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Dear Dorsey.
Please forgive me for butting into this conversation, since I am new to this forum.
If one digs lots through the marriage records, wills, tax records, and church records in and around Prince George County, one can start to piece together how they all fit. I still don;t have all the pieces, but the puzzle is definitely taking shape.
The information I have read suggests that an English knight, Sir James Drane, was granted land in the "New World" by his Cousin, Lord Baltimore. Which Lord Baltimore is never specified, but given the time fram it must be the 1st or 2nd Barons. Some have interpreted this to mean Sir James was married to a Calvert lady, but that does not have to be the case for the connection to be true.
For example, the 1st Baron Baltimore was married to Anne Minne. There is no reason to believe that Sir James may not have been a nephew of Anne. Therefore this part of the story could be very well true for, as far as I know, the full cousinly connections to the 1st 2 Baron Baltimores have not been examined.
The story continues that Sir James was older at this point and did not wish to uproot his life, so he passed his land to his sons (the number has ranged from 4 to 7 depending on who is telling the story). One of these sons was James Anthony Drane born ca.1624 in England and emigrated to Maryland ca.1660 where he married Nancy Brent (or Brandt). He seems to have settled initally in Piscataway, and later moved the region of Prince George County where his descendents would be based for generations to come.
The immigrant James Anthony seems to have had at least one brother show up in Maryland records. About this time, Dranes also showed up in Penn. and Mass. This would fit the notion of 4 sons coming to the colonies in about 1660.
As we discuss this further, I will more to the story, but for now I have a business trip in the morning and I haven't packed yet.
Daniel Willis
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