Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Mayenne Archives Website
The Archives for Mayenne (Laval is located in the Department of Mayenne) has a website that should be of interest to those researching ancestors from that Department (similar to "county" in the US): http://www.lamayenne.fr/?SectionId=312 .
Other Marin Duval's in France
Mareen Duvall the Emigrant was not the only Marin Duval in France in the 1600's. In attempting to find more about the ancestry of the Emigrant I found first, and to me most interesting, a Marin Duval who was buried 10 Jan 1649 in Alencon, Normandy. Interestingly, Alencon was one of the first cities in France to adopt Calvanism (Huguenots were essentially Calvanists). It became a hotbed of the Reformation. Many Protestants fled Alencon for England, the Netherlands, or the Channel Islands. http://www.ville-alencon.fr/alencon.asp?idpage=10659 . Could the Marin Duval who died in Alencon in 1649 be the father of Mareenn Duval the Emigrant, or in some way be related to him?
There was another Marin Duval in the 1600's in the Normandy region. A Marin Duval married a Noelle Laisne 27 Nov 1632 in La Coulonche, Department of Ome, in Basse - Normande (Lower Normandy). They had 3 children: Marie, Martine and Francoise, all born within a few years of Marin and Noelle's marriage.
In Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation, p. 21, Harry Wright Newman writes about a Marin Duval "who on December 2, 1651, took an oath before the Norman Parliament at Rouen as Special Civil Lieutenant for Andleys.*" Notably, Rouen is the historic capital city of Normandy. Newman questions whether this may have been Mareen Duval the Emigrant, noting that the Emigrant, at the time of his death had legal books in his library, and that a civil lieutenant would have had some understanding of the law.
Laval, where it is believed Mareen Duval the Emigrant had probably lived, is in the Department of Mayenne, Pays-de-la-Loire (Loire Valley), which is bordered by Normandy. We may never know who the ancestors of Mareen Duvall the Emigrant were, but it should be noteworthy that at least 3 Marin Duval's were in Normandy at the time Mareen Duval the Emigrant probably lived in the region.
There was another Marin Duval in the 1600's in the Normandy region. A Marin Duval married a Noelle Laisne 27 Nov 1632 in La Coulonche, Department of Ome, in Basse - Normande (Lower Normandy). They had 3 children: Marie, Martine and Francoise, all born within a few years of Marin and Noelle's marriage.
In Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation, p. 21, Harry Wright Newman writes about a Marin Duval "who on December 2, 1651, took an oath before the Norman Parliament at Rouen as Special Civil Lieutenant for Andleys.*" Notably, Rouen is the historic capital city of Normandy. Newman questions whether this may have been Mareen Duval the Emigrant, noting that the Emigrant, at the time of his death had legal books in his library, and that a civil lieutenant would have had some understanding of the law.
Laval, where it is believed Mareen Duval the Emigrant had probably lived, is in the Department of Mayenne, Pays-de-la-Loire (Loire Valley), which is bordered by Normandy. We may never know who the ancestors of Mareen Duvall the Emigrant were, but it should be noteworthy that at least 3 Marin Duval's were in Normandy at the time Mareen Duval the Emigrant probably lived in the region.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Inventory of Personal Estate of Mareen Duvall the Emigrant
That Mareen Duvall was a wealthy man is evident from his Last Will and Testament in which he leaves large parcels of land to his many children. It is also evident from the Inventory of his personal estate. He clearly had the "finer things in life" especially when one considers that he died in 1694, over 300 years ago.
