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Ancestors of Sarah "Sally" Coomes
Generation No. 1
1. Sarah "Sally" Coomes, born 1784; died 31 Aug 1827. She was the daughter of 2. William Coomes, Jr and 3. Frances Jane Greenleaf. She married (1) Joseph Walker 24 Jan 1801 in Nelson County, Kentucky. He was born 1770, and died 1832.
Marriage Notes for Sarah Coomes and Joseph Walker:
Nelson County, Kentucky Marriages Vol I 1785 - 1810 by Charles M Franklin:
Walker, Joseph Sally Coomes 28 Jan 1801
Generation No. 2
2. William Coomes, Jr, born Aft. 1734 in Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; died 06 Nov 1824 in Cox's Creek, Nelson County, Kentucky. He was the son of 4. Thomas Coomes and 5. Elizabeth Wharton. He married 3. Frances Jane Greenleaf 1760.
3. Frances Jane Greenleaf, born in Maryland; died 25 Apr 1816 in Cox's Creek, Nelson County, Kentucky.
Notes for William Coomes, Jr:
William was termed Jr, as he had an Uncle William Coomes. William obtained 144 acres of Green's Inheritance from his father. He was listed on the tax list in Charles County, Maryland in 1778, and with his family was in Nelson County, Kentucky by 1785.
The William Coomes family left Maryland, moving to Virginia. When hearing of the fertile ground in "Kain-tuck-ee", the Indian name for Kentucky (meaning beautiful ground), the Coomes family joined the pioneers, led by James Harrod, in the early 1770s. They used flatboats and poled them down the mighty Ohio. After journeying down the Ohio for several weeks, the party made their first permanent camp at a place called Drilling's Lick. It was located on the Kentucky River, near the present day site of Frankfort, Kentucky. While the men were busy with hunting and trapping, Frances Jane Coomes began to manufacture salt. This was the first and earliest manufacturing of salt in the state. After a short stay at Drilling's Lick, the pioneers pushed further into the wilderness. They settled at a place called Harrod's Station, later called Fort Harrod. The men hunted and trapped and cleared land to grow crops. Frances Jane Coomes spent much of her time teaching the children how to read, write, and cipher.
Oct 28, 1779: William Coomes this day claimed the right to a settlement & Preemption to a Tract of Land lying on the waters of Beach Fork of Salt River, known by the name of Cave Spring, by residing in this country FOR TWELVE MONTHS, before the year 1778, satisfactory proof being made to the Court they are of Opinion that the said Combs has a right to a settlement for 400 acres of Land including said Spring & a Preemption of 1000 Acres Adjoining & that a certificate issue for the same accordingly (certificate book of the Virginia Land Commission, 1779-1780)
During the War of Independence there were three companies of volunteers from what at that time was known as Kentucky County, Virginia. Captain John Holder's company was organized in either 1799/1780, at Ruddells' and Martin's Station, near the present day site of Cynthiana, Kentucky. William Coomes was a sergeant in Captain Holder's company. His official title was "Sergeant of the Continental Line".
After the war William Coomes and family settled in Bardstown on a one thousand acre farm two miles northeast of the town. They wanted to be near people of their own faith - Catholic; and, there was a large cave on the farm for protection from Indians. William Coomes presented 105 acres to Father Badin for a new Church.
On July 26, 1830, William and his wife, Frances, gave to Benjamin N Mitchell, "in consideration for love and affection" to the husband of their daughter, Mary Ann, 100 acres of land in Nelson County, Kentucky.
"Sketches of the Early Catholic Missions of Kentucky
From their Commencement in 1787 to the Jubilee of 1826-7"
Compiled from authentic sources, with the assistance of
THE VERY REV. STEPHEN THEODORE BADIN
The first Priest ordained in the United States
by M.J. Spalding, D.D.:
'Chapter II
The Early Catholic Emigrants to Kentucky
The reports carried back to Virginia and Maryland by the first adventurers who had visited Kentucky, were of so glowing a character as to stimulate many others to emigrate thither. The new country was represented as a sort of promised land, with an exuberant and fertile soil; and, if not flowing with milk and honey, at least teeming with all kinds of wild game. This rich country now lay open to the enterprising activity of the white man; its fertile lands could be obtained by occupation, or purchased for a mere trifle; and the emigrants might subsist, like the Indians, by hunting until the soil could be prepared for cultivation.
To be sure, dangers were to be encountered on the way to this beautiful region; and these dangers would perhaps increase, after the new emigrant should be able to settle down at his new home. The reports of the first pioneers were interspersed with tales of horror concerning those who had been killed and scalped by the Indians, or who had been dragged into captivity and mercilessly burnt at the stake. But these frightful narratives, however much they grated on the ear, could not quench, or even check to any great extent, the growing spirit of adventure. Men and women, young and old, caught up this spirit; and soon nearly half of Virginia and Maryland was in motion for the west. In the brief space of seventeen years - between 1775 and 1792 - Kentucky, from being a vast unreclaimed wilderness, became a state of the Union!
The Catholic populace of Kentucky emigrated almost entirely from Maryland; chiefly from St Mary's Charles', and Prince George's Counties. They were descendents of the good old Colonists of Lord Baltimore. Maryland was, in every respect, the great alma mater of the Catholics of Kentucky. She supplied them with people who broke to them the bread of life.
The first Catholics who are known to have emigrated to our State, were Wm. Coomes and family, and Dr. Hart. They both came out in the spring of 1775, among the very first white people who removed to Kentucky. They settled in Harrod's station, at the that time the only place in Kentucky, except Boonesborough and perhaps Logan's station, where emigrants could enjoy any degree of security from the attacks of the Indians....
William Coomes was originally from Charles Co., Maryland, whence he had removed to the south branch of the Potomac river, in Virginia. He emigrated to Kentucky, with his family, together with Abraham and Isaac Hite. On their way through Kentucky to Harrod's Station, the party encamped for seven weeks at Drilling's Lick, in the neighbourhood of the present city of Frankfort. Here Mrs Coomes, aided by those of the party who were not engaged in hunting, employed herself in making salt - for the first time, perhaps, that this article was manufactured in our State.
Some time after the party had reached Harrod's Town, the men of the station being all otherwise busily engaged, Mrs Coomes, at the urgent request of the citizens, opened a school for the education of children. This was, in all probability, the first elementary school established in Kentucky. Thus the first school-teacher, and probably the first physician of our Commonwealth, were both Catholics.
Of the remarkable adventures of Wm. Coomes, we intend to speak more in detail at the close of the present chapter...
We will close this chapter with a brief account of the singular adventures and hair-breath escapes of William Coomes, who, as we have already seen, was, with Dr. Hart, the first Catholic that came to Kentucky. He settled with his family in Harrod's Town, in the spring of 1775. and remained there for about nine years, sharing in all the dangers and hardships of his fellow-townsmen. Early in March, 1777, the Indians appeared in the vicinity of Harrod's Town, to begin the memorable siege which was to last, with little intermission, for nearly four years. Mr. Butler, the historian of Kentucky, thus introduces the account of this attack; in which, as elsewhere, he follows Marshall.
'On the 29th of December [1776] a large body of Indians attacked McClellan's fort, on Elkhorn, killed McClellan, his wife, and two others, which drove the residue of the people to Harrod's Town. This necessarily produced great alarm; it was soon much increased by an attack of the Indians on James Ray, his brother, and another man, who were clearing some land about four miles from Harrod's Town, at the present residence of the venerable and distinguished pioneer. [Ray] The hostile party, consisting of forty-seven warriors, under command of Blackfish, a celebrated chief, attracted by the noise of the axes, rushed upon the little party of choppers, killed the younger Ray, and took the third man prisoner. The elder Ray escaped by his uncommon swiftness of foot.'
'The third man here referred to was William Coomes; but there was yet a fourth man, named Thomas shores, whom Mr Butler does not mention. He, and not William Coomes, as we shall presently see, was taken prisoner by the Indians, at the Shawnee Springs. The historians' statement does not tally with that of Mr Coomes in many other particulars. The statement of the latter is briefly as follows; and we have not a doubt of its substantial accuracy. [*Furnished us, as we have said, by his son, who was at the time in Harrod's Station, a youth then about 18 years of age].
The party of choppers alluded to, consisted of the two Rays, Wm. Coomes, and Thomas Shores, who were engaged in clearing land, at the Shawnee Springs, for Hugh M'Gary, the father-in-law of the two Rays. On the 6th of March, 1777, the two Rays and Shores visited a neighbouring sugar-camp, to slake their thirst, leaving Mr Coomes alone at the clearing. Wm. Coomes, alarmed at their protracted absence, had suspended his work and was about to start in search of them; when he suddenly spied a body of Indians - fifteen in number - coming directly towards him from the direction of the sugar-camp. He instantly concealed himself behind the trunk of the tree which he had just felled, at the same time seizing and cocking his rifle. Fortunately, the Indians had not observed him, owing to the thick canebrake and undergrowth; they passed by him in Indian file, to a temporary log cabin, which the woodmen had erected for their accommodation.
So soon as they were out of sight, Coomes escaped towards the sugar-camp, to find out what had become of his companions. Discovering no trace of them, he concealed himself amidst the boughs of a fallen hickory tree, the yellow leaves of which were of nearly the same colour as his garments. From his hiding place he had a full view of the sugar-camp; and after a short time he observed a party of forty Indians halt there, where they were soon rejoined by the fifteen whom he had previously seen. They tarried there for a long time, drinking the syrup, singing their war-songs, and dancing their war-dance. Coomes was a breathless spectator of this scene of revelry, from the distance of only fifty or sixty yards. Other straggling parties of savages also came in, and the whole number amounted to about seventy, instead of forty seven, as stated by Butler and Marshall.
Meantime, James Ray had escaped and communicated the alarm to the people at Harrod's Town. Great was the terror and confusion which ensued there. The hot-headed McGary openly charged James Harrod with having been wanting in the precautions and courage necessary for the defence of the fort. These two men, who had a personal enmity against each other, quarrelled and levelled their fatal rifles at each other's bosoms. In this conjuncture, the wife of McGary rushed in, and turned aside the rifle of her husband, when Harrod immediately withdrew his, and the difficulty was temporarily adjusted.
McGary insisted that a party of thirty should be immediately dispatched with him in search of Coomes, Shores, and his son-in-law, Wm. Ray. Harrod, the commandant of the station, and Col. James Rogers Clark, thought this measure rash and imprudent, as all the men were necessary for the defence of the place, which might be attacked by the Indians at any moment. At length, however, chiefly at the urgent instance of a Mr Pendergrast, the request of McGary was granted; and thirty mounted men were placed under his command for the expedition.
The detachment moved with great rapidity, and soon reached the neighbourhood of the sugar camp, which the Indians had already abandoned. Near it they discovered the mangled remains of Wm. Ray, at the sight of which McGary turned pale, and was near falling from his horse, in a fainting fit. As soon as the body was discovered, one of the men shouted out: "See there! they have killed poor Coomes!" Coomes, who had hitherto lurked in his hiding place, now sallied forth, and ran towards the men, exclaiming: "No, they haven't killed me, by Job! I'm safe!"
The party having buried Ray, and rescued Coomes, returned in safety to Harrod's Town, which they reached about sunset. All hands then set to work to put the place in a state of defence; and on the next morning, the memorable siege commenced, which was destined to keep Harrod's Town in danger, and in constant alarm, for several years. During this whole time the gallant little garrison was harassed day and night. Ten sentinels mounted guard during the day, and double that number at night. The whole number of fighting men in the station scarcely exceeded sixty. Their provisions and ammunition were often exhausted; and the obtaining of a new supply was attended with great danger. Yet it was frequently accomplished, in the very face of the besiegers. Small parties escaped from the fort in the night, and after having secured an abundant supply of game, in a distant hunting-ground, or obtained ammunition from a neighbouring station, returned with the same caution to the fort. James Ray was often a leader of these foraging parties.
The people in the station received their daily supply of provisions from a common store; there was an officer appointed to distribute the rations to each family, in proportion to the number of its members. Things were conducted pretty much on the same plan as in a regular army, or in a man of war at sea. The women and children shared in the gallantry of their husbands and fathers for the defence of the fort.
