1725 Pennsylvania

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1725- Springett Penn joins with his step-grandmother, Hannah Penn, in appointing Patrick Gordon Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania. Springett Penn was a grandson and heir of William Penn, founder and proprietor of Pennsylvania.

The chancery suit over his grandfather William Penn's will was not yet settled. The founder had several children that died in his lifetime.--His eldest surviving son, William Penn, born about 1676; died in Liege in 1720, came to the colony with Lieutenant-Governor Evans, arriving February 2, 1704, and was made a member of the provincial council on the 8th. As such he joined in a declaration that a clause in his father's instructions suspending the operation of laws passed by the lieutenant-governor until the proprietor's pleasure be known was illegal and void. He raised a militia company, but, being presented before the corporation of the city of Philadelphia, the chief men in which were unfriendly to his father, for disorder at a tavern, he took offence and returned to England.

His son, Springett Penn, succeeded to his father's claims, and was by many persons considered the rightful governor-in-chief. Sir William Keith, the lieutenant-governor, caused a large tract of land on the frontier to be laid out for him, and called Springettsbury Manor. The will of the founder was established by decree of the court of exchequer in 1727, and a compromise between the two branches of the family was in process of adjustment at his death.

Springett was referred to as "Saracen" in his grandfather's letters.

Edward Austin is born to Samuel Austin & Mary Jarman in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

Anthony Levering is born to Jacob Levering & Alice Tunes in Roxbury, Pennsylvania.

(Springett Penn is my fourth cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Pletjes Driessen & Alet Gobels Syllus.

Edward Austin is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.

Anthony Levering is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestor is Thonis Klincken.)

1717 Maryland

James II departs England

1717- Jacoba Clementina Livers is born to Arnold Livers & Helen Gordon in Prince George's County, Maryland. Arnold Livers was an Englishman by birth and an active and noted partisan of James II. Upon the collapse of that monarch's cause, Arnold had fled to Maryland and became the proprietor of a large estate called "Arnold's Delight" on Owings Creek.
Jacoba was named after James, the Old Pretender to the English throne, and his wife Clementina. With the death of the third Lord Baltimore in 1715, Catholics lost all power in Maryland, and were placing their hopes in the eventual triumph of the Catholic Stuarts in England. (William Elder, Ancestors and Descendants by Sister Mary Louise Donnelly)

It is said of Arnold Livers, in explanation of the singular name given by him to his daughter, that he had registered a vow that his first child, whether a boy or a girl, should, be called James. The good priest to whom the child was presented for baptism found no difficulty in complying with the father’s wishes and so the babe was christened Jacoba Clementina. Livers in his flight from England carried this child with him.

(Arnold Livers is my fifth great grandfather. Jacoba Clementina Livers is my fourth great grandaunt.)

History of Frederick County Maryland, Vol 1 & 2: From the Earliest Settlements ... Down to the Present Time [1910]

1717- Thomas Newton marries Catherine in St. Mary's County, Maryland.

(Thomas Newton is my sixth great grandfather.)

Deaths and Burials in St. Mary's County, Maryland

1718 Maryland

1718- Clement Newton is born to Thomas & Katherine Newton in St. Mary's County, Maryland.

Mary Cole is born to Robert Cole & Sarah Elizabeth Herbert in St. Mary's County, Maryland.

James Livers is born to Arnold Livers & Helen Gordon in Prince George's County, Maryland.

Luke Heard is born to William Heard & Elizabeth Cole in St. Mary's County, Maryland.
       
Samuel Luckett is born to Samuel Luckett & Ann Smoot in Port Tobacco, Maryland.

( Clement Newton is my fifth great grandfather. Mary Cole is my sixth great grandaunt. James Livers is my fourth great granduncle. Our common ancestor is Arnold Livers.  Luke Heard is second cousin to Mary Cole. Luke Heard is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Robert Cole & Rebecca Gill. Samuel Luckett is my first cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestor is Elizabeth Hussey.)