Person:William Peddicord (1)

His parents were William and Sarah [Belt]. He descends from William Petticoate (4th generation) who came to Maryland from England in 1665.

From Colonial Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland

In his will he named his wife Sophia and the children listed below. The estate was to be divided when son Benedict was 14 years of age. Benoni Belt and Adam Peddicord were named as executors, but Belt refused to serve.

By her first husband, William Petticoat, Sophia was the mother of: Adam Peddicord. Jasper (Peddocpart) Peddocord. William Peddicord. Pleasant Peddicord. Benedict Peddicord was born on 25 Sep 1777. He signed a will in Jul 1794. He died before 8 Jun 1795.

(William Peddicord died testate and there are deeds that are from the settlement of his estate, therefore his issue is known from the will and the deeds.)

A copy of the Land Grant to Cornelius Howard for the transport of William Petticoate appears in Liber FF (10) page 498: The grant was for 200 acres, 100 acres due to the assignment of rights to land by Samuel Howard to Cornelius Howard and 100 acres due for the transportation of John Thomas and William PETTICOATE. Below is a transcript of the record:

William Petticoate's Land Grants for Petticoates Rest

He apparently purchased the rights to this land from George Yates who in turn had purchased rights for the land from Co. William Burgess. Thus this is not land that William Petticoate received for completion of service/indentured servitude. To locate this parcel, one needs to know the location of land of Daniel Edge, the only reference given in the metes and bounds description. This grant is recorded in two different books at the Maryland State Archives, but it seems the content is the same. One record is on pages 98 and 99 of Liber 21 and the other on page 310 of Liber 20. The dates of 1649 and 1650 in the document refer to the dates of the "Conditions of Plantation", the rules, that Cecilius Calvert, as proprietor of the Province Maryland, had established for the granting of lands on those dates, and are not dates of any of the grants of this land in Anne Arundel Co.

1. ↑ Robert Barnes. Colonial Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. (Anthology of Colonial Families of Maryland 1600s-1900s)
   p. 15.
2. ↑ Vital Records Baltimore County, MD
   Baltimore County Will Book 3:374.
3. ↑ Researcher.

   Linda L. Mitchell