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The will of John Warren dated 12 Aug 1713, proved 13 Feb 1713/14 in Charles Co Md. was witnessed by John Maddox, Alexander Contee & Thos. Lewis. He devised to his wife Judith Warren the 500 a. dwelling plantation and Hatton's Point. He divided the remaining property between his two daughters, Mary Warren and Anne Warren. Mary Warren, born 1707, married Notley Maddox Jr, son of Notley Maddox Sr. & Margaret Goldsmith. Mary Warren received from her father tracts Rich Thicketts with 500 a. adjoining tracts The Hills and Warren's Discovery. Anne Warren received "The Tanyard" and "Smoot's Purchase". Judith Townley Warren married John Bruce by 30 Jan 1716/17 and had at least four more children by him. [10]
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William Dent 64.42 CH £1755.11.1 Mar 30 1757 Nov 15 1757
Appraisers; William Eilbeck, Walter Hanson.
Creditors: John Tindall, George Dent.
Next of kin: Elenor Jordan, Judeth Chase.
Executrix: Mrs. Anne Dent.
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Townly Bruce 31.43 A CH £11.17.9 Sep 14 1751
Sureties: William Dent, Joseph Gwin.
Received from: Mr. William Dent, Thomas Rigg.
Payments to: Mr. William Dent, Robert Horner/ Norman McLeod, Thomas Rigg, Walter Hanson.
Representatives: siblings: administrator, Mary Maddox, Anne Dent, Elisabeth Winter, Winson Bruce, William Bruce. Administrator: Charles Bruce.
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DENT, WILLIAM, Charles co. 23 Oct 1756; 21 Feb 1757
To son Warren Dent.
To wife Anne Dent use of tract I now live on.
To son George Dent,
Daus. unnamed,
To son George Dent,, tract In Stafford County, Virginia,, 200 a.; also right to lands In Virginia formerly belonging to my brother Thomas and now In the possession of Mrs Cox who married the aforesaid Thomas Dent his widow.
To son George Dent: a Specialty of John Muschetts, now the Colony Of Virginia for 50 pounds sterling money and also all the Interest due on said Specialty til It Is Paid, the said Specialty now In the hands of Mr. Allen McRea of Virginia.
To son George Dent a Specialty of John Grahams of Virginia for 146 pounds, 8 shillings and 9 pence 3 farthIngs with Interest due til afsd Specialty now lodged In the hands of Allen McRea of Virginia.
To grandchildren, William Jordan and Anne Jordan, a sum of tobacco In the hands of their father, John Jordan due me.
To dau. Judith Chase 20 pounds.
To children: warrant Dent, Mary Dent, Anne Dent, Rebecca Dent and Grace Dent.
Wife Anne Dent to settle with Bayn Smallwood all. company accounts,
Wife Ann, extx.
Wit: John Posey, Junr, Thomas Overhall, Jno. Jordan, 30. 272
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DOWIE, WILLIAM, Charles County, Rector of Durham Parish. 31 Jul, 1769; 11 Sep, 1769
Children: Judith and Eleanor Dowie, whom I leave under care of their grandmother, Mrs, Anne Dent, during her life; then to the care of Mrs. Judith Chase and Mr. Warren Dent.
Extx: Mrs. Anne Dent.
