Col. EDWARD DORSEY: Owings Stone Family Genealogy — 20,000+ ancestors and their relatives

Title Col.

Birth Bef 1645 Virginia

Gender Male

Ancestor of /
Notable Descendants -both Margaret Rebecca Simpson and her husband William Owings Stone (they are 7th cousins)
-and ancestor of both Elizabeth Hammond Downey and her husband Dr. Daniel Edwin Stone, Jr. (he was a 6th cousin of Jesse Wright Downey, her father; their child is William Owings Stone)
-and ancestor of outlaw brothers Jesse and Frank James (6th cousin of Dr. Daniel Edwin Stone Jr., Dr. Jesse Wright Downey and Thomas Albert Simpson)

Death Note The inventory of Edward Dorsey’s estate lists dozens of items, including “12 new silver spoons, 5 old ones...silver hilted sword...1 looking glass...” and numerous other pieces of silver, furniture, feather beds and household equipment. The list also includes 2 servants and 13 slaves.

Will extract:
Dorsey, Edward,Balto. Co., 26th Oct., 1704;
31st Dec., 1705.
To son Levin at 21 yrs. and hrs., 100 A., “Hockly” on main falls of Patapsco R., and personalty including boy William Jackson.
To sons Charles, Levin, Francis and Edward and their hrs., all land on n. side Patapsco R., all “Taylors Forrest” if it be bought at testator's death.
To dau. Ann, personalty.
To son Joshua and hrs., 100 A., “Barnes Folly.”
To son Samuell, part of “Major's Choyce” and also that which he has received by deed of gift.
To son Nicholas, 100 A., part of “Long Reach” at Elk Ridge and personalty at 16 yrs. of age.
To son Benjamin, 100 A., part of “Long Reach” and personalty at 16 yrs. of age.
To son John, 148 A., residue of “Long Reach” at 16 yrs. of age.
To dau. Sarah Petticoate and 3 child. of dau. Hannah Howard, personalty.
Wife Margaret, extx. and residuary legatee.
Test: Kathcrine Organ, John Huntsmen, John Dorsey and John Ball. 3. 725.

MARYLAND CALENDAR OF WILLS: Volume 3 [2, 5]

Discover/Founder Dorsey Creek just north of Annapolis, where he and his family lived, was named after Col. Edward Dorsey before 1659.

He was one of the first subscribers and contributed 2,000 pounds of tobacco to fund the founding of King William’s School (now St. John’s College). [2]

Fact In 1694, along with Major John Hammond, Hon. John Dorsey, Captain Philip Howard, Major Nicholas Greenbury and John Bennett, he was on a committee to lay out a town common and streets for the town of Annapolis, then to be called Proctor.

Sir Thomas Lawrence wrote of Edward Doresy that, “Edward Dorsey lives near Annapolis and builds houses there, those who have dealings with him say his honesty more often fails him than his wit.” This did not keep him from being elected a member of His Majestry’s Council and being appointed a member of the House of Burgesses on 21 Sept. 1694. [2, 6]

Immigration Bef 1661 Transported to Maryland by Robert Bullen [4]

Military Note Captain of the Militia in 1686, Major in 1687, Field Officer of Calvert Co. in 1694 and a Colonel in 1702.

As “Major of the Horse,” he joined Capt. Edward Burgess in asking for additional arms and ammunition for defense., [2, 3, 6]

Occupation Lawyer/Builder

Real Estate He owned and sold hundreds of acres of land in Maryland during his life time. He first established his home on a plantation that embraced a considerable portion of what is now the city of Annapolis. It was here that his first 8 children were born. On 12 June 1698, he was granted land in the western part of Anne Arundel Co./Baltimore Co. on the shore the Patapsco, now part of Howard Co., that he called Major’s Choice. He and his family moved to Major’s Choice before 1700. This property remained in the hands of his descendants for several generations. Charles Hammond, son of his daughter Ann, sold an acre to Charles White, Elizabeth Dorsey and Achsah Howard for the purpose of building a Methodist meeting house.

Edward Dorsey bought several lots in Annapolis and built a number of houses there. It was referred to as “Bloomsberry Square.” [2, 3]

Religion Quaker

Died 31 Dec 1705 Major’s Choice, Baltimore Co., Maryland [4]

Person ID I390 Owings Stone Genealogy, Ancestry & Heritage

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Father EDWARD D'ARCY DORSEY, b. Bef 1620, England

Mother ANNE <>, b. Bef 1620

Family ID F164 Group Sheet

Family 1 SARAH WYATT, b. Bef 1650, prob. Virginia

Married Bef 1670 [3]

Children

	1. Edward Dorsey, Jr., b. Bef 1677, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
	2. Sarah Dorsey, b. Bef 1677, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
	3. Hannah Dorsey, b. Abt 1679, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
	4. Samuel Dorsey, b. 1682, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
	5. JOSHUA DORSEY, b. 1686, Middle Neck Hundred, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
	6. JOHN DORSEY, b. 15 Jun 1688, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
	7. Nicholas Dorsey, b. Abt 1690, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
	8. Benjamin Dorsey, b. Abt 1692, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland

Family ID F163 Group Sheet

Family 2 Margaret Larkin, b. Bef 1672

Married Abt 1693 [4]

Children

	1. Larkin (Lacon) Dorsey, b. 1694, Baltimore Co., Maryland
	2. Francis Dorsey, b. 1696, Baltimore Co., Maryland
	3. Charles Dorsey, b. Abt 1698, Baltimore Co., Maryland
	4. Edward Dorsey, b. Abt 1700, Baltimore Co., Maryland
	5. Anne Dorsey, b. 1702, Baltimore Co., Maryland

Family ID F173 Group Sheet

Notes

“From 1680 to 1705, Major Dorsey was in every movement looking to the development of the colony. From 1694 to 1696 he was Judge of the High Court of Chancery, during which time he was commissioned to hold the Great Seal. In 1694, he was a member of the House of Burgesses for Anne Arundel, and from 1697 to his death, in 1705, was a member from Baltimore County (now Howard).

“He was one of the subscribers and treasurer of the fund for building St. Anne’s Church, and a free school for the province also received his aid.

“He signed the protestant address from Baltimore County to the King’s most gracious majestie, upon the succession of King William III - an appeal on behalf of Charles Lord Baron of Baltimore, whoe proprietary government had been wrested from the family through the influence of Captain John Coode. Though a Protestant, he was found in support of a government which left religious faith untouched.”, see also .

He was a supporter of the House of Stuart and a member of the Jacobean Party. His home was often a meeting place for other supporters. [3, 7]

Died:

date will proved

Sources

[S34] Warfield, J.D., (Kohn & Pollock, Baltimore), p. 55
[S76] Dorsey, Maxwell J., Jean Muir Dorsey & Nannie Ball Nimmo
[S82] Newman, Harry Wright, (Maryland Pioneer Series)
[S83] Barnes, Robert W., (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.)
[S173] (Family Line Publications (Maryland)), F180/C853.
[S34] Warfield, J.D., (Kohn & Pollock, Baltimore)
[S34] Warfield, J.D., (Kohn & Pollock, Baltimore), p. 57

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