Person:Edward Pye (2)

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1683 - Francis Wyne 8.56 A CH #76011 #76011 Jun 26 1683. Payments to: <snip>, Mr. Edward Pye upon account of Col. Benjamin Rozer. Executrix: Elisabeth Hawkins, wife of Henry Hawkins.

11 Mar 1683/4 - Indenture from James Neale, Gent., and Elizabeth his wife, to Giles Blizard of the City of London; for £32.4 a parcel of land formerly surveyed by Capt. James Neale by a deed of gift from Wm. Calvert, Esqr., dec'd, and Elizabeth his wife and Capt. James Neale and Anne his wife, assigned James Neale, Jr. and Elizabeth his wife by deed of gift dated 4 Dec 1681; a tract of land on Piscattaway Creek called St James; containing 700 acres; /s/ James Neale, Elizabeth Neale; wit. Jos. Doyne, Wm. Dove, Edw. Pye (p. 70, Charles County Court and Land Records, Volume II, Liber K, Page 421)

1686 - Pye, Madam Anne/ Pye Anna's Grove V-8/ Oct 2, 1686/ L 22 f 258 - (Tracts Layed Out In Calvert County Prior To April 23, 1696, Before The Formation Of Prince George's County.)

9 Aug 1692 - COURT OF 9 Aug 1692 Liber Q, Page 57 - Regarding Notley Rozer, orphan son of Col. Benjamin Rozer; Anne, relict of Benjamin, m. Edward Pye (p. 8, Charles County Land Records, Volume III)

1697 - Col. Edward Pye 15.131 I CH £1150.13.6 Mar 15 1696 Jun 10 1697 - Appraisers: John Hanson, William Thompson. - Mentions: Mr. Notley Rozier.

1698 - Col. Edward Pye 18.128 A (between entries for Feb 1 1698 and May 8 1698) Received from: John Clement, Richard Edlin, Mr. Thomas Jenkins, Mr. Robert Tompson, Mr. Richard Hubbard, Mr. John Smith, Moyses Jones, Mr. Benjamin Hall on account of Mr. William Boreman, Moses Jones, Maj. James Smallwood, Mr. Roger Brook, Jr., Dr. George Burch, Mr. Thomas Smoote.

Payments to: John Bayne, Capt. George Brent from Allerton Issaack, Esq., Mr. Thomas Browne, Moses Jones, Mr. Richard Marsham, John Knight, Mr. William Stone, Capt. Bane, Mr. Thomas Beale on account of Capt. John Bayne, George Plater, Esq., Thomas Mitchell, Capt. Joshua Doyne, John Crackson on account of Capt. John Bayne, Mr. Philip Clarke, Capt. John Baine, Madam Elisabeth Blakiston on account of Capt. John Baine.

Administrator: Notley Rosier (gentleman).

1698 - 18.196 I CH Jun 28 1698 - This is a list of bills and receipts for the estates of Benjamin Rosier and Edward Pye, Esq. Appraisers: Clement Hill, Joshua Guibert. (Both of St Mary's County). Receipts: (see page 60.)

1699 - Col. Edward Pye 19.163 A CH £1150.13.6 £1199.6.0 Jul 17 1699. Payments to: Notley Rosier his share of his father's (unnamed) estate. Administrator Notley Rosier.

(Source: AN UNUSUAL INVENTORY by Pat Melville, The Archivist's Bulldog, Vol. 11 No. 16, Newsletter of the Maryland State Archives, September 8, 1997) Edward Pye arrived in Maryland by 1682 as a free adult, taking up residence in Charles County, and shortly thereafter married the stepdaughter of Charles Calvert, 3rd Lord Baltimore. During the next seven years he served as a member of the Upper House and the Council, justice of the Provincial Court, member of the Board of Deputy Governors, supervisor of town officers in Charles County, and colonel in the army. By his death in 1696 he had accumulated over 5,000 acres of land and personal property worth almost 1,200 pounds sterling, including a large map "of the whole world."

