Person:John Mobberly (4)

John is one of three men named Mobberly who were early settlers in Maryland:
1) John Mobberly who died about 1683 in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, leaving a wife (Elizabeth Venn Mobberley). He may have had a child.
2) Edward Mobberley who married before 1717 Rebecca Griffith, whose children included Rebecca, Edward, and Francis Moberley, all born before 1721 (but all under the age of 18 at that date). The two sons, Edward (Jr.) and Francis were in the Maryland militia in the 1740s, so cannot have moved to Virginia;
3) John Mobberley, b. about 1657/8 and in Maryland by 1688, d. 1727. He married three times, and had five sons and one daughter. The births of his sons are recorded in records of All Hallows Parish (South River Hundred), in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Edward Moberley, who later moved to Virginia, is his fourth son.
Despite attempts to link them into a single family, there is, as yet, no evidence that they were related.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Maryland, United States. Maryland, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1777: [database on-line]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015)
   Vol. 4, pp. 51-52 (Liber 4, folio 50) (image 30 of 1055 on Ancestry.com).

   John Mobberly's will names his wife Elizabeth as his primary heir, leaving her 3 mares and one horse, two steers and 16 or 17 cattle, 5 £, and "all other goods and chattells that I have" , except one bay mare "which I do bequeath to my brother Richard Venns eldest daughter Margaret Venns".
   The two steers were at Mr. Thomas Venn's, one of them needing a "crop in the taile for I was not there when it was marked".
   The 16 or 17 cattle were at Mr. Nicholas Spencer's, and he apparently owed John Mobberly 6£ 5 s 5p and at least two crops of corn
   The 5£ was owed to John Mobberly by Mr. Thomas Venn
   Transactions in tobacco were also mentioned.
   30 Sept 1683, John Mobberly and the two witnesses, Johanna Hill and Michael Browne, all signed by mark
   
   Will entered into probate 2 September 1684, St. Marys, Maryland
   
   Note: This appears to be a later transcription of the original will, which is available at the Maryland Hall of Records and apparently not available on-line.
   
   Note: According to Conn Mobley (email 30 April 2017), it has minor variations from the original. Most significantly, the Cover Page of the original will (not included in the transcription) has the note: "My ffathr’s Last Will & Testament"

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Cotton, Jane Baldwin; F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Wright; and Annie W. B. (Annie Walker Burns) Bell. The Maryland calendar of wills. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1968)
   Volume I.

   Mobberly, John,30th Dec., 1683; 2d Sept., 1684. To eld. dau. Margaret, brother Richard Nennes and his dau. (unnamed), personalty. Wife Eliza:, execx. and residuary legatee. Test: Johanna Hill, Michael Browne. 4. 51
   
   Note: "Nennes" seems to be a mistranscription for Venns -- based on the transcript of the will in Liber 4, folio 50, and a comparison of the the capital "N" for Nicholas, and the capital letter for Richard's family name, the two are consistently different in a way that suggests Richard's family name was Venns, not Nennes.

3.   Saint Mary's, Maryland, United States. Carr, Lois Green. St. Mary's County Career Files: Biographical Files of 17th and 18th Century Marylanders. (Annapolis, Maryland, United States: Maryland State Archives, 2009?).

   Image No: sc5094-2912-1
   Mobberly, John, b. ?, died 1684, Immigrant: ____, Hundred: St. Georges
   first record = 1683, last record = 1684
   Wife Elizabeth, first mentioned as widow
   Occupation: planter; Offices: None, Religion: unknown, Literacy: Marke, Title: none; Householder: yes; Testate: yes, no inventory
   Children: _____
   Will includes a bequest to brother Richard Nennes daughter Margaret and mentions a Thomas Nennes also
   Record: Test. Proc. 13, 148
   Administration Granted 12 Aug 1684 to Elisabeth Moberly of St. Georges Hundred – widow; William Hatton to prove will and swear John Addison and Peter Watts apprs.
   
   Image No: sc5094-2912-6
   Elizabeth Mobberly, widow of John Mobberly, no inventory [for John’s estate], Children: none; Land: unknown
   Inheritance: J.M.:1684: 3 mares, 1 horse, 2 steers, £5 owing from Thomas Nennes, two crops owing from Nicholas Spencer. Execx of estate