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PATIONAL PROFILE: planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEG-
ISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Calvert County,
1704-1707 (Elections and Privileges 1), 1708A
(Elections and Privileges), 1708B-1711 (Elec-
tions and Privileges 1-3, Aggrievances 4), 1712-
1714 (Elections and Privileges 1-4, chairman;
Laws 2-4), 1715 (Elections and Privileges, chair-
man; Laws), 1716-1718 (Elections and Privileges
1-3, Laws 1-3), 1719-1721/22 (Elections and
Privileges 1-5, Laws 2-5), 1722-1724 (Elections
and Privileges 1-3, Laws 1-3), 1725-1727 (Laws
3, speaker 4), 1728-1731 (speaker 1-5), 1732-
1734 (speaker 1-Cv), 1734/35-1737, 1738
(speaker), 1739 (speaker Cv; died before the 1st
session of the 1739-1741 Assembly). OTHER PRO-
VINCI AL OFFICE: justice, Provincial Court, 1718-
1725 (quorum). LOCAL OFFICE: justice, Calvert
County, in office 1705/6-1706, 1710, 1714, 1714/
15, 1715 (heads list, 1714, 1715). MILITARY SERV-
ICE: captain, 1708-1709; colonel, 1713-1739.
STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: left bequest
of 50 acres of land to be administered by the
vestry of Christ Church Parish as a residence for
a "poor, honest man" within the parish who would
agree to live on the land and teach the tenets of
the Anglican religion to any slaves who might
come to him. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: probably 500 acres in Calvert
County (inherited from his father, but subject to
his mother's life estate). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES
IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH:
acquired at least 1,342 acres in Calvert County
between 1709 and 1719; received 400 acres in
Anne Arundel County from his stepson, Gabriel
Parker, in exchange for 410 acres in Calvert County
held by his wife from George Parker's estate;
acquired at least 1,900 acres in Calvert County
and 800 acres in Anne Arundel County between
1721 and 1732. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will pro-
bated on December 21, 1739, in Calvert County.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: size of estate unknown, but
included 27 slaves mentioned in will. LAND: prob-
ably at least 4,532 acres in Calvert and Anne
Arundel counties.
MACKALL, JOHN (1738-1813). BORN: on Oc-
tober 22, 1738, in Christ Church Parish, Calvert
County; second son. NATIVE: fourth generation.
RESIDED: near St. Leonard's, Calvert County, un-
til ca. 1774; St. Mary's County until death. FAM-
ILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: James Mackall (1704-
ca. 1752), son of James Mackall (1671-1717).
MOTHER: Mary (1709-ca. 1753), daughter of
Thomas Howe (?-1720/21). BROTHERS: James (ca.
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1734-?), who married Hannah; Benjamin (ca.
1741-1767). SISTERS: Mary (1731-?), who mar-
ried John Brome V (1727-1797), son of John
Brome (1703-1748); Anne (1748-?), who mar-
ried (first name unknown) Wilson. MARRIED on
March 11, 1758, Margaret (1742-?), daughter of
John Gough (?-1743) of Calvert County. Her
mother was Rebecca (?-ca. 1742), widow of Wil-
liam Day (?-1737), daughter of Joshua Sedgwick
(?-1733) and wife Elizabeth. Her half brother
was William Day. Her half sister was Rebecca
Day (1735-?), who married in 1758 James Ward
(1735-?). Her first cousins were Thomas Johnson
(1732-1819); Baker Johnson (1747-1811). AD-
DITIONAL COMMENTS: After her father's death,
Margaret was left in the care of the widow Eliz-
abeth Young, who married James Morsell of Cal-
vert County in 1744. Morsell was later named
Margaret's guardian. Both Morsell and his wife
were illiterate. Margaret and John Mackall brought
suit against Morsell in 1763 to obtain the personal
estate left her by her father. Morsell was de-
scribed as mistreating Margaret and depriving her
of her rightful property and station in life. The
case was finally settled by arbitration in 1773.
CHILDREN. SONS: Thomas Howe (1761-?); John,
Jr. (ca. 1764-?); James (1769-?); and Benjamin
(1769-?). DAUGHTERS. Mary (1759-?), who
married Thomas Jenkins; Rebecca (1763-?), who
married Thomas Loker (?-1804); Ann (1766-?);
Margaret (1771-?); Sarah (1772-?); and Dorcas
(1775-?), who married Joseph Richardson. PRI-
VATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: probably Anglican. OCCUPATIONAL
PROFILE: planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE
SERVICE: Lower House, St. Mary's County, 1778-
1779 (Elections 3; Claims 2), 1779-1780, 1780-
1781. LOCAL OFFICE: justice, St. Mary's County,
1779-1784, 1800, 1801, 1805, and 1806. MILI-
TARY SERVICE: captain, Lower Battalion, St.
Mary's County Militia, commissioned August 26,
1777, and in service until at least January 1782.
STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: In July 1781,
Mackall was recommended for censure because
he had administered the oath of allegiance to a
man who later turned out to be a "pirate" and
"spy." In a letter to the governor and Council
dated October 5, 1784, Mackall protested about
the rumored appointment of another man to take
his place as magistrate in St. Mary's County. He
stated that he was the only justice for the lower
part of that county and that "knowing the Ne-
cessity of the people" he had spent "almost the
whole of his time to serve them......."He added:
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