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THE  ANCESTRY  OF 

PROFESSOR  HENRY  JONES  FORD  OF  PRINCETON  UNIVERSITY. 

Gleaned  by  Albert  Levin  Richardson,  Historical  Biographfr, 
Pl27  [\loRTH  Charles  Street,  Baltimore,  Maryland. 


The  Foro  make  is  an  olt  and  honorable  one  in  Maryland.   The 

FIRST   settler  BEARING  THIS  SURNAME  WHO  CAME   TO  THE  PalATINATE  OF 

Maryland  between  1640  and  1 7OO  were  from  the  gentleman  class  of 
Great  Britain. 

Like  other  well  [horn  Englishmen  they  were  attracted  by  the 
charming  p;;omise  contained  in  the  Maryland  Charter  that  in  this 
Province,  so  righly  endowed  by  nature,  a  British  subject  might 
obtain  land  upon  which  he  could  live  in  opulence,  free  from  the 
religious  and  political  strife  that  made  life  anything  but  tran- 

QUIL   IN  the  old  world.  ••'i^^^w^w 

\H\l     V'AS  the   only  spot   I  rJ  THE  ENGLISH  SPEAKING  WORLD,   AND 
THE  ONLY  PLACE   THEN   IN  ALL  THE  WORLD,   EXCEPTING  HOLLAND  (wiTH 
L  I  M  I  YAT  I  Or;S  )  ''HERE  D  I  S  i"E  N  T  E  R  S  COULD  WORSHIP  GoD  WITHOUT  FEAR  OF 
PERSECUTlOrj.    To  THOSE  VERSED   IN  THE   POLITICAL,   SOCIAL  AND  RE- 
LIGIOUS HISTORY  OF   THE  WORLD  PRIOR   TO,   AND  LONG  AFTER   THE   SETTLE- 
MENT OF  THE  American  colonies,  the  religious  freedom  enjoyed  in 
Maryland  is  readily  accepted  as  one  of  the  chief  causes  which 

ATT ;?  ACTED  TO  THE  LAND  OF   THE  NOl^LE  ChESAI-EAK-j'  SCIONS  OF  THE  VERY 
,  / 

BEST  FAMILIES   )-+  GR  L  A  i  BRITAIN.   WhEN   IS  ADDED  TO  THIS  THE  FURTHER 
FACT  THAT  ChACLES   1,   IN  HIS  GRANT  OF  THE  MARYLAND  CHARTER  TO 

Cecilius  Calvert,  stated  that  he  wished  to  distinguish  Maryland 

ABOVE  all   other  REGIONS   IN  AMERICA,   AND  THAT  GENTLEMEN  OF  GOOD 
CONDITION  WHO  WERE  AF.  OUT  TO  SETTLE  THERE   SHOULD  NOT  BE  DEPRIVED 
OF  THE   PPIVILEGES  AND  DISTINCTIONS  ENJOYED  BY  THEM   IN  EfJGLArjO,   HE 

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GRANTED     THE     /ROPRlETARY      THE     RIGHT      TO     GRANT     MANORS     LIKE     UNTO     THOSE 

IN  England,  and  to  create  titles,  etc.  which  they  could  enjoy,  and 

THUS     PERPETUATE      IN      THE      NEW     VyORLD     THE     LIFE      OF      THE      OLD. 

In     OTHER     WORDS      THE     StUART     KiNG     CREATED     BY     CHARTER      A     COrJSTITU" 

tional  monarchy  in  maryland  endowed  with  delegated  royal  form  and 
power  and  the  machinery  of  the  palace  court,  the  house'iof  parlia- 
ment called  the  council  or  upper  house,  amd  the  assembly  or  lower 
House:  the  Provincial  Court,  the  Admiralty  Court:  the  Chancery 
Court  and  Chancellor,  a  Provincial  Secretary,  an  Attorney  General 
and  other  high  fufjction  aries  of  the  central  government,  a  high 
Sheriff  for  each  County,  Judges  of  the  quorum  and  Justices  for  the 

COUNTIES,   etc.,   thus  TRANSPLANTING  ENGLISH  LIFE  FROM  THE   PALACE 
DOWN  TO  THE   PEPPERY  ENGLISH  COUNTY   JUSTICE* 

All   THE  DIGtJITARIES  FROM  THE  HIGHEST  TO  THE  LOWEST  DISCHARGED 
THEIR  OFFICIAL   DUTIES  ARRAYED   IN  THE   IMPRESSIVE  REGALIA  CUSTOMARY 

IN  England,  and  v/hen  off  duty  they  donned  the  prevalent  fashion 
OF  English  gentlemen.   There  were  also  the  military  and  naval  arms 
OF  government,  properly  officered.   Therefore  it  may  well  be  imag- 
omed  t-jat  the  little  Court  at  St.  Maries,  and  later  at  Annapolis, 
aped  right  bravely  the  greaier  Court  of  London. 

Lest  it  be  imagined  that  men  or  mean  origin  often  filled'the 
positions  of  honor  and  trust  in  the  Palatinate  Government,  it  is 
well  to  state  thai  \\\    no  land  under  iHE  sun  WAS  good  birth  and 
character  more  insisted  upon  during  the  Colonial  period  in  official 

AND  social  life  THAN   IN  MARYLAND.    ThE   SPLENDID  ORIGINAL  RECORDS  OF 

THE  State  bear  overwhelming  testimony  to  the  truth  of  this  state- 
ment.  Thus  the  official  and  social  life  of  the  Palatinate  took 
the  color  and  form  prescribed  in  the  Royal  Charter  which  maintained 


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an  essentially  english  aristocracy  based  upon  the  land,  with 
Lords  of  Manors  extrcising  the  same  rights  as  those  in  England 
from  163^  to  the  revolution,  v/hen  sovereignty  passed  from  the 
individual,  by  a  fiction,  to  the  (^eople,  but  v;hich  has  really 

VESTED  RATHER   IN  THE   GROUPS  AND  COTORIES  OF  SELF-SELECTEO  MEN  WHO 

DIRECT  THE  CHOICE  OF   THE  ELECTORATE. 
THE 

Thf  men  of/F'ord,  Foapd  Ario  de  Foarde  name  in  Maryland  all 

CAME  FROM  GREAT  BRITAIN.    ThERE  WERE  MANY  OF   THEM.    ThEY  SETTLED   IN 
TEN  Oi       i  HE  OLDEST  COUNTIES  Oil  L  /  N  t)  S  GRANTED  THEM  BY   THE  PROPRIETARY, 
OR  ON  LANDS  THEY  PURCHASED  OR  LEASED,   THAT  WERE  ALREADY  UNDER  CULTI- 
VATION.  There  is  a  family  of  the  De  Foardes  that,  traditionally  is 
OF  Huguenot  origin  coming  into  Maryland  via  England.   This  family 
was  settled  ll^l  Baltimore  County  early  in  the  eighteenth  century, 

the  main  branch  adhering  to  HARfORD  COUtlTY  AFTER   TI'.AT  COUNTY  WAS 

CUT    FROM   Baltimore    county     in    the    year     177^'-       Ti'ere    are     iNOicATiotJS 

that  this  family   is  allied  by  ANCIENT  BLOOD  TO  ONE   OF   THE  OLD  FoRD 
FAMILIES  OF  CeCIL   COUNTY,   AND  ALSO  TO  THE  ANCESTORS  OF  PROFESSOR 

Henry  Jones  Ford  in  Harford  County,  the  chief  iti diction  of  alliance 

WITH  the  latter  BEING  THE  STRIKING  SIMILARITY  OF  rjAMES   11^  HaRFORD 

after  IICO,      of  the  Fo']^D'S  (as  THE  NAME   IS  NOW  SPELLEd)   TO  THE 

GRANDSON  AND  GREAT   GRANDSONS   OF  JOHN  FORO   OF   THE   SAME   COUNTY.    HOW" 

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EVER,   Slf^CE   THIS  COLILD  VERY  \v(ELL   HAVE   HAPPENED  THROUGH   If.' FLU" 

ENCE  OF   INTERMARRIAGE  AND  HOI     BY  BLOOD  DESCEfJl,   AND  AS  THERE   IS 

NOW  NO  RECORDED  PROOF  OF  THE  LATTE.f,  WE  ENTER   THE  SCOTCH  VERDICT 

"not   proven",   AND  PASS  ON  TO  THE  CONSIDERATION  OF  JoHN  FoRD  OF 

Baltimore  and  Harford  counties. 

This  g  e  n  t  l  e  h  a  rj  has  no  traceable  parentage  in  B  a  l  i  i  m  o  r  e  county; 
nor  in  the  old  sister  counties  of  Southern  Maryland  so  far  as  a 


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MORE   THAN  CURSORY  (bUT  NOT  EXHAUSTIVE)  RESEARCH   IN  SOUTHERN 

Maryland  reveals. 

The  TRADITIONS  or  this  family  point  to  Harford  and  Cecil 

COUNTIES  AND  MAY  AS  WELL  ALSO  CONNECT  WITH  THE  FoRDS  OF  KENT  AND 

Talbot  couruiEs,  since  there  appears  to  exist  tentatively  strong 
indications  of  support  in  that  direction.   but  as  the  scope  of  the 
present  researcfl  does  not  fully  cover  work  in  those  counties,  they 
are  passed  uk  for  the  time  being,  and  held  in  reserve  for  another 
trial  in  the  future. 

John  Ford,  the  first  proven  ancestor  of  the  family  of  this 

MEMOIR   IS   IDENTIFIED   IN  THE  St.JoHNS  AND  St.  GEORGE -'PARISH 

Register  of  Baltimore  and  Harford  counties,  page  355  '^  '^^^    follow- 
ing MARRIAGE  ENTRY  EVIDEtJTLY  MISDATED  BY  A  YEAR. 

"June  2,1755-~Then  was  married  John  Ford  and  Sarah  Murphy". 
Following  this  record  on  the  same  page  was  the  record  of  two  of  their 
c  h  I  L  f)  R  E  IJ  ,  V  I  z  :  - 

Benjamin  Foro,  born  November  i6th  ,  1755- "'^'^'^ ''^ '  ^  s(  Dorcas  ) 
Ford,  born  M». rch  3^,  1757"' 

The  above  entries  were  made  g-n-— masses,  and  not  contemporaneously 
BY  THE  Register  of  the  parish  which  accounts  for  the  errors  in  these 
dates  and  many  other  FN  tries  in  the  Register,   The  marriage  should 
have  been  entered  175^*-   Mistakes  were  also  made  by  the  person  who 
separated  ti!E  St.  Georges  records  from  the  St  .Johns  records  ,  which 

WERE  recorded  TOGETHER  UNTIL   SOME  TIME  AFTER  THE  YEAR  ^']hk,      THERE- 
AFTER St.  Johns  being  in  Baltimore  county  and  St.  Georges  in  Harford, 

copies  of  this  WORK  HAVING  BEEfJ  MADE  AND  PRESERVED  BY  THE  MARYLAND 

Historical    Society.      Such    i^istakes    not    infrequently    occur     in    parish 

registers    amd    have    to    be    coivrected    by    some    other    public    record    or 

authentic      FA  I-;ILY     record. 


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On     page     379     Of"      IHf^      SAME      PARISH     REGISTER     WE      FIND      THE      BIRTHS     OF 
TWO     MOiRE      CHILDPiEi;     Of     JOHN     FoRD     AND     SaRAH     (  Mu  R  P  H  Y  )     FORD,      HIS     WIFE,      ViZ 

David  Ford,  born  November  1,  1759;  and  Rachel  Ford,  born 

March  Id,  lo-fS .   If  Jchn  Ford  had  other  children  they  are 

not  identified  in  the  parish  registers  or  other  public  records. 

So  far  as  the  public  records  disclose  John  Ford  was  not  a 

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large  LANt   Ov.NEP;   CUT  HE  LIVED  ON  LANd/sEEMS  TO  HAVE  EMPLOYED 
HIS  ACTIVITIES   IN  THE  MILLING  BUSINESS  WHICH  APPEARS  TO  HAVE  AFFORDED 
HIM  A  COMFORIABEL  LIVING  AND  PROVIDED  SOMETHING  FOR  HIS  HEIRS  AFTER 
HISDE CEASE. 

In  this  COrJNCETION   it   is  pertinent  TO  STATE   THAT  ClORGE  FoRP 

OF  Cecil  County,  a  prominent  miller  and  land  owner,  purchased  land 
in  Marford  county  in  17^7  Of"  Henry  Stump  called  "Eyetrap".   Ford 

SOLD  this  land   in   1797    through  power   of  attorney   GIVEN  BY  HIM  TO 

Daniel  Andersoi;  of  Harford  County.   (Harford  County  Land  Records, 
Liber,  J.  L.  G.  No.  h'.    f/ZQ].).       It  may  be  esteemed  significant 
of  (.  onnection  between  the  Ford:,  of  Cecil  and  Harford  counties  that 
Benjamin  Foro,  son  of  John  Ford,  married  a  daughter  of  Daniel 
Anderson  who  acted  as  attorney  for  George  Ford  in  the  above  realty 
transaction,  both  John  Ford  and  his  son  Benjamin  being  deceased 
previous  to  1797-   Indeed  the  Fords  were  very  partial  to  milling 
and  flour  enterprises.   Joseph  Ford,  the  o;ily  son  of  Benjamin,  son 
OF  JoHfj  OF  Harford  County,  and  several  of  his  DEscEriOAfjTS  were  thus 
engaged  in  N;  a  r  V I  A  r,  0  and  V  i  r  g  i  ;;  i  a  ,  as  will  appear  further  along  in 

THIS  riEHO  I  R  . 

John  Ford  died  intestate  in  the  year  I'J^-k,    his  only  living 
son  David  Ford,  auministlring  on  the  estate.   Very  meagre  admini- 
stration accounts  are  preserved  in  the  Testamentary  records  of 
[Urford  County  during  the  first  twenty-five  years  of  her  history. 


