Person:Christopher Rowles (1)

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Christopher Rowles
b.Abt 1620 England
d.Aft 1662 Anne Arundel County, Maryland
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  • H.  Christopher RowlesAbt 1620 - Aft 1662
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  1. Christopher RowlesAbt 1645 - Bef 1690
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Name[1] Christopher Rowles
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1620 England
Marriage to Alice (add)
Immigration[1] 1649 Maryland
Property? 1 Nov 1652 Anne Arundel County, MarylandReceived certificate of survey (with John Mosby for 260 A. on "North West River" (later known as "Tulip Hill")
Property[1] Dec 1653 Anne Arundel County, MarylandConveyed 60 A. by John Browne & John Clarke
Property[3] 10 Dec 1656 Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Property[1] Aug 1662 Anne Arundel County, MarylandConveyed 100 A. by Edward Lloyd (later inherited by his grandson, Thomas Rowles)
Death[1] Aft 1662 Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Property? 16 May 1674 Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Religion? Quaker

NOTE: The identity of Christopher's parents is still a mystery, but there are two good possibilities: Kingstanley Parish, Gloucestershire, and Feversham Parish, Shropshire, as these are the points of origin of many other early Rowles immigrants to the colonies. Another possibility is somewhere in Lincolnshire, as that was where Thomas Mears came from -- assuming (as many family researchers have) that Christopher's wife Alice was, in fact, Thomas Mears's daughter, Alice. --MikeTalk 10:55, 2 October 2010 (EDT)

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Barnes, Robert W. Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1989)
    p. 557-59.

    Transported to Maryland in 1649 (English place of origin not known) and generally regarded as the progenitor of the Rowles families of Maryland.

  2.   Maryland. Land Office. Patents series of the Maryland Land Office. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1947)
    Lib. 6, fol. 84.

    I, Christopher Rowles, do assign over unto Thomas Bradley or his assigns, all my right and title of land due me for service in this Province by myself who came in 1649 - Christopher Rowles 56, James Neale in 1654, Walter Games 1651, Henry Selbe 1654. Witness my hand this 4th October 1663.

    [signed] Christopher [his X mark] Rowles.

    Witness William Luftman

    [Bradley was a sea captain to whom a number of new arrivals apparently paid for their passage by signing over their rights to land grants]

  3. ↑ Anne Arundel, Maryland, United States. Deeds
    Book WH, p. 46.

    [Anne Arundel courthouse burned in August 1709; a special court was subsequently held for re-recording of deeds, which many landowners did]

    Know all men by these Presence that I, Christopher Rolls of the County of Providence in Maryland, do for a valuable consideration from Richard Talbott of the aforesaid Co. I have bargain and sell unto the aforesaid Richard Talbott 100 acres of land lying upon the N. side of the Western River between the land of Chapt. Ewen and Richard Mosby according as the surveyor has surveyed it the said land being known sold out is by me sold as aforesaid from me, my heirs, executor, and demonstrated or assignees for and unto Richard Talbott his heirs or assignees to be [illegible] within the promise. Witness my hand this tenth day of December 1656. In presence of Jno. Woodcott, Tho. Ringgold.
    [signed] Christopher [his X mark] Rowles

    Recorded by Robert Burke, Clerk, 11 Dec 1656

    Re-recorded 29 Nov 1709, at request of Edward & John Talbot.

  4.   Maryland. Land Office. Patents series of the Maryland Land Office. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1947)
    Lib. 4, fol. 54.

    Christopher Rowles demands a warrant for 150 A. for transporting Alice, wife of said Rowles, and Daniel Elsmere into the Province. Warrant to be dated 19 Jul 1659.

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