Money Sterling 1 17 6
Silver plate 182 ounzes 46 5 2
HALL
One ffeather bed & bolster, Curtaines, Valians, rugg & blanketts, 2 pillows, 1 straw bed, bedsteed & cord 6 0 0
CHAMBER
2 Tables, 5 Carpetts, 1 Chest & 10 Prussia Leather Chaires 5 0 0
Looking Glass, 1 warming pann, 1 pr. Andirons, 2 law books 3 4 6
CHAMBER OVER IT
1 ffether bed & bolster, 2 pillow, 1 rugg, 2 blankets, Curtains & valians, 1 Straw bed, bedsteed & Cord 4 0 0
7 Prussia Leather Chaires, 1 old Table & 1 small chest 2 7 0
1 Looking Glass, 1 Child bed baskett & 2 Callico Curtains 0 9 0
SOUTH LOWER CHAMBER
1 ffeather bed, bolster, 2 pillows, 1 rugg, 2 blanketts, 1 Straw bed, curtains & vallins, bedsteed & cord 6 0 0
1 Large Looking Glass & 1 trunk & 1 Table 2 17 0
1 Chest of Drawers & 1 Large Chest 1 7 0
8 Prussia Leather Chaires, Andirons, Showell & tonges 2 18 0
CHAMBER OVER IT
2 ffeather beds, 2 bolsters, 4 pillows, 2 ruggs, 2 blankets, 2 Straw beds, 2 bedsteeds, 2 cords & 4 suits of
Curtains & Vallins 7 5 3
2 Trunks, 3 Chest, 8 fflagg brooms & 1 payle 1 18 3
3 lb peper, 7 oz cloves & mace & 23 ouz nutmeggs 0 14 0
82 lb of Musconade Sugar 1 7 4
14 lb Candles, 6 wooden pudding dishes & poringers 0 8 3
1 fflock bed & bolster 1 6 0
MIDDLE ROOME
2 Cases Knifes & forks 1 3 0
1 old couch, couch bed, pillow & match coate & a cubbard, Table Carpett and Trunk & 2 small boxes 2 6 6
3 Gunns 1 7 0
KITCHIN
2 Large brass Kettles, 1 stew pann, 1 small kettle, six Candle Sticks, Several Snuffers, Skinner,
Ladle & old brass 4 19 0
2 tinn Lanthornes, 2 ffish plates, 2 cullinders 0 5 0
2 Iron Dripping panns, 1 old Chaffering Dish, 1 paine 0 15 0
2 Coll mettle Skillets, 1 morter & pestle 1 0 0
286 ¼ lb of pewter 11 18 0
2 tinn sause painns, 1 fundell, 1 doz round Trenchers, 1 ½ doz spoons 0 4 0
2 box Irons & heaters, 1 doz iron sewers & 2 flasketts 0 11 0
98 lb wrought Iron spitts, crowhooks, pott hooks 1 0 0
6 Iron potts weighing 198 lb 1 13 0
1 pr Large Andirons 1 15 0
1 old Table, 1 forme, 1 halfe bushell, 1 bred tray, 2 payles 0 10 0
KITCHIN CHAMBER
3 fflock beds, 3 ruggs, 6 blanketts & 4 bolsters 1 0 0
Harnes for two horses & 8 lb feathers 1 4 0
Mareen Duvall was a merchant and as such had a store, probably located on Middle Plantation. The estate inventory of the store gives us an idea of what sort of things people purchased at that time in colonial history:
OLD STORE HOUSE
3 paire of fetters & 1 Curry comb 0 11 6
1 Suite of old Curtaines & vallins & 7 bed cords 0 11 3
22 paire men french falls 3 6 0
23 men pollonias 2 6 0
Paire Boys pollonais 0 15 0
18 women french falls 1 19 0
14 paire of Boys falls 1 8 0
12 paire Girlls falls 1 2 0
Woodmill Stockins (3 pr moth eaten) 1 0 0
314 - of Soape 9 3 3
14 women's straw hats & 9 girlls 0 19 7
2 Leather Otters & raines & Drapier girts 0 7 2
1 Snafle bridle & 1 paire stirup Leathers 0 2 0
4 Gotten wooke, 4 Gimblets, 1 Trowell 0 11 2
20 Black hafted knifes & 1 Ivory 0 5 6
3 Doz ha: Sizers, 11 doz thred laces 0 14 0
3 men felt hats & 3 boys 0 15 0
17 of brown & colloured thred 1 18 3
13 ½ Doz Needles, 18 doz ¼ browne thred 0 2 2
8 Gall of Mollasses, 1 Course Towell & 1 cooper rod 0 14 0
11 m pinns, 5 pr fine filliting 0 13 3
1 pr of Cullen tape & 4 pr of blew 0 9 0
37 ½ doz thred buttons 0 5 4
¾ Silke & 3 muzlin Neckecloths 0 16 6
16 paire of Mens Gloves & 2 ½ thimbles 0 13 0
3 paire Girles Gloves & 12 yds fine holland tape 0 2 6
2 paire Girlls Paragon bodies 0 11 0
6 doz horne Combs & 3 old Ivory Combs & a brush 0 9 3
15 horne Combs & 3 paire small tobacco tongs 0 4 0
13 yards filliting 0 1 0
844 hobb nailes & 4 Nayles 0 1 3
9 Stock Locks & 13 Staples 0 12 0
3 paire Sheep Sheares & 2 Spring Locks & Staples 0 4 8
