1735, Maryland

1735- My fifth great granduncle, Richard Hayden, has married Eleanor in St. Mary's County, Maryland. Their son, William, would be born later in the year.

Eleanor Neale, widow of Bennett Hoskins, has died at the age of 27 in Bryantown, Charles County, Maryland. Eleanor was born about 1708 in St. Mary's County, Maryland, to Raphael Neale & Mary Brooke.

Basil Brooke marries Dorothy Taney in Calvert County, Maryland.

Anne Manning is born to John Manning & Mary Greenwell in St. Mary's County, Maryland.

John Wiseman is born to Robert Wiseman & Elizabeth Heard in St. Mary's County, Maryland.

(Anne Manning is my third cousin 6 times removed.
Dorothy Taney is my third cousin 6 times removed. Eleanor Neale is her second cousin. Their common ancestors are Captain James Neale & Anna Maria Gill.
Eleanor Neale is my third cousin 6 times removed. Our common ancestors are Benjamin Gill & Mary Mainwaring and Richard Brent & Elizabeth Reed.
John Wiseman is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Robert Cole & Rebecca Gill and Oliver Mainwaring & Margaret Torbock.)

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1725 Maryland

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Before December 24, 1725- Richard Thompson and Susanna Tant are married in St. Mary's County, Maryland.
A Richard Thompson is listed as a County Justice for St. Mary's County from 1730-1733. County Justices kept a register of births, marriages and burials. They received a payment of five pounds of tobacco for these services.
County Justices also oversaw road building, courthouses, jails, and taxes. They appointed guardians for orphans, and kept an eye on the relationships between masters and servants.

After 1725- Mary Neale dies at the age of 26 in Calvert County, Maryland. Mary was born about 1699 in St. Mary's County. Her parents were James Neale & Elizabeth Lord. At the age of 16, she married Michael Taney.

(Susanna Tant is my first cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestor is Robert Drury.
Mary Neale is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Benjamin Gill & Mary Mainwaring.)

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1754 Maryland - Taneytown Founded

1754- Taneytown, Maryland was founded in 1754 when one of the area’s first land grants took place. Nearly 7,900 acres were granted to Edward Diggs and Raphael Taney under a patent designated as the Resurvey of Brothers Agreement. Lots were laid out and the first deeds registered in 1762. Raphael Taney, whose home was in St. Mary’s County, probably never lived here. He did, however, help design the town’s layout and gave it his name. One popular misconception is that the town was named for Roger Brooke Taney, a U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice. Judge Taney, who shared a common ancestor with Raphael Taney, was not born until 1777.

The earliest known inhabitants in the Taneytown area were native Americans. The Tuscarora Indians hunted deer, otter, wolves, and wildcats in the area’s abundant woodlands. The early European settlers were Germans from Pennsylvania and Germany. Before the arrival of white settlers, however, most native Americans had already migrated west over South Mountain in the Cumberland Valley. The Treaty of Six Nations, which was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1745, offered white settlers protection from Indian attacks in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia and made the ownership of land by white men legal.

Of the town George Washington once wrote "Tan-nee town is but a small place with only the Street through which the road passes, built on. The buildings are principally of wood."