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- The first Mowbray of record to settle in either Dorchester or Caroline County was William Mowbray. William was a Jacobite Rebel. The Jacobite Rebels were followers of Steuart after the Revolution in 1688. Steuart was the name of the Royal House of Scotland from the accession of Robert II in 1371. He was captured at the battle of Preston in Northern England on 14 November 1715. The Jacobites lost the battle and the survivors were rounded up and taken to Tower Hill to be executed or sent the America as endentured servants. William was lucky since he was tansported first to Belfast, Northern Ireland, then to Annapolis, Maryland aboard the vessel FRIENDSHIP captained by Michael Mankin. He arrived on August 20, 1717. Subject to the requirement of a proclamation issued by the Govenor and Council of Maryland on orders of King George I, William Mowbray with 79 other prisoners that arrived on the FRIENDSHIP, was indentured for seven years. His indenturship was served with Henry Trippe of Dorchester County. William married Mary at the end of the endentureship, and became the father of three sons and two daughters. He died in 1760. Prior to his death William acquired an estate on Todds Point in Dorchester County and on Watts Creek in Caroline County. He willed the Dorchester property to his son William and his Caroline Property to sons Thomas and Aaron.
Sources: Mowbray Family History by Calvin Mowbray, Cambridge, MD, 1976 - pg 34, note 1, Appendix 5.
Sources: Scharff's History, Vol 1, pgs 385-387.
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4993518/person/99098112/media/1?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum
also:
"The Mowbray Family"--Charles W. Mowbray (revised 1978)
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1696 - 1760 (64 years)