7 Mill pecks, 1 Could Chisel & a wrench 0 4 6
1 Gunn Lock & 11 doz Coate Silke buttons 0 8 0
18 ½ doz white thread buttons & a parecell of thred 0 2 0
42 yards black Duffells 4 18 0
10 yards broad claothe 3 6 0
2 peices thick Kersey 3 6 0
69 yards Cotton 3 9 0
10 yards Red plaines, 5 ½ yds Peniston, & 14 paire of wollen women stockins 1 18 0
33 paire of mens ditto 2 9 6
4 paire women worsted 0 10 0
9 paire Children wollen 0 6 0
23 paire Boys 0 19 2
5 paire mens 0 7 6
10 paire men worsted 1 13 0
4 pr Sarge 7 4 0
5 ½ yds Sarge 0 9 7
36 yards flock bed Tickin 1 10 0
48 Ells of fine holland 0 16 3
35 fine Dowlas 4 2 5
33 Ells ditto 3 0 6
48 Ells ditto 3 12 0
16 ¼ ells ditto 1 4 4
93 ½ Ells Canvas 6 4 8
70 Ells English Canvas 2 18 11
2 Ells fine dutch Holland 20 Dowlas 0 3 4
12 Sugar 0 4 0
7 yards broad painted lynin 0 7 0
10 pr Large Girlls wollen Stockings 0 11 8
2 paire Silver Buckles 0 8 0
164 Ells Browne Ozenbriggs 6 16 8
194 Ells English Canvas 8 2 3
18 peices blew Linnen Cont 14 7 5
1 peice painted Callico 0 10 0
1 yard Striped Crape & 4 ½ yds Striped Stuff 0 8 3
1 peice white Dinnety 1 9 0
66 Dowlas 5 11 3
76 Ells ditto 5 14 9
9 14 Ells Course Lining 0 12 3
1 box wafers & 1 Lansett 0 1 0
13 Sickles 0 14 1
8 Grubing howds & 3 drawing Knives 0 12 4
2 broad howds & 29 Narrow ditto 1 6 8
8 38 Narrow Axes 2 19 8
240 Gun flints 0 4 6
22 lb Bulletts & 63 lb Drop Short 0 13 0
18 ½ goose Shott 1 4 0
1 pwll of old Brass & old Iron & 81 pottle bottles 2 8 6
116 lb home made Cheese & 120 lb Butter 4 8 0
1 Bell & a small Trunke 0 7 0
26 Gallons of Rum 5 4 0
82 quart bottles 1 0 6
40 lb Powder 2 0 0
8 lb of Lead 0 1 0
5880 5 p Nayles 0 14 8
250 30 p Nailes 0 4 4
7000 8 p ditto 1 4 6
2 paire Scales & a sett of weights 0 5 6
2 paire Large Steele yards & 1 pr Lesser 1 14 0
4 Stone Juggs & 1 fine sifter 0 6 9
8 Large Chests & 1 Small ditto 4 1 0
4 Baggs at 18 each & Ells & yards 0 6 9
4 frying panns 0 11 0
45 Bushells of Indian Corne. 2 14 0
3 lb whele bone 0 7 0
A parcell of old working Tooles 0 9 0
1 paire Cart Wheeles 0 15 0
PATUXON QUARTER
1 Iron Pott, 4 old cask, 1 earthen Milk pann 0 6 6
1 Large Canvas bed tick & 1 old Rugg 0 5 0
14 hoghead Tobacco at Marsh Quarter not Markable 6 0 0
MIDLE PLANTAON
9 hoghds Tobacco at the Fox pond 2 not marcchble 6 0 0
4 hoghds & 200 not at hand 4 10 0
4 hoghds Ground Leafe 1 0 0
MILK HOUSE
1 churne, 3 butter potts, 1 Table, 2 Glasses
QUARTERS
2 hand mills, 1 pistle, t spade, 1 Green stone 2 6 6
1 Rugg & Cannis tickes 0 7 0
old syder caskes 0 7 0
1 pr maul rings, 9 wedges & 1 cros cut saw 0 12 0
1 broad ax, 1 hand saw, 2 Lathin hamers & 1 gough 0 4 0
LINEN QUARTERS
3 fine large sheets, 2 paire fine sheets 2 12 0
5 paire Course ditto, 5 pake old Cannis ditto 2 15 0
3 paire Course browne Ozen brigs 0 18 0
10 Dowlas pillowboards, 6 course pillowboards 1 0 0
7 fine pillow beares & 1 old ditto 0 14 6
6 Cubert Cloth, 1 mantle cloth, & 4 sister Cloths 0 7 6
6 Long old diaper table cloth & 16 napkins 1 10 0
1 old Damask table cloth, 3 old napkins 0 6 0
1 New Ozenbrig table cloth, 1 doz. napkins 0 12 0
1 old ozenbrig table cloth & 8 new dowlas Towells 0 18 0
2 old Diaper Towells & 2 old Dowlas ditto 0 4 0
4 Callico window curtains & 1 child Damask mantle 0 9 6
2 brushes, a comb case, & 4 books 0 3 6
14 old quart Caske 1 8 0
1 Sadle & bridle & 3 old padds 0 17 0
6 ½ bushells Bay Salt & 4 bushells of white Salt 2 2 0
AT MIDDLE PLANTATION
3 Large Barowes 2 5 0
4 Large Barowes & 4 sows 4 16 0
9 Sows 2 5 0
8 Small hoggs 1 8 0
1 Sow & 4 Shoats 0 14 0
9 Small Shoats 0 18 0
22 Smaller Shoats 1 7 6
1 Two Years old Bull 0 12 0
3 2-yeares old heifers & 2 two-yeares old Steeres 5 0 0
3 Large Steers 8 10 0
13 Cowes & calfes 29 5 0
