Thomas PLUMMER

                   Maryland Gen. Soc. Bulletin, Vol. 35, No. 2, Spring 1994, pp. 206-214 - gives 1670-1728 

Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, Winter 1987, Vol. 28, # 1, p.32, 36  "...brought from England to Maryland in 1667..." "Will was written 29 Jun 1726 ... As executrix, Elizabeth presented the document to Pr. George's Court 26 Jun 1728..." 

Morris A. Plummer, 186 Barbara Dr., Greenwood, In. 46143-1038 /1993  Desc. of Richard and Elizabeth (Ewen) Talbott of Poplar Knowle West River, Anne Arundel co., Md. Compiled by Ida Morrison (Murphy) Shirk, Baltimore 1927 

Plummer Family of Maryland and Indiana Quakers- states "mar. Elizabeth Yate...dau. of George Yates and Mary Wells. She d. 7-8-1736. George Yate d. 11 ov 1691. Thomas and Elizabeth were married about 1691. Elizabeth was from All Hallows Parish.  Owned Seamans Delight Est." 

Plummer Family Records, compiled by Anna Plummer Hughes - p. 15 also states "Thomas Plummer married Elizabeth Yate" 

Aunt Anna Plummer's letter dated : Monrovia, Nov. , 1880:  ref. "Early Wills of Marriage" 

Pioneers of Old Monocacy - 1721-1743 - by Grace L. Tracey and John P. Dern -  Genealogical Publ. Co., Inc., 1987 Baltimore, p. 233 

"Across the Years in Prince George's County" p. 576 - "...Will..(.Lib. 1. 171. W.M.)..." 

Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol. VII, p. 64: Thomas PLummer, pr. Geo. Co. 29th June, 1726; 26th June, 1728. 

Maryland Calendar of Wills Vol. VII, pp. 181-2:   Elizabeth Plummer, Pr. Geo. Co.,27th Mch., 1736; 8th July, 1736. 

Md. Gen. Soc. Vol. 8,#2 May 1967 - ANSWERS TO QUERIES - "Plummer Family Md., Pa., Va., W. VA. copied form letter from Mrs. Ruth H. Ford, Catoneville, Md., to Mrs. H. H. Arnold, San Antonio, Tex..." 

American Ancestry, Vol. 12, p. 179 - "...the gr.-father of Thomas is said to have gone to the Bermudas and died there, leaving a son who returned to the colonies of No. America." 

Md. Gen. Soc. Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 3, Summer 1991, pp. 308-313 Md. Gen. Soc. Bulletin, Vol. 32, No. 3 by Mrs. Nellie Owings Chaney, pp. 37-48 Early Families of So. Md., Vo.. II - The Plummer Family, Elise Greenup Jourdan, Knoxville, Tenn., Sep. 1993, p. 2 - Will of Thomas Ploumer of Anne Arundel Co.; writen 12 Jul 1694; probate 26 Feb 1694 - "To eld. (only) son Thomas, 100 acres 'Seaman's Delight' in Calvert Co." p. 3: "Thomas Plummer (2) est. b. ca 1670s; d. ca 1728 ...lived on 'Seaman's Delight' Prince George's Co. (formerly Calvert Co.), 100 acres inherited from his father, 201 acres by patent 1716; 'Dundee' of 50 acres patented in 1716; owned part of 'Swanson's Lot'; Elizabeth patented 'Lyford in 1734... Will of Thomas Plummer, Jr., Prince Geo.'s Co. will written 29 Jun 1726; probate 26 Jun 1728..."

NEW MARKET AREA
The first important roads of present-day Frederick County have
been noted as routes running from north to south with some emphasis
on the crossing of the Monocacy River at its mouth. It was not until
1733 that a record was made of an  east-west route "to Opeckon"[1]  and not until 1734 that records report the use of the road to "Israel Friend's mill on Antietam Creek."[2] But these roads were west of the     Monocacy and even the Monocacy Manor Road, east of the river, clung closely to it  and carried traffic only north and south. The large southeastern area of today's Frederick County was thus left without settlers and roads during these early years.
On March 26, 1733 the Maryland Assembly heard a request for a town to be
laid out on the Patapsco River at Elk Ridge Landing, now in Howard County, to
benefit "the inhabitants of Monocacy and Potowmeck as well as the western end of Baltimore County for their bringing of waggons with grain and other commodities."[3]  Thus we have initial word of  the interest of  tidewater
businessmen in procuring produce from the  Monocacy area.

The first record of the Monocacy-Annapolis road is found on the certificate of survey for "Kendrick's Hap" in 1739.[4]  It was already in sufficient use for the November Court of 1740 to appoint an overseer in the person of John James.  James continued to serve until joined by John Martin in 1744 and 1745. Then John Martin and John McKay were overseers for 1746 and 1747, followed by William Turner and William Cummings, Jr. in 1749.

The road began at Monocacy Ford near James Beatty's, then ran south and east from the river to cross Israel Creek and pass the home of William Beatty.  It turned southward at What is now the town of Mt. Pleasant toward present-day McKaig, New London and Mount Airy before continuing to Poplar Springs. Thus it traversed a route somewhat south of what is popularly known today as the Old Annapolis Road. [5]   Certificates of survey for "Patrick's Colt," "Mackey's     Delight,"   "Pretty Sally" and other parcels mention this important artery of transportation.

