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Monday, December 22, 1788, between 8:00 and
9:00 in the evening in Dorchester County; interred
in Cambridge Churchyard, Dorchester County.
LAND. 7,961 acres in Dorchester County; possibly
still owned the estate in Wiltshire and London,
England.
GOLDSBOROUGH, ROBERT, IV (1740-1798).
BORN: on Saturday, November 8, 1740, at "Myrtle
Grove," Talbot County; first son. NATIVE: third
generation. RESIDED: in Talbot County. FAMILY
BACKGROUND. FATHER: Robert Goldsborough (ca.
1704-1777), of "Myrtle Grove," Talbot County; a
justice of Talbot County from 1734 to 1741 and
from 1749 to 1766; son of Robert Goldsborough
(1660-1746). MOTHER: Sarah (?-1740), daughter
of Rev. Henry Nicols (1687-ca. 1749), rector of
St. Michael's Parish, Talbot County, and wife
Elizabeth Gatchell. STEPMOTHER: 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). STEP AUNTS: Sa-
rah 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). HALF BROTHERS:
Howes Goldsborough (1747-1797); William Golds-
borough (1750/51-1801). HALF SISTERS: Elizabeth
(1745-1748); Mary Anne Turbutt (1752-1811),
who never married. FIRST COUSINS: Robert Golds-
borough (1733-1788); Elizabeth Greenberry
Goldsborough (ca. 1731-1820), who married Wil-
liam Ennalls (?-1785); Elizabeth Goldsborough
(ca. 1735-ca. 1786), who married second, Benson
Stainton (?-ca. 1781); Mary Goldsborough (1755-
1796), who married Benedict Brice (1749-1786);
and Jeremiah Nichols (1748-ca. 1806). MARRIED
on Thursday, September 22, 1768, Mary Emerson
(ca. 1739-1811), youngest daughter of Henry
Trippe (?-1744); granddaughter of Henry Trippe
(?-ca. 1723/24); niece of both Elizabeth Trippe,
who married second, Bartholomew Ennalls (ca.
1700-1783) and Mary Trippe (?-1782), who mar-
ried Jacob Hindman (by 1713-1766). Her brother
was Henry (?-ca. 1770). Her sisters were Sarah;
Ann, who married John Dickinson (ca. 1726-
1789); and Elizabeth. Her first cousins were James
Hindman (1741-1830); William Hindman (1743-
1822); and Elizabeth Hindman (?-by 1788), who
married William Perry (1746-1799). CHILDREN.
SONS: Robert (1771-1771); Robert Henry (1774-
1777); Robert Henry (1779-1836), a member of
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the House of Delegates from Talbot County in
1804 and 1825, a U.S. senator from 1813 to 1819
and from 1835 to 1836, and a presidential elector
(for Jackson) in 1833, he married in 1800 Hen-
rietta Maria, second daughter of Col. Robert
Lloyd Nicols, of "Mt. Pleasant," Talbot County.
DAUGHTERS, (first name unknown) (1769-?);
Elizabeth (1776-1798), who married in 1793
Charles Goldsborough, Esq. (1765-1834), of Dor-
chester County, governor of Maryland in 1819,
grandson of Charles Goldsborough (1707-1767).
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: entered the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania on August 12, 1757, as a
member of the class of 1760. RELIGIOUS AFFILIA-
TION: Anglican; appointed by the St. Michael's
Parish Vestry, Talbot County, to be the deputy at
a meeting of the representatives from several
parishes in Chestertown, Kent County, to frame a
petition to the General Assembly for the better
support of ministers, 1781. SOCIAL STATUS AND
ACTIVITIES: Esq., 1779; Hon., 1784; a member of
the American Philosophical Society, 1791. OCCU-
PATIONAL PROFILE: lawyer, admitted to the fol-
lowing courts: Talbot County in November 1759;
Provincial Court in April 1765; Queen Anne's
County in June 1765; Dorchester County by No-
vember 1772. Officeholder; probably also a
planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Convention, Talbot County, 1st, 1774; Lower
House, Talbot County, 1778 (elected to the 2nd
session of the 1777-1778 Assembly to fill va-
cancy), 1778-1779 (Claims 2). OTHER STATE OF-
FICES: judge, General Court, 1784-1798; Constitu-
tion Ratification Convention, Talbot County,
1788. LOCAL OFFICES: clerk of Indictments, Tal-
bot County, sworn 1759; St. Michael's Parish Ves-
try, Talbot County, elected 1779 and 1784; visitor,
Talbot County School, in office 1783. STANDS ON
PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES, signed a nonimportation
resolution at a meeting in Annapolis in June 1769.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY: 24 slaves, 1776; assessed value £1,769.11.3,
including 46 slaves and 134.25 oz. plate, 1783; 41
slaves, 1790; assessed value £2,258.12.6, including
78 slaves and 193.5 oz. plate, Talbot County,
1798; 7 slaves, Queen Anne's County, 1798. LAND
AT FIRST ELECTION: 1,129 acres in Talbot and
Queen Anne's counties (250 acres inherited from
his grandfather; 679 acres acquired through his
marriage; 200 acres by purchase). SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION
AND DEATH, inherited 965 acres in Talbot County
from his father; purchased 111 acres of confiscated
British property in Baltimore County, 1783; sold
320 acres in Talbot County, 1784. WEALTH AT
363
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