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acres more in Delaware, which had originally been
patented in Dorchester County. ADDITIONAL
COMMENTS: There is a discrepancy of at least
3,026 acres between what the Dorchester County
debt books list Goldsborough as owning and the
total figure obtained from deeds. The figure in the
debt books may be too low because some of the
land may have been included in Delaware when
the Mason-Dixon line was drawn.
GOLDSBOROUGH, HOWES (1747-1797)
BORN: on Friday afternoon, September 4, 1747, in
Talbot County; second son. NATIVE: third genera-
tion. RESIDED: in Mill Hundred, Talbot County.
FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Robert Golds-
borough (ca. 1704-1777), of "Myrtle Grove," Tal-
bot County; a justice of Talbot County from 1734
to 1741 and from 1749 to 1766; son of Robert
Goldsborough (1660-1746). MOTHER: Mary Anne
(1711-1794), widow of John Robins (?-1739), a
lawyer; daughter of Foster Turbutt (1679-
1720/21). UNCLES Charles Goldsborough (1707-
1767); William Goldsborough (1709-1760); and
John Goldsborough (1711-1778). AUNTS: Sarah
Turbutt (1706-1773), who married Nicholas
Goldsborough (ca. 1689-1766); Elizabeth Turbutt
(1708-?), who married Tench Francis (1701-1758);
and Anne Turbutt (1715-1766), who married John
Goldsborough (1711-1778). BROTHER: William
Goldsborough (1750/51-1801). HALF BROTHER:
Robert Goldsborough IV (1740-1798). SISTERS:
Elizabeth (1745-1748); Mary Anne Turbutt
(1752-1811), never married. FIRST COUSINS:
Thomas Goldsborough (ca. 1728-1793); Robert
Goldsborough (1733-1788); Ann Francis (1727-?),
who married James Tilghman (1716-1793);
Elizabeth Greenberry Goldsborough (ca. 1731-
1820), who married William Ennalls (?-1785);
Ann Goldsborough (1732-?), who married Ed-
ward Oldham (1709-1773); Elizabeth Golds-
borough (ca. 1735-ca. 1786), who married second,
Benson Sta in ton (?-ca. 1781); and Mary Golds-
borough (1755-1796), who married Benedict B/ice
(1749-1786). ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: his father's
first wife was Sarah (?-1740), daughter of Rev.
Henry Nicols (1687-ca. 1749), rector of St. Mi-
chael's Parish, Talbot County. MARRIED on No-
vember 16, 1773, his second cousin Rebecca (ca.
1757-?), daughter of Robert Goldsborough (1733-
1788); granddaughter of Charles Goldsborough
(1707-1767); niece of Elizabeth Greenberry Golds-
borough (ca. 1731-1820), who married William
Ennalls (?-1785). Her brothers were Charles (ca.
1756-ca. 1759); Charles (1761-1801); Robert (ca.
1766-1790); John (by 1766-?); William; Richard;
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and Howes. Her sisters were Sarah (ca. 1758-by
1832), who married Henry Ennalls (?-ca. 1803);
Elizabeth; and Rachel (?-1811). CHILDREN. SONS:
Robert (1776-1777); Charles (1779-1824), who
married in 1802 Sarah (1789-1819), daughter of
Vachel Keene; Robert Yerbury (1782-by 1805);
Henry Turbutt (1783-1785); William Henry
(1785-1842); Howes (1789-?), a physician by
1812, who married in 1814 Henrietta Maria Ward;
and Henry (1792-1832), who married first, in
1817 Eliza Ann Thomas (?-1817), second, Susan-
nah Shippley (?-by 1823), third, in 1823 Anne
Keene (?-1824), and fourth, in 1825 Margaret,
daughter of James Tilghman, Jr. (ca. 1748-1796).
DAUGHTERS: Sarah (1774-?), who married in 1802
Dr. Samuel Y. Keene; Mary Ann (1778-by 1812),
who married in 1804 Dr. Tristram Thomas; Ann
(1787-1855), who married in 1810 Charles Louis
Pascault, of Baltimore; Rebecca (1790-1792); and
Elizabeth (1791-1791). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCA-
TION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican,
St. Michael's Parish, Talbot County. OCCUPA-
TIONAL PROFILE: probably a planter. PUBLIC CA-
REER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Tal-
bot County, 1777-1778, 1778-1779 (Claims 3),
1781 (elected, but did not attend the 1781-1782
Assembly; resigned on November 16, 1781), 1785
(Claims). LOCAL OFFICES justice, Talbot County,
1777-at least 1782; justice, Orphans' Court, Tal-
bot County, 1777-at least 1783; commissioner of
Tax, Talbot County, 1777-at least 1792; St. Mi-
chael's Parish Vestry, Talbot County, in office
1780-1784, 1796; trustee of the Alms- and Work-
house, Talbot County, in office 1787 and 1789;
commission to build a courthouse at Easton, Tal-
bot County, in office 1789; associate justice, Sec-
ond District, Talbot County, appointed 1795.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY. 23 slaves, 1776; assessed value £1,180.6.8,
including 28 slaves and 71 oz. plate, 1783; 37
slaves, 1790. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 642 acres
in Talbot County (all inherited from his father).
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST
ELECTION AND DEATH: purchased 332 acres in
Talbot County, 1788; inherited one-third of 2
tracts in Queen Anne's County from his mother
with his portion totaling 369 acres, ca. 1794; pur-
chased 76 acres in Talbot County, 1795. ADDI-
TIONAL COMMENTS: Howes was an heir of his
mother's estate with his brother William Golds-
borough (1750/51-1801) and his sister Mary Anne
Turbutt Goldsborough. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED:
between January 1 and February 16, 1797, in Tal-
bot County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV,
£6,936.11.0 current money (including 41 slaves,
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