Found posted on the Internet by Martha Nolley Last Will & Testament of Richard Evans IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN, this seventh day of the month called January in the year of old Lord, 1703, I Richard Evans of Calvert County in the province of Maryland, being sick and weak of body, but of sound mind and memory an willing to put things in such order as well as I can, may avoid thiefs and confrontion amoung my children hereafter and to the intent of such land and goods and Chattlos as the Lord hath been pleased to lend me, may be disposed of according to my intent and meaning to revoke all former wills by me; I do make this my last will and testament, in manner following: My will and mind is that all my debts be well and fully paid by my Executor, and hereafter, I give and bequeath to my Loving wife, Elizabeth Evans, during her natural like, the land and plantation whereon I now live - Orchard; and all the land thereto belinging, it being of the land called Hall Hill, which I bought of my brother-in-law, Elijha Hall. My will and mind is - that after the death of my said Loving Wife, I do give and bequeath all the aforesaid pieces of land -Hall's and Orchard, thereunto belonging, living and located in Calvert County, it being a part of Hall's Hill, I do give and bequeath the same to my son, Sam Evans, to him and his heirs forever. I give to my son, Sam Evans, three hundred acres of land being in Sufguahannah River, in County being the north part of a parcel of land called The Hope. I do give and bequeath to Sam for him and his heirs forever. If it happen that the child my wife is now big with be a boy, I do give and bequeath to him four hundred acres of land; it being part of the tract of land Called Evanesangs, being in Prince George County in the north branch of Pattux River. I do give the said land to my said son to him and his heirs forever..... If it should happen to be a girl my wife is now big with, my will and mind is that the aforesaid four hundred acres given in the first article, that it shall be equally divided between my three daughters; Elizabeth Evans, Ann Evans, and the child my wife is now big with. The them and to their heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my daughter, Elizabeth Evans, two hundred acres onf land, it being part of Evans Range, being in Prince Georges County in the north branch of Pattuxont River Gouge. I give my said daughter all the said land to her and her heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my daughter, Ann Evans, all that tract of land called Greens Delight, located in Georges County. I give my said daughter, Ann Evans, all the said tract of land for her and her heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my loving wife, Elizabeth Evans, one hundred and fifty acres called Johnsfond's Place, being in Dorchofter County on the left side of Hungor River. I give the said one hundred and fifty acres of land to my loving wife, during her natural life; and after my wife's death, I do give the land, one hundred and fifty acres of the land given to my wife in the ninth article, after my wife's death, I do give the said land to my Son, Sam Evans and to his heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my loving wife, Elizabeth Evans, one third part of all my Good and Chattlos negroes, and tobacco, money, and merchandise, that does at this time properly belong to me in Maryland, or England Upon the Sea, or elsewhere. I give and bequeath the other two thirds parts of my Goods and Chattlos negroes, tobacco, money, merchandise that dues at this time properly beling to me either in Maryland, England Upon the Sea, or elsewhere...............That's all that printed off on the will. This has obviously been transcribed from whatever and was not done well as will be seen by reading through it. The final remark is also of interest to me, causing me to wonder just how this was acquired that only part of it printed off. Also, since most records seen heretofore have given his death as 1702, I wonder how we now come up with a death date of 1703. The Evans tree this is attached to has his death as 7 Jan 1702 .... ????? ... did they transcribe the date wrong and should be 1702? His birth is given as 1660 in Talybont, Merionethshire, Wales. Just pondering. Also found: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Richard Evans Name: Richard Evans Year: 1671 Place: America Source Publication Code: 1217.9 Primary Immigrant: Evans, Richard Source Bibliography: COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. Bonded Passengers to America. 9 vols. in 3. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983. Vol. 9. Midland Circuit, 1671-1775: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Warwickshire, and Strays [misc.]. 60p. Page: 47 Still another: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Richard Evans Name: Richard Evans Year: 1698 Place: Maryland or Virginia Source Publication Code: 1219.5 Primary Immigrant: Evans, Richard Annotation: For the majority of entries, date and port reflect date of the transportation or apprenticeship orders and the intended destination. Information was extracted from English records of apprenticeship bindings or criminal transportation orders and from port Source Bibliography: COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. The Complete Book of Emigrants: A Comprehensive Listing Compiled from English Public Records of Those Who Took Ship to the Americas for Political, Religious, and Economic Reasons; of Those Who Were Deported for Vagrancy, Roguery, or Non-Conformity; and of Those Who Were Sold to Labour in the New Colonies. