Elizabeth F. Clifton and Deborah Bordley are
listed as kin in his inventory. PRIVATE CAREER.
EDUCATION: literate. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVI-
TIES. Gent. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: farmer. PUB-
LIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House,

Caroline County, 1788 (elected to the Assembly to
fill vacancy), 1789 (Claims). LOCAL OFFICES, sher-
iff, Caroline County, elected 1785; justice, Caro-
line County, commissioned 1793 and 1794.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY: assessed value £53.0.0, 1783; 1 slave, 1798.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 699 acres in Caroline
County (419 acres from his father; 280 acres by
purchase). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BE-
TWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: sold nearly
all of his land in 1804 to John Fisher, who later
became the administrator of his estate. WEALTH
AT DEATH. DIED: in 1806 in Caroline County.
LAND: inventory lists his worth as $40.00, which
was the annual rent due on a piece of property he
had under a 90-year lease.

BANKS, RICHARD (ca. 1612-ca. 1667). BORN:
ca. 1612, probably in England. IMMIGRATED: in
1641/42 as a free adult. RESIDED, in St. Mary's
County. MARRIED in 1652 Margaret, widow of
Richard Hatton. Her brother- in-law was Thomas
Mation (?-1654/55). CHILDREN. STEPSONS Wil-
liam Hatton (?-1712), who married first,
Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. William Wilkinson,
and second, Mary; Richard, who married by 1674
Ann (1659-?), daughter of John Price (ca. 1607-
1660/61). STEPDAUGHTERS. Elinor (1642-1725),
who married first, Thomas Brooke (1632-1676),
and second, Henry Darnall (ca. 1645-1711);
Mary, who married Zachary Wade (ca. 1627-
1678); Elizabeth, who married first, Luke Gardi-
ner (1622-1674), and second, Clement Hill (?-
1708); and Barbara, who married James Johnson
(?-?). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELI-
GIOUS AFFILIATION: Protestant. OCCUPATIONAL
PROFILE: held a 200-acre plantation in partnership
with William Wright, 1641/42; planter. PUBLIC
CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Assembly, present
1647/48 (Defense), St. Mary's County, 1649 (Ac-
counts); Parliamentary Commission, 1652. OTHER
PROVINCIAL OFFICE, justice, Provincial Court,
1652. LOCAL OFFICE, justice, St. Mary's County,
1658-1660. MILITARY SERVICE: lieutenant, 1648-
1658; captain, 1658-1660. STANDS ON PUBLIC/-
PRIVATE ISSUES: initially supported the Puritan
government in 1652, but later fought against it;
supported Fendall's Rebellion in 1660, for which
he lost his offices. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: ca. 200 acres. WEALTH

BANNING, HENRY (ca. 1736-1818). BORN. ca.
1736 at "Isthmus," opposite Oxford, Talbot
County. NATIVE: at least second generation. RE-
SIDED, in Talbot County; Mill Hundred, Talbot
County, 1776. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER:
William Banning (?-by 1746). MOTHER: Jane (?-
1767); the St. Michael's Parish Vestry ordered
Jane and Nicholas Goldsborough to appear on
charges of lewdness and incontinence, but they
refused, 1744. STEPFATHER: Nicholas Golds-
borough (1704-1756). STEPUNCLES: Charles Golds-
borough (1707-1767); William Goldsborough
(1709-1760); and John Goldsborough (1711-1778).
BROTHERS: Jeremiah (1733-ca. 1798), a merchant
and mariner, appointed in 1777 as the naval offi-
cer of the Seventh District, colonel in the Thirty-
eighth Battalion, Talbot County Militia in 1777,
justice of Talbot County from 1778 to at least
1789, justice of the Orphans' Court of Talbot
County from 1779 to at least 1789, commissioner
of tax in Talbot County from 1779 to 1782, a
member of the Constitution Ratification Conven-
tion from Talbot County in 1788; Anthony (ca.
1740-1787), of Chestertown, Kent County; and
Andrew. OTHER KINSHIP: his stepgrandfather was
Robert Goldsborough (1660-1746). MARRIED first,
(name unknown). MARRIED second, by 1789 Ara-
minta (ca. 1750-1807), who died of a "bilious fe-
ver" at "Woodly," Talbot County. CHILDREN.
SONS: Anthony; Thomas; and John Wesley (?-
1 823). DAUGHTERS: Jane, who married (first name
unknown) Parrott; Ann, who married James Earle
Denny (?-ca. 1802); (first name unknown), who
married John Kersey. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCA-
TION, literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican;
Methodist, 1808. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Ban-
ning gave the ground in Talbot County where Sar-
dis Methodist Chapel was built for a Methodist
meeting and a schoolhouse "for the encourage-
ment of religion and learning," 1808. SOCIAL STA-
TUS AND ACTIVITIES: Esq., 1783. OCCUPATIONAL
PROFILE: planter, 1786; shipwright, 1788; farmer,
1800. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Lower House, Talbot County, 1777 (discharged
on February 12, 1777, for serving as a field officer
at the time of first election; reelected and seated;
Manufactories 1), 1779-1780. LOCAL OFFICES: St.
Michael's Parish Vestry, Talbot County, elected
1768, 1775, 1776, 1783, and 1784; justice, Talbot
County, 1774-at least 1778; judge for the special
election of delegates to the convention whose duty
it was to frame a constitution for Maryland, Tal-

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