1 Cow 2 0 0
1 Horse Called black Thom 4,-,-
1 Horse called Sparke 4,-,-
1 Mare called Sary 3,-,- 18 0 0
1 horse called Paule 5,-,-
1 old horse Called Symon -,10,-
1 3-yeare old Geldying Called Ladd 2,-,-
PATUXON QUARTER
4 Steers 7-yeares old 12,-,-
1 " 4-Yeares old & heifer 4,-,-
2 Steeres 3-yeares old & heifer 4,-,- 28 0 0
2 heifers 2-yeares old each 2,-,-
2 Calfes & Calves & 2 Yearlings 5,10,-
GREAT MARSH QUARTER
1 Gunn 4 foote Long 0 9 0
4 Large sows & piggs 2 0 0
27 young sows & barrows 9 10 0
1 Iron ketle, 1 frying pan, & 1 pester 0 7 0
1 paire Maule rings, 3 wedges & o cross cut saw 0 9 0
A Barrell of old Tooles 0 3 0
1 old bed Tick, 1 old Rugg 0 4 0
14 New Tobacco hoghds 0 14 0
1 old Grinding Stone. 0 5 0
26 ½ Bushells Wheate 4 2 9
4 ½ Bushells Beanes 0 11 3
39 Bushells Indian Peas 5 17 0
81 Barrills Indian Corne 28 7 0
Included in the property inventory of Mareen Duvall's personal estate were his slaves:
SLAVES
1 Negro named Sacose 28,-,-
1 ditto named Johny Boy 28,-,-
1 ditto Named Toby 27,-,-
1 ditto named Robin 27,-,-
1 ditto named Will 27,-,-
1 ditto named Tony 27,-,-
1 ditto Named Peter 22,-,-
1 Negro Boy named Mingo 26,-,-
1 ditto named Samson 26,-,- 412 0 0
1 ditto named Jacob 26,-,-
1 ditto named Simon 26,-,-
Negro woman named Betty 26,-,-
ditto named Jenny 25,-,-
ditto named Hester 25,-,-
ditto named Janu old 20,-,-
Negro Girll named Kate 10,-,-
ditto named Sary 10,-,-
Negro Boy named Jemey 6,-,-
860 ffoott Blanke 3 11 0
The Inventory of the Personal Estate of Mareen Duvall
The Deceased wearein apparell 18 14 9
Money Sterling 1 17 6
Silver plate 182 ounzes 46 5 2
HALL
One ffeather bed & bolster, Curtaines, Valians, rugg & blanketts, 2 pillows, 1 straw bed, bedsteed & cord 6 0 0
CHAMBER
2 Tables, 5 Carpetts, 1 Chest & 10 Prussia Leather Chaires 5 0 0
Looking Glass, 1 warming pann, 1 pr. Andirons, 2 law books 3 4 6
CHAMBER OVER IT
1 ffether bed & bolster, 2 pillow, 1 rugg, 2 blankets, Curtains & valians, 1 Straw bed, bedsteed & Cord 4 0 0
7 Prussia Leather Chaires, 1 old Table & 1 small chest 2 7 0
1 Looking Glass, 1 Child bed baskett & 2 Callico Curtains 0 9 0
SOUTH LOWER CHAMBER
1 ffeather bed, bolster, 2 pillows, 1 rugg, 2 blanketts, 1 Straw bed, curtains & vallins, bedsteed & cord 6 0 0
1 Large Looking Glass & 1 trunk & 1 Table 2 17 0
1 Chest of Drawers & 1 Large Chest 1 7 0
8 Prussia Leather Chaires, Andirons, Showell & tonges 2 18 0
CHAMBER OVER IT
2 ffeather beds, 2 bolsters, 4 pillows, 2 ruggs, 2 blankets, 2 Straw beds, 2 bedsteeds, 2 cords & 4 suits of
Curtains & Vallins 7 5 3
2 Trunks, 3 Chest, 8 fflagg brooms & 1 payle 1 18 3
3 lb peper, 7 oz cloves & mace & 23 ouz nutmeggs 0 14 0
82 lb of Musconade Sugar 1 7 4
14 lb Candles, 6 wooden pudding dishes & poringers 0 8 3
1 fflock bed & bolster 1 6 0
MIDDLE ROOME
2 Cases Knifes & forks 1 3 0
1 old couch, couch bed, pillow & match coate & a cubbard, Table Carpett and Trunk & 2 small boxes 2 6 6
3 Gunns 1 7 0
KITCHIN
2 Large brass Kettles, 1 stew pann, 1 small kettle, six Candle Sticks, Several Snuffers, Skinner,
Ladle & old brass 4 19 0
2 tinn Lanthornes, 2 ffish plates, 2 cullinders 0 5 0
2 Iron Dripping panns, 1 old Chaffering Dish, 1 paine 0 15 0
2 Coll mettle Skillets, 1 morter & pestle 1 0 0
286 ¼ lb of pewter 11 18 0
2 tinn sause painns, 1 fundell, 1 doz round Trenchers, 1 ½ doz spoons 0 4 0
2 box Irons & heaters, 1 doz iron sewers & 2 flasketts 0 11 0
98 lb wrought Iron spitts, crowhooks, pott hooks 1 0 0
6 Iron potts weighing 198 lb 1 13 0
1 pr Large Andirons 1 15 0
1 old Table, 1 forme, 1 halfe bushell, 1 bred tray, 2 payles 0 10 0
KITCHIN CHAMBER
3 fflock beds, 3 ruggs, 6 blanketts & 4 bolsters 1 0 0
Harnes for two horses & 8 lb feathers 1 4 0
