Name |
Marquis Calmes |
Suffix |
III |
Birth |
1726 |
Stafford Co, Virginia |
Gender |
Male |
Property |
"Calmes Neck," Frederick Co, Virginia |
- Marquis III?s wife Betty Combs Calmes lived at Calmes Neck until her death in Sept. 1804. Calmes Neck was willed to George Gibbs Calmes by Marquis III and he took possession on the death of Betty Combs Calmes. George Calmes never lived on Calmes Neck, but lived in Hampshire Co., now in West Virginia, across the Potomac from Cumberland, Md. In 1834 his will transferred Calmes Neck to heirs including his daughter Lucy Perry. When Lucy Perry died she left nine children, including George Calmes Perry and Marquis Perry.
The Calmes Neck property was finally sold ?in the case of George C. Perry and others vs. Marquis Perry and others? in 1884 to Thomas M. Nelson. Marquis III?s will had provided for the reservation of twenty acres to be laid off around the family burying ground ?in case my said Nephew Capt George Calmes or his Heirs should ever Sell? the property. No mention of the burying ground is made in the Nelson deed or any subsequent deed, nor does any map of which we know record where that burying ground might be.
Nelson owned the property for 22 years before he died, but in the following 54 years there were 14 changes of ownership, culminating in the purchase of Calmes Neck in 1960 by Double E Land and Cattle Company.
In all of that time, Calmes Neck remained with the boundaries defined in 1747 in the grant from Lord Fairfax. The original grant did, however, retain mining rights and ?reserving also all Deer, Elks and Buffaloes, Bears and all manner of game?. Lord Fairfax may have taken the elk and buffalo, but we have more deer now than Marquis Calmes or Lord Fairfax ever imagined.
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/105972/person/-1612699117/story/6fc1b7d8-4a32-4545-bc5d-5250771cbf3e?src=search
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Death |
4 Jan 1794 |
Frederick Co, Virginia |
Will |
2 Apr 1794 |
Frederick Co, Virginia |
- 4 Dec 1793 - 2 Apr 1794. (Frederick Co., VA Will Book 5, p. 475) Will of Marquis CALMES. Entire estate to wife: Betty CALMES. Nephew Capt. George CALMES, 500 acre grant on Shenandoah River, stipulation that 20 acres around the family burying ground to be reserved and never sold; nephew Capt. William CALMES (son of brother, William), living in Kentucky, 20 shillings in toto; nephew Marquis Calmes Combs, now living with me, son of Benj. Combs, 450 acres in Kentucky on Lulbegrud Creek and 80 acres more of Kentucky land (part of 400 acres that was to be procured by Marquis, Benjamin BERRY, Benjamin Combs, Cuthbert Combs and nephew Marquis). Nephews: Richard and Samuel PRICE (sons of Samuel PRICE), 700 acres of Kentucky land (one-half of Ledees Mount); Exrs: wife and nephew Capt. George CALMES. Wit: Robert CATLETT and George CATLETT. (Researcher Rhoda Fone)
http://www.combs-families.org/combs/families/c-jnostf.htm
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Notes |
- Marquis Calmes III, born in 1726, was likely the first family member to live on Calmes Neck, probably from about 1750 until his death in Jan. 1794. Marquis III served as a Captain of Colonial Troops under Lord Dunmore during the French and Indian War, and as a major in the Revolutionary War. His nephew, Marquis Calmes IV, was a captain in the Revolutionary War, after which he settled in Kentucky. Marquis IV also served as a general in the War of 1812.
In 1790, Marquis Calmes III brought a suit against John Graves for encroaching on his land. Graves had built a house near the end of Little River Lane and claimed it was on his own property, until a 1792 survey demonstrated otherwise.
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Person ID |
I14057 |
Roots |
Last Modified |
10 Feb 2011 |