We find no mention, by either of the historians of Kentucky, of the following stirring adventure, in which Wm. Coomes was likewise an actor. In the spring of 1778, he was one of a party of thirty men, sent out under Col. Bowman, for the purpose of shelling corn at a plantation about seven miles distant from Harrod's Town. The men were divided into pairs, each of which had a large sack, which was to be filled and brought back to the fort. While engaged in filling the sacks, they were fired on by a party of about forty Indians, who had laid concealed in the neighbouring canebrake. At the first fire seven of the white men were shot down, and among them a Mr. H. Berry, the person standing by the side of Wm. Coomes, whose face was bespattered with the blood from the wounds of his fallen comrade. Eight others of the white men fled for shelter to the canebrake; but the rest of them, rallied by the loud cries of Col. Bowman, seized their rifles, and, sheltering themselves in an adjoining cabin, or behind the trees, prepared to defend themselves to the last. One of the men, observing the face of Coomes reddened with blood, mistook him for an Indian, and was levelling his rifle at him, when the latter, fortunately remarking his movement, cried out, and thus saved his life.
Meantime, Col. Bowman despatched a courier on horseback to Harrod's Town, to carry the alarm, and to obtain a reinforcement. The messenger sped his way unharmed to the fort, though many a rifle was aimed at him, and though another strong party of savages were lying in ambush on the way he had to travel. In a few hours, the expected reinforcement arrived; when the Indians, baffled in their object, betook themselves to flight. The white men, after burying their dead, returned to Harrod's Town in the evening, with their replenished sacks of corn...
In garrison at Harrodsburg, Kentucky during Revolutionary War, Dec 16, 1777 - Oct 16, 1778. Member of Captain Holder's Company, Boonesborough, June 1779. Obtained 400 acres by virtue of a certificate in right of settlement, in Nelson County, Kentucky. Land surveyed 21 October 1780.
[DAR application of Margaret Mary Thompson, S.C.N.]
More About William Coomes, Jr:
Burial: Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky
Religion: Catholic
Notes for Frances Jane Greenleaf:
Frances Jane Greenleaf Coomes manufactured the first salt in Kentucky. She did so at Drilling's Lick, the first stop of the pioneer group moving deeper into Kentucky. The group reached Fort Harrod on September 8, 1775.
In 1784 the family moved to Nelson County, Kentucky, and Francis and William Coomes are buried in Bardstown, Kentucky.
Jane Coomes [Delta Theta] - Well-Spring In the Wilderness
Delta Kappa Gamma - Project Pioneer Women Teachers
Kentucky [1955]
'Our journey begins in Charles County, Maryland. Here we have the first record of Jane Coomes. She and her husband, William, together with other pioneers under the leadership of James Harrod, migrated from Maryland to Kentucky. They were the first Catholic immigrants to Kentucky so far as history records. This group came out of Maryland in the spring of 1775 and reached Fort Harrod on September 8 of that year.
We can picture their journey, and the following might well be a description of it:
Probably at one particular fork of a stream a marauding band of Indians
had been beaten off by the men. The days passed, like as like, with long
slow pulls and sharp aching declines and the endless rise and fall of the
big hills. There was Kentucky spread before them. Purple shadows
cloaked the roof of the world. As they entered, Kentucky appeared to them
as it was later described, the dark and bloody ground. Beyond lay no
lush bluegrass, no fertile plain and well-kept farms, but interminable hills,
wild rough country, matted laurel, scrub cedar, hostile pine. No sign of
human habitation.
This was the setting at Fort Harrod where they settled and where Mrs. Coomes became the first school teacher of our infant commonwealth.
Jane Coomes's little school was built of the customary round logs with no chinking between them. It had a dirt floor, a slab door hung on deer thongs, and only one window. According to one authority this window was covered with doe skin; another had it greased paper. A mammoth fireplace, which extended along the entire east wall, had an opening at the south end through, which sections of logs could be hauled in and fitted over andirons. The seats were made of puncheons set on peg legs; there were no backs. A dunce stool stood in the corner; a rod for chastising nearby.
Mrs. Coomes taught the beginners the alphabet which was inscribed on paddle-shaped pine shingles. These paddles were equally useful to impart knowledge or inflict punishment. They were imitations of the hornbooks of Queen Elizabeth's time. Dillworth's speller and the New Testament were the sole textbooks. When the they studied the Bible and hymnbooks. They learned to write and solve number problems from copies set them by the teacher. Charcoal and smooth boards took the place of paper and pencil, and the juice of oak balls were used for ink.
It was a 'blab school' where all studied aloud, their swaying bodies keeping time to the tune of their ABCs. Perhaps the children studied as hard - being grateful for any opportunity to learn - as the boys and girls of today do, who have cultured teachers and attractive textbooks. Certainly their teacher was a woman of more education than was common for women at that time.
Jane Coomes has two large credits to her account in early Kentucky annals. She was not only the first teacher in Kentucky. She was not only the first teacher in Kentucky but is given credit, also, for being the first person to manufacture salt in Kentucky. She did this with the aid of some small boys while camping for several weeks at Drennon Springs on the Kentucky River near the present site of Frankfort.
The fact that the Coomes school was kept despite the hardships and irregularities of pioneer life, although for perhaps only three or four months during the year, proves the high estimate put upon education by the founders of Harrodsburg.
The following statement is of particular interest, considering the present agitation for raising teachers' salaries: 'With low pay, often in tobacco - which was legal tender - bear bacon, buffalo steak or jerked venison, these pioneer teachers eked out a precarious existence
In spite of the toils and hardships of the pioneer families, out of their ranks came many of our ablest leaders. Jane Coomes and her husband and sons remained in the fort for nine years, during which time William Coomes took an honorable part in the defense of the station, through the siege of 1776-77. He cleared land and helped with the provisioning of the fort. One of the sons was in the famous battle of Blue Licks.
Strangely, although Jane Coomes taught at Fort Harrod and was our first Kentucky teacher, there are none of her relics in the museum there. However, a replica of the original school building is located not far from the entrance of the stockade, and with a little imagination, visitors can picture Mrs. Coomes and her charges at work there.
On Sunday, October 13, 1935, the first school teacher who taught in Kentucky was honored by the Kentucky chapter of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae in a dignified and impressive ceremony. A memorial tablet near the replica of the first log schoolhouse in Harrodsburg was unveiled by Miss Nora Coomes, Bardstown, Kentucky, a direct descendant of Jane. Miss Coomes lifted from the face of the bronze tablet a spray of goldenrod, Kentucky's flower. As she stepped aside, Miss Ruth K Donnelly of Louisville read:
To the memory of Mrs. William Coomes who opened and taught the first school in Kentucky.
Also on the plaque were the dates 1775, the year she came to Harrodsburg, and 1784, the year in which she and her family left for Nelson County.
Rev. John F Knue of St. Elizabeth Church, Louisville, spoke at the unveiling ceremony. He told of the hardships Mrs. Coomes and her family shared in coming from Maryland to Kentucky and of the building of the fort, in which her husband did his part, felling the trees for the cabin schoolhouse inside the stockade. He said, in part:
With the earliest day in Kentucky, education, was considered one of the foundations
of community life, and had it beginning in Fort Harrod 160 years ago with the activities
of Mrs. William Coomes, a mother, whom we are assembled here to honor...
... Mrs. Coomes picked up these chips, and smoothed their surfaces. I can see her
now, painstakingly writing on one chip of the figure '1', on another '2', and so on,
and likewise the letters of the alphabet, and words on more chips until she had the
fundamentals of education to place before the children of the settlers. Primitive, yes,
but the more primitive the more glory to this woman - the busy mother of a family who
found time to teach the children of the backwoods.
The memorial services included music furnished by the Harrodsburg Choral Club. The Rev Father, Felix Pitt, Louisville, chairman of the Catholic school board, presided.
Harrodsburg tradition calls Mrs Coomes "Jane", but in Nelson County records her name appears as Frances. The date of her death sometime between 1789 and 1813 is not known. One authority gives it as about 1813.
The only records of her illustrious ancestor in the possession of Miss Nora Coomes are a family tree showing the direct descent of Miss Nora from William and Frances Coomes. It is a bit puzzling that rather than her signature on this deposition there is her mark. Judge S.J. Boldrick, Louisville, who examined the Nelson County records, gives this explanation: There were no eye glasses to be had in her old age, and in the signing of several deeds which she executed she did not see well enough to sign her name and had to make her mark.
William Coomes was registered in the records as the owner of a thousand acres of land. Part of this acreage is the present site of Wickland, home of three governors.
In Bardstown, Kentucky, in one of the old cemeteries, sleep William and Jane Coomes and many of their descendants. Other descendants live nearby; still others are scattered all over the country. Jane Coomes was, indeed, as is expressed in our favorite toast to Kentucky:
Daughter of the East,
Mother of the West,
Link between the North and the South."
Pioneer Medical Men and Times in Kentucky
John A Ouchterlony, A.M.M.D.
University of Louisville
The First Female Physician
In the company of emigrants with whom Dr. Geo. Hartt came to Kentucky were also Wm. Coomes and his wife, Frances. The husband was brave and intrepid; took part in many fights with the Indians, and had numerous adventures and hair breadth escapes. He reached a high age, and was much respected and honored; but it is especially his wife who claims attention in connection with pioneer Medicine in Kentucky. She was a woman of remarkably vigorous intellect, great originality and fertility of resource, and of strong and noble character. She certainly was the first female who ever practiced Medicine in Kentucky and according to some she was the first of her sex to exercise the beneficent functions of the healing arts of our State. She was physician, surgeon, and obstetrician, and her fame and practice extended far and wide, even attracting patients from remote settlements and not only in Kentucky, but in adjoining States.
Under whatever circumstances she might be placed, she was ever actively engaged in useful occupations tending to the comfort and welfare of the people around her.
This excellent couple came originally from Charles County, Maryland, whence they had removed to the south branch of the Potomac River in Virginia. On the way to Harrod's Station the party encamped for some weeks at Drennon's Lick, in the neighborhood of the present city of Frankfort.
Here Mrs. Coomes, aided by those of the party not engaged in hunting, employed herself in making salt; the first time, perhaps, that this article was manufacture in the State.
According to a tradition in her family, she was the first woman who made bread in Kentucky.
She brought with her from Maryland a supply of calomel, which she administered very freely when she thought it was really needed; but, ordinarily she was quite [cha y] in dispensing it, owing to its being exceedingly expensive. As a substitute for this valuable medicine, and as a purgative, she would make a sort of extract of the bark of white walnut, by boiling the bark down to a syrupy mass, which was then made into pills. In those troublous times, when gunshot wounds from the rifles of hostile Indians were almost an everyday occurrence, she often cut for and extracted bullets. Among the more notable surgical achievements, the record of which has come down to our day, there are two especially worthy of mention as showing either a very sound, clear, and practical judgment, or a wonderfully accurate surgical instinct. The first case occurred in the person of one of her grandchildren, who was born with the feet turned up against its shin bones. This was evidently a case of congenital calipers caleaneus, the rarest of all different forms of club foot, and was treated according to correct surgical principles by this backwoods surgeon of the eighteenth century, and only with brilliant success, but the cure also effected with remarkable rapidity. The means adopted consisted of a series of hickory splints made by herself, of appropriate shape and size which were kept in position with bandages, the dressing being changed every few days to suit the progress of the case.
The second case was a man who had come from Virginia to consult this celebrated woman doctor. He had a chronic ulcer somewhere on the lower extremities, constituting a severe lesion, for which he had applied in vain to many physicians.
Mrs Coomes having critically examined the patient, informed him that she could cure him, but the treatment would necessarily be severe; if he thought he could endure the suffering it entailed she would be willing to undertake the management of his case. The patient having expressed his willingness to undergo whatever suffering might be necessary in order to affect a cure of his disease, we may assume that her operative procedures were begun without delay. Her operating table was rather primitive and of rude construction, but not the less effective. It was made out of a piece of timber hewn specially for her purpose, and so constructed as to enable her to strap the patient down upon it, with a view to obtain perfect immobility, or as near to it as possible. The patient having been firmly secured in a suitable position, the operator proceeded to make a dam of clay around the diseased locality, in order to protect the surrounding healthy tissues, and then applied a powerful escharotie by pouring hot boiling lard over the affected surface. Doubtless it was a rude procedure, but it was the best circumstances would permit; and after all, the principle involved was sound, and the brilliancy of the cure was a satisfactory demonstration of the merit of the remedy.
Kentucky, so justly proud of the beauty and virtue of its women, may thus claim to have had the first female physician and surgeon on the continent. What though she never saw the inside of a medical college! What though the degree of Doctor of Medicine had never been conferred on her! In those days there were few who had; yet her work was good, her success undoubted, and her life was noble. Among her posterity there is a physician, a distinguished member of this Society [Dr. Martin F. Coomes, of Louisville, who may point with pride to this old lady as one of his ancestors not only of blood, by by profession.
