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CAREER OF RENALDO MONK, CONVICT
by Robert Barnes Renaldo Monk was born c.1702,
giving his age as 52 in a 1754 deposition, and died in Baltimore County
in 1769. He came into Maryland as a convict and died a man of considerable
property. In 1742 Rinaldo Monk of Wiltshire was given a sentence of 14
years and transported to Virginia. He was living in Prince George's County,
Maryland (near the Patuxent Iron Works) by August 1747 when he advertised
for a runaway mulatto in the Maryland Gazette. Almost a year later
he was still in Prince George's County, living near Mr. Snowden's Iron
works at Patuxent, when he reported a runaway servant from the Baltimore
Ten years after his arrival in America Monk had prospered enough to be listed on 10 March 1752 as a creditor of the estate of John Prather of Prince George's County. On 19 October 1756 he was named a creditor of Thomas Finley of Baltimore County, on 19 July 1757 creditor of Mr. Stephen Onion, and in November 1758 creditor of Richard Rutter. Monk moved to Baltimore County and married Rachel Riston, executrix of Edward Riston, some time before January 1755 when they and Edward Stevenson were summoned to show cause why they had not filed a complete inventory and passed an account on Riston's estate. By the 18th of July they had submitted the documents. Monk died in Baltimore County,
leaving a will dated 20 September 1768 and proved 14 August 1769.
To sons Renaldo and William he
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grandson George Carreck were given £30 and £20 respectively.
His daughter Mary was bequeathed 125 acres of Cooks Adventure
Resurveyed, 26 or 27 acres of Angels Fortune, 20 acres of Monks Discovery, and the residue of his personal estate. Daughter Mary Monk and Henry Reaston were named co-executors. Richard Gott, Anthony Gott and John Adam Beard were witnesses. An administration bond on the estate was posted 14 August 1769 by Henry Reaston with Richard and Anthony Gott as sureties. An inventory of the estate was taken on 2 June 1770 by George Risteau and William Randall, who valued Monk's personal property at £182.15.7. Mary Monk and Sarah Monk signed as two of the nearest kin. A list of debts filed in 1770 showed £63.4.11 due the estate. Shortly thereafter Mary Monk renounced the executorship. Administration of the estate was completed on 13 February 1775. Mary, daughter of Renaldo Monk, "late of the City of london in that part of Great Britain called England, by Rachel his wife ...," married William Jacob on 19 July 1772 at Rangers Forest. Over the next few years they filed suits against Henry Reaston, claiming amounts of money due from the estate of Renaldo Monk. In 1782 Reaston went before the Chancery Court in an attempt to stop execution of the judgments Jacob had obtained against him and his sureties. Extant chancery records do not indicate the resolution of this dispute. Sources:
Henry C. Peden, Jr., More Maryland Deponents; Peter Wilson
Coldham, Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage; Bill Reamy and Martha
Reamy, Records of St. Paul's Parish; Maryland Gazette
[MSA SC2731];
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