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=== Contributed by Ralph D. Smith
May 6, 1795 - The Charles Co., Md. Inventory of Adam Clinkscales.
Appraisers: Zephaniah Franklin, Hezekiah Garner (value 153/9/8.)
Administratrix: Ann Clinkscales, approved the inventory on July 28, 1795.
Source: Charles Co., Md. Inventories, 1791-1797, Page 323.
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Charles County, Maryland, Inventories,1791-1797; Page 323. Adam Clinkscales - Inventory. Late of CC, decd.
May 6, 1795.
Total amount: 153.9.8.
Signed - Zeph Franklin, Hez: Garner.
CC, Jul 28, 1795_ Then came Ann Clinkscales, administratrix, & made oath.
Certified by John Muschett, Registrar of Wills.
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Charles County Maryland Administration Accounts, 1791-1798, {Abstract by Mike Marshall}; Page 296.
Adam Clinkscales - Final A/C; £153.9.8 £180.5.1/4 Jan 12 1796
Sureties: John Nellson, Thomas Milstead
Received from: Robert Perry, Joseph Maddox, Samuel Milstead
Payments to: Saml Clinkscales, Joseph Gray, Walter Winter, Doctor Brown, Matthew Blair, Zephaniah Franklin, Robert Fergusson, Yates & Tydings
Representatives: widow and 7 children; John, William, Samuel, Catherine, Violetta, Mary, Elizabeth Ann.
Balance Accountable: £136.6.11-1/4
Distribution: widow 1/3, residue to 7 children equally (14.6.9-3/4 each)
Mentions: advances {to} Catharine, William and John in the lifetime of the dec'd {adjusted as follows}
William Clinkscales (less 1 bed & furniture, 1 iron pot & pewter bason) 11.3.9-3/4
John Clinkscales (less 1 bed & furniture, 1 iron pot & pewter bason) 11.18.9-3/4
Catharine Dyalls (less 1 bed & furniture, 1 dish, 2 plates, 1 chest) 10.8.3/4
Administratrix: Ann Clinkscales
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Barron, John, planter, Charles County, 14th Sept.,1718; 19th Aug., 1719.
To sons John and Thomas, personalty at age of 21.
To son-in-law John Watters, personalty.
To wife Ann, extx., residue of estate.
Test: John Manning, Adam Clinkscales. 15. 198.
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GRAY, JOHN, SR., Charles Co. 9 Feb, 1760; 22 Jul, 1760
To wife Juday, all land whereon I now dwell, for her natural life, except that pt. that I hereafter give to son John. But should wife marry, to only have 50 As; after her decease, to son James.
To son Samuel, 1 s. and etc.
To son James, my tools, cooper's and shoemaker's.
To daus Susannah's hrs., 1 s,
Balance to be divided between son Benjamin, and daus. Jane, Ann, Charity, Elizabeth and Elinor,
To son John, tract lying southerly from head of my mill dam, running south to Mrs, Price's line, and from the dam up the "Cool Spring Branches," and etc., 50 A.
To son James, remainder of lands, after wife's decease or marriage.
Wife Judah, extx.
Wit: John Gray., Adam Clinksales, William Hutchinson. 31.48
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CRAWFORD, MARY, Charles Co. 15 Max, 1761
To son John Clenkseals, furniture. 2 May, 1761
To dau. Agness Ward, clothing and etc.
To sons: Adam Klenkseales, Quinton and David Crawford, 9 herd of cattle, equally among the 3,
To son Quinton Crawford, households.
To son David Crawford, furniture, some horses and etc.
To son Adam Clenkseales, my Bible and books,
To grand-dau., dau. of Adam Clenkseale,
To Youresin Crawford, dau. of dau. of David Crawford, households,
To Mary Clenkseales, gray mare.
Ex: Son David Crawford,
Wit: John Powell, John Speake, 31.354
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Mary Crawford 76.291 CH £55.0.1 Jun 27 1761Aug 30 1761
Appraisers: Samuel Gray William Douglass.
Mentions: John Clinkseales, Adam Clinkseals.
Executor: David Crawford.
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Quinton Crawford 82.176 CH £44.6.6 Aug 2 1763 Oct 9 1763
Appraisers: Samuel Gray, William Douglass.