Mareen Duvall was a merchant and as such had a store, probably located on Middle Plantation. The estate inventory of the store gives us an idea of what sort of things people purchased at that time in colonial history:
OLD STORE HOUSE
3 paire of fetters & 1 Curry comb 0 11 6
1 Suite of old Curtaines & vallins & 7 bed cords 0 11 3
22 paire men french falls 3 6 0
23 men pollonias 2 6 0
Paire Boys pollonais 0 15 0
18 women french falls 1 19 0
14 paire of Boys falls 1 8 0
12 paire Girlls falls 1 2 0
Woodmill Stockins (3 pr moth eaten) 1 0 0
314 - of Soape 9 3 3
14 women's straw hats & 9 girlls 0 19 7
2 Leather Otters & raines & Drapier girts 0 7 2
1 Snafle bridle & 1 paire stirup Leathers 0 2 0
4 Gotten wooke, 4 Gimblets, 1 Trowell 0 11 2
20 Black hafted knifes & 1 Ivory 0 5 6
3 Doz ha: Sizers, 11 doz thred laces 0 14 0
3 men felt hats & 3 boys 0 15 0
17 of brown & colloured thred 1 18 3
13 ½ Doz Needles, 18 doz ¼ browne thred 0 2 2
8 Gall of Mollasses, 1 Course Towell & 1 cooper rod 0 14 0
11 m pinns, 5 pr fine filliting 0 13 3
1 pr of Cullen tape & 4 pr of blew 0 9 0
37 ½ doz thred buttons 0 5 4
¾ Silke & 3 muzlin Neckecloths 0 16 6
16 paire of Mens Gloves & 2 ½ thimbles 0 13 0
3 paire Girles Gloves & 12 yds fine holland tape 0 2 6
2 paire Girlls Paragon bodies 0 11 0
6 doz horne Combs & 3 old Ivory Combs & a brush 0 9 3
15 horne Combs & 3 paire small tobacco tongs 0 4 0
13 yards filliting 0 1 0
844 hobb nailes & 4 Nayles 0 1 3
9 Stock Locks & 13 Staples 0 12 0
3 paire Sheep Sheares & 2 Spring Locks & Staples 0 4 8
7 Mill pecks, 1 Could Chisel & a wrench 0 4 6
1 Gunn Lock & 11 doz Coate Silke buttons 0 8 0
18 ½ doz white thread buttons & a parecell of thred 0 2 0
42 yards black Duffells 4 18 0
10 yards broad claothe 3 6 0
2 peices thick Kersey 3 6 0
69 yards Cotton 3 9 0
10 yards Red plaines, 5 ½ yds Peniston, & 14 paire of wollen women stockins 1 18 0
33 paire of mens ditto 2 9 6
4 paire women worsted 0 10 0
9 paire Children wollen 0 6 0
23 paire Boys 0 19 2
5 paire mens 0 7 6
10 paire men worsted 1 13 0
4 pr Sarge 7 4 0
5 ½ yds Sarge 0 9 7
36 yards flock bed Tickin 1 10 0
48 Ells of fine holland 0 16 3
35 fine Dowlas 4 2 5
33 Ells ditto 3 0 6
48 Ells ditto 3 12 0
16 ¼ ells ditto 1 4 4
93 ½ Ells Canvas 6 4 8
70 Ells English Canvas 2 18 11
2 Ells fine dutch Holland 20 Dowlas 0 3 4
12 Sugar 0 4 0
7 yards broad painted lynin 0 7 0
10 pr Large Girlls wollen Stockings 0 11 8
2 paire Silver Buckles 0 8 0
164 Ells Browne Ozenbriggs 6 16 8
194 Ells English Canvas 8 2 3
18 peices blew Linnen Cont 14 7 5
1 peice painted Callico 0 10 0
1 yard Striped Crape & 4 ½ yds Striped Stuff 0 8 3
1 peice white Dinnety 1 9 0
66 Dowlas 5 11 3
76 Ells ditto 5 14 9
9 14 Ells Course Lining 0 12 3
1 box wafers & 1 Lansett 0 1 0
13 Sickles 0 14 1
8 Grubing howds & 3 drawing Knives 0 12 4
2 broad howds & 29 Narrow ditto 1 6 8
8 38 Narrow Axes 2 19 8
240 Gun flints 0 4 6
22 lb Bulletts & 63 lb Drop Short 0 13 0
18 ½ goose Shott 1 4 0
1 pwll of old Brass & old Iron & 81 pottle bottles 2 8 6
116 lb home made Cheese & 120 lb Butter 4 8 0
1 Bell & a small Trunke 0 7 0
26 Gallons of Rum 5 4 0
82 quart bottles 1 0 6
40 lb Powder 2 0 0
8 lb of Lead 0 1 0
5880 5 p Nayles 0 14 8
250 30 p Nailes 0 4 4
7000 8 p ditto 1 4 6
2 paire Scales & a sett of weights 0 5 6
2 paire Large Steele yards & 1 pr Lesser 1 14 0
4 Stone Juggs & 1 fine sifter 0 6 9
8 Large Chests & 1 Small ditto 4 1 0
4 Baggs at 18 each & Ells & yards 0 6 9
4 frying panns 0 11 0
45 Bushells of Indian Corne. 2 14 0
3 lb whele bone 0 7 0
A parcell of old working Tooles 0 9 0
1 paire Cart Wheeles 0 15 0
PATUXON QUARTER
1 Iron Pott, 4 old cask, 1 earthen Milk pann 0 6 6
1 Large Canvas bed tick & 1 old Rugg 0 5 0
