Charles County, Maryland, Wills 1808-1817


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This book has detailed abstracts of all 219 wills in Charles County, Maryland Will Book HBBH 13; Maryland Archives microfilm CR 49157-1 (MSA CM412-14) recorded during the years 1808-1817.




Maryland Historical Magazine


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Includes the proceedings of the Society.




Robey, Roby, Robie


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The earliest known ancestor of the Robey family was John Roby (1455- 1515) who owned Castle Donington, England. One of his descendants, Henry Robie (1618-1688), immigrated to America and settled in New Hampshire. His many descendants and other people surnamed Robey, Roby and Robie live throughout the United States and Canada as well as in Great Britain.




An Index of the Source Records of Maryland


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The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.







Charles County Gentry


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Noted Maryland genealogist Harry Wright Newman here presents the family histories of six Charles County, Maryland pioneers: Thomas Dent, John Dent, Richard Edelen, John Hanson, George Newman, and Humphrey Warren. All were from distinguished armorial families in England prior to settling in Charles County in the 17th century. Newman traces each family as far as possible--in some cases into the 20th century--and indicates if and when the family left the area. Well documented, with an index to 2,000 persons.













Major William Boarman, Charles County, Maryland, 1630-1709


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William Boarman (1630-1709), the progenitor of this family, was born in England. When he came to Maryland is not known but the first record of him living there shows him living with the Jesuit priest at the age of fifteen. He was married (1) to Sarah Linle (d. ca. 1669); (2) prior to 1673 to Mary Mathews; and (3) by 1686 to Mary Jarboe, the daughter of Colonel John Jarboe. The will of William Boarman was probated in Charles Co., Maryland on June 17, 1709. He fathered twelve children. Descendants live in Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and elsewhere.