Creditors: James Ratliff, Daniel Jenifer attorney for John Mitchell,
Next of kin: John Clinkseales, Adam Clinkseales.
Administratrix: Elisabeth Crawford.
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John Clinkscales 112.15 CH £19.19.1 Feb 23 1772 Mar 23 1773
Appraisers: Theophilus Hanson, Edward Milstead, Jr
Creditors: Robert Mundell for John Glassford & Co. Knox & Bailie.
Next of kin: Adam Clinkscales, Mary Clinkscales.
Administratrix: Frances Clinkscales.
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Mr. Richard Warden 121.313 CH £320.8.6 Dec 5 1774 Feb 2 1775
Appraisers; Richard Speake, Ignatius Luckett.
Next of kin: Adam Clinkscales, Francis Clinkscales.
Executors: Elijah Warden, Margaret Warden.
=== Contributed by Ralph D. Smith
1755 - Adam Clinkscales is in the 1755 Tax List of Durham Lower Part, Charles Co., Md., with 1 taxable.
Aug. 1761 - Edward Milstead and Adam Clinkscales vs. Thomas Davis.
Source: Charles Co., Md. Circuit Court, Liber K No. 3, Page 329.
Aug. 1761 - Edward Milstead and Adam Clinkscales vs. Henry Davis.
Source: Charles Co., Md. Circuit Court, Liber K No. 3, Page 330.
Nov. 1764 - Adam Clinkscales, of Charles Co., planter, is pledge and security for Mathew Milstead in the case James Scott vs. Mathew Milstead.
Source: Charles Co., Md. Circuit Court, Liber N No. 3, Page 73-5.
1769 - The Charles Co., Md. Sheriff's Account Book of 1769 shows Adam Clinkscales, 2 levies, 176 lbs. tobacco.
Source: 1769 Charles Co., Md. Sheriff's Account Book, Page 18. (MSA Microfilm Roll CR 34,672, part 3)
Comment: A List of Cash Paid in this Book shows Adam Clinkcales paid 0/14/6.
Feb. 1771 - The Catherine Clinkscales named in the will of Edward Milstead is Adam and Anne's daughter.
Apr. 1772 - At a land commission for James Gow's "Godfrey's Chase," the only deposition given is that of Adam Clinkscales, age 43, who states that about 25 or 26 years ago he was in company with James Gow, the father of the James Gow for whom this land commission was being taken, ....
Source: Charles Co., Md. Circuit Court, Liber T No. 3, Page 612-13.
1777 - Adam Clinkscales, Private, Militia, 26th Battalion, Capt. Hezekiah Garner's Company.
Source: Peden, Henry C., Jr., "Revolutionary Patriots of Charles County, Maryland, 1775-1783," Page 58.
1778 - Adam Clinkscales took the Oath of Allegiance in Charles Co., Md.
Source: Peden, Henry C., Jr., "Revolutionary Patriots of Charles County, Maryland, 1775-1783," Page 58.
1783 - Adam Clinkscales is in the 1783 Tax List of District 7 (Durham Upper and Lower Hundreds), Charles Co., Md., as follows:
--7 white inhabitants
--no land
--no slaves
--3 horses
--12 black cattle
--total value of property: 65/0/0
--assessment: 0/13/0
1789 - The Charles Co., Md. deposition of Adam Clinkscales, age 61.
Source: TLC Genealogy, "Charles County, Maryland, Land Records, 1786-1790," Page 129.
1790 - There are two Adam Clinkscales in the 1790 Census of Charles Co., Md., as follows:
--Adam Clinkscales 2-0-6-0-2
--Adam Clinkscales 2-0-4-0-2
Jan. 5, 1796 - The Charles Co., Md. Administration Account of Adam Clinkscales.
Inventory value: 153/9/8.
Additional assets marshalled by the estate (including 0/1/10 received from Samuel Milstead) bring the estate value up to: 180/5/0.
Payments made by the estate (including a payment of 3/13/0 to Samuel Clinkscales): 43/18/1.
Balance to be disposed of according to law: 136/6/11.
Administratrix: Ann Clinkscales.
Sureties: John Nellson and Thomas Milstead of Charles Co.
Representatives: the widow and 7 children, John, William, Samuel, Catharine, Violetta, Mary and Elizabeth Ann.
