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£748.8.8 (including 19 slaves); FB, £327.6.8. LAND:
2,295 acres in St. Mary's and Charles counties.
PINDAR, EDWARD (?-ca. 1692/93). IMMI-
GRATED: ca. 1668, probably as an indentured
servant. RESIDED: in Dorchester County. MAR-
RIED Sara, widow of William Ford (?-1678/79),
daughter of Richard Preston (ca. 1618-ca. 1669/
70). Her brothers were Richard (?-by 1669); James
(?-by 1673/74); and Samuel. Her sisters were
Naomi (?-1663); Margaret; and Rebecca. AD-
DITIONAL COMMENT: In 1679, shortly after the
death of her husband William Ford (?-1678/79),
Sara drafted an agreement with Edward Pindar
wherein he was to provide Sara and her three
children by Ford with the necessities of life and
teach the children to read and write in exchange
for a tract of land given to Sara by her father.
Sara and Edward probably married soon there-
after as their daughter was of age by 1697. CHIL-
DREN. SON: Edward (?-1711), a planter of Dor-
chester County, who married Jane. STEPSONS
Samuel Ford; Josias Ford. DAUGHTER: Kather-
ine, who married Thomas Taylor, Jr. STEP-
DAUGHTER: Rebecca Ford. PRIVATE CAREER. ED
UCATION literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION:
Protestant; wife was a Quaker. SOCIAL STATUS
AND ACTIVITIES probably arrived as a servant,
transported by John Tench; first appears actively
in the records in 1677, when he had no title; Gent.,
by 1680. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: probably in-
dentured servant; planter; merchant. PUBLIC CA-
REER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House. Dor-
chester County, 1686 (did not serve; resigned
before the 1st session of the 1686-1688 Assembly
to become sheriff), 1692 (Accounts 1; Elections
1; died before the 2nd session of the 1692-1693
Assembly). LOCAL OFFICES, justice, Dorchester
County, 1681-1686 (quorum, 1691-1692/93);
sheriff, Dorchester County, 1686-1691. MILI-
TARY SERVICE: captain, by 1691. STANDS ON PUB-
LIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: retained in office in 1689 by
the Protestant Associators, but was recom-
mended by Lord Baltimore in 1691 to be ap-
pointed to the first Royal Council. WEALTH DUR-
ING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: over 550
acres. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: by February 13,
1692/93, in Dorchester County. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY: TEV, £660.9.5 (including 1 servant and 5
slaves); FB, £400.7.6. LAND: over 550 acres.
PINKNEY, WILLIAM (1764-1822). BORN: on
March 17, 1764, in Annapolis, Anne Arundel
County. NATIVE second generation. RESIDED: in
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Annapolis until ca. 1782; Baltimore Town, ca.
1782-1786; Bel Air, Harford County, 1786-1792;
Annapolis, 1792-1796; England, 1796-1804;
Baltimore City, November 1804-1806; England,
1806-1811; Baltimore City, 1811-1816; Italy, July-
October 1816; Russia, January 1817-February
1818; Baltimore City, 1818-death. FAMILY BACK-
GROUND. FATHER: Jonathan Pinkney (Pinckney),
who emigrated from England to Annapolis by
1755, was interned briefly as a Loyalist, August-
October 1777, and married first, Margaret Rind
(1735-by 1755). MOTHER: Ann (1730-?), sister
of Margaret Rind, daughter of Alexander Rind
(?-1738) of Annapolis and wife Anne. BROTH-
ERS: Jonathan (?-1828) of Annapolis, cashier of
the Farmers Bank of Maryland, by 1806 to death,
who married in 1791 Elizabeth Monroe (ca. 1768-
1823); Ninian (1771-1824), clerk of the Execu-
tive Council, ca. 1794-1824, author of Travels
Through the South of France, 1809, who married
in 1806 Amelia Grason Hobbs (1779-1858). sis-
TER: Ann (Nancy) (ca. 1755-1835), who never
married. HALF SISTER: Margaret, who married in
1782 Samuel Hutton. MARRIED in 1789 Anna Maria,
daughter of Col. John Rodgers of Harford County,
who immigrated from Scotland ca. 1760 and later
settled in Cecil County, and wife Elizabeth Reyn-
olds. Anna Maria was probably the granddaugh-
ter of Thomas Reynolds (?-1775) of Delaware.
She had seven brothers and sisters, including John
(1773-1838), a commodore in the U.S. Navy who
married in 1806 Minerva Denison; George Wash-
ington (1787-1832), a naval officer who married
in 1815 Ann Maria Perry; probably Thomas; and
probably Margaret. CHILDREN. SONS: William
(1789-1853), who married in 1813 Jane B. Ham-
mond; Charles (?- 1835), editor of a Washington,
D.C., newspaper at death; Edward Coote (1802-
1828), a poet, lawyer, editor of the Marylander,
who married in 1824 Georgiana McCausland;
Frederick (1804-1873); and Henry (1807-?).
DAUGHTERS: Elizabeth, who married in 1816
Cumberland D. Williams; Isabella, who married
in 1815 Joseph White; Charlotte, who married in
1821 William Stewart; Caroline; and Emily (1811-
?). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: attended King
William's School, Annapolis; studied medicine in
Baltimore Town briefly ca. 1782; read law with
Samuel Chase (1741-1811) in Baltimore Town,
1783-1786. Pinkney could speak French and read
Italian. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION. Anglican; owned
a pew in St. Paul's Parish Church, Baltimore City,
at death. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Esq.,
by 1794; Hon., by death; Mason, charter member
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