Talbot County.            xxv

    Jonathan Sibery ( -1684) had been appointed to the Kent County Court,
   December 23, 1664; and Captain of all the forces on Kent Island, July 4, 1665
   (Arch. Md. iii, 512, 529). He first appeared on the Talbot Court in Feb.,
   1668/9. He figures in the Talbot record in an agreement, dated May 20, 1671,
   with certain Boston merchants, to purchase five male and five female negro
   slaves for 3,680 pounds of tobacco each, to be delivered to him in Wye River
   (pp. 519-522). Jonathan Sibery's name occurs constantly in the Maryland
   provincial records as a party in various civil suits and mercantile transactions.
   He died without heirs in the Province.
    William Hambleton (1663-1677) appears in the Talbot Court, February 16,
   1668/9, and was still a member in 1674, when these records end, and was
   recommissioned in 1676 (Arch. Md. xv, 68). He was in Maryland as early
   as 1657, when he was living at Capt. Giles Brent's plantation on the Potomac,
   the land records showing that he came into the Province in that year. He was
   a burgess of Talbot, 1666-1675; and sheriff in 1663 (p. 359). Nothing has
   been learned of his antecedents.
    Col. Philemon Lloyd (1646-1695) was the son of Councillor Edward Lloyd
   (1620-1696) of “Wye “. He was born in Virginia and came into Maryland
   with his father when he was only three or four years old. These Talbot records
   show that he was on the court from 1672 to 1674 when this record ends, and
   was of the quorum, 1675-1681. He lived at “Wye “, and was one of the
   leading men of Talbot, representing that county in the Lower House of the
   Assembly, of which he was the Speaker for several years (Md. Hist. Mag.
   vii, 423-424).
    Richard Gorsuch (1637-1677), who first appeared on the court in January
   1670/1, had come into Maryland from Virginia in 166o, with his brothers,
   Charles, Robert, and Lovelace. They were the sons of a Loyalist Anglican
   clergyman, the Rev. John Gorsuch, rector of Walkern, Hertfordshire, who
   had been killed by the Puritans in England in 1647 (Va. Mag. 1916, xxiv,
   83-93). They had emigrated with their mother to Virginia about 1652, had
   become converts to Quakerism there, and were of that group of Quakers who
   had been driven out of Lancaster County by Gov. Berkeley in 1660. The
   brothers had divided, Charles and Robert settling on the Patapsco, and Richard
   and Lovelace on the Choptank (Va. Mag. xxiv, pp. 317-321; xxvii, 384-391).
    Edward Rowe (Roe) ( -1676) first appeared on the Talbot County Court in
   January 1670/1. He was living in Virginia in the early sixties when he was an
   owner of lands in Lancaster and Gloucester counties in 1663 and 1665 (Va.
   Mag. xv, 180). There was doubtless some close connection between Rowe
   and the Quaker justice of Talbot, Richard Gorsuch, who had come up from
   Lancaster County to Maryland in 1659-1660, and who is referred to in Rowe's
   will (Virginia Mag. 1916, xxiv, 319-321). Edward Rowe was Deputy Com-
   missary of Talbot County, 1674-1676.
    John Wells (d. c. 1680) appears as a member of the Talbot County Court
   only from January 1660/1 to June 1661. Nothing further has been learned
   about him except that he was probably the son of Richard Wells, Sr., of
   Anne Arundel County, who, dying in 1667, left by will a tract of 1500