St. Mary's City
Men's Career Files
MSA SC 5094

Cheseldyne, Kenelm ( 1640 - 1708 )

Wife: 1. Bridget, daughter of - Faulkner; 2. by 1677, Mary, daughter of Thomas Gerrard and Susannah. Children (wife #2): Mary (b. 1678, m. 1. James Hay, 2. George Forbes), Susannah (b. 1680, d. by 1725, m. Thomas Truman Greenfield), Kenelm (1683-1717, m. Mary, daughter of John Brown), Dryden (1687-1760, m. 1. Henry Peregrine Jowles, 2.John Forbes). Local Offices: alderman, St. Marys City, 1671; appraiser, 1675, 1678; recorder, St. Marys City, 1685-1690; justice of peace, 1689-1690, 1692-1694, 1695-1697, 1698-1704; William and Mary Parish Vestry, 1693-1696. Provincial Offices: Burgess, St. Marys City, 1676-1682, 1686-1688, Associators Convention, 1689-1690, 1692-1693, 1694-1697, 1701-1704; attorney general, 1676-1681; agent to England: 1690-1692; commissary general, 1693-1699; Council, 1704-1708; Upper house, 1704-1707, 1708; justice, Provincial Court, 1708. Land at death, 3000 a. plus including: Mattapany Plantation, Broadneck, Westwood Lodge (Chas. Co.), Whiteneck, St. Katherines Island, Dryden.

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