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of estate unknown. LAND: 216 acres in Baltimore
County.
TOVEY, SAMUEL (?-1683). BORN: in England.
IMMIGRATED: ca. 1674 as a free adult from Bris-
tol, England. RESIDED: in Kent County. MARRIED
first, Elizabeth. MARRIED second, Anne Bunten,
who subsequently married in 1684 Thomas Joce
of Kent County. CHILDREN. SON: Samuel (?-1716),
a churchwarden of St. Paul's Parish, Kent County,
1703-1704, St. Paul's Parish Vestry, Kent County,
1716. DAUGHTER: Elizabeth. STEPDAUGHTER:
Elizabeth Bunten (1670-?). ADDITIONAL COM-
MENTS: Tovey also had an unknown number of
children living in England; there was some doubt
as to whether they would be provided for after
Tovey died. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: liter-
ate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: probably Protes-
tant. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: called Mr.,
on arrival; Gent., by 1679; transported his first
wife and two children in 1679. OCCUPATIONAL
PROFILE: possibly merchant; planter; ordinary
keeper. ADDITIONAL COMMENT: Tovey was called
a merchant of Bristol on arrival, but the only
evidence of any mercantile activity in Maryland
is debts owed his estate. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGIS-
LATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Kent County,
1676-1682 (excused from 2nd session for illness;
no record of attendance at 3rd-5th sessions, and
may have been replaced as a delegate). LOCAL
OFFICE: justice, Kent County, 1676-1677 (ineli-
gible to serve as justice while operating an or-
dinary). WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST
ELECTION: ca. 450 acres in Kent County. WEALTH
AT DEATH. DIED: on October 17, 1683, in Kent
County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £351.14.7
(including 9 books); FB, disbursements totaling
4,672 pounds of tobacco, but size of entire estate
unknown. LAND: ca. 450 acres in Kent County.
TOWNSEND (TOWNSHEND), JOSHUA (1744-
1794). BORN: in 1744, in Worcester County. NA-
TIVE: at least third generation. Probably de-
scended from John Townsend (?-1698), an early
settler of Somerset County who immigrated from
Northampton County, Virginia, in 1666. RE-
SIDED: in Snow Hill Town, Worcester County, at
death. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Jeremiah
Townsend (?-1784) of Snow Hill Town, Worces-
ter County. BROTHERS: Major (?-1794), who
married Lean (surname unknown); Bartley (Bar-
clay) (?-1795). MARRIED first, by 1782, Nancy (?-
by 1793), daughter of Solomon Brittingham (?-
1772) of Worcester County and his wife Mary (?-
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1784). Her sisters were Attalanta, who married
John Wright; Andasiah, who married William
Selby; Mary, who married Josiah Robins; Deli-
lah, who married (first name unknown) Purnell;
Elizabeth; Rhoda; and Rebeckah, who married
(first name unknown) Parker. MARRIED second,
after January 1, 1793, Mary, widow of Matthew
Purnell (?-1791), daughter of James Houston (?-
1761) of Worcester County and his wife Mary (?-
1773). Her brothers were Isaac Houston (?-1797);
James Houston (?-1809); and John. CHILDREN.
SONS: Littleton (by 1782-?), who moved to Del-
aware by 1797; William Bartley, a minor in 1797.
STEPSON: Levi Purnell. DAUGHTERS: Charlotte,
who married in 1794 Thomas Robertson and re-
sided in Delaware by 1797; Nancy, who died be-
tween 1785 and 1794; and Sarah, who was born
after 1785. STEPDAUGHTERS: Charlotte Purnell;
Elizabeth Marshall Purnell. PRIVATE CAREER. ED-
UCATION: literate. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVI-
TIES: Esq., by 1783. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE:
merchant, by 1779. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE
SERVICE: Lower House, Worcester County, 1784,
1792. LOCAL OFFICES, justice, Worcester County,
1777-1784, 1791-1794; justice, Orphans' Court,
Worcester County, 1779, 1782-1785; sheriff,
Worcester County, 1785-1788; justice. Court of
Oyer, Terminer, and Gaol Delivery, Worcester
County, 1783; collector of the tax, Worcester
County, 1786. MILITARY SERVICE: 2nd lieutenant,
Snow Hill Battalion, Worcester County Militia,
1777. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: Sub-
scriber to Washington College, 1783. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: assessed
value £412.0.0, including 9 slaves, 1783. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: ca. 902 acres and 7 lots in Snow
Hill Town, Worcester County (117 acres by pat-
ent, 505 acres by purchase, and 140 acres through
marriage). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BE-
TWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: acquired 1,429
acres in Worcester County, 1784-1790, and 5 lots
in Snow Hill; disposed of 183 acres and parts of
2 lots in Snow Hill during those same years. Be-
tween 1791 and his death, he purchased 769 acres
in Worcester County and 4 lots in Snow Hill,
selling 1,021 acres and 4 lots. Part of the acreage
was owned in partnership with six others and was
described in a 1797 Chancery Court case as "poor
beach land." In 1794, he sold a 153-acre tract
that had been attached by a writ of fieri facias to
satisfy a judgment against him in Worcester County
Court. The purchaser relinquished his claim to
the title when the land was seized and sold by the
sheriff in 1796. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will pro-
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