14 hoghead Tobacco at Marsh Quarter not Markable 6 0 0
MIDLE PLANTAON
9 hoghds Tobacco at the Fox pond 2 not marcchble 6 0 0
4 hoghds & 200 not at hand 4 10 0
4 hoghds Ground Leafe 1 0 0
MILK HOUSE
1 churne, 3 butter potts, 1 Table, 2 Glasses
QUARTERS
2 hand mills, 1 pistle, t spade, 1 Green stone 2 6 6
1 Rugg & Cannis tickes 0 7 0
old syder caskes 0 7 0
1 pr maul rings, 9 wedges & 1 cros cut saw 0 12 0
1 broad ax, 1 hand saw, 2 Lathin hamers & 1 gough 0 4 0
LINEN QUARTERS
3 fine large sheets, 2 paire fine sheets 2 12 0
5 paire Course ditto, 5 pake old Cannis ditto 2 15 0
3 paire Course browne Ozen brigs 0 18 0
10 Dowlas pillowboards, 6 course pillowboards 1 0 0
7 fine pillow beares & 1 old ditto 0 14 6
6 Cubert Cloth, 1 mantle cloth, & 4 sister Cloths 0 7 6
6 Long old diaper table cloth & 16 napkins 1 10 0
1 old Damask table cloth, 3 old napkins 0 6 0
1 New Ozenbrig table cloth, 1 doz. napkins 0 12 0
1 old ozenbrig table cloth & 8 new dowlas Towells 0 18 0
2 old Diaper Towells & 2 old Dowlas ditto 0 4 0
4 Callico window curtains & 1 child Damask mantle 0 9 6
2 brushes, a comb case, & 4 books 0 3 6
14 old quart Caske 1 8 0
1 Sadle & bridle & 3 old padds 0 17 0
6 ½ bushells Bay Salt & 4 bushells of white Salt 2 2 0
AT MIDDLE PLANTATION
3 Large Barowes 2 5 0
4 Large Barowes & 4 sows 4 16 0
9 Sows 2 5 0
8 Small hoggs 1 8 0
1 Sow & 4 Shoats 0 14 0
9 Small Shoats 0 18 0
22 Smaller Shoats 1 7 6
1 Two Years old Bull 0 12 0
3 2-yeares old heifers & 2 two-yeares old Steeres 5 0 0
3 Large Steers 8 10 0
13 Cowes & calfes 29 5 0
1 Cow 2 0 0
1 Horse Called black Thom 4,-,-
1 Horse called Sparke 4,-,-
1 Mare called Sary 3,-,- 18 0 0
1 horse called Paule 5,-,-
1 old horse Called Symon -,10,-
1 3-yeare old Geldying Called Ladd 2,-,-
PATUXON QUARTER
4 Steers 7-yeares old 12,-,-
1 " 4-Yeares old & heifer 4,-,-
2 Steeres 3-yeares old & heifer 4,-,- 28 0 0
2 heifers 2-yeares old each 2,-,-
2 Calfes & Calves & 2 Yearlings 5,10,-
GREAT MARSH QUARTER
1 Gunn 4 foote Long 0 9 0
4 Large sows & piggs 2 0 0
27 young sows & barrows 9 10 0
1 Iron ketle, 1 frying pan, & 1 pester 0 7 0
1 paire Maule rings, 3 wedges & o cross cut saw 0 9 0
A Barrell of old Tooles 0 3 0
1 old bed Tick, 1 old Rugg 0 4 0
14 New Tobacco hoghds 0 14 0
1 old Grinding Stone. 0 5 0
26 ½ Bushells Wheate 4 2 9
4 ½ Bushells Beanes 0 11 3
39 Bushells Indian Peas 5 17 0
81 Barrills Indian Corne 28 7 0
Included in the property inventory of Mareen Duvall's personal estate were his slaves:
SLAVES
1 Negro named Sacose 28,-,-
1 ditto named Johny Boy 28,-,-
1 ditto Named Toby 27,-,-
1 ditto named Robin 27,-,-
1 ditto named Will 27,-,-
1 ditto named Tony 27,-,-
1 ditto Named Peter 22,-,-
1 Negro Boy named Mingo 26,-,-
1 ditto named Samson 26,-,- 412 0 0
1 ditto named Jacob 26,-,-
1 ditto named Simon 26,-,-
Negro woman named Betty 26,-,-
ditto named Jenny 25,-,-
ditto named Hester 25,-,-
ditto named Janu old 20,-,-
Negro Girll named Kate 10,-,-
ditto named Sary 10,-,-
Negro Boy named Jemey 6,-,-
860 ffoott Blanke 3 11 0
Thursday, March 11, 2010
The Wives of Mareen Duvall the Emigrant
We know that it is entirely possible that Mareen Duvall married for the first time when he was still living in France (see "Was Mareen Duvall First Married in France?" March 3, 2010 blog post). It is believed that he married first in Maryland about 1658, but there is no definite proof as to who his wife was, other than that her name was Mary. It is probable that she was the "Mary Dewall" named as an heir in the will of Thomas Bouth of Calvert County, but what her relationshipe was to Mr. Bouth is unknown as he died without issue. One could guess that she might have been a niece of Thomas Bouth. It is believed that she is the mother of the first five children of Mareen Duvall the Emigrant. It is doubtful that Mary was the natural mother of John Duvall as there is no record of any landrights claimed for any female Duvall transported to Maryland. However, it is probably that she is the mother of Mareen the Elder born 1661, Lewis, Samuel born 1667, and Eleanor.
