debts, nor were they a nuisance to the community. However, in 1681, John Johnson decided to move to the underdeveloped frontier region of southern Delaware, known as Horekill River (Deal 272), in Sussex County, but Mary Johnson and some of the other Johnsons remained in Somerset County, in the Wicomico Hundred section that later became a part of Wicomico County. Somerset County land records show that Mary Johnson was still alive in 1688 (Liber L2, 636), but by 1701 she no longer appeared in court records, so the presumption is that she was deceased.
Notes
1 Hotten 244; Russell 24.
2 Ames 102; Wise 285.
3 Ames 102; Hotten 182, 241.
4 Whitelaw 671; Nugent 374; Russell 24; Ames 102; M.S. Court Records of Northampton County, 1651-1654: 161.
5 Brewer 576; Ames 103.
6 Breen and Innes 7; Brewer 578.
7 Russell 32; Ames 104; Breen and Innes 13-15; Whitelaw 671; Northampton County Deed and Will F. 226.
8 See Somerset County Court Records (Liber 0-2,20-21, Md. HR; Liber 0-1, 32-33, Md. HR; and Liber B 0-1,28. Md. HR, 640-41) and the Archives of Maryland LTV 749.
9 Archives of Maryland LJV 675; Somerset County Court Records Liber 0-2, 20-21, Md. HR.
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