John PROUT, 1670-1700, Dorchester County Richard PROUT, 1770-2000, Anne Arundel, Calvert Counties PROUT is my biggest brick wall. I'm pretty sure I've got everything from all published records, but If anyone has suggestions on specific source records for Calvert County before 1800, please let me know. All land records were destroyed in a fire, and the PROUTs appear not to have attended any church for which records remain. They appear intermittently through colonial period in a will here, a marriage there, so I don't know if they just sat quietly on a farm in Calvert County or if they were coming and going back to England or even Barbados. I only have a fairly solid line after they spread over the border into Anne Arundel, maybe around 1820-1830.