There is a Sgt. Lawrence EVERHART mentioned several times in "The Early History of Middletown, Maryland". There is a will in the year 1761 for Paul EVERHART in Baltimore County, Volume 31, Page 270, listed in the "Index of Maryland Colonial Wills 1634-1777". However, JAQUES is not mentioned in either book. Donna Rae Smith > I have request to make. I was wondering if someone would please lookup > information for me on the following family lines. I am trying to determine > children of said parties. This is the information I have thus far: > > I am trying to determine who the parents are to my Mary J. JACQUES who married > John EVERHART. John EVERHART was born 1791 in Middletown, Maryland. Mary had two > sisters, Amanda JACQUES and Esther JACQUES and believe she also had a brother. > If someone could help me out it would greatly be appreciated. > Gwen > > There are three grooms in the Washington County marriage index covering > 1799-1860: > JACQUES, Arthur/Sr. LOWE 3/7/1812 > Lancelot Jr./Mary BOWMAN 6/2/1812 > Lancelot/Polly McCOY 3/18/1846 > > There are eight brides listed: Catherine, Catherine R., Elizabeth, > Eliza, Louisa, Margaret, Nanny and Sarah. > I'll look them up if any of them are yours. > > In Estate Distributions 1778-1835 are these entries: > JACQUES, Thomas. Adm. Anthony. 2/14/1807; widow, 1 heir. T. 65.12.7 > [pounds, shillings, pence] > > also Ann JACQUES is an administrator and an heir to the estate of Moses > R. HURST in 1815; in newspaper extractions Ann and Lancelot are > administrators for Joseph HURST in 1807. > > Lancelot JACQUES held an inheritance in trust for one woman's children > and served as administrator to two other estates. > > In F. Edward Wright's Western Maryland Newspaper Extractions 1799-1805 > there are references to Jacques Iron Works and Jacques Furnace > In 1801 Denton JACQUES is listed in a group of people owing taxes in > Allegany County. Incidentally the spelling JACKES is interchanged with > JACQUES and Denton never picked up his mail! > In 1799 Lancelot JACQUES offered a 162 acre farm on Potomoc 2 miles > from Hancock Town. He lived a couple miles from there. Lancelot was > active in politics in the early 1800s and was appointed Justice of the > Peace in Washington County in 1803; also in 1814. > > Other volumes of extractions indicate Lancelot's daughter Elizabeth > married George I. BREWER in March of 1830. > > The Maryland Advocate published in Cumberland Md. Nov. 10, 1827 > "Died Mon 26th Oct. last at his res near Hancock, Wash co Md, Dr. > Lancelot JACQUES aged about 72 years. > In Vol. III of the cemetery records for Wash Co there are three > JACQUES (including a Lancelot.) burials in Smithsburg Cemetery at > Smithsburg, MD. > In Vol. II there is a Denton JACQUES and wife Julia buried in St. Peters > Evangelical Lutheran Churchyard Cemetery at Clearspring. > > > > > > ==== MDWASHIN Mailing List ==== > The OFFICIAL website for this list is: > http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/MD/washington/ > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >