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From: "Norma Thompson" <>
Subject: Re: [MDPGEORG] John Pottenger didn't immigrate with his sister Sarah
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 09:00:46 -0800
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Just a note about this. If you read the pages of the deed of gift that Mary
Mullikin recorded to her children, it begins on page 215 and ends on page 218.
At the end, it identifies James Williams as her "intended husband".

Bye,
Norma

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From: "Norma Thompson" <>
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Subject: Re: [MDPGEORG] John Pottenger didn't immigrate with his sister Sarah


> >
> > I'm anxious to know when Brice Clagett will publish his information as
> > Sarah Beall/Pottenger/? has been a mystery for some time.
> >
>
> I don't know if this is the publication, but will post it anyway.
>
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:53:01 -0500
> From: "Clagett, Brice" <>
> To:
> Message-ID: <>
> Subject: Beall/Magruder/Pottenger/Mullikin
>
> Several people have asked for my reasons for concluding that John
> Pottenger married Mary Mullikin and Samuel Magruder married Sarah
> Pottenger. Here is a brief summary.
>
> Mary Mullikin of Calvert Co., Md., widow of John Demall (Demarell)
> and of James Mullikin, made a testamentary deed in 1667 in which
> she named her children John Demall (jr.) and James (jr.), Mary and
> Elizabeth Mullikin. Archives of Md. 57:216.
>
> John Demall (jr.), in his will of 1725, named his "cosen" Robert
> Pottenger. Md. Calendar of Wills 6:36. (This reference was called
> to my attention many years ago by Douglas Richardson.) Mary
> Mullikin's will shows that John Demall (jr.) had no full brothers
> or sisters but did have three half-siblings through his mother's
> second marriage, to James Mullikin.
>
> The inventory of John Demall (jr.) in 1727 named Thomas Mullikin
> as next of kin. Thomas Mullikin was a son of James Mullikin jr.
>
> John and Mary Pottenger had a son Robert Pottenger, who, being the
> only man of that name in Maryland at the time, was obviously the
> "cosen" named in John Demall (jr.)'s will. Chronology indicates
> that Robert was a generation younger than John Demall jr., making
> an uncle-nephew relationship most likely.
>
> No marriage or other post-1667 record has been found of Mary
> Mullikin, daughter of James and Mary, under that name.
>
> An exhaustive study of the Pottengers in England fails to suggest
> any way in which Robert Pottenger could have been related to John
> Demall jr. through Robert's father. See Neil R. Thompson and Paul
> C. Reed, "The Ancestry of John Pottenger, Immigrant to Maryland in
> 1684," TAG 68:139 (1993).
>
> It is concluded that the Pottenger-Demall relationship came
> through Robert Pottenger's mother. The obvious inference is that
> John Pottenger's wife, Mary, was Mary Mullikin, half-sister of
> John Demall jr.
>
> Samuel Magruder named "my brother John Pottenger" in his will. If
> John Pottenger married Mary Mullikin, the only way in which
> Magruder and Pottenger could be brothers (-in-law) is if
> Magruder's wife Sarah was Pottenger's sister, and as shown
> previously John Pottenger did have a sister Sarah who is otherwise
> unaccounted for. Nat Taylor asks how we can foreclose the
> possibility that Magruder's wife was a Mullikin. The answer is
> that Mary Mullikin named no daughter Sarah in her testamentary
> deed of 1667, and there seems no reason to believe that she had
> other children not mentioned.
>
>
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