Wit: Walter Truman Stoddert, Cathar. Groves. 37.309
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Provincial Court Land Records, 1762-1763
Volume 724, Page 40
Provincial Court April 1763
Stephen Compton and Wife and Anne Dent's Lessee
against
Jane Bruce
Elizabeth Hanson aged seventy Five Years or thereabouts being sworn on the Holy Evangelists in the above cause do depose and say that she is acquainted with Mary the Wife of Stephen Compton and M.rs Anne Dent that they were always deemed to be sisters and the Daughters of Jn.o Warren; that she understood that Jn.o Warren intermarried with Judith Townley and that M.rs Compton & Mrs Dent were Daughters of that Marriage; That she his Deponant was Married to Benjamin Warren the reputed Brother of John Warren that the said Benjamin and John Warren were Deemed to be the Sons of Humphrey and Margery Warren that she this Deponent lived in Picawaxen after she was married to Benjamin Warren between sixteen and Twenty years & never heard it insinuated hinted or surmised that either Benjamin or John Warren were base born nor ever heard other ways but that the sid Humphrey and Margery were Lawfully married, This Deponent declared further that she had Issue by her husband Benjamin Warren a son whose Name was Humphrey & that her said son Humphrey was living at the Time of his fathers decease, but dyed the day following; That she never Knew or heard that John Warren had any other children but the above said Mary Compton and Ann Dent that she this Deponant knowes the Plantation where Jane the Widow of Charles Bruce now lives that next before Charles Bruce possessed the said plantation Jn.o Bruce lived thereon and next before him John Warren lived there, that next before John Warren she this Deponent & her Husband Benjamin Warren lived upon the same land and that she has heard it sayd that Humphrey Warren the supposed Father to Benjamin & John Warren lived upon the said Plantation before her & her said Husband And further this Deponents saith not Sworn before me the 2.d day of May 1763 In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
Jn.o Winter (s)
Charles County fs.t I hereby Certifie that the within Deposition was taken at my House between the Hours of Twelve & Six O Clock given under my hand this 2.d day of May 1763
Jn.o Winter
Recorded the 2.d day of June 1763
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Charles County Land Record Book L#3, 1761-1765; Page 626. Division. At the request of Mrs. Ann Dent, I have resurveyed a tract of land lying on Wicocomoco River, originally, on Oct 28. 1650, granted to Thomas Hatton for 500 acres, bounded by Wicocomoco Point, containing 329-1/2 acres, and at the instance of sd Ann Dent of the one part, and Stephen Compton & Mary, his wife, of the other part, I have divided the same into two equal parts, sd Ann getting the northernmost part, and sd Stephen & Mary, the southernmost part. Resurveyed and divided Sep 20, 1764 per Wm Hanson, ds [Deputy Surveyor].
Nov 1, 1764, agreeable to a division made the above date, we oblige ourselves to abide by the same. Signed - Stephen Compton, Mary Compton, Ann Dent. Recorded Apr 15, 1765. [A plat follows],
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Charles County Land Record Book L#3, 1761-1765; Page 665. May 21, 1765 from Robert Yates of Stafford County, Virginia, planter, to Ann Dent of CC, Gentlewoman, for 169 £sterling, and for divers other good causes, two tracts of land in CC, the one called Wallinfield, adjoining to the land of John Gooch (now in possession of the sd Ann Dent), containing and laid out for about 160 acres, being the land which Charles Yates, the father of the afd Robert, bought of William Hawton, as per deed acknowledged and recorded. Also, the other tract of land is in CC and adjoining to the above named land, and called the Hog House, bounded by the sd Wallingefield, containing and laid out for about 42 acres, as per patent granted to Charles Yates, brother of the above named Robert on Sep 19, 1755. Signed - Robt Yates. Wit - Geo Dent*, Edwd Smoot*. Elizabeth, the wife of the sd Robert Yates, relinquished her right of dower to the lands within mentioned. Recorded May 21, 1765.
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1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Piccawaxen or Wm&Mary: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 299-82: WALLINGFIELD: 160 acres; Possession of - 160 Acres - Beaumont, James : 160 Acres - Yates, Robert : Surveyed 3 Oct 1684 for Richard Beaumont, adjoining to the land of John Gooch: Conveyance notes - 160 Acres – Robert Yates Sr. from James Beaumont, 11 June 1712., 160 Acres – Charles Yates from William Hawton (sp?) 10 May 1732.,167 Acres – William Winter from John Winter, 13 March 1732., 167 Acres – Francis Posey from William Winter, 22 March 1739.
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
Abt 1712 - 1771 (~ 59 years)