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The  only  record  to  be  founu  is  the  followimg:   Feb.  12,  ]'j8k- 

JOHN     FORO,      DECEASED,      Da V  I  D     FoRD     ADMINISTRATOR.         ACCOMPANYING     THIS 

was  the  rirst  i:jventory  of  the  personalty  amounting  to  l  87.3.6. 
(HarfoFxD  County  Adm.  Accts.  key  to  administrations.  Liber  1,  f.11) 
Feb.  1.<f,  '.']8h-Df'\/  I  '.I    Forc  gives  bond  in  the  sum  of  L5OO  as 

administrator  of  "iHE  ESIATE  OF  JoHN  FoRD,   LATE   OF,  HaRFORO  CoUNTY, 

deceased.   Reuben  HuTTorj  and  Johtj  Roberts  vyERE  his  sureties.  (Har- 
ford COUNTY  AOtl  I  in  STR  AT  1  OM  BONDS-177^  TO  1  79  ^  j  FOLIO  2fi  1  )  .    ThE 
size  of  the  bond  SHOWS  THE   EXISTENCE  OF  A  MUCH  LARGER   PERSONAL 
ESTATE  "I  HAN   INDICATED   i:^  THE  FIRST   INVENTORY. 

In  EXPLANATION  OF  THE  LAX  ADMINISTRATION  OF  THE  BUSINESS   IN 

THE  Harford  county  Register  of  Wills  office  it  is  only  necessary 
TO  state  that  an  Act  was  passed  by  the  Maryland  Assembly  to  cure 
some  of  the  radical  troubles  in  that  office  in  the  year  1800. 
UrjDER  THIS  Act  some  office  mistakes  in  the  adhi  nisi  rations  of 
John  Ford,  and  his  sons  Benjamin  Ford  and  David  Ford,  the  latter 
dying  in  the  year  i802,  were  cured  as  shown  by  RECORDS  lu    that 
office.  (Libfr  a.  J,  No.  A.  General  Entries,  Harford  coundy  Adm. 
Ace  Ts  .  page  lO'l  )  . 

Benjamin  F'oro,  eldest  son  of  John  Ford  and  Sarah  (Murphy) 
Ford  his  wife,  was  born  in  Baltimore  County  November  i6,  1755* 
(St.  Johns  and  St.  Georges  Parish  Register  for  Baltimore  and  Har- 
ford COUNTIES,   PAGF  355)-   V.'HEN  HE  GREW  TO  MANHOOD  HE  MADE  HIS 
HOME   IN  SpESUTIA  HUNDRED,   IN  HIS  NATIVE  COUNTY.    HE  HARRIED  ACCORD- 
ING TO  THE  Ford  Family  Records  in  possession  of  Professor  Henry 
Jones  Ford  of  i^rince":on  University,  about  the  year  1780/81,  Mary 
Anderson  the  daughter  of  Daniel  Anderson  and  Sarah  Anderson,  his 
V/iFE.   The  Andersons  lived  in  the  adjoining   Hundred  of  Susquehannah 
where  Daniel  Anderson  cultivated  his  land  and  also  engaged  in  a 


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LUCRATIVE  WEAVING   INDUSTRY.    ThE  FoRD  FAMILY  RECORDS  STATE   THAT 

Mary  Anderson  was  born  July  3>  ^759-   This  agrees  with  the  record 

OF  MER   IN  THE  CENSUS  OF  SuSQUE HANNAH  HuNlRLD  TAKEN  BY  THE  HaRFORD 
COUNTY  AUTHORITIES   IN   1777  WHERE  HER  AGE   IS  STATED  AT   l8  YEARS. 

(HS  Cinsus  Of  Harford  Bounty  at  Md.Hist.  Soc  ,  ) 

There  is  a  tradition  in  the  Foro  family  that  this  ancestor, 
Benjamin  Ford,  had  a  brother  Edward  Ford,  who  lived  in  Cecil  county, 
but  there  is  nothing  It;  the  Harford  county  records  to  show  the 
birth  of  this  Edward.   It  may  be  that  the'tradition  refers  to  John 
Ford,  fathir  of  Penjamini  as  having  a  dfotmer  Edward  in  Cecil  county. 
This  would  not  be  surprising  if  found  to  be  true  for  we  have  records 
referring  to  Fords  south  of  the  SusQUEHA^JNAH  river  bearing  the  given 
names  of  Edward,  John,  George,  Joseph,  etc.  which  the  last  two, 

ARE  REPEATED   IN  THE  SpeCuTIA  CenSUS  OF   1777  '^  HaRFORD  COUNTY.    ThE 

./o  T  H  E 

Edward  Ford  referred  to  h->  said  by/tradition  to  have  been  a 
member  of  the  assembly  of  maryland. 

Soorj     AFTEK      HIS     MAtJRIAGE     BENJAMIN     FoRD     AND     HIS     BRIDE     REMOVED 

TO  Pennsylvania  and  settled  in  or  near  the  territory  now  occupied 

BY  THE  CITY  OF  PITTSBURGH,  WHERE   THEIR  ONLY  CHILD,   JoSEPH  FoRD, 

WAS  BORN  July  8,  1782,  according  to  the  Ford  Family  Records. 
While  Joseph  Ford  was  yet  a  young  child  his  father  died  and  was 
BURIED  IN  Pennsylvania.   His  widow  afterwards  returned  to  Harford 
county  with  her  ROY.   The  exact  year  of  her  return  is  not  clear. 
She  probably  tarried  long  enough  in  Pennsylvania  to  settle  the 
affair;,  of  her  husband  before  u:jdertaking  the  (at  that  period) 
long,  toilsome  and  hazardous  journey  to  Maryland.   At  any  rate  she 
was  in  Harford  county  in  the  later  seventeen  eighties  trying  to 
steer  her  administration  or  her  dead  husband's  Maryland  estate 
trough  thetangle  or  the  Register  of  V.'ills  office,  succeeding  in 

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AMOUNTING  TO  NEARLY  L   100.    Th  I  S   IS  ABOUT  T  H  C  E  X  T  E  N  ET  OF  WHAT  CAN 
BE  FOUND  TOUCHING  HER  ADMINISTRATION.   (HaRFORD  CouMTY  AD'M.  ACCTS. 

Key  to  Administrations,  Liber  ts,    F.    21.)   The  widow  of  Benjamin 
fordnevermarriedagain. 

Then  the  spirit  of  rebellion  against  Great  Britain  was  abroad 

IN  THE  land;  when  OFFICIALS  AND  ToRIES  WERE   SHOUTING  TREASON,   A  WORD 
SO  SIGNIFICANT  OF  DEATH  AT  THAT  PERIOD,    BENJAMIN  FoRD  HEARKENED  TO 
THE   CALL   OF  KREEDOfl  AND  PROMPTLY  ENLISTED   IN  THE  HaRFORD  COUNTY 

Militia.   He  was  enrolled  October  3^>  1775>  •^s  a  prj-vate  in  Captain 
Greenbury  Docsey's  company  N o,v b44-y-?=R  8,  Harford  county  Militia. (see 
Preston's  History  of  Harford  county,  page  II5,  accepted  as  authentic.) 

For  the  remainder  of  the  births,  marriages  and  deaths  in  the 
Ford  Family  we  have  ti;e  authority  of  very  clear,  positive  and  most 
satisfactory  Family  Records.   They  are  sufficient  to  continue  to 
date  a  complete  chain  of  descent  from  John  Ford  to  the  present  gen- 
eration or  Professor  Henry  Jones  Ford's  line.   Therefore,  when  we 

SEE  FIT   to  reinforce   THE  COflPLETE  EVIDENCE  OF   THESE  RECORDS  BY  DATA 

glearjed  from  the  public  records  it  is  oi-jly  done  to  furnish  future 
generations  './ho  may  be  interested  with  continuous  proofs  drawn 
from  public  repositories  that  will  be  acceptable  to  the  historian 
hundreds  of  years  hence. 

Joseph  Ford,  son  of  Benjamin  Ford  and  Mary  (Anderson)  Ford, 
HIS  wife,  was  born  irj  Pennsylvania  on  or  near  the  site  of  Pittsburgh. 
July  8,  1782.   His  father  dying  while  he  was  of  tender  age  his 
Mother  brought  him  to  the  old  home  in  Harford  county,  Maryland, 
where  he  was  reared  and  educated.   The  Ford  Family  Records  state 
that  he  was  marri-ed  to  Sarah  Cole,  daughter  of  James  Cole  aud 
Sophia  his  \i  [  f  l    of  Harford  county,  Jamuary  ?.C,     18O-I.   We  find  this 
record  supported  by  the  rubLic  records  of  that  county. 


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FOR  ON  January  2'^,  iQok,    Joscph  Ford  took  out  license  to  marry 
Sarah  Coale  (HARfORO  County,  Mo.,  Marriage  License  Liber.  W.S.G. 
No/  1  F,  3M-   Sarah  (Coale)  Ford  his  wife,  according  to  the 
family  records,  was  born  Sept.  2-y-,  187I 

Joseph  Ford  lived  on  land  as  nearly  all  gentlemen  in  the 
counties  of  Maryland  did  during  this  period,  and  also  engaged  in 

the  milling  business   in  f-lARFORD  CoUNTY  WHERE  ALL   OF  HIS  TEN  CHILDREN 
WERE  BORN.    HE  REMOVED   IN  HIS  MIDDLE  LIFE   TO  THE  ValLEY  OF  VIRGINIA 
AND  SETTLED  NEAR  WINCHESTER  WHERE   HE  ENGAGED   IN  THE  OCCUPATIONS  HE 
HAD  PURSUEiJ   IN  MaRYLvND  UN  Til   HIS  DEATH   IN  MARCH   l86l,   AT   THE 
RIPE  AGE  OF  79  YEARS,   HIS  WIFE  DYING   IN  OCTOBER  OF  THE  SAME  YEAR 
HAVING  ATlAINED  THE  AGE  OF  CO  YEARS.    ThEY  WERE   BURIED   IN  THE 

Winchester  ceme  TAf  y  . 

Joseph  Ford  and  Sarah  (Cole)  Ford,  according  to  the  Ford 
Family  Record;.,  had  ihe  f  ol  l  c./ i  r,  g  children  born  u  n  i  0  them,  viz: 

(1)  Benjamin  Ford,  born  November  25,  l8o4. 

(2)  Mary  Ford,  born  November  2^,  1606. 

(3)  James  Ford,  born  September  i8,  1808. 
{k)   William  Ford,  born  August  15,  iSlO. 

(5)  Elizabeth  Ford,  born  June  28,  l8l3. 

(6)  George  A.  Ford,  born  October  7>  1815 

(7)  Sarah  A.  Ford,  born  FEBfiUARY  l4,  l8l9- 

(8)  John  T.  Fof;D,  born  April  22,  l821. 

(9)  Franklin  Ford,  born  August  23,  1823. 

(10)  A  G  I  P  L  \ '  H  0  DIED   I  N   1  r;  F  A  iJ  C  'i  . 

Joseph  Ford  ano  family  prospered  in  Virginia  obtaining  valu- 
able possessions  as  farmers  and  millers  and  being  recognized  as 
among  the  leading  Citizens  of  the  "Valley".   Some  of  their 


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DESCENDANTS   THERE  ARE   STILL   NUMBERED  AMONG  THE   SUBSTANTIAL   AND 
PROMINENT   GENTLEMEN  OF   THAT  SECTION  OF   THE   "OlD  DoMINIOn".    WHILE 
OTHERS  MOVED  TO  DISTANT  SCENES  AND  ESTABLISHED  THEMSELVES   IN  THE 
WHOLE-SALE  FLOUR  BUSINESS  WITH  SUCCESS.    AmONG  THESE  MAY  BE  MEN- 
TIONED THE  ELDEST  AND  YOUNGEST  SOf^S  OF  JoSEPH  FoRD  AND  SaRAH  (Cole) 

For  dhiswifEjViz: 

Benjan'.in  Ford,  the  first  born  son,  and  Franklin  Ford,  the 
youngest  son  both  of  whom  established  and  maintained  prosperous 
flour  businesses  in  new  york  city,  the  elder  brother  residing  in 
Newark,  N.  J.,  and  the  younger  in  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Frank  LI  rj  Ford,  youngest  sorj  of  Joseph  Ford  and  Sarah  (Cole) 
Ford  his  wife  was  born  August  23rd,  1S23,  in  Harford  County,  Maryland 
While  he  was  still  a  boy  his  father  removed  to  Virginia,  in  which    ^ 
state  young  Ford  was  reared  Ar;D  educated.   He  was  doubtless  initiated 

THERE   into  THE  MILLING  AND  FLOUR  BUSINESS,   IN  WHICH  HIS  FATHER  AND 
UNCLES  WERE  LARGELY  E^J  GAGED,   BUT  HE  APPEARS  NOT  TO  HAVE  FORGOTTEN 
HIS  NATIVE  STATE  OF  MARYLAND  AND  HER  DAUGHTET^S,   FOR   IN  THE  YEAR   I85O 
HE  WOOED  AND  WON  HIS  WIFE   IN  BALTIMORE.    In  THE  BALTIMORE  COUNTY 

Marriage  Licences  Book  1 846-1 85 1  -  not  paged  -  Superior  Court  Clerk's 
Office  in  Baltimore  City,  we  find  that  Franklin  Ford  took  out  a  li- 
cense TO  MARRY  ANflE  E.  JoNES,  NOVEMBER   13tH,   I85O.    ThE  OFFICIATING 
CLERGYMAN  W/vS  STATED  TO  BE  REV.  f>^CjlLTON.    In  THE  FoRD  FAMILY 

Records  the  following:  "Franklin  Ford  and  Anne  E.  Jones  were  married 
I^TH  November  iS^O,  by  Rev.  Daniel  McJilto.n  at  201  Lexington  Street, 
Baltimore".  Another  item  in  the  Ford  Records  states  the  birth  of 
THE  bride  as  follows:  "Anne  E.  Jones'  was  born  in  Baltimore  July  12, 
1829".  These  dates  are  identical  with  those  in  the  old  Jones  Family 
Bible  in  possession  of  Professor  Henry  Jones  Ford. 