It is believed that the second Maryland wife of Mareen Duvall the Emigrant was Susannah Brasseur. As she was the mother of Mareen Duvall the Younger, and a direct ancestor of Ellis Duvall and his descendants, more will be written about Susannah Brasseur in a separate posting. It is believed that Mareen and Susannah married about 1673 or 1674 and had the following children : Susannah born about 1677, Mareen the Younger born about 1680, Catherine, Elizabeth, Mary, Johanna born about 1685, and Benjamin.
The third Maryland wife of Mareen Duvall the Emigrant was a woman named Mary. Mareen and Mary had no offspring and there was clearly tension between her and some of Mareen's children. There was a bitter dispute over Mareen's estate, a final accounting was not filed until more than five years after Mareen's death, and by then much of the "liquid assets" (money and tobacco) of the estate had vanished. Also, a few years after his father's death, Mareen the Younger filed in court to have his brother made his guardian as he said his stepmother was not providing proper care of him or his future estate; Mary had remarried by then to a Col. Henry Ridgely who's wealth and influence were pronounced; Col. Ridgely argued vehemently that his stepson was well cared for and Mareen the Younger's request was denied and he was ordered to return to the home of his stepparents and threatened with a thrashing by the court. After the death of Col. Ridgely, the now very wealthy widow married for a third time to the Rev. Jacob Henderson, rector of Queen Anne's Parish, and a powerful and wealthy man in his own right.
It is believed that the second Maryland wife of Mareen Duvall the Emigrant was Susannah Brasseur. As she was the mother of Mareen Duvall the Younger, and a direct ancestor of Ellis Duvall and his descendants, more will be written about Susannah Brasseur in a separate posting. It is believed that Mareen and Susannah married about 1673 or 1674 and had the following children : Susannah born about 1677, Mareen the Younger born about 1680, Catherine, Elizabeth, Mary, Johanna born about 1685, and Benjamin.
The third Maryland wife of Mareen Duvall the Emigrant was a woman named Mary. Mareen and Mary had no offspring and there was clearly tension between her and some of Mareen's children. There was a bitter dispute over Mareen's estate, a final accounting was not filed until more than five years after Mareen's death, and by then much of the "liquid assets" (money and tobacco) of the estate had vanished. Also, a few years after his father's death, Mareen the Younger filed in court to have his brother made his guardian as he said his stepmother was not providing proper care of him or his future estate; Mary had remarried by then to a Col. Henry Ridgely who's wealth and influence were pronounced; Col. Ridgely argued vehemently that his stepson was well cared for and Mareen the Younger's request was denied and he was ordered to return to the home of his stepparents and threatened with a thrashing by the court. After the death of Col. Ridgely, the now very wealthy widow married for a third time to the Rev. Jacob Henderson, rector of Queen Anne's Parish, and a powerful and wealthy man in his own right.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Was Mareen Duvall first Married in France?
