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- Note: "Richard Nevitt's mother died before he was grown, and his father was deceased or away in service. The son Richard Nevitt was warded by John Saunders of Peter & Paul's wharf, where he owned, with Thomas Cornwalys, one fourth of the Dove, a fifty ton small pinnance contracted by Lord Baltimore who owned the remaining shares as tender for the voyage of the Ark of London to the Calvert's Palatinate of Maryland with the first colonists. John Saunders, with his ward Richard Nevitt, signed on for transport to Maryland and were passengers on the Ark when they left London in late October. Richard was only 14 or 15 years old. John Saunders died within a year of the arrival of the Ark, and Richard Nevitt was placed under Ferdinand Poulton,head of the Jesuit mission in Maryland. He was a sergeant in the militia in 1650, and resided at St.Clement's Bay.
Event: 11 MAY 1715 Sold his 200 acres of "Rocky Point" to William Maria Farthing and James Wheatley.
Event: JUN 1652 Frances Peake, the wife of Walter Peake was the God-Mother of their son John Nevitt and gave him a cow calf and her increase.
Event: 1665 John Nevitt patented " Nevitt's Desire ", of 200 acres
Event: OCT 1681 Knevet's Beginning, 100 a., in New Town Hundred, St. Mary's Co
Event: 9 AUG 1686 Received payment from estate of William Cole-SMC
Event: 1 AUG 1692 Sold to Capt. John Bayne for 1000lbs of tobacco "Nevitts Desire".
Event: 1697 owed a debt from the estate of John Heard (Inv. 15:163).
Event: JUN 1698 Assumed admin. of estate of Peter Jarboe at the death of daughter Ann.
Event: 1700 administered the estate of Peter Jarboe
Event: 20 MAR 1705/06 was listed as owing a debt to the estate of Robert Mason (Acc't 26:275).
Event: 1707 Possessed "Melton's Hope" in Chaptico 100-- 150 acres
Event: 28 SEP 1711 Richard Vowles boundary dispute
Event: 8 JUN 1714 Named next of kin to John Raley in the inventory of his accounts in Prerogative Court in St. Mary's County, Maryland
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Sources:
Title: The Flowering of the Maryland Palantinate by Harry Newman
Page: p242-245
Text: Richard Nevitt has been incorrectly written as Richard Nevell, but careful study discloses that Nevitt and Nevell were two distinct family names of passengers on the Ark and Dove and were progenitors of two separate and unrelated families in southern Maryland. Many times Richard Nevitt appears in the public record as Richard Nevill, but they were two different families and both left descendants. Knevett is the usual English spelling of the name and it was also used in early Maryland records. Of the social position of Richard Nevitt, it can be said that he was above the average of the Adventurers on the two vessels. Generally he made his signature with a large R, But on other occasions he did sign his name. He was often commisioned by the court to appraise estates and eventually became a landed proprietor of considerable portions. Before leaving England, he had been a retainer in one of the great Catholic houses of the country. The family is an armorial one and appears in the 15th and 16th century as Knevet and Knyvett. Members of the family have been raised to the peerage and baronetage.
Title: -Peter Nevitt's English Connection Letter and Chart
Broderbund Family Archive #354, Ed. 1, Passenger and Emigration Lists Index, Date of Import: May 14, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.354.1.73234.22
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Patent Record AB and H, Page 171 1651 Nevett, 300 Acres; Certificate MSA S 1587-2976 Nevitt, Richard
Patent Record AB and H, Page 180 1651 Nevett, 300 Acres; Patent MSA S 1587-2977 Nevitt, Richard
1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County MD Hundred - Piccawaxen or Wm&Mary: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 298-74: NEVITTS DESIRE: 200 acres; Possession of - 200 Acres - Bayne, Walter; Surveyed 10 July 1665 for John Nevitt Adjoining to the land of Edward Swan: Conveyance notes - Walter Beane for Ebsworth Bayne, Joseph Allen from Ebsworth Bayne, 22 Feb 1715.,25 Acres – Thomas Dyson from Samuel Amery (sp?), 2 June 1732, 150 Acres – John Allen from John Nevitt, 1 April 1734, Thomas Dyson Jr. from Thomas Dyson Sr., 9 March 1742., George Dyson from Thomas Dyson Sr., 9 March 1742, John Wilson from Joseph Allen, 30 May 1746
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
Abt 1619 - Abt 1652 (~ 33 years)
