1714
Note 1: John NUTHALL VI was the son of
John NUTHALL V (ABT 1665,
Calvert County, Maryland, British North America - AFT 22
November 1713 [Will signed] and BEF 28 September 1714
[Will proved], St. Mary’s County, Maryland, British
North America) and Barbara UNKNOWN (ABT 1649 - ?), ABT
1670, Maryland, British North America. John NUTHALL VI
was first married to Mary BRENT (ABT 1675, Stafford
County, Virginia, British North America - ABT 1698, St.
Mary’s County, Maryland, British North America),
1694, in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. By Mary BRENT,
John NUTHALL VI engendered Brent NUTHALL (October 1697,
St. Mary’s County, Maryland, British North America -
AFT 1759. Maryland).
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3 Aug 1717: Rev.
Mr. Nicholas Gulick, age ca. 70, that some 24
years ago he married John Nutthall, Jr. of St.
Mary's Co. and Miss Mary Brent of Stafford Co.,
Virginia. (Liber CL, p. 362). |
George PLOWDEN [sic] married
Margaret BRENT whose sister, Mary BRENT, married John
NUTHALL V. Edmund PLOWDEN was their son.
Note 2: Mary BRENT was the
daughter of Giles BRENT (Jr.) (ABT 1652, Northumberland
County, Virginia, British North America - 2 September
1679, Middlesex County, Virginia) and his first cousin,
Mary BRENT (ABT 1650, Defford, Worchester, England - ?).
Her siblings were George BRENT [M]: m. Mary VECEN;
Margaret BRENT (1673 - ?) [F]: m. George PLOWDEN; Giles
BRENT III (1677 - 1707) [M]: m. Jane CHANDLER (BEF 1685 -
1699, Stafford County, Virginia, British North America);
and William BRENT (1679, Stafford County, Virginia,
British North America - 26 December 1709, England) [M]:
m. Sarah GIBBONS (1693, England - 3 October 1733, Dipple,
Stafford County, Virginia, British North America), 12 May
1709.
The marriage of Giles BRENT (Jr.) and
Mary BRENT was terminated by divorce, said to be the
first recorded in the province of Virginia.
Giles BRENT (Jr.) was the son of Sir
Giles BRENT (Sr.), Knight, (1604, Admington,
Gloucestershire, England - 31 August 1671, Stafford
County, Virgina, British North America) and Mary
KITOMAQUUND, Princess of the Piscataways (ABT 1633;
christened 1639 - 1654, Stafford County, Virginia) who
were married, about 1643, in St. Mary’s County,
Maryland. Sir Giles BRENT, during Leonard Calvert's
absence from Maryland in 1644, served as governor of the
colony.
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From: J. Thomas
Sharf, History of Maryland,
Piet & Co., Baltimore, 1879, p 188, quoting
Fr. Andrew White's Annual Letter of 1640
concerning St. Mary’s School:
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"The King
(CHITOMACHEN of Pascatoe) brought his
daughter seven years old whome he loves
with great affection to be educated among
the English at St. Mary's. . . ." |
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From: Frances Thompson Lovejoy
by way of Paul Tobler. Much of this material was
prepared by Martha Pikell:
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"Princess
Mary KITAMAGUN, born ?, christened-1639;
married-1649/1650 to Giles BRENT; died
1654/44, mother of 6 children, all born
in Virginia. Princess KITAMAGUUN (or
KITAMAGUN) was a Piscataway Indian, and
the daughter of CHITIMACHEN (or
KITAMAGUUN) the "Tayac (king or
emperor) of the Piscataway Indians."
The Piscataway Tribe is an offshoot of
the Algonguin tribe. The Piscatoes
(Piscataway Indians of Maryland) migrated
in the 14th Century to what is now the
state of Maryland. These peoples were
founded by UTTERPOINGASSINEN ("Lord
Over All") thirteen generations
before the birth of his descendent,
CHITIMACHEN (or KITAMAGUUN). The
Princess's father, King CHITIMACHEN, was
the First Catholic convert in Maryland.
He was baptized 5 July 1639, along with
his wife, daughter, and son, by Father
Andrew White, S. J., who came into the
province on the Ark and the Dove in 1634. Citing Clayton C. Hall, Narratives
of Early Maryland:
1633-1684, p. 131: Annual
Letter of 1640 of Fr. Andrew White:
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"At
the same time, the Queen, with an
infant at the breast, and another
of the principal men, whom he
especially admitted to his
Counsels, together with his
little son, were regenerated in
the baptism font. To the Emperor,
who was called 'Chitimachen'
(before KITTAMAGUUND) was given
the name Charles and to his wife
Mary." The Piscataways, so
Father White wrote in his journal
in 1634, refrained from liquors
except the ones corrupted by
white men's vices; they were tall
and handsome, chaste, and the
women sober and modest and a very
gentle people. The settlers of
early Maryland owe much of their
success to the help and
instructions received from this
tribe. Soon after Princes Mary
Kittamagun was baptized, she
became the ward of Margaret and
Mary BRENT, to raise as an
English lady. She had become a
Christian and was well educated
by the BRENT sisters. About
1649/50, Princess Mary
KITTAMAGUN, a child, became the
bride of Giles BRENT (1606-1671).
This marriage is substantiated by
evidence given on P. 16 in
"Prince William, The Story
of Ist People and Its
Places," a very valuable and
interesting work compiled in 1941
by the WPA. Giles BRENT and his
Indian Princess are said to have
had many children, but Giles and
Mary Kittamagun's children-1.
