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I'm trying to solve a mystery about this Joseph. I'll explain below what I've discovered. After review, if you can help clarify the who, what, and where of the mystey, I would appreciate feedback.
Now the mystery - things get messy for sure. William Longfellow born 25 Nov 1679 was the firstborn of William Longfellow and Anne Sewall, Born at Newbury, Essex, Mass. His father William was sent on an expedition aqainst Quebec in 1690, when William was 11 year's old. The ship wrecked and sunk and William Longfellow the Immigrant drowned off the coast of Cape Breton near Anticosti 31 Oct 1690. William did not take the death of his father very well and decided to leave his family and no one heard from him again in Massachusetts. Did he leave Massachusetts and head for Maryland or not? Record's show that he married in Boston, Suffolk, Mass. to Mary Davise on 26 Jun 1702. Perhaps he met her in Boston and he would have been 22 at the time he was married. For some unknown reason he left her in Boston where she remarried to William Sheafe in 1704. The next records available show up in Maryland. He must have decided to sail away. Was there a Mary Browne in Boston that he may have known and ended up with in Talbot/Queen Anne’s County, Maryland where Joseph Longfellow was born abt 1697-1703 or could he have been born in Massachusetts? Was Joseph William's son? Did William secondly marry to Elizabeth Ringold or was it another? Joseph Longfellow, possible child of William and Mary Davis or Mary Browne, would have been born abt 1697-1703 and married an Elizabeth abt 1730 or was this Joseph Longfellow of Maryland much older than 7-14 years old in 1710-1711 when he shows up on Elizabeth Browne’s will as a Witness or was he just like a neighbor to Elizabeth Browne? Where did he live? Which County can he be found in, Talbot County, Maryland or Kent County, Delaware? The problem in establishing exactly where William and his family lived is that the area now known as Delaware was actually part of Pennsylvania at the time, Delaware was created with the establishment of the Mason-Dixon Line.
According to another source, Joseph was born to Mary (Browne) Longfellow who married William after his arrival in Talbot County, Maryland.
What is known is:
1. A Joseph Longfellow was one of three witnesses to the will of Elizabeth Browne on January 21, 1710 who left her personal property to her daughters Rebecca Neal and Mary Longfellow and the residue to “my son-in-law William Browne and his sister.”
2. The baptismal records of St. Like’s Parish, Queen Anne’s County, Maryland, show a son John born to Joseph and Elizabeth Longfellow on January 6, 1740.
3. A grant of land was given to John Longfellow [assumed to be Joseph’s son] on March 27, 1769 and recorded at Centerville, county seat of Queen Anne’s County, Maryland. The description reads, “beginning at the white oak standing on the south side of a swamp at the head of a small branch (creek) which runs by the plantation on which Joseph Longfellow formerly lived… containing fifty acres of land more or less.” Indicating that Joseph Longfellow, father of John, had died prior to 1769.
One possible solution –
a. William, the 3rd, moved away from his family after his father died in 1692… for what reason and at what age we don’t know.
b. He married in Boston, Mass in 26 Jun 1702 to Mary Davis when he was 22 years old.
c. William and Mary (Davis) Longfellow had no children together.
d. William left Mary (Davis) Longfellow soon after their marriage began.
e. William arrived in Maryland, in 1703 where he “married” Mary (Browne) Longfellow and with her had a son Joseph in that year. Whether he actually married Mary Browne is an open question. There is no record of this marriage.
f. William (for whatever reason, death of Mary Browne or otherwise) later married Elizabeth Ringold in 1712 with whom children were produced from 1712 – 1724.
g. Joseph Longfellow did witness the will of Elizabeth Browne, his grandmother, in 1710 at age 10.
h. The Mormon Church’s site http://www.familysearch.org/ supports this solution.
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