Evans Cousins, Found some MORE helpful and interesting information in the book THE GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF HENRY KINGSBURY OF IPSWICH and HAVERHILL, MASS. FROM COLLECTIONS MADE BY FREDERICK JOHN KINGSBURY, LL.D. EDITED WITH EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS BY MARY KINGSBURY TALCOTT. HARTFORD PRESS: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company. Note that what follows is the plain text version, so the scanner has probably miss-read words. [I'm not going to take the time to correct these here] If you want the actual page images, with all the words intact, go to: http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA576&dq=%22Richard+Evans%22+%2B+%22Elizabeth+Hall%22&id=AyBWAAAAMAAJ#v=onepage&q=%22Richard%20Evans%22%20%2B%20%22Elizabeth%20Hall%22&f=false I suggest that you read page 588 and the following 4-6 pages [NOTE: below, about 12 or so lines, the mention of SAMUEL EVANS having been given "Kingsbury's Cultivation." Wonder where that was?] ----------------- Signed, sealed, & declared in the presence of us, Francis Hall, John Lamar, Philip Green. — Peter Dent, Dep. Comm. PG. CO. James Kingsbury, lately of Calvert, but now of Prince Georges County, Executor of last will and testament of Elizabeth Kingsbury, late of Prince Georges County, makes return of administration account. Passed by Daniel Dulany, Commissary. Annapolis, Index to accounts Lib. DD, No. 22, 1744. 1753- James Kingsbury, Jr. makes deed to his loving son John Kingsbury, one brown cow. — Lib. NN,fol. 126, Prince Georges County. 1755. James Kingsbury, and Ann his wife make deed to Samuel Evans of the tract known as Kingsbury's Cultivation. — Lib. NN,fol. 401, Prince Georges Co. Kingsbury's Furnace was a place of note, where the iron ore, then plentiful in Baltimore County, was worked. This furnace was situate at the head of Back River, Baltimore Co. In 1761* Governour Sharpe mentions it as the place of residence of a Mr. Anthony Rhodes. About this date, they (the Iron Works,) seem to have gone into the possession of Major Thomas Sherridine whose dwelling Plantation was Kingsbury Resurveyed, near the Iron Works or Kingsbury's Furnace. In 1775 George Matthews offers to give ininformation as to the manvifacture of Iron guns, writing from Kingsbury. In June the Council write " Lieut. Moore has made known to us that there are wanting for the artillery here, 200 four pound balls &c. These are cast at the Kingsberry Furnace, and we request you to expedite them as soon as possible " Maryland Archives, Journal of the Council of Safety, Vol. I, 1775-6, pp. 82, 536. In 1779, James or J. Kingsbury, Captain of Artillery, at Fells Point, had a horse stolen from his stable. — Md. Journal, Jan. 19, 1779. ' Correspondence of Gov. Sharpe, Maryland Archives, III, 206. Mr. James Kingsbury received a mortal wound in the discharge of one of the cannon fired as a salute to the Count de Rochambeau, Sept. 9, 1781. He left one young child, an orphan. — Maryland Journal, Sept. 8, l/£f. RESUME OF NOTES ON MARYLAND KINGSBURYS. Robert Kingsbury, the only one of his name to be found on the Register of Early Colonists, arrived in Maryland in 1651, bringing with him Mary, his wife, Elizabeth Wells and Edward Wells, his children. He also transported eight other persons, settling in what was then Anne Arundell County, laid out in 1650, and from which shortly after his arrival Calvert County was taken, 1654. As the last named County lay on both sides of the Patuxent, when Charles County was erected in 1658, the southernmost part of the county went into that division, while still later, in 1695, Prince George's County was taken from Charles. This mention is made here, as the Kingsburys would appear to have moved, whereas their location remained very much the same for nearly a century, only the legal style and title changing. The Province was in a state of great unrest. The Parliamentary forces were nearing the height of their triumph and Lord Baltimore had placed all important offices in the hands of Protestants. A large number of Colonists came in about this time under the leadership of William Stone, who was made Governor, and of the five hundred settlers he had promised toward the increase of colonization, many came in, as he did, from Virginia. Other detachments arrived from the Mother country in the wake of Robert Brooke and men who brought many followers. Robert Kingsbury was among these, and probably because of the unsettled condition of the Province, and the entire loss of power by the Lord Proprietary, his Demand Warrant for land under head rights was not made out until 1663. That he was seated in Calvert County as early as 1654, is shown by a reference in the Rent Rolls of Lord Baltimore, which locates another plantation "near the land of Robert Kingsbury." In 1661 his home seems to have been an important point in military operations, since order is given that the " Rendezvous of the men to be raysed in St. Mary's Charles and Calvert Counties, be at Robert Kingsburys." In 1663 he demands land, evidently the tract on which he had been living since his arrival in the Province, and to which some intermediate title had been given by the Commissioners who held the Colony "under, and in the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England, by authority of Parliament." His original warrant is made out for land on the east side of the Patuxent, and can be identified today. The three small dots at the head of Land's Creek,* representing the plantations of Hall, Evans, and Kingsbury. Later he demands additional land by reason of his transportion of others into this Province, here to inhabit, making in all of this first parcell 759 acres, known as the Ordinary. In 1664 he became involved in litigation with one Thomas Paget, from whom he had purchased 200 acres additional, and to which he is refused possession, when he petitions the Provincial Court for writ of ejectment. In 1664 a warrant is made out for a new grant on the north side of the Patuxent Back Pasture, for which patent is issued. Complications arose, for in 1668 we find that assignment is made of the Ordinary, from Samuel Kingsbury, to Thomas Claggett. No other mention can be found of Samuel, and in 1671 letters of administration are granted to his old foe, Thomas Paget, on "all and singular the goods and chattels of Robert Kingsbury of Calvert County. Later appraysement returned." James Kingsbury, Doctor of Physick, is the next person mentioned, and signs in Nov. 1689 the address of the inhabitants of Charles County to their Gracious Majesties, King William and Queen Mary. In 1687 a Jonas or James Kingsbury, (the entry is almost illegible,) had litigation with one Richard Land, while in 1691 Dr. James Kingsbury, of Charles County, Gentleman, purchases from Thomas Gibson, of the same County, a valuable tract of land, as is known from others in patents in the same neighborhood, a portion of this tract, having been set apart for a Town in 1684. At the next Assembly, the locality having been found unsuitable, it was untowned by a subsequent Act of the Assembly. * Hermans' Map. Between 1691 and 1704 Dr. James Kingsbury married Elizabeth Evans formerly the wife of Richard Evans, who had been.one of the settlers on Land's Creek, the Halls, Kingsburys, and Evans, having been neighbors, their plantations lying on the banks of the above named stream, which is known today as Hall's Creek. In 1704 James Kingsbury et Uxor, take out letters of administration on the estate of Richard Evans, of Calvert County, deceased. In 1705 he renders account to the Provincial Court, and appears later as possessor of several tracts of land, for Richard's orphans. In 1724 James and Elizabeth execute a deed of gift to their sons James and John, of land in Cecil County. This deed sets forth the fact that Elizabeth was the daughter of Richard Hall, one of the most prominent men in that part of the Province. He held many positions of importance, and was a member of the L«ower House for several successive sessions. On April 17, 1684, the entry is made "Mr. Richard Hall and Mr. William Richardson, members of this House, are denyed entrance into the Upper House by the Doorkeeper, Except they would Putt of there Hatts." This would seem to denote that these gentlemen belonged to the Quakers. In 1724 James Kingsbury made his will, which was probated in 1726. No further mention is found of him, apart from the accounts which James Jr. and Elizabeth make to the Court of their administration, until 1731, when James and John, his sons, convey to Elihu Hall of Anne Arundel, the land in Cecil County. In 1738 James Kingsbury of Calvert County conveys Northwick,* in Baltimore County, to Daniel Dulany of Annapolis, and in 1743 Elizabeth Kingsbury makes her will, leaving James her executor. The estate was settled in 1746. In 1753 James makes deed of cattle to "loving son John," Prince George's County. In 1753 James and Anne his wife deed to Samuel Evans a tract of land, Kingsbury's Cultivation, in Calvert County, near Evans Range, on Land's Creek. In the next few years we find in the Parish Register of Prince George Parish, Prince George's Count,y the •"Inherited from Dr. James Kingsbury." name of Demilion Kingsbury; mention is also made of Gabriel Kingsbury of Annapolis, but these are so fragmentary as to be of little use. About this time mention is made of Kingsbury Furnace which played quite an important part in the War of the Revolution. John, presumably son of James, appears on the Records, A.D. 1773, as conveying to a certain John Glassfield and Co. one lott of land, lying in the addition to Georgetown, then in Frederick County, now in the District of Columbia. From Land Office, Prince George County: " Indenture between John Kingsbury, of Prince George County, coachmaker, and George F. Magruder, Basil Magruder, Thomas Magruder, the last being sureties for John Kingsbury, who assigns two lots in Marlborough to above-named sureties," July 3, 1771. Of the connections, the Halls have been and still are among the oldest and best families in the State, as are also the descendants of the children mentioned in the wills: Grooms, Pottingers, Bealls, Magruders, McGills, and Bowies of Prince George's County.