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From: (Shawn Potter)
Subject: Re: Matthew Howard of MD Ancestry
Date: 3 Aug 2002 20:58:22 -0700
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"Rick Toothman" <> wrote in message news:<qSY29.17468$>...
> "Rick Toothman" <> wrote in message
> news:DoX29.17336$...
> >
> H W Newman, in AA Gentry 2:301 (2nd edition), citing the land records
> (Provincial Court Deeds, TP5:467, TP6:17), shows that "Kilkenny" was
> patented 2 Sept 1713, for 100 acres, to Richard Fowler. Fowler, cooper of
> Balto Co, with his wife Priscilla, assigned the tract to Joseph Howard, 24
> April 1713 for £22, and on 14 March 1724 John Worthington, merchant, sold
> the tract to Howard for the same sum. (My supposition is that Worthington
> was the mortgage-holder.)
>

Helpful discovery, Rick! Since John Worthington was the son-in-law of
Mathew Howard Jr., is it possible that John Worthington and his wife,
Sarah Howard, inherited "Kilkenny" from her father? Mathew Howard Jr.
wrote his will October 3, 1691, naming Sarah and John Worthington his
executors, and giving Sarah 276 acres called "Howard's Range," 200
acres called "Howard's Pasture," and 130 acres (unnamed) his dwelling
plantation. I wonder if "Kilkenny" was created from another property
that descended from the Howard family--i.e., from one of the tracts
mentioned in Mathew Howard's will or from a tract given to Sarah at
her marriage. [Mathew Howard Jr. owned a sizeable estate--over 1,770
acres mentioned in his will.] Perhaps a review of the actual patent
at the Maryland State Archives will provide the answer. The naming of
the tract "Kilkenny" certainly may be coincidental to Cornelius
Lloyd's connections to County Kilkenny. But, I think we need more
information to be sure.

Shawn Potter

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