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- Heard, Bridget, Potomac River, 4th Mch., 1664;
11th Apr., 1665.
To son William, when of age, 1/2 estate, real and personal.
To sister Mary Yowkins and to John Douglass, Jr., son of John Douglass of Pickiawoxen, 1/2 estate in equal parts.
To mother Katharine Yowkins, personalty.
Exs.: John Douglass, Sr., and Humphrey Warren of Wicomico River.
Test: John Emerson, Walter Story. 1. 224.
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Charles County Circuit Court, Birth, Deaths & Marriage Records, Liber Q
Douglas, John, s/o John and Catherine Douglas of Pickawaxon, cooper, b. 29 Oct 1686
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Ra. Smith 19-1/2B.89 A CH £334.6.9 £22.3.8 Feb 24 1699
Payments to: Mrs Richard Boughton, John Doughlass, Joseph Cole, Mrs Philip Briscoe.
Mentions: no orphans.
Executrix: Mrs. Sarah Smith (widow).
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Thomas Wakefeild 20.194 A CH £44.0.1 in 1700/1701
Payments to: Robert Yates, George Tubman, Col, John Courts, Gerard Fowke, John Douglas, Math, Compton.
Executrix: Anne Shaw, wife of Ralph Shaw.
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Thomas Howell 4.191 I CH #11984 in 1685
Appraisers: Col. John Dowglass (also John Douglass), Capt. Robert Henley.
List of debts: William Avery, Susanna Cage, John Fanning, Richard Maston, John Gibbs. Henry Henley, David Frize, John Booth.
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John Harrington 1.184 I CH #1450 Jan 4 1674
Appraisers: John Douglasse, William Hiney.
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Prince George's Land Records 1739-1743 - Liber Y - Page 282.
May 11, 1741 from Francis Collier of PG, planter, son and heir of Charles Collier of PG, decd, which sd Charles Collier was heir at law to Francis Collier of PG, Gent., his uncle, decd, to James Edmonston of PG, Gent. Whereas by deed dated Mar 27, 1714 between Benjamin Dowglass of Charles County, planter, grandson & heir at law of John Dowglass, late of the same county, Gent., of the one part, and the sd Francis Collier (the uncle of the sd Charles Collier, which sd Charles Collier was father to the now Francis Collier, party to these presents), by which deed it was recited that whereas the sd John Dowglass, in his lifetime, was seized of a parcel of land lying in the Freshes of Petuxent River in PG called Cold Spring Manor, containing 1050 acres & by his will dated Dec 14, 1678, devised to his son, John Dowglass, father to the sd Benjamin, 550 acres of land, being part of Cold Spring Manor, when he arrived at age 21, with all the privileges belonging to the Lord of a Manor and to his heirs, which parcel of 550 acres the sd John Dowglass, father of the sd Benjamin Dowglass, by his PG deed, sold to sd Francis Collier, and whereas likewise, by PG deed dated May 27, 1701 between Joseph Dowglass of Charles County, Gent., of the one part, and the afd Francis Collier decd of the other part, sd Joseph Dowglass sold to sd Francis Collier, part of a tract of land containing 1050 acres of land called Cold Spring Manor, formerly granted to Capt Josias Fendall, bounded by a parcel of land that John Dowglass sold to sd Collier standing on the brow of a hill between the two branches of Fendalls Fresh, containing 100 acres. Now this deed witnesses that the sd Francis Collier, party to these presents, for 30 £, sells to sd James Edmonston, all the sd tract of land containing 550 acres, and all that other tract of land containing 100 acres. Signed - Francis Collier. Wit - Thos Dawson, James Kendall, Thos Owen*, Jno Hawkins Jr*. Received of Mr. James Edmonston (by the hands of Mr. John Hawkins Jr), the alienation fine. Recorded May 20, 1741.
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Charles County Circuit Court Liber S, Page 211
2 Jan 1693; George Witter, s/o Thomas Witter, dec'd; apprenticed for 4 years
to John Martin, boatwright, and Demaris his wife; with consent of John Duglas, cooper, his father-in-law [step-father]
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Charles County Circuit Court Liber S, Page 212
2 Jan 1693; William Witter, s/o Thomas Witter, chooses his father-in-law [step-father] John Duglas, cooper, as guardian
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1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County, Maryland Hundred - Piccawaxen or Wm&Mary: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 292-30: DOUGLAS DELIGHT: 4 acres; Possession of - 4 Acres - Douglass, Widow Mary : Surveyed 16 July 1679 for John Douglass at a Spanish oak a bound tree of Richard Smith & John Taylors running thence S.E.: Other notes - Josias Cullance from James Gould 16 Aug 1710, James Halley from Josias Cullance 26 July 1714.,This land is said to be escheat,
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