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THE BROOKE FAMILY 
 
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THE BROOKE FAMILY 
 
 OF 
 
 WHITCHURCH, HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND 
 
 TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF 
 
 ACTING-GOVERNOR ROBERT BROOKE 
 
 OF MARYLAND 
 
 COLONEL NINIAN BEALL 
 
 OF MARYLAND 
 
 AND SOME OF THEIR DESCENDANTS 
 
 BY 
 
 THOMAS WILLING BALCH 
 
 PHILADELPHIA 
 Press of Allen, Lane & Scott 
 
Copyright, 1898, by Thomas Willing Balch 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 In this small book I have sought to present infor- 
 mation I have gathered about Acting-Governor Robert 
 Brooke of Maryland and his family in England, and 
 Colonel Ninian Beall of Maryland : I have given also 
 an account of some of their descendants. My father, 
 Mr. Thomas Balch, left family papers containing much 
 valuable material, to which Mrs. Henry Irvine Keyser 
 of Baltimore,- Maryland, and Arthur Spayd Brooke, 
 Esq. of Reading, Pennsylvania, have added most 
 kindly from their family archives. I am indebted also 
 for some important facts to Mrs. Jane Baldwin of 
 Annapolis, Maryland, and for kind aid to Gregory B. 
 Keen and John Woolf Jordan, Esquires, of the His- 
 torical Society of Pennsylvania. I searched carefully 
 in the archives of the Maryland Land Office, and 
 in September, 1897, ^ visited Whitchurch in Hants, 
 England. The drawings of the coats of arms I owe 
 to the kindness of Mr. Brooke. 
 
 Thomas Willing Balch. 
 
 Philadelphia, December ist, 1898. 
 
 26412; 
 
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THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH 
 
 SOME OF THEIR DESCENDANTS. 
 
 The little village of Whitchurch is situated in the 
 northern part of Hampshire, England. Since Saxon 
 times the place has always had a church built of the 
 white stone found in the neighborhood ; and thus the 
 name — Whitchurch — originated. In the latter half of 
 the sixteenth century there lived at Whitchurch, Rich- 
 ard Brooke, gentleman, and his wife, Elizabeth Twyne.' 
 That they were people of means for those days is 
 shown by the items in the will of Richard Brooke 
 dividing among his children his " leases held by the 
 Blessed Trinity in Winchester," his lease of Knoll, 
 his woods in Chalgrove and Freefolk and the Manor 
 of West Fosbury. To his wife he leaves his "free 
 lands and tenements in Whitchurch and Freefolk" 
 
 1 She was sister and co-heir of John Twyne of Whitchurch, and ap- 
 pears to have descended from Sir Bry^an Twyne of Long Parish, County 
 Southampton, who was hving before 1500. 
 
 Twyne Arms : Ar. a fesse, embattled, sable, in chief two estoiles of 
 the last. William Berry's Coimty Genealogies. Hants. London, 1S33, 
 pages 222, 223, 339. 
 
2 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 and his "lease of the parsonage of Whitchurch," 
 their homestead.^ 
 
 This house is built of brick in the open country 
 a short distance beyond the church, which is at the 
 western end of the village. In September, 1897, it 
 still stood firm and sound, but with an addition on the 
 side towards the open country away from the church 
 and the village. In the old part there were three rooms 
 on the lower floor. The biggest room, which served 
 probably both as a reception and dining room, contained 
 a large open fireplace. The room back of this, very 
 likely, was the kitchen. In the small remaining room, 
 perhaps the stairs stood. In the largest room on 
 the upper floor, also possessed of a fine open fireplace, 
 Charles the First passed a few days during the Civil 
 War before the battle of Newberry in 1644. The 
 brasses of Richard Brooke and his wife, together with 
 
 2 Will dated January loth, 158S-9, as of Richard Brooke of Whitchurch, 
 County Southampton, Gentleman. Proved May 6th, 1594, by Elizabeth 
 Brooke, relict and executrix. 
 
 Will of Elizabeth Brooke dated May i6th, 1599. Proved by Robert 
 Brooke, son and executor, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and 
 recorded in the Principal Registry of Probate at London. 
 
 Communicated by Arthur Spayd Brooke, Esq. 
 
 Brooke Arms: Chequy or and az. on a bend gu. a lion, passant, of 
 the first. Crest— K demi lion, rampant, erased, or. The use of these 
 arms was confirmed by a patent by William Camden, Clarencieux, Visi- 
 tation of 1634. William Berry's County Genealogies. Hants. London, 
 1833, page 339. 
 
RICHARD BROOKE OF WHITCHURCH. 3 
 
 two smaller ones underneath of their three sons and 
 
 three daughters, respectively, the whole surmounted 
 
 by the Brooke and the Twyne arms, are affixed on 
 
 the wall near one corner ; all these brasses originally 
 
 were upon the floor of the church. Under the brasses 
 
 a brass plate bears the following inscription, which I 
 
 copied myself: 
 
 " PiETATis Opus. 
 
 " This grave (of griefe) hath swallowed up with wide 
 
 and open mouth, 
 The bodie of good Richard Brooke, of Whitchurch, 
 
 Hampton South 
 
 And Elizabeth his wedded wife, twice twentie yeares 
 
 and one, 
 Sweete Jesus hath their soules in heaven, ye ground 
 
 flesh, skin and bone. 
 In Januarie (worne with age) daie sixteenth died hee. 
 From Christ full fifteene hundred yeares and more by 
 
 ninetie three, 
 But death her twist of life in Maie, daie twentith did 
 
 untwine 
 From Christ full fifteen hundred yeares and more by 
 
 ninetie nine. 
 They left behinde them well to live, and growne to 
 
 goode degree, 
 First, Richard, Thomas, Robert Brooke, the youngest 
 
 of the three. 
 
4 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 Elizabeth, and Barbara, then Dorathee the last, 
 All six the knot of Natures love, and kindnes keep- 
 ing fast. 
 This Toome stone with the Plate thereon, thus graven 
 
 fare and large 
 Did Robert Brooke, the youngest sonne, make of his 
 
 proper charge. 
 A Citizen of London State, by faithful service free, 
 Of Marchantes, greate adventurers, a brother sworne 
 
 is hee. 
 And of the Indian Companie (come gaine or losse) a 
 
 limb, 
 And of the Goldsmithe liverie, All these Codes giftes 
 
 to him : 
 This Monument of memorie in love performed hee ; 
 December thirtie one, from Christ sixteene hundred 
 
 and three : 
 
 ''Anno Domini 1603: Laus Deo." 
 
 Richard and Elizabeth Brooke, as the inscription 
 
 in the church tells us, were married in 1552 and had 
 
 six children in all : 
 
 Thomas Brooke who married Susan Forster, 
 Richard who died without issue, 
 Dorothy who married Richard Venables, 
 Elizabeth, 
 Barbara, 
 
 Robert, a citizen of London, who married Mary Duncomb 
 and had issue. 
 
THOMAS BROOKE, I560-1612. 5 
 
 Thomas Brooke of Whitchurch, gentleman, the eld- 
 est son was born in 1560. He matriculated at New 
 College, Oxford, November 24th, 1581, received the 
 degree of B. A. May 4th, 1 584, and was barrister at 
 law in the Inner Temple in 1595; he sat for Whit- 
 church Borough in the Parliament that was sum- 
 moned to meet at Westminster March 19th, 1603-4, 
 and was dissolved February 9th, 1610-11, and died 
 in 1 61 2.3 He married Susan Forster. 
 
 Symonds^ in his diary of the marches of the Royal 
 Army thus describes a monument erected to their 
 memory. 
 
 " Whit-church Church. 
 
 "Against the north wall chancel, a faire monument, 
 
 the statue of a man in a barr-gowne, and a woman : 
 
 " Thom. Brooke, Ar. etat. 52, ob. 13 Sep. 161 2. 
 
 " Susanna uxor ejus, filia natu max. Thomae 
 
 Forster Militis in parochia Hunsdon com. 
 
 Hertf. [one of the Judges K. B. Mons. Insc. 
 
 at Hunsdon]. 
 
 ^Alumni Oxonienses, by Joseph Foster, London, 1891 ; early series, 
 
 Vol. I. 
 
 Members of Parliament. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be 
 printed ist March, 1878. Part I., page 445. 
 
 '^ Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army during the great Civil War, 
 kept by Richard Symonds, 7iOcV first published from the original MS. in 
 the British Museum. Printed for the Camden Society, 1859, page 141- 
 
6 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 " Quarterly, i and 4, Cheeky, or and azure, on 
 a bend gules a lion passant or [Brooke] ; 
 
 2 and 3, Argent, a fess embattled sable, in 
 chief two estoils of the second [Twyne] ; 
 impaling. 
 
 " Quarterly, i, and 4, a chevron vert between 
 three bugle-horns, sable [Forster] ; 2 gone ; 
 
 3 Argent, on a bend sable three martlets 
 or. Crest, on a wreath azure and or, a demi- 
 lion erased or."5 
 
 The monument is in the belfry, and is made of the 
 stone of the neighborhood. They lie outstretched 
 side by side ; their heads, collars, hands, and cuffs are 
 white ; the rest of their dress is black, except that the 
 middle of her gown in front from top to bottom is a 
 lio^ht red. 
 
 Susan Forster's father. Sir Thomas Forster, was 
 born about 1569, and belonged to the Forster family of 
 Northumberland;^ he was spoken of first in 1587 as 
 
 ■'' Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army during the great Civil War, 
 kept by Richard Symotids, nozv first published from the original MS. in 
 the British Museum. Printed for the Catnden Society, iS^g, page 142. 
 The additions in brackets were made by the Editor, Charles Edward 
 Long, M. A. 
 
 ''' The fudges of England, by Edward Foss, London, 1857 ; Vol. VL, 
 
 157. 
 
 Sir Thomas Forster was the son of Thomas Forster of Hunsdon in 
 Co. Hertford, and grandson of Roger Forster of the Forsters of North- 
 

 3f,aK€^!«'^'^'' 
 
SIR THOMAS FORSTER. 7 
 
 a barrister in both Coke's and Croke's Reports ; he 
 became a reader of the Society of the Inner Temple in 
 1596; he was called on November 24th, 1607, to the 
 bench as judge of the Common Pleas, and sat in that 
 Court for four years and a half; he died May i8th, 
 1612, andwas buried at Hunsdon, in Herefordshire. 
 Thomas Sutton named him one of the first governors of 
 his hospital — the Charter House.^ His youngest son, 
 Robert Forster, was created January 27th, 1640, judge 
 of the Common Pleas, but as he adhered during the 
 Civil War to the Royal cause, he was deposed from 
 the bench. After the restoration, Charles the Second 
 recalled him to his seat, and on October 21st, 1660, 
 appointed him Chief-Justice of the King's Bench ; 
 this office he held until his death, October 4th, 1663. 
 He was buried in the church at Egham.^ 
 
 umberland. Anns: Quarterly, first and fourth, ar. a chev, vert, be- 
 tween three bugle horns, stringed, sa. ; second, ar. on a bend sa. three 
 martlets or ; third, ar. on a bend engr. sa. three stags' heads cabossed or.— 
 Crest: A stag, statant, sa. horned or. William Berry's County Ceneat- 
 ogies. Sussex. London 1830, page 192. 
 
 The wife of Sir Thomas Forster was Susan Forster, daughter of Thomas 
 Forster of Iden in Co. Sussex, and of St. John's Street, London. 3., 
 page 192. 
 
 '10 Coke's Reports, loa. 
 
 « The Judges of England, by Edward Foss, London, 1864 ; Vol. VIL, 
 97-99- 
 
 Alumni Oxonienses, by Joseph Foster, London, 1891 ; early series, 
 Vol. IL 
 
8 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 Symonds in his diary thus speaks of Charles the 
 First's stay at the Brooke house : 
 "Friday, i8 October, 1644. 
 
 * * * * H: * * 
 
 "This night the King lay at the White hart in 
 Andevor ; the whole arrhy in the feild. 
 
 "Satterday, as soone as light, the army marched 
 after the enemy. The King lay at Whitchurch at 
 Mr. Brookes his howse that niorht. 
 
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 * * * * H: * * 
 
 " Munday 21 October. His Majestic, &c. left 
 Whitchurch, thegenerall rendesvouz upon the Downe 
 near Kingsmill's howse [at Sidmonton]."^ 
 
 Thomas and Susan Brooke had'° 
 
 ^ Symonds's Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army During the 
 great Civil War, pages 141, 142. 
 
 ^° Extract from the Parish Register at Whitchurch : 
 
 " 1612. Benjamin Brooke was baptized Sept 17 [brother of Robert the 
 emigrant]. 
 
