... [James 5 Todd] married secondly between Aug. 31 and Oct. 26, 1698, Penelope, daughter of Thomas Scudamore + of Baltimore County and his wife Abigail daughter of John and Jane Dixon.
The separate administration accounts upon the estate of Jane Dixon made on the two above mentioned dates make mention of a legacy paid in part to Penelope Skidmore, Aug. 31, and apparently the remainder to James Todd Oct. 26 (Balto. Adm. Accts.).
... Proof of this marriage of James Todd is to be found in the assignment Oct. 10, 1704, from James and Penelope Todd to John Hays of a tract, Scudamore's Last, 130 acres laid out for Thomas Scudamore Aug. 13, 1687 "by whose death the tract became the property of James Todd and his wife, the heiress at law of said Scudamore" (Armap. Patents C. D. 161-2).
In an ejectment suit brought about 1745, it is also stated that Thomas Scudamore had by his wife Abigail, an only child Penelope who married James Todd, deceased, and that Penelope had died "without issue under 21 years of age" (Annap. Judgments E. J. no. 10; 743-50). ...
+ Thomas Scudamore of Back River, Baltimore County, practised as attorney before the Baltimore County Court (Balto. Co. Court Proc. 1682-6), and was probably at one time one of the County Justices. ...
... Abigail Dixon the daughter of John and Jane Dixon after the death of her first husband Thomas Scudamore, about 1687-8, married as her second husband, John Hays [Hayes] of Back River. ...
