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remainder of 2,380 acres, obtained by purchase
or patent). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BE-
TWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: purchased,
patented, or surveyed 2,650 acres in Dorchester
County between 1736 and 1743; sold or lost through
deficiencies in resurveys 1,911 acres in Dor-
chester County, 1737-1743. WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: in December 1744 in Dorchester County.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £1,953.5.6 current
money (including 32 slaves, books, and 134 oz.
silver); FB, estate overpaid £84.15.11. LAND: 6,152
acres in Dorchester County.
TRUEMAN, THOMAS (ca. 1625-1685). BORN:
ca. 1625, probably in Nottingham, England. IM-
MIGRATED: in 1651, as a free adult. RESIDED: in
Calvert County. FAMILY BACKGROUND. BROTH-
ERS: Nathaniel (?-1677), a justice of Calvert
County, 1669/70; James (?-1672), a justice and
physician, who married Ann Storer. SISTER: Eliz-
abeth, who married (first name unknown) Stringer.
NIECES: Martha Trueman, who married Thomas
Greenfleld (ca. 1649-1715); Mary Trueman, who
married Thomas Hollyday (ca. 1661-1702/3); and
Ann Trueman, who married John Bigger (ca. 1654-
1714). MARRIED Mary (ca. 1634-1686), widow of
Capt. John Bogue (Boage) (?-1667), daughter
of Robert Lashley (Lasly) (?-1680) and wife Eliz-
abeth (?-1682). Her sisters were Katherine, who
married Richard Brightwell; (first name un-
known), who married Philip Cooksey; and (first
name unknown), who married Richard South-
erne. CHILDREN. Probably died without progeny.
PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS
AFFILIATION: Protestant. SOCIAL STATUS AND AC-
TIVITIES: arrived with two servants; Esq., by death.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: attorney; planter; mer-
chant. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
Lower House, Calvert County, 1661, 1662; Up-
per House, 1666, 1669 (Aggrievances), 1671-1674/
75 (Accounts 1, 3; Laws 2-3), 1683-1684 (ap-
pointed by the 2nd session of the 1682-1684 As-
sembly). OTHER PROVINCIAL OFFICES: Council,
1665-1676, 1683-1685; justice. Provincial Court,
1665-1676, 1683-1685. LOCAL OFFICES: justice,
Calvert County, 1658-1662; sheriff, 1662-1663;
deputy surveyor, 1665. MILITARY SERVICE, lieu-
tenant, 1659; captain, 1660; major, by 1675.
STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES: in 1655 True-
man was imprisoned for his role in Stone's Re-
bellion against the Puritan government; in 1656
he was rewarded by Lord Baltimore for his faith-
fulness and given 1,000 acres; in 1676 Trueman
was found guilty by the Upper House of the first
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of three articles of impeachment voted by the
Lower House for his complicity in "the late bar-
barous and inhumane murder of five Susquehan-
nough Indians." Trueman had been commis-
sioned by the proprietor to command a troop
whose purpose was to negotiate a peace settle-
ment with the Indians. He was dismissed from
the Council in 1676, and released from his bond
for good behavior in 1678. WEALTH DURING LIFE-
TIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: patented 2,000
acres in St. Mary's County. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES
IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH:
patented over 7,200 acres in Calvert, St. Mary's,
and Anne Arundel counties between 1663 and
1684. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: on December 6,
1685; buried at "Trent Hall" on the Patuxent
River in St. Mary's County; will probated in Cal-
vert County on December 10, 1685. PERSONAL
PROPERTY: TEV, at least £918.11.10 and 31,655
pounds of tobacco (including 17 servants and 114
books). LAND: over 2,175 acres in St. Mary's and
Calvert counties. Trueman's principal heirs were
the children of his brother James.
TURBUTT, FOSTER (1679-1720/21). BORN: on
November 13, 1679, probably in Kent County;
eldest son. NATIVE: second generation. RESIDED:
in Kent County; Talbot County by 1687-1720/
21. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Michael Tur-
butt (?-1696), who immigrated probably in the
late 1660s and who was clerk of Kent County,
1686/87-1689, and a justice of Talbot County,
1687-1689. STEPFATHER: Jacob Covington (?-
1726). MOTHER: Sarah, daughter of Seth Foster
(?-1674/75) of Talbot County and wife Elizabeth.
HALF UNCLE . John Hawkins (ca. 1657-1717). AUNT:
Elizabeth Foster (1658/59-1726), who married
first, Vincent Lowe (?-1692), and second, by 1694,
William Coursey (?-ca. 1717/18). BROTHERS.
Richard (1681-?); William Turbutt (1683/84-1739);
Samuel, who married Rachel (1692-?), daughter
of Nicholas Goldsborough (1662-1705); and Na-
thaniel. SISTERS: Mary, who married first, John
(?-1713), son of Henry Coursey (ca. 1629-1695),
and second, Thomas Hynson Wright (1688-1747);
Sarah, who married Arthur Emory, of Queen
Anne's County; and Margaret (?-1756), who
married by 1726 Nicholas Lowe (1697-1745), of
Talbot County. NEPHEW: Thomas Wright (?-ca.
1784). NIECES: Mary Anne Wright (?-1747), who
married William Hopper (1707-1772); Anne Wright
(?-by 1754), who married Edward Oldham (1709-
1773): Mary Coursey, who married Solomon Wright
(?-1729); Elizabeth Coursey, who married Thomas
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