I found the following in a book at my Library the other day, thought it
might help some one, and I would like to know if anyone can give me
which Joseph & Martha Card this is. See below details:
Always, Imo Lee Card Greenwood
Source: Baltimore County , Maryland, Deed Records Vol 4 , 1767 -
1775, by John
Davis, Heritage book
Card, Joseph & Martha, page 90;
16 Jan 1770, Joseph & Martha Card (Martha is daughter of Elizabeth
Clark) of Saint
Catherine Court, near tower of London, England, power of attorney to ,
Wm Clark (?),
mariner, of Wood Ridge, Suffolk Co., now in Maryland----- to sue
executors of Edward
Thorpe, late of Maryland. signed Joseph Card. witt: Walls Richardson
and Nathan
Highmore.
22 Dec 1769, Edward Thorpe, died intestate, we, John Thorpe, mariner,
of Oldsburg,
Suffolk Co., England, brother of said Edward, Thomas & Mary Baker (Mary
is sister of
said Edward), blacksmith, of same, John Thorpe, the younger, Ezekiel
Thrope and John
& Elizabeth Curtis (said John & Ezeliel Thorpe are sons of Elizabeth a
daughter of Ezekiel
Thorpe deceased and another brother of said Edward), power of attorney
to Wm Clark of
Woodbridge, Suffolk Co., England., signed John Thorpe, Thomas Baker,
Mary X Baker,
John X Thorpe, Ezekiel X Thorpe, John X Curtiss and Elizabeth X Curtiss,
: witt; John
Drake & Lovett Fox
page 10;
27 Nov 1767, John Clark, of Baltimore Co., MD. to Edward
Garrettson, of same,
L26, 17 acre - north side of Bush River, signed John Clark, witt:
John Mathews and
Ashberry