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home plantation was sold immediately after his
death to pay creditors.
WEEMS, JOHN (1737-1813). BORN: in 1737, in
Calvert County, probably youngest son. NATIVE:
second generation. RESIDED, in the Second Dis-
trict, Calvert County; Anne Arundel County by
1796; Louisville, Kentucky, after ca. 1812. FAM-
ILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: James Weems (ca. 1707-
1781). MOTHER: Sarah Parker Stoddert. STEP-
MOTHER: by 1749 Mary (?-1769), widow of both
(first name unknown) Wheeler and Thomas
Crompton (Compton). HALF UNCLE. James John
Mackall (1717-1772). BROTHERS: William Loch
(?-1783); James. SISTERS: Susannah, who mar-
ried Roger Wheeler (?-1763); Sarah (?-1763),
who married in 1763 Samuel Chew (1737-1790);
and Margaret (?-1783), who married second, Jo-
seph Sprigg (1736-1800). FIRST COUSIN: John
Weems (1727-1794). NIECE: Sarah Wheeler (ca.
1754-ca. 1804), who married William Allein (ca.
1742-ca. 1802). MARRIED first, possibly Ann
Compton. MARRIED second, Elizabeth (ca. 1766-
1784), daughter of William Miller, a merchant of
Philadelphia. MARRIED third, in 1788, Alice (?-
1789), daughter of Richard Lee (ca. 1707-1787)
and granddaughter of Philip Lee (ca. 1681-1744).
Her uncles were Francis Lee (?-1749); Arthur Lee
(?-1760). Her brothers were Richard, Jr. (?-
1834); Philip Thomas Lee (1738-1778). Her sis-
ters were Sarah (?-1761), who married Philip
Richard Fendall (?-?); Hannah (?-1763), who
married George Plater (1735-1792); and Eleanor
Ann (?-1806). Her first cousins were Thomas Sim
Lee (1745-1819); Philip Richard Fendall (?-?);
Sarah Fendall (1732-1793), who married Thomas
Contee(1729-1811); Richard Potts (1753-1808);
Rebecca Potts, who married Benjamin Mackall
IV (1745-by 1810); and Sarah Potts, who married
Thomas Gantt, Jr. (?-1808). MARRIED fourth, ca.
1792, Mary (surname unknown). CHILDREN. SONS:
at least 6, including James; William Loch; John
Compton (1778-1862), a member of U.S. House
of Representatives, 1826 to 1829, who married
Elizabeth, daughter of John Lee Webster (ca. 1735-
1795); and George Washington. DAUGHTERS, at
least 6, including Mary, who married the Rev.
Dr. Charles H. Wharton (1748-1833); Sarah
Margaret, who married in 1782 Philip Thomas.
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. SOCIAL
STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Gent., by 1785. OCCU-
PATIONAL PROFILE: probably planter. PUBLIC CA-
REER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Cal-
vert County, 1771, 1773-1774 (Accounts 2, 3;
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Arms and Ammunition 2, 3); Conventions, Cal-
vert County, 1st, 1774, 2nd-3rd, 1774, 4th, 1775;
Lower House, Calvert County, 1782-1783, 1784.
LOCAL OFFICE: sheriff, Calvert County, 1766-1769.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY:
assessed value £1,742.16.8, including 35 slaves
and 80 oz. plate, 1783. Gave son John Compton
20 slaves, 1792, and 15 slaves, 1795. LAND AT
FIRST ELECTION: 625 acres in Calvert County
(probably all by personal acquisition). SIGNIFI-
CANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELEC-
TION AND DEATH: purchased 216 acres in Calvert
County by 1774. Under the terms of his father's
will, John was to inherit land in Anne Arundel
County devised to James by his uncle, Dr. Wil-
liam Loch, and 1 lot in Huntingtown, Calvert
County. Ownership of the Loch land had been
in litigation for many years and James's will spec-
ified that John use money from his estate to settle
the case. The litigants finally reached a compro-
mise in the early 1780s. John paid Loch's grand-
son, William Loch Chew, £1,823,3.6 current money
for the rights to the property in question and then
John and his cousin John Weems (1727-1794) di-
vided the land between them with John of Calvert
County getting 373 acres. In 1783, John was
charged with 355 acres of the Anne Arundel
County land (the final adjustments to Dr. Loch's
land not having been completed), as well as 1,195
acres in Calvert County. He purchased 600 acres
in Calvert County in 1792, but sold it 3 years later.
In 1792 and 1796 he gave his son John Compton
the Anne Arundel County land. WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: on September 7, 1813, at his residence near
Louisville, Kentucky. LAND: possibly ca. 1,000
acres in Calvert County and property in Ken-
tucky.
WELLS, GEORGE (?-1696). BORN: probably in
Virginia; probably third son. IMMIGRATED: ca.
1652 as a minor with his parents from Charles
City County, Virginia. RESIDED: in Herring Creek
Hundred, Anne Arundel County; Baltimore
County by 1672. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER:
Richard Wells (?-1667). MOTHER: Frances.
BROTHERS. Richard; Benjamin; John; Robert; and
William. SISTERS: Anne (?-by 1675), who mar-
ried John Stansby (?-ca. 1682/83); Mary (?-1699),
who married first, Thomas Stockett (?-1671);
Martha; Frances; and Elizabeth. MARRIED by 1671
Blanche (?-1704), daughter of Samuel Goldsmith
(?-1671) and wife Johanna. Her sisters were Eliz-
abeth; Susanna, who married first, George Utie
(?-1678). CHILDREN. SONS: Benjamin (?-by 1702);
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