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1779-1784, 1795-1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803,
1804. MILITARY SERVICE: 2nd major, South River
Battalion, Anne Arundel County Militia, com-
missioned January 6, 1776; 1st major, commis-
sioned January 22, 1776, resigned December 18,
1776, to run for elective office; major, Anne
Arundel County Militia, appointed 1794. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: inherited
one slave from his mother, 1773; his wife received
an unspecified number of slaves from her father
before 1784; assessed value £816.13.4, including
12 slaves, 10 oz. plate, 1783; charged with five
slaves, 1798. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: possibly
at least 36 acres in Anne Arundel County (in-
herited from father). Tillard also held at least 300
acres in Anne Arundel County on mortgages.
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST
ELECTION AND DEATH: assessed for 507 acres Anne
Arundel County, 1783; Janet inherited 105 acres
Prince George's County from her father, 1784;
repatented 311 acres in Anne Arundel County in
1787 for a net gain of ca. 150 acres; purchased 2
tracts totalling ca. 400 acres in Anne Arundel
County in 1791 and 1796 (both tracts had prob-
ably been mortgaged to Tillard prior to the sales);
assessed for 655 acres in Anne Arundel County,
1798; had sold at least 150 acres by 1803 and
purchased ca. 300 acres in 1806, all in Anne Arun-
del County. It is possible that in 1783 and 1798
Tillard was paying taxes on land mortgaged to
him as well as on his own property. WEALTH AT
DEATH. DIED: in December 1806; buried on De-
cember 15, 1806, in St. James' Parish, Anne
Arundel County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV,
£3,563.18.3 current money (including 17 slaves,
books valued at $22.00, 63 oz. plate, and temple
spectacles); FB, estate overpaid £52.11.5 current
money, with most of debt to Wallace, Johnson
& Muir still outstanding. LAND: at least 569 acres
in Anne Arundel County, which was sold in 1827
to pay the debt to Wallace, Johnson & Muir.
TILLOTSON, JOHN (?-1772). BORN: in Queen
Anne's County, of age by 1742; eldest son. NA-
TIVE: at least second generation. RESIDED: St.
Luke's Parish, Queen Anne's County. FAMILY
BACKGROUND. FATHER: John Tillotson (?-1741),
of Queen Anne's County, planter. MOTHER: Mar-
tha, daughter of John Baynard (?-1705), of Tal-
bot County, and wife Elizabeth. BROTHER: Bay-
nard (?-1774), who married in 1748 Margaret
Chairs. SISTER: Mary (?-1769), who married first,
in 1746, Nathan Wright, Jr. (?-1758), and sec-
ond, by 1764, Samuel Rowland of Lewistown,
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Sussex County, Delaware. MARRIED in 1742 Sarah
(?-ca. 1774), widow of both Edward Chetham
(?-1736), of Queen Anne's County, and James
Earle, Jr. (ca. 1694-1739). Sarah was the daugh-
ter of John Crapp, of Philadelphia, and his wife
Susanne Berd. CHILDREN. SONS: John, who mar-
ried Elizabeth Baynard; William (?-1778). STEP-
SONS: Edward Chetham, who married Rachel Til-
lotson; James Chetham; and Joseph Earle (1739-
1777). DAUGHTER: Sarah. STEPDAUGHTERS:
Hannah Chetham, who married Edward Clayton;
Susannah Chetham. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCA-
TION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: probably
a Quaker during minority, as his parents be-
longed to the Third Haven Monthly Meeting of
Friends, Queen Anne's County Meeting House;
married in St. Luke's Parish, Queen Anne's
County, and served as a vestryman; in 1767 he
was referred to as "one of the people called
Quakers." SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Gent.,
by 1745. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter and
merchant. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Lower House, Queen Anne's County, 1751
(elected to the 3rd session of the 1749-1751 As-
sembly to fill vacancy), 1751-1754. LOCAL OF-
FICE: St. Luke's Parish Vestry, Queen Anne's
County, in office 1748-1750. MILITARY SERVICE:
quartermaster in Capt. William Hopper's Com-
pany, February 8, 1748. WEALTH DURING LIFE-
TIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 1,914 acres in
Queen Anne's County (440 acres inherited from
his father, 100 acres purchased, and 224 acres
acquired through his marriage), plus control of
an additional 1,150 acres in Queen Anne's County
belonging to his stepchildren. SIGNIFICANT
CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND
DEATH: acquired by purchase and patent 2,378
acres in Queen Anne's County between 1755 and
1769; sold 1,879 acres in Queen Anne's County
between 1757 and 1770; controlled 445 acres of
land in Queen Anne's County between 1754 and
1758 for Ambrose Wright's heirs and 1,798 acres
between 1763 and 1766 for the heirs of George
Baynard. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: in April 1772
in Queen Anne's County. PERSONAL PROPERTY:
TEV, at least £820.2.9 current money (including
9 slaves, 77 oz. plate, and books). LAND. 2,413
acres in Queen Anne's County.
TODD, THOMAS (1619-1676). BORN: in Den-
ton, Durham County, England; baptised on Sep-
tember 12, 1619; probably youngest son. IMMI-
GRATED: in 1669, as a free adult with wife and
five children from Virginia. RESIDED: in Glouces-
835
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