Anne  E.  Joi^es,  according  to  the  same  pecqrds,  was  the  daughter 


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FOR  HER  ancestry.) 

As  ABOVE  STATED  Fr^NKLIN  FoRD  ESTABLISHED  A   PROSPEROUS  WHOLE- 
SALE FLOUR  BUSINESS   IN  NEW  YoRK  CiTY,  WHERE  WITH  A  PARTNER,   HE  CON- 
DUCTED BU  SI  MESS  UNOER   iHE  FIRM  NAME  OF  ClARKSON  AND  FoRD  FOR  YEARS. 

His  place  of  business  was  on  Front  Street,  New  York  City,  and  his 
LAST  residence  '^2  \    State  Street,  Brooklyn,  where  he  died  September 
9,  1859-   His  widow  Mrs.  Ann::  £..  (Jones)  Ford,  died  in  Brooklyn,  New 
York  on  Af>RiL;  ^879  • 

Fralki in  Ford  ano  Anne  E.  (Jones)  Ford,  his  wife,  had  born  unto 
them  the  following  children,  viz:   Henry  Jones  Ford,  born  in  Balti- 
more August  2^th,  1851. 

Robert  Hatfield  Ford,  born  at-  2^1  Bridge  Street,  Brooklyn, 
New  York,  December  '(^h,     i853- 

An  ME  Virginia  Ford  v'a;>  born  June  I^th,  '^(^^G,    at  2^1  Bridge  Street, 
Brooklyn,  New  York. 

Franklin  Ford,  Junior  was  born  December  29th,  1858:  died  at 
2^1  Lexington  Street,  Baltimore,  Md .  July  2,  iSoO. 

Henry  Jones  Ford,  eldest  son  of  Franklin  Ford  and  ArjNE  E.  (Jones) 

Ford,  his  wife,  married  Bertha  Batory,  February  18tii,  1875-   They 

were  married  by  the  Rev.  Alexander  E.  Gibson  at  the  parsonage  of 

THE  Fayette  Street  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Baltimore,  Maryland. 

The  official  public  record  of  this  marriage  follows:   February  i8th, 

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1875,  Henry  Ford  took  out  license  to  marry  Bertha  Batory  of  Howard 

CoufjTv,  Maryland.   The  Rev.  Alexander  E.  Gibson,  the  officiating 

clergyman,  made  the  return  to  the  office.  (Folio  1^13  'fJ  no-5  Return 

Book,  Baltimore  City  Marriage  Licenses  at  the  Office  of  the  Clerk  of 

the  Court  of  Common  Pleas.)   At  thf  time  of  his  marriage,  Mr.  Ford 

was  living  in  Chicago,  and  is  described  as  of  that  city  in  the  record. 


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(This  page  compiled  by  Mrs.  Thorvald  Nin  to  bring  it  up  to  daie) 


Henry  Jones  Ford   -   Bertha  Batory 


Franklin  p.  a  t  o  r  y  Ford      Bertha  Dorothy  Ford  -  M  Thomas  Hildt  Henry  Grim  Ford 
(died  Tn  i"  n  f  a  n  c  i  )  (died  in  childh 

Luc  I  L/E 
John  Howard  Ford  M  Rebie  Moorhead   Albert  Jones  Ford  -  M  Elizabet  h/P a  y  n  t  e  r 

( NO      issue) 


Frankliu    Ford    -    M    1.    Edna    F-v'oTHvyELL 

2.    ['Catherine    Skilling 

Albert    JotJES    Ford   M   Elizabeth    Lucile    Paynter 


Albert    JotJES    Ford    -    Elizabeth    Luciie    Paynter 


K  A  t  H  E  R  I  ti  r    Virginia    Ford    -    M    Thorvald    Nin 
B    7/16/16         i 

Katherine    Elizabeth    Nin    -   M   Gregory    J      Coar 
B    3/19/^19      : 

KRiSTirj    Isabel    Coar 
B    7/1S/72 

Lucy    Jane    Ford    -    lA   Ferdinand    Schoettle 
B       1 0/6/  1 7       ~ 

LuciL):E    Ford    Schoettle 

Elizabeth    Anne    Ford    M    1.    John    Von    Stein 

B  2/13/20  : 

John  von  Stein-who  was  adopted  by  his 

STEP- eat  HER      AND      I   5      NOV/      KNOWN     AS     vJ  0  H  N     RfDICK 


M  2  .  Rober  t  Re  d I c  k 

Charles  Ford  Re  dick 
& 

E  L  I  2  /■  Ei  E  1  H     R  E  D  I  C  h 


Bertha    Dorothy    Ford    M   Thomas    Hildt 
(Dolly)  : 


Margaret    Hildt 


ThomasHildt  John    Hildt 


Franklin    Ford    -    M    Edna    Rothweli     (1)  M    Kath'"bine    S killing    (2) 


Virginia    For  d 


Franklin    Ford,Jr 
He(jry    Jones    Ford 


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THE  FORD  FAMILY. 

It  is  a  family  tradition  that  the  Fords  came  originally  from 
England  and  settled  iii  Si.  Mary's  County,  Maryland.   A  branch  of 
the  family  crossed  over  to  the  Eastern  Shore  and  its  descendents 
moved  northwafvd  as  settles'.:  nt  advanced  and  everitually  became  lo- 
CATED AT   THE   HEAD  Of  ChL^^APE/^KE  3  AY  V/HERE   LATER  CeCIL   AMD  HaRFORD 
COUNTIES  WERE  LAID  OUT.    ThEY  WERE  LAND  OWNERS  AND  AS  FAR  BACK  AS 
THEY  CAN  BE   TRACED   THEY   OWNED  AND  OPERATED  FLOUR   MILLS.    ThIS 
PREDILECTION   II-  SO  ^•W\  R  K  E  D  AS   TO   I  r>  D  I  C  A  T  E   T  f(  A  1   N;  I  L  L  I  rj  G  MUST   HAVE 
BEENAFAMILYCRAFT. 

The  OLDEST  ancestor  of  whom  THERE   IS  DEFINITE  RECORD   IS 

John  Ford  of  St.  George's  parish,  Harford  county.   He  was  married 
June  2,  175^  ^  f^"^  died  Feb.  12,  1 78^ .   One  of  his  sons,  Benjamin, 

was  born  NOVEIIBEP   16,   ^755*   DATE   OF   DEATH  UNKNOWN,   BUT   THE   AD- 
MINISTRATION OF   HIS   ESTATE  WAS  CLOSED   IN   1789-    HiS   ONLY   SON, 

Joseph,  was  born  July  8,  1782,  m/rried  January  26,  180H,  died  in 
March  1S6I. 

In  n:  iddll  life  Joseph  Ford  removed  from  Harford  county,  Md. 
TO  THE  Valley  of  Virginia,  near  V/in:;hester,  with  sufficient  means 
to  acquire  extensive  land  holdings  and  with  his  sons  built  several 

FLOUR   MILLS.    HE   HAD   TEN  CHILD REN,   OF  WHOM   THE   FOURTH  WAS  WiLLIAM, 

BORN  August  15,  l8lO,  thf  father  of  Charles  A   Ford,  the  father  of 
Ruth  Fohd  and  oiheus. 

The  DESCENDENTS  OF  JoSEPH  FoRD  ARE  ELIGIBLE   THROUGH  THE 

Preston  ancestry  to  the  following: 
The  Society  of  Colonial  Wars. 
The  Society  of  Colonial  Dames  of  America 

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Joseph  Ford's  mother  was  the  grand-daughter  or  Grace  Preston, 

WHO  WAS   THE   GRAND-DAUGHTER   OF  ThOMAS  PRESTON,   WHO  CAME   TO  MARYLAND 

FROM    England    in    i668.      Lord    Baltimore's    rent    roll     in   Baltimore 

COUNTY  SHOWS  EIGHT  TRACTS  OF  LAND  PATENTED  TO  ThoMAS  PRESTON,  WHO 

IN  ADDITION  ACQUIRED  FIVE  ADDITIONAL   PARCELS.    ThE  MARYLAND  ASSEMBLY 

Proceedings  of  November  1676  record  that  he  was  paid  69  pounds  of 
tobacco  for  certain  expenses  incurred  in  an  expedition  against  the 
T/aticoke  Indians.   He  died  in  lyiO  and  his  will  distributed  a 

LARGE  ESTATE.    A  SON,   JamES  PrESTON,   DIRECT  ANCESTOR  OF  JOSEPH 

Ford  on  his  mother's  side,  was  a  member  of  the  Maryland  Assembly 
IN  171  1  . 

The  descen dents  of  Joseph  Ford  are  eligible  to  the  following 

societies  on  account  of  the  services  of  Benjamin  Ford,  Daniel 

ANDERS0NAf;DjAtlEsC0LE. 

Sorjs  of  the  American  Revolution 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution 

Benjamin  Ford,  father  of  Joseph,  enlisted  in  Captain  Green- 
bury  Dorsey's  company  of  Harford  county  militia,  October  3^j  ^775- 

Daniel  Anderson,  born  December  Zk,     1728,  joined  a  company  of 
Harford  county  militia,  commanded  by  his  brother,  Captain  Charles 
Anderson.   Daniel  Anderson's  daughter,  Mary,  became  the  wife  of 
Beiij/, MiN  Ford,  father  of  Joseph  Ford. 

James  Cole,  born  July  29,  175^j  was  enrolled  in  Captain 
Anderson's  company  September  23,  ^775-   James  Cole's  daughter, 
Sarah,  became  the  wife  of  Joseph  Ford,  the  sou  of  Benjamin  Ford. 

The  accompanying  chart  shows  the  family  connection  between 
the  Presto ns,  Andersons,  Fords  and  Coles. 


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THE  JONES  FAMILY 
Franklin  Ford  marrif-D  Anne  E   Jones  or  Baltimore,  Md  .  ]]-]k-]Q'^0, 

WHOSE      GRANDFATHER     V/ILLIAmJoNES     WAS      BORN      IN     CHARLESTON,      S        C.      OF 

Welsh  descent.   He  vas  a  Captain  or  South  Carolina  troops,  was 
wounded  at  the  Dattle  of  Brandywine,  1776'  ^^^    w-^s  taken  to  the 
house  of  N,rs.  Ellet,  where  he  met  her  niece,  Ann  Wilcox,  whom  he 
later  married.   He  died  Nov.  ?.'( ,     1793  '^  Baltimore  where  he  settled 
after  his  marriage. 

A  son,  Uriah  Jones,  (father  of  Anne  E.  Jones)  carried  on  a  manu- 
facturing business.   He  was  married  on  Nov.  '^0 ,     1813  to  Ann  Mincher, 
daughter  of  John  Mincher,  a  Yorkshire  man  who  settled  in  Baltimore 
County  where  he  was  a  large  landowner.   Uriah  Jones  was  among  those 
who  responded  to  the  call  for  troops  to  repel  the  British  invasion 

IN   l8l'l,   AND  served   IN   THE   COMPANY   OF  CaPTAIN  JaCOB  F)E:CTv£S,   FiFTY" 

first  Regiment  of  Maryland  Militia,  and  took  part  in  the  Battle  of 
North  Point,  Sept.  12  and  13,  l8l4,  serving  as  a  private  in  the 
Company  of  Captain  Jacob  Deems,  defenders  of  Baltimore. 

