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Anna Maria (1739/40-?), who married Robert
Brent (1733/34-1790). OTHER KINSHIP: great-
grandfather, Joseph Pile (?-1692). MARRIED Ann,
daughter of George Dent (?-1785) and wife Eleanor
Hawkins. Ann was the granddaughter of both
Henry Holland Hawkins (1683-1751) and George
Dent (1690- 1754). She was the niece of John Dent,
of George (ca. 1733-1809); Josias Hawkins (ca.
1735-1789); Elizabeth Dent (?-1781), widow of
William Penn, who married second, Richard Har-
rison (?-1780); and Rebecca Dent (1735-1770),
who married Thomas Hanson Marshall (1731-
1801). Her brothers were Henry; George. Her
sisters were Elander (Eleanor) (?-1819); Joanna
(Johanna); Jane (?-1827); and Mary. Her first
cousins were George Dent (ca. 1758-1813); Anne
Herbert ( 1756- 1813), who married William Mackall
Wilkinson (1751-1799). OTHER KINSHIP, great-
grandfathers, William Dent (ca. 1660-1704) and
William Harbert (?-1718); great-uncles, Thomas
Trueman Greenfield (1682-1733) and Thomas
Greenfield (ca. 1649-1715); second cousins,
Thomas Greenfield (ca. 1715-1774), Francis War-
ing (1715-1769), and Marianne Greenfield, who
married John Stoddert (?- 1767). CHILDREN. SONS:
George Dent, eldest; John Pile. DAUGHTERS:
Mary; Eleanor Ann Hawkins Dent; Susannah Ann.
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: studied medicine at
the University of Edinburgh, graduated 1772;
wrote his thesis on l'De Cystirrhoea." RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION Anglican. SOCIAL STATUS AND AC-
TIVITIES Esq., by 1790. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE.
physician; chief surgeon of Smallwood's Regi-
ment during the Revolution; founded the Medical
and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, 1799. PUB-
LIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: 9th Conven-
tion, Charles County, 1776; Lower House, Charles
County, 1787-1788, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1794
(speaker), 1795. 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1801 (did
not serve), 1808-1809, 1809, 1810 (did not serve).
OTHER STATE OFFICE: Constitution Ratification
Convention, 1788. LOCAL OFFICES: Committee of
Observation, Charles County, elected 1776; Trin-
ity Parish Vestry, 1779-1797; justice, Charles
County, 1777-1780, 1782-1784, 1785-1791, 1793,
1794, 17%; justice. Orphans' Court, Charles
County, appointed November 6, 1794, resigned
four days later to take his seat as a delegate from
Charles County, Maryland Senate elector, Charles
County, elected 1791, 1801. 1806. MILITARY
SERVICE: captain, 1776; resigned from the 12th
Battalion of Maryland Militia, ca. April 1781;
served as chief surgeon of General Smallwood's
Regiment during the entire war. OUT OF STATE
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SERVICE: presidential elector, 1804. WEALTH DUR-
ING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: assessed value
£889.10.0, including 11 slaves and 18 oz. plate,
1783; 26 slaves, 1790. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION:
1,420 acres in Charles County, plus 5 lots in Port
Tobacco, Charles County (962 acres plus 5 lots
from father, including his father's tavern and
warehouse at Newport; purchased 458 acres).
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST
ELECTION AND DEATH: purchased ca. 500 acres
and sold his lots in Port Tobacco, ca. 1800. WEALTH
AT DEATH. DIED: in 1813; inventory recorded Au-
gust 10, 1813, in Charles County. PERSONAL
PROPERTY: TEV, at least $13,279.80 current money
(including 64 slaves, ca. 62 books, and plate val-
ued at $62.00). LAND: ca. 1,800 acres in Charles
County.
PARRAN, ALEXANDER (1677-1729). BORN, in
1677, in Oxfordshire, England. IMMIGRATED: by
1699, probably as a free adult from England. RE-
SIDED, in Calvert County. FAMILY BACKGROUND.
FATHER: John Parran of Baynton, Oxfordshire.
MARRIED first, Mary (?-ca. 1708), daughter of
Nathaniel Ashcom (Ascomb) (?-1687) and wife
Mary (?-1703). Her brothers were Nathaniel;
John. Her sister was Elizabeth. MARRIED second,
by 1711, Mary, daughter of Arthur Young (?-
1711) of Calvert County. Her brother was Peter.
Her sisters were Francis, who married Samuel
Wallis; Anne, who married George Harris; Con-
stant; Ann; Elizabeth; Sarah; Urania; and Rachel.
CHILDREN. SONS: John (1702-by 1743), who mar-
ried Esther; Alexander (1704-1704); Alexander,
Jr. (1707-1765); Young Parran (1711-1772); Moses
(1713-1740); Samuel (1717-?), who married
Anne, daughter of Charles Somerset Smith (1698-
ca. 1738/39); Benjamin (1719-by 1761), who
married Margaret (?-by 1770), daughter of Dan-
iel Rawlings of Calvert County; and Philip (1724-
by 1770). DAUGHTERS: Mary (1699-?); Jane
(1706-?), who married in 1726 Peter Hellen; Ann
(1715-?); Mary (1722-?); Elizabeth (1726-?);
and Sarah (1729-?). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCA-
TION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION. Anglican,
Christ Church Parish, Calvert County; second wife
was a Quaker. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE, mer-
chant; planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE
SERVICE: Lower House, Calvert County, 1714
(elected to the 4th session of the 1712-1714 As-
sembly), 1715 (Aggrievances). LOCAL OFFICE.
justice, Calvert County, 1700. WEALTH DURING
LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: at least 660
acres. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: on May 30, 1729,
636
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