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Mercer Swann 65.462 CH £70.10.10 Nov 11 1758 Nov 16 1758
Appraisers: Matthew Compton, Joseph Dyson.
Creditors: Andrew Buchanan, Hezekiah Wheeler.
Next of kin: Elianor Swann Anne Swann.
Administrators: Edward Swann, Samuel Swann.
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Samuel Swann 28.161 CH £30.16.4 1743 Aug 17 1743
Appraisers: Benjamin Chunn, Andrew Chunn.
Creditors: J Hills, Samuel Amery.
Next of kin: Burch Swann, Edward Swann.
Executrix: Anne Swann.
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Swann, Samuel, Charles Co., 17th April, 1743 ; 1st June, 1743.
To son Edward, 80 A. "Egleton."
To sons Samuel and Mercer, dau. Sarah Dyer, personalty.
To son Burch, and daus. Susanna {blank} and Elizabeth Wheeler, and Barbara Muggleston, 1s.
Exs.: Wife Anne and son Edward.
Test: Samuel Amery, Benjamin Thorn, Benjamin King. 23. 136.
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Richard Chunn 23.109 A CH £89.10.6 £90.9.3 Jan 7 1746
Sureties: Samuel Amery, Edward Swann.
Received from: Samuel Chunn, John Turton, Edward Swann, Samuel Sothorn, Isaac Wood, Thomas Ash, John Noe.
Payments to; James Nevison, MM Gildart & Sons (merchants in Liverpool), Samuel Chunn, MM Muschel & Co., Thomas Midgley, James Compton, Samuel Ameryt Anne Suel, Richard Anderson, Joseph Noble, Rubard Boarman, William Harrison, Sarah Dyson, Zachariah Bond, Charles Love, Edward Davis, William Blackenbury, Susannah Magglestone, Anthony Semmes, John Wise, Daniel Dulany, Esq., Walter Hanson.
Representatives (siblings): Mary Anne Burch, Elisabeth Chunn, Lydia Chunn, Perregrine Chunn, Andrew Chunn, Judith Chunn, Dorithy Chunn.
Administrator (de bonis non): Andrew Chunn.
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Jane Norman, born say 1715, was called "a Mallatto woman named Jane (no last name) Living at Mr. Richard Keen's" on 23 August 1737 when she confessed to the Prince George's County court that she had an illegitimate child by a "free Mallatto." The court ordered that she receive twenty lashes and serve her master an additional year and a half and sold her two-month-old son James to Edward Swann until the age of twenty-one. She had another child by a free person before 28 November 1738 when the court ordered that she receive fifteen lashes and serve her master twelve months for the trouble of his house, bound her male child to Keene until the age of twenty-one years, and ordered Keene to give the boy a year of schooling and a decent suit of clothes at the end of his indenture. She was called "Jan Molato Norman" on 26 November 1745 when the court bound her son Joseph to her master until the age of twenty-one. On 28 June 1748 and 28 March 1748/9 she was convicted of having illegitimate children by a free person. On 27 November 1750 she confessed to having another illegitimate child named Basil who was bound to her master until the age of twenty-one [Court Record 1736-8, 497, 505; 1738-40, 192, 200; 1744-6, 248, 279; 1747-8, 168; 174; 1748-9, 181; 1749-50, 244].
