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Mary's County, 1694-still sitting in 1708. STANDS
ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: charged with involve-
ment in the conspiracy of John Coode (ca. 1648-
1708/9) and Philip Clarke (?-1699) against Gov.
Francis Nicholson, 1698. WEALTH DURING LIFE-
TIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: Over 160 acres,
plus substantial acreage in his wife's name.
WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will probated on May
16, 1713. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £445.19.1
sterling (including 11 slaves). LAND: over 160
acres.
GWINN (GWYNN), JOHN (ca. 1756-1807).
BORN: ca. 1756. NATIVE: at least second genera-
tion. RESIDED: in Frederick County, 1786-1802;
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, 1803-1807.
FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: John Gwinn (?-
1785). MARRIED Mary, daughter of Jacob Good
(?-1783). CHILDREN. Six, but sex and names un-
known. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate.
SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Esq., 1790. AD-
DITIONAL COMMENTS, prior to his marriage he
owned only 10.5 acres in his own right. Shortly
after his marriage and the acquisition of his wife's
landed estate, he was elected to the legislature and
assumed the title of Esq. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE:
merchant, by 1795. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE
SERVICE: Lower House, Frederick County, 1788,
1798. LOCAL OFFICES: justice, Frederick County,
1785-at least 1800; commissioner of tax, Frederick
County, 1798-1800. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: 1 slave, 1790. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: 311 acres in Frederick County,
plus 21 lots in Taney Town, Frederick County (his
wife had inherited 300 acres and the 21 lots from
her father prior to their marriage). SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION
AND DEATH: sold all of the town lots, plus 34
acres in Frederick County, and purchased 2 lots in
Westminster, Frederick County, by 1800. WEALTH
AT DEATH. DIED: on February 11, 1807, at Fells
Point, Baltimore City; size of estate unknown.
GWITHER (GWYTHER, GUITHER), NICHO-
LAS (ca. 1626-ca. 1665/66). BORN: in ca. 1626.
IMMIGRATED: in 1639 as a indentured servant to
Thomas Cornwaleys (ca. 1605-1675/76); free by
1647/48. RESIDED: in St. Inigoe's Hundred, St.
Mary's County. MARRIED by 1650 Mary, a ser-
vant in 1649 to Cuthbert Fenwick (1614-1655).
CHILDREN. SONS: John; Owen; William; and Nich-
olas (1651-1680). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION:
literate. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: servant; planter.
PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower
House, St. Mary's County, 1663. LOCAL OFFICES:
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sheriff, St. Mary's County, 1650-1653, 1657/58-
1662, Charles County, 1658-1661. MILITARY SER-
VICE: lieutenant, 1650; captain, by 1657/58.
STANDS ON PUBLIC/ PRI VATE ISSUES: supported
Lord Baltimore against the Puritans in 1655.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST
ELECTION: at least 100 acres; obtained a 21 -year
lease on 700 acres in partnership with Thomas
Jackson in 1647/48, which he sold to Jackson in
1652; patented 900 acres in 1658, which he sold in
1662. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: by March 24,
1665/66. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, 31,888
pounds of tobacco (including 1 slave and 2 ser-
vants).
HAGAR, JONATHAN (ca. 1719-1775). BORN:
ca. 1719, probably in Germany. IMMIGRATED: ca.
1730 from Germany as a freeman. RESIDED: at
"Hagar's Choice," Salisbury Hundred, Frederick
County. MARRIED in 1740 Elizabeth (?-1765),
daughter of Martin Kirshner (?-1769) and wife
Margaretha. Her brothers were Martin; David;
and George. Her sisters were Modalena; Morgeth.
CHILDREN. SON: Jonathan, Jr. (1756-1798),
wounded and taken prisoner by the British at the
Battle of Long Island in 1776, confined at Halifax,
Nova Scotia. DAUGHTER: Rosina (Rosannah)
(1752-1810), who married Gen. Daniel Heister (?-
1804), of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania and
died childless . PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: lit-
erate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: German Re-
formed. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Mr.,
1753. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: founded Hagers-
town (originally Elizabeth Town, named for his
wife). OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: farmer. PUBLIC
CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE Lower House,
Frederick County, 1771 (discharged on October 8,
1771; even though Hagar had been naturalized
earlier in 1771, the law disallowed any but natu-
ral-born subjects or descendants of natural-born
subjects from serving as delegates. On October 16,
1771 the Assembly passed a bill granting full
rights to naturalized Protestants. Hagar was re-
elected and seated on November 16, 1771), 1773
(discharged on October 15, 1773; the Lower
House ruled that the law it had approved during
the previous Assembly concerning the rights of
naturalized Protestants was automatically void
since the lord proprietor had died in September
1771 and the Assembly should then have been
dissolved). MILITARY SERVICE: captain. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION:
9,871 acres in Frederick County. SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION
AND DEATH patented 1,077 acres in Frederick
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