On reflecting upon the life and labors of this remarkable woman, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that she must have had a preceptor. Her work was too good to have been entirely the work of empiricism. The long and intimate association of Dr. Hartt with her family as friend and neighbor renders it extremely probably that she had the benefit of his instruction, and perhaps also of the use of whatever of a medical library he possessed.
[pgs 18 - 22]
More About Frances Jane Greenleaf:
Burial: Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky
Education: First schoolteacher of Kentucky
Religion: Catholic
Children of William Coomes and Frances Greenleaf are:
i. Charles Coomes, died Abt. 1843.
ii. Elizabeth "Betsy" Coomes, married Ignatius Metcalf 24 Dec 1818 in Nelson County, Kentucky; born Abt. 1750 in St Mary's County, Maryland.
iii. Mary Anastasia Coomes, born in Nelson County, Kentucky; married (1) Leonard Coomes 1800; born in Nelson County, Kentucky; married (2) Leonard Coomes 24 Feb 1800 in Nelson County, Kentucky; born Abt. 1770 in Fairfield, Nelson County, Kentucky.
Notes for Leonard Coomes:
USGENWEB site of Charles County, Maryland:
Leonard Coomes to Eleanor and Sarah Ann Coomes 6 Aug. 1821
Two Partners Leonard Coomes to Sarah Ann and Eleanor Coomes - $2500 - Meadows
parts of Two Partner Resurveyed, the Meadows and Gore =
Gore 178 acres, 3 roods, being land which his father owned and
possessed at time of his death and Leonard takes at valuation of
commissioners, plus one negro man, Charles, woman, Judy, other, Josias;
household and kitchen furniture, 15 head black cattle, 20 head sheep, 2 bay
horses, 1 sorrel horse, 1 black mule, plantation utensils. Wit: Alexander
Sampler, Thomas B(urgess?)
JB-14, p. 209
Eleanor Coomes fr. Leonard Coomes 12 March 1822
Leonard Coomes to Sarah Ann and Eleanor Coomes - $300 - tenants in common -
not joint tenants above.... wit: John C. Layman, Alexander Sampler
JB-14, p. 474
Marriage Notes for Mary Coomes and Leonard Coomes:
Feb.24, 1800 (Nelson Co, KY Marriage Bonds) Leonard COOMES-Anastasia COOMES Bond-Enoch COOMES Will COOMES, father of bride Married by Catholic Priest, Rev ST Badin.
iv. Mary Ann "Nancy" Coomes, born in Charles County, Maryland; married (1) Ed McFarland 10 Mar 1789 in Nelson County, Kentucky; married (2) Benjamin "Ben" Notley Mitchell 27 Nov 1797 in Nelson County, Kentucky; married (3) Aaron Hough 04 Jan 1800 in Nelson County, Kentucky.
Marriage Notes for Mary Coomes and Ed McFarland:
[5annwhalen.GED.FBC.FBK1.FBC.FBK.FTW]
On February 24, 1789 a bond was recorded in Nelson County for the marriage of Mary Ann Coomes and Edward McFarland, with her father, William Coomes, giving his consent. Rev. Charles Whelan, the Catholic Priest, performed the ceremony the same day.
(Sister Mary Louise Donnelly, Texas)
v. Walter P Coomes, born Abt. 1758 in Nelson County, Kentucky; died Abt. 1844 in Nelson County, Kentucky; married Anna Coomes 22 Nov 1796 in Nelson County, Kentucky; born 1773 in Virginia; died 1847 in Nelson County, Kentucky.
Notes for Walter P Coomes:
Walter donated $100 toward the building of St Joseph's Cathedral in Bardstown, Kentucky.
Walter A Coomes fought in the Battle of Blue Licks from which he very narrowly escaped with his life and died at a good old age.
[Spalding Sketches, page 40]
The Battle of Blue Licks
The Battle of Blue Licks happened on August 19, 1782; ten months after Cornwallis had surrendered at Yorktown. This bloody frontier encounter is usually noted as the last combat of any size of the Revolutionary War. It took place near a salt spring along the Licking River in Central Kentucky north of Boonesborough and Bryan's Station. It was the most successful part of the invasion of an almost 1000 strong combined army of Ohio Indian Nations warriors, British Regulars and Queen's Rangers into Kentucky and West Virginia.
On August 2nd, one of the largest congresses of the Ohio Indian nations confederation was held at the principal Shawnee town of Chalahgawtha, then on the Little Miami River. Present were contingents from all the Ohio nations. Simon Girty, one of the principle organizers of the congress, learned that a group of 50 redcoats under Capt. William Caldwell in company with Iroquois and Mingoes led by the Mohawk leader Joseph Brant and the Tory Alexander McKee were headed south from Detroit to attack Wheeling. After riding long and hard to intercept them, he persuaded them to join the gathering at Chalahgawtha. There, speaking before a council of all participants, he outlined a plan that led to the frontier people south of the Ohio's worst defeat in their long war with the Ohio Indians--the Battle of Blue Licks.
The plan was to draw the Kentucky Militia into an ambush. The Indian and British force would invade; their immediate targets would be Bryan's Station and Lexington, just six miles apart in Central Kentucky. The Americans under Williamson were back at their more easterly settlements in Pennsylvania and Wheeling and they were alert to danger, he argued. Thus, he continued, an invasion would have more success attacking in Central Kentucky where it would not be expected.
Half or more of the expeditionary force would hide at Blue Licks, he proposed, while the remainder would proceed on to attack Bryan's Station, which Girty knew to be weak and undersupplied. They would watch the station until a few people were outside the fortification, and then they would attack, allowing the few outside the walls to escape knowing that they would run straight to Lexington for help; Lexington was strongly manned and provisioned.
No one doubted that Lexington would send out a rescue force; The rescuers would be who the Indians would really be after. The Indians' spies would know the rescue force's size as soon as it began to move toward Bryan's Station; if it was small enough, they would simply waylay the Kentuckians en route. If the Kentuckians were too many, the Indians would retreat making sure that the Kentuckians followed closely so as to lead them back to Blue Licks where the much larger remaining Indian force would lay in ambush. The value in the plan, Girty emphasized, was that when the Kentuckians saw as large a force of Indians as the Bryan's Station attackers would be, and seeing in addition that they had British soldiers with them, none would never believe that there could be as many more waiting in ambush.
The expedition was mounted. Half the invading force hid itself at Blue Licks and the remainder went on to lay siege to Bryan's Station, being careful to allow a few to escape and run to Lexington for help. The first rescue force was fifty men strong; it was quickly beaten off by the invaders. The Indians did not bother to use their ambush strategy; not enough attackers; they were after bigger game.
Next day 180 Kentuckians converged on the place only to find the Indians gone. This militia force was composed of several groups from neighboring counties and stations and, as was the usual case, the leadership consisted of the various militia leaders working more or less in cooperation with each other. Daniel Boone was leader of 45 Fayette County militia under the general leadership of John Todd, an upper class lawyer from Virginia who had served in the Vincennes campaign with Clark. The other major contingent was from Lincoln County and under the leadership of Stephen Trigg who was assisted by Hugh McGary of Harrodsburg.
The officers immediately held council to decide whether they should pursue the retreating Indians immediately or wait for Colonel Benjamin Logan, who they knew to be about a day behind them travelling in their direction with a force of several hundred. McGary was mentally unstable. He had lost family to Indian attack five years earlier and, since then, had become increasingly hostile and combative to virtually all who had to deal with him. All the same, he urged caution and spoke for waiting for Logan to catch up with them. Todd criticized McGary as being "timid" and stated that they could not afford to let the Indians get away. Finally, they decided to take up the chase the following morning. McGary, insulted by Todd's comments, nonetheless held his tongue for the time being.
Next day the Americans followed the Indian army's trail to within a few miles of the Lower Blue Licks. Boone grew increasingly upset with what he was seeing; the Indians were making no effort to conceal their passage; in fact, they were doing everything they could to make their trail easy to follow. They littered the trace with their garbage, they cut blazes on trees where they passed; Boone also saw evidence that they were walking in each other's tracks so as to conceal their actual numbers. He saw ambush in everything the Indians were doing.
Early the next morning, August 19, 1782, a Monday, the Americans arrived at the south bank of the Licking River near the Blue Licks salt springs. The river makes a sharp loop here around a bare, rocky hill on the side opposite the Americans. The Indian army lay hidden in a series of wooded ravines at the crest of the hill. As the Americans assembled on their side of the river a group of warriors appeared in plain view on the hilltop. They were the decoy.
Todd and Trigg called another officers' council; about fifteen men were there in all. Included were Boone and McCary.
Boone urged caution; he pointed out all the things he had observed. "They intend to fight," he said. McCary grew angry and defiant. "Them that ain't cowards follow me," he shouted leading a general charge across the river directly into the ambush and hand-to-hand battle that followed. The result was disaster for the Kentuckians and resounding victory for the Ohio Indian/British force. Seventy-two Kentuckians were killed in that fight; more than a third of their force. The Indians and British lost only three men and four more were slightly wounded. This defeat marked the lowest point in the Americans' fortunes in the struggle for possession of the West.
[http://earlyamerica.com/review/winter2000/bluelick.html]
Blue Licks, bloody battle of Aug 19, 1782, that ended the Revolutionary War in the West. Within 24 hrs, this pursuing force, under command of Major Todd, overtook the invaders at this place. In a fierce battle lasting 15 minutes, 7 were taken prisoners, 60 of the 176 combatants were killed; the rest escaped. Among these was Walter Coomes, son of William Coomes, whose Mother was the first teacher to open a school for the education of the children and her children also attended. Daniel Boone's son, Isaac, was also killed in the Battle of Blue Licks.
Notes for Anna Coomes:
Anna m Walter COMBES
Nov. 22, 1796 (Nelson Co, KY Marriage Bonds) Walter COMBES-Anny COMBES Bond-Benjamin GRAYSON
Walter Combs was the s/o William Combs, Sr. of Charles Co MD and Nelson Co, KY. Walter's brother, William Combs, Jr., m Anna's sister, Rachel
[Coomes Family.org website)
Anna Coomes, daughter of Francis, married Walter Coomes. Their son Charles I was ordained to the priesthood Dec 10th, 1830. Walter was son of William Coomes, who is supposed to be the first Catholic known in Ky.
[Notes of Rev Edwin Drury, with additional notes of Rev AA Aud and Rev C Brey of Louisville, Ky, 1921]
Marriage Notes for Walter Coomes and Anna Coomes:
Marriage bond, Bardstown, Kentucky - witnessed by Moris Miles.
vi. Enoch T Coomes, born 05 Jul 1765; died 08 Dec 1828 in Nelson County, Kentucky; married Teresia Stuart 10 Apr 1788 in Nelson County, Kentucky; born Jun 1767 in Maryland; died 27 Oct 1835 in Nelson County, Kentucky.
Marriage Notes for Enoch Coomes and Teresia Stuart:
Nelson County, Kentucky Marriages Vol I 1785 - 1810 by Charles M Franklin:
Combs, Enock Tiresia Stuart 10 Aor 1788
vii. William Coomes, Jr, born 13 Mar 1769 in Charles County, Maryland; died 1844 in Daviess County, Kentucky; married Rachel Coomes 03 Jul 1796 in Nelson County, Kentucky; born 09 Oct 1775 in Surry, North Carolina; died 22 Aug 1847 in Daviess County, Kentucky.
Notes for William Coomes, Jr:
September 3, 1796, Nelson County marriage bond: William Coomes - Rachel Coomes, bond Richard Coomes
From Daviess County records, the will of William Coomes - written in May 1834 - probated in June 1844. Wife: Rachel. Daughters: Teresy Wallace, Mary Margaret, and Elizabeth Coomes. Sons: Charles, Felix, Benedict, and William Peter Coomes.
William was one of the first Catholic settlers in Daviess County, arriving at a time when the county was still a wilderness. Early Church records reveal that William often used his home as the first meeting place in the county for those first Catholic settlers. He sold land on 2 October 1837 for the building of a new church.
An early lawsuit of Daviess County, dated Feb 3, 1816 indicates that William was in Daviess County prior to 1830 to survey land and purchase property. The lawsuit references lots purchased in Owensboro on May 6, 1817, yet the first recorded deed in the courthouse is dated Aug 12, 1835.
