Person:John Rockhold (4)

Taxed 60 lbs of tobacco ‎( a low relative amount)‎ in MD 1681.

No other Rockholds are listed in the tax rolls at ­http­://­www­.­mdgenweb­.­org­/­taxlists­.­htm­.

A John Rowell is taxed 25 lbs, also a relatively low amount, in Somersett County in 1678.

On September 7. 1659, the tract, Rockhould, formerly surveyed for Robert Rockhould and John Scotcher in Calvert County was granted to John Rockhould and his brother Robert Rockhould. In 1672 it was resurveyed for them as the boundary trees had fallen down.

On July 30, 1666, a tract of 90 acres on Scotcher's Creek was laid out for John Rockhould of Ann Arundell County, orphan, the land upon which he was then living, called Rich Neck.

In 1667 a warrant for 100 acres of land was granted John Rockhould, which in 1669, he made over to William Hopkins.

On July 10, 1676, John Rockhould bought Richardwon's levell containing 207 acres on Saltpeter Creek from Thomas Richardson, son of Lawrence, and also 200 acres of Richardson's Folly surveyed June 19, 1661 from Lawrence Richardson on the South River. Later he bought Burntwood Common.

In 1684 Henry Helmsley, Ann Arundell County assigned to John Rockhould, gent, Rockhould's Range on the north side of the Patapsco River on Rich Creek.

A warrant of 83 acres was granted John Rockhould in 1695, out of which 243 acres were surveyed into Rockhould's Purchase on Curtis Creek on July 1, 1676, and 180 acres into Rockhould's Search on the south side of the Patapsco River.

In 1679 he was witness for Edward Dorsey in his suit against Thomas Bland, and he and his son John Rockhould Jr. witnessed the will of Joshua Dorsey in 1687,

1.   M. Dorsey, J. Dorsey, and N. Nimmo. The Dorsey Family
   1947.

   Manuscript available on Heritage Quest

2.   Maryland Historical Society. Maryland Historical Magazine. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Maryland Historical Society)
   Vol IX, No. 3, p. 298, 1914.
3.   Maryland Historical Society. Maryland Historical Magazine. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Maryland Historical Society)
   Vol. 32 No. 4, December, 1937.

   The Rockholds of Early Maryland

4.   Bill Hayes. Bill Hayes Genealogy Site.