Sothoron & Related Families - 13 (Notes Pages)
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Donall Robert Louis [Male]
Eleanor Frances, daughter of Francis Brand Gilliams & Helen May MacMillan, married Robert Louis Donall in 1958. (Gilliams*)
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Donall Marjorie Ruth [Female]
Marjorie Ruth, daughter of Robert Louis Donall & Eleanor Frances Gilliams. (Gilliams*)
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Donall Evelyn Gail [Female]
Evelyn Gail, daughter of Robert Louis Donall & Eleanor Frances Gilliams. (Gilliams*)
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Clay Mary [Female] b. ABT 1852 Ohio
See father's Notes for 1870 Federal Census entry.
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Clay Sarah [Female] b. ABT 1855 Ohio
See father's Notes for 1870 Federal Census entry.
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Coate Walter [Male] b. ABT 1868 Ohio
See father's Notes for 1870 Federal Census entry.
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Marbury William [Male] b. 1772
See father's Notes for lineage.
William (1771-?), who served two terms in the Maryland House of Delegates and who married Jane Contee (1780-?), daughter of John Read Magruder and wife Barbara Contee. (Papenfuse* - see father's Notes)
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Marshall William [Male]
Per lineage in father in law Luke's Notes; called "Doctor" & said to be "of Piscataway."
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Brown Gustavus [Male] b. 10 APR 1689 Dalkeith, Scotland - d. 1762
Per Papenfuse*, Cecilia was the daughter of Dr. Gustavus Brown (1689-1762) and his first wife Frances Fowke (1690/91-1744). See Notes for Thomas Bond, second husband of Cecelia, for full family.
Recorded at request of buyer. John Johnson Sothoron of St. Mary's Co. gent. sells to Henry Wharton of St. Mary's Co. gent., for £60 and 14,000 pounds of tobacco, land purchased by Sothoron on 3 April 1722 from Thomas Turner of Charles Co. gent., being parts of Baltimore's Gift and Baltimore's Kindnes. Witness: George Dent, Gustavus Brown. (Land Records 31{L#2}:29, Charles Co., MD, 1722.06.12, Recorded 1722.06.19)
Samuel & Richard Sothoron of St. Mary's Co., executors of John Johnson Sothoron late of St. Mary's Co.. Tobacco received from Mrs Dryden Forbes for costs of suit in Prerogative Court, 2,550 lbs. Income noted from George Graham, John Crook, Mary Burch, Benjamin Sothoron, Leonard Clark, John Briscoe, Jacob Andrew Minitrees. Monies paid to Zachariah Bond, Thos. Beck, Gustavus Brown, Dr. Richard Cooke, Wm. Bond. Paid to attorneys for suit against Dryden Forbes, 1,017 ½ lbs tobacco. Net value £619.12.1½. (Accts 23:157, St. Mary's Co., MD, 1746.09.09)
Samuel Bond, exr of Henry Greenfield Sothoron, who was surviving partner & exr. of Zachariah Bond vs. Gustavus R. Browne & W.B. Magruder, exrs. of Richard Browne
- Sothoron & Bond were partners in trade in St. Mary's Co. A Joint Bond was drawn 8 May 1773 to cover debt of Richard & Alexander Browne of £627.3.8½. Alexander moved to Virginia where he died insolvent. Richard died in 1787, leaving assets to Gustavus Richard Brown of Charles County and William Bowie Magruder of Montgomery Co. Pray for principal and interest due from 17 June1783.
- Auditors report dated 24 June 1800, notes a balance of £711.3.1 due complainants, including interest.
- Decree dated 3 July 1800, ordering payment of debt plus costs of 2,084 pounds of tobacco. (Chancery Papers 4729, St. Mary's Co., MD, Filed 1794.06.02)
** Doctors Gustavus Brown (Fresco(2)* : 46)
There were four Doctor Browns in St. Mary's and neighboring Charles County (MD) in the 1700's, three of them named Gustavus and all four related. Dr. Eugene F. Cordell, the medical historian read a paper before the Johns Hopkins Historical Society April 4, 1902, which was later published in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin in August - September 1902. The article is titled, "The Doctors Gustavus Brown of Lower Maryland". A copy was given to this writer for the St. Mary's Co. Historical Society.
- First, there was the emigrant, Dr. Gustavus (1689-1762); second, his son, Dr. Gustavus Richard (1747-1804); and third, grandson Dr. Gustavus Brown (1744-1801) of Summerseat and fourth, another grandson, Dr. William Brown (1751-1792).
