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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Family Recorded, in Browning, Charles H. (ed.). The American Historical Register and Monthly Gazette of the Patriotic-Hereditary Societies of the United States of America. (Philadelphia: The Historical Register Publishing Company)
1474.
... She [last wife of Mareen Duval, the emigrant] was buried in the chapel in Darnell's Grove, and with her Martha Duval, daughter of Lewis, one of the sons of Mareen Duval. ...
... Lewis Duval, b. about 1676, m. March 5, 1699, Martha Ridgley; ...
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wills, Vol. 1-2, 1635-1704, in Maryland, United States. Maryland, Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1777: [database on-line]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015)
p. 327 & ff; Image 500.
[Extraction]
I Mareen Duval of Ann Arundell County, Maryland, Merchant . . .
- To my son Lewis all that 300 acres whereon my eldest son Mareen Duvall now dweleth, being a moyiety lying on the South East part of Middle Plantation
- To my son Lewis Duvall my now dwelling plantation after the Dower of my wife Mary Duvall . . .
- [all bequests were entailed to the lawfully begotten heirs of the recipient's body, or the land to revert to the next oldest child]
- My said children before mentioned to be and remain with my wife that now is during their minorities, and that my sons be free to work for themselves at the age of 18 and my daughters at age of 16 . . .
- To my son Lewis Duvall 150 pounds sterling at age 21 . . .
- I appoint my wife Mary Duvall to be my whole and sole executor, and in the event of her death then my son John, my son Lewis and son-in-law Robert Tyler to be Co-executors
Signed 2 August 1694
Proven 13 August 1694
- Newman, Harry Wright. Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation: a genealogical history of Mareen Duvall, gent., of the province of Maryland and his descendants : with histories of the allied families of Tyler, Clarke, Poole, Hall, and Merriken. (Washington [District of Columbia]: H.W. Newman, 1952 (Richmond, Va. : Whittet & Shepperson))
p. 141 & ff.
Lewis Duvall, Gent, b. 16__, was more likely the son of Mareen's first wife, not his second wife. [Note, not true -- he was under age at time of father's death and could not have been born before 1673]
- He married 5 March 1699/00 Martha Ridgley, daughter of Robert and Martha Ridgley, one time of St. Mary's City. Martha received 100£ on the date of her marriage.
- Lewis and Martha had four daughters [Martha, Susanna, Mary, and Ann], all baptized in All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel County.
- Lewis's wife Martha was buried in All Hallows on 29 September 1709, the same day that their youngest daugher Ann was baptized.
- On 1705, Lewis was a Justice of the Peace for Ann Arundel County
- Lewis was not in the Province of Maryland on 15 November 1710
- By 1718 Lewis and John Elders had settled in Dorchester, South Carolina, on the Ashley River, where Lewis was soon joined by his daughters
- Lewis died 1724, leaving 3 daughers as coheireses [Martha, Susanna, and Ann]
- Susanna d. in South Carolina a few years later, a spinster (supported by depostions collected by nephew Joseph Way 2d, son of Ann Duvall, in 1761 and recorded in Maryland in order to claim heritage of Middle Plantation in Maryland, entailed by his grandfather Mareen Duvall.)
- Martha returned to Maryland about 1730 to try to dock the entail on Middle Plantation, but was apparently unsuccessful.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wills, 1724-1725, Vol. 060 , in Charleston County (South Carolina). Probate Judge. Wills and miscellaneous probate records, 1671–1868. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1952)
p. 9 (Inventory beginning p. 82.
Lewis Duvall of Berkley County, Parish of St. George's
It is my will that my Executors sell and dispose of all my Lands, goods and chattels, real and personal estate wheresoever the same may be found and the proceeds after debts are paid to my three daughters Martha, Susanna and Anne equally divided between them and their heirs forever.
Executors: loving friends Col. Joseph Blake and Thomas Waring and loving daughter Martha
Signed 19 April 1724, Lewis Duvall
Witnesses: Joseph Waring, Ann Waring, John Parepoynt
In Council 9 June 1724
- ↑ St. George Dorchester Parish, South Carolina
Borders:
St. Andrew's, St. James Goose Creek, St. Paul's, St. Bartholomew's, and since 1768 St. Matthew's parishes.
For a map, see: Early parishes in South Carolina.* An overlay of districts is available at Carolana.com.
Areas Served: St. George Dorchester Parish served:
part of Berkeley (1682-1768) County 1717-1768[4]
part of Charleston District 1768-1800[5]
Berkeley (1785-1791) County 1785-1791[6]
part of Colleton County 1800-1820[7]
Modern equivalents:
The original parish covered what is present-day Dorchester County
*Throughout the colonial period, the small population and its limited legal needs kept most government, records keeping, and judicial activity confined to the municipal limits of Charleston. Parishes of the established Anglican Church served as election districts, and courts with jurisdiction over the entire colony sat in Charleston.
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