William's will was written on May 8, 1841, but not probated until July 3, 1844. Noted on the original document at the courthouse that a fire destroyed the original document and that the family requested it be copied in its originality back into the will book. His son, Felix, was the administrator of his estate.
['William Coomes - Pioneer of Nelson County' - Daviess County, Kentucky Library - dated 23 July 1985]
William Coomes and family along with Abraham and Issac Hite migrated from St Mary's County, Maryland to Virginia on the South branch of the Potmac River. William served as Sgt in the 8th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line.
[Historical Register of the Revolution by John H.G. Wathney]
Will of Francis I Coomes is in WILL BOOK AB p 145 #101, Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky.
More About William Coomes, Jr:
Marriage Bond: 03 Sep 1796, Nelson County, Kentucky
Notes for Rachel Coomes:
Rachel and William Coomes were first cousins. The information on the children of Rachel and William came from an old Catholic Prayer Book.
Rachel m William COOMES.
Sept.3, 1796 (Nelson Co, KY Marriage Bonds) William COOMES-Rachel COOMES Bond-Richard COOMES
08 May 1834 - Jun 1844 (Davies Co KY) Will of William Combs. 8 May 1834, wife Rachael, children: Charles, Mary, Elizabeth, Felix, Benedict, William Peter, Trese WALLACE, ex: Felix Combs wit: Henry & Benjamin READ (Abstracted by Combs Researcher Jean Smallwood who also provided the following:)
From "Davies County Kentucky Records #1, Marriages 1815-1848, Deaths 1852-1861, Wills 1815-1850" by Researchers:" Will of William COOMES - written May 1834 - probated Jun 1844. Wife Rachel. Daughters: Tesesy WALLACE, Mary Margaret, and Elizabeth COOMES. Sons: Charles, Felix, Benedict and William Peter COOMES
Notes: Combs Researcher Joe Lewis adds that Rachel's husband, William, was the s/o William COOMES, Sr. b in Charles Co MD, who came to KY (Harrods Station) in spring of 1775. A submission to "Kentucky Ancestors," KY Historical Society quarterly, vol. 30 #2, 1994-1995, page 79, ROSTER OF FIRST KENTUCKY ANCESTORS, submission by Researcher Henry D. Paine, includes birth dates of 13 March 1769 for William and 9 Oct 1775 for Rachel, his source unknown.
[Coomes Family.org Website]
More About Rachel Coomes:
Burial: Coomes Farm Cemetery, Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky
Marriage Notes for William Coomes and Rachel Coomes:
Nelson County, Kentucky Marriages Vol I 1785 - 1810 by Charles M Franklin:
Coombs, Wm Rachel Goombs 3 Sept 1796, bond
viii. John Coomes, born 1778; died 23 Apr 1848; married Elizabeth "Betty" Reynolds 26 Aug 1806 in Nelson County, Kentucky.
Notes for John Coomes:
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John gave $100 in trade toward the building of St Joseph's Cathedral in Bardstown, Kentucky.
Marriage Notes for John Coomes and Elizabeth Reynolds:
The marriage was performed by Father S.T. Badin.
ix. Thomas Alexander Coomes, born 1782; died 16 Jul 1830; married Mary Polly Bowman 23 Apr 1804 in Nelson County, Kentucky; born 1786 in Maryland.
Notes for Mary Polly Bowman:
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1860 Nelson County, Kentucky Census, p 66, Bardstown District #1 389-562:
Coomes Mary 74 real estate 6000 born Maryland
personal estate 7000
Catherine 50 personal estate 200
Thomas 37 real estate 600
Bowman 34 personal estate 600
James, Thomas 15 personal estate 100
Mary Rose 14 personal estate 100
(Anita Max)
Marriage Notes for Thomas Coomes and Mary Bowman:
The marriage ceremony was performed by Father S.T. Badin.
Nelson County, Kentucky Marriages Vol I 1785 - 1810 by Charles M Franklin:
Coomes, Thomas Mary Bowman 23 April 1804
1 x. Sarah "Sally" Coomes, born 1784; died 31 Aug 1827; married Joseph Walker 24 Jan 1801 in Nelson County, Kentucky.
Generation No. 3
4. Thomas Coomes, born Abt. 1695 in Charles County, Maryland; died Jan 1753. He was the son of 8. Richard Thomas Coomes II and 9. Winifred Clare Green. He married 5. Elizabeth Wharton 1719.
5. Elizabeth Wharton, born 1699; died 1772. She was the daughter of 10. Jesse Thomas Wharton and 11. Elizabeth Sewall.
Notes for Thomas Coomes:
Thomas Coomes was a planter. Coomes Purchase, his plantation, was on the west side of Portobacco main branch in line of a tract of land called Greens Inheritance, and near the plantation of Alexander Hamilton. This was the home plantation of the Coomes family, and the place where all of Thomas and Elizabeth's children were born. They also had land called Christian Milford in Nanjem Hundred in Charles County, Maryland, relatively close by. Christian Milford was Elizabeth Wharton Coome's inherited land.
In 1719, Coomes Purchase 100 acres was surveyed for Thomas Coomes. His will was proved January 29, 1753: mentions son, Thomas Wharton Coomes to whom he wills Coomes Purchase; son, Walter, part of Greens Inheritance; son, Bennet, all of my whole and sole right to a part of Greens Inheritance. Four younger sons, Joseph, William, Francis Ignatius, and Walter when they became 18, wife Elizabeth. (All properties were to be held by Elizabeth until her death)
Elizabeth Wharton Coomes, wife of Thomas, died in 1772. In addition to the children named above, her will mentions her daughter, Mary Ann Hamilton (wife of James), Ann Smith, Anastasia Hamilton (wife of Joseph). Elizabeth left Christian Milford to sons Thomas Wharton Coomes and Walter Coomes.
USGENWEB site of Charles County, Maryland:
Thomas & Elizabeth Coombes to Thomas Kelly 27 March 1744-27 March 1745
Christian Millford 100 acres part of tract called Christian Millford,
beginning at old (lease)plantation, extending from thence according to
the ancient bounds, during natural life of Thomas and wife, Mary, - for the
yearly rent of 800 # tobacco and 5 shillings plus for every negro on
plantation above three the sum of 200 # tobacco, Z-2, p. 28
Thomas & Elizabeth Coombes to William & Elizabeth Coombes
10 May 1747-23 June 1747
Greene's Inheritance 10,000 # tobacco, on North side of Pt Tobacco main
branch, part of tract bequeathed to Mary Green, dau of Leonard Green
beginning at 2nd bound tree of land now belonging to Basil Spalding, running
North 83o East 190 perches to a marked red oak standing in a glade, then
North 1o and a half Westerly 72perches to a walnut then North 21o and a half
East 90 perches then South 63o West 224 perches to first bound tree of
Panguay Manor and then with a straight line to beg = 146 acres wit: William
Middleton, Robert Yates Z-2, p. 160
Thomas Coombes. Will. Certified Copy
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN.
I, Thomas Coombes of Charles County in the province of Maryland, Plant'r, being sick and weak in body but of perfect sound mind & memory, thanks be to God Almighty for the same, do make and ordain this my Last Will & Testament in manner & form foll'y, Viz: First I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God, my heavenly Father, hoping through the mediation of Jesus Christ, my only Savior, to receive pardon for all my sins, my body to the Earth to be decently buried at the Discretion of my Executrix hereafter mentioned: and what worldly Goods and Estate it hath pleased God to endow me with in this life, I give & dispose of in manner and form Foll'g --Imprimis, I give to my well beloved Bennet Coombes to him his heirs & assigns forever all that Tract of Land called Christian Milford, it being laid out for three hundred and forty nine acres lying & being ... Charles County, after his Mother's Decease. Imprimis, I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Thos. Wharton Coombes to him and his heirs and assigns forever, all that tract of Land where I now Dwell called Coombes's Purchase, and what part of Green's Ingeritance that is within the Dwelling plantation fencing on the south side Rode after his mother's Decease, Itom, I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Walter Coombes one hundred acres of Land it being part of a parcel of land called Green's Inheritance now in my possession, to him & his heirs & assigns forever excepting as before what was with my Dwelling plantation and when he arrives to the age of eighteen years. Item, I give to my well beloved son Bennett Coombes all my hole and sole write and Title of a parcel of Land called Green's Inheritance which was formerly my fathre's Purchase and was my purchase but falsely Deprived of it by Good Friends with all the rents due from the time of my Father's Decease untill the time that it is possessed again excepting only what already been bequeathed. Item, It is also my will & desire that my four youngest sons Joseph and William and Francis Ignatius and Walter Coombes that when they arrive to the age of eighteen years old that they should have the benefit of their Labour but I desire that my son Bennett or Thomas Wharton Coombes to take care and Prevent them from making of bargains, and it is my desire that they should be advised by their Elder brothers, and also I desire that whoever hath their Labour that they should give them every one a years Schooling and one new hat a coat jacket & breeches one white shirt and one pair of shoes and stockings. Imprimis, I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife Elizabeth Coombes whome I ordain & constitute my hole and sole Executrix of this my Last Will & Testament & all the Residue of my household Goods or Stuff Cattle horses or mares Implements moveables and all the remainder of my personal estate together with all Debts deeds & demands whatsoever during her natural life & at her decease to be equally divided amongst my children Bequesting her the sd. Elizabeth Coombes to pay whatever Lawfull debts I owe to any person or persons whatsoever & if in case she should marry then it is my ... that my children put her to her thirds & Equally Divide the Remainder amongst them all like Good Children and I do hereby utterly disallow & Revoke all and every other will or wills Testaments or Letacies or Executors by me in any wise before this time named willed or bequeathed, Ratifying & Confirming this and none other to be my Last Will and Testament
In witness whereof I have set my hand and affixed my seal this 29th day of August annon Dominy 1752.
Thomas Coombes, [seal]
Testes:
Benjamine Notle Clements
Matthew [X] Bozill
George [X] Bowzill
On the back of the foregoing will was endorsed the foll'g Prob't, To wit;
Charles County, Sct.
The 29th, January 1753, Benjamin Notley Clements, Matthew Boswell, George Boswell subscribing wintesses to the foregoing will being duly and solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangelests of Almighty God, do depose & say that they saw the Testator Thomas Coombes sign & seal the foregoing will & heard him publish & declare the Same to be his Last Will & Testament and at the time of his so doing he was to the best of their apprehensions of sound & disposing mind & memory and that they severally subscribed their names as witnesses to the said will in the presence of the Testator & at his request, which probate was taken after the heir at law had signified by note from under his hand that he had no objection to the same.
Dan'l Jenifer,
D, Com'r of Charles County.
I, George A Ware, Register of Wills and by law Keeper of the Seal, and of the Records, of the Original Papers of the Orphans' Court of Charles County, do hereby certify that the aforegoing is a true and full copy of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Coombes
taken from Liber A W No. 5, Feb 8 ..., one of the Wills Records of Charles County, Maryland...
Kept in the office of Register of Wills for Charles County;
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court this 6th day of September in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and twenty eight 11728/..
George A Wade
Register of Wills for Charles County
More About Thomas Coomes:
Occupation: Planter
Property: Coomes Purchase, Charles County, MD
Religion: Catholic
Notes for Elizabeth Wharton:
Dr. Jesse Thomas Wharton, father of Elizabeth Wharton Coomes, was commissioned as Deputy Governor of Maryland in 1676 and served in this position until his death.
Elizabeth Coome's Will:
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN.
I, Elizabeth Coomes of Charles County, widow, being of sound & perfect memory, thanks be to Almighty for the same, do make & ordain this my Last Will & Testament, in manner & form following, Viz:
Imprimis: I give & bequeath to my two sons, vix, Thomas Wharton Coomes and Walter Coomes, all that tract of parcel of land lying, situate and being in Charles County, Nangemy, and known by the name of Christian Milford, containing three hundred & forty nine acres more or less, & farther the said Thomas Wharton and Walter Coomes shall pay to the rest of my Children as follows: vix: Thos. Wharton Coomes shall pay unto my two sons Joseph and William Coomes, Thirty pounds. Cur'y to each, and Walter Coomes shall pay to my three Daughters, Viz: Mary Ann Hamilton, & Anastasia Hamilton, twenty pounds cur'y, to each of them, there being twelve months granted by me to the said Thos. Wharton & Walter Coomes for the payment of the above sums of money, and after the above sums of money be taken out of the value of the above land together with all costs and charges that the above Thomas Wharton & Walter Coomes shall be at in laying off, selling or dividing the said Land, then my other son Francis Ignatius Coomes, if living, shall share equally with Thos. Wharton & Walter Coomes what clear money shall remain in the value of said land, but if the said Francis Ignatius Coomes shall be deceased before the above payments be made, then his heirs shall receive of the sd. Thos. Wharton & Walter Coomes the sum of Thirty pounds, cor'y and no more. And I do hereby nominate and appoint my two sons Thos. Wharton & Walter Coomes sole Executors of this my Last Will & Testament.
