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Calvert County in 1803 and a member of the Lower
House from Calvert County, 1806-1815, who
married Elizabeth (?-by 1840); William (?-by
1831), who married Elizabeth; Joseph W. (?-by
1840), who was elected to the Lower House from
Calvert County in 1819; and Edward G., who
married his cousin Mary Chew. DAUGHTER: (first
name unknown), who married John Hamilton
Chew (?-by 1831), son of Samuel Chew (1737-
1790). PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. SO-
CIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Gent., by 1778; Esq.,
by 1787. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: merchant in
partnership with Francis King of Calvert County
for a short time prior to August 1785; probably
planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Conventions, Calvert County, 1st, 1774, 2nd-3rd,
1774, 4th, 1775, 5th, 1775; Lower House, Calvert
County, 1778-1779 (Laws to Expire 3), 1782-
1783 (Claims 2). LOCAL OFICES: justice, Calvert
County, 1773; Committee of Observation, Cal-
vert County, 1775; Commissioner of the Tax, Cal-
vert County, 1777, 1778, 1781, 1782; coroner.
Calvert County, 1775. MILITARY SERVICE: 2nd
lieutenant, Battalion of Calvert County Militia.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY
assessed value £2,050.0.0, including 53 slaves, 88
oz. plate, 1783; 58 slaves, 1800; 43 slaves, 1810.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: at least 200 acres in
Calvert County, 1774. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN
LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: in-
herited ca. 1,736 acres in Calvert County from
his father, 1778; owned 1,740 acres in 1783; pur-
chased 33 acres in 1792; sold 68 acres by 1793;
deeded 800 acres to two of his sons, 1795. WEALTH
AT DEATH. DIED: by 1820; size of estate unknown.
REYNOLDS, THOMAS (?-1778). BORN: in Up-
per Cliffs Hundred, Calvert County. NATIVE, at
least third generation. RESIDED: in Upper Cliffs
Hundred, Calvert County. FAMILY BACKGROUND.
FATHER. Edward Reynolds (?-1744), son of John
Reynolds (?-by 1714). BROTHER: possibly Ed-
ward Reynolds, Jr., who was inspector of to-
bacco, 1729. SISTERS: Mary, who married Joseph
Wilson; (first name unknown), who married (first
name unknown) Allen. MARRIED Frances (?-by
1778), daughter of Thomas Holland (?-1742) and
wife Sarah; stepdaughter of Robert Freeland (?-
1757). Frances was the granddaughter of both
William Holland (?-1732) and Thomas Frisby
(1681-ca. 1715/16). She was the niece of Frances
Holland (?-1724), who married Philip Thomas
(1693/94-1762). Her brother was Thomas Hol-
land. Her half brothers were Peregrine Freeland
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(?-?); Frisby Freeland (by 1747-?). Her sisters
were Sarah Ariannna; Margaret; and Mary. CHIL-
DREN. SONS: Edward Reynolds (?-by 1820); Wil-
liam Holland (?-ca. 1801), Esq., a justice of the
Calvert County Circuit Court, 1787-1799.
DAUGHTERS: Elizabeth (?-1801), who married in
1768 William Chew (1746-1801), brother of Sam-
uel Chew (1737-1790); Frances (?-1805), who
married by 1778 Woolman Gibson, Jr. (?-ca. 1798);
Margaret (?-by 1800); Ann, who married in 1780
Thomas Gantt(?-ca. 1802); Sarah, who married
by 1801 Joseph Boteler; Rebecca, who possibly
married first, Capt. Woolman Gibson (?-1781),
son of Woolman Gibson (?-1786), and second,
Jacob Gibson, (?-ca. 1817), Esq., possibly the
brother of Rebecca's first husband; and Mary,
who married by 1778 John Mackall (1740-1799).
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILI ATION: Anglican, All Saints1 Parish, Cal-
vert County. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: merchant,
by 1747; planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE
SERVICE: Lower House, Calvert County, 1751
(elected to the 3rd session of the 1749-1751 As-
sembly), 1751-1754, 1754-1757 (Bills of Credit
5), 1757-1758. LOCAL OFFICES: churchwarden, All
Saints' Parish, Calvert County, 1739, 1751; All
Saints' Parish Vestry, Calvert County, 1741-1743,
1748-1751. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: at least 1,244 acres in Calvert
County (inherited ca. 1,200 acres from his father
in 1744, and patented 44 acres in 1747). SIGNIF-
ICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELEC-
TION AND DEATH: Debt books indicate land hold-
ings amounting to 3,169 acres in 1753, 3,168 acres
in 1757, 4,005 acres from 1763 to 1765, and 4,160
acres from 1766 to 1768, all in Calvert County.
In 1768 Reynolds purchased 385 acres in Prince
George's County. He disposed of 115 acres in
1769 and obtained 100 acres in 1774, both tracts
in Calvert County; he acquired 143 acres by pat-
ent between 1752 and 1774 in Calvert County.
WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: in July 1778; will pro-
bated on October 12, 1778, in Calvert County.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £11,339.9.15 (in-
cluding 86 slaves and 81 oz. plate); FB, £10,643.2.4
and 4,000 pounds of tobacco. LAND: ca. 3,500
acres.
RICHARDSON, JOSEPH (1743-1786). BORN on
November 6, 1743, in Kent County; younger son.
NATIVE: fourth generation. RESIDED: in Anne
Arundel County; Dorchester County by 1767.
FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Thomas Richard-
son (1715-1745) of Anne Arundel County, later
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