 " 1612. Thomas Brooke Esq"" was burried Sept. 17th. Susan Brooke 
 his wife was burried the iSth day of Sept 1612. Both are burried be- 
 neath the monument. 
 
 "1642. Thomas the sonne of Thomas Brooke Esq'- was baptized 
 March the 16 by Wm. Harding Vicar. 
 
 " 1643. Thomas son of Thos. Brooke Esq' was burried Januarie the 
 22 by John Belchamber Vicar. 
 
 " i6s3- Thomas son of Thomas and Mary Brooke was baptized Nov. 
 2, 1653." 
 
 ''1665. Thomas Brooke Esq' was burried Jan 25 killed by lightening 
 Jan 24 near Winton [Winchester]. 
 
 " 1674. Mrs. Mary Brooke was buried July 29 [wife of Thomas Brooke 
 killed in 1665]. 
 
 Communicated by the Rev. H. Edmund Sharpe of Whitchurch and 
 Arthur Spayd Brooke Esq. 
 
ACTING-GOVERNOR ROBERT BROOKE. 9 
 
 1 . Thomas Brooke of Whitchurch, the eldest son. He matric- 
 ulated at Oriel College, Oxford, October 27th, 1615, aged sixteen 
 years, and was barrister at law in the Inner Temple in 1623 as 
 of Whitchurch, Hants, gentleman.'^ 
 
 2. Richard Brooke. 
 
 3. Robert Brooke, who emigrated to Maryland in 1650. 
 
 4. John Brooke, who matriculated at Wadham College Ox- 
 ford, May nth, 1621, aged sixteen years. ^ ^ 
 
 5. William Brooke. 
 
 6. Humphry Brooke, who was a citizen of London. 
 
 7. Charles Brooke. 
 
 8. Susan Brooke, who married William Havers of Thelveton 
 Hall, Co. Norfolk. 
 
 9. Elizabeth Brooke. 
 ID. Frances Brooke. 
 
 1 1 . Benjamm Brooke, who died young. 
 
 Robert Brooke, the third son of Thomas Brooke 
 and Susan Forster, matriculated at Wadham Colleo-e 
 Oxford, April 28th, 1618 ; he received his B. A. July 
 6th, 1620, and M. A. April 24th, 1624.^3 He married 
 February 25th, 1627, his first wife, Mary Baker, 
 daughter of Thomas Baker, of Battel, Sussex.^-* i^ 
 
 1 ^Alumni Oxo?iienses, by Joseph Foster, London, 1891, early series 
 Vol. I. ' 
 
 12^5., Vol. I. 
 
 '^ lb., Vol. I. 
 
 ^ * Thomas Baker was the son of 
 John Baker, of Battel, eldest son of 
 
 John Baker, of Duckings, or Ducking-house, in Withyham, son and 
 heir, temp. Hen. VIII. (1509-1547) of 
 Henry Baker, of Battel, eldest son, temp. Henry VII. (1485-1509) of 
 Thomas Baker, of Battel, son and heir, temp. Edw. IV. (1461-14S3) of 
 
lO THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 1635 ^^ married his second wife, Mary Mainwaring 
 (see page 59). He left the following memoran- 
 dum of himself and his family, which Roger Brooke 
 Taney, one of his descendants and of his second wife, 
 Mary Mainwaring, gives in his autobiography. '^ 
 
 " Robert Brooke was born at London, 3d June, 
 1602, being Thursday, between 10 and 11 of the 
 clock in the forenoon, being Corpus Christi Day. 
 
 "Mary Baker, born at Battel in Sussex. 
 
 "Robert Brooke and Mary Baker intermarried 
 1627, the 25th of February, being St. Matthias' Day 
 and Shrove Monday. 
 
 " I. Baker Brooke, eldest son to Robert and Mary 
 Brooke, was born at Battel, November the i6th, being 
 
 John Baker, of Battel, son and heir, temp. Henry VI. 11422-1461) of 
 John Baker, of Battel, son and heir, temp. Henry IV. (1399-1413) of 
 Simon Baker, of Battel, son and heir, temp. Rich. II. (i377-i399) of 
 John Baker, of Battel, in Co. Sussex, 49 Edw. III., 1375- 
 Ari7is : At. a tower, between three keys, erect, sa. 
 CresL- On a tower, sa. an arm, embowed, in mail, holding in the hand 
 a flint-stone, ppr. 
 
 A pedigree ot this family, with the above coat and crest, under the 
 hand of Sir Richard St. George, Clarencieux, was produced at the Visi- 
 tation of Kent in 1619. William Berry's County Genealogies, Sussex. 
 London 1830, pages 225, 226. 
 
 ^"^ Memoir of Roger Brooke Taney, LL. D., Chief Justice of the 
 Supreme Court of the United States 1836- 1864. By Samuel Tyler, LL. D., 
 of the Maryland Bar. Baltimore 1872, pages 22-25. Chief Justice Taney 
 was born March 17, 1777, in Calvert Co., Md. He was the son of Michael 
 Taney and Monica Brooke, daughter of Roger Brooke, the third in suc- 
 cession from Robert Brooke, the emigrant. (/(5., 20, 21). He died in 
 1864. 
 

ACTING-GOVERNOR ROBERT BROOKE. I I 
 
 Sunday, at half hour past 9 o'clock in the morning, 
 being new moon the night before, and was baptized 
 the 2d day of December following, his Uncle Thomas 
 Brooke, and his Grandfather Baker, his Godfathers, 
 and his Aunt Foster, wife to Mr. Robert Foster, his 
 Godmother, 1628. 
 
 " 2. Mary Brooke, eldest daughter to Robert 
 Brooke and Mary his wife, was born 1630, at Battel, 
 the 19th day of February, being Saturday, between 
 2 and 3 of the clock in the afternoon, the moon being 
 new the next day, and was baptized the Sunday fol- 
 lowing, her Godfather Mr. Thomas Foster, of Battel, 
 and her Godmothers her Grandmother Baker and 
 her Cousin Heath. 
 
 " 3. Thomas Brooke, second son to Robert Brooke 
 and Mary his wife, was born at Battel, 1632, the 23d 
 day of June, being Saturday, a quarter of an hour 
 past 2 o'clock in the morning, and was baptized the 
 3d day of July following, his Godfathers Mr. Chris- 
 topher Dow Dean, of Battel, and Mr. Thomas Bryan, 
 of Battel, his Godmother Mrs. Eliza Foster, wife of 
 Mr. Goddard Foster. 
 
 "4. Barbara Brooke, second daughter to Robert 
 Brooke and Mary his wife, born at Whickham. 
 
 "May the nth, 1635, Robert Brooke (aforemen- 
 tioned) was married to Mary, second daughter to 
 
12 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 Rocrer Mainwaring, Doctor of Divinity and Dean of 
 Worcester, which Mary was born at St. Giles-in-the- 
 Fields, London. 
 
 "I. Charles Brooke, eldest son of Robert Brooke 
 and Mary his wife, was born at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, 
 Middlesex, 3d April, 1636, between 11 and 12 o'clock 
 in the forenoon, being Sunday, and was baptized the 
 day following, his Grandfather, the Bishop of St. 
 David's and his Uncle Townley, his Godfathers, and 
 his Aunt Stedney his Godmother, under % Jupiter 
 3 min. 
 
 " 2. Roger Brooke was born the 20th September, 
 1637, at Bretnock College, between 11 and 12 o'clock 
 at night, it being Wednesday, and was baptized the 
 following day, his Godfathers the Bishop of St. David's 
 and his Uncle Stevens, and his Aunt Sarah Mainwar- 
 ing his Godmother, li under Jupiter [see page 61]. 
 
 " 3. Robert Brooke was born at London, in St. 
 Brides' Parish, April 21st, 1639, half an hour before 
 I of the clock in the morning, it being Sunday and 
 new moon two days after, his Godfather my Cousin 
 Thomas Foster {% under Jupiter), son to Serecant 
 Foster and my Cousin William Brooke, and his God- 
 mother my sister Elizabeth. 
 
 "4. John Brooke, born at Battel, the 20th Septem- 
 ber, 1640, being Sunday, between i and 2 o'clock in 
 
ACTING-GOVERNOR ROBERT BROOKE. 1 3 
 
 the afternoon, his Godfather William Jackson, D. P., 
 and his Godmother Mrs. Jackson. 
 
 "5. Mary Brooke was born at Battel the 14th day 
 of April, being Thursday, 1642, after i o'clock in the 
 morning, the moon being in the last quarter the 
 Tuesday before, her Godfather Mr. Jackson, and her 
 Godmother old Mrs. Beneford. 
 
 "6. William Brooke, born at Battel the ist day 
 of December, 1643. between 11 and 12 o'clock at 
 night, the moon being new in the morning at 5, and 
 baptized the same day, his Godfather Mr. March and 
 his Godmother Mrs. Pound. 
 
 "7. Ann Brooke, born at Bretnock, 22d January, 
 1645, between 5 and 6 of the clock at night, being 
 Thursday, her Godfather the Bishop of St. David's, his 
 Deputy her Uncle Henry Mellyne, her Godmothers 
 Mrs. Mary Mainwaring and Mrs. Jones, $ under 
 Venus. 
 
 "8. Francis Brooke, born at Horwett in Hant- 
 shire, the 30th May, 1648, being Tuesday, between 
 II and 12 o'clock, at noon, D under Luna. 
 
 "The before-named Robert Brooke, Esquire, ar- 
 rived out of England in Maryland the 29th day of 
 June, 1650, in the 48th year of his age, with his wife 
 and ten children. He was the first that did seat the 
 Patuxent, about twenty miles up the river at De la 
 
14 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 Brooke, and had one son there, born in 1651, called 
 Basil, who died the same day. In 1652 he removed 
 to Brooke Place, being right against De la Brooke ; 
 and on the 28th of November, 1655, between 3 and 
 4 o'clock in the afternoon, had two children Eliza 
 and Henry, twins. He departed this world the 20th 
 day of July, and lieth buried at Brooke Place Manor ; 
 and his wife, Mary Brooke, departed this life the 29th 
 November, 1663."'^ 
 
 On September 20th, 1649, Lord Baltimore commis- 
 sioned Robert Brooke commander of a new county 
 in Maryland with full powers to levy and command 
 troops, grant commissions, hold court, etc. This 
 commission was in part as follows : " Cecilius Abso- 
 lute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Mary- 
 land and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore, &c''. to 
 our right trusty and well beloved William Stone, Esqr. 
 our Lieutenant of the said Province of MaryF. 
 
 Greeting whereas our trusty and well Beloved 
 Robert Brooke Esqr. doth this next Summers Ex- 
 pedition intend to transport himself his Wife Eight 
 
 16" The foregoing is a true copy taken from my grandfather's book of 
 his own handwriting and his eldest son Baker after his decease, this 2nd 
 day of October 1710, by me 
 
 Roger Brooke." 
 
 This Roger Brooke married Elizabeth Hutchins (see page 62.) 
 Communicated by Arthur Spayd Brooke, Esq. 
 
ACTING-GOVERNOR ROBERT BROOKE. I 5 
 
 Sons and family and a Great Number of other Persons 
 into our said Province of Maryland there to erect 
 make and settle a Considerable Plantation now we 
 having good Experience of the Honour worth and 
 abilities of the said Robert Brooke and of his faithful- 
 ness to us and his real desires and intentions for the 
 Good and Prosperity of our said Province Know yee 
 that we do hereby Constitute and appoint him the 
 said Robert Brooke to be Commander under us and 
 our heirs and our and their Lieutenant of the said 
 Province for the time being of one whole County 
 within our said Province of Maryland to be newly 
 set forth erected Nominated and Appointed for that 
 Purpose," etc.''' At the same time Lord Baltimore 
 appointed Robert Brooke a member of the Privy 
 Council of Maryland.'^ In 1650 he came over to 
 Maryland in his own ship bringing his wife, children, 
 and a large number of servants with him, forty 
 persons in all,'^ and arrived at the end of June. On 
 October 3rd following, Charles County on the Patux- 
 ent River was created and Robert Brooke named 
 Commander.^" 
 
 ^''Archives of Maryland: Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 
 1636-1667. Baltimore, 1885, pages 237, 238. 
 '^^Ib.y 240, 241, 
 1^73., 256. 
 ^"7^., 259, 260. 
 
1 6 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 The Commissioners of the Council of State for the 
 Commonwealth of England, who were sent over to 
 reduce the Old Dominion to the authority of the 
 Parliament, by a proclamation of March 29th, 1652, 
 deposed William Stone from the governorship of 
 Maryland, and until they reinstated him on the 28th 
 of June following, they named Robert Brooke Acting- 
 Governor. In their proclamation they said: "That 
 the said Council of Maryland or any two or more 
 of them whereof Robert Brooke Esqr to be one do 
 Govern and direct the Affairs thereof and hold Courts 
 as often as they think fit for that purpose."^' When 
 Governor Stone was reinstated, Robert Brooke was 
 continued on the Council. 
 
