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garet all drowned while ice skating on the pond at
their father's ironworks. CHILDREN. DAUGHTER
Eleanor (1757-1812), who married Nicholas Ro-
gers (1753-1822). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION.
literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Protestant. OC-
CUPATIONAL PROFILE: lawyer, admitted to the
following courts: Charles County by August 1753;
Provincial Court in September 1753; Baltimore
County by March 1754; Frederick County in
March 1755; Anne Arundel County by November
1755; Court of Chancery by July 1759. PUBLIC
CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House,
Baltimore County, 1751-1754 (election of county
delegation voided on December 12, 1751, because
of the illegal actions of the sheriff; reelected to the
2nd session and seated), 1754-1755 (discharged
during the 3rd session for serving as clerk of In-
dictments in the Baltimore County Court). LOCAL
OFFICES: clerk of Indictments, Baltimore County,
in office 1755. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND
AT FIRST ELECTION: 728 acres in Baltimore
County, plus 1 lot in Baltimore Town (all from his
father by gift or inheritance). SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION
AND DEATH: purchased 242 acres in Baltimore
County, 1758-1760; added 75 acres to his home
plantation by patent, 1760. WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED will probated on January 21, 1762, in
Baltimore County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: re-
quested no appraisal of his estate. LAND: 1,045
acres in Baltimore County, plus at least 1 lot in
Baltimore Town.
BUCHANAN, ROBERT (ca. 1737-1799). BORN:
ca. 1737. RESIDED: in Chester Parish, Kent
County. MARRIED by March 1764 Mary, daughter
of John Kennard, of Kent County; granddaughter
of Philip Kennard (?-ca. 1739/40). Her sister was
Ann. Her other relatives included great-
grandfather Philip Kennard (?-1732). CHILDREN.
SONS Robert, Jr.; James. DAUGHTERS: Harriet;
Anna Maria; and Mary, who married Dr. William
Blay Tilden. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: liter-
ate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican, Chester
Parish, Kent County. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIV-
ITIES. Gent., 1765. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE prob-
ably a planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SER-
VICE: Lower House, Kent County, 1765-1766
(Bills of Credit 2), 1768-1770 (Claims 1; Public
Offices 2; Grievances 3), 1771, 1773-1774 (Public
Offices 1); Conventions, Kent County, 6th-8th,
1775-1776. LOCAL OFFICES: Chester Parish Ves-
try, Kent County, elected 1767, 1769, 1786, and
1787; commissioner of tax, Kent County, ap-
pointed 1777, 1790, and 1792. WEALTH DURING
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LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 1,097 acres
in Kent County (all from wife's dower). SIGNIFI-
CANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELEC-
TION AND DEATH, purchased 815 acres in Kent
and Queen Anne's counties, plus 1 lot in Chester-
town, Kent County, by 1771-1797; sold 268 acres
in Kent County, 1796-1797. WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: will probated on September 27, 1799, in
Kent County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV,
£2,683.9.7 current money (including 36 slaves);
FB, estate overpaid £24.11.11. LAND. 995 acres in
Kent and Queen Anne's counties, and 1 lot in
Chestertown, Kent County, plus several tracts in
his will with unspecified acreage.
BUCHANAN, WILLIAM (1732-1804). BORN: on
August 10, 1732, in Carlisle, Cumberland County,
Pennsylvania; younger son. IMMIGRATED: in 1759
from Pennsylvania. RESIDED: in Baltimore Town.
FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Robert Buchanan
(1697-1748), of Carlisle, Pennsylvania; immi-
grated in 1720 from Ireland. MOTHER: Janet (Jane)
Boyd (?-1799). BROTHER: James (1731-1751). SIS-
TERS: Mary (1729-1782), who married John Smith
(1718-1794); Elizabeth (1733-1784), who married
in 1752 William Smith (1728-1814); Margaret
(1736-?), who married Maj. (first name unknown)
Galbraith. NIECE: Janet Smith (1752-1812), who
married Josias Carvil Hall (1746-1 8 14). MARRIED
Esther (?-by 1810), daughter of Samuel Smith
(1693-1784), a merchant of Baltimore Town, who
immigrated in 1759 from Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
and wife Sidney Gamble (?-1759). Her brother
was John Smith (1718-1794). CHILDREN. Thirteen,
including SONS: Robert (1751-ca. 1783); Samuel
(1752-1758); William (1762-1815), who resided in
France and married Mary Emelia Louise Merven;
John Smith (1766-?); James A. (1768-1840), who
married in 1793 Elizabeth Calhoun; and Boyd
(1772-by 1804). DAUGHTERS: Sidney (1753-?);
Janet (1756-died as a minor); Mary (1757-?), who
married in 1787 Rev. Patrick Allison (1740-1802);
Margaret (Peggy) (1758-?); Janet (1764-by 1804);
and Elizabeth Esther (1774-by 1804). PRIVATE
CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIA-
TION: Presbyterian; member of a committee to
build the First Presbyterian Church, Baltimore
Town, 1764-1781; elder, First Presbyterian
Church, Baltimore Town, elected 1781. SOCIAL
STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Esq., 1774; Gent., 1793.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: merchant, in partnership
with John Smith (1718-1794). The firm traded in
goods from the Far East and the West Indies.
PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Conven-
tions, Baltimore County, 2nd-3rd, 1774, 5th,
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