Nicholas Harwood
Anne Arundel County Court Clerk, 1777-1810
MSA SC 3520-13135
Biography:
Nicholas Harwood was born on March 14, 1747 in Anne Arundel County.1 He was the son of Captain Richard and Ann Watkins Harwood. He had several siblings: Richard, Joseph, Gassaway, Thomas, John, Samuel, William, Benjamin, Mary, and Elizabeth. He married a woman named Ann and together they had two daughters - Sarah Ann and Mary.2 Harwood's birth was recorded by All Hallows Parish, an Episcopal church in Anne Arundel County.3 Nicholas Harwood is listed in Index 54 as having obtained a certificate for Tudor Hall in Anne Arundel County in 1808, but he was not issued the patent.4 Harwood did own Carpenter's House in Annapolis, near Lot 75 and close to Public Circle and Tabernacle St. (which would be close to Church Circle and the current Court House in present-day Annapolis).5
Harwood served as Anne Arundel County Court Clerk from 1777 until 1810.6
In that year, he died on October 4.7
The estimated total value of the items in Harwood's inventory was $4,165.
The inventory included eight slaves, furniture, and thirty shares of Farmers
Bank stock, at $50 per share.8
No will was found, but an obituary did appear in the Maryland Gazette.
The obituary described Harwood as "old and respectable." It noted
that he began his career at the beginning of the revolution and served
his position with the "greatest integrity."9
Census gives little information on people living in the home of Nicholas Harwood; difficult to read, but looks like the family may have had one slave (1810 Census)
No: will found in index, Census, 1776; Index 46; Index 27, 28,
29 Census 1790, 1800, 1810
Sources: McIntire, Robert Harry. Annapolis
Maryland Families. (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1979), 312;
The
Maryland Gazette 10 October 1810.
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