 Thomas Brooke, the second son of Robert Brooke 
 and Mary {nee Baker) Brooke, was born at Battel, 
 England, June 23rd, 1632, and came over to Mary- 
 land with his father. On June 3d, 1658, the Coun- 
 cil of Maryland commissioned him a Captain in 
 the Maryland forces," and on February nth, 1660. 
 the following commission signed by Philip Calvert, 
 raised him to the rank of Major: 
 
 " Com" issued to Cap" Thomas Brookes to be Maior 
 
 -'^Archives of Maryland: Proceedings of the Council of 3Iarylatid, 
 J636-1667. Baltimore, 1S85, pages 271, 272. 
 
 2 2^5,, pages 344-346. 
 
MAJOR THOMAS BROOKE, 1632-1676. 1 7 
 
 of the Rec^iment now under Comand of Coll" W"^ 
 
 Euans and power to inlist for his owne Company such 
 
 and so many of the Jnhabitants from George Reads 
 
 on the Southside and S' Leonards Creeke on the 
 
 Northside to the head of Patuxent Riuer, as hee 
 
 shall thinke fitt Giuen &c Vnder my hand and lesser 
 
 Seale of the said Province this ii'^ day of ffebr 1660. 
 
 with power to choose his own officers of his ffoote 
 
 Company. 
 
 "P. C."'^ 
 
 On June 14th, 1661, Thomas Brooke was appointed 
 a commissioner for Calvert County ;'4 September 15th, 
 1663, ^■'e was elected a Burgess of the County,'^ and 
 April 20th, 1666, he was named Sheriff of the 
 County.'^ The General Assembly appointed Major 
 Brooke one of the Commissioners of Maryland to 
 confer with Sir William Berkeley, Governor of 
 Virginia, and William Drummond, Governor of the 
 Southward Plantations, or Commissioners repre- 
 senting them, to prohibit, on account of over- 
 
 '^^ Archives of Maryland: Proceedings of the Coimcil of Maryland, 
 1636-1667. Baltimore, 1885, page 402. 
 
 2 */<&., page 424. 
 
 "^^ Archives of Maryland: Proceedings and Acts of the General Assem- 
 bly of Maryland, 1637-1664. Baltimore, 1883, page 460. 
 
 '^'^ Archives of Maryland: Proceedings of the Coimcil of Maryland, 
 1636-1667. Baltimore, 1885, page 541. 
 
1 8 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 production, the planting of tobacco from Febru- 
 ary I St, 1666, to February ist, 1667.^^ ^^ February, 
 1667, he took part in an expedition against the In- 
 dians. In 1673 he was still a Burgess for Calvert 
 County.'^ Major Brooke died in 1676.^5 His wife was 
 Eleanor, daughter of Richard and Margaret Hatton, 
 and niece of Secretary Thomas Hatton of Maryland. 
 The eldest son of Major Brooke and his wife, 
 Eleanor Hatton, was Colonel Thomas Brooke of 
 Brookfield, Prince George County, Maryland. He 
 was Justice of the Calvert County Court in 1684, and 
 from 1689 to 1692, and was Deputy-Commissary for 
 the county in 1686. In 1697 he was one of the Com- 
 missioners to treat with the Piscataway Indians.^" He 
 was sworn a Justice of the Provincial Court May ist, 
 1694, and was appointed Commissary-General June 
 5th, 1700.3' On June 26th, 1702, he was named Judge 
 of the High Court of Admiralty. From April, 1692, 
 to 1707 and again from 1715 to 1724 he was a mem- 
 
 ^"^ Archives of Maryland : Proceedings and Acts of the General Assem- 
 bly of Maryland, i666-i6j6. Baltimore, 1S84, page 143. 
 ^'^<5., pages 239, 422. 
 
 2 "His will was drawn Oct, 25th, 1676, and proved Dec. 29th, 1676. 
 Will-Book Liber A — i6j6, 1677, folio 123. 
 
 Communicated by Mrs. Jane Baldwin, of Annapolis, Maryland. 
 
 ^'^ Liber H. D., No. 2, folio 525, Maryland Historical Society, Balti- 
 more. 
 
 •^ ^ Testatnentary Proceedings of Prerogative Court for last note. Liber 
 XVIII. B, folio /, Register of Wills, Annapolis, 
 
ACTING-GOVERNOR THOMAS BROOKE. 19- 
 
 ber of the Council of Maryland.^^ In 1720 he was 
 President of the Council and Acting-Governor of the 
 Province. He died in 1730.33 As Deputy Governor, 
 Colonel Brooke wrote the following letter to the 
 Bishop of London : 
 
 "Maryland, i8th July, 1720. 
 " My Lord, 
 
 "The Government here being in me at present 
 under the Lord Proprietor, I take it to be my indis- 
 putable duty to do all I can to promote the true 
 interest of the Church of England established in this 
 Province, as well as I am firmly attached to it by my 
 judgment and inclination. 
 
 "I with great pleasure congratulate your Lordship 
 on the happy prospect we have (by the good conduct 
 and example of your Commissary, the Rev^ Mr. 
 Henderson) of putting an end to the unhappy dis- 
 putes that were on purpose raised among the Clergy 
 about matters that no way concerned their duty (viz'), 
 endeavours to misrepresent our Lord Proprietor. And 
 I can with great truth say that no noblemen can do 
 
 ""^ Archives of Maryland: Proceedings of the Council of 3faryland, 
 1687I8-1693. Baltimore, 1890, pages 271-555, passion. Proceedings and 
 Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, 1684-1692. Baltimore, 1894, 
 pages 253-360, passim. 
 
 ^^Colonel Thomas Brooke's will was proved January 25th, 1731. Will- 
 Book C. C, No. 3, J730-1734, folio 125 ; Office of Register of Wills, An- 
 napolis, Md. 
 
20 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 more than his Lordship has done to convince us all 
 of his regard and zeal for the Protestant religion and 
 Interest. 
 
 "As this is an happy prospect, and promises me 
 much ease and satisfaction so long as I shall have the 
 honor of governing, so I humbly pray your Lordship's 
 assistance to perfect so good beginnings by your 
 paternal Injunctions to the Clergy to promote and 
 forward them. They shall never want what service 
 I can do them, nor shall I omit any opportunity to 
 demonstrate that 
 
 "I am, my Lord, &c., 
 
 "THOS BROOKE."34 
 
 Colonel Brooke married first Anne , who 
 
 joined him in a deed dated Feb. 23rd, 1687. 
 They had 
 
 1. Thomas Brooke, who married Lucy Smith. 
 
 2. Eleanor Brooke, who married first John Tasker, and 
 second Charles Sewall. 
 
 3. Sarah Brooke, who married Philip Lee. 
 
 Colonel Brooke married second Barbara (born in 
 1676 and died in 1754)35, youngest daughter of 
 
 ^*William Stevens Perry's American Colonial Church, Vol. IV., Mary- 
 land, page 125. Privately printed, 1878. See also pages 121, 122. 
 
 3 5The will of Barbara Brooke, widow, was drawn Feb. 4th, 1748-9, 
 and sworn to January 26th, 1754. Record of Wills, No. i, folio 470, 
 Prince George County, Md. 
 
ACTING-GOVERNOR THOMAS BROOKE. 21 
 
 Thomas Dent, of St. Mary's County, and Rebeccas^ 
 his wife, daughter of the Rev. WilHam Wilkinson. 
 Thomas Brooke and Barbara Dent were married be- 
 fore January 4th, 1 699-1 700, for on that date she joins 
 him in a deed.^^ 
 
 Colonel Brooke and Barbara Dent, his second wife, 
 had issue, but the order of birth is not certain, the fol- 
 lowing children -.^^ 
 
 Thomas Brooke. 
 
 Nathaniel Brooke. 
 
 John Brooke. 
 
 Benjamin Brooke. 
 
 Baker Brooke. 
 
 Mary Brooke, who married Dr. Patrick Sim, of Prince George 
 
 County. 
 Rebecca Brooke, who married John Howard of Charles County. 
 Priscilla Brooke, who married Thomas Gantt. 
 Jane Brooke, who married Alexander Contee. 
 Elizabeth Brooke, who married Colonel George Beall. 
 Lucy Brooke, who married Thomas Hodgkin. 
 
 '*'*Thomas Dent died in 1676; Rebecca, his widow, married secondly 
 Mr. John Adison, also mentioned as Coloriel John Adison, of Charles 
 and St. Mary's Counties, as his property was in both counties. On 
 October 19th, 1677, she was cited to account for her execudon of the 
 estate of her late husband, Thomas Dent, and craved time until her 
 husband, Colonel John Adison, returned to the province; this re- 
 quest was granted. {Testamentary Proceedijigs, No. IX., folio 374, 
 Annapolis. ) 
 
 Communicated by Mrs. Jane Baldwin. Annapolis, Maryland. 
 
 ^'' Liber A, folio 210. Records of Prince George County, Md. She 
 also joined him in a deed November 6th, 1730. Liber Q, folio 124, 
 Records of Prince George County. 
 
 ^^'The names of the children of Colonel and Mrs. Brooke were com- 
 municated by Mrs. Jane Baldwin of Annapolis, Md. 
 
2 2 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 Elizabeth Brooke, daughter of Colonel Thomas 
 Brooke and Barbara Dent, his second wife, married 
 Colonel George Beall^^ of Prince George County, the 
 youngest of the twelve children of Colonel Ninian Beall. 
 
 Colonel Ninian Beall was born in 1625,^^° in Scot- 
 land, probably either in Fifeshire or Dumbartonshire. 
 
 ««"At the request of Mary Beall the following Deed of Gift was 
 Recorded April 2d Anno Domini 1751 — 
 
 " Maryland SS. Prince Georges County To all Christian People to 
 whom these presents shall come I Barbara Brooke of the same County 
 and Province afd. send Greeting. Know ye that I the said Barbara 
 Brooke for and in Consideration of the Natural Love and Affection which 
 I have and do bear to my Grand Daughter Mary Beall (Daughter of Eliza- 
 beth & George Beall my son in Law) as well as Five shillings Current 
 money in hand paid as for Divers other good Causes and Considerations 
 me thereunto more Especially moving hath Given and Granted by these 
 Presents doth Give Grant and confirm unto my said Grand Daughter 
 Mary Beall one Negroe Girl named Rebeccah and her Increase To her the 
 said Mary Beall and her heirs for ever. To have and To hold the afd 
 Negroe Girl and her Increase to my said Grand Daughter Mary Beall and 
 the Heirs of her Body Lawfully Begotten. But if my said Grand Daughter 
 Mary Beall should Die before she comes of Age or have Lawfull Issue 
 then I do Give Grant and Confirm the Beforementioned Negroe Girl 
 and her Increase To my Grand son Thomas Brooke Beall, and to the 
 Heirs of his Body Lawfully Begotten but in case of Default of such Issue 
 I do Give and Grant the afd Negroe Girl and her Increase to my Grand 
 son Patrick Beall and the Heirs of his Body Lawfully Begotten for ever. 
 And in Case of Default of such Issue then I do hereby Give and Grant the 
 afd Negroe Girl and her Increase unto the Heirs of me the said Barbara 
 Brooke. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed 
 my seal this second day of April Anno Domini 1751. 
 
 her 
 "BARBARA X BROOKE." 
 mark 
 
 IJder C folio 11 1, Prince George County Records at Marlboro. Com- 
 municated by Mrs. Jane Baldwin of Annapolis. 
 
 ■^''Chancery Records {iji2-iT24), page 42, in Maryland Land Office, 
 Annapolis. 
 
COLONEL NINIAN BEALL, 1625-1717. 23 
 
 He was in the Scottish army which fought against 
 Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar in 1650, where 
 he was taken prisoner and soon after transported 
 to Maryland, where he lived, first in Calvert County 
 and afterwards in Prince George County.'^' Of a 
 strong character, he became in a short time, with 
 his knowledge of arms, a man of importance in the 
 miltiary forces of the province. He was very busy 
 fighting the Indians until the end of his life, rising 
 higher and higher until he became a full Colonel.'*^ 
 
 •'iThere is a record of him in the Maryland Land Office of the year 
 1658 {Liber 5 Folio 416). By the family and in Georgetown the 
 name Beall, is pronounced as if it were spelt "bell." Although the 
 scribes at Annapolis spelt Ninian Beall's name in many ways, his de- 
 scendants now all spell the name, "Beall." He and his family should 
 not be confounded with the following seven emigrants and their de- 
 scendants : Liber. Folio. 
 