It is very possible that Mareen Duvall the Emigrant first married in France (or England) before immigrating to Maryland. We know that his eldest son was named John based on the 1694 Anne Arundel County court record of the probate of Mareen Duvall's will: "John Duvall (eldest son) was granted administration." Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland. Volume VII: 1693-1697. Libers 15B, 15C, 16. Vernon L. Skinner, Jr. . (2006), Page 62. We also know that a John Duvall was transported to Maryland prior to 1678 as Captain John Dingley obtained landrights for importing 180 settlers, one of whom was John Duvall. What we do not know is if the John Duvall who was transported to Maryland before 1678 is the same person as John Duvall, the eldest son of Mareen Duvall the Emigrant. Harry Wright Newman, in his pivotal work, Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation, page 57:
saga. He could have been a son begot of a marriage contracted in France, and being of a tender age
at the time of his father's involvement in political affairs and subsequent banishment, they became
separated and then there were the trying days of orphanhood. Owing to the exigencies of the times
and the difficulty of contact, it was not until his late teens or early twenties that conditions were
propitious for his joining his father in America.
The John Duvall of 1678 did not enter the Province as a redemptionist or an indenture, but
he agreed merely with Captain John Dingley, of the Ship St. George of London, to be transported
to Maryland free of passage money, though the transportees were supposed to perform certain
chores on shipboard en route, and for this contract Captain Dingley was to receive from the Lord
Proprietary 50 acres of land. This landright or 50 acres for importing John Duvall, Dingley
assigned along with 179 other landrights to Nicholas Painter. The latter was an associate of
Colonel William Burgess who brought Mareen the Emigrant into the Province, and the fact that
Painter at his death in 1684 devised the greater portion of his estate to the children of Colonel
Burgess leans a belief that the last wife of Burgess could have been a kinswoman to Painter.
Anyhow there is that Burgess-Painter tie-in involving Mareen Duvall the Emigrant and John
Duvall the transportee of 1678.
About 1677 or before October 1678 the Nanticoke Indian War broke out when a large
contingent from Anne Arundel County went to the relief of the settlers on the lower Eastern Shore.
Among those who served under Colonel William Burgess, the Commander-in-Chief of the
punitive expedition, was Mareen the Elder, son of Mareen the Emigrant. It is noted particularly
that John who was senior to Mareen did not participate in the campaign. Now John was the only
son who was interested in the military — being a captain in the Provincial militia at a later date. So
the question arises, why did not John who had the fighting blood join the forces against the
Nanticokes. It is particularly significant, because Captain Dingley did not bring his 180 settlers
into Maryland until a short time before November 1678.
Then John had more of the continental flare or French customs than the other children of
Mareen the Emigrant, with the lone exception of Eleanor, and accepted the standards of the
well-born Frenchman by the maintenance and recognition of a maitresse or sometimes referred to
by a Frenchman as ma petite amis."
"There is definite proof that John was the eldest son of Mareen Duvall the Emigrant, and ifhe were the John Duvall who was transported in 1678, then greater colour is added to the Duvall
saga. He could have been a son begot of a marriage contracted in France, and being of a tender age
at the time of his father's involvement in political affairs and subsequent banishment, they became
separated and then there were the trying days of orphanhood. Owing to the exigencies of the times
and the difficulty of contact, it was not until his late teens or early twenties that conditions were
propitious for his joining his father in America.
The John Duvall of 1678 did not enter the Province as a redemptionist or an indenture, but
he agreed merely with Captain John Dingley, of the Ship St. George of London, to be transported
to Maryland free of passage money, though the transportees were supposed to perform certain
chores on shipboard en route, and for this contract Captain Dingley was to receive from the Lord
Proprietary 50 acres of land. This landright or 50 acres for importing John Duvall, Dingley
assigned along with 179 other landrights to Nicholas Painter. The latter was an associate of
Colonel William Burgess who brought Mareen the Emigrant into the Province, and the fact that
Painter at his death in 1684 devised the greater portion of his estate to the children of Colonel
Burgess leans a belief that the last wife of Burgess could have been a kinswoman to Painter.
Anyhow there is that Burgess-Painter tie-in involving Mareen Duvall the Emigrant and John
Duvall the transportee of 1678.
About 1677 or before October 1678 the Nanticoke Indian War broke out when a large
contingent from Anne Arundel County went to the relief of the settlers on the lower Eastern Shore.
Among those who served under Colonel William Burgess, the Commander-in-Chief of the
punitive expedition, was Mareen the Elder, son of Mareen the Emigrant. It is noted particularly
that John who was senior to Mareen did not participate in the campaign. Now John was the only
son who was interested in the military — being a captain in the Provincial militia at a later date. So
the question arises, why did not John who had the fighting blood join the forces against the
Nanticokes. It is particularly significant, because Captain Dingley did not bring his 180 settlers
into Maryland until a short time before November 1678.
Then John had more of the continental flare or French customs than the other children of
Mareen the Emigrant, with the lone exception of Eleanor, and accepted the standards of the
well-born Frenchman by the maintenance and recognition of a maitresse or sometimes referred to
by a Frenchman as ma petite amis."
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