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Francis Nicholson (1655-1727/28), 1694. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: ca.
1,000 acres. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED, inventory
dated June 17, 1698, in Cecil County. PERSONAL
PROPERTY: TEV, £213.14.9 (including 1 servant,
1 slave, and books); FB, £85.3.10.
JARBO (JARBOE), JOHN (1619-1674/75). BORN:
in 1619 in Dijon, France. IMMIGRATED, in 1646
from Virginia as a free adult. RESIDED, in New-
town Hundred, St. Mary's County. MARRIED Mary
Tettershall, Her brother was probably William
Tettershall, a Catholic who immigrated from
Wiltshire, England, in 1648. CHILDREN. SONS: John
(?-1705); Peter (?-1698), who married Ann,
daughter of John Nevit; and Henry (?-1709).
DAUGHTER. Mary (?-1739), who married first,
William Boreman (ca. 1630-1709), and second,
John Sanders. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: lit-
erate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Catholic. SOCIAL
STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Jarboe was in Kecough-
ton, Virginia, when Leonard Calvert (ca. 1606-
1647) organized the expedition to recapture
Maryland in 1646; no title on arrival; Gent., by
1656; naturalized by act of the Assembly, 1666.
ADDITIONAL COMMENT: was called "brother" by
John Pile (?-ca. 1675/76) in 1651. OCCUPA-
TIONAL PROFILE: planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGIS-
LATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, St. Mary's County,
1674-1674/75 (elected to the 3rd session of the
1671-1674/75 Assembly). LOCAL OFFICES: jus-
tice. St. Mary's County, 1663/64-1666; sheriff,
St. Mary's County, 1667-1672. MILITARY SERV-
ICE: lieutenant, 1658; lt. colonel, by 1660. STANDS
ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: In 1650 Cecilius Cal-
vert (1605-1675) demanded that Jarboe apolo-
gize or be punished for his contemptuous and
unmannerly behavior to William Stone (ca. 1603-
ca. 1659/60). In 1655 Jarboe supported the re-
bellion against the Puritan government. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: more
than 950 acres. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED, on March
4, 1674/75, in St. Mary's County. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY: TEV, at least 56,657 pounds of tobacco
(including 1 servant and 6 slaves). LAND, at least
950 acres, plus his home plantation (acreage un-
known).
JARRETT, ABRAHAM (?-?). BORN: between 1762
and 1767 in Baltimore (later became Harford)
County; second son. NATIVE, at least third gen-
eration. RESIDED: in Harford County in Bush River
Upper or Eden Hundred, by 1783; at "Mt.
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Friendship," Harford County, by 1804 until at
least 1825. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Abra-
ham Jarrett (?-1776), son of Abraham Jarrett
(?-1757) and wife Elinor. MOTHER: Martha Hus-
sey. BROTHERS: Jesse (ca. 1761-1839), who mar-
ried in 1804 Elizabeth Bosley; Bennett (?-ca.
1814), who married Susannah; Eli (?-ca. 1794);
and Elisha (?-1799). SISTERS: Elinor (Eleanor)
(1758-?), who married in 1776 John Thomas;
Mary, who married Joseph Lewis, MARRIED on
November 19, 1804, Elizabeth (ca. 1774-1825),
widow of Herman Stump (?-1801), daughter of
Josias William Dallam (1747-1820) and wife Sarah
(1749-1797). Elizabeth was the stepdaughter of
Henrietta. She was the granddaughter of William
Smith (?-1777) and the niece of Richard Dallam
(1743-1820). Her brothers and half brothers were
Thomas; William M. (1777-1859), who married
Frances Smith (?-1830); Francis J. (ca. 1787-
1857); Richard, who moved to Kentucky; Josias
M., who also moved to Kentucky; Philip; and
James B. Her sisters and half sisters were Sarah,
who married John Paca and moved to Kentucky;
Cassandra, who married Aquila Lockwood and
moved to Washington, D.C.; and Frances R.,
who married Thomas Blandy and moved to Del-
aware. CHILDREN. SON: Abraham Lingan (ca. 1809-
1894), who married Mary Ann Jones (ca. 1810-
?). STEPSON: William H. Stump. DAUGHTER:
Amanda C. STEPDAUGHTERS: Elizabeth L. Stump,
who married in 1814 John Moore of Pennsylva-
nia; Ann Stump, who married (first name un-
known) Lewis; Mary J. Stump, who married
Abraham Jarrett Thomas; and Hannah Stump.
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION, may have been a Methodist by 1819.
SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Gent., by 1795;
Esq., by 1796. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: office-
holder; probably a planter; owned a mill and saw
mill including 200 acres of land on Rock Run,
Harford County, valued at $5,000.00 in 1819.
PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower
House, Harford County, 1788 (elected during the
Assembly to fill vacancy), 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795,
1796, 1797, 1798. OTHER STATE OFFICE: Maryland
Senate elector, Harford County, 1796. LOCAL OF-
FICES: justice, Harford County, commissioned
1794, 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818, 1819; register of
wills, Harford County, appointed 1799-resigned
by December 1812. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
PERSONAL PROPERTY. Insolvent and "in confine-
ment for debts," February 8, 1800; his petition
for relief under the act for insolvent debtors shows
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