i.
Edward Clagett(54) was born in 1675.
1768 ii.
Captain Thomas Clagett.
iii.
Richard Clagett(54) was born in 1679.
iv.
Elizabeth Clagett(54) was born in
1683.3536. Captain Thomas Clagett
(114)
(54) was born in 1645 in Parish of St. Mary in Hill, London, England.
He died in 1703. Captain Thomas Clagett was educated at the Merchant Taylor's
School in London and apprenticed to the Draper's Company in 1660.
He settled in Maryland in 1669/70, at St. Leonard's Creek, Calvert County. He
held more than 3,700 acres in Calvert, Prince George's, Baltimore, and Kent Counties,
including "Godlington Manor" in Kent County and "Weston"
near Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County. The latter he entailed on his
second son, Thomas.
He was a justice and coroner of Calvert County, a commssioner to lay out ports
and towns under the Act for the Advancement of Trade passed in 1683. he was one
of the first vestrymen of Christ Church parish in Calvert County.
He was an opponent of Coode's revolution of 1689, a signer of the Declaration
of the Protestants of Calvert County who declined to make common cause with the
revolutionary party. He refused Coode's order to hold an election of burgesses.
He was married to Mary ----------.
3537. Mary ----------
died before 1692. Children were:
i.
Edward Clagett(54) was born in 1675.
1768 ii.
Captain Thomas Clagett.
iii.
Richard Clagett(54) was born in 1679.
iv.
Elizabeth Clagett(54) was born in
1683.
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