 Beal, John, transported 1658 D. 211 
 
 Beale, " " 165S 
 
 Susan, " 1676 
 
 Thomas, " 1666 
 
 " of St. Mary's, Service . . . 1672 
 
 William, transported 1664 
 
 " " 1671 
 
 4 2 At a meeting of the Governor and Council on May 2olh, 1692, the 
 
 following letter was read : 
 
 "May the igth 1692 Western Branch. 
 "May it Please your Excellency 
 
 "I have here sent you the news inclosed that came to me, I am 
 Just now going up, and will be as Careful! as I can till further Order 
 from your Honour and Council I do intend to keep out Ranging back 
 of the Plantations till further Orders in hast I remain 
 
 12 
 
 551 
 
 15 
 
 7,^9 
 
 9 
 
 436 
 
 17 
 
 57 
 
 6 
 
 296 
 
 16 
 
 400 
 
 " To his Excellency the Capt Genl 
 & Chief Governor in and over 
 the Province of Maryland. 
 
 Your Excellencys Servant to 
 Command whilst I am 
 
 "NINIAN BEALE." 
 
 The enclosure spoken of in the above letter referred to an Indian attack. 
 Archives of Maryland: Proceeditigs a7id Acts of the General Assembly 
 of Maryland, /684-1692. Baltimore, 1894, page 282. 
 
24 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 On July 22d, 1699, the Maryland Assembly passed 
 the following act in recognition of his services : 
 
 " An Act of Gratitude to Col. Ninian Beall. Lib. 
 L L. No. 2. fol. p. 228. PR. 
 
 " Viz. For his Services upon all Incursions and Dis- 
 turbances of the Neighboring Indians, 75 1. Sterling, to 
 be laid out for 3 serviceable Negroes, to him and to 
 his Wife during their Lives, and afterwards to their 
 Children. The said Negroes and their Increase not 
 to be subject to any Executions or Judgments during 
 the Life of Mr. Beall, or his Wife."« 
 
 He became the owner of many tracts of land, some 
 of rather large extent. In 1703 he received the fol- 
 lowing grant from Lord Baltimore, which included 
 much of the ground upon which Georgetown now 
 stands : 
 
 "Ninian Beales Patt 795 acres Rock of Dumbar- 
 ton"^ 
 
 " Cert Lib. D. D. 
 
 " Charles absolute Lord and propry of the Province 
 of Maryland, To all etc., know yee that for and in 
 Consederation that Ninian Beale of Prince Georges 
 
 o 
 
 County hath due unto him seven hundred and ninety 
 
 *^Laws of Maryland at large, 1637-1763, Annapolis ; printed by Jonas 
 Green, Printer to the Province, 1765. Chapter XX. 
 
 ^"^ Liber C. D., folio 121. Maryland Land Office at Annapolis. 
 
COLONEL NINIAN BEALL, 1625-1717. 25 
 
 five acres of land within our said Province being due 
 unto him by virtue of a warrant for five hundred 
 acres, granted him the nineteenth day of May, one 
 thousand seven hundred and two and another warrant 
 for nine hundred and twenty acres granted him the 
 sixth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and 
 two as appears in our Land office and upon such 
 Conditions and terms as are expressed in our Con- 
 ditions of Plantacons of our said Province bearing 
 date the fifth day of April one thousand six hundred 
 eighty and four and remaining upon record in our 
 said province together with such alteracons as in them 
 are made by our further Condicons bearing date the 
 fourth day of December one thousand six hundred 
 ninety and six and registered in our land office of 
 our said province, Wee doe therefore hereby grant 
 unto him the said Ninian Beale all that Tract or 
 parcell of land called Rock of Dumbarton lying in 
 the said County Beginning at the South last corner 
 Tree, of a Tract of land taken for Robert Mason 
 standing by Potomeck River side at the mouth of 
 Rock Creek on a point running thence with the said 
 land North North West, six hundred and forty ps. 
 thence last three hundred and twenty ps. then South 
 six deg: and a half Easterly four hundred ps. then 
 with the straight line by the Creek and River to the 
 
26 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 first bound. Containing and then laid out for seven 
 hundred ninety and five acres, more or less according 
 to the Cert, thereof of Survey taken and returned 
 into our land Office bearing date the fourth day of 
 November one thousand seven hundred and two and 
 there remaining together with all rights profits bene- 
 fits and priveledges thereunto belonging Royall mines 
 excepted To have and to hold the same unto him the 
 said Ninian Beale his heirs and assio^ns forever to be 
 holden of us and our heirs as of our mannor of 
 Calverton in free and Common Soccage by fealty 
 only for all manner of Services yielding and paying 
 therefore yearly unto us and our heirs at our receipt 
 at the City of S' Maries at the two most usuall feasts 
 in the year Viz. at the feast of the Annuncacon of the 
 blessed Virgin Mary and S'Michaell the archangell, 
 by even and equal porcons the rent of one pound 
 eleven shilK and nine pence half penny Ster: in 
 silver or gold and for a fine upon every alienacon of 
 the said land or any part or parcell thereof one whole 
 year rent in silver or gold or the full value thereof in 
 such Commodities as wee and our heirs or such 
 Officer as shall be appointed by us and our heirs 
 from time to time to Collect and receive the same 
 shall accept in discharge thereof at the choice of us 
 and our heirs or such officer or officers as aforesd 
 
COLONEL NINIAN BEALL, 1625-1717. 27 
 
 provided that if the paid sume for a fine for ahenation 
 shall not be paid to us and our heirs or such officer 
 or Officers as afore said before such alienacon and the 
 said alienacon entred upon Record either in the 
 provinciall Court or in the County Court where the 
 same parcell of land lyeth within one month next 
 after such alienacon the said alienacon shall be void 
 of no effect Given under our greater seale at arms, 
 this eighteenth day of November, one thousand seven 
 hundred and three. Witness our Trusty and well 
 beloved Coll Henry Darnall keeper of our said 
 greater seale in our said Province of Maryland/'^s 
 
 Ninian Beall's will, which is on record at Annapolis, 
 is as follows : 
 
 "In the Name of God Amen. 
 
 "I Ninian Beall of Prince Georges County in the 
 Province of Maryland being indisposed in Body but 
 of sound and perfect memory God be praised for 
 the same and considering the Mortality of humane, 
 Nature and uncertainty of life doe make ordain con- 
 stitute and appoint this to be my last Will and Testa- 
 ment in manner and forme following Viz' 
 
 ^^ "The Cal verts made many other grants to Ninian Beall ; for instance, 
 " Bellfast " in Calvert County was a grant September 13th, 1683, to "Cap- 
 tain Ninian Beale" by "Charles Absolute Lord and Propty. of the 
 Provmce of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore etc " 
 Liber S. £>., No. A, folio i. Maryland Land Office, Annapolis. 
 
28 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 " Impris, I give and bequeath my soul into the 
 hands of Almighty God in hopes of free pardon for 
 all my sins and as for my Body to be committed to 
 the Earth from whence it came to be decently buried 
 at the Discretion of my trustees hereafter mentioned. 
 
 " Item I will and bequeath that, all my Debts and 
 funeral charges be first paid and satisfyed and as 
 for what portion of my worldly goods as shall be then 
 remaining I bequeath and bestow the same in manner 
 following. 
 
 " Item. I doe give and bequeath unto my son 
 George my plantation and Tract of land called the 
 Rock of Dunbarton lying and being at Rock Creek 
 and containing four hundred and eighty acres with all 
 the stock thereon both catde and Hoggs them and 
 their, increase unto my said son George and unto his 
 heirs for ever. 
 
 *' Item, I doe give and bequeath unto my said son 
 George Beall his choice of one of my feather beds 
 bolster and Pillow and other furniture thereunto 
 belonging with two Cows and calves and half my 
 sheep from off this plantation, I now live on unto him 
 and his heirs for ever. 
 
 "Item, I doe give and bequeath unto my son in 
 Law Andrew Hambleton my negro woman Alic unto 
 him and his heirs for ever. 
 
COLONEL NINIAN BEALL, 1625-1717. 29 
 
 "Item, I give and bequeath unto my Grand- 
 daughter Mary Beall the daughter of my son Ninian 
 Beall deceased the one half part of all my moveables 
 or personal estate as Cattle and Hogs Horses House- 
 hold goods after my Legacyes before bequeathed are 
 paid and satisfied unto her the said Mary and to 
 her heirs for ever. 
 
 "Item I give and bequeath unto my said Grand- 
 daughter Mary Beall all that part of Bacon Hall that 
 lyeth on the south side of the road that goeth to Mount 
 Calvert to her the said Mary and unto her heirs for ever. 
 
 "Item I give and bequeath to my Grandson 
 Samuel Beall all the remainder part of Bacon Hall 
 together with the Plantation and Orchyard and 
 tobacco houses thereunto belonging (with this proviso) 
 that when he comes to the age of one and twenty 
 that he make over by a firm conveyance all his, right 
 and tide that he hath unto a certain Tract of land called 
 Sanes [or Sams] Beginning on the south side of the 
 said road goeing to Mount Calvert unto the said Mary 
 and unto her heirs for ever but if my said Grandson 
 should happen to dye before he arrive to be of that 
 age to make over the land soe as aforesaid then I do 
 give & bequeath unto my said Granddaughter Mary 
 the whole Tract of Bacon Hall with the houses and 
 Orchyard thereon unto her and her heirs for ever. 
 
30 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 " Item I give and bequeath unto my s'^ Grandson 
 Samuel Beall my Water Mill Lying upon Collington 
 Branch with the stones Iron work houses and all 
 other Matterealls, thereunto belonging unto the said 
 Samuel and unto his heirs for ever. 
 
 " Item I give and bequeath unto my Son in Law 
 Joseph Belt^^ part of a tract of land called Good 
 Luck containing two hundred forty five acres he 
 allowing unto my heirs the sum of four thousand 
 pounds of tobacco according to our former agree- 
 ment he deducting what I doe owe him on his books 
 for severall wares and merchandizes had of him to the 
 said Joseph and unto his heirs for 
 
 "Item that whereas I owe several debts I doe 
 empower my trustees hereafter named to enable them 
 to pay the same to sell a certain Tract of land called 
 the Recovery lying and being in the freshes of Patux- 
 ent River near the head of the Western Branch to be 
 sold it containing four hundred acres, the aforesaid 
 tract of land bequeathed unto my son Belt is ad- 
 joining there unto 
 
 " Item I doe give and bequeath unto my son 
 Charles Beall a Book of Bishop Coopers work the 
 acts of the Church and the Chronicles of King Charles 
 the first and King Charles the second, and I doe 
 
 *^ Miss Catherine Dulany Belt says his wife was Margery Beall. 
 
COLONEL NINIAN BEALL, 1625-I717. 3 1 
 
 request and oblige my son Charles my Bell and my 
 son George to son to send for a Dozen of books 
 entitled an advise to young and old and middle age 
 set forth by one Mr Christopher Ness, the books to 
 be distributed among my Grand children and God 
 sons. 
 
 "Item I give and bequeath unto my son Charles 
 a thousand acres of land called Dunn Back lying on 
 the South side of great Choptank in a Creek called 
 Wattses Creek unto him and his heirs forever 
 
 " And lastly I do make ordain Declare and appoint 
 my Grandson Samuel Bell to be my sole and whole 
 Executor of this my last will & testament and I doe 
 devise my loving son Charles Bell Joseph Belt and 
 George Bell to doe and perform my devise as above 
 exprest and to act & doe for my executor until he 
 shall arrive to the age of one and twenty hereby 
 revoking and annulling all former and other wills by 
 me at any time heretofore made and signed. And 
 doe desire my said sons to use their best care and 
 endeavour that my two Grand Children the Children 
 of my beloved son Ninian Beall deceased to be 
 brought up and have that education suitable to their 
 estate, I doe also appoint my said sons Trustees to 
 this my will to make their appearance every Easter 
 Tuesday or any other time as they shall think a 
 
32 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 more fitting time at my dwelling plantation yearly 
 to inspect into all affairs thereof and of a yearly 
 increase of all the Creatures upon my plantation 
 and at the Mill for and on the behalf of my two Grand 
 Children who are to be joint Sharers therein my Grand- 
 daughter to have her part at the day of her Marriage. 
 "In testimony whereof I have to this my last will 
 and testament set my hand & seal this fifteenth day 
 of January in the year of our Lord God one thousand 
 seven hundred and seventeen. 
 
 The mark of 
 
 "NINIAN X BEALL. [seal]"^^ 
 
 Though Ninian Beall made his mark to his will^ 
 he was a man of education for those days, since he 
 signed his name often, as is shown by the records at 
 Annapolis. He died in the year 171 7 in his ninety- 
 third year. 
 
