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From: "Rebecca Miller" <>
Subject: Re: Manlove family
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 09:25:08 -0400

Joan:
You've really gotten my interest with the Manlove info below! I, too, descend from Thomas Sewell and Jane Boyce and had found the Northampton Co, VA info but have never seen the Plymouth Colony nor CT referenced. Will you post in what sources you found the information? Many thanks!
Becky Miller

>>> Joan Spiker <> 07/28 4:42 PM >>>
Mark Manlove appears in several court records in Plymouth Colony. He
purchased 5 acres along the Eele River in 1639 and then sold it in 1640. His
name appeared in Stamford Conn. records in 1648. By 1653 the family (Mark,
wife Hannah, and children) were living in Northampton Co.VA, as is found in
Whitelaw's book. Thomas Manlove, who married Jane Delamus in 1667, was the
son of Mark and Hannah.
The Delamus family is one I have researched. A few years ago, while
doing research at the MD State Archives I found an entry in the St. Mary's
Court Records dated 16 Jan. 1642(our 1643) in which Antonio Deleymas, a
portugese (servant) belonging to Col. Trafford of Virginia gives a
deposition. There is no doubt that this is the same Anthony Delamus that
begins appearing in the Northampton Co. Court records in 1657 as a free man.
Along the way he married, had three daughters, and acquired property. When
he died in 1664 he left a nuncupative will leaving his estate to be divided
between his 2 unmarried daughters, Sarah and Jane. Mary had already been
provided for when she married William Boyce. Within the year Sarah died
also, leaving her estate to be divided between her sisters Jane Delamus and
Mary Boyce with Mary's husband the administrator. William Boyce moved to
Somerset Co. MD by 1665 when he claims land for transporting himself, wife
Mary, daughter Jane, and sister in law Jane Delamus (who was then 14). Just
over 1 year later William and his wife Mary were both dead leaving infant
Jane Boyce to be raised by neighbors. By 1667 Jane Delamus married Thomas
Manlove. Later in the Somerset County Court Records Thomas Manlove sues
Robert Catlin (the guardian of Jane Boyce) for his wife's share of her
deceased sister Sarah's estate.
Jane Boyce grew up in the Catlin household and married my ancestor,
Thomas Sewell when she was 14.

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