Person:Adam Clinkscales (2)

Info from CD#100, Automated Family Pedigree #1, copyright BroderbundSoftware (Lawrence Glen n Hardin - 1995).

He and family were living in Port Tobacco, Charles Co., Maryland by 1718, according to "The Clinkscales of America".

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RESIDENCES:

1700-1735 Glasgow, Scotland

1735 Immigrated to America and settled in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland

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   "The Clinkscales of America" by Wilda Wing
   
   "The story is that Mary was a 'Lady of Quality' and that her family objected to the marriage because Adam was a 'Tradesman'. Perhaps this contributed to their desire to come to America.
   
   At any rate, he and his wife emigrated to America about 1735 and settled in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland. At that date Port Tobacco was quite an important settlement, but later a railroad was put through a neighboring settlement, La Plata. La Plata grew and Port Tobacco diminished in importance but does exist today.
   
   In the early and Revolutionary War times Port Tobacco was the center of the social and political life of the community. It was the only town of any size in the county. It was the center of commerce for the whole area. A short distance down the Tobacco River was the naval port of entry, where goods were weighed and marked, where ships unloaded the luxuries and necessities which were so dear to the colonist hearts. Where hogsheads of tobacco was loaded for England. One of the products handled in great quantity was salt, much needed by colonists as well as by the army to preserve meat.
   
   Adam Clinkscales, after settling in Maryland, became a farmer and certainly tobacco was a main crop, or money crop as it was called.
   
   It is recorded that Adam Clinkscales took the oath of allegiance to the United States of America in 1787."