Joseph  Ford  who  married  Sarah  Cole  Jan.  26,  l8o^l,  had  ten  chil- 
dren, SIX  sons  and  four  daughters,  all  born  in  Harford  County.   The 
family  removed  to  the  Valley  of  Virginia  in  the  neighborhood  of 

VyiRGHESTER.         ThEY      MUST      HAVE      HAD     CONSIDERABLE      MEANS     FOR      THE      OLDER      BOYS 

all  obtained  large  farms,  and  they  built  and  operated  flour  mills. 
Franklin  Ford  (born  Aug.  23,  1823)  v/as  the  ninth  child.   After  he 

GOT   his   scholarship  HIS   PEOPLE   SENT   HIM  TO  BALTIMORE   TO  FIT   HIM  FOR 

A  BUSir-lESS  CAREER.    HE  WAS  A   CLERK   TO  AUGUSTUS  WEBB,   A   DEALER   IN   FLOUR, 

UNTIL   HE  WAS  REAtiY   TO  START  BUSINESS  FOR  HlflSELF.    HE  WAS  MARRIED  TO 

Anne    E      Jones,    Nov.     iH,     185O,    by    the    Rev.    Daniel    McJilton    (ts^s  )    a 

COUSIN  of   THE  BRIDE.    ThEIR  OLDEST  SON,  HenRY  JoNES  FoRD,  WAS  BORN 

Aug.    2^;     iS^l-       Shortiy    thereafter    FRASKL-tN    Ford    removed    to    Nev/    York 

AND  formed  a   COPARTNERSHIP  WHICH  CARRIED  ON  A  WHOLESALE   FLOUR   BUSINESS 

d  J-  /4  /■:;  K-;  S ,-  ;v 
UNDER   THE   FIRM  NAME   OF  GtT^E  «-3-0£UJ  AND  FoRD.    HiS  LAST   PLACE   OF   RES|- 


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T  HOM  A  s  Cole  -  E"  i,  i  2  a  b  e  t  h 


Len-orah  CoiE 


James  Cole 


Jane  Pol  oke 


Comfort  Cole 


Jane  Cole   Ephraim  Cole  James  Cole  -   Sophia 


Thomas  Cole 
E2EKIAL  Cole 


jQMf!  C^LE 


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Joseph  Ford 


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Benjamin  Ford     Mary  T'ord 
Elizabeth  Ford    George  Ford 


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Sara   A .  Ford    John  T   Ford 


A    Daughter    who    died    iij    infancy and 

c, 

FRAtiKLitJ   Ford    -   Anne    Jones 


Henry    Jones    Ford    -   Bertha    Batory      Robert    Hatfield    Ford 


A  N  ^^  E    Virginia    Ford 
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Franklin    Batory    Ford  Bertha    Dorothy    Ford  Henry    Crin-Ford 


John    Hg\/ard    Ford 


Albert  Jor.'Es  Ford 


Franklin  Ford 


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the:  cole  family 

Baltimore  County,  Maryland,  is  rich  in  tine  families  dcgcended 
from  worihy  fop  bears  who  settled  in  this  favored  country  early  in 
THE  Colonial  period.   Of  these  the  name  of  Cole,  Coal  or  Coale,  as 

IT   is  variously   spelled,   has  been  PROMINENT  SINCE   THE  LAST  QUARTER 
OF   THE  SEVEN'TCENTH  CENTURY.    SoME  OF   THEM  WERE  QUAKERS  WHO  CAME   INTO 


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THE   COUNTRY   FROM  AnNE  ArUNDEl   COUNTY,   WHILE  "IT  HERS  ADHERED   TO   THE 

Church  of  England.   In  the  third  generation  those  who  bore  the  name 
IN  the  county  were  many.   It  was  a  period  or  large  families  and  boys 

WERE  numerous   IN  THE  BIRTH  RECORDS.    Il  WAS  ALSO  A  PERIOD  WHEN  OLD 
BACHELORS  WERE   TABOO,   AS  THEY  ALWAYS  ARE  AND  OUGHT  TO  BE   IN  A  I-IEW 
COUNTRY   THAT  NEEDS  SETTLERS.    HErKE   THE  BOYS  MARRIED  AT  EIGHTEEN  YEARS 
OLD  AND  UPWARDS,   THEIR  BRIDES  RANGING   IN  AGE  FROM  FIFTEEN  YEARS  UP- 
WARDS.   A  MAN  WAS  A  SEASONED  AND  MUCH  DECRIED  OLD  BACHELOR  AT  TWENTY- 
FIVE,   WHILE  A  BLOOMING  MAIDEN  OF   TWENTY   YEARS  WAS  LOOKED  UPON  AS  AL- 
MOST A  CONFIRMED  SPINSTER.    ThE  MEN  OF   THE  NAME  OF  CoLE  OBEYED  THE 

customs  of  their  day  married  early  and  like  the  good  fellows  that 
they  were  raised  many  children,  male  and  female,  who  in  their  turn 
followed  the  rule  and  gallantly  helped  the  good  work  of  peopling 
Maryland.   In  time  there  were  so  many  of  "the  name  that  the  public 
records  blcamf.  ch^rged  with  them,  as  it  were,  rendering  the  work  of 
differentiating  them  no  easy  task  for  the  genealogist. 

Thomas  Cole,  the  ancestor  of  the  family  now  under  special  con- 
sideration, WAS  one  of  seven  or  eight  bearing  TflE  NAME  OF  Coi.  E,  CoAL 
OR  CoALE   AND   THE   GIVEN  NAME   OF  ThOMAS,   ALL   LIVING  CONTEMPORANEOUSLY 
IN  BALTIflORE   COUNTY.    AfTER   TRACING   THEM  ALL  WE   FIND   THAT  ThOMAS  CoLE 
DOES  NOT   appear   TO  HAVE   BEEN   THE   SON  OF  AfJY   OF   THE. SEVENTEENTH  CENTURY 

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sETTLEr;s  IN  Baltimore:  county,  Aiid  the  conclusion  is  that  he  was  from 

SOME  OTHER  COUNTY   IN  MARYLAND.    ThE  FIRST  AND  ONLY  RECORD  WE  HAVE 
OF  H\  f.     WHICH,   FORTUNAIEIY,   IS  FINAL   AUTHORITY,  NWY   BE   FOUND   IN  ST. 

Johns  and  St.  Georges  Parish  Register,  Baltimore,  and  Harford  counties 
pp.  8,  ^8  and  278).   In  this  parish  register  we  find  that  Thomas  Cole 
and  Elizabeth,  his  wife,  had  the  following  children  born  unto  them, 
viz:   Leporah  Cole,  born  January  ]],     IflS;    Comfort  Cole,  born  Nov. 
8th,  I72O;  jAiiEs  Cole,  born  T-lcv  .  2Hth,  ]'J2k.       If  he  had  other  child- 
ren THERE   is   no  RECORD  OF  THEIR  BIRTHS   IfJ  A^JY  OF   THE   PARISH  REGISTERS 

or  other  pullic  records  of  baltimore  county. 

James  Cole,  son  of  Thomas  Cole  and  Elizabeth,  his  wife,  enjoyed 

THE   distinction  OF  BEING  THE  ONLY  MAN  OF   THE   NAME  OF  JamES  ColE,  CoAL, 

Coale  in  Baltimore  county  of  his  p'eriod.   He  did  not  inherit  any  land 
in  the  county.   therefore  it  is  concluded  that  his  father  was  not  a 

LAND  HOLDER.    HE  WAS  MARRIED  TO  JanE  PolOKE   IN  HIS  TWENTIETH  YEAR 
AND  HIS  FIRST  CHILD  WAS  BORN   IN  JULY  OF   THE  FOLLOWING  YEAR.    He  WAS 
PROBABLY  ENGAGED   IN  BUSINESS  DURING  HIS  EARLY  MANHOOD  SINCE   THERE   IS 
rJO  RECORD  THAT  HE  BOUGHT  OR  LEASED  LAND  UNTIL   HE  WAS  THIRTY-THREE 
YEARS  OLD.    HiS  FIRST  PURCHASE  WAS  MADE  NoV.  4tH,   1757>  WHEN  HE  AC- 
quired 127  acres  of  land,  the  tract  being  parts  of  two  tracts  called 
"Monreal"  and  "Paradise"  lying  at  the  head  of  Swan  Creek  one  of  the 

AFFLUENTS  OF  BuSH  RIVER.  (LiBER  B  No  G  F.64,  BALTIMORE  COUNTY 

Land    Records.) 

July    21st,     17^7'    '*^    purchased    another    body    of    land    containing 

OVER  200  ACRES  COMPOSED  OF  PARTS  OF  TRACTS  CALLED  "M0NREAl","R0YAL 

Exchange"  and  "Paradise",  Baltimore  Land  Records,  Lib.  B.  No  P 

F.  663). 

In  the  Annapolis  Debt  Books  for  Baltimore  County,  for  177^» 

PAGE  2k,      he  was  charged  WITH  THE   OWNERSHIP  OF  35^  ACRES  OF  LAND. 


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James  Cole  died  in  IfC^ ,    for  on  Sept.  15th  of  that  year,  the 

INVENTORY  OF  THE  PERSONAL  ESTATE  OF  JamES  ColE,  LATE  OF  BALTIMORE 
COUNTY,   DECEASEt,  WAS  FILED  FOR  RECORD  BY  JanE  ColE  AND  JamES  ColE, 

Executors.  The  personalty  amounted  to  E  285-3-5-  Thomas  Gilbert 
AND  William  Arnold  appeared  as  nearest  of  kin.  (Baltimore  county 
inventories,  Lib.  ;.l  ,  f.  Gl  .  j 

In  the  Balances,  Annapolis,  Administration  accounts  Lib.  5, 
F.  261,  the  final  account  of  James  Cole,  Executor  of  James  Cole 
deceased,  \jas  recorded.   The  personalty  had  increased  to  a  t  3^7-^ ^^•52' 

James  Cole  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-eight  leaving  a  large  fam- 
ily OF  children  to  mourn  his  loss.   His  will  follov;s: 

Balto.Co.  V.'ills,  Liber  '^,    r.     I96. 

James  Cole  of  Baltimore  Co. 

Will  dated  May  29th,  177?'*  William  Arnold 

Tests    VVilliam  Judd 
Will  Proved  July  1,  1772^  Benjamin  Harbort. 

De V  I  SED  - 

To  my  son  James  Cole  130  acres  of  land  he  now  lives  on 
purchased  by  me  of  a  certain  Thomas  White  . 

To  MY  son  Ephrain  26  acres  of  the  uppermost  end  of  the 
land  next  to  a  certain  Parker  Gilbert  that  1  will  to  my  son  James 

WHICH  RE  mains  OVER  AND  ABOVE  THE   I3O  ACRES  WITH  THE  kO     ACRES  ALREADY 
DEEDEDTOHIM. 

To  MY  SON  Thomas   100  acres  of  land  p-art  called  "Monr  e  al  " 
(perhaps  Montreal)  afjd  part  "Paradise"  it  being  the  second  hundred 
acres  that  I  purchased  of  the  aforesaid  Thomas  White  in  the  year  175^- 

To  MY  SON  Ezekial  100  acres  part  of  "Monreal"  and  part  of 
"Paradise",  it  being  the  first  hundred  acres  I  purchased  of  Thomas 
White    in  the  year  m'57- 

To  fach  of  MY  daughters,  vi2:  Jane,  Comfort  and  Elizabeth 

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the:  cum  of  b  10  cuRifENr  to  be  paid  them  as  each  shall  come  of  age. 

To  MY  WIFE   THE   THIRD   PART   OF  ANY  WHOLE   ESTATE   AND  WHOM   I 
APPOINT  WITH  MY   SON  JAMES,   EXECUTORS   OF   THIS  MY   LAST  WILL   AND   TESTA- 
MENT. 

Signed 

H  I  5 

Jame  sXCol  e 

MARK 

The  records  of  the  dirtm  and  marriage  of  James  Cole  and  the 

BIRTHS  OF  FIVE  OF  HIS  CHILDREN  ARE   IN  St.  GEORGES  PaRISH  REGISTER, 

Harford  county  (fori'ER;,y  Baltimore  county)  at  the  Maryland  Histori- 
cal Society.   They  follow:   James,  Cole  son  of  Thomas  Cole  and 
Elizabeth,  his  wife  was  born  Nov.  2Hth,  f^^-3    (  p  •  2  7^ )  • 

James  Cole  and  Jane  Poloke  were  married  July  9j  17^S.  (p.360) 
The  births  of  five  of  the  children  of  James  Cole  and  Jane  Poloke, 

his  wife,   are  all   found  on  page  361  OF   THE  ABOVE  SAID  PARISH  REGISTER. 

They  follow: 

Jane  Cole,  born  July  17,  17^*^  • 

James  Cole,  born  July  29,  175^- 

Ephrair  Cole,  born  April  f ,     175^- 

Comfort  Cole,  born  May  k,     175^- 

Elizabeth  Cole,  born  Sept.  2,  '175S' 

Thomas  Cole,  born  1762. 

EzEKiEL  Cole,  born  I766 

The  Harford  county  authorities  had  a  census  taken  in  the  year 

177^  OF   ALL   the   people   IN   THE   COUNTY.    ThE  WORK  WAS   DONE   BY   THE   lO" 
CAL  CONSTABLES  AND  THE  RESULT   IS  ESTEEMED  RELIABLE  BY  HISTORIANS. 

Jane  Cole,  a  widow,  was  enumerated  as  living  in  Susquehannah 
Hundred  and  was  then  ^6    years  old.   She  had  living  in  her  home  the 
following  of  her  children,  viz:  Elizabeth  Cole,  i8  years  old; 


H-G-  Census  I790, 


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Thomas  Cole,  1^  years  old:  Ezekiel  Cole,  10  years  old. 

It;   THE   SAME   CENSUS  WE   FIND  JamES  CoAL   AND   HIS  WIFE,   SoPHIA 

Coal,  with  their  ages  stated  at  25  and  2k    years  respectively  liv'ng 

IN   THE   AFORESAIU  HUNDRED  { SOU      OF  JaMES  AND  JaNE  ColE)   AND  HAVING   IN 
THEIR  HOUSE   THE  F0LL0\/ING  CHILDREN,   Vl^:  JoHN  CoAL,  6  YEARS  OLD, 

James  Coal,  k    years  old:  Amelia  Coal  k    months  old. (Harford  county 
Census  for  If'jG-lAS    at  Md.Hist   Soc.) 

James  Cole,  son  of  James  Cole  and  Jane  Poloke,  his  wif^,  married 
Sophia,  whose  MAioEtj  tjame  has  not  been  ascertained.   He  was  a  farmer 
and  lived  on  his  land  in  Harford  county  until  the  year  179^  when  he 
died  aged  ko   years.   He  died  intestate.   The  account  of  his  personal 
estate  was  Filed  in  the  Register's  Office  for  the  Harford  county 
Sept.  ^ ,     1791-   There  was  not  a  final  account  stated  nor  was  there  a 
distribution  mentioned.   (J'arford  county  Adm.  Accts.,  Key  to  Admin- 
istrations,  LlB.-4r,  F.  2^  .  j 

However,  wl  have  the  names  of  three  of  his  children  from  the 
Harford  county  census  of  177^  ^^^^    ^  ^^    names  and  marriages  of  his 
other  children  from  the  Cole  family  Records  in  possession  of  Professor 
Henry  Jones  Ford  of  Princeton  University.   They  follow,  viz: 


John  Cole,  born  '^I'JO. 
Amelia  Cole,  born  llfo 
Sophia  Col  e 
Elizabeth  Cole 
Avarilla  Cole 
Sar  a  H  Col  E 


James  Cole,  born  1772-  • 

Charles  Dines 

Jarvis  Gilbert. 

