Thomas Earle Arrived in Maryland in 1663 – Talbot County Maryland Branch
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The birthdate for Thomas Earle is estimated to be about 1640, based on his emigration to Maryland. He arrived in Maryland in 1663.
In the records of the Land Office of Maryland, there is this entry:
“Patrick Mellikin demands land for the transportation of Thomas Earle in 1663.”
In the Register of St. Peter’s Parish, Talbot County, Md., is the death of Thomas Earle in 1704, (1676) and also the baptism of one son and two daughters of Thomas and Catherine Earle. This may have been the family of the Thomas who was transported in 1663.
He died about on or before 8 Jun 1678. His will was dated 1677 and was proved in Talbot County, Maryland, in 1678. His name and death date are taken from the administrator’s bond on record in Talbot County.
In his 1677 will, Thomas Earle bequeaths 150 acres of land to sons Thomas and John.
- Witnesses John Hartley and George Watts
- Thomas Earle Will Inventory & Accounts 7B.27 A TA #2278 #3004 Aug 30 1680
- Payments to: John Watts, Sr., John Edmundson.
- Administratrix: Ann Ayres (relict), wife of John Ayres. Ann had remarried.
Quoted From: Hollyday and Related Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland
- It is of some interest to note that before the arrival of Mrs. Richard Hollyday’s Earle ancestors in Maryland on both the Eastern and Western Shores, there were other Earle families. The Earle families on the Eastern Shore of Maryland were from Ireland, and most of the Western Shore Earles were from Stepney Parish, London.
In 1663, Patrick Mellikin, of Ireland transported to Talbot, Maryland, a Thomas Earle, who, by his will (1675-1677), we discover, left a wife, Anne, (who, after his death, married John Ayers of Talbot), and had two sons, Thomas and John, to whom he bequeathed a farm of 460 acres called “Middle Neck.”
In the records of St. Peter’s Church, Talbot, there was another Thomas Earle, who had a wife, Catherine.
- whose daughter Rebecca was baptized on September 21, 1696;
- a daughter, Mary, baptized in 1700, who on November 2, 1724, married Francis Cooke and on July 20, 1730 married George Sailes;
- a son, Thomas, who was baptized with his sister
- Rebecca on September 21, 1696, and died on June 19, 1703.
Thomas, who died before March 5, 1704 (his will probated that date).
In 1696, he was a corporal in the militia of Talbot County.
As he is not listed among the “ Early Settlers, it is possible he was one of the thirteen children brought over by James and Rhodah Earle in 1683.
There was also a John Earle in Talbot in 1674; he is accounted for in the Bible of James, the grandson of James and Rhodah Earle, as one of the latter’s children who was a ship’s captain and preceded them to Maryland. After 1684, when this John Earle made an inventory of his father’s estate, he was captured by North African pirates and put to death.
There is no definite record of the marriage of Thomas Earle and Anne Watts, but by the will, dated September 21, 1669, of George Watts “on Great Choptank River in Talbot,” his granddaughter, Mary Earle, and his daughter, Mary Earle, are left bequests. As the wives of all the male Earles, except John, of that period in Talbot are accounted for, possibly Mary Watts married John Earle.
