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Dublin, Ireland. MOTHER: (first name unknown)
Tench. BROTHERS: Tench Francis (1701-1758);
Philip (ca. 1708-1773), immigrated to New York
in 1755, after receiving a chaplaincy of a regiment
and later became an English clergyman and
writer, who married in 1739 Elizabeth Rowe (?-ca.
1744/45). NIECE: Ann (Anna) Francis (1727-?),
who married James Tilghman (1716-1793). PRI-
VATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Protestant. ADDITIONAL COM-
MENTS: wrote Maxims in Equity, OCCUPATIONAL
PROFILE: lawyer, admitted to the following courts:
Provincial Court in May 1729; Prerogative Court
in May 1729; Court of Chancery in December
1729; Prince George's County in August 1730;
Anne Arundel County by June 1734; and
Baltimore County by March 1736/37. PUBLIC
CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House,
Annapolis, 1734/35-1737 (Laws 1; discharged on
April 3, 1735, after several Annapolis voters were
declared ineligible by the Assembly; reseated on
April 12, 1735, after reelection; Laws Cv, 2-4).
OTHER PROVINICAL OFFICES: examiner general,
1732-1738; commissioner of the Paper Currency
Office, 1734-1738. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: no evidence of land-
ownership while in Maryland. WEALTH AT
DEATH. DIED: after 1739, out of Maryland; size of
estate unknown.
FRANCIS, TENCH (1701-1758). BORN: in 1701
in Ireland; eldest son. IMMIGRATED: by 1724 from
Ireland. RESIDED: in Kent County, by 1724; Tal-
boj County, by December 1724; Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 1737. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FA-
THER: Rev. John Francis, dean of Lismore, rector
of St. Mary's, Dublin, Ireland. MOTHER: (first
name unknown) Tench. BROTHERS Richard Fran-
cis (?-?); Philip (ca. 1708-1773), who immigrated
to New York in 1755, having received a chap-
laincy of a British regiment, and who returned to
England where he served as a clergyman and mis-
cellaneous writer, and who married in 1739
Elizabeth Rowe (?-ca. 1744/45). MARRIED on De-
cember 29, 1724, Elizabeth (ca. 1708-?), daughter
of Foster Turbutt (1679-1720/21); niece of Wil-
liam Turbutt (1683/84-1739). Her brother was
Henry (ca. 1703-?). Her sisters were Sarah (1706-
1773), who married Nicholas Goldsborough (ca.
1689-1766); Mary Anne (1711-1794); Mary
(1713-?); Anne (1715-1766), who married John
Goldsborough (1711-1778); and Rachel (1718-?).
Her first cousins were Elizabeth Turbutt, who
married Thomas Harris (?-1760); Anna Maria
Turbutt, who married Edward Tilghman (1713-
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1786); Mary Anne Wright (?-1747), who married
William Hopper (1707-1772); and Anne Wright
(?-by 1754), who married Edward Oldham (1709-
1773). Her nephews were Thomas Goldsborough
(ca. 1728-1793); Howes Goldsborough (1747-
1797); and William Goldsborough (1750/51-
1801). Her nieces were Elizabeth Goldsborough
(1735-ca. 1786), who married second, Benson
Stainton (?-ca. 1781); Mary Goldsborough (1755-
1796), who married Benedict Brice (1749-1786);
and Ann Goldsborough (1732-?), who married
Edward Oldham (1709-1773). CHILDREN. SONS
John (ca. 1725-?); Tench (1731-1800), who mar-
ried in 1762 Anne, eldest daughter of Charles
Willing and wife Anne; Turbutt (1740-1797), a
colonel in the British army, who married Rebecca,
only daughter of Samuel Mifflin; and Philip
(1748-?), who married his first cousin Henrietta
Maria (ca. 1753-1839), daughter of John Golds-
borough (1711-1778). DAUGHTERS: Ann (1727-?),
who married James Tilghman (1716-1793); Mary
(1729-?), who married William Coxe, of New Jer-
sey; Elizabeth (1733-1800), who married John
Lawrence; Margaret (1735-1794), who married in
1753 Edward Shippen (1728/29-1806), a lawyer,
member of the provincial council of Pennsylvania
from 1770 to 1775, associate justice of the Penn-
sylvania Supreme Court from 1791 to 1799, and
justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from
1799 to 1805; Rachel (1737-?), who married first,
John Retfe, and second, Matthew Pearce. ADDI-
TIONAL COMMENTS: his granddaughter was Mar-
garet Shippen, who married in 1779 Benedict Ar-
nold (ca. 1741-1801), revolutionary war general
and traitor. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: re-
ceived a legal education in England. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Anglican, St. Peter's Parish, Talbot
County. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Esq.
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS one of the founders of
the Philadelphia Academy, 1743; trustee for the
College of Philadelphia when it opened in 1757.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: a lawyer, admitted to
the following courts: Talbot County in June 1724;
Kent County by 1725; Queen Anne's County by
August 1728; Provincial Court in October 1728;
Dorchester County by June 1734. Officeholder.
PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE Lower
House, Talbot County, 1734/35-1737 (Laws 1,
Cv, 2-4). LOCAL OFFICES: clerk of Indictments,
Kent County, by 1725, Talbot County, by 1734;
clerk, Talbot County, 1727-1738; deputy commis-
sary, Talbot County, 1734-1738. ADDITIONAL
COMMENTS: Francis hired and trained Thomas
Bullen to perform his duties as clerk of Talbot
County from June 1734 to 1738. In 1738 Francis
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