Distribution:
--to the widow, 1/3 of the balance.
--residue distributed equally to the 7 children of the deceased, after making adjustments for the advancements that were made to Catharine Dyall, William Clinkscales and John Clinkscales during the lifetime of the deceased. (advancements totalled 9/9/9)
Source: Charles Co., Md. Administration Accounts, 1791-1798, Page 296-8.
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Charles County Land Records 1786-1790; Liber D#4; Page 554. Letter of Notice, recorded at the request of General William Smallwood. The following depositions and proofs were lodged with the CC Clerk, to be recorded pursuant to the directions of an Act of Assembly passed in 1779 and entitled, an Act to establish a mode to perpetuate testimony.
William Smallwood of CC, wanting to perpetuate the testimony of sundry witnesses respecting the title of the following tracts of land called Allansons Folly and Saint Davids, for which actions of ejectment have been brought and are now depending in the General Court of Maryland between Thomas Rookwoods, lessee, plaintiff, and John Brawner and William Jones, tenants of sd William Smallwood, gave the following notice to William Cooke of Annapolis, the Atty at Law for sd Thomas Rookwood, he, sd Rookwood, being absent and residing out of the State of Maryland - to wit
No. 6. The deposition of Adam Clinkscales, aged about 61 years, deposes that he always heard and understood that his mother and other old people of the neighborhood, that Edward Rookwood never had any other child by his 1st wife besides Thomas Rookwood, who, after the death of his father, Edward Rookwood, heired and possessed all the lands and personal estate which his sd father, Edward, died possessed of, and that Thomas Rookwood lived on the land called Allansons Folly and died possessed and seised of that land and all the other lands which he heired from, and entered into possession ot, after his father's death as afd, that sd lands, after the death of Thomas Rookwood, was heired and possessed by Ann Rookwood, only surviving heiress of the sd Thomas, and that the sd Ann married Henry Moore, and had an only child, a daughter named Charity, who died young, upon which he always heard that those lands afd became escheat, and that he always understood that the sd Henry Moore escheated them for want of the heirs of Thomas Rookwood, and that he never heard of or understood that there ever was, after the death of Edward Rookwood, any other heir to sd lands besides Thomas Rookwood, and that he frequently heard his mother say that those lands afd were held by a very slender right apron string hold, and that if Charity Moore should die without heirs, the lands afd would become escheat. This Deponent further says that he always understood that his father, Adam Clinkscales, leased of Thomas Rookwood, part of the tract of land which sd Thomas dwelled on called Allansons Folly, lying upon the mouth of Chickamuxon Cr where the Warehouses now stand, down to the Gut below, whereon his sd father lived and died, and where he, this Deponent, was born, and his mother told him that he was born in Nov and in the Sep following, his father died, and that his father was a middle aged man and had served in Queen Anns Wars, as he had told her. And this Deponent further says that he always heard from his mother and the old people of the neighborhood, that Edward Rookwood (after the death of his 1st wife, the mother of Thomas Rookwood afd) married a 2nd wife, and that the sd 2nd wife eloped from him and either ran away with, or went to one, Goslin, in Virginia and lived with him, and had several children by him, and that William Rookwood was the son of this woman and was generally reported and understood to be sd Goslin's son. Signed - Adam Clinkscales. Wit - Rich' Barnes*.
The deposition of Richard Barnes, of lawful age, says that when he attended with General Smallwood on Jun 3, 1789, at the dwelling house of Adam Clinkscales, and took sd Clinkscale's deposition as above, this deponent found him confined to his bed by a dangerous spell of sickness, and so very weak and low, that it was not possible for sd Clinkscales to have attended the preceding day as a witness at Chickamuxon Warehouse. Signed Sep 3, 1789 - Rich' Barnes. Wit - Henry Barnes*,
On Jun 3, 1789, William Smallwood attended at the dwelling house of Thomas Shuttleworth Posey, when and where the following deposition was taken before Daniel Jenifer, one of the CC JPs, who then and there attended for the purpose, in consequence of the indisposition of Richard Barnes, who had attended on the preceding day, and on this present day, until he was so much indisposed at Adam clinkscale's that he could proceed no further. signed - Dan Jenifer*.
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
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