Hi All,   I found the following reference to a Matilda Drury on the web. Can anyone connect her to anyone? I suspect she may be connected to the Ann Arundle Drurys rather than the St. Mary's crowd but stand ready to be corrected.   If anyone wants the complete three page report that gives additional details about how the tobacco was destroyed and the action that took place there I can send it as a PDF attachment. This part gives the pertinent genealogical details.   Thanks in advance to everyone,   Don Drury   ********************************************* February 9, 1843        The Committe of Claims, to whom was referred the petition of Matilda Drury, report:        That the petitioner represents herself as the widow of Samuel Drury, and the only surviving child of Major Thomas Tillard and the sister of Captain William Smallwood Tillard both of whom are now dead; and, as the legal representative of the latter, she claims compensation for a quantity of tobacco which belonged to said Captain W.S.Tillard, and was destroyed by the British at Tracy's Landing, in the state of Maryland, in the latter part of October 1814. ***************************************************