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to the 3rd session of the 1676-1682 Assembly);
Associators' Convention, Dorchester County,
1689-1692; Grand Committee of Twenty, 1690-
1692; Lower House, Dorchester County, 1692-
1693 (Accounts 1; Laws 1). LOCAL OFFICE: jus-
tice, Dorchester County, 1669-1693 (omitted from
commission list by error in 1679, but added in
1680/81), chief justice, 1681-1693. MILITARY
SERVICE: captain, 1676-1689; major, 1689-1693.
STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: Supporter of
Protestant Associators' Revolution in 1689.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELEC-
TION: 700 acres. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND
BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: at least
1,300 acres by 1684. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will
probated on March 21, 1697/98, in Dorchester
County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £307.14.3
(including 2 servants, 7 slaves); FB, £229.12.6.
LAND: 1,230 acres.
TRIPPE, HENRY (?-ca. 1723/24). BORN: prob-
ably in the late 1670s, in Dorchester County, still
a minor in 1693; eldest son. NATIVE: second gen-
eration. RESIDED, in Dorchester County. FAMILY
BACKGROUND. FATHER: Henry Trippe (1632-1697/
98). MOTHER: Elizabeth. BROTHERS: John; Ed-
ward; and William. STEPBROTHER: John Brooke
(by 1646-1692/93). SISTER: Henrietta. MARRIED
Susannah, who subsequently married by 1727 John
Eccleston. CHILDREN. SONS: Henry Trippe (?-1744);
John; and Edward (?-1772), who married Mar-
garet Murray, sister of James Murray (?-1784).
DAUGHTERS: Elizabeth, who married first, Wil-
liam Taylor (?-1730), and second, Bartholomew
Ennalls (ca. 1700-1783); Sarah (?-1755), who
married Philip Emerson (ca. 1712-1755), son of
Thomas Emerson (?-1720); and Mary (?-1782),
who married Jacob Hindman (by 1713-1766).
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Anglican, probably Great Chop-
tank Parish, Dorchester County. SOCIAL STATUS
AND ACTIVITIES: second generation burgess. OC-
CUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter; merchant. PUBLIC
CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House,
Dorchester County, 1712-1714 (Aggrievances 2-
4), 1715 (Aggrievances). LOCAL OFFICE: justice,
Dorchester County, by 1713-ca. 1723/24. MILI-
TARY SERVICE: captain, by 1718. WEALTH DURING
LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: ca. 450 acres.
WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will probated on January
17, 1723/24, in Dorchester County. PERSONAL
PROPERTY: TEV, £1,182.16.9 current money (in-
cluding 10 servants, 12 slaves, and books); FB,
£918.10.4. LAND: at least 2,150 acres.
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TRIPPE (TRIPP), HENRY (?-1744). BORN: in
Dorchester County; of age by 1727. NATIVE: third
generation. RESIDED: at "Carthagena," Dor-
chester County. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER.
Henry Trippe (?-ca. 1723/24), son of Henry Trippe
(1632-1697/98). STEPFATHER: John Eccleston.
MOTHER: Susannah. STEPUNCLE: John Brooke (by
1646-1692/93). BROTHERS. Edward (?-1772);
John. SISTERS: Elizabeth, who married second,
Bartholomew Ennalls (ca. 1700-1783); Mary (?-
1782), who married Jacob Hindman (by 1713-
1766); and Sarah (?-1755). NEPHEWS: James
Hindman (1741-1830); William Hindman (1743-
1822). NIECE. Elizabeth Hindman (?-by 1788),
who married William Perry (1746-1799). MAR-
RIED Elizabeth (?-by 1770). CHILDREN. SON: Henry
(?-ca. 1770), who probably never married.
DAUGHTERS: Mary Emerson (ca. 1739-1811), who
married Robert Goldsborough IV (1740-1798);
Sarah, who married in 1748 Henry Calliston (Cal-
lister); Ann, who married John Dickinson (ca.
1726-1789); and Elizabeth, who married George
Maxwell of Charles County, a merchant. PRIVATE
CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILI-
ATION: Protestant. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVI-
TIES: Gent., by 1733. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE:
planter, by 1727; involved in mercantile activities.
Partner with John Anderson in Henry Trippe &
Co. Trippe, Anderson, and William Edmondson
built the schooner Charming Betty, which was
registered to Edmondson, a merchant, at the
Choptank River in 1735. Trippe's inventory men-
tions that he also owned a mill. PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Dorchester
County, 1734/35-1737 (Bills of Credit 1, Cv, 2-
4), 1738 (Bills of Credit), 1739-1741 (Bills of
Credit Cv-2; discharged from the Assembly on
July 21, 1740, for accepting the position of deputy
commissary of Dorchester County; after the gov-
ernor objected to this dismissal he was reelected
and qualified on June 4, 1741; Accounts 3), 1742-
1744. LOCAL OFFICES: sheriff, Dorchester County,
1731-1734; justice, Dorchester County, 1735-
1744; justice, Court of Oyer, Terminer, and Gaol
Delivery, commissioned 1740; deputy commis-
sary, Dorchester County, 1741-1744. MILITARY
SERVICE: captain, by 1737; major, by 1744. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: pur-
chased a sloop and two indentured servants, 1734.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: 5,413 acres in Dor-
chester County (inherited at least 2,258 acres from
his father, and probably an additional 570 acres;
resurveyed some of his inherited tracts and added
630 acres of vacant land to them; 1,955 acres, the
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