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1661-1699. 1990. 894p. Page: 692 And yet another: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Richard Evans Name: Richard Evans Year: 1693 Place: Virginia Source Publication Code: 6221 Primary Immigrant: Evans, Richard Annotation: Date and place where land was patented and record was created listing those transported/imported. Only the names of those to be transported were indexed. Abstracted from Patent books 6 through 8, from the Land Office records located at the Virginia State Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants. Vol. 2: 1666-1695. Indexed by Claudia B. Grundman. Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library, 1977. 609p. Page: 384

Don, Whoever did the transcription may have changed the date to reflect the New Style, which would be 1703, as opposed to the Old Style calendar, which would have been 1702. David Brandenburg -----Original Message----- From: evans-richard-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:evans-richard-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Don Raymond Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 2:53 AM To: evans-richard@rootsweb.com Subject: [EVANS-RICHARD] (no subject) Found posted on the Internet by Martha Nolley Last Will & Testament of Richard Evans IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN, this seventh day of the month called January in the year of old Lord, 1703, I Richard Evans of Calvert County in the province of Maryland, being sick and weak of body, but of sound mind and memory an willing to put things in such order as well as I can, may avoid thiefs and confrontion amoung my children hereafter and to the intent of such land and goods and Chattlos as the Lord hath been pleased to lend me, may be disposed of according to my intent and meaning to revoke all former wills by me; I do make this my last will and testament, in manner following: My will and mind is that all my debts be well and fully paid by my Executor, and hereafter, I give and bequeath to my Loving wife, Elizabeth Evans, during her natural like, the land and plantation whereon I now live - Orchard; and all the land thereto belinging, it being of the land called Hall Hill, which I bought of my brother-in-law, Elijha Hall. My will and mind is - that after the death of my said Loving Wife, I do give and bequeath all the aforesaid pieces of land -Hall's and Orchard, thereunto belonging, living and located in Calvert County, it being a part of Hall's Hill, I do give and bequeath the same to my son, Sam Evans, to him and his heirs forever. I give to my son, Sam Evans, three hundred acres of land being in Sufguahannah River, in County being the north part of a parcel of land called The Hope. I do give and bequeath to Sam for him and his heirs forever. If it happen that the child my wife is now big with be a boy, I do give and bequeath to him four hundred acres of land; it being part of the tract of land Called Evanesangs, being in Prince George County in the north branch of Pattux River. I do give the said land to my said son to him and his heirs forever..... If it should happen to be a girl my wife is now big with, my will and mind is that the aforesaid four hundred acres given in the first article, that it shall be equally divided between my three daughters; Elizabeth Evans, Ann Evans, and the child my wife is now big with. The them and to their heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my daughter, Elizabeth Evans, two hundred acres onf land, it being part of Evans Range, being in Prince Georges County in the north branch of Pattuxont River Gouge. I give my said daughter all the said land to her and her heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my daughter, Ann Evans, all that tract of land called Greens Delight, located in Georges County. I give my said daughter, Ann Evans, all the said tract of land for her and her heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my loving wife, Elizabeth Evans, one hundred and fifty acres called Johnsfond's Place, being in Dorchofter County on the left side of Hungor River. I give the said one hundred and fifty acres of land to my loving wife, during her natural life; and after my wife's death, I do give the land, one hundred and fifty acres of the land given to my wife in the ninth article, after my wife's death, I do give the said land to my Son, Sam Evans and to his heirs forever. I give and bequeath to my loving wife, Elizabeth Evans, one third part of all my Good and Chattlos negroes, and tobacco, money, and merchandise, that does at this time properly belong to me in Maryland, or England Upon the Sea, or elsewhere. I give and bequeath the other two thirds parts of my Goods and Chattlos negroes, tobacco, money, merchandise that dues at this time properly beling to me either in Maryland, England Upon the Sea, or elsewhere...............That's all that printed off on the will. This has obviously