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Christopher ROUSBY of Patuxent River, Calvert Co., MD, was the Royal Collector of Customs 1674 until his death on the evening of 10/31/1684, when murdered by the Lord Proprietor's cousin, George TALBOT, in St. Mary's Co. Records state that he died almost as soon as the dagger went into his chest. However, the Maryland Calendar of Wills, Vol. 1, p. 141, by Jane Baldwin Cotton, shows that ROUSBY's will was made on 10/31/1684 (and proven on 3/20/1684/5). Is that date correct? If so, had he anticipated his death earlier that day? Or maybe he lived long enough to sign a brief will tha was prepared for him? He named as his executor John ROUSBY [his brother], who died in Feb. 1685/86.
The inscription on the gravemarker (per H. Ridgely's 1908 book, Historic Graves of Maryland ...) indicates that the brothers were buried under the same "tomb." In Jan. 1684/85 the administration of Christopher's estate went to his brother William, Citizen and grocer of London. I can find no record of inventory or admin. account filed in MD. The murder was witnessed by C. ROUSBY's man servant (unnamed) and the ship's captain. Eventually, there was a court proceeding in VA in which witnesses testified. Is there a particular document that I could request from the VA State Library that would include that information (including names of witnesses)? By the way, I understand that the tombstone (a thousand pound slab of limestone) was returned to MD from the Henry Ford Museum in MI, in 2002. Not sure where it is now, but last year it was being stored in a lab at the Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum in Calvert Co. (according to an article in the Baltimore Sun by Stephanie Desmon).
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