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Hundred, Charles County. FAMILY BACKGROUND.
FATHER: Prior Smallwood (1680-1734), son of
James Smallwood (ca, 1639-ca. 1714/15). MOTHER:
Elizabeth, widow of Peter McMillan. BROTHER:
William (after 1707-?). ADDITIONAL COMMENT:
William Smallwood is listed among those whose
property was confiscated by court order on April
4, 1782, for having furnished aid to the enemy
during the Revolution in King George County,
Virginia. William may have migrated to North
Carolina after the war. SISTERS: Ann; Elizabeth;
and Hester, who married Jacob Smith. MARRIED
by 1732 Priscilla Heabard (?-1784) of Virginia.
CHILDREN. SONS: William Smallwood (1732-1792);
Heabard (?-1780), who served in the Revolu-
tionary War as a Virginia resident and who died
without progeny. DAUGHTERS: Lucy Heabard (?-
1768), who married John Truman Stoddert (1732-
1765); Elizabeth, who married James Leiper;
Eleanor, who married Col. William Graysen, who
later became U.S. senator from Virginia; Priscilla
Heabard, who married John Courts, grandson of
John Courts (1691/92-1747/48); and Margaret, who
married Walter Truman Stoddert. PRIVATE CA-
REER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIA-
TION: Protestant. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES:
Gent., by 1745; Esq., by 1768. OCCUPATIONAL
PROFILE: planter, merchant; owned the firm Bayne
Smallwood & Company. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGIS-
LATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Charles County,
1738, 1739-1741 (Elections 1-3), 1742-1744
(Elections 1), 1745 (Elections), 1745/46-1748
(Elections Cv 1, 1-3, 4), 1749-1751 (Elections
Cv-3), 1751-1754 (Elections 1-6, Grievances 1-
6), 1754-1757 (Elections 1-6, Grievances 1-6,
Bills of Credit 5). LOCAL OFFICE: justice, Charles
County, commissioned 1736, 1739. WEALTH DUR-
ING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 789 acres
in Charles County (by purchase and patent);
probably also controlled 810 acres of his wife's
Virginia lands. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BE-
TWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: inherited 83
acres in Charles County from his father, 1740;
purchased and patented 3,065 acres in Charles
County, 1740-1767, of which he leased out at
least 400 acres; sold 714 acres between 1745 and
1765. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: in 1768; admin-
istration bond filed October 22, 1768, in Charles
County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £3,030.10.11
(including 26 slaves, plate, and a few books); FB,
£2,484.4.1. LAND: ca. 3,200 acres in Charles
County, plus 810 acres of his wife's lands in Vir-
ginia.
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SMALLWOOD, JAMES (ca. 1639-ca. 1714/15).
BORN: ca. 1639, probably in England. IMMI-
GRATED: by 1663, possibly as an indentured serv-
ant. RESIDED: in Zachia Hundred, Charles County.
MARRIED first, by 1665, Hester, possibly the
daughter of William Evans. MARRIED second, ca.
1695, Mary, widow of Giles Blizard (?-ca. 1668)
and Robert Thompson (?-ca. 1695). Mary sub-
sequently married Alexander Herbert. CHILDREN.
SONS. John (1667-1694), a planter of Charles
County, who married Lettes; James (1668-1723),
who married Mary Griffin, daughter of John Boy-
den; Matthew (1673-ca. 1703), who married Grace
Robertson; Thomas (?-1734), who married Al-
ice; William (?-1706), who married first, (name
unknown), and second, Eleanor, daughter of Henry
Hawkins (?-1699); Prior (1680-1734), who mar-
ried Elizabeth, widow of Peter McMillan; Ben-
jamin (?-1737); Bayne (?-1709), who married
Charity (1680-1711), daughter of John Courts
(1655/56-1702); and Leadstone (Ledstone) (ca.
1687-1755), who married Elizabeth Garland,
daughter of Randolph Garland (?-1722).
DAUGHTERS: Mary (1670-?), who married first,
Cornelius Maddox, and second, (first name un-
known) Taylor; Sarah, who married Henry Moore.
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Protestant. SOCIAL STATUS AND AC-
TIVITIES: called servant to Josias Fendall (?-by
1688), 1663, but claimed headlight in 1665 for
transporting himself; first called Mr. in 1686; served
eight consecutive terms (22 years) as delegate from
Charles County, but never had a very prominent
role in the Assembly; active in Indian- white re-
lations. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter; Indian
trader; ordinary keeper, 1686. PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Charles
County, 1692-1693, 1694-1697, 1697/98-1700,
1700-1704, 1704-1707, 1708A, 1708B-1711,
1712-1714. LOCAL OFFICE: justice, Charles County,
1689-1710 (quorum, 1694-1710). MILITARY
SERVICE, major, by 1689; It. colonel, by 1699;
colonel, by 1704. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE is-
SUES: member of George Godfrey's troop of sol-
diers who tried to free Josias Fendall (?-by 1688)
in 1681; supported Protestant Associator's Rev-
olution in 1689, which brought his first public civil
Office. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST
ELECTION: ca. 1,330 acres. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED:
between October 9, 1714, and January 12, 1714/
15. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £72.7.3 (includ-
ing at least 2 slaves); FB, £54.11.0. LAND: ca.
1,845 acres.
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