In Witness whereof I have set my hand seal this 15th day of Jan'y, Anno Domini, 1771.
Test: Wm Coomes, Sr, William
Coomes Jr, James Slater X [mark and seal of Elizabeth Coomes]
On the back of the foregoing will was endorsed the following Probate, To Wit;
Charles County, Sct. On this sixtenneth day of November, came William Coomes Jr and James Slater, subscribing witnesses to the within Will and made oath that they saw Elizabeth Coomes the Testatrix sign the same and heard her acknowledge it to be her Last Will and Testament, that at the time of her so doing she was to the best of their apprehensions of sound & disposing mind & memory and that they together with William Coomes, Sr signed their names as witnesses to the said Will in the presence of the Testatrix & at her request. --which said probate was taken after having received a letter from Thomas Wharton Coomes, heir at law, consenting to the taking the same.
Walter Hanson
D.COM'R.
Children of Thomas Coomes and Elizabeth Wharton are:
i. Walter Coomes, born Abt. 1718 in Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; died 1775.
Notes for Walter Coomes:
USGENWEB site of Charles County, Maryland:
Walter Coomes & Thomas Wharton Coomes vs. Richard Woodward
23 March-20 May 1773
Christian Milford bounds of a tract of land called Christian Milford, Durham
parish, Chas Co. - Thomas Wharton Coomes and Walter, his brother,
contending to fix their beginning of the resurvey on Christian Milford at a
small stone in an extensive level old Fields near the line of Warren Dent's
land which was proved by Thomas Perry at a commission executed on the
premises the 28th day of May 1771 and Richard Woodward contending to
establish the beginning of said resurvey at a large stone standing by Dr.
Brown's gate proved by John Barker and which controversy they have agreed to
refer to Francis Ware and Wm. Smallwood, both chosen and appointed
arbitrators by the parties, ......decided no estimoney to establish the
correct boundary of original tract called Christian Milford, now does it
appear from anything which has been exhibited to us that there is any
authentic testimony which will clearly establish the beginning of the
resurvey; at other than the final, or large stone, above mentioned as will
more fully appear by referring to the depositions taken on land commission
granted unto the above said Coomes and executed 24 May 1771, ald granted to
Rch Woodward 28 April 1772. -- the said Coomes should make the beginning at
the large stone in as much as they would run less into those surveys which
were made some little time before and afer their resurvey as the presumption
will lye that a much better knowledge of the boundary and courses of the
resurvey was to be had at that time They would include in their survey from
the large stone a parcel of land lately taken up as Nancanry (Nancancy?) by a
certain William Winter, Jr. whereon their ancestors and they have had a
plantation and the land tended and occupied by their tenants for many years
nor do we find that their title to that part of the land which the abovesaid
Winters took up was ever contested til the present Coomes disclaimed and
attempted to place the beginning of the resurvey at the small stone ...no
damages. ..
S-3, p. 427
ii. Joseph Coomes, born Abt. 1724 in Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; died 1799 in George's Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania; married Sarah Blandford; born 1733; died Aft. 1783.
Notes for Joseph Coomes:
Joseph bought 100 acres of Coomes Park from his uncle, William Coomes, on November 29, 1756.
His will was written on April 21, 1779 and probated on September 11, 1779. He left his wife, Sarah, his dwelling plantation, which would pass on to his son Joshua. He left his young horse to his son, William Coomes, "for satisfaction for the money left me".
(Sister Mary Louise Donnelly, Texas)
More About Joseph Coomes:
Occupation: Cordwinder
iii. Benedict "Bennet" Thomas Coomes, born 1724 in Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; died Bef. 1767; married Drusilla Carver Abt. 1744.
Notes for Benedict "Bennet" Thomas Coomes:
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Bennet and Drusilla were named in a deed in 1767 in Prince George's County, Maryland when Drusilla and her sisters received money when their inherited land was sold.
iv. Francis Ignatius Coomes, born 1726 in Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; died 05 Apr 1822 in Fairfield, Nelson County, Kentucky; married Charity Woods Abt. 1767 in Maryland; born 1734 in Maryland; died 19 Aug 1826 in Fairfield, Nelson County, Kentucky.
Notes for Francis Ignatius Coomes:
Frances Ignatius Coomes fought in the Revolutionary War and is listed as a Private in Virginia. He is listed in the DAR index and SAR #135615 Ky, #02477, SAR #135616 KY #02478.
On 8/9/1787 Francis Ignatius purchased 200 acres on Round Hill, on the south side of the Yadkin River in Surrey County, North Carolina, and another part he received as a grant for military service in the American Revolution. After living in North Carolina for a short time, the family moved to Nelson County, Kentucky and lived near Fairfield. Francis Coomes wrote his will on March 17, 1821 and it was probated in Nelson County, Kentucky on April 15, 1822. He willed everything to his wife, Charity, and his son, Richard.
(Sister Mary Louise Donnelly, Texas)
Notes on Francis Ignatius Coomes and Charity Wood:
Francis and Charity were married in Maryland. They moved to Virginia, where son, Richard, was born about 1767, and then to Surrey, North Carolina. In Surrey, North Carolina, daughter Elizabeth was born in 1784.
The Surrey, North Carolina marriage bond of his daughter, Lydia Coomes and Amos Critchfield was dated 27, August 1783.
On August 6, 1787, Francis entered his North Carolina land grant of 200 acres of land, known as Round Hill. located on the south side of the Yadkin River, in Surrey, North Carolina. On August 6, 1796, Francis sold Round Hill to John Farmer for 100 pounds, and shortly afterwards started toward Nelson County, Kentucky. They settled in Kentucky between 1768-1771. They made their home in the Catholic settlement of Fairfield, Nelson County, Kentucky.
Among the forty families that settled in Fairfield, was that of Francis Ignatius Coomes, bother of William Coomes. Three of the children of Francis and Charity were already in Fairfield. These children were Rachel, Richard, and Anna. Here an interesting merger of the family occurred. William and Frances Jane had two sons - William II and Walter, who married two daughters of Francis and Charity. William II married Rachel and Walter married Anna.
Francis lived to over 100 years of age and Francis to 92 years of age. Three of their grandsons became priests and among their descendants have been four priests and a Bishop.
Francis COOMES, b ca 1726, Maryland, d 3 Aug 1822, Nelson Co KY; buried St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery; m in MD Charity WOOD; b ?, d aft 1796, probably in Nelson Co KY. They resided in first Virginia [location not known], were there ca 1767 when son, Richard, was born (1850 Nelson KY Census) and then, between 1768 and 1771, removed to Surry Co NC where Francis COONS [sic] appears on the tax lists of the newly-formed (from Rowan) county with 1 tithable.
In 1777, the Surry NC tax returns of Jabez JARVIS include "Francis COOMS Improvements::0 Vallue: 0 Negros: 0 Value: 0 Horses: 2 Value: 24 Cattle: 3 Value: 9 0:7:8 Cash in Hand: 0 Money on "Interest" 0."
In 1782, Francis COOMES is listed on the Surry NC tax list in Dyer's District with two horses and one head of cattle with a total value of 13 Pounds.
On 06 Aug 1796 (Surry Co NC DBF:332) Francis COOMER [sic] sold Round Hill to John FARMER, £100, and shortly thereafter removed to Nelson Co KY where he first appears on tax lists in 1797.
(Coomes.org website)
Notes of Rev Edwin Drury, with additional notes of Rev AA Aud and Rev C Brey of Louisville, Ky, 1921:
Frances Coomes married Charity Woods in Maryland. They livedd for a long time in North Carolina, on the Yadkin River, in Surry County. Their daughter, Elizabeth, was born there in 1784. They came to Nelson County, Ky about the year 1790, and lived and dived near Fairfield, Ky.
Their children were:
Richard who married Mary Livers
Leonard who married Anastasia Coomes
Ignatius
Lyda who married Mr Crutchfield
Rachel who married William Coomes
Margaret who married Ralph Wathen and Z Aud
Anna who married Walter Coomes
Elizabeth who married Wilfred Wathen
Mary who married John Speak.
[Notes of Rev Edwin Drury, with additional notes of Rev AA Aud and Rev C Brey of Louisville, Ky, 1921]
Frances Coomes was born in Maryland not later than 1726, and probably as early as 1718. A record in the Zachariah Aud family Bible states that Frances Coomes died Apr. 3rd, 1822, age 96, but two of his Grand-sons, the Rev. A.A. Aud and the Rev. R.R. Coomes both stated to Rev. Edwin Drury that he was over one hundred years of age at the date of his death. Another Record in the same Aud family Bible states that Francis Coomes' wife, Charity Wood, died Aug. 19th, 1826, age 92.
Francis Coomes and Charity Wood were married in Maryland. It was probably some years after their marriage that they moved to Virginia and thence to Surry Co. N. Carolina on the Yadkin River. Leaving N. Carolina they arrived in Ky. probably in 1794. They made their home in the Catholic settlement near Fairfield Nelson Co. Ky. tow hich his son Richard had pioneered away years before. Here Francis Coomes made his home till the day of his death, Apr. 3rd, 1822.
It would be interesting and doubtless very instructive if tradition had preserved a full and correct account of the trials of this remarkable family from the time they left maryland till impelled by a desire for the consolations of religion, they bade farewell to their N. Carolina home and came to Ky. Francis Coomes lived to be a centenarian, and his wife died at the age of 98. Three of their grandsons became priests, and among there descendants there have been four priests and a Bishop, while it would be hard to estimate the number who have taken vows in religious Communities.
[Notes of Rev Edwin Drury, with additional notes of Rev AA Aud and Rev C Brey of Louisville, Ky, 1921]
More About Francis Ignatius Coomes:
Burial: St Michael's Catholic Church, Nelson County, Kentucky
More About Charity Woods:
Burial: St Michael's Catholic Church, Nelson County, Kentucky
v. Mary Ann Coomes, born 1726 in Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; died 1785 in Charles County, Maryland; married Captain James Hamilton Abt. 1740; born 1720 in Charles County, Maryland; died 1785 in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Notes for Captain James Hamilton:
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Captain James Hamilton listed as a Patriot (SAR #143698, KY #02782) and served in Maryland.
In 1733 James was listed as a taxable in Mattapany Hundred in Prince George's County, Maryland. On November 12, 1767 he purchased 156 acres of "Pitchcroft" from his brother-in-law Francis Ignatius Coombe and his wife Cassandra. On May 20, 1785 James wrote his will.
(Sister Mary Louise Donnelly, Texas)
vi. Thomas Wharton Coomes, born 1728 in Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; died Abt. 1804; married (1) Sarah Sanders; married (2) Ann Nowland 31 Jul 1765 in Maryland.
Notes for Thomas Wharton Coomes:
Thomas inherited Coombes Purchase and part of Green's Inheritance. On September 21, 1754, he purchased 100 acres of Wharton's Purchase, which adjoined Coombes Purchase. He and Sarah were residing on Green's Inheritance in the 1783 tax list. On October 20, 1776, Thomas Wharton Coomes, Planter, and his wife, Sarah, sold the 349 acres of Christian Milford to Gustavus Richard Brown. In the Census of 1778, Thomas Wharton and family were living in the Upper Port Tobacco area.
Thomas wrote his will on October 12, 1797 and it was probated in Charles County, Maryland on December 10, 1803. His son, Charles, received land and half of his personal estate, with his wife, Sarah, receiving the other half. Her share was to go to the children of his daughter, Teresa, late wife of Anthony Hardy.
(Sister Mary Louise Donnelly, Texas)
USGENWEB site for Charles County, Maryland:
Charles Coomes fr. Thomas W. Coomes 1803
Deed of gift: Thomas Wharton Coomes of Charles Co. for love and affection to
son, Charles Coomes and £500, slaves and increase: Ben, Nell, Sam, Dick,
Luke, Minty, Handley, Fillis and child; Elizabeth and Delia.
