Hi,
Can anyone help with the following? These are not my direct ancestors, my link to Matthew
HOWARD being through both his son Matthew, Jr., and his daughter Elizabeth who married
Henry RIDGELY.
I have been updating my webpages to reflect what I have offline, with full documentation
for the source of each record. Can anyone provide evidence showing that Matthew HOWARD
had a daughter Mary who married John HAMMOND?
Here is what I have found in the brief search I have made to try to find documentation
from original records.
The earliest mention I have seen is by Warfield in 1905 in *Founders of Anne Arundel
Counties* where he said that John HAMMOND married Mary HOWARD, daughter of Matthew, based
on the will of Samuel HOWARD.
The Maryland Calendar of Wills 3:25 has an incorrect abstract of Samuel HOWARD's will.
The abstract states he left to "cousins John HOWARD, Eliza: NORWOOD, Sarah BRICE,
Hannah HAMMOND, Cornelius and Joseph HOWARD and John HAMMOND, Jr., personalty," and
later states that trustees were "cousins John HOWARD and John HAMMOND, Jr.,
afsd."
The actual copy of Maryland wills 11:397-399 on Family History Library microfilm 0,012,844
states:
"I Give to my Cousin John HOWARD Twenty Shillings to buy a Ring.
I Give to John HAMMOND Junior Twenty Shillings to buy a Ring.
I Give and bequeath to my Cousin Eliza: [HOWARD crossed out, written above is] NORWOOD
fiveteen Shillings.
I Give to my Cousin Sarah Brice fifteen Shillings to buy a Ring.
I Give to my Cousin Hanh: HAMMOND fifteen Shillings to buy a Ring.
I Give to my Cousin Cornelius HOWARD Tenn Shillings.
I Give to my Cousin Joseph HOWARD Tenn Shillings."
While the others are called "cousins" [nephews and nieces] John HAMMOND, Jr. is
not.
Later the will book copy states:
"I leave my Cousins John HOWARD and John HAMMOND, Junr. as my Trustees."
Sharon J. Doliante in *Maryland and Virginia Colonials* did a transcription of Samuel
HOWARD's will. She cites the will book copy above but I would think she was reading a
different version of the will. She capitalizes words in her transcription that are not
capitalized, does not capitalize words that are capitalized, and has different spellings
of numerous words than from what is in the will book copy. Her transcription totally
omits the bequest to John HAMMOND, Jr. Her transcription variously spells the word as
"Cozin," "Cozen," and "Cozon," in the various bequests,
while the will book copy is "Cousin" in all.
Most importantly, while the will book copy says "my Cousins" [plural] John
HOWARD and John HAMMOND, Junr. are trustees, her transcription says "my Cozon"
[singular] John HOWARD and John HAMMOND, Junr. are trustees.
Does an original will for Samuel HOWARD exist, and is this what she transcribed, while
citing the will book copy?? If so, does it indeed say "Cozon" [singular]
implying only John HOWARD, and not John HAMMOND, Jr. is a "cousin" [nephew] to
Samuel HOWARD? If so, what evidence is there for John HAMMOND, Sr.'s wife being a
HOWARD?
In MD Testamentary Proceedings 10:315 on 1 Nov. 1678 it was stated that Thomas ROPER of
Anne Arundel County in his will requested if his wife should marry, to secure his
child's estate. Since that time his widow married John HAMMON of said county, who was
likely to embezzle the estate and therefore Mary HAMMON, the relict of Thomas ROPER was to
render an account. [Newman quoted as HAMMOND, but there are no D's on the name in this
record.]
Thomas ROPER wrote his will 19 Sep. 1677 and probated 26 Oct. 1677. Harry Wright NEWMAN in
Anne Arundel Gentry, 2nd Ed. stated that John HAMMOND, Sr. evidently had a first wife as
he had married sons by 1690, within 13 years of this marriage.
Is there any evidence other than that one "s" on "cousins" (and is
that "s" on an original will?) for John HAMMOND, Jr. being a nephew to Samuel
HOWARD? Is there any other evidence for John HAMMOND, Sr.'s first wife being a
daughter of Matthew HOWARD? IF there is evidence for her being a HOWARD, what evidence is
there that her given name was Mary? It seems "Mary" is the name of John
HAMMOND's second wife, widow of Thomas ROPER, but what records show a given name for
his wife before this time?
If anyone has records to clarify the above, let me know.
Rick Saunders
http://home.netcom.com/~fzsaund/howard.html