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A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature 1635-1789 by Edward C. Papenfuse, et. al.
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BIOGRAPHIES LOO

from his carriage and killed. LAND: ca. 2,500 acres
in Talbot and Queen Anne's counties (including
the 554 acres held by right of his wife), and 1 lot
in Wye Town, Talbot County.

LODINGTON (LUDDINGTON), WILLIAM (?-

?). IMMIGRATED: by 1641 as a free adult. RE-
SIDED: in Kent County. PRIVATE CAREER. SOCIAL
STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Mr., by 1641/42; Gent.,
by 1642. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Assembly, Kent County, 1641/42 (Aggriev-
ances). LOCAL OFFICE, justice, Kent County, 1642.

WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY:

paid the fourth highest assessment, both in Au-
gust 1642 and in December 1642, Kent County.
WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: not mentioned in the
records after 1642.

LONDON, AMBROSE (?-by 1706) IMMI-
GRATED: in 1665, as a free adult with family, from
Northampton, Virginia, where he had settled by
June 1659. RESIDED: in the Annemessex area,
Somerset County. MARRIED Mary (last name un-
known). CHILDREN. SON: Thomas. DAUGHTERS:

Abigail (?-1692), who married in 1682 Thomas
Leister; Ruth, who married in 1677 Thomas Wal-
ston; and Mary, who married in 1667 Teague Rig-
gin. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RE-
LIGIOUS AFFILIATION. Protestant, probably a
Quaker. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: was per-
secuted in Virginia in 1663/64 for "not coming to
church . . . appeared under the notion of a
Quaker"; religious persecution probably prompted
the move to Maryland; no title on arrival, OC-

CUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter. PUBLIC CAREER.

LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Somerset
County, 1671-1674/75 (elected, but did not at-
tend). LOCAL OFFICE: justice, Somerset County,
1679/80-1683. MILITARY SERVICE: major, 1680-

1683. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST

ELECTION: at least 425 acres in Somerset County.

SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST

ELECTION AND DEATH: probably purchased at least
26 acres in Somerset County by 1685; received
an additional 50 acres in Somerset County by
grant, 1687. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: by Novem-
ber 1706, probably in Somerset County. PER-
SONAL PROPERTY, size of estate unknown. LAND:
had sold 501 acres in Somerset County by 1694.

LONG, THOMAS (?-1691). IMMIGRATED: pos-
sibly in 1668, as a free adult. RESIDED: possibly
in Talbot County; in Baltimore County by 1672.
MARRIED by June 1676 Jane (?-1696), widow of

both (first name unknown) Waites (Wright,
Wertes) and John Dixon (?-1670) of Baltimore
County, Gent. Jane immigrated as Dixon's wife
ca. 1664. CHILDREN. SON: Thomas. DAUGHTERS
Tabitha, who married by 1699 Henry King; prob-
ably Jane, who married Joseph Peake (?-1700).
STEPDAUGHTERS: Christiana Waites (Wright,
Wertes), who married by 1681 Francis Watkins
(?-1696); Abigail Dixon, who married by 1689
John Haies. Jane Peake may have been Long's
stepdaughter. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: lit-
erate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Protestant. OC-
CUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter; merchant. PUBLIC
CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House,

Baltimore County, 1683-1684 (elected to the 2nd
session of the 1682-1684 Assembly). LOCAL OF
FICES: justice, Baltimore County, 1672-1676,
1679-1686 (quorum, 1675/76-1676, 1679-1686);
coroner, Baltimore County, 1675; sheriff, Balti-
more County, 1676-1679, 1687-1690. MILITARY
SERVICE: captain, by 1675-1677; major, 1677-

1691. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: COOp-

erated with Protestant Associators' government,

1689-1691. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT

FIRST ELECTION: ca. 1,400 acres in Baltimore

County. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN
FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: Sold 111 acres, 1684;

patented 23 acres, 1684; purchased 733 acres in
1684, and 136 acres in 1689. WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: between September 12 and October 26,
1691, in Baltimore County. PERSONAL PROPERTY
TEV, £104.10.0 and 25,223 pounds of tobacco
(including 6 servants and silver valued at £3.0.0);
FB, £33.10.5, overpayment of 33,155 pounds of
tobacco. LAND: ca. 2,200 acres in Baltimore
County.

LOOCKERMAN (LOCKERMAN), THOMAS

WYNN (?-1801). BORN: before 1754 (when he
was described as a minor), in Dorchester County.
NATIVE: fourth generation. RESIDED: in Great
Choptank Hundred, Caroline County, by 1778.

FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER. Thomas Loock-

erman (?-1753) of Dorchester County. MOTHER:
Sidney, daughter of Charles Dickinson (?-1779),
a merchant of Dorchester and Caroline counties.
UNCLES: Henry Dickinson (?-1789); John Dick-
inson (ca. 1726-1789). AUNT: Margaret Dickin-
son, who married Philip Walker (?-1791). MAR-
RIED If Loockerman had a wife, her name is not
known. His grandfather's will, probated in 1779,
stated that Mary Ann Gray was Loockerman's
mistress and that she had borne him a bastard
child. CHILDREN. SONS: Thomas Wynn (?-1829),

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