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beth, who married William Bruce (?-1775); and
Henrietta, who married Barnaby Egan (?-1781).
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Anglican. SOCIAL STATUS AND AC-
TIVITIES: Gent., by 1755. OCCUPATIONAL PRO-
FILE: planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERV
ICE: Lower House, St. Mary's County, 1754-1757.
LOCAL OFFICES: All Faith Parish Vestry, St. Mary's
County, 1739-1742, 1749-1757, 1764-1766;
churchwarden, All Faith Parish, St. Mary's County,
1746, 1749, 1761, 1766-1768. WEALTH DURING
LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 5,055 acres
in St. Mary's County (inherited 200 acres from
his father, patented 2,214 acres, and purchased
or otherwise acquired 2,642 acres). SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND
DEATH: purchased 4,353 acres in St. Mary's
County, 1754-1773, and 2 lots in Leonardtown,
St. Mary's County, in 1762; patented 209 acres
in St. Mary's County, 1756; sold or gave away
1,574 acres in St. Mary's County between 1759
and 1770. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED, on October
17, 1773, in St. Mary's County. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY size of estate unknown. LAND: at least 7,784
acres in St. Mary's County and 2 lots in Leon-
ardtown.
REVELL, RANDALL (1613-1686/87). BORN: in
1613. IMMIGRATED: in 1636, as a free adult with
wife and son from Accomack (later Northhamp-
ton) County, Virginia. RESIDED: in St. Mary's
County; returned to Northampton County, Vir-
ginia, ca. 1642/43; moved back to Maryland, ca.
1661, and resettled near the Manokin River on
the lower Eastern Shore (later became Somerset
County). MARRIED first, Rebecca. MARRIED sec-
ond, by 1660, Katherine, possibly the sister of
Col. Edmund Scarburgh (1617-ca. 1671) of Ac-
comack County, Virginia. CHILDREN. SONS: John
(died young); Richard (died young); Edward (ca.
1638-1681/82), who married Frances; Randall (ca.
1661-1718), who married first, in 1682, Sarah,
sister of Charles Bollard (ca. 1670-ca. 1724/25),
and second, by June 1695, Rachel, daughter of
Charles Hall. DAUGHTERS: Katherine (1664-1722/
23), who married in 1685 John West (?-1716);
Sarah (1667-?), who married Nathaniel Horsey
(1664/65-1721), son of Stephen Horsey (ca. 1620-
1671); Hannah, who married Stephen Horsey (ca.
1651-1722), son of Stephen Honey (ca. 1620-
1671); and Anne, who married in 1678 William
Coulbourn, Jr. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: il-
literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Protestant. SO-
CIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: arrived with one
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servant. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: cooper; planter;
ordinary keeper, 1673; attorney. PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Assembly, St. George's
Hundred, St. Mary's County, 1638/39, present
1641/42, present 1642B. OTHER PROVINCIAL OF-
FICE: commissioner empowered to grant land
warrants for the Eastern Shore of Maryland be-
low the Choptank River, 1661-1662/63. LOCAL
OFFICE, sheriff, Somerset County, 1669-1671. our
OF COLONY SERVICE, burgess, Northampton
County, Virginia, 1657-1658. WEALTH DURING
LIFETIME. LAND: 100 acres by 1640; 300 acres by
1642. ADDITIONAL COMMENT: Revell had distrib-
uted 2,000 acres to his children by 1686/87. WEALTH
AT DEATH. DIED: will probated on March 8, 1686/
87, in Somerset County. PERSONAL PROPERTY.
TEV, at least £35.1.0 (including 1 servant, 1 slave).
LAND. 1,405 acres.
REYNOLDS, EDWARD (?-by 1820). BORN, in
Upper Cliffs Hundred, Calvert County; probably
elder son. NATIVE: at least fourth generation. RE-
SIDED, in Upper Cliffs Hundred, Calvert County.
FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Thomas Reynolds
(?-1778). MOTHER: Frances Holland (?-by 1778).
BROTHER: William Holland (?-ca. 1801), Esq.
SISTERS: Elizabeth (?-1801), who married in 1768
William Chew (1746-1801), brother of Samuel
Chew (1737-1790); Frances (?-1805), who mar-
ried Woolman Gibson, Jr. (?-ca. 1798); Margaret
(?-by 1800); Ann, who married Thomas Gantt
(?-ca. 1802); Sarah, who married Joseph Bote-
ler; Rebecca, who possibly married first, Capt.
Woolman Gibson (?-1781), son of Woolman Gib-
son (?-1786), and second, Jacob Gibson (?-ca.
1817), Esq.; and Mary, who married John Mack-
all (1740-1799). MARRIED first, Mary (1742-?),
daughter of James John Mackall (1717-1772) and
wife Mary Hance. She was the niece of Samuel
Hance (?-?). Her brothers were John Mackall
(1740-1799); Benjamin Mackall W (1745-by 1810);
Thomas Mackall (1751-1799); James (1747-ca.
1837); and Richard (1749-by 1772). Her sisters
were Susannah (ca. 1737-by 1782), who married
Thomas Gantt, Jr. (?-1808); Elizabeth (ca. 1743-
?), who married James Heighe; Sarah (1752-?),
who married James Gray; Ann (ca. 1753-?), who
married Walter Smith (1747-1804); Margaret
(1755-1799), who married Maj. Richard Chew
(1753-1801); Barbara (1755-?), who married Gen.
Joseph Wilkinson; and Priscilla (1750-1823), who
married Robert Bowie (ca. 1750-1818). MARRIED
second, by 1780, Ann. CHILDREN. SONS: James
John (by 1778-?); Thomas (?-1824), a justice of
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