Person:Elizabeth Yate (1)

Elizabeth and Thomas had as many as 12 children: Phebe, Priscilla, James, Jerom, Philimon, Samuel, Thomas, George, John, Micajah, Yate and Abiezar.

The latest book on Thomas Plummer and his descendants which proves the identity of the first Thomas's wife as Elizabeth Smith and the identity of his son Thomas's wife as Elizabeth Yate. This is the opposite of most previously published accounts of Thomas which had these two wives reversed. But new information was uncovered in Maryland land records which I will detail immediately below in this note.

The latest book on Thomas Plummer is: "The Thomas and Elizabeth (Smith) Plummer Family" by Agnes Millikin Winkelman and Gale Edwin Spitler Honeyman (C)2003 [2007] which contains the following statements:

The fact that father and son, both named Thomas, married women both named Elizabeth, in itself sets the stage for confusion. Before we identify the first Elizabeth, we must point to the facts of the second Elizabeth.

George Yate in his 1691 will bequeaths to my daughter Eliza Plummer, the 200 acre RICH LEVEL and 118 acre LEVEL ADDITION in Baltimore County.

As residents of Prince George’s County, in two separate transactions during 1703 and 1726, they [Thomas and Elizabeth] sold RICH LEVEL and LEVEL ADDITION, the lands inherited from George Yate. The elder Thomas and Elizabeth Plummer lived in Anne Arundel County where he died in 1695 and she died in March 1705/6. Herein lies the proof by the sales of these tracts that the second Elizabeth was indeed Elizabeth Yate, not Elizabeth Smith or Elizabeth Stockett. These deeds from the early 18th century prove that Elizabeth (Yate) Plummer (specifically named Yate in the deeds) was the daughter and not the stepdaughter of George Yate (1640-1691).

The two important land transactions that help to identify the wife of Thomas Plummer II are referenced in this same book Honeyman (C)2003 [2007] as follows:

The property called Rich Level sold on August 26, 1703 to Henry Darnall referenced at "Liber HW-2, folio 309". The property called Level Addition is seen as having been transferred in about 1726 to Samuel Howell by the reference "Rent Rolls 2 BA, folios 331A-331B"

The following statements do not appear in the book "The Thomas and Elizabeth (Smith) Plummer Family" but are provided by a separate researcher who has studied this family.

There are zero facts and zero documents to support the genealogical fiction that Elizabeth (Yate) Plummer was the daughter of Captain Thomas Stockett III and Mary Wells, and thus the stepdaughter of George Yate. As such, the woman named Elizabeth Stockett (born anywhere from 1648-1678) is a completely conjured up fictitious person resulting from the many errors printed in the 20th century about the wives of the father and son both named Thomas Plummer.

1.   The Thomas and Elizabeth (Smith) Plummer Family: A Guide Book for Further Research. (United States: A.M. Winkelman and G. Honeyman, 2003)
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