 ^'' Liber JV. B. No. 6, folio 504 + c. Register of Wills for Anne 
 Arundel County, Maryland. 
 
 There are on record at Marlboro, Prince George County, Md., a 
 number of deeds of gift from "Coll. Ninian Beall And Ruth his Wife," 
 dated March loth, 1706. These deeds mention their sons Charles, 
 Ninian Jr., Thomas, John and George, and their daughters Hester, Mary 
 and Rechell. Liber C, folio 185, 186. 
 
 James Moore in a deposition, August i6th, 1708, speaks of Colonel 
 Ninian Beall as his brother. Liber P. C. 2. Chancery Records (1671-1712) 
 page 626, Annapolis, Md. Mrs. Henry Irvine Keyser of Baltimore, a 
 descendant of Colonel Beall, tells me that it is understood in her family 
 that Ninian Beall's wife was a Miss Moore. 
 
COLONEL GEORGE BEALL, 1695-1780. 33 
 
 Colonel George Beall*^ (see page 22) the youngest 
 child of Colonel Ninian Beall, was born at Upper 
 Marlboro,49 in Prince George County in 1695 and 
 died at Georgetown, D. C, March 15th, 1780. The 
 inscription on his tombstone was as follows : 
 " Here lieth Colonel George Beall 
 who departed this Life March 15th 
 1780 Aged 85 years." 
 By an act of May 15th, 1751, the Legislature of 
 Maryland provided for laying out a town on the 
 Potomac River, above Rock Creek. For this purpose 
 part of George Beall's land was taken, as well as part 
 of that belonging to a Mr. Gordon. When, in spite 
 of their refusal to sell, the land so taken was divided 
 into lots, Colonel Beall and Mr. Gordon were allowed 
 the privilege of first selecting two lots each as com- 
 pensation for their lands. After a week's reflection, 
 George Beall sent the following answer : 
 
 "If I must part with my property by force, I had 
 better save a litde than be totally demolished. Rather 
 than have none, I accept these lots, — Nos. 72 and 79 
 
 * "Among depositions taken in June 1770 concerning a tract of land in 
 Prince George County, the following appears : 
 
 "The deposition of Coll. George Beall, aged about Seventy-five years, 
 being first sworn on the Holy Evangels, Deposeth," etc. Liber A. A.', 
 No. 2, folio 206, Land Records of Prince George County, Md. 
 
 ^''Beall family Bible. 
 
34 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 said to be Mr. Henderson's and Mr. Edmonston's. 
 But I do hereby protest, and declare that my accept- 
 ance of the said lots, which is by force, shall not debar 
 me from future redress from the Commissioners or 
 others, if I can have the rights of a British subject. 
 
 God save King George ! 
 
 "GEORGE BEALL. 
 
 "March 7, 1752, "5° 
 
 He built, what was for those days, a fine, large, 
 brick house which still stands on the present N Street, 
 near Thirty-first Street.^' He was buried along side 
 of his wife (see page 22) in the family burying ground 
 near their house. The inscription on her tombstone 
 was as follows : 
 
 " Here lieth the Body of Elizabeth Beall the wife of 
 Colonel George Beall who departed this Life October 
 the 2nd : 1748 Aged about 49 years." 
 
 In recent years their bodies, with those of their 
 children, were removed to Oak Hill. It is held by 
 many of the inhabitants of Georgetown, that George- 
 town was named after Colonel George Beall. On 
 January i8th, 1720, he received a grant of thirteen 
 
 ''''The Chronicles of Georgetown, D. C.,/rom 173 1 to 1878, by Richard 
 P. Jackson of the Washington Bar. Washington, D. C. ; R. O. Polkin- 
 horn, 1878, pages 3-5. 
 
 ■^^It may be that this house was built by his son, Thomas Beall. 
 
COLONEL GEORGE BEALL, 1695-I780. 35 
 
 hundred and eighty acres known as " the Addition to 
 the Rock of Dumbarton. "^^ His will was probated at 
 Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, and is as 
 follows : 
 
 "In the name of God Amen, I George Beall of Mont- 
 gomery County and State of Maryland, being weak of 
 Body but of perfect mind and disposing memory, and 
 bearing in mind the certainty of Death, and uncertainty 
 of life, do ordain this to be my last Will & Testament, 
 Renouncing & Disanuling all former Wills, and first 
 I Will my Soul to God in whose mercy with the 
 merits of Jesus Christ I depend for Salvation, Sec- 
 ondly, that my Body be Buried in a decent and Christian 
 like manner— And thirdly, I will that all my Just debts 
 be paid out of the Estate it hath pleased God to bless 
 me with, & the Remainder to be Divided in manner 
 and form following, Vizt, — 
 
 "Item, I give and bequeath to my son George 
 Beall [The will is effaced at this point.] 
 
 "Item, I give all my houses, and lots in George- 
 town to my son Thomas Beall and also all that tract 
 or parcel of land called Cunjurors Disappointment 
 and also part of Dumbarton, to be Divided by the 
 great branch that leads to the Saw Mill thence to the 
 
 ''■'Liber J. L., No. A., folio 53, Maryland Land Office, Annapolis. 
 
36 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 Main Road, all that part that lies to the southward to 
 belong to my G. son Thomas Beall 
 
 "Item, I give unto my Daughter Elizabeth Evans 
 my Negro fellow Jack, to serve four years and then 
 to be set free — 
 
 "Signed Sealed and Acknowledged to be my last 
 Will & testament in presents of us this 15'^ day of 
 
 March 1780. 
 
 "GEO BEALL [seal] 
 " W. Smith 
 Richard Cheney 
 Abra^ Boyd." 
 
 Colonel and Mrs. Beall had twelve children as 
 follows :52 
 
 Esther, d. y. 
 
 Thomas, d. aged seventeen years. 
 
 Mary, d. aged sixteen years. 
 
 George, b. in 1729. 
 
 Levin, d. in Martinique. 
 
 Patrick. 
 
 Thomas (2^'^) d. y. 
 
 Rebeckah. 
 
 Lucy Magruder. 
 
 Elizabeth Evans. 
 
 Mary (2"<i) 
 
 Thomas (3'''^) born in 1748 (see page 57). 
 
 s^From the family Bible that belonged to George C. Washington 
 communicated by Mrs. Henry Irvine Keyser, of Baltimore. 
 
COLONEL GEORGE BEALL, 1729-1807. 2)7 
 
 George, the fourth child and second son of Colonel 
 George Beall^^ and Elizabeth Brooke his wife, was 
 also in the army as the inscription on his tombstone 
 shows : 
 
 " Sacred to the Memory of Colonel George Beall. 
 He was born in George Town on the 26th day of 
 February 1729. He died October 15th 1807 in the 
 
 '^^A grandson of the second Colonel George Beall, the Rev. Thomas 
 Bloomer Balch, speaks thus in his Reniitiiscences of Georgetown of some 
 of the Beall family : 
 
 " George Beall, the son of Ninian [Beall] was the immediate progenitor 
 of George and Thomas Beall, who were respectable inhabitants of 
 Georgetown. Ninian [Beall] being a friend of the Hanoverian succes- 
 sion, probably gave name to his son from this fact. George, of George, 
 died in 1807, and was buried in the family cemetery, which is nearly oppo- 
 site to the house now occupied by Dr. Riley. 
 
 ******** 
 
 ' ' He married a Magruder. The clan of the McGregors had been rather 
 turbulent in the highlands of Scotland, but the Magruders behaved very 
 well after their removal to Maryland, about the middle of the seventeenth 
 
 century. 
 
 ******** 
 
 "It is unnecessary to say anything about the descendants of Colonel 
 George Beall [1729-1807] except in connection with our town. His son, 
 Thomas Brooke [Beall] was at one time President of the Farmers and 
 Mechanics' Bank, and died in 1820. In 1781, his eldest daughter [Eliza- 
 beth Beall] was married to the Rev. Dr. Balch, once pastor of the Presby- 
 terian church on Bridge Street, who is introduced into these reminiscences 
 by special request from many of our citizens. Thomas Beall, brother of 
 George [the second] made one of the additions to the corporate limits of 
 this town. Seventy-five years ago he built a house on the heights called 
 Dumbarton, and died in the fall of 1819." 
 
 Reminiscences of Georgetown, D. C. Second Lecture delivered 
 March 9th, 1859, by Rev. T. B. Balch. Washington ; Henry Polkinhorn, 
 1859, page 7. 
 
38 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 79th Year of his Age. He lived respected and died 
 lamented."55 
 
 His will, which is on record in Washington, D. C, 
 is as follows : 
 
 "In the name of God Amen I George Beall of 
 Washington County in the State of Columbia, be- 
 ing in perfect health and of a sound and disposing 
 mind and memory, do make and ordain this my 
 last will and testament, first revoking all other wills. 
 It is my will and desire that all my just debts be 
 paid. Item, I give and bequeath unto my beloved 
 wife Elizabeth Beall all the real and personal prop- 
 erty that I have received by her with their increase. 
 Likewise, I give her negro Bill and a mullattow girl 
 named Sela and my cochehee with two horses that 
 is fitting for a carrage and one hundred dollars to 
 buy a morning (moung) ring, but she is to have no 
 rite of dowry to any part of my estate, if she should 
 want to retake any part or parsell of my estate or 
 my will then all what I have received by her to be 
 
 ^ 5 In the Archives of Marylajid: Journal and Correspondence of the Mary- 
 land Comicil of Safety, July yth-December 31st, 1776 (Baltimore, 1893), at 
 page 293, it is recorded that " Captn George Beall " was appointed Sep- 
 tember 2ist, 1776, inspector of " George Town Warehouse, in the Lower 
 district of Frederick County." And in \he Journal and Correspondence 
 of the Council of Safety, January ist-March 20th, 1777, and the Journal 
 and Correspondence of the State Council, March 20th, 1777-March 28th, 
 1778 {Archives of Maryland, Baltimore, 1897), a Major George Beall is 
 twice mentioned, pages 296 and 373. 
 
COLONEL GEORGE BEALL, I729-1807. 39 
 
 brought into my apprasement both real and per- 
 sonal. After my wife's decease Bill and Sela to be 
 devided between my children and Sela's increase if 
 any. Item, I give and devise unto my eldest son 
 George Beall one hundred dollars. I also give and 
 be^queave unto the children of the said George Beall 
 the neg-roe named in a bill of sale from him to me 
 recorded in Montgomery County Court with all that 
 increase but not till after the death of the said 
 George Beall and his wife. I likewise give and be- 
 queath to George Beall two children Patrick Beall 
 and Ann Beall three small negroes apiece with the 
 one that each has got a piece. I likewise give the 
 said George Beall an equal part of my household fur- 
 niture and an equal part of all my stock. Item, I 
 give and bequeath to my son Levin Beall the land he 
 now lives on during his life and his present wife's 
 life ; then after their decease to be equally divided be- 
 twixt his two children, John and Anna Beall to them 
 and their heirs for ever. I likewise give and be- 
 queath to John Beall and Anna Beall all the negroes 
 that Levin C. Beall has in his possition to be equally 
 divided between John and Anna Beall after their 
 father and mother's decease. I likewise give the said 
 John and Anna Beall each of them three small ne- 
 groes apiece such as my executors shall think proper. 
 