Nicholas  Baker. 

Thomas  Everett 

Joseph  Ford  (see  Harford  County 


BO 


RN  Sept.  21st,  I781.  family  records 


marriage  licenses 

Lib  .  W.  T:;  F.  No.  1 

r.  3^5  LiCEr:sEs  grante 
Jan  25TH,  180^  to 
Joseph  Ford  to  marry 
Sar  a  H  Coal  E  . 


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Jamets   Cole,    i  aihcr    of    ti!E    above    stven   children,    and    his 

BROTHER,  EpHRA!M  ColE  WERE  PRIVATES   IN  Capt.  ChaRLES  AnDERSON's 

Militia,  Company  No.  3  ''•'  HArrnRo  ccui.'ty.   They  were  enrolled  on 
September  S^RD,  1775-  (See  Preston's  History  or  Harford  county. 


-A-j- 


PP,   108  AND   1C)9,   iHE   MOST  CONVENIENT  AND  AUTHENTIC  REFERENCE 


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Thomas  Preston   m.  Mary 


James  Preston  m.  Sarah 


Charles  Anderson  m.  Grace  Preston 


Daniel  Anderson   m.   Sarah 


T'oHN  Ford  k.       Sarah  Murphy 


Benjamin  Ford   m.  Mary  Anderson 


Thomas  Cole   m.  Elizabeth 


James  Cole   m.  Jane  Poloke 


James  Cole  m.  Sophia 


Capt.  William  Jones  m.  Ann  Wilcox 


John  Mincher   m.  ? 


Joseph  Ford   m.   Sarah      Cole        Uriah  Jones   m.    Ann  Mincher 


Franklin  Ford 


M  Anne    E.Jones 


HEb;RY    JorjEs    Ford 


2k 


Thomas  Preston  -  Mar  y ( Heiress  of  Herres?) 


Thomas  Preston ? 

Sarah  Preston   -  Skate 

Esther  Pre:  ton 1'-' \v  e  r, 


James  Preston  -  Sarah- 


Sarah  Preston 
Jakes  Pr  r  c  ton 
Da  N  I  El.  pR  I  s  ton 

El  I  2  a  B  E  T  H  pi;  E  S  TON 

Hannah P  r  e  s  t  o  tj 

Akn  Pk  e  1  t  Oj_ 

Bernard  Preston 

Grace  Preston  -  Charles  Anderson 


Daniel  An'DERSon  -  Sarah 


;Mary  Anderson   -  F'?°!'),tAM  <  »  Ford 


Joseph  Ford     -  Sarah  Cole 


Franklin  Ford    -  Anne  E   Jones 


Henry  Ford  Jones-  Bertha  Batory 


FRANiaiM  Batory  Ford   Bertha  Dorothy  Ford 


John  Howarti  Fopd 


Alt,  ert  Jones  Fqpd 

M  .   E  L  I  7  A  B  E  T  H  l_  U  C  I  L  E   Pa  Y  N  T  E  R 


Henry  Cr i m  For  d 
F  R  A  tj  K  L  I  N  Ford 


Katharine  Virginia  Ford 
Lucy  Jane  Ford 
Elizabeth  Anne  Ford 


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THE  PRESTON  FAMILY 
The  Prestons  of  Baltimore  and  Hareord  counties  are  doubtless 

or   the   SAMf   FAMILY  A?   THAT   OF   THE   GREAT  CUAKER,   RiCHARD  PrESTON, 

OF  Patuxent,  Calvert  County,  but  the  public  records  of  Maryland  do 

NOT   indicate   that   THEY   DESCENDED  FROM  HIM,   NOR   DO  ANY   OF   THEM  CLAIM 
DESCENT  FROM  HIW,   SO  FAR   AS  WE   ARE   INFORMED.    HowEVER,   THERE   SEEMS 
TO  BE  A  TRADITION   IN  THE  FAMILY  THAT  THEY  ARE  DESCENDED  FROM  ThoMAS 

Preston,  of  the  "Clifts",  who  flourished  in  Calvert  county  ih  the 

THIRD  OUARTER  of   THE   SEVEN  TEE  r^TH  CENTURY  AND  TO  WHOM  RiCHARD  PRESTO  N 
bequeathed  A   THOUSAND  ACRES  OF   LAND   I  tJ   HIS  WILL   IN   1669-    Th  I  S 
COULD  HARDLY  BE  CORRECT  SINCE   THE  ThOMAS  PRESTON  REFERRED  TO  DIED 

IN   167^  LEAVING  A  WILL   IN  WHICH  HE  BEQUEATHED  HIS  PROPERTY   TO  TWO 
DAUGHTERS  AtlD  A   MINOR   SON   Of   TENDER   AGE  WHOSE   NAME   HE   DIQi   NOT  MEN- 
TION,  AND  THE  FURTHER  FACT   THAT   THE  TESTATOR  DIRECTED  THAT  HIS 
CHILDREN  V/ERE   TO  SE  OF  AGE  AT  21  YEARS.   WHEN  V/E  COhJSIDER   IN  THIS 
CONNECTION  THAT  ThOMAS  PRESTON,   ANCESTOR  OF  THE  PRESTONS   IN  THIS 
MEMOIR,   HAD  A   GRANT   OF  LAND   IN  BALTIMORE   COUNTY   IN   l67o,   AND   THAT 
HE   DEPOSED   IN  CoURT   IN  ]~{0k     THAT  HE  WAS  THEN  FIFTY-EIGHT  YEARS  OLD, 

INDICATING  HE  WAS  BORN   IN  ]6k6 ,      WE  WILL   HAVE   TO  CONCLUDE   THAT   NEITHER 

Thomas  or  Calvert,  nor  the  son  of  that  Thomas,  urjLEss,  it  can  be 

SHOWN  THAT  THE  AFORESAID  ThomAS  HAD  A  SON  ThOMAS  BORN  ABOUT  THE 
YEAR   16^6,  WAS  THE  ThOMAS  PrESTON  OF  BALTIMORE  COUNTY. 

There  was  a  Thomas  Preston  who  came  to  Maryland  from  England 

IN      the      year       1  660-  WITH     CAPTAIiJ     JamES     CoNAV/AY     WHOSE      SHIP     RiCHARD 

Preston  appears  to  have  interested  in  and  was  also  oh  very  friendly 

SOCIAL   AhJD  commercial   TERMS  WITH  CONAWAY.    ThE   IMPORTANT  AND  COM- 
MANDING position  Richard  Preston  was  accorded  upon  coming  to  Mary- 

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land  showed  that  (ie  was  of  a  fine  family  in  england,  and  it  was 
natural  for  hen  of  his  plood  and  name  to  come  over  with  the  great 
Quaker's  favorite  captain.   It  is  highly  probable,  therefore,  that 
Thomas  Preston  who  came  in  i66c  was  the  Thomas  who  lived  and  died 
IN  Baltimore  County  and  that  he  was  of  the  same  blood  as  Richard 
Preston  and  may  have  resided  with  relatives  in  Calvert  county  for 
a  time  before  settled  in  Baltimore  county.   However,  be  the  fact 
what  it  may  he  is  the  only  Thomas  Preston  in  the  Maryland  records, 
that  fits  the  niche,  and  if  it  is  considered  material  by  his  des- 
cendaijts  he  can  ^e  accfpted  as  the  first  of  their  family  in  Mary- 

LAND  without  FEAR  OF  SUCCESSFUL  REFUTATION.    In  AMY  EVENT  THEY  MAY 
be  ASSURED  THAT  ThOMAS  PrESTON  OF  BALTIMORE  CoUNTY   IN   l^-"5  WAS  THEIR 
ANCESTOR  FOR  HE   IS  AMPLY   IDENTIFIED  BY  UNBROKEN  CHAINS  OF  EVIDENCE 
reaching  from  him  TO  HIS  DESCENDANTS  NOW  AMONG  THE  LIVING. 

Lord   Baltimore's    Rent    Rolls    fop    Baltimore    county    show    the 
following    land    patented    to    t ho mas    prestont 
Balto.    Co.    Rent    Rolls,    Balto   Co. 

500  ACRES  -•  "ChEAPSIDE"  -  SUR.  SEPT.   I5,   1  7^3 »   f"^^  ThoMAS  PR  E  S  T  0  N 
NORTH  SIDE  NORTH  BRANCH  OF   THE  GUNPOWDER  RIVER,   (p.   122) 

4o6  ACRES  -  "Expectation"  -  SuR.  Aug.  8,  17C'5'  ^ ^^    Thomas  Preston, 

attheheadofBushriver.(p.123) 

172  ACRES  -  "v,  illey"  -  Sjr.  June  \,     1698,  FOR  Thomas  Preston,  north 

SIDE  OF  Gunpowder  river,   Pass  by  Martiw-  Taylor,  (p.  207) 

126  acres  -  "Thompson's  Nlgllct",  -  Sur.  Nov.  29,  169^,  for  Thomas 

Preston  lying  between  Bush  and  Gunpowder  rivers.   Pass  by  John 

Marks  orphans,  (p. 211) 

291  acres  -  "Preston's  Chance"  -  Sur.  Feb.  19,  1701,  f.  Thomas 

Preston  in  Gunpowder  Hundred,  (p.  213) 


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50  ACRES  "Lodwicke  Refuse"   Sur.  Nov.  7>  1676  for  Thomas  Preston 

NORTH  SIDE  OF  GUNPOWDER  RIVER.   (p.215) 

50  ACRES  "Preston's  Luck"  Sur.  .^x,  Thomas  Preston 

ON  Cooks  creek  and  on  north  side  of  Gunpov/der  river.  (p.2i6) 

100  acres  "Preston's  Chance".   Sur.  Aug.  10,  I720  for  James  Preston 

ON  THE  northern  Branch  OF  Byname  Run.  (p.295) 

In  addition  to  these  he  had  certainly  "Aberly  Lodge"  containing 

242  acres;  "Hopenell"  -  ^12  acres;  "Pitch  Coope"  112  acres; 

"V^HiTTLEY  26  acres;  "v/aa(E-rl^  Hills"  -  356  acres,  all  appearing  in 

realty   TflANSACTIONS  RECORDED   IN  BALTIMORE  COUNTY. 

His  LANDS  WERE  LOCATED  ON  THE  NORTH  SIDE   OF  GUNPOWDER 
river  between  THAT  RIVER  AND  BuSH  RIVER,   ET  CETERA.    ThEY  WERE  WELL 
LOCATED  AND  FERTILE.    HE   SOLD  SOME  "OF  THESE  LANDS  BEFORE  HIS  DEATH 
BUT  BEQUEATHED  LARGE  ACREAGE  TO  HIS  CHILDREN'   IN  HIS  WILL.    HiS 
wife's   NAME  WAS  MaRY.    HER   PARENTAGE,   HOWEVER,   HAS   NOT   BEEN  ESTAB- 
LISHED.  In  the  Maryland  Assembly  Proceedings  November  1678,  he  was 

PAID  69  pounds  of   tobacco  FOR  EXPENSES   INCURRED   IN  THE  EXPEDITION 

against  the  Naticoke  Indians.  ( Md .  Arch.  Vol.  7,  p. 95).   On  Nov. 

2c,   1689,   HE  signed,  with  other   PROMINENT  GENTLEMEN,   A  PETITION  TO 

THE  King  of  England  asking  relief  from  the  oppression  of  the  notor- 
ious John  Coode  who  had  siezed  the  Government  of  Maryland.  (Md. 
Arch.  Vol.  8  p.  I37) 

In  the  public  records  of  Maryland  he  is  usually  mentioned  as 
Thomas  Preston,  gentleman,  a  distinction  that  absolutely  indicates 
him  as  a  man  of  gentle  English  blood.   He  appears  never  to  have 
sought,  or  accepted,  if  tendered,  public  honors  \  n    THE  shape  of 
offices  of  trust,  but  rather  preferred  the  quiet  life  of  a  country 
gentleman  and  if!  helping  along  the  work  of  developing  the  fine  new 


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COUNTRY      OF      HIS      ADOPTION.  \  ^       IS      CUITE      LIKELY      TrIAT      HE-SUSTAINED      A 

man's      part      I,N      PROTECTING      THE      PEOPLE      AGAINST      THE       INDIANS,      AS      ABOVE 
INDICATED,      AfJD      THERE      IS     EVErj     A      PASSING     MEtJTION     OF     CaPTAIN     ThOMAS 

Preston  in  the  (records,  but  no  evidence  of  a  commission  having  been 

ISSUED  to  him  can  BE  FC'JNO. 

He   DIED   in   the   year   1710  LEAVING  A  WILL   IN  WHICH  HE  AMPLYPRO" 
VIDED  FOR  HIS  CHILDREN.    Th  L  fb  A  L  V  I  M  0  R  E  CoUNTY  V/ I  L  L  S  ,  LiBER   1,   F.1^) 

Thoma  s  Pr  E  ston  of  Baltimore  County,  Gentleman. 

Will  dated  Dec.  27th,  lyoS;  Charles  Baker 

Tests:  William  Hick 

Will  proved  Dec.  3'^ ''"^^  17^^'  John  Smart 

Gr  A"e  E  Brown 
De V  I SE  d  :  - 

To  MY  (      )  Nathan  Preston  the  land  k-e  now  lives  on  which 

IS   "COLLEf.  ATOR",   OIILY   I   GIVE  Ur.  TO  MY   SONS  ThOMAS  AND  J  AMES  FIFTY 
GALLONS  OF  S  I  D  E  R  YEARLY   THEY  FINDING  THE  CasQUE. 

To  MY  WIFE   MY  WOMTN   SERVANT:   GiRVASSE   (GRA^^E   )  BROWN. 

To  MY  SON  Thomas  Preston  the  remainder  of  my  T-fHi-s-^=  of  land  , 

CALLED  "Preston's  Chance"  which  he  now  lives  upon. 