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1767-1769 Prince George's County, Maryland Land Records Liber BB 2 [Abstract by Mike Marshall]; Page 103. At the request of John Billingsley & Edward Swann the following Deed was recorded August 26, 1767
Indenture made August 1, 1767; John Hughs of Calvert County, Maryland in consideration of 38 pounds current money paid by John Billingsley & Edward Swann has sold ½ acre being part of a greater tract called "Prospect" being ½ of "Lot Number 36" in the town of Nottingham. Signed John Hughs in the presence of and acknowledged before Francis Waring, John Harrison and at the same time Mary Hughs wife of John Hughes relinquished her right of dower
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Charles County Land Records, Liber H#2, Page 486
29 Mar 1722; Recorded at request of John Chunn, Jr.:
8 Mar 1721; Indenture from Wm. Compton, planter, to John Chunn, Jr., planter; for 10,000# tobacco; a parcel called Brotherhood containing 800 acres; bounded by Eagleton, land of Edward Swann and Wm. Compton; wit. Jno. Briscoe, Sam. Chunn, Jon. Fendall; 8 Mar 1721 Wm. Compton and Mary his wife ack. deed; John Chunn paid sd. amount of tobacco
3-1 Edward Swann; m. Catherine _; he inherited 80 acres of Egleton from the 1743 will of his father; in 1760 he bought 124 acres of Eagleton from James Swann of Charles Co. (CCLR G#3.431); in Newport East Hundred of Charles Co in 1778;
13 Sep 1774; Mortgage from Edward Swann of Charles County, planter, to Samuel Swann, planter of St. Mary's Co.; 124 acres Eagleton (CCLR S#3.655)
Jun 1784; from Edward Swan and Thomas Swann of James, both of Charles County, to Philip Key of St. Mary's Co.; 5 acres and 64 perches called Mill Land part of Eagleton; ack Catherine Swann, wife of Edward (CCLR Z#3.79)
Several more land records exist for Edward relating to mortgage and sale of Egleton. The last record for Edward Swann, Sr., was the 1790 census of Charles Co.. which shows 3 white males over 16, 2 white males under 16, and 3 white females. He is not found in the 1800 census.
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Charles County Land Record Book G#3, 1756-1761; Page 431. May 17, 1760 from James Swann of CC, planter, to Edward Swann of CC, planter, for 5000 lbs of crop tobacco, part of a tract of land called Eglestone, lying in CC, and bounded by the mouth of a branch that divides the land of the Revd Mr, John Urguhart's part of the land and the land of the sd Edward Swann, containing about 124 acres. Signed - James Swann. Wit - John Winter, George Dent, Samuel Amery, James Swan Jr. Elizabeth, the wife of sd James Swann, party to the within deed, acknowledged this deed. Recorded Jun 12, 1760.
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Charles County Land Record Book S#3, 1770-1775; Page 655. Sep 13, 1774 from Edward Swann of CC, planter, to Samuel Swann, planter of St Mary's County, for 72 £18 shillings and 10 pence half penny, a tract of land in CC called Eagelton, containing about 124 acres. If, however, sd Edward shall pay annually 4 £7 shillings and 6 pence farthing for 2 years, it being the interest for the purchase money, and the principal, which is 72 £18 shillings and 10 pence half penny at the end of sd 2 years, then sd Samuel is to reconvey Eagelton to sd Edward. Otherwise, the land may be sold. Signed - Edward Swann. Wit - Philip Briscoe*, Jno Winter*. Recorded Nov 25, 1774.
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Charles County Land Records 1782-1786; Liber Z#3; Page 79. Jun 11, 1784 from Edward Swann, Thomas Swann of James, both of CC, to Philip Key of St. Mary's County, for 18 £16 shillings and 3 pence, a tract of land now called the Mill Land, being part of a greater tract of land called Eagleton, lying in CC, bounded by Bettys Branch, containing 5 acres and 64 perches. Signed - Edward Swann, Thos (0 his mark) Swann. Wit. - J. Parnham, Bent Dyson (CC justices), Catherine Swann, wife of Edward Swann, relinquished her right of dower to the lands within mentioned. Recorded Jul 28, 1784.
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Charles County Land Records 1786-1790; Liber D#4; Page 451. Mortgage, recorded at the request of Thomas How Ridgate. Apr 21, 1789 from Edward Swann of CC, owe Thomas How Ridgate. Whereas sd Swann owes sd Redgate 58 £18 shillings and 7 pence with legal interest, now this deed witnesses that, for the further and better security of the payment of sd sum and for and in consideration of 5 shillings sterling to sd Swann in hand paid by sd Ridgate, Swann sells to Ridgate, part of a tract of land in CC called Elestone, containing about 121 acres, bounded by the mouth of a branch that divides the lands of the Revd. Mr, John Urquhart's part of [sd] land and the land of the sd Edward Swann's, containing about 124 acres [sic]. If, however, Swann pays sd Ridgate sd sum by Apr 21, 1790 with legal interest, then this mortgage to be void. Signed Apr 15, 1789
Edward Swann. it - Dan Jenifer*, Henry Barnes*. Recorded Apr 21, 1789.