Most inventories of personal property taken after a person's death list individual items and their values. One of the inventories of Pye's estate specifies document containers without monetary values. Perhaps this was a way to show the existence of information about the financial affairs of Pye. Later entries in (Testamentary Proceedings) do show the appointment of appraisers to determine the debts owed to and by the estate. The short inventory of papers is transcribed below. If only the documents themselves still existed.

An Inventory of such Bookes Letters & other Papers belonging to said Estate of Col. Edward Pye late of Charles County Deceased,

Three small old Stiched Paper Bookes of litle or no consequence
2nd. A packett tyd up of Letters & other papers relateing to Col. Lightfoot & Col. Talbots affaires to said number of 8 pieces
3rd. A Small Long wooden Box a parcell of Letters & other Papers of divers concernes to said number of thirty pieces
4th. A black box with divers Deeds Letters & other Papers relateing to a tract of Land called Cornwallis's Neck
5th. A white wooden Box containing a parcell of Old Letters & other papers of divers natures and concernes.
The inventory was returned to the Commissary General on January 8, 1696/7 by Nicholas Sewall and William Joseph.

(Source: MORE ON EDWARD PYE by Robert Barnes, The Archivist's Bulldog, Vol. 11 No. 17, Newsletter of the Maryland State Archives, September 22, 1997) The "Unusual Inventory" described by Pat Meville in the last issue of the Bulldog, belonged to Edward Pye, who arrived in Maryland by 1682, held a number of offices, and died in 1696. In order to place him in his proper familial and social setting, the following information was garnered from my forthcoming book on British Roots of Maryland Families. Basic information on the Pye family was taken from "Memorials of the Family of Pye," The Herald and Genealogist, 5:130-133. This pedigree is "from the Visitation of Herefordshire, 1569, and is continued from wills, monumental inscriptions, parish registers, and other sources."

The Pyes were an armigerous family of Herefordshire, England. Their estate was called The Mynde. In heraldic terms, their arms were described as: Ermine (white with black spots), a bend lozengy (a diagonal strip of diamonds) Gules (red); Crest: on a wreath, a cross-crosslet fitchee gules between two wings erect argent white or silver).

Edward Pye's father, John Pye, son of Sir Walter and Joane (Rudhall) Pye, was baptized on 17 Dec 1620. He married Blanche, sister of Sir Henry Lingen of Stoke Edith. John and Blanche were the parents of "twenty-three children, and Blanche was 30 before she was married." One of these twenty-three was Edward.

Edward Pye, son of John, came to Maryland in 1682 and died in 1696. He married Anne, widow of Benjamin Rozer, daughter of Henry and Jane (Lowe) Sewall, sister of Nicholas Sewell. Pye was the step-son-in-law of Charles Calvert, 3rd Lord Baltimore, and Anne was the sister-in-law of Philip Calvert. Edward Pye was a member of the Upper House and Governor's Council, a member of the Board of Deputy Governors, and a colonel in the army. At his death, his personal property was valued at £1,200.0.0.

Edward and his wife Anne were the parents of the following children: Henry, living 1716; Walter, died s.p. [sine prole, this is, without issue] in MD, having married a daughter of John Faunt of St. Mary's Co.; Charles; and Anne, married on 23 September 1714 to Robert Needham of Upper Hillston, County Monmouth.

Walter Pye, son of Edward and Anne, was described as "late of MD in the West Indies," when on 4 August 1699 administration was granted to Robert Chaplin, guardian of Charles, Walter, and Anne Pye, minors, nephews and niece of the deceased. (Withington, "Maryland Gleanings in England," Maryland Historical Magazine 2:282).

Charles Pye of the Mynde, Herefordshire, son of Edward and Anne, evidently returned to England, and was living between 1716 and 1743. He married Mary Booth, daughter of Charles Booth of Breinton, Co. Hereford. Charles and Mary had two children: John, and Anne, d. 5 April 1733, aged 13 mos.

John Pye, son of Charles and Mary, was living on 25 January 1764 when he was conveyed an indenture of "lease and release" by Edward, Duke of Norfolk. Also mentioned in the document were Mary and Elizabeth Pye, spinsters, and Baker Brooke and Henry Rozer (Charles County Court Land Records, O#3: 584 [MSA C670).