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UCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: An-
glican, Coventry Parish, Somerset County. OC-
CUPATIONAL PROFILE, planter. PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Conventions, Somerset
County, 1st, 1774, 5th, 1775; Lower House, Som-
erset County, 1777 (did not attend; election voided
on March 5, 1777, because at the time of the
election thirty men "armed with firearms affixed
with sticks and spears" had intimidated the vot-
ers). WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY: inherited 1 slave from his father, 1761; as-
sessed value £1,020.16.8, including 26 slaves and
50 oz. plate, 1783. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: owned
ca. 450 acres in Calvert County, probably inher-
ited from wife's family, 1758-1770; ca. 2,108 acres
in Somerset and Dorchester counties (533 acres
inherited from father, 1,090 acres through pur-
chase, and 485 acres through patent). SIGNIFI-
CANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELEC-
TION AND DEATH: purchased ca. 690 acres in
Somerset County, 1774; probably inherited 1,300
acres in Dorchester County from his brother
George, 1783; sold 495 acres in Somerset County
between 1778 and 1782. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED:
between February 19 and April 19, 1784, in Som-
erset County; buried in the John Waters family
graveyard on the south side of Nutter's Neck Road,
just west of its intersection with Cherry Walk
(now in Wicomico County). PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY: size of estate unknown. LAND: ca. 3,603
acres of land in Somerset and Dorchester coun-
ties.
WATERS, PETER (1744/45-1806). BORN: on
January 8, 1744/45, in Coventry Parish, Somerset
County. NATIVE third generation. RESIDED: in
Somerset Parish, Somerset County. FAMILY BACK-
GROUND. FATHER: John Waters (ca. 1702-1761)
of Somerset County, son of John Waters (?-1708).
MOTHER: Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Peter
Hack of Accomack County, Virginia. UNCLE: Wil-
liam Waters, Sr. (?-1781). BROTHERS John Waters
(ca. 1727-1784); Spencer Martrum (1730-ca.
1780), Gent., of Dorchester County; William
Waters (ca. 1736-1815), a possible legislator;
George Nicholas Severn (1738-by 1784); Edward
(1740-ca. 1772), a merchant; and Littleton (1742-
1778), who married in 1765 Esther, daughter of
Littleton Waters (?-1750) of Calvert County.
FIRST COUSINS: William Waters (1740-1804), a
possible legislator; Richard Waters, Jr. (?-?). PRI-
VATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Anglican, Somerset Parish, Som-
erset County. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES:
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Gent., by 1772; Esq., by 1775. OCCUPATIONAL
PROFILE: merchant, in partnership with his brother
Edward Waters until his death ca. 1772, and then
with William Gillis, 1773-1784. Later traded under
the name of Robertson, Waters and Bell, ca. 1805,
with George Robertson and John Hamilton Bell.
PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower
House, Somerset County, 1773-1774; Conven-
tions, Somerset County, 1st, 1774, 3rd, 1774, 4th,
1775, 6th-8th, 1775-1776. LOCAL OFFICES: Com-
mittee of Observation, Somerset County, 1775-
1776 (clerk, 1775-1776); justice, Somerset County,
1775-1779, 1799-1806; justice, Orphans' Court,
Somerset County, 1778-1779; churchwarden,
Somerset Parish, 1801; Somerset Parish Vestry,
Somerset County, 1802-1806. MILITARY SERV-
ICE: lieutenant colonel, Princess Anne Battalion,
Somerset County Militia, 1776-1780. WEALTH
DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: inherited
5 slaves from his father, 1761; inherited £100.0.0
specie from his brother John Waters (ca. 1727-
1784), 1784; owned 5 slaves, 1798. LAND AT FIRST
ELECTION: 310 acres in Somerset County (ac-
quired by patent in 1772). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES
IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH:
purchased 4 lots in Princess Anne Town (one
owned as tenant-in-common with George Rob-
ertson and John Hamilton Bell), and an unknown
quantity of land in Somerset County between 1775
and 1804. Sold 310 acres of land in Somerset
County, 1777. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: between
April 26 and October 9, 1806. PERSONAL PROP-
ERTY, size of estate unknown. LAND: 4 lots in
Princess Anne Town and an unknown quantity
of land in Somerset County.
WATERS, RICHARD, JR. (?-?). BORN: proba-
bly in Coventry Parish, Somerset County. NA-
TIVE: third generation. RESIDED: in Coventry Par-
ish, Somerset County, to 1787; Dorchester County,
1791-1812; Baltimore City, 1812-1813. FAMILY
BACKGROUND. FATHER: William Waters, Sr. (?-
1781), son of John Waters (?-1708). MOTHER:
Rose Ann Harmanson. BROTHERS: George (1741/
42-1801); Thomas; and William Waters (1740-
1804), a possible legislator. SISTERS: Margaret;
Sarah. FIRST COUSINS: William Waters (ca. 1736-
1815), a possible legislator; John Waters (ca. 1727-
1784); and Peter Waters (1744/45 -1806). NEPHEW.
John Done (ca. 1747-1831). MARRIED by 1791
Elizabeth (?-ca. 1791), widow of (first name un-
known) Maddux, daughter of John Waters (ca.
1727-1784) and wife Elizabeth Hutchins (Hutch-
ings) (?-ca. 1786). Elizabeth was the niece of
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