Person:John Courts (5)

The Courts (Courte) family lived in Stoke-Gregory, Somerset, England. The founder of the Maryland branch was the "Honorable John Courts, Gentleman," who first appears as "John Courtis, of St. Georges Hundred," in Charles County, Maryland, as one of the Freemen summoned to a General Assembly of the Freemen of the Province, to be held at St. Marie's, January 25, 1637.

In 1638 he is mentioned in the public documents of the Province as "John Courtis," in each case in connection with the General Assembly matters. On the 12th of September, 1647, as "John Courts" he was sworn to the oath of fealty, and on June 3, 1650, record is made of his personal "cattle mark," showing him to have been not only a man of affairs, but a man of property in the Province, and entitled by his membership in the General Assembly to the distinction of Gentleman. He was Burgess and member of the Governor's Council till his death, in 1697.

The name of his wife was Margaret, as determined from the record of the births of their children, beginning in 1655, preserved in the record of births in Charles County, Maryland, recently discovered at Port Tobacco, in the county.

1. ↑ brown2.FTW.

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2. ↑ brown2.FTW.

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3. ↑ brown2.FTW.

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