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Charles County Land Records 1786-1790; Liber D#4; Page 582. Release of a mortgage, recorded at the request of Samuel Swann. Whereas Edward Swann, on Apr 21, 1789, mortgaged to Thomas How Ridgate, all that part of a tract of land in CC called Eglestone, containing about 121 acres. And whereas sd Edward Swann did, by the consent of sd Ridgate, sell to Samuel Swann Sr, all the sd part of a tract of land called Egleton mortgaged to sd Redgate by sd Edward Swann, and by him conveyed on Sep 15, 1789 to sd Samuel Swarm, by deed. And whereas sd Samuel Swann Sr paid sd Redgate on account of sd Edward Swann in part of the sd sum of 58 £18 shillings and 7 pence expressed in the sd mortgage to be paid to sd Redgate by sd Edward Swann, in consideration of sd Samuel Swann Sr having so paid to Redgate on account of sd Edward Swann the sd sum of 25 £12 shillings and 2 pence, sd Redgate hereby releases his right to sd tract of land called Eagleton, mortgaged as afd. however, sd Redgate does not discharge sd Edward Swann from the debt expressed in sd mortgage more than 25 £12 shillings and 2 pence paid by sd Samuel Swann Sr to sd Redgate. Signed Sep 25, 1789 - Thos. How Ridgate. Wit - William Craik. Recorded Sep 25, 1789
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Charles County Land Records 1786-1790; Liber D#4; Page 615. Aug 29, 1789 from Thomas Andrew Dyson, as CC Sheriff, to Benjamin Reeder of CC, by virtue of a fieri facial from the Worshipful Bennett Dyson to expose to sale the following land, at which sale Reeder was the highest bidder at $1 per acre, herein conveyed is about 74 acres, being part of a tract of land called Eglestone, which sd land was deeded by James Swann to Edward Swann on May 17, 1760, as by CC records will more fully appear. This sale is as a consequence of a judgment obtained by a warrant by ad Reeder against the afd Edward Swann. Reeder bought the land on May 15, 1789. This deed confirms to Reeder and assigns a title the land. signed - Thos. A. Dyson, Shff Charles County. Wit - Sam Swann, James Cooksey, Dan Jenifer*, Henry Barnes*. Recorded Dec 19, 1789.
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Contributed by Shirley Middleton Moller
Charles County, Maryland Land Records, K #4.1
15 Sep 1789
From: Benjamin Reeder, of Charles Co.
To: Samuel Swann, of St. Mary's Co.
For ninety pounds current money; all that tract of land in CC, late the property of Edward Swann taken by fieri facias and sold to satisfy a debt due from sd Edward to sd Benjamin, being part of the tract called Eagleton, bounded by the mouth of a branch that divides the land that formerly belonged to the Revd John Urquhart and the land of sd Edward Swann; containing 124 acres. /s/ B Reeder; Wit: Wm D Briscoe, Ben Dyson. Eleanor Reeder wife of the sd Benjamin released her dower.
Recorded 1 Mar 1790.
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1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Newport: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 375-17: EAGLETON: 615 acres; Possession of - 615 Acres - Swann, Samuel: Surveyed 9 July 1669 for Edward Swann in the woods near Piles Fresh at a bound poplar near the head of a branch: Other Tracts Mentioned: aka EGGLESTONE; ; ; {mm Note; not identified to a specific Hundred. Location identified by watercourse or nearby tract.}, 80 Acres - Samuel Swann from Philip Briscoe; 19 June 1725,12 Acres - Samuel Love from Thomas Swann; 17 July 1732, 38 Acres - Samuel Love from Thomas Swann; 23 Aug 1746 {mm note: could be 57 & 38}, 95 Acres - John Urquhart from James Swann; 2 Aug 1750,
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1723 - 1800 (~ 89 years)