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John Wheatley, I (the Immigrant) of Saint Mary's County, Maryland
b.Abt 1605
Facts and Events
Research Notes
- Page is under construction. Sources are being gathered and organized. Feel free to contribute.
- As can be seen, the majority of the information on this page currently comes from usgwarchives.net: Wheatley Family by Donald Drury and is temporarily placed here as a guide for further research. Citations should be cleaned up to fit WR standards.
External Links
- Anne's Web Pages: John Wheatley ((1603-1659 and the Plundering Times. (Archives of Maryland, X, p. 317) : "At present, we know nothing of John Wheatley's life after Ingle's raid and plunder of Cornwallis' estate and property. What he did during the hardships of the following years remains to be discovered. Probably, being just a servant, he was not injured by the pirates and, most likely, he didn't have enough goods or property to be robbed, himself. We do know that he started a family that stretches through many generations. March 15, 1997 Joe Barse."
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 usgwarchives.net: Wheatley Family by Donald Drury.
William Hand Brown Ed. Maryland Archives, Vol 10, Judicial and Testamentary Business of the Provincial Court, 1649/50 - 1657 (Baltimore:Press of Isaac Friedenwald, 1891), 371.
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Provincial Court, 18 Apr 1654, Deposition by John Wheatley:
John Wheatley, about 49, deposes that about 12 years ago he and one Thomas Harrison came together in the same ship to this province with Thomas Cornwallies, Esq., out of England; Harrison being covenant or apprentice servant to Cornwallies and having professed himself to be a cooper. But after his arrival here Harrison did not appear to be so for ought this deponent ever heard. And that for the first year he was hired out to one Randell Revell, a cooper, and at the end of that year returned to Cornwallies' service, where he remained until Cornwallies returned to England. He was left by Cornwallies in the charge of Mr. Cuthbert Fenwick together with the rest of his servants, where he remained until the arrival of Richard Ingle in or about Feb. 1644, at or about which time the said Harrison (as appeared) departed from Cornwallies' service and was entertained by Ingle aboard his ship, this deponent being then and there detained as prisoner. This deponent has been credibly informed that Harrison joined Ingle and his accomplices in the plundering of his master's house. Further this deponent says that he never knew or heard that Harrison ever returned to Cornwallies' service, or ever offered his service to either Cornwallies or Fenwick, or that Cornwallies or Fenwick ever gave Harrison leave to depart from his service. The deponent, at the time of the said plunder was living at Cornwallies' house, being then or before his covenant servant. And he the deponent, believes that Harrison upon his first arrival here was to be servant to Capt. Cornwallies for five years, for that not long after Cornwallies left for England, Harrison seemed to be much troubled for that (as he said) Mr. Fenwick had told him that he came in a servant for five years, when he thought his time was for four years.
- ↑ usgwarchives.net: Wheatley Family by Donald Drury.
William Hand Brown Ed. Maryland Archives, Vol 3, Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1636 - 1667 (Baltimore: Md. Hist. Soc., 1885), 174, 228.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 usgwarchives.net: Wheatley Family by Donald Drury.
Perogative Court (Testamentary Proceedings) lB: 74, Md. State Archives.
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From Will of John Wheatley 23 Jan 1657 Pro 30 Sep 1659
..."I doe give and appoint that all the remainder of my estate be equallie divided amongst my children every one having as much as another... [so] that they may be able to get their living and as they grow up in years I would have the girls to enjoy their estate when they are full sixteen years old and the boys wn they are full eighteene years old."
- ↑ usgwarchives.net: Wheatley Family by Donald Drury.
Manuscript 885 1/2, P16, for St. Georges Hundred, 1707 Rent Rolls, Calvert Papers, Md. Hist. Soc.
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Acres: 50. Wheatley: Sur[veyed] 26 Jan 1648 for John Wheatley on the east side of Packers Creek [being) His Lordship's land purchased by him [Calvert] of Andrew the son of the sd Jno Wheatley.
- usgwarchives.net: Wheatley Family by Donald Drury.
The following section is quoted from "Using Named Lands to
extend Family Lines" by William S. Carley (NGSQ V81:3 Sep 1993).
"Late in the century, two Wheatley males of corresponding
given names-John and Andrew- left tracks in the meager records
remaining for St. Mary's. Concurrently a pair of Wheatleys of the
same names appear occasionally in court records of the contiguous
county of Charles, where they were jointly sued. A deposition there
by Andrew places his birth year as 1652 (3), but no similar document
has been found for the John of Charles County. In St. Mary's, the lands
of Andrew - and those of John whom he names as brother in his
will - clustered in the same region in which the original John had settled.
The chronological gap between John of 1641- 59, whose children should
have been reaching adulthood by the 1660's, and the younger men who
emerged in Charles county in the 1670's and in St. Marys in the 1680's,
seems overlong - but not incompatible. Death periods for the younger
men are likewise congruent with the projected births. Consequently,
this paper dates the lineage of Samuel Wheatley [the ancestor Mr.
Carley is attempting to link] from John I of 1641, with the caution
that stronger evidence is desirable for the link between John I and John II.
The plantations, meadows, and hills accumulated by John II
and his brother Andrew - like those of John I and his son Andrew - were
situated in southeastern St. Mary's County. The new lands lay a few miles
inland from that of the 1640's. More precisely, they fell within a five mile
radius, east to southeast, of present day Leonardtown ...
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