40 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 I likewise give Levin C. Beall one hundred dollars 
 and an equal part of my household furniture with an 
 equal part of the stock. Item, I give and bequeave to 
 my grandson Thomas Beall of Eras. Beall three ne- 
 groes such as my executors shall think proper and 
 four hundred dollars, to be taken out of my houses 
 and lotts. Item, I make and do ordain my two sons 
 Hezk. Beall and Capt. Thos. B. Beall my whole ex- 
 ecutors and administrators joindy and severally on all 
 my estate. I give and bequeath to my two sons 
 Hezh. Beall and Capt. Thos. B. Beall the grave yard 
 lott to begin at the end of my two lotts that lays in 
 front of the street and to run to a lott known by the 
 name of Mrs. White's and then with said lott north 
 or thereabouts to the end supposed to be one hun- 
 dred and twenty feet, then to run about west, so as to 
 make it square in the garding, and then to run about 
 south with a straight line to the beginning of the first 
 line, to them and their heirs, executors, administrators 
 or assigns for ever. Item, I give and bequeave to my 
 son Hezekiah Beall the remainder part of the thou- 
 sand pounds that I was to give him, likewise the six 
 negroes and their increase that I have given him, like- 
 wise an equal share of my stock and household 
 goods. Item, I give and bequeath to my son Capt. 
 Thos. Brooke Beall three negroes that is all to make 
 
COLONEL GEORGE BEALL, 1729-1807. 4^ 
 
 up his six negroes with the three that he has gott, 
 likewise his balance due him of his thousand pounds 
 and likewise I give him all the land that I hold on 
 Senaca Creek that I bought of him, he first paying to 
 the estate six hundred dollars to pay off the legacies — 
 Likewise an equal part of stock and household fur- 
 niture. Item I give and bequeath to the Revd. 
 Stephen B. Balch Nell and Lydia, but their increase 
 to be equally divided betwixt his children. Whereas 
 Lydia has three or four children now I give the oldest 
 child to Lewis P. W. Balch, the next oldest to Geo. 
 Balch, and the next oldest to Anna Balch and the 
 next oldest to Harriet Balch and so continue until 
 they all get equall alike in case the two negro women 
 should breed ; likewise I give Lewis P. W. Balch one 
 hundred and fifty dollars out of my estate. I give 
 and bequeath to Capt. John Rose the six negroes that 
 he had of me and their increase, and to have his 
 thousand pounds made up to him as there is a great 
 proportion already paid ; likewise I give him an equall 
 part of the stock and household furniture. Item I 
 give all the rest of my estate, after my just debts is 
 paid and all these legacies that I have made is taken 
 out of my houses and lotts in George Town or Thos. 
 Beall of Geo. addition to Georgetown except the 
 Grave yard lott which I have given to my two sons 
 
42 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 Hezk. Beall and Capt. Thos. B. Beall, it is my desire 
 that the above property be equally divided betwixt 
 the following children to wit: Hezk. Beall, Capt. 
 Thos. B. Beall, Elizabeth Balch and Anna Rose. 
 Item, it is my desire that my executors and adminis- 
 trators give to George Beall, my eldest son, one 
 negro at their discression for during his life and his 
 wife's life and afterwards to be divided between his 
 two children Patrick Beall and his daughter Ann 
 Beall. It is also my desire that my executors and ad- 
 ministrators give to my son Levin C. Beall one grone 
 negro at their discression of my executors during his 
 and his wife's life, and afterwards to be divided be- 
 tween his two children John Beall and Anna Beall. 
 Of my executors, being subscribed and set down be- 
 fore the signing of this instrument of writing. 
 
 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
 and affixed my seal this eleventh day of June one 
 thousand eight hundred and two. 
 
 "GEORGE BEALL. 
 
 "Proved October 20th, iSo;."^^ 
 
 He married Elizabeth Magruder (originally Mc- 
 Gregor). Among their children were Thomas Brooke 
 
 ^^ Wills No /, J. H., folio J 37. Register of Wills, Washington, D. C. 
 
ELIZABETH BEALL, 1762-1827. 43 
 
 Bealls^who died in 1820, Elizabeth Beall, and Anna 
 Beall who married in 1792 at Georgetown, "Cap- 
 tain " John Rose. Elizabeth Beall was born in 
 Georgetown in 1762 and died there June 27th, 1827. 
 On July loth, 1781, she was married by the Rev. 
 Isaac Stockton Keith to the Rev. Stephen Bloomer 
 Balch, then Rector of the Presbyterian Church of 
 Georgetown. The ladies of Georgetown being patri- 
 otic, positively refused to drink tea during the prog- 
 ress of the Revolution, and so the cups used at the 
 wedding were not much larger than thimbles.^^ Dr. 
 Balch was the son of James Balch and was born 
 April 5th, 1747, on Deer Creek, Harford County, 
 Maryland. His family came originally from south- 
 western England — from Somerset and Devon. After 
 graduating at Princeton College in 1774, he went to 
 
 5 "The will of Thomas Brooke Beall of Washington, D. C, was signed 
 November 23d, 1808. The last codicil was dated " George Town 9th July 
 1816." The will was proved at Washington, D. C, October 14th, 1820. 
 
 " Item 12. I leave Hezk. Beall or his children one third of my estate, 
 Anna Rose one third or her children and one third to Thomas [Bloomer] 
 Balch, Anna Balch, Eliza Balch and Jane Whann Balch, after all the leg- 
 acies are paid the balance is to go as I have stated in this Item. The one 
 third that I have left to Mrs. Balch's children is to be equally divided 
 among the above named children. And lastly, I do hereby constitute 
 and appoint Hezk. Beall, Capt. John Rose and Stephen B. Balch to be 
 my executors of this my last will & testament." Wills No. 3, H. C. H., 
 folio 94, Register of Wills, Washington, D. C. 
 
 ^"^Reminiscences of Georgetoimi, D. C. A lecture delivered in George- 
 town D. C, January 20th, 1859, by Rev. T. B. Balch. Washington : 
 Henry Polkinhorn, 1859, page 15. 
 
44 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 Lower Marlboro, Calvert County, Maryland, where 
 he took charge of a classical academy. On October 
 ist, 1775, he was commissioned captain in the Cal- 
 vert County militia : he held this command for three 
 years and was in actual service against the enemy 
 from December ist, 1775, to December ist, 1777.^^ 
 When the British appeared on the shores of the 
 Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay, he marched 
 out with his company to assist in repulsing them. 
 He was in a number of actions, and though fre- 
 quently offered promotion, declined it, inasmuch as he 
 thought he could be of more service on the Chesa- 
 peake border, with all of which he was familiar from 
 childhood, and at the same time could continue his 
 preparation for the ministry. In 1778 when the feel- 
 ing was universal that, owing to the defeat of Bur- 
 goyne (1777) and the French alliance, our independ- 
 ence was secured, and the acknowledgment of it was 
 merely a question of time, he resigned from the 
 service in order to give himself up more assiduously 
 to his clerical duties. 
 
 In 1780 he was called by the Presbyterians of 
 Georgetown on the Potomac to establish a church 
 among them. Accepting, he arrived there March 
 
 ^^ Records of the Revohdionary War, by W. T. R. Saffell, New York, 
 1858, page 537. 
 
STEPHEN BLOOMER BALCH, I747-1833. 45 
 
 1 6th, 1780, and remained in charge of the church he 
 founded, until his death fifty-three years afterwards. 
 
 Among his friends were Thomas Jefferson and Al- 
 bert Gallatin. A few weeks after the death of Gen- 
 eral Washington, Dr. Balch gave notice that he would 
 speak of the life and services of the departed states- 
 man. He preached in the open air to more than a 
 thousand people, from the last verse of the tenth 
 chapter of the book of Esther, " For Mordecai the 
 Jew, was next unto King Ahasuerus, and great among 
 the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his breth- 
 ren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking 
 peace to all his ^eed." He was a firm believer in the 
 rights of the individual and was in favor of gradually 
 liberating the slaves and sending them to Liberia. He 
 had a robust, vigorous constitution and a bold honest 
 countenance. He was a lover of books, and among 
 the classics he preferred Horace to Virgil. 
 
 " On Sunday morning, September 22, 1833, at nine 
 o'clock A. M., as he was preparing to go to church to 
 perform his official duties," Mr. Jackson of Georgetown 
 says,^ "he was stricken with apoplexy and sank to rest 
 like the sun without a cloud to hide his lustre. As the 
 news of his death spread through the town the citizens, 
 
 ^ ° Article on Dr. Balch in the Washington Evening Star of April ist, 
 1893, by W. S. Jackson, Esq., of Georgetown, D. C. 
 
46 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 irrespective of religious creed, expressed themselves 
 with one accord: 'Well done, good and faithful serv- 
 ant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.' A successful 
 plaster cast of his face was taken just after his death. 
 On Monday the Board of Aldermen and Common 
 Council of Georgetown passed the following resolution : 
 
 " 'That we have learned with deep regret the death 
 of our aged and venerable fellow citizen, Doctor 
 Stephen Bloomer Balch, who for more than fifty-three 
 years, has been a useful and honored minister of re- 
 ligion in the town, illustrating the holy profession he 
 made through his long career by a life of uniform 
 piety towards God, and benevolence, liberality and 
 kindness to his fellow men, descending to his tomb 
 full of years, and rich in the reverence, esteem and 
 love of the whole community. 
 
 ' ' ' Resolved, that as a testimony of respect to his 
 memory, the members and officers of this corporation 
 will attend his funeral to-morrow (Tuesday) at ten 
 o'clock A. M. 
 
 " ' Resolved, that the clerk of the corporation be re- 
 quested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the 
 family of the deceased.' 
 
 " The town was draped in mourning, business places 
 were closed, and all the bells tolled as the remains of 
 this faithful apostle of God were carried from his resi- 
 
STEPHEN BLOOMER BALCH, 1747-1833. 47 
 
 dence, No. 3302 N Street, to the church where he had 
 so often performed the last sad rites to hundreds and 
 thousands. Ministers of all denominations, including 
 eight priests, representing the Catholic Church, who 
 had loved and venerated him in life, joined in the fun- 
 eral cortege. When the hearse reached the church 
 the procession was still forming at the residence. 
 
 "The funeral sermon, an eloquent discourse on the 
 life and services of the deceased, was preached by the 
 Rev. Elijah Harrison, of Alexandria, Virginia, from 
 Acts viii. 2 : ' And devout men carried Stephen to his 
 burial, and made great lamentation over him.' After 
 the funeral sermon his remains were incased in the 
 front wall of the church. 
 
 " His life was checkered with many severe trials. 
 Dug out of one home, flooded out of another and 
 burnt out of a third, yet his fortitude and piety, resig- 
 nation and cheerfulness forsook him not. Keeping 
 his eye steadfastly fixed on his sacred calling, he was 
 to his expiring day faithful to his Master. 
 
 "In October, 1835, ^ handsome monument was 
 erected by his family to his memory in front of the 
 church he founded and so long presided over. It was 
 of white marble, representing a pyramidal tablet rest- 
 ing upon a solid Ionic base against the wall between 
 
48 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 the doors of the main entrance, with no other orna- 
 ment than a wreath beautifully sculptured at the top. 
 It bore the following inscription : 
 
 ' Sacred 
 
 To the memory of 
 
 Stephen Balch, D. D. 
 
 Who died September 22, 1833, 
 
 In the eighty-seventh year of his age. 
 
 He was the founder of this church, 
 
 And for more than half a century 
 
 Its revered pastor. 
 
 He planted the gospel in this town, 
 
 And his example was for many years 
 
 A light to its inhabitants. 
 
 He being dead, yet speaketh. 
 
 'Reliquiae mortales 
 
 Stephani Bloomer Balch, D. D., 
 
 Sub hoc marmore 
 
 In human tun 
 
 His children have erected this tablet 
 
 To record 
 
 The virtue of the dead and the 
 
 Gratitude of the living.' 
 
 "In the spring of 1873, when the church was de- 
 molished, his remains were reintered in the Presbyter- 
 ian cemetery on 33rd Street near the chapel. In the 
 spring of 1874 the philanthropic William W. Corcoran 
 
STEPHEN BLOOMER BALCH, I747-1833. 49 
 
 wrote to his children requesting the privilege of re- 
 moving the remains to Oak Hill cemetery. Writing 
 to his son, the Rev. Thomas B. Balch, he said: 'I 
 knew your father from boyhood, and the sentiments 
 of profound esteem with which at an early age I 
 regarded him were undiminished at the close of his 
 protracted and exemplary life.' And on June i8, 
 1874, the remains of this apostle of God were rein- 
 tered near the Swiss Chapel in Oak Hill cemetery. 
 A mural tablet ordered by W. W. Corcoran was 
 mounted on the wall of the Swiss Chapel bearing the 
 following inscription in letters of gold : 
 
 ' In honor of 
 
 Stephen Bloomer Balch, D. D., 
 
 Born 
 
 On " Deer Creek", near Bait, Md., 
 
 April, A. D. 1747, 
 
 Came to Georgetown, D. C, 
 
 March i6, A. D. 1780. 
 
 Died September 22, A. D. 1833, 
 
 He planted the Gospel in 
 
 Georgetown. Founded 
 
 " The Bridge Street Presbyterian 
 
 Church" 
 
 And was for more than fifty years 
 
 Its Pastor. 
 
 In life he Practiced what he Preached. 
 
 No Eulogy can add to such 
 
 A record.' " 
 
50 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 Dr. and Mrs. Balch had eleven children as follows : 
 
 1. Ann Amia, d. y. 
 
 2. Harriet. 
 
 3. Alfred. 
 
 4. Lewis P. W. 
 
 5. George Beall. 
 
 6. Hezekiah James, d. unmarried. 
 
 7. Thomas Bloomer. 
 
 8. Franklin, d. y. 
 
 9. Ann Eleanora. 
 
 10. Elizabeth Maria. 
 
 1 1 . Jane Whann. 
 