- The third and fourth grew up in St. Mary's Co. All four men were educated at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
- The grandfather, Dr. Gustavus Brown was an emigrant. He wrote in his Common Prayer and Bible that he was born at Dalkeith, near Edinburgh, Scotland on April 10, 1689, that he came into Maryland in May 1708 (as a surgeon or surgeon's mate) on one of the King's vessels. While his ship lay at anchor in the Chesapeake Bay, he went ashore but before he could return, a severe storm arose which made it necessary for the ship to weigh anchor and put out to sea, so he was stranded. He settled in Charles County, MD. He married twice. By the first wife, he had a son, who became a minister and was the father of two St. Mary's Countians. The first Dr. Brown, the emigrant, by his second marriage, had Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown, 22 years younger than his brother, the minister.
- Dr. Gustavus Brown (1744-1801), 3rd, was the grandson of Gustavus Brown, 1st, and although some years older, the nephew of Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown, 2nd. He was the son of Reverend Richard Brown and was born at Mainside near Edinburgh in 1744. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh for seven years and obtained his degree there in 1770. He came to America shortly after in company with Drs. Henry Reeder (uncle to the lady he afterward married). Lansdale, Ireland, and some say, Goldie, his fellow students at Edinburgh, and with them settled in St. Mary's Co.
- In 1778, he is listed as serving as surgeon in the Upper Battalion of St. Mary's Co., Colonel John Allen Thomas, Commander.
- In 1782, he attended his friend, Dr. Ireland, and the illness proving fatal, married his widow, Susanna, on August 19, 1788. Susanna Ireland was the only child of Colonel John Reeder and his wife, Dicanda Smith, an heiress, who built the fine home Summerseat. This is where Dr. Brown lived until his death.
- Dr. Brown inherited from his father the Scotch estate, but as he left no descendants at his death, it went to Gustavus Richard Alexander Brown of William. The 1798 Tax Assessment shows Dr. Brown having a house valued at $700, 1138 acres and 32 slaves (2 disabled), total value of $4,908 in Upper Newtown Hundred. There have been as many as three houses built on this site. The present house can be seen on an elevation in a field on the west side of Route 235 (Old Three Notch Road) about three miles north of Hollywood.
- Dr. Brown had no children. His wife, Susanna Reeder Ireland Brown had one child,
Dicanda Ireland, who married Clement Dorsey. The estate descended through the families of Costigan and Dorsey. From about 1850 until about 1916, four Costigan sisters operated the farm and maintained a very fine classical Finishing Academy for young ladies.
- In the late evening of December 13, 1799, a horseman, travel-stained and excited, eached Summerseat bearing a summons from his uncle, Dr. Gustavus Richard Brown to attend the Father of our Country, George Washington, at Mount Vernon, n consultation with his uncle, and Doctors Craig and Elisha Cullen Dick. Dr. Brown immediately mounted his horse and hastened, but when he reached the ferry probably at Fort Washington), he was told of Washington's death and turned back. 3eorge Washington had been riding horseback all day in a cold ran overseeing his plantation. He awoke between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. with difficulty in breathing and wallowing. The three physicians attending him told the newspapers that he died of )neumonia, although they treated him for quinsy. The youngest, Dr. Dick of Alexandria, recommended a tracheotomy, an operation which had never been )performed in America but the other two doctors decided that Washington might die A the operation. The patient died within 21 hours. After recent detailed study, it has been concluded that Washington died of suffocation, caused by the swelling of the lid-like structure at the entrance of the larynx.
- Dr. Gustavus Brown died at Summerseat. He was buried in the Reeder burial ground at Westfield also called the Dixon Farm on Sandgates Road between Summerseat and the Patuxent River. His tombstone, still standing, reads: "Gustavus Brown, M.D., Native of Maiden Side, Scotland, died July 3, 1801, aged 56 years."
- References:
- Cordell, Eugene F., "The Doctors Gustavus Brown of Lower Maryland". St. Mary's Co. Historical Society, Brown File.
- Kelly & Burrage, "Dictionary of American Medical Biography". New York, 1928.
- Holloway, Lisabeth M., "Medical Obituaries of American Physicians". Biographical Notices, New York, 1981.
- Orphans Court Proceedings 9/19/1788, f.127.
