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From: "Mike Hitch" <>
Subject: [LDR] Reddish
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:51:01 -0400
In-Reply-To: <403.aafaa22.324e36bd@cs.com>


I'd love to connect these Reddish's into my Jones family of Mt. Vernon. I believe John
Jones (c1779-1849) married Sarah Reddish (1782 to >1860) who is possibly a daughter of
Nicholas Reddish (<1737-1794/6) and Nancy Ann Fitzgerald (??-aft 1794). See below - So
this would open up a whole new ancestry tree for me! How did this Reddish line look?

Best regards,
Mike Hitch
"So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have
the key." - Eagles

Family Group Record for John Jones Sr.

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Husband: John Jones Sr.
================================================================================
Born: Abt 1779 - Somerset Co., MD
Christened:
Died: 19 Jun 1849 - Somerset Co., MD
Buried:
Father: Thomas Jones ( - )
Mother: Rachel Wingate ( - )
Marriage: 7 Sep 1797 Place: Somerset Parish,
Somerset Co., MD
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Other Spouse: Elizabeth (Betsey) Reddish ( - ) Date:
SealS (LDS): Temple:
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Wife: Sarah Reddish
================================================================================
Born: 1782 - Somerset Co., MD
Christened:
Died: After 1860 - Somerset Co., MD
Buried:
Father: Nicholas Reddish (Bef 1737-Bet 1794)
Mother: Nancy Ann Fitzgerald ( -Aft 1794)
================================================================================
Children
================================================================================
1 M John Jones
Born: 1 May 1798 - Mt. Vernon, Somerset Co., MD
Christened:
Died: Between 1861 and 1869 - Mt. Vernon, Somerset Co., MD
Buried:
Spouse: Sarah (Sally) Murrell (1804-1859)
Marr. Date: 9 Oct 1821 - Somerset Co., MD
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2 M Peter Jones
Born: Abt 1799
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Polly Mackey ( - )
Marr. Date:
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3 F Ann R. Jones
Born: Abt 1800 - Mt. Vernon, Somerset Co., MD
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Elijah Hitch (Bet 1790-Bet 1831)
Marr. Date:
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4 M Nicholas R. Jones
Born: Between 1800 and 1806 - Somerset Co., MD
Christened:
Died: Between 26 Mar 1872 and 7 Jul 1874 - Somerset Co., MD
Buried:
Spouse: Mary A. Martin (1802-Bet 1861)
Marr. Date: 28 Feb 1825 - Somerset Co., MD
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5 M Thomas Rowland Jones
Born: Abt 1805 - Mt. Vernon, Somerset Co., MD
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Sarah Cathell (Or Catherine) Hitch (Bet 1793- )
Marr. Date: 2 Oct 1821 - Somerset Co., MD
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6 M George Jones
Born: Between 1804 and 1814 - Somerset Co., MD
Christened:
Died: Abt 1893 - Mt. Vernon, Somerset Co., MD
Buried:
Spouse: Rebecca Simms (1806-Bet 1840)
Marr. Date: 22 Apr 1828 - Somerset Co., MD
Spouse: Lovey Anne Evans (Bet 1800-Aft 1880)
Marr. Date: 1844 - Somerset Co., MD
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:
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> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 4:44 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [LDR] Debt Books
>
> In a message dated 9/29/2006 1:58:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
> > Does the MSA have Debt Books for Somerset County for the years 1739 through
> >
> > 1744? I think I remember you saying they were not indexed, but just
> > curious
> > if these years exist and if this is something one could pay the archives
> > researches to look through. I know my John REDDISH died between the years
> > above,
> > evidently without a will, so curious is he owned any land during the last
> > years
> > of his life, and then what happened to it.
> > Susan Curelop
>
> The surviving Somerset Debt Books are: 1733, 1734, 1735, 1745, 1748, 1755,
> 1759, 1761, 1764, 1768, 1769, 1774. So, no. There are no Debt Books meeting
> your stipulation.
>
> Even if there were, the MSA no longer provides research by its staff for this
> sort of search, for any amount of money. Another abridgement of Archival
> services.
>
> But I think your question is completely answered (or at least inferred) by
> the following:
>
> John Reddish appears in the 1734 Debt Book, p 81, charged for 150 acres of
> the 200 ac DO BETTER and 40 ac of the adjoining 200 ac CASTLE HAVEN.
>
> Land records show that in 1734 Alexander Fullerton owned all 200 ac of CASTLE
> HAVEN, acquired on 31 Aug 1733 from Jonas Passwater (So Deeds AZ:107). There
> may have been an unrecorded deed from Fullerton to Reddish conveying the 40
> acres for which Reddish was charged (given that he was taxed, after all), and
> there is a 1763 deed for 40 ac of CASTLE HAVEN from Fullerton to John Reddish
> (So Deeds C:201, 21 Jan 1764), which may have been a belated recordation of a
> sale or promise of sale made 30 years previously. There is also a mysterious
> deed 19 months earlier for the same 40 ac: So Deeds C:126, on 31 May 1762,
> from Hiram Reddish (of Worcester) to John Reddish, "where Elizabeth Reddish now
> lives".
>
> Though the deeds don't say so, this appears to me to be a situation in which
> Hiram Reddish thought he had rights to the land, probably by primogeniture
> from his (intestate) father John Reddish. But it was then learned that no actual
> original conveyance from Fullerton had been recorded, so Fullerton then
> proceeded just to make the sale whole by conveying any and all rights to the
> younger John Reddish in 1764.
>
> Given that Elizabeth Reddish was living on the land in 1762, we must believe
> this is precisely where the elder John Reddish lived, too, until his death,
> his widow remaining there into the 1760s.
>
> This is consistent with another record that doubles as a Debt Book, for 1744:
> "The Somerset County Rent Rolls of 1744", compiled by Becky Miller, which
> says for CASTLE HAVEN:
>
> 80 ac held by Mr. Domk [Dominick] Jackson
> 80 ac by Alexr Fullerton
> 40 ac by John Reddish's heirs
>
> As far as DO BETTER goes, in 1734 this 150 ac was supposedly in Crouch family
> hands. Robert Crouch had purchased 150 ac of the tract from John Gilliss in
> 1710, and John Crouch sold the same to Joshua Turpin in 1747. I have to
> believe that John Reddish leased this land, adjoining CASTLE HAVEN, from the
> Crouches, and was taxed on its use in 1734. He may have continued to do so up to
> his death (but we don't know). In the 1744 "Rent Rolls", DO BETTER is listed as
> 150 ac under John Crouch's name, with no mention of the Reddishes.
>
> So I think all the Reddishes had in the 1740s (John Sr's, land) was the 40
> acre CASTLE HAVEN plot. Sons Hiram, John and Nicholas did whatever they did
> later (with the adjoining PLAIN DEALING and its mill land, REDDISHES LOT, POOR
> QUARTER and RICH QUARTER, all clumped nearby). And Hiram bought COXES ADVICE
> about five miles away (now in the heart of Salisbury) in 1763.
>
> But CASTLE HAVEN was their mother's home for 20 years after John died.
>
> At least, that's my guess.
>
> John
>
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