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eral), 1785 (Claims), 1786-1787 (Claims 1, 2).
OTHER STATE OFFICES: treasurer, Council of Safety,
1776; auditor, 1778-1783; Constitution Ratifi-
cation Convention, Charles County, 1788. LOCAL
OFFICES: Committee of Correspondence, Charles
County, 1774; commissioner of the tax, Charles
County, commissioned 1779 and 1781; Maryland
Senate elector, Charles County, elected 1786.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY:
15 slaves according to the 1790 census, however
14 of these were sold to his brother John Beale
in May 1790. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: When his
will was drawn in 1790, Zephaniah expressed some
concern about his debts: "I have full hope and
confidence that I shall not die insolvent; but the
fate of man is uncertain." LAND AT FIRST ELEC-
TION: at least 200 acres in Charles County, plus
lot 47 in Charles Town (Port Tobacco), Charles
County (all by purchase). He may have inherited
as much as 375 acres from his father in 1764.
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST
ELECTION AND DEATH: purchased lot 48 in Charles
Town (Port Tobacco), 1778; sold lots 47 and 48
in Charles Town, 1780. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED:
will probated April 29, 1794, in Charles County.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £600.7.1 current
money (including 28 books); FB, estate overpaid
£16.5.11. LAND: more than 200 acres, perhaps as
much as 575 acres, encompassed in 2 tracts men-
tioned in his will.
TYLER, ROBERT (ca. 1671-1738). BORN: ca.
1671, in Calvert County; only son. NATIVE: sec-
ond generation. RESIDED: in Calvert (later be-
came Prince George's) County; Patuxent Hundred,
Prince George's County, after 1695. FAMILY
BACKGROUND. FATHER: Robert Tyler (?-1674),
who immigrated ca. 1670, resided on "Resurrec-
tion Manor," Calvert County, and was a justice
of Calvert County, 1670-1673. STEPFATHER: John
Beale (?-1675/76). MOTHER; Joane Lawson, widow
of (first name unknown) Reid. HALF BROTHERS:
George Reid; John Beale, of Lawson (ca. 1674-
1751). NATURAL HALF BROTHER: Peter, alias John
Mounten. SISTER: Elizabeth. MARRIED first, by
1694, Susannah, daughter of Mareen Duvall (?-
1694) and wife Susannah. Her brothers were Ben-
jamin, who married Sophia Griffith; Mareen (ca.
1680-?), who married Elizabeth Jacob. Her sis-
ters were Catherine, who married William Or-
rick; Elizabeth, who married Abraham Clarke;
Mary (ca. 1682-?), who married Henry Hall (1676-
1722); and Johanna (ca. 1685-?), who married
Richard Poole. Her nephew was Henry Hall (1702/
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3-1756). MARRIED second, in 1718, Mary Stanton
Dodd. She subsequently married Rev. Jacob
Henderson (?-1751), rector of St. Barnaby's Par-
ish, Prince George's County. CHILDREN. SONS:
Edward (1696-1726), who married Elizabeth
Duvall; Mareen (1708-1752); and Robert (1704-
1741), who married in 1724/25 Mary Wade.
DAUGHTERS: Mary (1698-1769), who married first.
James Baldwin (?-1727/28) of Anne Arundel
County, and second, (first name unknown)
Whitehead; Susannah (1700-?), who married in
1714/15 John Lamar (ca. 1692-1774); Elizabeth
(1701-?), who married first, in 1717, Samuel Pot-
tenger (1693-1742), and second, in 1744, James
Drane; Priscilla (1703-?), who married in 1723
Nathaniel Wickham, Jr. (ca. 1698-?) of Fred-
erick County; and Jane (1709-?). PRIVATE CA-
REER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIA-
TION: Anglican, Queen Anne Parish, Prince
George's County. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVI-
TIES: raised in the household of Thomas Sprigg
(1630-1704); represented Prince George's County
in the Lower House for twenty consecutive years.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE, merchant, by 1720/21;
planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Lower House, Prince George's County, 1704-
1707 (Aggrievances 4, 5; Elections and Privileges
5), 1708A, 1708B-1711 (Aggrievances 1-4,
probably chairman 4), 1712-1714 (Aggrievances
1-4, probably chairman; speaker 1, but declined
to serve), 1715 (Aggrievances, probably chair-
man), 1716-1718 (Aggrievances 1-3, probably
chairman), 1719-1721/22 (Aggrievances 1-5,
probably chairman), 1722-1724 (Aggrievances
1-3, probably chairman). LOCAL OFFICES: jus-
tice, Prince George's County, 1695/96-1709, 1714-
1718, 1720-1724, 1729- 1730 (quorum, 1697-1709;
president, 1714-1718, 1720-1724, 1729-1730);
Queen Anne Parish Vestry, Prince George's
County, 1705-1716, 1718-1724, 1729-1733;
sheriff. Prince George's County, 1725-1727.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELEC-
TION: 895 acres in 1697; 1,670 acres in 1706.
WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: Will probated AugUSt 24,
1738, in Prince George's County. PERSONAL
PROPERTY: TEV, £753.14.5 current money,
£57.16.3 sterling, and 12,382 pounds of tobacco
(including 17 slaves); FB, £468.0.6 current money,
£6.18.3 sterling, and 10,284 pounds of tobacco.
LAND, over 2,250 acres.
TYLER, ROBERT (1727-1777). BORN: on No-
vember 5, 1727, in Queen Anne Parish, Prince
George's County; elder son. NATIVE fourth gen-
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