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Marbury Luke [Male]
See son Luke's Notes for family per Papenfuse*
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Bond Thomas [Male] d. ABT 1797
** Biography
BOND, THOMAS (?-ca. 1797). BORN: in St. Mary's County, of age by 1760. NATIVE: at least third generation. RESIDED: in Upper Resurrection Hundred, St. Mary's County. FAMILY BACK GROUND. FATHER: Capt. John Bond (?-1760), son of Zachariah Bond (?-ca. 1716). MOTHER: Elizabeth, daughter of John Attaway (?-1732), of St. Mary's County. UNCLE: Zachariah Bond (?-ca. 1776). BROTHERS: Gerard (?-1789), died without progeny; Samuel (?-ca. 1818); John; Richard, who married Susanna Gardiner Key (1751-?); and William. SISTERS: Susannah, who married (first name unknown) Bates; Elizabeth, who married (first name unknown) Jordan; Mary (?-1825), who probably married Henry Greenfield Sothoron (ca. 1732-1793). MARRIED by 1757 Cecelia (1730/31-ca. 1797), widow of Dr. John Key (?-1755), son of Philip Key (1696/97-1764). Cecilia was the daughter of Dr. Gustavus Brown (1689-1762) and his first wife Frances Fowke (1690/91-1744). She was the stepdaughter of Margaret Black Boyd, and the granddaughter of Gerard Fowke (1662/63-1734/35). Her brothers were Gustavus (1711-1712); Gustavus (1722-1722); Richard (1725-?), who married first, Helen Bailey, second, (first name unknown) Hawkins; and Gustavus Richard (1727-1727). Her half brother was Dr. Gustavus Richard (1747-1804). Her sisters were Frances (1713-?), who married Rev. John Moncure; Sarah (1715-?), who married Rev. John Scott; Mary (1717-1801), who married first, Matthew Hopkins, and second, Henry Threlkeld; Elizabeth (1723-?), who married Dr. Michael Wallace; Jean (1728-1784), who married Rev. Isaac Campbell; and Ann (1732-ca. 1800), who married first, Rev. Samuel Claggett, second, Robert Horner, and third, Samuel Hanson (1716-1794). Her half sister was Margaret (1749/50-1787), who married Thomas Stone (1743-178). Her nephew was Gustavus Scott (1753-1800). CHILDREN. SONS: Peregrine; Thomas; and John. STEPSON: Philip Key (1750-1820). DAUGHTERS: Cecelia, who married (first name unknown) Gardiner; Elizabeth, who married (first name unknown) Briscoe. STEPDAUGHTER: Susannah Gardiner Key. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican, All Faiths Parish, St. Mary's County. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Mr., by 1767; Esq., by death. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter; owned a mill in St. Clement's Hundred, St. Mary's County. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, St. Mary's County, 1773-1774 (Bills of Credit 1, Cv, 2, 3), 1782-1783 (Claims 1, 2), 1785, 1790, 1791-1792. LOCAL OFFICES: justice, St. Mary's County, in office 1764-1773, 1778-at least 1792; justice, Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, St. Mary's County, commissioned 1768 and 1772; justice, Orphans' Court, St. Mary's County, 1778-at least 1786; commissioner of tax, St. Mary's County, 1779-at least 1785. MILITARY SERVICE: called major, period of service unknown. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: 12 slaves, 1790; assessed value £97.0.0, including 2 slaves and plate, 1793. He petitioned as an insolvent debtor in 1794. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 765 acres in St. Mary's County (438 acres inherited from his father, 1760; 7 acres by patent, 1758). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: owned 494 acres in 1793, but listed only 340 acres in insolvency petition in 1794, all in St. Mary's County. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: inventory dated December 12, 1797, St. Mary's County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £312.17.1 current money; FB, £283.17.10. LAND: at least 140 acres in St. Mary's County. (Papenfuse* 1:142, 2:935)
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Marvin Richard Buckner [Male]
Personal knowledge of WHS*
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Marvin Theodore Hammond [Male] b. 28 OCT 1953 - d. 5 FEB 2011 Kenett Square, Chester Co., PA
Personal knowledge of WHS*
Theodore H. Marvin, SSN 196-38-3851
Born 28 Oct 1953
Issued PA (1963-64)
Last Residence 19348, Kennett Square, Chester Co., PA
Died 5 Feb 2011
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Lake Elizabeth Fletcher [Female] b. 29 NOV 1852 Virginia - d. 5 JAN 1910
See husband Thomas' Notes for 1900 Federal Census entry.
Elizabeth Fletcher Lake
wife of Thomas E. Wolff
11/29/1852 - 1/5/1910
(Grave Marker*, Marshall Cemetery, Marshall, Fauquier Co., VA)
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Daniel Emily Jean [Female]
See father's notes for family source.
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Daniel Christopher Phillip [Male]
See father's notes for family source.
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Pierson Lois [Female]
Paul Mason, son of Francis Jackson Daniel & Emily C. Gilliams, married Lois Pierson in 1948. They had 4 children: Christopher Phillip, Emily Jean, Timothy Michael & Anthony Paul. (Gilliams*)
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Daniel Francis Jackson [Male]
Emily C., daughter of John Farr Gilliams & Ida Marie Brand Shellenberger, married Francis Jackson Daniel in 1923. (Gilliams*)
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Sothoron Warren Haddox [Male] b. 6 MAY 1895 Washington, DC - d. 12 JUL 1970 Baltimore Co. General Hospital, Baltimore Co., MD
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Daniel Paul Mason [Male]Paul Mason, son of Francis Jackson Daniel & Emily C. Gilliams, married Lois Pierson in 1948. They had 4 children: Christopher Phillip, Emily Jean, Timothy Michael & Anthony Paul. (Gilliams*)
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