"Kendrick's Hap,"[6] lay along Ben's Branch, a tributary of Linganore Creek, one mile east of today's village of New London. Robert Kendrick had been living in Monocacy Hundred as early as 1733 when his name appeared on the Taxables list of that year. He was also named on the tobacco burning list of 1734. And the Court of August 1734 excused him from paying taxes because of the illness of his wife and children. It was not until August 22, 1739 that his land was surveyed.

Initially Darby Ryan appears to have owned no land of his own, though he too appeared on both the 1733 taxables and the 1734 tobacco burning lists. He was living near the Ballengers in 1737 when he was made overseer of the road "from Mill Branch to the Manor.[7]     But subsequently he had moved to the Kendrick neighborhood where on      April 15, 1741 he had two surveys made. One of them, "Darby's Delight," had its beginning point on a tributary of "Ben's Branch, a
draft of Linganore."  It was surveyed for 100 acres.  The other, "Brandywine Spring," began its 50 acres "by the side of a great meadow that leads upon a branch of Linganore Creek."[9]  Ryan assigned "Darby's Delight" to Edward Dorsey of Anne Arundel County in 1750.[10] Dorsey also acquired "Brandywine Spring" and had a resurvey made on it in 1749 for 427 acres. Its beginning point was described as "on the main [Monocacy-Annapolis] wagon road.

"Mackey's Delight" was surveyed for John Mackey on July 21, 1746.   It lay immediately south of present-day Mt. Pleasant, with a beginning point "on the west side of the wagon road leading from Monocacy to Annapolis, near the head of a spring running into the Linganore."[12] In 1749 John Mackey and his wife Margaret conveyed  "Mackey's Delight" to Isabella Hussey, seamstress, for 11 pounds in money and 716 pounds of tobacco.[13] Apparently Isabella Hussey then  married Darby Ryan, who in 1751 deeded farm animals and household furnishings to his wife Isabella.[14] In 1758, as Isobel Ryan, she willed her entire estate to Darby Ryan,is and after her death, he assigned "Mackey's Delight" to James Dickson.16 Ryan's place was still named in road references at the end of the decade. The Court of 1758, for example, appointed an overseer for the road from "Linganore Chapel to Ryans," and in November of the following year did likewise for the road from "Linganore Chapel to where Darry Ryan lives." This would approximate .....
Settlement having had "Orrick's Folly" surveyed for himself on Nov. 27, 1740.  His land was located where Detrick road crosses Ben's Branch, about a mile and a quarter due south of Kendrick's place.  It may be identified in the 1873 Atlas as the home of John  Meredith northeast of New Market.[18 ]Orrick did not receive the  patent,[19]  however, and in 1748 the land was incorporated in "Dorsey's Search."  The certificate of survey for the latter described Orrick's buildings as "one log house eight feet square and one hut.[2O]  

