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one, including Frances, who married Maureen
Duvall (ca. 1661-by 1735). PRIVATE CAREER. ED-
UCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: An-
glican. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: AcCOrd-
ing to a contemporary, Thomas and his brothers
Francis, Henry, and Col. Lewis were staunch sup-
porters of King Charles II and followed him into
exile in 1651. When amnesty was declared, the
brothers returned to England to gather their re-
maining possessions and then emigrated to Mary-
land. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter. PUBLIC
CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House,
Baltimore County, 1661 (did not attend), 1662,
1663-1664. OTHER PROVINCIAL OFFICE: deputy
surveyor general, 1670-1671 (while Jerome White
(?-by 1677) was absent). LOCAL OFFICES: justice,
Baltimore County, 1661-1664 (quorum, 1661-
1664); sheriff, Anne Arundel County, 1666-1670.
MILITARY SERVICE: captain, by 1671. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: prob-
ably 400 acres in Baltimore County. SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND
DEATH: surveyed 663 acres in Anne Arundel
County, 1669. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: between
April 23 and May 4, 1671, in Anne Arundel Coun-
ty. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, at least 53,486 and
probably as much as 85,865 pounds of tobacco (in-
cluding 3 servants, 1 slave, and books); FB, prob-
ably 23,361 pounds of tobacco. LAND: 1,263 acres
in Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties.
STOCKLEY, WOODMAN (?-ca 1663) IMMI-
GRATED: in 1652, as a free adult with his wife and
two children. RESIDED: in Calvert County. MAR-
RIED America (last name unknown). CHILDREN.
SONS: James (?-1676) of Patuxent River, Calvert
County, who married Mary, daughter of John
Bigger (ca. 1634-ca. 1673); Oliver (?-1684) of
Calvert County. DAUGHTERS: Elizabeth; Anna.
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION, literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Protestant, probably Quaker. SO-
CIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: had planned to leave
Maryland when he wrote his will in 1659/60; no
further record of him until the will was probated
three years later. OCCUPATION AL PROFILE: planter.
PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Parlia-
mentary Commission, 1655-1657/58; Lower
House, Calvert County, 1658. OTHER PROVIN-
CIAL OFFICE: justice. Provincial Court, 1655-1657/
58. LOCAL OFFICE: justice, Patuxent, 1655. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: ca.
1,100 acres. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will pro-
bated on October 30, 1663, in Maryland. LAND:
ca. 900 acres in Calvert County.
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STODDERT, BENJAMIN (ca. 1751-1813). BORN:
ca. 1751 in Maryland. NATIVE, third generation.
RESIDED: in Prince George's County by 1776; in
Annapolis, 1783; had purchased land in Wash-
ington, D.C., by 1784; thereafter his main resi-
dences were "Bostock House" in Prince George's
County and a house on Prospect Avenue in
Georgetown, D.C. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER:
Thomas Stoddert, an Indian fighter in Western
Maryland, son of James Stoddert (ca. 1667-1726)
and wife Elizabeth (?-1749/50). MOTHER: Janet,
daughter of Rev. John Donaldson (?-1748) and
wife Elizabeth (?-1756) of St. Mary's County.
UNCLE: John Stoddert (?-1767). SISTER: Sarah.
FIRST COUSINS: John Truman Stoddert (1732-1765).
MARRIED on June 7, 1781, Rebecca (1757-1802),
daughter of Christopher Lowndes (1713-1785),
a merchant of Bladensburg, Prince George's
County, and wife Elizabeth Tasker (1726-1789).
Rebecca was the granddaughter of Benjamin Tas-
ker (ca. 1690-1768). She was the niece of Ben-
jamin Tasker, Jr. (1720/21-1760); Anne Tasker
(1723-1817), who married Samuel Ogle (ca. 1694-
1752); and Rebecca Tasker (1724-1822), who
married Daniel Dulany, Jr. (1722-1797). Her
brothers were Benjamin (1749-1802), who mar-
ried Dorothy (1762-?), daughter of Andrew
Buchanan (ca. 1733-1786) and wife Elizbeth
Lawson (1743-1798); Francis (1751-1815), who
married Jane Maddox (?-1829) of Yorkshire,
England; Samuel (1753-?); Richard Tasker (1763-
?), who married Anne (1769-1840), daughter of
Edward Lloyd (1744-1796) and wife Elizabeth
Tayloe (1750-1825); and Charles (1765-1840),
who moved to Jefferson County Virginia, and
who married first, in 1794, Eleanor (1776-1805),
daughter of Edward Lloyd (1744-1796) and wife
Elizabeth Tayloe (1750-1825), and second,
Frances Whiting (?-1841) of Virginia. Her sisters
were Anne Margaret (1748-1822), who never
married; Elizabeth (1755-?); and Harriot, who
married about 1781 Levi Gantt, Esq., of Prince
George's County. CHILDREN. SONS. Benjamin, who
moved to Harden County, Kentucky, by 1815;
Richard (ca. 1792-1810); William; and Christo-
pher. DAUGHTERS: Elizabeth (1785-1859), who
married Dr. Thomas Ewell (1785-?); Nancy
(Ann), who married Thomas T. Gantt; Harriet
(Harriot), who married on August 1, 1812, George
Washington Campbell, a U.S. senator from Ten-
nessee; and Rebecca. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCA-
TION: served an apprenticeship as a merchant. His
obituary states that "his course of reading in his
youth was controlled by ... Bishop Cla-
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