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- George Beckwith1606 - 1676
Facts and Events
His uncle William Beckwith emigrated to Jamestown, Virginia aboard the Phoenix in 1608.
References
- ↑ Family Data Collection - Individual Records.
Edmund West, comp.
Family Data Collection - Individual Records.
[database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 OneWorldTree.
Ancestry.com. One World Tree (sm) [database online]. Provo, UT: MyFamily.com, Inc.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 #115, in Beckwith, Paul (Paul Edmond). The Beckwiths. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977)
29-30.
George Beckwith, 115, born at Featherstone Castle,
Yorkshire; baptized there March 29th, 1606; he emi-
grated to Maryland in 1648 ; and was a merchant and
planter at his manor of land called "St. Joseph," situ-
atted at Point Patience on the Patuxent river, Calvert
County, Maryland, inherited by his wife from her
father. He, with other Protestant Gentlemen of Mary-
land, was a signer of a declaration commending the
liberal administration of Lord Baltimore, in allowing
the Protestants undisturbed worship of their religion,
as a follower of Lord Baltimore's party he participated
in the battle of Ann Arundell; after their defeat, with
30 The Beckwiths.
the Catholic party took refuge in Virginia, where he
remained two years, returning to Maryland in 1657.
In 1676 he went to England on business, and falling
ill, died in the city of London, November, 1676. Mar-
ried Frances, daughter and heiress of Nicholas Hervy,
Lord of the Manor of "St. Joseph" and member of
the House of Burgesses, who einigrated to Maryland,
from London, in 1641. She died, about the time of
her husband's death, at the manor home in Maryland,
leaving their children all minors.
127. Mary; married John Miles of Calvert Co.
previous to 1676.
128. Elizabeth; married Elias Nuttall of Cal-
vert Co., previous to 1676.
129. Charles.
130. Barbara; a minor in 1676.
131. Margarette; a minor in 1676.
- Sioussat, Annie Middleton (Leakin). Old manors in the colony of Maryland. (Ft. Wayne: Allen County Public Library, 198-)
17-18.
"The next on the Manor Roll is the allotment of St. Joseph's Manor
of 1000 acres, to Nicholas Harvey, who had transported himself, wife
and five servants here to inhabit. This came under special warrant of
his Lordship, dated 1642, and the survey was made in the same year.
This sturdy adventurer occupies quite a large place on the canvas.
He was detailed early in the day to undertake an expedition against
the Mattchewatt Indians. His settlement on the Patuxent was im-
portant and Harveytown, one of the ports of landing, was afterwards
validated by an Act of Assembly. The traces of this settlement, sit-
uated farther up the River than Town Creek, were remembered by
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some of the very old inhabitants in the last generation. It constituted
one of the four towns of Calvert County: Harveytown, over against
Point Patience; Herrington, on Herring Baj — "with houses already
built there all uniform and pleasant with streets and keys (quays) on
the water." Vide Ogilvie's America, 1671, chap. II, p. 187. These
are all given on Merman's map, hut the streets and houses are some-
what startling; Calverton, on Battle Creek, and Warrenton."
- A list of land records has been transcribed here.
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