 2. Harriet Balch was born at Georgetown, D. C, 
 June 17th, 1783. She married first James R. Wilson, 
 U. S N., and after his death Major- General Alexander 
 Macomb, commander-in-chief of the United States 
 Army, who fought the batde of Plattsburg in 1814.^' 
 General and Mrs. Macomb lived in Washington in a 
 large house which still stood in 1897 on Farragut 
 Square at the north west corner of Seventeenth and I 
 Streets. Mrs. Macomb died May 22d, 1869. 
 
 3. Alfred Balch was born at Georgetown, D. C., Sep- 
 tember 1 7th, 1 785. He graduated at Princeton College 
 in the class of 1805, and studied for the Bar. In 181 3 
 
 "An oil picture of General Macomb that he had painted for his wife, 
 taken after the battle of Plattsburg and now in the writer's possession, 
 shows him standing in full uniform and looking into the distance : his 
 orderly holds his horse close by, and in the background the tents of the 
 American Army are seen. 
 
BALCH. 51 
 
 he went to Nashville, Tennessee, upon legal business. 
 There he remained, and soon gained the friendship of 
 Andrew Jackson, which lasted until the death of the 
 hero of New Orleans. Jackson, when President, 
 named him Commissioner of Indian treaties, and in 
 1840 Martin Van Buren appointed him United States 
 District Judge for the middle district of Florida.^^ He 
 died at his country place, Rose Mont, near Nashville, 
 on June 21st, 1853. He married twice: first Mary 
 Lewis, and after her death Anna Newman. He had 
 one child, Alfred Newman, who died in 1840. 
 
 4. Lewis Penn Witherspoon Balch was born at 
 Georgetown, D. C, on December 31st, 1787. He 
 graduated at Princeton College in 1806, where he was 
 a member of Whig Hall, and then studied law with his 
 kinsman (afterwards Chief Justice) Roger Brooke 
 Taney. His father taught him that slavery ought to 
 disappear, and, accordingly, in 1834, he liberated all 
 his slaves and sent twenty-two of them to Liberia, 
 paying for their passage. In March, 1865, he was 
 chosen a State Circuit Judge for the north eastern 
 
 «2" I nominate to the Senate Alfred Balch, of Tennessee, to be judge 
 of the United States for the middle district of Florida, for the term of 
 four years, in place of Thomas Randall, whose term of service has 
 expired. 
 
 "M. VAN BUREN. 
 "Washington, March loth, 1840." 
 
 Executive Proceedings of the Senate, Vol. IV., page 265. 
 
52 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 counties of West Virginia, and served in those 
 troublesome times with credit until the following 
 March. He contributed to the Southern Literary 
 Messenger a number of biographical sketches — on 
 Roger Brooke Taney, Daniel Sheffy, Samuel Cooper, 
 Robert White, Lawrence Everheard and others. He 
 died August 29th, 1868. On March 14th, 1811, he 
 married Elizabeth Willis Wever, daughter of John 
 Adam Wever (originally von Weber) of Virginia. 
 She was born May loth, 1790, and died July 7th, 1874. 
 
 Besides several children who died young, Judge 
 and Mrs. Balch had six children who grew up ; they 
 were all born at Leesburg, Loudon County, Virginia. 
 
 i. Lewis P. W. Balch, born February 23rd, 1814, 
 studied at West Point and Princeton College and was 
 admitted to the ministry of the Episcopal Church ; he 
 married first Anna Jay, daughter of William Jay of 
 New York, and granddaughter of Chief Justice Jay ; 
 he married secondly Emily Wiggin. 
 
 ii. Catherine Balch, born November 28th, 181 5. 
 
 iii. Virginia Balch, born March i8th, 1818. 
 
 iv. Thomas Balch, born July 23d, 1821. He 
 studied two years at Columbia College, and then read 
 law with Stephen Cambreling and was admitted to the 
 Bar. In an open letter, to which Horace Greeley gave 
 a place in the New York Tribune, on May 13th, 1865, 
 
BALCH. 53 
 
 he was the first to propose that the Alabama and 
 other differences then pending between the United 
 States and England should be decided by a Court of 
 Arbitration ; from that seed the Geneva Tribunal 
 (1872) grew. From 1859 to 1873 he lived in Europe, 
 residing chiefly at Paris. While there he wrote 
 and published in 1872 an account of the part that the 
 French took in the War of Independence : it was en- 
 titled Les Francais en Amerique pendant la Guerre de 
 V Independance des Etats-Unis, ly/y-iySj. In July, 
 1876, as one of the Congress of Authors, he contributed 
 a biographical sketch of Dr. William Shippen, " the 
 Elder," a member of the Continental Congress. He 
 married at Woodfield, her father's country place in 
 Philadelphia County, Emily Swift, daughter of Joseph 
 Swift and his wife, Eliza Moore Willing, and grand- 
 daughter of Samuel Swift and his wife, Mary, 
 daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Shippen.^^ 
 
 Issue surname Balch : 
 
 Elise Willing. 
 
 Edwin Swift, A. B., Harvard University, 1878, and member 
 of the Philadelphia Bar. 
 
 Joseph Swift, born July 5th, i860, at Paris, France, and 
 died there July 3d, 1864. 
 
 Thomas Willing, A. B., Harvard University, 1890, and mem- 
 ber of the Philadelphia Bar. 
 
 « ^Letters and Papers relating chiefly to the Provincial History of Penn- 
 sylvania, with some notices of the writers, by Thomas Balch, Philadel- 
 phia, 1S55, page xciii. 
 
54 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 V. Alexandrine Macomb, born September 6th, 1828. 
 
 vi. Stephen Fitzhugh, born March 14th, 1831. 
 
 5. George Beall Balchwas born August i6th. 1789, 
 at Georgetown, D. C. He was a planter at Moulton, 
 Alabama, and died June 2d, 1831. He married his 
 cousin, Martha Rogers Balch. 
 
 With others who died young, they had 
 
 George Beall Balch. He was born January 3d, 
 
 1 82 1, at Shelby ville, Tennessee. He entered the Naval 
 
 Academy. He was in the Mexican war and took part 
 
 in the first attack on Alvarado, November ist, 1846, 
 
 and he was a midshipman with Perry in Japan. 
 
 During the Civil War he commanded the U. S. S. 
 
 Pawnee of the Atlantic coast blockading squadron. 
 
 In 1878 he became Rear Admiral and was in command 
 
 at the Naval Academy at Annapolis from 1879 to 1881 
 
 and then commanded the Pacific squadron until he was 
 
 retired in 1883, having reached the limit of age for 
 
 active service. He married first Julia Grace Vinsen. 
 
 Issue surname Balch : 
 George Vinsen. 
 Stephen Bloomer. 
 Julia Grace. 
 Margaret Cassandier. 
 Harriet Ann. 
 
 Admiral Balch married second, Mary Ellen Booth, 
 daughter of James Booth, Chief Justice of Delaware. 
 
BALCH. 55 
 
 Issue surname Balch : 
 Mary Ellen. 
 Alfred. 
 Anna. 
 
 Francis DuPont. 
 Amy Rogers. 
 
 6. Hezekiah James Balch, was born April i6th, 
 1 79 1, at Georgetown, D. C, and died unmarried 
 March 17 th, 1821.^4 
 
 7. Thomas Bloomer Balch was born February 28th, 
 1 793, at Georgetown, D. C. He graduated at Princeton 
 in 18 1 3 and was a Presbyterian clergyman of much 
 note. He received an honorary Doctor's degree from 
 his ahna mater. For several years he was assistant to 
 his father in the church at Georgetown, and then he 
 accepted a call to the church at Snow Hill, Maryland. 
 He frequently wrote for the Southern Literary Mes- 
 senger, and published "Christianity and Literature," 
 1826, "The Ringwood Discourses," 1850, etc. He 
 
 «*He was named after his uncle, the Rev. Hezekiah James Balch, who 
 was born on Deer Creek, Harford County, Maryland, in 1746, graduated 
 at Princeton in 1766, was a minister of the Presbyterian Church, went in 
 1769 to Macklenburg County, North Carolina, where in 1775 he took a 
 leading part in the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, and died 
 unmarried early in 1776. Many chroniclers have confused the Rev. H. J. 
 Balch with his brother the Rev. James Balch, who was born on Deer 
 Creek, December 25th, 1750, and settled in the West ; and also with their 
 cousin the Rev. Hezekiah Balch, who was born in Harford County, 
 Maryland, in 1741, graduated at Princeton in 1766, and settled in Tennes- 
 see, where he founded and became the first President of Greenville 
 College. 
 
56 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 was very fond of geography, took a great interest in 
 Liberia, and was an active member of the Colonization 
 Society. He died February 14th, 1878, at "Macomb 
 Manse," near Greenwich, Virginia. He married Susan 
 Carter, daughter of Charles Beale Carter of " Shirley" 
 on the James River, who was a half uncle of General 
 Robert E. Lee, C. S. A. ; Charles Beale Carter mar- 
 ried his first cousin, Anne Beale Carter, also a cousin of 
 General Lee. Dr. and Mrs. Balch had eleven children. 
 
 Issue surname Balch: 
 
 1. Annie Carter. 
 
 2. Elizabeth Macomb. 
 
 3. Robert Monroe, Lieutenant-Colonel in the C. S. A.; 
 he was in the Western Army, and at the fight at Fort Don- 
 elson had his horse shot under him, but mounted another. ^5 
 
 4. Charles Carter, Captain in the C. S. A. ; he was at the 
 battle of Fort Donelson. 
 
 5. Harriet, d, y. 
 
 6. Chalmas Page. 
 
 7. Leimaeus. 
 
 8. William Cowper"! ^ • 
 ^ *- twms 
 
 9. Felyx Neff 
 
 10. Mary Landon. 
 
 1 1 . Julia Ringwood 
 
 •}■ 
 
 9. Anna Eleanora Balch was born at Georgetown, 
 D. C, August 14th, 1799. She married Captain 
 James C. Wilson. 
 
 •^^"Balch's (R. M. ) Cavalry. See Tennessee Troops, Confederate, 
 i8th Battalion." Miscellaneous Documetits of the House of Representa- 
 tives for the 2d. session of the 49th Congress, vol. II., page 904. 
 
THOMAS BEALL, 1748-1819. 57 
 
 10. Elizabeth Maria Balch was born at George- 
 town, D. C, April 15th, 1802. She married the Rev. 
 Septinis Tustin, of the Presbyterian Church, at one 
 time Chaplain of the United States Senate. 
 
 11. Jane Whann Balch was born at Georgetown, 
 D. C, February 14th, 1805, and died March 5th, 1884. 
 She married William Williamson. 
 
 Thomas Beall, known always as "of George," (see 
 page 36) was born September 27th, 1748, and died 
 October 5th, 18 19. He married September 26th, 1773, 
 Nancy or Ann, daughter of John Orme, and grand- 
 daughter of the Rev. John Orme and Ruth Edmonson 
 of Wiltshire, England. Ann Orme was born July 
 29th, 1752, and died April 9th, 1827.^^ 
 They had 
 
 Eliza Ridgely Beall. 
 
 Harriett Ann Beall, who was born February 
 15th, 1 791, and married August 5th, 1808, 
 John Peter. 
 
 Eliza Ridgely Beall was born November 22nd, 1786, 
 and died July ist, 1820. She married September ist, 
 
 « "^ Communicated by Mrs. Henry Irvine Keyser. 
 
58 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 1807, Colonel George Corbin Washington, son of 
 William Augustine Washington and his cousin, Jane 
 Washington, his wife. William Augustine Washing- 
 ton was the son of General Washington's older half- 
 brother, Augustine Washington, who married Anne 
 Aylett, while Jane Washington was the daughter of 
 General Washington's brother, John Augustine Wash- 
 ington, who married Hannah Bushrod. Colonel 
 Washington was born August 20th, 1789, at Hay- 
 wood, Westmoreland County, Virginia, and died July 
 7th, 1854, at Georgetown, D. C. He represented 
 the Montgomery County district of Maryland in the 
 20th, 2 1 St, and 22d Congresses. 
 
 Besides several children who died young, Colonel 
 and Mrs. Washington had Lewis William Washington. 
 He was born November 30th, 181 2, at Georgetown, 
 D. C, and died at Beall-Air, Jefferson County, Vir- 
 ginia, October ist, 1871. On May 17th, 1836, he mar- 
 ried Mary Ann Barroll of Baltimore, who was born 
 October 19th, 181 7, and died November i6th, 1844. 
 
 Issue : 
 
 ist. George Corbin Washington, born March, 1837, 
 and died September 30th, 1843. 
 
 2d. James Barroll Washington, born August 26th, 
 1839 and married Mrs. Jane Bretney Lanier Cabell. 
 Have issue. 
 
