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    1. [FRENCH-L] Luke Gardiner / James FRENCH
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    3. Can anyone point me to where I might find transcriptions of or copies of original documents mentioned in the following. I am particulary interested to see the Inventory of the Thomas Notley Estate and that of Luke Gardiner. Any help would be appreciated. I'm trying to fully document my tree. I'm descended from James FRENCH. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES: James French was born 1650 in Galway, Ireland, transported to Md 1671 by Thomas Notley. Estate inventoried in 1733 Leonardstown, MD. He was transported at the age of 21 along with 52 other adventures who planned to settle permanently in Maryland (Patents 16:411). According to the inventory of Luke GARDINER taken in 1674, James FRENCH was one of his servants on S. Clement's Island (Inv 1:111). When he completed his term as a servant, James FRENCH married Elizabeth MEEKIN, the d/o William MEEKIN & Margaret BEARD. It was thorough this marriage that he bacame the possessor of 129 acres of "Wolver Hampton" which bordered on "Hopton Park". After William MEEKIN's death, his tract totaled 150 acres and he later received 100 acres of "Hopton Park" from John Baptist CARBERRY, another Irish Immigrant. James French and his descendants lived at "Wolver Hampton" until after the Revolution (Ref: Colonial Settlers of St Clement's Bay, Md by Sr Mary Louise Donnelly, 1996, pp 90-94).

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