Mary m. Capt. John Fitzherbert,
2. Giles BRENT, Jr. m. Mary
BRENT, 3. Richard BRENT, d.s.p.;
4. Katherine BRENT m. Richard
Marsham; 5.Henry BRENT; 6.
Margaret BRENT, d.s.p.; (from Colonial
Families of the US). Princess
Mary was still living April 17,
1654, when Giles BRENT, prior to
making a trip to England,
'conveyed the whole of his
personal estate in both Virginia
and Maryland to his sister, Mary
BRENT, in trust, to educate his
children decently and
Christianly, and to allow
maintenance to Mary, the wife of
said BRENT."
The first
divorce in Virginia was that of
their son Giles. Disputes over
property made the Brents go to
Virginia to live. Many
descendants are found in an
interesting graveyard in Fairfax
County, Virginia.
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Citing Flowering
of the Maryland Palatinate
by H. W. Newman:
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".
. . it was not a happy marriage
for the Indian Princess, as she
sustained ill treatment at the
hands of BRENT. Giles BRENT, as
her husband, claimed kingship of
the Piscataways as well as his
son and heir, Giles." |
Governor Bacon was
using his subjects' claims as a pretense
to involve the two colonies in war.
"Wee have just cause to suspect
(Bacon) intends to embroyle yr province
in a warr and that he will make the
pursuit of the Piscataway Indians his
pretence to enter it and use youn Giles
BRENT and his vaine title to his mother's
Crown & Scepter of the Piscataway (as
his ffather used to phrase it) to sett on
ffot that Brutes Courage to head all the
needy and desperate persons in these
parts to our disquett." (Ref.
Maryland Archives, Vol 15, Folio 124).
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Marriages of St. Mary's
County, Maryland: 1634 - 1900 by
Margaret K. Fresco Eastern Shore Regional
Library, Salisbury, MD 21801:
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Marriages
and Deaths in St. Mary's County:
1634-1900:
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"Mary
BRENT - depostion dated 3 Aug
1717 of Susan Evans, 65, that 20
years come Oct. deponet, as
midwife to Mary BRENT, sister of
Margaret BRENT and wife of John
Nuthall Jr. del'd male child
known as Nuthall BRENT, that Mary
BRENT and Margaret BRENT, wife of
George PLOWDEN, late of St.
Mary's Co., were sisters to
George BRENT of Stafford County,
Virginia." |
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From Virginia
Gleanings in England by Lothrop
Withington:
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"William
BRENT, late of Virginia, but in Parrish
of St. James, Clarkenwell Middlesex,
deceased. Administration 3 February
1709-10 to his relict Sara BRENT. Ditto
1710, folio 28, Notes from Withington:
William BRENT of 'Richland,' Stafford
County, Virginia (son of Giles BRENT of
Stafford County, and grandson of Giles
BRENT, first Governor of Maryland and
afterwards of Virginia) fell heir, by
deaths of relatives, to the estates of
Stoke and Cossington, Somersetshire and
went to England in 1708 to recover his
inheritance. He married, May 12, 1709,
Sarah GIBBONS and sister of Sir John
GIBBONS, M.P. for Middlesex. William
BRENT died in England, December 26, 1709,
and his widow came in January 1719 to
Virginia, where not long afterwards she
married Rev. Alexander SCOTT of
Overwharton parish, Stafford County.
William and Sarah BRENT had one child,
William BRENT of 'Richland,' born March
6, 1710, and died 1742, who was ancestor
of the family of BRENT of
"Richland." In September, 1744,
the Virginia Assembly passed an act
authorizing Peter Hedgman, executor of
the younger William BRENT, to pay out of
the rents and profits of his estate £300
sterling and interest, which had been
borrowed by the said William BRENT the
younger to prosecute an appeal before the
Privy Council in England (which had been
decided in his favor) for a large parcel
of land in the Province of
Maryland." |
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Note 3: The family BRENT was
notable in the early history of Catholicism in British
North America:
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From St.
William of York Catholic Parish, Stafford County,
Virginia:
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Parish History
(Thanks to
Glenda Kopchinski, our unofficial parish
historian)
Sir William Fitzherbert
of York, England, son of an earl, was a
controversial religious leader who was
the archbishop of England in the 12th
century. His mother was the half-sister
of the King of England, making him the
King's nephew. He was canonized in 1227
by Pope Honorious III. Our parish
community, which bears his name, traces
its origin back to 1647, when the BRENT
family moved to Stafford County to escape
religious intolerance. Sir Giles BRENT,
an English Catholic nobleman who once
served as Governor of Maryland, moved
from Baltimore to the Virginia wiIderness
near the mouth of Aquia Creek. In 1686,
Captain George BRENT was granted a patent
of 30,000 acres of land lying betwen the
Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers. The
patent, granted by King James II,
included a royal mandate assuring them
and later inhabitants of Virginia free
exercise of their religion.
They established the
town of Brenton, later called Aquia. In
1785, Bishop John Carol reported about
200 Catholics in this area. Little more
is known about the Catholic community
here until almost 1900. The original
cemetery of the lost community in Aquia
was rediscovered in 1897. In addition to
the inhabitants of the pioneer
settlement, a monument was discovered to
Spanish Jesuit priests who were martyred
in 1687 while trying to convert the local
Indians to Catholicism.
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For
more information about the family BRENT, see Margaret Brent - A Brief History,
by Lois Green Carr.
Valuable information was contributed to this web page
by Ms. Sherry Frisk.
Some information for this web page was obtained from
the Genealogical
Correspondence of David Armstrong.
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responsible for the use which its author has made of
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may be found herein are entirely the fault of the author
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