To  my  son  James  Preston  part  of  a  tract  or  land  called  "The 

Friendship". 

To  my  daughter  Sarah  Skats  (Skates)  land  called  "Bradwell  Hill" 
To  MY  daughter  Esther  jF^aven  half  the  tract  of  land  called 

"Cheaps i de"  . 

To  MY  two  sons  and  daughter  Sarah  all  the  R£^•(T  of  my  land. 
Devised  a  legacy  to  granddaughter  Cathe-rine  SKAts  of  b  3^  which 

HE   directed  his  SONS  ThOMAS  AND  JamES  AND  HIS  DAUGHTER  SaRAH  TO  PAY 
EACHATHIRD. 

I   GIVE  AFTER  MY  WIFE'S  DECEASE,   TO  MY  SON  ThOMAS  PrESTON  ALL 

THE   PARCELS  OF  LAND  |   NOW  LIVE  UPON  CALLED  "ChANCe"  ^3  ACRES;  "LOD- 

wiCK    Refuse''    3^    acres    with    a    parcel    of    land    which    formerly    PELorJCEo 

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TO  Benjamin  Bennett.   My  wife  administrator  or  all  my  personal 

ESTATE  . 

The  word  showing  relationship  leet  out  in  the  record.   The 

ORIGINAL  WILL   IS  NOT  ACCESSABLE.    ThE  FIRST  CLAUSE  OF   THE  WILL   IS 
RATHER   JUMBLED.    |T  WAS  WRITTEN  BY   AN  UNEDUCATED   PERSON  WHOSE  WRIT- 
ING WAS   PROBABLY  ALMOST   ILLEGIBLE.    ThE   NAME  NaTHAN   SHOULD  VERY 
LIKELY  READ  ThomAS,  WHO  WAS  THE  ELDEST. 

James  Preston  called  Senior  second  son  of  Thomas  Preston,  was 
doubtless  the  youngest  child  of  his  father,  for  the  land  recordsof 
Baltimore  County  show  that  kis  brother  Thomas  Preston  was  old  enough 

IN   1685  TO  obtain  a   grant   OF  LAND  AND   HAD  A   GROWN  SON,   JaMES  WHO  U^r^o 
MARRIED   IN   17^3-    ^^  '  ^  SISTERS  WERE  BOTH  MARRIED  AT  THE  DATE  OF 
THEIR  father's  WILL   IN   I7O8,  WHILE"  THE  BIRTH  OF  JaMES  PrESTON'S 

first  child  was  in  the  year  i7ii. 

James  Preston  seems  to  have  been  a  man  of  affairs,  his  name 
appearing  in  the  records  in  land  deals  and  in  various  othersof 

THE   FEW  ACTIVITIES  OPEN  TO  COLONISTS  OF   THIS   PERIOD.    HE  DIED   IN        ^ 
1729  J   LEAVING   IN  HIS  WILL   FOUR  HUNDRED  ACRES  OF  FINE  LAND  TO  HIS 

SONS,  James  and  Daniel  Preston,  and  a  personalty  amounting  to  about 
b-  150. 

He  was  one  of  the  representatives  from  Baltimore  County  in  the 
Maryland  assembly  in  the  year  1 7  1  1  •  ( Mo . Ar c h , c ol  .29,  F.ll). 
This  seems  to  have  been  the  extent  of  his  participation  in  legisla- 
tive affairs  of  the  Palatinate. 

James  Preston  and  Sarah  his  wife  had  eight  cmLDREN  seven  of 
whose  births  are  recorded  in  St.  Johns  and  5t,  Georges  Parish  Register, 
Baltimore  and  Harford  Counties,  Vol.  1.   They  follow  in  the  order  of 

THEIR  births: 

Sarah  Preston,  Born  Dec.  3»  Vf '^  1  .    (p.55) 


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t  M  t 


James  Preston,  born  March  4^',  17^3-  (p-5^) 

Daniel  Preston,  born  October  10,  1715  (p-5^) 

Elizabeth  Pkfstom,  born  Dec.  19T;i,  1720.  (p.56) 

Hannah  Preston,  born  May  9,  1723-  (p-22) 

Ann  PRESTor',  born  July  20,  1/25.  (p. 23) 

Bernard  Freston,  bopn  Jan.  I3,  1727-  (p-27) 

Grace  Preston  (date  of  birth  unknown)  mentioned  in  her  father's 

WILL      AS      the     VMFE      OK     ChARLES     Af,DESS0N.         ShE     MAY      HAVE      BEEN     HIS     CHILD 
BYAFORH  ERWIFE. 

B  A  L  T   I  M  0  R  E     C  OyjiT  Y     V/  I  LLS     LiB.      2,      F.       1Q1  . 


TE  STS: 


Dan  I  EL  Scot  T 
George  Rigdon 
..John  Kearsey 


James  Preston  of  Baltimore  County,  planter 

Will  datet-  Nov.  ^th,     I728 

Will  proved  Nov .  5>  ^  729 

De V  I SE  D  : 

To  my  eldest  sons,  James  Preston  and  Dan  i  el  Preston 

300  ACRES  OF  land  BEING  OF  A  TRACT  CALLED  "DaNISES  ChoICE':'  BEING 
THE  LAND  THAT  MY  DWELLING  PLANTATION   IS  NOW  ON  TO  BE  EQUALLY  DIVID- 
ED BETWEEN  THEM. 

To  MY  YOUNGEST  SON  BERNARD  P!7  E  S  T  0  N   100  ACRES  OF  LAND  CALLED 

"Preston's  Chance"  lying  on  the  north-east  side  of  the  aforesaid 
"De  N I SE  s  H I s  Cho  I  ce"  . 

I   leave  all   MY  personal   ESTATE   TO  BE  DIVIDED  BETWEEN  MY 
WIFE  S A  RAH  AND  CHILDREN  ACCORDING  TO  LAW,   SAVING  b  6  CURRENT  TO  BE 
DEDUCTED  OUT   OF  MY   DAUGHTER  Gr A C E  '  S ,  WIFE  OF  ChARL  E5  AnDERSON,   PART 
FOR  AS  MUCH  AS  SHE   HAVING  RECEIVED  THAT  SUM  ALREADY. 

Signed 

James  Preston 


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Note:-  In  the:  Commission  Book-MS.  at  the  Md  .  Hist.  Soc  .  James 
Preston,  son  of  the  above  Testator,  was  commissioned,  by  order  of 

the  G0VERh:0R  AND  COUNCIL   OF  MARYLAND,   ONE  OF   THE  JUSTICES  OF  THE 

Court  of  Baltimore  County  f-lAY  23,  1753-  (^-109)   This  office, 

AS  WELL  as  that  OF  MEMBER  OF  ASSEMBLY  ENJOYED  BY  HIS  FATHER,  WAS 
A  VERY  HIGH  HONOR   IN  THE  COLONIAL   PERIOD. 


^2 


i  W  ■ 


Charles    Anderson    -    Grace    Preston 


Sarah 


X.i-i )  "  Daniel  Anderson  -  Rachel  Wearin  (2) 


Sarah  Am  per  son 
Ma  rgaret  ArinERSON 
C H A R L Es  Anderson 
pR  I  sc I L  L  A  Anderson 


AND 


N 

ANCY  Anderson 

S 

U  S  A  N  N  A  /ANDERSON 

E 

^i?ABETH  Anderson 

G 

E  0  K  G  E  Anderson 

A 

Mos  Anderson 

Mary  Anderson  -  Benjamin  ['ord 


Joseph  Ford 


-  Sarah  Cole 


Franklin  Ford  -  Anna  E .  Jones 


Sarah  Anderson 
Mar  gar  E  T  Anderson 
Capt.  Charles  Anderson  ■ 
!Ie  signed  the  Harfokd 
County  Declaration  of 
Independence  in  1 775 • 


Mar  Y 


.-9 


Henry  Jones  Ford  -  Bertha  Batory 


Franklin    Batory    Ford 
Bertha    fj o r  o  t  h  y    Foro 
He  riP;  Y    Cr  i  m    Ford 
J 0  H  r;    How  a  r  d    Ford 
Albert    ^I  o  n  e  s    Ford 
Franklin    Ford 


Daniel    Anderson 
Grace    Anderso n 
Sarah    Anderson 
Charles    Anderso n 
Richard    Anderson 
James    A  n  d  e  r  s  c  tJ 
yy  I  L  L  I  A  M   Anderson 
Amos    Anderson 


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THE  ANDERSON  FAMILY 
The  name  of  Anderson  appears  early  in  the  public  records  of 

EVERY  OLD  COUNTY   IN  MARYLAND.    ThE   MEN  AND  WOMEN  BEARING  THE  NAME 

did  not  all  descefjd  from  one  afjcestgr  who  came  to  america  with  the 
very  first  settlers  nor  from  several  ancestors  among  the  first  ad- 
venturers to  these  shores.   therefore  in  writing  the  history  of 
Charles  Anderson,  of  Baltimore  County,  Maryland,  and  some  of  his 
descendants,  it  is  well  to  bear  in  mind  that  he  is  not  known  to  be 

the  first  of  HIS  LINE   IN  THE  STATE.   WE  ARE  SIMPLY  DEALING  WITH  HIM, 
HIS  CHILDREtJ  AND  GRANDCHILDREN. 

Charles  ANOERsotj's  name  first  appears  in  the  Baltimore  Records 

IN  THE  YEAR   172^  WHEN  HE  BOUGHT  200  ACRES  OF  LAND  BEARING  THE  ALLURING 

NAME  OF  "The  Land  of  Promise".   The  purchase  of  this  land  shows  him 

AS  A  gentleman  OF  SOUND  BUSINESS  SENSE  AND  ONE  WHO  HAD  AN  EYE  FOR 
BEAUIY,   SINCE   THE  TRACT  WAS  LOCATED  "aT   THE  HEAD  OF  A  BRANCH  Of^    onrx^ 

the  western  side  of  another  branch  known  by  the  name  of  upper  spring 
Branch  descending  into  Deer  Creek".   This  location  is  in  the  very 

HEART  of  the  DeER  CrEEK  REGION   IN  (siNCE   177^)  HaRFORD  CoUNTY,   FA- 
MOUS FOP   ITS  FERTILITY  AND  PICTURESQUE  BEAUTY,   (l) 

His  next  purchase  was  in  1725  when  he  acquired  TOO  acres  of 

LAND  CALLED  "CaR RENTER'S  PLAINS "  LYING  IN  THE  DRAFTS  OF  SWAN  CrEEK   IN 
Bal  T  I  MORE  COU  NTY  .   (2  )  . 

His  NEXT  venture  was  the  purchase  in  1737  OF  50  acres  called 
"V;ooDs  Addition"  located  near  "Carpenter's  Plains",  where  he  settled, 
married  and  reared  his  children.  (3) 

Swan  Creek  descends  into  the  Bush  river  and  the  region  was 

3^ 


KNOWN  AS  Susquehanna  Hundred.   On  those  rich  levels  the  virgin 

SOIL  YIELDED  GREAT  CROPS  WITH  LESS  TOIL   AND  CARE   THAN  WAS  REQUIRED 
IN  THE  HILL   COUNTRY.    H  £- N  C  E  WF  FIND  HIM   IN   1732  LEASING  "ThE  LAND 

OF  Promise"  to  a  tenant  an^  it  was  no  doust  too  distant  for  him  to 

WORK  P;?0FlTABLY  (ll)  AND  LATER  (1738)  SELLING   IT  OUTRIGHT   TO  A  MAN 
OF  THE  f.'AME  OF  JACOB  EllL.   (12) 

It   is  QUITE   PROBABLE   THAT  HE  COULD  USE   THE  MONEY  HE  REALIZED 
BY  THE  SALE  OF  THE   P(OPEF:TY  VO  ADVANTAGE   IN  HIS  BUSINESS  WHICH,   IN 
ADDITION  TO  FARMING,  WAS  THAT  OF  A  BUILDER,   KNOWN   IN  OUR  ANCIENT 
RECORCS  AS  "CamfENTEr".    ThIS  SEEMS  TO  ACCOUNT  FOR  THE  LIMITED 
ACREAGE   HE  LEFT  TO  HIS  SONS,  WHOM  HE   HAD  EDUCATED  (thE  RECORDS  BEAR 
EVIDENCE  3  AS  GENTLEMEN;   A  FACT  OF  SIGNIFICANCE   IN  THOSE   DAYS. 

Charles  Anderson  married  Grac-e  Preston  Nov.  2nd  1726.   She 

WAS  THE   daughter   OF  JamES  PrESTON  AND  SaRAH,   HIS  WIFE.    HER  FATHER 
mentions  hEli   IN  HIS  WILL  AS  'V.Y  DAUGHTER,   GrACl'',  WIFE  OF  ChARLES 

Anderson.  (6) 

Charles  Anderson  died  March  T^th,  17^9  •  "  ^'^^^x''** 

His  WILL  WAS  dated  January  2nd,  1 739  and  proved  July  23rd,  I7H0. 
He  devised  his  lands  called  "Carpenter's  Plains"  and  "V/oods  Addition" 
TO  HIS  two  sons,  Daniel  Anderson  and  Charles  Anderson,  equally  divided 

BETWEEN  THEM.    HE   DEVISED  HiS  PERSONAL   ESTATE  TO  HIS  WIFE,  GraCE 

Anderson,  and  his  daughters,  Sarah  and  (Iar  caret  Anderson.   Wife  was 
made  sole  executrix  of  the  WILL.  (7) 

The  births  of  the  children  of  Charles  Anderson  and  Grace,  his 

WIFE,   occurred   in  THE  FOLLOWING  ORDER: 

Sarah,  born  June  7th,  1727;  Daniel,  born  Dec.  2kiH,     I728; 
Margaret,  born  Feb.  22nd,  I73O,  and  died  March  12th  I73O;  Charles, 
born  Dec.  28th,  173^1;  Margaret  born  Jan.  ^th,  1736.  (6) 

The  brothers  Daniel  and  Charles  Anderson  (the  laiilk  a  child 

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V   :  •'.        \. 