JB-5, p. 506
Thomas W.Coomes to Gustavus Richard Brown 20 Oct 1776-30 Oct. 1776
Christian Milford GR Brown, physician; 5 shilling stirling, lying in Durham
parish, Chas Co. beg. at a marked stone standing at or near the place
where the original bound tree of said tract formerly stood (a bound tree of
the land formerly of a certain Samuel Palmer) = 349 acres, same patent granted
to Elizabeth Combes dated 21 Dec. 1729; wf. Sarah.
V-3, p. 121 & 2
Thomas W. Coomes to Charles Coomes 16 Oct. 1797
Bill of sale Thomas Wharton Coomes to Chas - £200 current money - six
negroes: James, Poll and 2 children Fank and Rachel, Bot, and dau Mary,
Harry..
JB-2, p. 249
vii. Ann Coomes, born Abt. 1730 in Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; married Roby Stewart 1760; died Bef. 1775.
2 viii. William Coomes, Jr, born Aft. 1734 in Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; died 06 Nov 1824 in Cox's Creek, Nelson County, Kentucky; married Frances Jane Greenleaf 1760.
ix. Anastasia Coomes, born 1743 in Coomes Purchase, Charles County, Maryland; died 11 Aug 1799 in Iberville Parish, Louisiana; married Joseph Ignatius Hamilton 1759; born 1740.
Generation No. 4
8. Richard Thomas Coomes II, born 1675 in Charles County, Maryland; died 10 Jan 1751/52 in Frederick County, Maryland. He was the son of 16. Richard Coomes I and 17. Anne Shercliffe. He married 9. Winifred Clare Green 1695.
9. Winifred Clare Green She was the daughter of 18. Leonard Green, Sr and 19. Ann.
Notes for Richard Thomas Coomes II:
The will of Richard Thomas Coomes, II was probated on January, 1753. He left the following heirs: Thomas, Jane, Sarah, Leonard, and Eleanor Coomes.
Charles County, Maryland USGENWEB site:
Richard Coombs fr. Robert Green, 25 Aug. 1703
Greens Inheritance Robert and Mary for sum of 7000 lbs tobacco Greens
Inheritance on Portobacco Main branch being formerly surveyed for
Leonard, Robert, and Francis Green for 2400 ac. and the one third being 800
Leonard Green by his last will and testament did bequeath to his four
children: Thomas Green, Winifred Green, Mary Green and Margaret Green, to each
200 acres, which being divided in four lots and numbers 1-4, the lot number 3
did belong to Mary Green now the wife of Francis Marbury and it begins at a
bounded red oak, the second tree of number 2 and runs east 287 per to a
bounded hickory, then N 146 per to a bounded red oak and then W 287 per to
bounded red oak, and then S to first bounded tree = 200 acres, with dwelling
house - wit: John Thomas, Philip Hoskins (Rch paid 4 shillings sterling 11
Jan 1703 for alienation) Z-1, p. 70
Notes for Winifred Clare Green:
Leonard Green, father of Winfred Green Coomes, died in 1688, in St Mary's County, Maryland. When he died, he left "to eldest daughter Winifred, and heirs 200 acres, part of Green's Inheritance.
Winifred was the granddaughter of Governor Thomas Green and wife Winifred.
Children of Richard Coomes and Winifred Green are:
i. Richard Coomes, born in Charles County, Maryland; died Jan 1751/52 in Frederick County, Maryland.
4 ii. Thomas Coomes, born Abt. 1695 in Charles County, Maryland; died Jan 1753; married Elizabeth Wharton 1719.
iii. Jane Coomes, born Abt. 1702 in Maryland.
iv. Sarah Coomes, born Abt. 1704 in Maryland.
v. Leonard Coomes, born Abt. 1708 in Maryland.
Notes for Leonard Coomes:
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Leonard Coomes to Eleanor and Sarah Ann Coomes 6 Aug. 1821
Two Partners Leonard Coomes to Sarah Ann and Eleanor Coomes - $2500 - Meadows
parts of Two Partner Resurveyed, the Meadows and Gore =
Gore 178 acres, 3 rods, being land which his father owned and
possessed at time of his death and Leonard takes at valuation of
commissioners, plus one negro man, Charles, woman, Judy, other, Josias;
household and kitchen furniture, 15 head black cattle, 20 head sheep, 2 bay
horses, 1 sorrel horse, 1 black mule, plantation utensils. Wit: Alexander
Sampler, Thomas B(urgess?)
JB-14, p. 209
Eleanor Coomes fr. Leonard Coomes 12 March 1822
Leonard Coomes to Sarah Ann and Eleanor Coomes - $300 - tenants in common -
not joint tenants above.... wit: John C. Layman, Alexander Sampler
JB-14, p. 474
vi. William Coomes, Sr, born Abt. 1712 in Maryland; died Sep 1783 in Charles County, Maryland; married Winifred Ensey Abt. 1722.
Notes for William Coomes, Sr:
William patented Coomes Hunting Place, Coomes Delight, Meadows, Duncastle, Paw Thicket and Paw Thicket Enlarged, Coomes Park, and Two Partners. He also bought Green's Inheritance from his brother Thomas in 1747.
William wrote his will on February 11, 1768 and it was probated in Charles County, Maryland on February 11, 1783.
(Sister Mary Louise Donnelly, Texas)
Coomes Patents - Charles Co., Md.
Name Date Tract
William Coomes 1725 Coomes Hunting Place Charles Co.
CERT. 275 Acres Lib IL #A fol. 642
PAT. 275 acres Lib. PL #6 fol. 40
William Coomes 1729 Coomes Delight Charles Co.
CERT. 100 acres Lib. IL#B fol. 92
PAT. 100 acres Lib PL #7 fol. 49
William Coomes 1742 Duncastle Charles Co.
CERT. 20 acres Lib. LG#E fol. 115
PAT 20 acres Lib EI#6 fol. 468
William Coomes 1742 The Meadows Charles Co.
CERT 20 acres Lib. LG#E fol. 116
PAT 20 acres Lib. EI#6 fol. 466
William Coomes 1743 Paw Thicket Charles Co.
CERT. 53 acres Lib. LG#E fol. 332
PAT 53 acres Lib. EI #6 fol. 698
William Coomes 1746 Paw Thickett Enlarged Charles Co.
CERT 104 acres Lib. LG#E fol. 645
PAT 104 acres Lib BT&BY#3 fol.47
William Coomes 1749 Coomes' Park Charles Co.
CERT 100 acres Lib BY&GS#1fol.140
PAT 100 acres Lib BY&GS#2 fol. 77
William Coomes 1755 Two Partners Charles Co.
CERT 1238 acres LibBC&GS#5fol.177
PAT 1238 acres Lib BC&GS#6 fol.203
William Coomes 1762 Dundee Charles Co.
CERT 45 acres Lib BC&GS#21fol. 101
PAT 45 acres Lib BC&GS#20 fol. 184
William Coomes 1773 The Addition* Charles Co.
CERT 164 acres Lib BC&GS#4 fol404
PAT 164 acres Lib. BC&GS#46 fol25
*Patent: The Addition: patented 16 March 1773, rent amt 6/7 st g.
charged to the rent roll. Special warrant out of his lordships
land office bearing date the twenty fifth day of May last
grants unto William Coomes of Charles Co. to Resurvey a tract or
parcel of land called Boswells Adventure lying and being in
Charles Co. aforesaid originally on the tenth day of June 1734,
granted unto a certain Michael Boswell for 92 acres under new rent
with the liberty to add the contiguous vacancy. These are
therefore to certify that I have carefully resurveyed and laid out
for and in the name of him the said William Coomes the apt parcel
of land according to its ancient meets and bounds and find it to
contain 92 acres as above to which I have added 72 acres
of vacancy. Beginning for the lines of the resurvey by virtue of
this before mentioned warrant at a bounded red oak the original
beginning of said tract and running thence N 44 perches then S
60oW 32 perches then N 53oW 44 percheas then S 55oW 26 perches
then S 1;oE 41 perches then S 25oE 27 perches then S3oW 41 perches
then S 40oE 80 perches then S 12oE 18 per then S65oW 9 per then E
by S 40 per then SE 102 per then N 8oW 12 per then N 33oW 25
per then N 54oE18 per then S 89oE 34 per then N 33oW 40 per then N
80oE 31 per then N 9oE 16 per then N 37oW 44 per then with a
strainbg line to beg. = 165 acres called the Addition to be
held of Panquiah (Zachia?) Manor Resurveyed the 21 day of Nov.
1765. Wm. Hanson, dept. serv. On the back: I hereby certify that
Wm. Coomes paid Col. Loyd, agent for Ld Baltimore on the 29 of
Oct. 1766 3 pound 12 shillings for the within vacancy and 2
shillings and 9 pence rent to March 1766-Nov. 20 1771.
Daniel of St. Thom Jennifer.
Transcribed and contributed by Carol Collins MRoots95@aol.com.
USGENWEB site of Charles County, Maryland:
William Coombes to Joseph Coombes 29 Nov. 1756-1 Dec. 1756
Coombes Park Coombes Park: Beginning at a bound Spanish Oak standing Greens
Inher on a plain in the last line of Greens Inheritance and running
thence E 200 perches then N 14oW 120 per then N 35oW 40 per then S 40oW 40 per
then S 64oW 116 per then with a straight line to beginning containing 100
acres of land; also part of tract called Greens Inheritance: beg on north side
of Portabacco main branch and being part of land beqeathed to Mary Green, the
dau. of Leonard Green; beg: a 2nd bound tree of the land now belonging to
Basil Spalding and running thence N 83oE 190 per to a marked red oak standing
in a glade, then N 1o Westerly 72 per to a walnut then N 21o and a half E 90
per then S 83o W 224 per to first bound tree of Angus McKays, then with strait
line to first bound thee = 146 acres, with dwelling houses, etc.; wit: Allen
Daveis, Sam Hanson, no wife.* Wife, Winifred, agreement found in Liber O#3,
fol, 731 (1770) G-3, p. 26
William Coomes to Daniel of St. Thomas Jennifer 9 Nov. 1757-9 Jan. 1758
Two Partners 100 £ sterling; patented to Coomes 15 Oct 1755 for 1238 acres
beginning at a small black scrubby oak by a small glade or pond at end of
the South 83o west line of said track, then South 47o west 80 perches then
South 306 perches to the North 80o East line of (Lodvens) Courage then North
80o East 40 perches to end of said line then South 22o East 42perches then
East 290 perches then North 15o East 125 perches then North 26o West 128
perches then SW 202 perches then to beg = 654 acres. wit: Samuel Hanson,
Daniel Jenifer G-3, p. 159
Note: Daniel divided and sold land to: 1) Henry Wathen, (G-3, p. 213-14; 2)
Philip Macree (G-3, p. 249); 3) Simon Reeder (G-3, p. 418)
William Coombs - Where as divers persons without leave have and still
continue to hunt and drive off game from the lands of the subscriber not
only to his prejudice in the loss of such game but also prededicial to his
stock, their being disturbed, he therefore hereby forwarns all person
whatsoever not to hunt with Dogs or guns on any of his lands as they may
expect being presented as the law Directs and he also gives publick notice
that he will destroy any dog or dogs that he may find on any of his lands.
