1635 - Captain of William Claiborne's ships in the battle of Kent Island
Lt. Richard Banks was the acting administrator of the estate of Thomas Allen who had owed money to Thomas Smith. In Nov 1649 William Eltonhead obtained a judgement against Lt. Banks for 299 lbs tobacco in the name of his new wife, Jane, former wife of Thomas Smith. Eltonhead was her third husband. At the trial, the defendant presented a receipt from Capt. Phillip Bashaw, and attorney for Jane's second husband, Phillip Taylor.
[Thomas Smith was one of the captains of Claiborne's ships in the battle of Kent Island in 1635. Three years later he was captured by Baltimore's forces, tried at St. Mary's, and hung.]