WASHINGTON. 59 
 
 3d. Mary Ann Washington married November 
 17th, 1864, to Henry Irvine Keyser of Baltimore, son 
 of Samuel Stouffer Keyser and Elizabeth Wyman, his 
 wife. 
 
 Isstle surname Keyser : 
 
 I. Henry Barroll, married June ist, 1892, to Caroline Fischer. 
 They have two children, Ann Franklin and Henry Irvine. 
 
 II. Samuel Irvine, died young. 
 
 III. Lewis Washington, died young. 
 
 IV. Irvine. 
 
 V. Mary Washington, married June ist, 1897, to John 
 Stewart, Jr. 
 
 VI. William Williams, died young. 
 
 4th, Eliza Ridgely Beall Washington, married April 
 25th, 1865, E. Glenn Ferine. Have issue. 
 
 Lewis William Washington (see page 58) married 
 second, November 6th, i860, Ella More Basset: they 
 had issue Betty Lewis Washington and William de 
 Hertburn Washington. 
 
 Robert Brooke, the emigrant married for his second 
 wife on May nth, 1635, Mary Mainwaring (see page 
 10). She came to Maryland with her husband and 
 died in the Province in 1663. She was the daughter 
 of Roger Mainwaring, Bishop of St. David's^^ and 
 
 « "Arms of Mainwaring of Cheshire. Argent, two bars, gules. 
 
6o THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 his wife Cicelia Proper. He received the degree of 
 B. A. at All Soul's College, Oxford, February 1607-8, 
 that of M. A. July 5th, 161 1, and those of B. D. and 
 D. D. July 2d, 1625. He died at Caermarthen July 
 ist, 1653. Walker, \vv \\\s> Sufferings of the Clcrg)\^^ 
 says of him: "He was born at Stretton in Shropshire 
 {Though of a Cheshire Family: which Lloyd saithwas 
 a Noble one), and educated in the University of 
 Oxford. He was sometime Vicar of St. Giles s in 
 the Fields and Chaplain to King Charles I. Before 
 whome preaching (July 27) those Sermons which he 
 Afterwards Published and Entituled, Religion and 
 Allegiance; he was called in question for it by the 
 Parliament, Charged with Endeavouring to Destroy 
 the King and Kingdom by his Divinity and Censured 
 to be Imprisoned; was Fined 1000^ and ordered to 
 make his Submission, and was Disabled to Have or 
 Enjoy any Preferment or Office. However, the King 
 soon after Pardoned him, and gave him the Rich 
 Living of Stanford-Rivers in Essex, in 1633 made 
 him Dean of Worcester, and Two Years after Nomi- 
 nated him to this Bishoprick. 
 
 GsAn Attempt towards recovering an account of the Numbers and 
 Sufferings of the Clergy of the Church of England * * * * in the 
 late Times of the Grand Rebellion : By John Walker, M. A. London 
 1714, page 76. 
 
ROGER BROOKE, 1637-17OO. 6 I 
 
 ' Foi'- the two last Years of his Life, not a lueek 
 passed without a Message or an Inquiry ; which he 
 desired God not to remember against his Adversaries, 
 and adjured all his Friends to Forget." He died at 
 Caermarthen on July i6th, 1653, 
 
 Of the sons of Robert Brooke and his second wife, 
 Mary Mainwaring, Roger Brooke was born at Bret- 
 nock College, England, on April 8th, 1637. He came 
 to Maryland with his father and mother, and married 
 Dorothy Neale, daughter of Captain James Neale 
 and his wife, Anna Gill, a maid of honor of Queen 
 Henrietta Maria; he died April 8th, 1700. Captain 
 James Neale^ arrived in Maryland about 1642. In 
 1643 he was appointed a member of the Provincial 
 Council and a Commissioner of Lord Baltimore's 
 Treasury. In 1660 he went to Amsterdam in Holland, 
 deputed by Lord Baltimore to act as his attorney 
 in regard to the trespasses of the Dutch upon that 
 portion of Maryland bordering on Delaware Bay.^° 
 In 1 66 1 he was commissioned a Captain. In the 
 
 •'^He belonged, apparently, to the Neales of Warnford in Hampshire. 
 Their arms were : Argent, a fess gules in chief two crescents, in base a 
 bugle-horn of the last straight vert: crest; a chaplet of laurel, vert. 
 William Berry's Coimty Genealogies. Hants, page 149. 
 
 ■""Againe in the year 1660 did appeare att Amsterdam in Holland 
 Capt lames Neale being a person deputed from the Lord Baltimore pro- 
 testing in the name of Caecilius Baron of Baltemore in a manner and forme 
 
62 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 Calendar of Maryland State Papers 1 660-61, appears 
 the petition of James Neale to Charles the Second 
 for the office of Treasurer: "He and his father lost 
 Blood and Estate in his Majestys service and now 
 joyfully expect his speedy return and restitution." 
 He was a member of the Provincial Council of Mary- 
 land from 1 66 1 to 1662 i^' he represented Charles 
 County in 1666 in the House of Burgesses; and he 
 died in 1684. 
 
 Roger Brooke and Dorothy Neale, his wife, had, 
 with others, Roger Brooke who was born April 12th, 
 1673. He married on Feb. 23rd, 1702, Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Francis Hutchins, member of the House 
 of Burgesses, 1682-83, for Calvert County, and signer 
 
 as afore the deputyes had done att delaware The Company was sitting 
 then in the New West India House in Amsterdam where the said lames 
 Neale did appeare and protest by Notoriall Act of the wrong done to his 
 Lordship by their Ministers of State in America by usurping and unlaw- 
 fully possessing a Considerable part of his province of Maryland, 
 Especially that part which was called by the Name of Delaware Bay de- 
 manding not onely the Restauration of the said Territoryes soe uniustly 
 detained with satisfaction also for the injury his Lops hath sustained 
 thereby. ' ' Archives of Maryland : Proceedings of the Council of Mary- 
 land, 1667-1687-8. Baltimore, 1887, pages 414, 415. 
 
 '^"At a Councell held at St Marys the 12th octobr 1661 
 
 " Present The Gouernor Secretary Mr Robert Clarke M^ Baker Brooke 
 Mr Edward LLoyd and Mr John Bateman 
 
 "Was Sworne of the Councell Captaine James Neale And after satt 
 as a Counceller." 
 
 Archives of Maryland : Proceedings of the Council of Mary la7id, 1636- 
 1667. Baltimore 1885, page 434. 
 
BROOKE. 6^ 
 
 of the address of the Protestant subjects of King 
 Wilham in August, 1689^- 
 
 Roger Brooke and Elizabeth Hutchins, his wife, had 
 Roger Brooke born June loth, 17 14, who married 
 Sarah Bowyer, a Friend, of Philadelphia.^^ 
 
 Their son, Bowyer Brooke, who was born at Phila- 
 delphia, January 25th, 1737, married August 21st, 
 1767, Hannah Reese, and died March 17th, 181 5. 
 
 They had Bowyer Brooke, who was born at Phila- 
 delphia, December 13th, 1769, married Lydia Shinn 
 of Burlington County, New Jersey, and died April 
 20th, 1838. 
 
 Their son John Bowyer Brooke of Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, was born August 15th, 1797, and died January 
 2 1 St, 1834; he married August 25th, 1831, Catherine 
 Spayd, grand-daughter of Joseph Hiester, fifth Gov- 
 ernor of Pennsylvania. 
 
 They had John Bowyer Brooke, of Reading, Penn- 
 sylvania, who was born April 20th, 1834, and died 
 March 19th, 1898; he graduated at the Jefferson Med- 
 ical College at Philadelphia in 1856, and married Oc- 
 tober 25th, i860, Maria Wharton Morris of Philadel- 
 
 "' -Archives of Mary la7ui: Proceedings and Acts of the General Assem- 
 bly of Maryland, April, i6S4-fune, 1692. Baltimore 1894, pages 29, 41 
 54, 96, 242. 
 
 -^ Bible and other family papers belonging to Arthur Spayd Brooke, 
 Esq. of Reading, Pennsylvania. 
 
64 THE BROOKE FAMILY OF WHITCHURCH. 
 
 phia, great-grandchild of Thomas Wharton, Governor 
 of Pennsylvania in the time of the Revolutionary 
 War. 
 Issue : 
 
 Helen Brooke, m. Noel Wittman. 
 Arthur Spayd Brooke, graduated at the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania, 1897. 
 
A PARTIAL INDEX. 
 
 Adison, Colonel John Note 36 
 
 Alabama arbitration .... P^o-px: co r-, 
 
 Balch, Rev. Stephen Bloomer : ." .' Pa^ f ^ 
 
 ^^^^^f"^.^ : : : : : : Not 14 
 
 fl"^''y Note 14 
 
 Mary, ... p ^ 
 
 Baltimore, Lord p ' " ' ' ' ^^§^^,9 
 
 BeallAn^a, \ Pages 14, 15, 19. 6i 
 
 Page 43 
 
 f!:!i?f.*^'^ ;;;■.:: ?i.,^ 
 
 43 
 
 33 
 Colonel Ninian, ..".'. i.' .' ." .' .' .' ." .' .' Pa|e ^^ 
 
 Elizabeth J,-g 
 
 Firs, Colonel George ' ; Pages 2^! ^^ 
 
 Second Colonel George, Pap-g 
 
 Thomas Brooke, . . . Pages 40, 42,' 43 ;" notes 54, 57 
 Thomas, "of George" .... Pa^es ^.s -^6 di ^7 
 
 Berkeley, Sir William, Governor of Virginia ^ Pae^ ?? 
 
 Brooke arms . . . m^*.^' ^ > 
 
 Richard -^^^^ ^ ' P^§^^ ^ 
 
 Kichard, p J 
 
 Robert, of London Pa|es 3 4 
 
 Robert, the emigrant Pages g-i 6, 59, 61 
 
 Roger, (1637-1700) Pages 12, 61 
 
 Thomas, the first of Whitchurch . . Pages 3-8 
 
 Major Thomas, Pages 16-18 
 
 r 1 ^ ^^^;«"el Thomas, Pages 18-22 
 
 Calvert, Phihp Poo-o t^ 
 
 Charles the First .....■:::;; : : • 'Pagess 8 30 
 
 the Second p„p.„„ ' ' ^- 
 
 Cheshire ... rages 30, 02 
 
 Columbia College .....'."."'. vlT^V^ 
 
 Corcoran, William W ; ; ; ; Pages 48? 49 
 
 Dent, Barbara p J \^ ^9 
 
 ^^^'°"^hire - J, ; 
 
A PARTIAL INDEX. 
 
 Drummond, William, Governor of the Southward Plan- 
 tations Page 17 
 
 Dumbartonshire Page 22 
 
 Dumbarton, Rock of Pages 24, 25, 28, 35 ; note 54 
 
 Dunbar, battle of Page 23 
 
 Forster of Hunsdon Page 6 ; note 6 
 
 of Iden Note 6 
 
 Sir Thomas, Pages 6, 7 
 
 Geneva Tribunal Page 53 
 
 Georgetown, D. C, Pages 33-51 passim, 58; notes 50, 54, 55, 
 
 57. 58. 60 
 
 Hampshire (Hants, Southampton) Pages i, 3, 9 ; notes i, 2, 69 
 
 Harvard Page 53 
 
 Hatton, Eleanor, Page 18 
 
 Inner Temple Page 7 
 
 Jackson, Andrew Page 51 
 
 Liberia Pages 45, 51, 56 
 
 Magruders (McGregors) Note 54 
 
 Mainwaring arms Note 67 
 
 Mary, Pages 10, 59, 61 
 
 Roger, Bishop of St. David Page 59 
 
 Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Note 64 
 
 Naval Academy Page 54 
 
 Neale arms Note 69 
 
 Captain James, Pages 61, 62 
 
 Oxford University Pages 5, 9 
 
 Pennsylvania, University of Page 64 
 
 Presbyterian Church, etc. . . . Pages 43, 44, 49, 55 ; note 64 
 Princeton College .... Pages 43, 50, 51, 52, 55 ; note 64 
 
 Rock of Dumbarton Pages 24, 25, 28, 35 ; note 54 
 
 Slaves, freeing Pages 45, 51 
 
 Somersetshire Page 43 
 
 Stone, William, Governor of Maryland Pages 14, 16 
 
 Sussex Notes 6, 14 ; pages 9, 10 
 
 Taney, Roger Brooke Pages 10, 51 ; note 15 
 
 Twyne arms Note i ; page 6 
 
 Elizabeth, Pages 1-4 
 
 Washington, Lewis William, Pages 58, 59 
 
 Colonel George Corbin, Page 57 
 
 Wharton, Thomas, Governor of Pennsylvania .... Page 64 
 
 Whitchurch Pages i, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9 
 
 Wiltshire Page 57 
 
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