OF  SIX  WHt:N  HIS  FATHER  DIED  CONTIMUED  TO  LIVE  OfJ  THE  HOME   PLANTA- 
TION, Daniel  establishing  a  weaving  industry  as  an  auxillary  to  his 

AGRICULTURAL   PURSUITS,   MARRYING  TWICE  AND  RAISING  TEN  CHILDREN  TO 
WHOM  HE  WAS  ABLE  TO  LEAVE  AT  HIS  DEATH  A  CONSIDERABLE   PATRIMONY. 

Charles  Anderson  apparently  confined  himself  strictly  to  agriculture 
In  the  er-citing  years  preceding  the  hostilities  of  the  American 
Revolution,  Charles  Anderson  bore  a  conspicuous  part  in  Harford 
County  as  a  patriot  of  the  most  advanced  and  fearless  type.   But  of 

HIM  further. 

On  Feb.  2t,th.  176I,  Daniel  Anderson  bought  the  half  interest 
of  his  brother,  Charles  Anderson,  in  the  lands  left  them  by  their 
father,  viz:  100  acres  called  "Carpenter's  Plains"  and  50  acres 

CALLED  "V/ooDS  Addition:.  (13) 

In  1771  Daniel  Anderson  bought  1^  acres  of  land  called  "Thomp- 

S  0  N  '  S  A  D  D  I  T  I  0  N  "   0  N  SW  a  N  C  R  E  E  K  .   (  M  5  ) 

In  1771  Daniel  Anderson  sold  i8-^  acres  of  land  in  Baltimore 
county  called  Shawan"s  Hunting  Ground.  (i4) 

The  years  177^-5  witnessed  some  very  exciting  events  in  Mary- 

LAND  CAUSED  BY   THE  e^i-eeb-T-+-e-f+6  OF  THE  MOTHER  COUNTRY.    In  NO  SECTION 

OF  THE  Province  was  the  indignation  against  the  Crown  more  pro- 
nounced THAN  IN  Harford  County  (cut  from  Baltimore  County  in  177^) 
AND  Daniel  Anderson,  then  ^7  years  old,  served  as  a  private  in  the 
Militia  Company  commanded  by  his  brother,  Charles  Anderson,  along 
WITH  HIS  neighbor,  E  p  h  r  A  I  ^'  Cole  AND  James  Cole.   The  Annapolis  con- 
vention, December  177H,  established  the  military  age  at  15  to  6o 
years.   The  elderly  men  flocked  to  enroll  their  names  as  promptly 

AS  THE  YOUNG  MEN.   ^PrESTON'S  HiSTORY  OF  HaRFORD  CoUNTY  PP.IO8-IO9.) 

Daniel  Anderson  died  intestate  in  the  autumn  of  1799-  (T^) 
Ap  ril  Cth,  1786,  Daniel  Andersom  deposfo  in  Court  that  \^z    was 
then  %  years  old,  (6) 


A     ;     J' 


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Rachel  Anderson,  administratrix,  was  his  second  wife,  by  whom 

SHE  had  five  children  PROVED  BY  ORPHANS'  CoURT   PROCEEDINGS  FOR  WHICH 
SEEREFEnEf;CE.(l7) 

He  married  first  Sarah  who  joined  with  him  in  the  sale  of  some 

land  in  1771  .  (15) 

Sarah  was  living  in  the  year  I777  in  which  year  she,  her  hus-   - 
■band  and  five  children  were  enumerated  in  the  Census  taken  by  the 
Authorities  in  Su sou e man n ah  Hundred,  MS  at  Md .  Historical  Soc  .  ,  viz: 

Daniel  Anderson,  aged  H5  years. 
Sarah  Anderson,  aged  39  years. 
Mary  Anderson,  aged  Ic  years. 
Sarah  Anderson,  agedI^years. 
Margaret  Anderson,  aged  13  years 
Charles  Anderson,  aged  9  years. 
Priscilla  Anderson,  aged  2  years. 

There  is  no  record  of  the  dea'th  of  Sarah,  wife  of  Daniel 

Anderson.   But  the  record  of  his  second  marriage  to  Rachel  Wearin, 

Feb.  28th,  178s  is  found  in  the  Harford  County  Marriage  Licenses, 

Lib.  W/  S/  S/  Uo .     1  f,  22.   The  names  of  the  children  proved  in  the 

above  mentioned  Court  proceedings  follows:   Nancy,  Susanna,  Elizabeth, 

GeorgeandAmos. 

In  the  proceedings  of  the  Orphans'  Court  (found  in  references 
// 

(^fcj)   THE  NAMES  OF  ONLY  FIVE  CHILDREN  WERE   MENTIONED  AND  THEY  WERE  BY 
THE   SECOND  V/  I  F  E  ,  RaCHEL  (V.'EARIn)  AnDERSON.    HowEVER,   THE  RECORD 
MENTIONS  THAT  Da N i E L  AnDERSON,   DECEASED  LEFT   TEN  CHILDREN  AND  A 
DISTRIBUTION  OF   PROPERTY   IS  ALSO  MENTIONED.    SiNCE   THE  CHILDREN  BY 
THE  SECOND  WIFE,  RaCHEL,  WERE  ALL  MINORS  AND  UNDER   THE   GUARDIANSHIP 
OF   THEIR  MOTHER   THERE  COULD  NOT  HAVE  BEEN  ANY  DISTRIBUTION  TO  THEM. 

Therefore  it  was  made  among  the  children  of  Sarah,  the  first  wife 

OF  THE  deceased,   THE  OLDEST  CHILD  BEING  MaRY  AnDERSON  WHO  WAS  ENUMER- 
ATED  IN  THE  CENSUS   TAKEN  BY   THE  HaRFORD  COUNTY  AUTHORITIES   IN   1777 
AS  BEING  THB)  l8  YEARS   OLD.    ThIS  D  A  U  G  H  T  E  5!  MA_R  Y  A  N  D  E  P  S  0  rj  MARRIED 


Benjamin  Fcrd  in  1 78 V'J  according  to  the  Ford  Family  Records  in 
POSSESSION  OF  PRor.  Henry  Jo^'Es  Ford  or  Princeton  University.   It 
would  be  gratifying  to  have  found  the  distribution,  but  the  Harford 
County  custom  of  the  time  seems  to  have  been  to  wind  up  the  estates 
with  somethirjg  like  th'.is:   distribution  as  the  will  directed,  or 
distriblltion  according  to  law  and  no  names  or  heirs  mentioned. 
However,  the  Ford  Family  Records,  through  all  the  allied  families, 
have  been  so  f;£liably  correct  that  in  this  instance,  as  in  others, 

they  C/.  N  SAFELY  BE  ACCEPTED  AS  OFFICIAL  AUTHORITY.    I  N  DEED,   THEY 
HAVE  ENABLED  THE  HISTORIAtJS  TO  CORRECT^,  SEVERAL   INSTANCES  THE 
-&A-trt^S  MADE  BY  THE   CARELESSNESS   IN  THE  REGISTRATION  OF  THE  DATES  OF 
BIRTHS,   ET  CETERA,   BY  THE  REGISTRARS  (oR  THOSE  WHO  COPIED  FROM  THE 
ORIGINAL   FOR   PRESENT  DAY  USe)  OF   THE  PARISH  REGISTERS  OF  ST.  JoHNS 

AND    St.    Georges    Parishes    for    Baltimore    and    Harford    counties,    to    be 

FOUND  AT  THE  MD.  HiST.  SoCIETY. 


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CHARLES  ANDERSON  1 1  - 
Ckarles  Aml'Ersoij,  bohn  Dlc.  27,  173^'  SECOND  SON  OF  Charles 
Anderson  and  Grace  Preston,  his  wiee,  led  the  life  of  a  useful  and 
prominent  ger.'tleman  im  baltimore  f.  ountv  during  his  younger  days, 

AND  Ha'^'FORO  CourJTY   IN   HIS  LATER   YEARS.    HE   OWNED  AND  LIVED  UPON  A 
FINE  FARM   IN  THE  BuSH  RiVER  COUNTRY   IN  SUSQUEHANNAH  HUNDRED,  WHICH 
WAS  EI--.BRACEU   IN   THE   TERRITORY  OF  HaRFORD  AFTER   THAT  CoUNTY  HAD  BEEN 

CUT  FROM  Baltimore  County  in  i77^- 

The  po  I.  tents  of  the  coming  AMERiCAfj  Revolution  were  nowhere 

MORE   IN  EVIDENCE   THAN   IN  HaPFORD  COUNTY   IN  THE  YEAR   THE   TERRITORY 
COMPOSING   IT  WAS  SEPARATED  FROM  THt.   PARENT  COUNTY.    MEN  BEARING 
NAMES  THAT  HAVE  SINCE  BEEN   INTIMATELY   IDENTIFIED  WITH  THE  MAKERS  OF 

HISTORY  IN  Maryland  sprang  to  the  front  and  fearlessly  flung  defiance 
TO  TfiE  British  lion,  and  among  them  none  more  daring  than  Charles 
Anderson. 

In  OBEDIENCE  TO  THE  RESOLVE  OF  THE  DEPUTIES  OF  THE   SEVERAL 

counties  of  Maryland  at  their  meeting  in  Annapolis,  Dec.  8,  177^ 
THE  freemen  of  Harford  County  organized  a  strong  militia  force  for 
ACTIVE  service.   Charles  Amderson  was  Captain  of  Company  3- 

He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  in  Harford 
County  that  March  22,  1775,  adopted  the  resolution  which  has  ever 
since  been  proudly  cherished  b->  the  sons  of    hlARFORD  as"The  Harford 
County  Declaration  of  Independence".   it  follows: 

"  We  the  Committee  of  Harford  County  having  most  seriously  and 
naturally  considered  the  Resolves  and  Association  of  the  Continental 
Congress  and  the  Resolves  of  the  Provincial  Convention,  do  most 
heartily  approve  of  the  same,  and  as  we  esteem  ourselves  in  a  more 

particular  manner   intrusted  3Y  our  CofJSTITUENTS  TO  SEE   THEM  CARRIED 
INTO  EXECUTION  WE  DO  MOST  SOLtMNlY  PLEDGE  OURSELVES  TO  EACH  OTHER 


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J  1 1  T 


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BY  EVERY   TIE  HELD  SACRED  AHONj  MANKIND  TO  PREFORM  THESAME  AT   THE 

risque  or  our  lives  and  fortunes. 

There  were  thirty-four  signers  to  this  declaration,  the  name 
OF  Charles  Anderson  being  the  seventeenth.   Among  other  names  since 

WELL   KNOWN   IN  MARYLAND   HISTORY,   WERE:    AQUILA  PaCA,   RiCHARD  DalLAM, 

James  McCombs,  William  Bradford,  Senior,  Benjamin  Bradford,  John 
Archer,  Jos.  Carvel  Hall,  et  cetera. 

Every  man  in  Harford  County,  as  well  as  those  of  other  counties 
IN  Maryland,  knew  the  signing  of  documents  such  as  the  above  con- 
stituted him  a  trait  (I  r  according  to  British  law  and  usage,  and 

FOR   THE   traitor  THERE  WAS  ONLY  A  SHORT  SHIFT  AND  THE  ROPE.   WhEN 
IT   IS  RECALLED  THAT   THIS  SIGNING  OF  SUCH  A  DANGEROUS  DOCUMENT  WAS 
NEARLY  SEVENTEEN  MONTHS  PREVIOUS  TO'  THE  DECLARATION  AT  PHILADELPHIA 
BEFORE   THE  COLONIES  HAD  SERIOUSLY  MEASURED  SWORDS  WITH  ENGLAND  AND 
MEN  WERE  LIVING  Orj  THE  CREST  OF  A  VOLCANO  SO  TO  SPEAK,   IT  WAS  COURT- 
ING SURE  AND  SWIFT   IGNOMINEOUS  DEATH. 

The  MOST  convenient  reference  for  the  actions  of^^men  of 

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H6RF0RD  County,  Maryland,  during  the  early  years  of  the  Revolution 
IS  Prestons  History  of  Harford  County:  this  particular  event,  how- 
ever WAS  -fctj-g-t^  taken  from  MS  IN  possession  of  the  Maryland  Historical 
Society,  Baltimore,  page  12,  by  the  compilers  of  this  sketch  of 
Charl  es  Anderson. 

It  is  not  the  purpose  of  the  historians  to  continue  the  history 
OF  Charles  Anderson  further  than  to  state  that  the  records  show  him 
AS  Captain  of  a  Militia  Company,  in  Harford  County,  Sept.  12th,  1775j 

AND  that  he  had  LIVING   IN   1777  EIGHT  CHILDREN  BY  HIS  FIRST  WIFE, 

Mary,  whose  maiden  name  we  have  not  learned.   The  following  names 
AND  ages  of  Charles  Anderson  and  Mary,  his  wife,  and  their  eight 
children  were  taken  from  the  Maryland  Census  of  Susquehannah  Hun- 
dred, Harford  County,  in  the  year  1777* 


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Charles  Anderson  48  years  old 

Mary  Anderson  k?. 

