Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary ALLNUTT

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 24 Jun 1742
• Probate: 24 Jul 1742

William married Sarah MEARS about 17 Jul 1710 in MD. Sarah (daughter of John MEARS and Sarah THOMAS) was born on 4 Aug 1673. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 11 Mar 1743/44, Calvert Co., MD
• Probate: 10 Apr 1744, Calvert Co., MD

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 17 Apr 1675
• Probate: 25 May 1675

Notes:

Will:
Bequeathed to his only child, Sarah, at 16 years of age, the land on the north side of the Severn river, bequeathed to him by his father, Thomas Mears; 330 acres of Mears, Calver co., adjoining his brother-in-law John Homewood's Expectation, Calvert co., 300 acres in Transquakin, Eastern Shore; with reversion to his sister Sarah, wife of John Homewood. There were bequests to the child of his sister-in-law Eliza, wife of William Coale of West river; to his brother-in-law, Samuel Thomas, etc. The executors were Samuel Chew, Philip and Samuel Thomas, his brother-in-law, and Richard Johns.

John married Sarah THOMAS in 1672. Sarah (daughter of Philip THOMAS and Sarah HARRISON) was born before 1651 in ENGLAND; died in 1675. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Note:
Sarah's parents died within a short time of each other, the mother first, early in 1675 and she was probably brought up by her aunt Sarah (Mears), wife of John Homewood, who had a plantation in Calvert Co. adjoining one and probably near another which she inherited from her father.