Re: Dorsey, Benjamin/MD
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Dorsey, Benjamin/MD
7/11/98
You will have much luck also in looking up Darcy and D'Arcy since the version of "Dorsey" has evolved in several forms. It may take me a while to research the written pages I have of the MD Dorseys (I am a direct grandaughter decended from Payton Smith Dorsey, who's grandfather some 11 generations removed was Col. Edward Dorsey, decendent of the Irvington Castle and Kiltulla House Darceys). Col. Edward Dorsey received his first grant of land in the Province in the year 1658. Six years later his three sons, Col. Edward, Joshua, and the Hon. John Dorsey were granted a large tract of land in Anne Arundel County by the peculiar name of Hockley in ye Hole - "Hole being the old English for Valley" It was so named being identical with a parish in the County of Essex, England, in which the descendants of John Dorsey were - so they gave their MD estate an Essex name. They were of the Irvington Castle Branch, which bore the broken spear for the crest.
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Re: Dorsey, Benjamin/MD
Margo 4/19/01