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From: Lisa Dugan <>
Subject: Re: [MDCECIL] Cecil County Court
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:57:55 -0800
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Cathy,

Regarding the Cresswells, do u or anyone else have a John Cresswell b. abt
1819 that Married Hester Rutter 21 Dec 1840 Cecil Co., MD?

Lisa


At 09:28 AM 11/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:

>Don't know quite how to reply to you. Did you ask at the courthouse for
>this particular item and they told you they didn't have it? Or did you ask
>for all circuit court records? I only checked for a criminal court record
>once and they let me look through vrious indices, but I didn't find what I
>wanted because it had been transferred to Harford Court because of the
>publicity given in Cecil Co. Yours has a Harford reference and it might
>have been held there. Darlene McCall, treasurer of Cecil Co Genealogical
>Society works at the courthouse, in the land records office. She wrote a
>booklet on GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH GUIDE FOR CECIL COUNTY, MARYLAND, and it
>doesn't not have circuit nor criminal court records in table of contents.
>Her address is:Box 57, Charlestown, MD 21914.
>
>The Criswells married several times into my lines and so I notice the name.
>Criswell and Cresswell seem to be the same name. John ran a ferry over the
>Susquehanna River in the 1700's. I imagine George Washington crossed on it
>many times. I recently saw an ad for a book on the Cresswell Family. Check
>with WillowBend Publ (has webpage) to see if they have it, can get it.
>
>In my cross reference files I have: 1. Charles Henry Creswell m Rachel
>REbecca Simpers 1868. 2. Elizabeth Creswell m Robt Cameron 1796. 3. James
>Justice Cresswell b 1845 - see Creswell-Gatchell Bible Records in MD Hist.
>Soc, Balt. 4. John Cresswell gfives mortgage to Arthur Alexander Jr 1798.
>5. John Cresswell m Talitha Gatchell 1807 or 8. 6. Thomas A Creswell m
>Mary T Tyson 1889
>
>Cathy
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 12:33 PM
>Subject: [MDCECIL] Cecil County Court
>
>
> > In a message dated 11/11/2001 11:02:11 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > <> writes:
> >
> > << I've worked in that courthouse for years >>
> >
> > Sorry about the previous email, I held a button down too long and it ended
>up
> > sending mail before I was ready!!
> >
> > Cathy,
> > My husband has been trying to find information on his ggrandfather
>Samuel
> > Creswell. At the CCHS, in "The Cecil Democrat" April 9, 1859, page 2
>col.
> > 3, Local Affairs, we found the following:
> >
> > "Cecil County Circuit Court - Hon. John H. Price, Juge; Wm. J. Jones,
>Esq.,
> > State's Attourney; Wm. H. Ricketts, Clerk. The following cases have been
> > tried this week.
> >
> > "State vs. John C. Ford, Harford Co., record from Harford county; indicted
> > for an assault and battery on Samuel Creswell. Verdict - guilty;
> > State vs. Same, record from Harford, indicted for an assault and battery
>on
> > Mary Ann Creswell. Verdict - guilty."
> >
> > The CCHS does not have those Circuit Court records and we went to the
> > Courthouse and were told they didn't have them. We checked at the MD
> > archives and they didn't have them either. Would you have any idea at all
> > where they might be??
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Jayne
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