been transcribed from whatever and was not done well as will be seen by reading through it. The final remark is also of interest to me, causing me to wonder just how this was acquired that only part of it printed off. Also, since most records seen heretofore have given his death as 1702, I wonder how we now come up with a death date of 1703. The Evans tree this is attached to has his death as 7 Jan 1702 .... ????? ... did they transcribe the date wrong and should be 1702? His birth is given as 1660 in Talybont, Merionethshire, Wales. Just pondering. Also found: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Richard Evans Name: Richard Evans Year: 1671 Place: America Source Publication Code: 1217.9 Primary Immigrant: Evans, Richard Source Bibliography: COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. Bonded Passengers to America. 9 vols. in 3. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983. Vol. 9. Midland Circuit, 1671-1775: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Warwickshire, and Strays [misc.]. 60p. Page: 47 Still another: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Richard Evans Name: Richard Evans Year: 1698 Place: Maryland or Virginia Source Publication Code: 1219.5 Primary Immigrant: Evans, Richard Annotation: For the majority of entries, date and port reflect date of the transportation or apprenticeship orders and the intended destination. Information was extracted from English records of apprenticeship bindings or criminal transportation orders and from port Source Bibliography: COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. The Complete Book of Emigrants: A Comprehensive Listing Compiled from English Public Records of Those Who Took Ship to the Americas for Political, Religious, and Economic Reasons; of Those Who Were Deported for Vagrancy, Roguery, or Non-Conformity; and of Those Who Were Sold to Labour in the New Colonies. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1661-1699. 1990. 894p. Page: 692 And yet another: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Richard Evans Name: Richard Evans Year: 1693 Place: Virginia Source Publication Code: 6221 Primary Immigrant: Evans, Richard Annotation: Date and place where land was patented and record was created listing those transported/imported. Only the names of those to be transported were indexed. Abstracted from Patent books 6 through 8, from the Land Office records located at the Virginia State Source Bibliography: NUGENT, NELL MARION. Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants. Vol. 2: 1666-1695. Indexed by Claudia B. Grundman. Richmond, VA: Virginia State Library, 1977. 609p. Page: 384 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to EVANS-RICHARD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi all, I'm still here. Not doing much genealogy, just ... I prefer "monitoring" rather than "lurking" LOL. I am not a major researcher on Ninian Beall, but he is my direct ancestor, so I take a certain interest and have greatly enjoyed the the information shared by Evans researchers. I am quite fascinated with the recent information posted by Don. It helps me to understand the issues in Beall research. The researcher you quote, Effie Bowie, is widely quoted and her information is used as the basis of research on Ninian Beall. However, modern researchers have corrected some of her work. Ninian's wife is Ruth, but her surname is uncertain. The Moore is an assumption based on Ninian referring to a man named Moore as his "brother." There were apparently three Beall families in colonial Maryland and there is no proof they were related. Alexander Beall is the one with the son-in-law named Magruder. The assumption I have been making is that Ninian Beall (whose Scots name was Bell), was sent to Barbados as a slave along with his fellow soliders, when they were captured by Cromwell's troops. Somehow, he ended up with Richard Evans, either as an employee or an indentured servant. And I am still curious about this, especially since you seem to be following the theory that Richard Evans came directly to Maryland, from England. I did lurk on the West Indies list for a number of years, and learned that the sugar which was grown in Barbados was like gold in its value. There were huge plantations with English landowners and Barbados was a major stop. Ships routinely went from England to Barbados to all along the coast of colonial America. Real slaves were brought from Africa to work the plantations, but the English exported political enemies to Barbados as a prison colony. They were not slaves for life, so were not treated as well. 30,000 Irish were sent to Barbados, as well as a few Scots soldiers. I have a lot of ancestry in colonial Maryland and expect to end up related to all of you because of intermarriage. I have three families now who came through Barbados - some prisoners, some landowners. Anyway, the uneducated were put in the fields, but the educated Scots were put to work as bookkeepers, managers, and often became good friends with their "masters." I have assumed that this was the case with Ninian Beall and Richard Evans. Or was Ninian connected on the Hall side of your family? So I am extremely interested in how your Evans and Hall ancestors came to Maryland. Diane Hettrick dhettrick@earthlink.net