Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Thomas T. Simmons (b. 1775 - d. 1832)
MSA SC 5496-050800
War of 1812 Claimant, Anne Arundel County, Maryland

Biography:

    Thomas Tillard Simmons was born January 19, 1775 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland to Abraham Simmons and his wife Priscilla Lyles Simmons. The Simmons family were members of the St. James Parish. Thomas T. Simmons married twice. Simmons first married Elizabeth Lyles, June 2, 1795. He and his wife had two daughters, Eleanor and Priscilla. He later married Ann V. Harrison July 14, 1812. Thomas and Ann Simmons had three children, Susan, Isabella, and Thomas.

    During the War of 1812, Isaac Coates alias Isaac Hays, a slave belonging to Thomas T. Simmons escaped to British Forces. At the time of Isaac's escape in October 1814, Thomas T. Simmons was stationed in Baltimore commanding a militia in the service of the United States. Simmons later filed a claim under the Treaty of Ghent to receive reparations for the loss of his property. Each Maryland slave owner was to receive $280 per slave that they lost to the British during the late war. Simmons conveyed his lost property unto Levin W. Ballard, a resident of Calvert County who also lost a slave during the war.

    Thomas T. Simmons died in 1832. He left his estate to his second wife Ann Simmons and their three children. Simmons did not leave anything to his two daughters by his first wife because they were provided for by their maternal grandmother.



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