John Parr's survey of March 22, 1739 located "John's Good Luck" on the "east side of a branch of Linganore called Cornwall's Folly.[21]  This placed him near today's Unionville-Woodville Road in the vicinity of the Harrisville School Road, two miles northeast of the homes of Robert Kendrick and John James. Through the years the Parr name has been carried down in the Woodville District as a name       for a spring, a ridge and a town. In 1748 John Parr, Jr. assigned "John's Good Luck" to John Dorsey, Jr. His parents, John and Mary Parr, Sr., had apparently moved on to the vicinity of Parr Spring, commonly called the uppermost spring of the Patuxent River, which flows into the Chesapeake Bay below the southern tip of Calvert County.  Parr Spring is shown on the 1808 map.[22] Quite possibly this may also be the "spring which flows 60 miles from Annapolis" as labeled on Franz Michel's 1707 map,[23] although his sketch suggests closer proximity to Sugar Loaf Mountain than the actual area of Parris settlement. Near where four counties now come together[24] John Parr in 1744 had   two tracts surveyed, "Parr's Range" and "Bush Creek Hill." At Parr's death in 1745, his son Arthur inherited the former,       his son Matthew the latter.  John Parr's other children were Mark, John, Jr., Theme Ward and Elizabeth. In 1749 Stephen Julien and Darby Ryan petitioned the Frederick County Court for a ruling, "they being bound (as surety) to widow Parr, administratrix of John Parr,  deceased; she being dead and the effects of the said Parr being likely to be made away with..."
Benjamin Becraft joined the area with a survey dated August 22, 1739 which he called "Becraft's Delight."  His land lay just east of present-day New London and very close to Kendrickis land.[25]  In  August 1750 he and George Becraft, farmers, entered into a writing  made overseer for that part of the Monocacy-Annapolis Road that ran from Linganore Ford (between present-day New London and McKaig) to Anne Arundel County (Poplar Springs)  In 1748 and 1750 he had surveys made for "Turner's Promise"[40]  and "Turner's Lot,"[41] both near Turner's Forest."  By his will of early 1750 William Turner divided   his entire estate between his children, Ann Covell, wife of Jeremiah   Covell who was executor of his estate,[42] and Sarah, Mary, Rebecca, William and Rachel Turner.
Solomon Turner joined his brother William in 1748, after our period. He had a considerable number of surveys made, including "Solomon's Flower, a Resurvey on it, "Daniel's Small Tract," a Resurvey on it, "Right and Good Reason" and "Ebony March."  His "Solomon's Contrivance and Ned's  Study"    was   resurveyed into
"Partnership" with the patent issued to Elizabeth Hall. His "Land of  Promise" went to Henry Hall.
John James obtained land in the area on June 18, 1742 with a survey just to the north of Kendrick. He called his parcel "Dispute,"[43] making us wish that we had in addition to the mere names of these  tracts an explanation of how the parcels got those names.   John James was buried on his own land and his gravestone is still preserved in the private cemetery known today as the James-Kimmel Cemetery.
His grave is marked, "The original proprietor, July 11, 1700 - August 1, 1750."    As such, it is one of the oldest death records on any of the over 75,000 gravestones still existing in Frederick County today[44] Inscriptions so early are a rarity, however, and the stone itself, based  on its design, was probably erected in the 1800s.  John James' son Daniel, born June 9, 1734, died March 9, 1792 and Daniel's wife Lucy, the daughter of Joseph Wood "of Linganore", born November 3, 1733,
died January 1, 1827, are also buried in this family cemetery, as are 14 others. The home of [Mrs.] Daniel James is shown along the Monocacy-Annapolis Road on the 1808 Map.[45]  Peter Becraft made a  "Resurvey on Dispute" in 1754. [46]
In the early settlement of present-day Frederick County almost two decades had passed before members of the Plummer family began their Quaker settlement on Bush Creek near the present town of New Market.   Their interests in the Monocacy area were not new, but it was not until the middle of 1743 that surveys set the stage for actual settlement.
The family of Thomas and Elizabeth Smith Plummer of Anne Arundel County consisted of ten sons and two daughters. Thomas, Samuel, George, James, John, Jerome, Philemon, Micajah, Yate, Abiezer, Priscilla and Phoebe Plummer.  [47] Of these, Micajah, Philemon,  Samuel and Thomas had land surveys made in what was to become today's Frederick County.  They began on September 13, 1739 with
two somewhat separated parcels, each 50 acres in size. Philemon Plummer's parcel was located "in the forks of a branch on the south  side of Linganore Creek" and was called "Debutts' Delight."[48] Its name  suggests a business connection with Robert Debutts, but what such a tie may have been is unknown. Situated near the present Linganore Filtration Plant, this land was included in "Hammond's Request" when
the latter was surveyed in 1812.[49]    Philemon Plummer died in 1744, leaving a widow Elizabeth, one son (John) who was of age, and eight other children.[50]
1 C/S.     AM 1.365 for John Magruder's "Forrest."           See above,
pp. 53, 55, and below, p. 243.
2  See p. 222.
3 Maryland State Papers, No.           1,   The Black     Books, 3:108;
Proceedings of the Assembly, Archives of Maryland, op. cit., 39:15-16.
4  C/S: LG C:54.
5  C/S: LG E:5841 585; Frederick Co. Land Reed. JS 35:518, etc.
6 The word Hap derives from happening, meaning chance, fortune,
luck or even "lot."
7 Mill Branch is now known as Ballenger Creek.               Cf. above,
P. 81.
8 C/S: LG    E:77, which spells the parcel name "Da@ry's Delight."
9
10  C/S: LG    C:190.
11  Frederick  County Land Records, B.199.
12  C/S: BY    & GS 1:147.
C/S: LG    E:585.
13  Frederick  County Land Records, B:109.
14  Ibid., B-.415.
15  Frederick County Wills, AI:117, probated June 12, 1758.
16  Frederick County Land Records, F:511. 230
17  Maryland   Calendar of Wills, op. cit., 8:4. See pp. 829 124.
18  Lake, op.  cit., p. 25.
19  Unpatented Certificate, Prince George's County No. 242.
20  C/S: BY & GS 1:615.
21  C/S: BY & GS'1:215.
22  Varl"e, loc. cit. It marked the angle point where the boundaries
of Frederick, Montgomery, Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties then
met. These boundaries were altered with the subsequent creation of
Howard and Carroll Counties.
23 See above, p. 8.
24 Frederick, Montgomery, Howard and Carroll Counties.
25 C/S: LG C:55. Its precise location has not been pinpointed.
231
40  C/S: BY        GS 1:208.
41  C/S: Y       S 7:161.
42  Frederick County Administrative Accounts, AI:96.
43  C/S: LG E:88.
44  Holdcraft, op. cit., pp. 2, 29, 50-51, 619.
45  Varl6, loc. cit.
46  C/S: SC & GS 1:305.
47  Bowie, op. cit., p. 576, quoting wills of both parents.
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48 C/S: BC & GS 37:221
49 C/S: IB B:515
50 Prnce george's county Bonds, Box 12, folder 63, Inventories, Box 14, folder 26, Hall of records, Prince George's County Inventories, 30:66