Dec. 12, 1768 G-3, p. 256
William Coombs Sr. fr. George & Ann Boswell 11 Nov. 1763 (almost totally
destroyed)
land at head of Pt Tobacco beg. at a bounded red oak - grave yard excepted;
pd for by negro woman. wit: Walter Hanson, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer. L-3,
p. 380
William Coombs Sr. to Mary Miles 4 Oct 1765-24 Oct. 1765
Two Partners Edward Miles, carpenter, for love and affection & £10; beg.at
popular standing at a small branch and running then SE 49 perches then SW
30 per then W by N 58 per then S 83oW 94 per then S 17oE 93 per then N 70oW
392 per then N 34oW 92 per to marked red oak then S 79oW to small branch then
with branch to beginning = 150 acres; wit: Walter Hanson, Thos Contee; wife
Winifred Coombs signed dower. O-3, p. 9
William Coomes Sr. to William Jr. 24 Oct. 1765
Two Partners for and in consideration of the natural love duty and affection
which he hath and beareth toward his father & £10 current money - Two
Partners: beg. at a marked willow oak standing by a small branch that leadeth
into the main branch of Portobacco and running thence south 69oW 125 perches
to a bounded Hickory the second Bound tree of Greens Inheritance then south
75oW 32 perches, then South 13oW 7 perches, then E by N 34 perches, then S
33oE 158 perches, then S 3oW 20 perches, then SE 40 perches, (then N 49.5oE 7
perches to marked poplar in a small branch, mark of Mary Miles land) to a
small branch, then up the said run and binding with the south 79oW line of
Mary Miles to marked red oak then north 19oE 48 perches then N 19oW 32
perches, then N 62oE 46 perches, then N 32oW 58 perches, to the head of a
small branch then binding with said small branch to beg - 260 acres. wit:
Walter Hanson, Thos Contee, wf: Winifred O-3, p. 12
William Coomes Jr. to Wm. Sr. 1 May-3 May 1774
Two Partners for and in consideration of the natural love duty and affection
which he hath and beareth toward his father & £ 10 current money - Two
Partners: beg. at a marked willow oak standing by a small branch that leadeth
into the main branch of Portobacco and running thence south 69oW 125 perches
to a bounded Hickory the second Bound tree of Greens Inheritance then south
75oW 32 perches, then South 13oW 7 perches, then E by N 34 perches, then S
33oE 158 perches, then S 3oW 20 perches, then SE 40 perches,(then N 49.5oE 7
perches to marked poplar in a small branch, mark of Mary Miles land) to a
small branch, then up the said run and binding with the south 79oW line of
Mary Miles to marked red oak then north 19oE 48 perches then N 19oW 32
perches, then N 62oE 46 perches, then N 32oW 58 perches, to the head of a
small branch then binding with said small branch to beg = 260 acres.
Aloisia, wife; wit: James Craik, G.R. Brown
S-3, p. 593
William Coomes Sr. fr. Edward Miles 31 May 1774
Two Partners Edward Miles, carpener and Mary, his wife to William Coomes, Sr.
in consideration of natural love and affection they bear toward their
father and £10 current money a tract called Two Partners; beg: at a marked
poplar standing at a small branch and running thence SE 40 perches, then SW 30
perches the W by N. 58 perches then south 83oW 94 perches, then S17oE 93
perches, then N 70oE E *302 perches, the N 34oW 93 perches to marked red oak
then S 79oW to a small branch, then down and with the run of the said branch
to beginning = 150 acres. wit: James Craik, GR Brown (could write their names)
S-3, p. 594
William Coomes Sr. to William Jr. 31 May 1774
Two Partners natural love and affection toward son & £10 current money: same
as above. -- wife, Winifred
S-3, p. 595
William Coomes Sr. to Mary Miles 31 May 1774
Two Partners natural love and affection which he hath and beareth toward his
dau & £10 -- beginning at a marked poplar standing at a small branch and
running then S 49.5o W 7 perches to end of William Coomes Jr. SE forty perches
course of the 2 partners, then SE 40 perches etc. *328 perches to a bound
live oak then N 58.5oW 80 perches to a bounded red oak then N 79oW 35 perhes
to a markedmaple standing in a small branch, then with running water of said
branch to beginning = 143 acres.
S-3, p. 597
1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Port Tobacco: Rent Roll
page/Sequence: 405-181: COOMES HUNTING PLACE: 275 acres; Possession of - 275
Acres - Coomes, William: Surveyed for William Coomes 15 April 1725 lying at or
near the head of Port Tobacco branch beginning at a bounded White oak: Other
Tracts Mentioned: ; ; ; other notes - {mm Note; not identified to a specific
Hundred. Location identified by watercourse or nearby tract.}, ,, , , ,
1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Port Tobacco: Rent Roll
page/Sequence: 408-210: COOMES DELIGHT: 100 acres; Possession of - 100 Acres -
Coomes, William: Surveyed for William Coomes 9 April 1726 beginning at a
bounded White oak: Other Tracts Mentioned: ; ; ; other notes - {mm Note; not
identified to a specific Hundred. Location identified by watercourse or nearby
tract.}, ,, , , ,
1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Port Tobacco: Rent Roll
page/Sequence: 444-465: PAW THICKETT: 52 acres; Possession of - 52 Acres -
Coomes, William: Surveyed William Coomes, 7 Sept 1743, beginning at a bounded
Spanish oak standing on a plain near the line of the said COOMES DELIGHT,
patented 7 Sept 1743.: Other Tracts Mentioned: COOMES DELIGHT; ; ; other notes
- {mm Note; not identified to a specific Hundred. Location identified by
watercourse or nearby tract.}, Re-Surveyed into PAW THICKETT ENLARGED; folio
453,, , , ,
vii. Eleanor Coomes, born Abt. 1715 in Maryland; died in Frederick County, Maryland; married (1) Dennis Doheny; married (2) John Clement.
viii. John Clement Coomes, born Abt. 1720 in Frederick County, Maryland.
10. Jesse Thomas Wharton He married 11. Elizabeth Sewall.
11. Elizabeth Sewall
Notes for Jesse Thomas Wharton:
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Dr. Jesse Thomas Wharton, father of Elizabeth Wharton Coomes, was commissioned as Deputy Governor of Maryland in 1676, and served in this office until his death.
More About Jesse Thomas Wharton:
Occupation: Doctor
Politics: Deputy Gov of Maryland, 1676
Child of Jesse Wharton and Elizabeth Sewall is:
5 i. Elizabeth Wharton, born 1699; died 1772; married Thomas Coomes 1719.
Generation No. 5
16. Richard Coomes I, born 1653 in Stratford, Warwick, England; died 1752 in Charles County, Maryland. He married 17. Anne Shercliffe.
17. Anne Shercliffe, born 1655. She was the daughter of 34. William Shercliffe and 35. Mildred Thompson Wheeler.
Notes for Richard Coomes I:
The name Coomes originated in Wales. Coomes is Welsh for little valley. The Coomes crest bears the legend: HE WHO STRIVES WILL CONQUER. They fought with William the Conqueror and were awarded lands in England. The Coomes family in England were in Old Stratford, Warrick County. Coomes Abbey still stands and is still inhabited by persons of the same name.
The first Coomes to come to Maryland were Catholic. In England, at this time, they could not hold office. They were recruited by Cecil Calver, Lord of Baltimore, to settle the new land. Cecil had married the daughter of the Earl of Arundel, a powerful Catholic. Cecil stayed in England to protect the interest of the new colony. His brother, Leonard, was put in charge of the 200 colonists. The colonists were to sail on the Ark and her sister ship, the Dove. As Catholics, the colonists could not take the oath of supremacy and this was a requirement by the Crown of all colonists leaving England. Therefore, in order not to embarrass Lord Baltimore, they waited on the Isle of Wight, and boarded there when the ships cleared London harbor. Several of the Coomes colonists settled in Maryland when the ships arrived in 1634.
Richard Coomes was one of these colonists. Richard was transported to the colonies by Edward Cooke in 1676. He settled in Charles County, Maryland, on a plantation he acquired called Christian Temple Manor, located on the Mattawoman Creek, and was involved in several business transactions in this area of the state. In a chancery proceeding concerning his property, Richard Coombes gave his age as 74, on June 24, 1727.
It is not uncommon when discussing the history of this family to identify roots in Charles County, Maryland. It is indeed unfortunate that many of Maryland's records have been destroyed; however, pages 89 & 70 of Maria Louisa Kelley's and Inez Bateman Cherault's Hamilton Family of Charles County Maryland provide important data on our Coomes roots. Note the frequency at which names common in Kentucky reappear in this early Coomes history:
"The seat of the Coombs family in England was in old Stratford, Warrick County. Coombs Abbey still remains and is inhabited by some of the family of that name." The will of John A. Coombs was probated (there) January 28, 1812. In this will he leaves five pounds to his friend, William Shakespeare, and mentions his ancient acquaintance and trusted friend, Mr John Washington. Descendants of this family came to America very early.
"Enoch Coombs and wife, Barbary, with son Enoch, settled in Maryland, 1684, as shown in Early Settlers, Liber 7, pg 551. The family was numerous in both Saint Mary's and Charles Counties, Maryland, and intermarried with the best colonial families.
"Richard Coombs I settled in Charles County, Maryland, in 1676. He was transplanted by Ed. Cooke, various depositions give his birth from 1652 to 1660. He was born about 1665. He had various business transactions 1714 to 1743. He md Anne Shercliff, dau of William Shercliffe and Mildred Thompson, widow Wheeler. He died without leaving a will in 1752, at nearly a hundred years of age. His inventory, Inv #33, pg 48, mentions kin: son Ridhard II, John Clement Coombs, friend Dennis Doheny.
"Richard II married Winifred Green, daughter of Leonard Green, son of Governor Thomas Greend and wife, Winifred. The will of Leonard Green of Saint Mary's County dated January 10, 1687, probated July 4 1688, leaves to wife Ann, "Green's Rest", during her life. To son, Thomas, and heirs, said plantation at death of his mother. Also 200 acres at Pangaish, Charles County, being part of "Green's Inheritance". To eldest daughter Winifred, and heirs, 200 acres, part of "Green's Inheritance". To daughter Margaret (md Jos Alvey) 200 acres, part of said tract. Maryland Rent Rolls, Charles and St Mary's Counties, page 30E, Annapolis, Maryland.
"Green's Inheritance surveyed January 8, 1666, for Leonard, Robert, and Francis Green. Possession 800 acres Francis Green; 800 acres, Edward Clements; Robert Green 200 acres; Francis Wheeler 200 acres; Thomas Green, son of Leonard, 200 acres; Richard Coombs 200 acres, Jos. Alvey, 200 acres.
"Richard Coombs left the following heirs: Thomas Coombs, Jane Coombs, Sarah Coombs, Leonard Coombs, Eleanor Coombs.
"In 1719 "Coombs Purchase", 100 acres, was surveyed for Thomas Coombs. Thomas Coombs married Elizabeth Wharton. His will was proven January 19, 1753, and mentions son Thomas Wharton, to whom he wills "Coombs Purchase"; son Walter, part of "Green's Inheritance"; son Bennet, "all my whole and sole right to a part of land called "Green's Inheritance".
"Four younger sons, Joseph, William, Francis, Ignatius, and Walter when they become 18, wife Elizabeth.
"Elizabeth , wife of Thomas, died 1772. In addition to the children above mentioned, mentions her daughter Mary Ann Hamilton, wife of James, Ann Smith, Anastasia Hamilton, wife of Joseph.
More About Richard Coomes I:
Occupation: Planter
Property: Christian Temple Manor, Charles County, MD
Children of Richard Coomes and Anne Shercliffe are:
i. Dennis Doheny Coomes
8 ii. Richard Thomas Coomes II, born 1675 in Charles County, Maryland; died 10 Jan 1751/52 in Frederick County, Maryland; married Winifred Clare Green 1695.
iii. John Clement Coomes, born Abt. 1680 in Maryland; married Anna Nalley.
Notes for John Clement Coomes:
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John Clement purchased lot #89 when the Assembly erected Charles Town on Port Tobacco Creek (purchase date: March 19, 1730). He served as a Private in the Maryland Militia in the Revolution and died during the War.
Notes for Anna Nalley:
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Anna Coomes received a slave girl in the will of John Clement Coomes' father in 1783.
18. Leonard Green, Sr, died 1723 in St Mary's County, Maryland. He was the son of 36. Governor Thomas Green and 37. Winifred Seybourne. He married 19. Ann.
19. Ann
Notes for Leonard Green, Sr:
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Leonard Green immigrated to the colonies from England, arriving on the ARC in 1644.
Children of Leonard Green and Ann are:
9 i. Winifred Clare Green, married Richard Thomas Coomes II 1695.
ii. Leonard Green, Jr, born Aft. 1650.
iii. Cudburth Green
iv. John Green
v. Francis Green
vi. Jane Green, born in Charles County, Maryland; died in Charles County, Maryland; married Robert Doyne; born 1670 in Charles County, Maryland; died 1760 in Charles County, Maryland.
vii. Mary Green, married James Livers.
Generation No. 6
34. William Shercliffe He married 35. Mildred Thompson Wheeler.
35. Mildred Thompson Wheeler
Child of William Shercliffe and Mildred Wheeler is:
17 i. Anne Shercliffe, born 1655; married Richard Coomes I.
36. Governor Thomas Green, born Abt. 1625 in Bobbing, Kent, England; died Bef. 20 Jan 1649/50 in St Mary's County, Maryland. He married 37. Winifred Seybourne 1647 in Maryland.
37. Winifred Seybourne, born Abt. 1625; died 01 Oct 1656.
Notes for Governor Thomas Green:
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Maryland Calendar of Wills: Volume 5 From Land Office Annapolis, Md.
