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pire 1, 2); 1782-1783 (Elections 1, 2; Laws to
Expire 1, 2), 1783 (Elections; Laws to Expire),
1784 (Elections; Laws to Expire), 1785 (Elec-
tions; Laws to Expire), 1786-1787 (Elections 1,
2; Laws to Expire 1, 2), 1787-1788 (Elections 1,
2; Grievances 2; Laws to Expire 1, 2), 1788 (Laws
to Expire), 1789 (Grievances; Laws to Expire),
1790, 1791-1792, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796,
1797, 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802. LOCAL OF-
FICES: coroner, Anne Arundel County, in office
1765, 1767, 1773, resigned 1777; common coun-
cilman, Annapolis, 1764-1765; constable, Anne
Arundel County, 1767; justice, Anne Arundel
County, 1777-1803; justice, Orphans' Court, Anne
Arundel County, 1777-1794 (resigned); alder-
man, Annapolis, 1780-1801, 1803; mayor, An-
napolis, 1778-1779, 1786-1787, 1792-1793, 1795,
1799, 1801-1803; St. Anne's Parish Vestry, Anne
Arundel County, 1773-1776, 1777-1782;
churchwarden, St. Anne's Parish, Anne Arundel
County, 1776, 1783; Committee of Observation,
Anne Arundel County, in office 1775; committee
to make chart of the Severn River and to erect
fortifications for Annapolis, 1775. WEALTH DUR-
ING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: valued at
£100.0.0-£300.0.0, 1756-1759; assessed value
£675.10.0, including 12 slaves and 54 oz. plate,
1783; 23 slaves, 1790. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION:
2 lots, with sections leased out, and tanyard ground,
all in Annapolis (all by personal acquisition). SIG-
NIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELEC-
TION AND DEATH: Over the next 25 years, Quynn
continued to acquire and then subdivide and sell,
lease, or sublease lots in Annapolis. He con-
trolled over half of the first block of West Street,
as well as 3 lots in other parts of the town, and
at least 1 lot outside the town gate. In 1777 he
contracted to purchase 175 acres on South River
in Anne Arundel County; after obtaining title to
that parcel in 1782, he purchased adjoining tracts
until his holdings totalled more than 800 acres.
ADDITIONAL COMMENT: Throughout his career,
Quynn purchased or held mortgages on land, per-
sonal property, and slaves, which he then resold
at a profit. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: on November
8, 1803, in Anne Arundel County. PERSONAL
PROPERTY. TEV, at least $13,326.24 (including
33 slaves, books, and 2 ferry boats). LAND: at
least 4 lots and a tanyard ground in Annapolis,
and 809 acres in Anne Arundel County.
RAMSAY (RAMSEY), NATHANIEL (1741-
1817). BORN: on May 1, 1741, in East Drumore
Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. IM-
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MIGRATED: from Pennsylvania to Cecil County,
ca. 1771. RESIDED: in Cecil County, ca. 1771; in
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, ca. 1781-1783;
Baltimore County, by 1783; owned land in Cecil
County by 1785, and bought "Carpenter's Point"
in Cecil County, a few miles south of the mouth
of the Susquehanna, in 1786. Thereafter Ramsay
lived in Baltimore in the winter and at "Carpen-
ter's Point" in the summer. FAMILY BACKGROUND.
FATHER: James Ramsay, a farmer, who immi-
grated to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, from
northern Ireland. He served as a member of the
Pennsylvania Assembly from York County.
MOTHER. Jane Montgomery. BROTHERS: William
(1731-1771), a Presbyterian minister in Fairfield,
Cumberland County, New Jersey, graduated from
Princeton in 1754, who married in 1759 Sarah
Seeley, who subsequently married Rev. Robert
Smith of Pequa, Pennsylvania; David (1749-1815),
a physician and historian, graduated from Prince-
ton in 1765, emigrated to Charleston, South Car-
olina, served as a member of the Continental
Congress from 1782 to 1786, who married first,
in 1775, Sabina Ellis (?-1776), second, in 1783,
Frances Witherspoon (?-1784), and third, in 1787,
Martha Laurens (?-1811). MARRIED first, in 1771,
Margaret Jane, widow of James McMordia (?-
ca. 1767), daughter of Charles Peale (1709-1750)
and wife Margaret Triggs. Charles Peale was mas-
ter at King William's School, Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, the Free School, Queen Anne's
County, and the Kent County School at Ches-
tertown. Margaret Jane Peale's brothers were
Charles Willson (1741-1827), a portrait painter
and naturalist, who married first, in 1762, Rachel
Brewer (1744-1790), second, in 1791, Elizabeth
DePeyster (1765-1804), and third, in 1805, Han-
nah Moore (1755-1821); St. George (1745-1778),
who married Elizabeth Emerson Collister (?-ca.
1786); and James (1749-1831), who married in
1782 Mary Claypoole (1753-1829). Her sister was
Elizabeth Digby (1747-?), who married in 1765
Robert Polk (1744-1777). MARRIED second, in
1790, Charlotte (1758-1838), daughter of Aquila
Hall (1727-1779) and wife Sophia (?-1780). Her
brothers were Thomas (1750-1804); James White
i (1754-1808); Aquila (1754-1754); William (1756-
1818); John (1762-1804); Edward (1763-?); and
Benedict (1771-?). Her sisters were Mary (1760-
?); Sophia (1765-?), who married Philip Key
(1750-1820); Martha (1768-?); and Elizabeth
(1770-?). Her first cousin was Susannah Hall
(1744-ca. 1770), who married first, James Heath
(?-1766) , and second, John Lee Webster (ca. 1735-
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