List Members,
	I found the previous comments by Craig Kilby and Dr. William Milam most interesting and informative about settlers moving from Maryland down to Northumberland County, Virginia..  
	Is it possible that my Adam Booth b. c. 1650 or earlier location unknown d. c. 1688-1703 St. Stephens Parish, Northumberland County, Virginia, came down or over from Maryland?  My Booth line daughters out when a later generation migrated down to Edgefield District, South Carolina, where Elizabeth, daughter of James Booth Sr., had married Winfrey Whitlock before the 1790 census.  Connecting my Booth line back to Northumberland was one of my first "finds" when the Internet developed and I found out about this list although I have not always been a subscriber.  I was thrilled that I had finally found through the help of another researcher on this list one of my families who traced back to a Virginia county where the records were not lost/burned and a lot of early information and records had been abstracted and published.  I am not sure if this will go back to the list.  I have forgotten how to post.  Elizabeth Booth Whitlock was b. c. 1770 Virginia according to the 1850 & 1860 census of Edgefield District, South Carolina.  Booths were in Edgefield District shortly thereafter before or during the American Revolution.
	After years of research I have never identified any parents for Winfrey Whitlock d.c. 1837-1839 Edgefield District, South Carolina.  I have strong feelings that he is connected to the Whitlock men who recorded the births of slaves in the St Peter's Parish Register in New Kent County, Virginia, c. 1704 or so.  I have never come across anyone researching that family.  There are both Whitlock and Winfrey surnames entries in that register.  No entries connecting the two that I have identified.  Winfrey was not a common given name.  Then Whitlocks are in Hanover and Goochland, etc.
	I think that Winfrey Whitlock, Sr. and Elizabeth Booth met and married in South Carolina, mainly because I have not found any Whitlocks.  A William Whitlock who is connected to the Douglas Register was in Goochland County, Virginia, before coming to Union District, South Carolina, in the late 1700's.  There was a James Whitlock who has a rejected pension application for the Revolutionary War which reflects both a Goochland and Union/Edgefield connection.
	Vivian Cates, Mound Prairie, Alto, Texas 1-936--8858-3801  http://www/myinu.net/vcates


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Subject: [PossibleSpam] Re: [VA-ROOTS] The Maryland Civil War (1644 - 1646) lead to the First Settlers of the Northern Neck

Craig Kilby
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Dear Dr. Milam,

Many, many thanks for this wonderful essay on Francis Gray, who is also an ancestor of mine (which I suppose makes us distant cousins). I had bits and pieces of this story, but you have done an wonderful job of pulling it altogether. I have provided a link to it on ancestry, Northern Neck of Virginia Families, for Francis Gray’s page. I hope you won’t mind the additional publicity for it.

I would add that many of the first settlers of the Northern Neck also included exiles/refugees from Kent Island, being run out by the Calverts. This group settled mainly in what is now Northumberland. A 3rd group of early settlers (1650) were “moderate Puritans” leaving Southside Virginia (Isle of White, Surry) who did not end up in Maryland (ironic turn of fate), but were early patentees in Lancaster County.

Fascinating topic.

Sincerely, 

Craig Kilby
Lancaster, VA




> On Jan 27, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Wm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Many are not familiar with the "Maryland Civil War" which paralleled an English Civil War and had many of the same causes. It is often referred to as Ingle's Rebellion but it was actually a more broadly based rebellion of the Protestant majority against the Catholic, land owning Gentry. After nearly two years Leonard Calvert was able to return and put down the rebellion. What is interesting is that many of the early and prominent settlers of Northumberland County and Westmoreland County were former leaders of this rebellion. 
> 
> My research of a distant ancestor, Francis Gray, lead me to find two great resources: the Archives of Maryland Online which may be accessed here: http://aomol.msa.maryland.gov/html/volumes.html . You may search the entire site or individual volumes by a name. 
> 
> And second, Timothy B. Riordan's book: The Plundering Time: Maryland and the English Civil War (Baltimore, Maryland Historical Society, 2004). Dr Riordan was historian at St Mary's, Maryland.
> 
> Some of the leaders of the rebellion who fled to the Northern Neck and became prominent early citizens were: Thomas Baldridge, Francis Gray, John Hampton, William Hardige, Andrew Monroe, Nathaniel Pope (who be-friended the immigrant John Washington), Robert Sedgrave, Thomas Sturman and Thomas Yowell. 
> 
> Thomas Baldridge, William Hardich, Andrew Monroe,  and Nathaniel Pope were appointed Justices of Westmoreland County and Robert Sedgrave was appointed Sheriff and Clerk of Court of early Northumberland County. On the 3rd of July 1661, Francis Gray, Andrew Monroe and John Washington took the oath to become the first Vestrymen of Appomattocks Parish, Westmoreland County.
> 
> In my view, as Ingle's Rebellion demonstrated, these early settlers had an overwhelming desire for individual freedom, ownership of the land they worked and self-government. Their experiences in Maryland would influence the future of Westmoreland County and indeed of our nation. It was no accident that a century later, prominent citizens from Westmoreland County such as James Monroe, George Washington, George Mason and the Lee brothers - Francis Lightfoot, Richard Henry - and Thomas Ludwell advocated strongly for Virginia to rebell from Great Britain while representatives from the Tidewater were more reticent.
> 
> If you would like to read a summary of the Maryland Civil War which follows the lives of Francis Gray and the men who first settled the Northern Neck of Virginia, I invite you to click on the link below:
> 
> http://www.milaminvirginia.com/Links/RUSH/francis_gray.html
> 
> William F Milam, MD
> www.milaminvirginia.com
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