Green, Thomas, Governor,St. Mary's Co., 18th Nov., 1650. After reserving a livelihood for himself, assigns to his friends
Henry Adams and James Langworth entire estate, real and personal, for benefit of wife Winifred and children Thomas,
Leonard, Robert and Francis; but desires wife also. to have full possession during her life, except that a certain amount of
tobacco is to be given to friend Thos. Copley. Wife to give to sons also. designated shares in succession. In event of death of
wife and of children without issue, æ of estate to be given to charity and balance to Henry Adams and James Langworth also.
Test: Richd. Willan, Alice Smith. Pat. Rec. 1, 188.
GREENE FAMILY
THOMAS GREENE, one of the "twenty gentlemen of very good fashion " who sailed on the Ark and the Dove was the second Provincial Governor of Maryland, was one of the most interesting characters of early Maryland and one whose history has been quite neglected. He had invested in the adventure to a minor extent, so consequently its success was of more than casual interest. He was always styled by Governor Leonard Calvert " my well beloved friend," but the tradition that he was a kinsman of Leonard Calvert has not been proved and he oft repeated statement that he married Helen, a daughter of George, Lord Baltimore, is merely a myth of genealogy, His brother, Robert Greene, Esq., emigrated to Maryland, but being the son and heir to the parental estates in England he returned to the mother country, but before departing he assigned his land rights to his brother Thomas.
Governor Thomas Greene was a member of the Catholic faith, like most of the gentlemen on the Ark, a Royalist in politics, a supporter of the Stuart dynasty, and for his loyalty to the Crown he was castigated figuratively before his death by the radical elements which were then gaining strength in the Province-principally the Puritans who had been outlawed in Virginia and virtually driven out and to whom Lord Baltimore offered a haven in his Province. His marriage to Mistress Ann Cox, a spinster,* who was among the few gentlewomen on the initial voyage of the Ark and the Dove, was undoubtedly the first
Christian marriage to have been celebrated on Maryland soil. She died within a few years, but was living as late as April, 1638. He married secondly Mistress Winifred Seybourne [Seaborne] who arrived in Maryland some time during 1638. The mother of his children has been the subject of much discussion, but of the two younger sons there is no question of their being the issue of Winifred his last wife. When he applied for land rights on September 15, 1647, among the claims was " 100 acres more being the right of his wife Winifred Seyborn for Transporting herself into the Province 1638. " It is therefore proved that she emigrated and financed her passage in 1638. At the same time he proved rights for 50 acres each for his children " 100 more for transporting 2 children in the year 1644 vizt Thomas and Leonard Green." From the strict construction of the wording, there is no implication that Mistress Seyborne brought them over or was their mother. Mistress Seyborne came in 1638 and the boys came six years later. This point is important. They were less than 18 years of age in 1650 and they came out of England in 1644. There is no record of Thomas Greene returning to England, so the only inference that can be placed on the matter is that two older children were born in England and had at one time been sent to England, presumably for a year of two of schooling.
The diary of Father White, which is an account of what took place on the trip from England to Maryland shows that Thomas Greene m. Mrs. Ann (Gerrard) Cox. It was said to be the first Christian marriage in Maryland.
Before sailing from England, or shortly thereafter, Thomas Greene was granted a large manor of 10,000 acres, for Father Copley writing to Cecilius, Lord Baltimore on April 3, 1638, cautioned him against the excessive taxation imposed on the manor lords " An accordingly Mr. Green one of the Gentlemen that came in the Arke, reflecting that besydes the losse of his halfe share of trucks [harvest] he was now to pay tenne barrels of Corne for his 10,000 acres and that only he had three men to raise that and maintaine himself and his wyfe confidently told me that he must necessarily deserte the Colo nye" As no
further record has been found for this manor, he probably permitted it to escheat to the Lord Proprietary being in those difficult times more of a burden than an asset
After the manor of Richard Thompson on Popely Island in the Bay was forfeited by treason against the Lord Proprietary, Lord Baltimore granted the manor to Thomas Greene, though the letters patent were apparently among those papers burned by Ingle on his raid into Maryland during 1645. The manor consisted of 500 acres on the tip of Kent Isle not far from Fort Kent Manor of Giles Brent and the entire Isle of Popely on which Thompson was seated and which was the scene of the entire massacre of his wife and children by Indians during his absence. If Thomas Greene maintained a steward on his manor, no record has come down, but leases were made for records exist of a Gersom Cromwell being a tenant on the portion on Kent. Greene gave the name of of Bobing to his island manor and held it until February 8, 1650/1, when he sold for 10,000 lbs. tobacco to Thomas Hawkins, of London, Mariner-, " all rights and interests in my whole Manor." He received other land grants, one of which was a warrant for 2,500 acres, but he died before the patent was issued. Consequently, in 1665 it was surveyed and granted to his three sons who gave it the name of " Green's Inheritance.'' His seat, however, was on "Green's Rest" within the environs of St. Mary's City and border ing St. Mary's River. He took a serious interest in all the affairs of the Province and became one of the leading factors in the early political develop ments. He attended the early General Assemblies to whom all free holders were summoned. When the legislature became representative and the Upper House or Privy Council developed, he was one of the first to be appointed by the Lord Proprietary to that body which was virtually a counterpart to the British House of Lords. He was also appointed one of the Justices of the Provincial Court at its inception. He retained his seat in the Council until 1647 when he succeeded to the governorship by the death of Leonard
Calvert, the first Provincial Governor. His term of office lasted until April 26, 1649, when Lord Baltimore commissioned Captain William Stone, of Virginia, and for a short period thereafter acted as governor when Stone was on a business trip to Virginia. On November 18, 1650, he negotiated a document whereby he assigned his entire estate in trust under certain conditions to his friends, Henry Adams and James Langworth, for the benefit of his wife, Winifred, and sons-Thomas, Leonard, Robert, and Francis. He desired his wife to have full possession of the estate during life except for a certain amount of tobacco which vas bequeathed to his friend Thomas Copley. His widow was to grant his sons the designated shares in succession as they came of age, " be Sufficiently maintained and Provided for . . both for Subsistance and Education aswerable to their quality until each of them respectively come to eighteen years of age." in the event of his widow's decease and the death of his sons without issue, then three-fourths of his estate were to be distributed to charity and the residue to Henry Adams and James Langworth.
In the book, "The Maryland Semmes & Related Families" by Ha rry Wright Newman, there is a section on Gov. Thomas Greene 's family starting on page 134.
Regarding Gov. Thomas Green; no, he did not marry Hellen the daughter of George, Lord Baltimore, also called Leonard C alvert who was a "beloved friend" of Thomas Greene. Thomas Green married twice, the first time to Mistress Ann Cox , a spinster. The term spiniter was an honorable title for a lady of that day. The term is related to the spinning wheel and its impact on society and the economy of the day. Until the invention of the spinning wheel it took 6 wom en working to provide the necessary yarn for one man to ope rate a loom. After the invention of the spinning wheel, ONE lady could keep 6 men supplied with enough yarn to work their looms. This was the first time a woman could earn a living by her own labor, so the select ladies that chose the spinning profession were called "Spinsters." This marriage is said to be the first Christian marriage performed in Maryland. Lord Baltimore granted Thomas Greene 10,000 acre s of land which was a "burden" and he gave it back to Lor d Baltimore. Thomas Green then purchased 1,000 acres which H was all on the Island of Poplar, which he called Bobing Manor after his distant ancestor's estate in England. Lord Baltimore appointed Thomas Green to the Privy council of the Colony, and in 1647 Lord Baltimore became ill and appointed Thomas Green to succeed him as Provincial Governor . Thomas was governor of Maryland from June 1647 to Apri l 1649 when he was replaced by Capt. William Stone of Virginia. Thomas Green was a Catholic and the colony was predom inantly Protestant, so Thomas Green was not a popular Gover nor, expecially in 1649 when the Colony learned that King C harles I had been be-headed. William Stone had replaced Th omas Green, but Stone was away from the Colony, and Thoma s Green was again Governor, and on November 15, 1649 he pro claimed that the King's son, also named Charles, the Prince of Wales was undoubtedly the rightful heir to all his fat her's domain and Thomas Greene hereby proclaimed him King Charles II. When Governor Stone returned to the Colony he repudiated the declaration of Thomas Green, but it was too late to stop Charles II from taking the throne and Olivar Cromwell then took control of the government as a "Protectorate," .
Another milestone document was placed into law in Maryland in 1649 when an Act concerning Religion was passed by the Assembly on April 21, 1649 and was signed by Thomas Greene. This is considered the first statute in America granting freedom of religion to the people. This was a very radical idea in that time, as it was legal to hang a Quaker in all Colonies except Maryland because of their religious
beliefs.
Tom Green TB Green3@aol.com
Thomas received more than 2,000 acres of land for transporting several of his family members into the Province of Maryland. His home town was known as "Green's Rest" and was part of his large grant "Green's Inheritance" in Port Tobacco, MD. He was a member of the Assembly in 1638, appointed to the Governor's Council in 1644, member of the Upper House and acting Governor while his cousin, Gov. Leonard Calvert, was in England. He served as Governor of Maryland from June 1647 to August 1648 and again in 1649.
from Melissa Thompson Alexander ma.da@gte.net.
November 18, 1650 acting Governor Thomas Greene executed a document whereby he assigned his entire estate in trust under certain conditions to his friends, Henry Adams and James Langworth, for the benefit of his wife, Winefred, and sons- Thomas, Leonard, Robert, and Francis. He desired his wife to have full possession of the Estate during life except for a certain amount of tobacco which was bequeathed to his friend and priest, Thomas Copley.
The residence of Governor Green was patented in 1639 and known as Green's Rest. It was later changed to Saint Ann. The home was a two-story frame building with brick gables.
Notes for Winifred Seybourne:
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from Paul Tobler's notes
"who by her title indicated getle birth and likewise one who had arrived to the age of discretion to be recognized as a feme sole in matter of ethics and business," p 215 (of something)
On 30 July 1638 Lord Baltimore personally issued instructions for a warrant of 100 acres for Mistress Winifred Seyborne (Seaborne) for transporting herself in 1638 and at the same time a warrant of 100 acres for Mistress Troughan
More About Winifred Seybourne:
Emigration: Abt. 1638, From England to Maryland
Children of Governor Green and Winifred Seybourne are:
18 i. Leonard Green, Sr, died 1723 in St Mary's County, Maryland; married Ann.
ii. Francis Greene, born 1648 in St Mary's County, Maryland; died 1707; married Elizabeth Wheeler 1688 in Charles County, Maryland; born Abt. 1693; died Bef. 20 Jul 1758.
Notes for Francis Greene:
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In the book, "The Maryland Semmes & Related Families" by Ha rry Wright Newman, there is a section on Gov. Thomas Greene 's family starting on page 134, and this is about all I have had on the family until the last few days when you and the others have been so wonderful to post all the details of the family.
This book gives some additional detail about the children a nd grandchildren of the Governor. Francis Green, the so n of Francis and Elizabeth Green and the grandson of the Governor, is shows as born on April 23, 1694 near Port Tobacco. The book goes on to state that he married Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin Wheeler in 1711, which would make him 17 years of age at his marriage. Elizabeth Wheeler is shown to have been married in 1693, making her older than her children. The author then goes on to explain how he person ally examined the family papers in identifying the 13 children of the couple.The children are shown as Leonard born Nov. 8, 1712; Elizabeth born Jan. 24, 1713; Francis born Nov . 5, 1716; Anastatia born Sept. 29, 1718; Susanna born Ma y 10, 1722; Anne born Jan. 24, 1724 married Patrick Hamilton; Henry born Feb. 24, 1726; Henrietta born Oct. 13, 1728 ; Benjamin born Jan. 15, 1730 married Elizabeth Thomas; Ignatius born Jan. 19, 1732; Clement born Apr. 11, 1735 married Hannah Thomas; John Green born Oct. 28, 1737 married Elizabeth Beaven.
Francis Green died intestate, and a letter of administrati on was issued to Leonard Green who filed an inventory of t he estate on March 28, 1761 with William Clements and Thomas Green approving.
Tom Green TBGreen3@aol.com
iii. Robert Green, born Abt. 1646 in England; died 12 May 1716 in St Mary's County, Maryland.
Notes for Robert Green:
Immigrated to America from England in 1648.
More About Robert Green:
Occupation: Governor
iv. Thomas Green
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