Daniel  Anderson  I9 

Grace  Anderson  i£ 

Sarah  Anderson  16 

Charles  Anderson  I3 

Richard  A  n  r  e  r  n  0  fj  11 

James  Anderson  9 

William  ANOERSor;  7 

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(1)  Calto.  Co.  Laud  Records,  Lib.  1.  s.  No.  H  r.  '59- 
March  1st,  ]^2k-    Obediah  Prichard  of  Baltimore  County,  carpenter 

SELLS  TO  Ch/'.IlES  AnDERSON  OE  SAME  COUNTY  FOR  600^L  B  S  .   OF   TOBACCO 

A   TRACT   OF  LAND  CALLED   "IhE  LanD   OF   PROMISE "   LYING   IN   THE   HEAD   OF  A 

branch  on  the  v/ ester  n  side  of  another  branch  known  by  the  name  of 
Upper  Greet!  Spring  Branch  descending  into  Deer  Creek,  containing  200 
acres  more  or  less. 

(2)  on  page  lis  SAME  Lib,  as  above  May  12,  ly^*!. 


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JosHTA  Wood  of  Baltimore  Co.,  sells  to  Charles  Anderson  of  same 

COUNTY  for  2700  LBS.   TOBACCO    ALL   THAT   TRACT  OF  LAND  CALLED 

"Carpenter's  Plain"  lying  on  the  drafts  of  Swan  Creek  in  Bactimore 
county  contairjing  100  acres  of  land  more  or  less. 

(•^)  Lib.  H.  V.'.  S.  No.  1  A.  F.27,  Balto.  Co.  Records. 

Nov.  ^TH,  1737  Joshua  Wood  of  Baltimore  county  sells  to  Charles 
Anderson  of  the  same  county  for  5^^^^  lbs.  of  tobacco  land  called  "Woods 
Atoition"  containing  jO  acres. 


(6)  St.  Johns  and  St.  Georges  Par.  Re^-  Balto.  and 
Harford  Counties,  Vol.  2.    


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Nov.  2,  1726  Charles  Anderson  was  married  to  Grace  Preston  p.  &^8". 

"My  daughter  Grace  wife  of"CharlE5  Anderson"--  from  the  will  of 
James  Preston  dated  Nov.  5"^^^  1726.  (Baltimore  Co.  Wills,  Lib. 2, 6, 
191).   See  the  full  will  under  Preston  Family. 

June  7th,  1727~28  was  born  Sarah  daughter  of  Charles  Anderson 
and  Grace  his  wife.  (p. 2 58) 

Daniel  Anderson  deposed  in  the  Harford  county  court  April  8, 

1786  that  he  was  5S  YEARS  OLD.   (HaRFORD  Co.  LAND  RECORDS,  LiB.  J.L.G. 

No.  G  F  .23'4.  ) 

Feb.  22nd,  I73O  was  born  Margaret  Anderson  daughter  of  Charles 
Anderson  and  Grace  his  wife;  she  died  March  12th,  173^  (p-25S). 

Dec.  27TH,  173^  WAS  born  Charles  Anderson,  son  of  Charles  Ander- 
son AND  Grace  his  wife.  (p. 2 73) 

Jan.  4th  I736  Margaret  Anderson,  daughter  of  Charles  Anderson 
AND  Grace  his  wife  was  born.  (P.29H) 

March  15th,  1 739. -Then  died  Charles  Anderson,  (p.308). 


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(7)  BALTiMor.E  Co.   Wills,  Lib.  1.  r.  •^28. 
Charles  Anderson  of  Baltimore  Co.,  Carpenter. 


Will  datpd  J.»,  nua^'v  2t;D,  1739 
Will  Proved  July  23.).  I7H0 


Tests:   F^ichael  Gilbert 
Isaac  Wood 
John  Lock. 


De  V  1  sed 

To  my  T'„'o  sons  Daniel  Anderson  and  Charles  Anderson  TOO  acres  of 


land  called  "Ca-^  pen  ter  '  5  Pl 


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and  50  acres  of  land 


C  AL  L  E  d"  V.'OODS  ADDITION  "   TO  BE  EQUALLY  DIVIDED  BETWEEN  THEM,   MY  SON 

Daniel  to  have  the  75  acres  at  the  upper  end  a--**^  where  my  dwelling  planta' 

TION   IS  TO  HIM  A  NO  HIS  HEIP,  S  FOREVER;    AND  SON  ChARlES  TO  HAVE  75 
ACRES  AT   THE  LOWER   END  ON  SwAN  CREEK  RuN   TO  HIM  AND   HIS   HEIRS  FOREVER. 


To  MY  BELOVED  WIFE  GRACE  AfJDERSON  ALL   MY  PERSONAL   ESTATE,   AND  WHEN  M' 
FOUR  CIIILDREr.'  COME  TO  AGE  VIZ:    SaRAH,  Da  N  I  E  L  ,  ChARlES  AND  MARGARET 

Anderson,  my  said  wife  Grace  enjoyned  to  pay  to  each  of  them  It^^urrent 

MONEY..  •       • 


My  wife  Grace  /nderson  whole  sole  executrix 
and  testament. 

Signed 


of  this  my  last  will 


Charl  e  s  X 
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October  I^th,  1 73^ • "Charl e s  Anderson  of  Balto.  Co.  Carpenter 
leases  to  James  Morgan  and  Elizabeth  Walker  of  same  county  in  con- 
sideration OF  the  yearly  rents-,_on  the  part  of  said  Morgan  and  Walker 

hath  devised  and  GRAtJTED,   Ts^T  '^  A^L  L   THAT  FARM  WITH  HOUSES,   ETC.  LYING 
AND  BEING   iN  BALTIC,  ORE  CO.  CALLED  ''ThE  LanD  OF  ProMISE",   CONTAINING 
200  ACRES  OF  LAND  MORE  OR  LESS,   YIELDING  AND  PAYING  EVERY  YEAR   THE 
YEARLY  RENT  OF  600  LBS.   OF  TOBACCO-THE  SAID  JamES  MORGAN  AND  El  IZA" 

beth  Walker  may  make  use  of  timber  for  benefit  of  the  place  etc. 
The  lease  was  for  the  term  of  12  years. 

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(12)  Lie.  H.W.B.  No  1.  A .  f  . -1'£-7-Marc  k'  8th,  1738  -  Charles 
Anderson  of  Baltimore  Co.  Carpenter  of  the  oue    part,  and  Jacob 
Bull  of  same  Co.  of  the  other  part. 

Anderson  sells  to  Bull  the  land  called  "The  Land  of  Promise" 
FOR  6000  pounds  of  tobacco.   Charl  e  s^'Ander  son  ,  Grace,  Wife  of 
Charles  Anderson,  suRRErioERED  her  right  of  Dower  in  above  said  land. 


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ANDERSON  REFERENCES 
( n)  3ALT0.  Co.  Land  Recokd,  Lib.  B  No  1.  r.  102. 

April  25th,  I761.-  Charles  Anderson  of  Baltimore  Co.  of  the 

ONE   PART   AND  DaNIEL  AnD^RSlN,   BROTI.ER   OF   THE   SAID  ChARLES  AnDERSON 
OF   THE  SAt'E  COUffY,   OT  THE   OTHER   PART:    WHEREAS  ChARLES  All  PER  5  ON, 

Senior,  laie  of  ihl  aforesaiu  Couhty,  deceased,  did  by  his  last 

WILL  AND  TESTAMENT,   BEQUEATH  UNTO  HIS  TWO  SONS  THE  AFORESAID 

Charles  and  Dan i fl  Anderson  two  tracts  of  land  the  one  called 
"Carpenter  '  s  i 'la  ins"  comtmIniijg  100  acres,  the  other  called  "Woods 
Addition"  containing  50  acres,  both  of  which  tracts  of  land  lying 

AND  being  situated   IN  BALTIMORE  Co.   NEAR   THE  DRAFTS  OF  SwAN  CrEEK, 

THE  SAID  Charles  Anderson,  Senior,  deceased,  did  by  his  will  give 
TO  HIS  TWO  SONS  Charles  and  Daniel  Anderson.   Now  this  indenture 

WITNESSETH  THAT  THE  SAID  ChARLES  AnDERSON,   SON  OF  ChARLE  S  AnDERSON, 

Senior,  deceaseb,  for  the  consideration  of  b  ^0  current  paid  him 
BY  his  broti.er,  Da  n  I  e  l  Anderson,  hath  granted  and  sold  unto  the 
SAID  Daniel  Anderson  all  his  share  ^0  acres  part  of  the  tract  called 
"Woods  Addition"  making  together  75  acres. 

Signed 

Charles  Anderson. 

Mary,  wife  of  Charles  Anderson,  released  her  dower  rights  in 
the  above  said  land. 

(  1^)  Balto.  Co.  Land  Records,  Lib.  A.L.M.  C.F.27O . 

March  26th,  1771-Thomas  Miller  of  Baltimore  Co.,  Farmer  sells 
to  Daniel  Anderson  of  same  county  for  b  3^  current  a  certain  part 
or  parcel  of  land  being  part  of  a  tract  of  land  called  "Thompson's 
Addition"  containing  1^  acres  of  land  situated  between  the  head 
branches  of  Rock  AND  Swan  Creek. 

(  1^)  Page  6'^1  of  same  Lib,  as  abovf-March  26th,  1771  • 

Daniel  Anderson  of  Baltimore  County,  farmer,  sold  to  Thomas 
Miller  of  Baltimore  Co.  for  t:37  current  a  certain  parcel  of  land 
being  part  of  a  parcel  cfJ^tract  called  "Shawan's  Hunting  Ground", 
containing  182-  acres  lying  in  Baltimore  County  on  or  between  the 

HEAD  branches  OF  RoCK  RUN  AND  SWAN  CREEK. 

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Da  N I  EL  Anderson. 

Sarah,  the  wife  of  Daniel  Anderson,  surrendered  her  dower  rights 
in  the  above  said  land. 

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Harford  Co.  Guardian  Accts.  Lib.  A.  J.  No.  h.    r.  70.71,72,73 
JjN£  7'  1^03. -The  secomo  acct.  or  Rachel  Anderson  guardian  or  the 

CHILDREN  OF  Da  N  I  E L  AnDER  SON ,   DECEASED.    ShE  MENTIONS  THE  CHILDREN  AS 
F  OL  L  OW  S  : 

El  I  z  a  a E  T  H  And  ^rson.  Amos  Anderson,  Susannah  Anderson,  Nancy 
Anderson ,  Geo r  g  c  At ;  d  e  r  s  0  n . 

Same  Liber,  as  above  -  June  2'^,  l8o4. 

Rachel  Anderson,  guardian  for  DAtJiEL  Anderson's  children  as  follov/s: 
(pp.  117,  116,  '119)    SusANTJA,  Anos.  George,  Elizabeth  . 

Same  Liser  as  above  -  June  19.  l£o6 . 

Rachel  Anderson  mentions  (as  guardian  for  them)  the  following  child- 
ren of  Daniel  Anderson,  deceased: 

Amos  Anderson,  Susanna  Anderson,  page  3^9  • 

(17)  Harford  Co.  Aoon  Bonds  Lib.  No.  E.  f.  17^1-1 820  p. 2'^^. 

October  I5,  1799-~Rachel  Anderson  gives  bond  (n  the  sum  of 
L  -  1  ,  000  cuRREfjT  AS  Administratrix  of  the  estate  of  Daniel  Anderson 

DECEASED.    DaniEL  DoNOHOO  AND  ALEXANDER  JamISOH  HER  BONDSMEN. 

Harford  Co.  Aoon.  Accts.  Lib.  A.  J.  l8oi-i80^i,  6.9. 

June  9th,  i801.-The  final  Acct.  of  Rachel  and  James  Anderson 
Administrators  of  Daniel  Anderson,  late  of  Harford  Co.  deceased. 

Charge  themselves  with  b  673- ^^ -2.   After  paying  debts  was 

A  BALANCE  of  b  587-^2.9  EOR  DISTRIBUTION.    ESTATE  ACCOUNTED  FOR. 

Record  states  that  the  deceased  left  10  children -not  named. 

Harford  Co.  Guardian  Accts.  Lib.  A   J.  No  L.  f.  26. 

JutJE  15,  1802. -The  first  Acct.  of  Rachel  Anderson,  administra- 
TRiz  OF  Daniel  Anderson,  and  as  guardian  or  Nancy  a  r;  d  e  r  s  0  n  . 

The  acc  ou  nT:'"'c  har  ge  s  herself  with  one  10th  of  the  annual 

VALUE  OF   the  real   ESTATE  AFTER  DEDUCTING  ONE  THIR-P  PART   THEREOF  FOR 
THE  WIDOWS  THIRD  ACCORDING  TO  THE   ANNUAL   VALUE   APRAISED  BY  Vv'M  .  CoX 

AND  John  Bull  Hughes  amounting  to  b  25-0.0.  and  with  interest  there- 
from b  45-22.   The  amount  of  her  dividend  of  the  personal  estate  as 

PER  distribution  RECORDED   IfJ  THE  OFFICE  OF  THE  REGISTER  OF  V^ILLS  ETC. 

June  I5,  l802 .  Rachel  A  tj  person   also  Vf  guardian  for  Ge  or  ge 
Anderson,  son  of  Daniel;  also  for  Susanna  An[)Ersov,  daughter  of  Daniel 
ALSO  FOR  Amos  Anderson,  son  of  Daniel;  also  for  Elizabeth  Anderson, 
daughter  or  Da  ;;  1  l  i  . 


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ANCESTRAL  DISTINCTIONS 
Giving  eligibility  to  the  following 
PATRIOTIC  SOCIETIES 

Society  of  Colonial  Wars;   The  Society 
OF  Colonial  Dames  of  America;  Account 
of  the  Services  of  James  Preston  a  s  a 
Member  of  the  Maryland  Assembly  I7II. 

Sons  of  the  American  Revolution; 

Sons  of  the  Revolutiotj; 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution; 
Daughters  of  the  Revolution; 
Account  of: 
Benjamin  Ford 
Captain  V/illiam  Jones 
James  Cole 
Da  n I E  L  Anderson 

Society  of  the  War  of  i812-'i4: 

Account  of: 
Uriah  Jones. 


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