Ancestors of Mary Colleen Roach

Mary married Rex Baird Purviance, son of Charles Arthur Purviance and Wilma Edna Drewel, on 29 Nov 1974 in Amarillo, TX. Rex was born on 8 Mar 1955 in Amarillo, TX.

• Medical: tonsilitis by having his tonsils removed, Oct 1960, Ft Leonard Wood, Missouri.

• Medical: for appendicitis by having his appendix removed, 1968, Fort Riley, Kansas.

• Military Service: by joining the Army, 16 Feb 1976, Amarillo, Potter, Texas.

• Military Service: during Operations Desert Shield/Storm, 24 Oct 1990-15 Apr 1991, Saudi Arabia.

• Military Discharge: with an Honorable Discharge, 2 Mar 1992, Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

ii. Rachel Denise Purviance was born on 10 May 1977 in Fort Sam Houston, Bexar, TX.

iii. Derek Matthew Purviance was born on 9 Aug 1978 in Fort Sam Houston, Bexar, TX.

Second Generation

2. John Marshall Roach Jr, son of John Marshall Roach and Mattie Maria Owen, was born on 31 Oct 1912 in Paris, Texas, died on 11 Jan 1972 in Houston, Texas at age 59, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas.

John married Mary Kathryn Sweet, daughter of Harry Sweet and Mary Ann Dawson, on 27 Nov 1932. Mary was born on 19 Apr 1912 in Longview, Upshur Co, Texas and died on 5 Oct 1968 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co, Texas at age 56.

i. Mary Kathryn Roach was born on 11 Nov 1933 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co, Texas.

ii. John Marshall Roach III was born on 23 Jun 1941 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co, Texas.

iii. Ellen Sweet Roach was born on 30 Oct 1942 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co, Texas.

John next married Josephine Lillian O'connor on 2 Dec 1950 in Texas. Josephine was born on 29 Jul 1916 in Denison, Texas, died on 4 Aug 1996 in Amarillo, Potter, Texas at age 80, and was buried in Llano Cemetery, Amarillo, Texas.

3. Josephine Lillian O'connor, daughter of Cornelius Daniel O'connor and Josephine Meehan, was born on 29 Jul 1916 in Denison, Texas, died on 4 Aug 1996 in Amarillo, Potter, Texas at age 80, and was buried in Llano Cemetery, Amarillo, Texas.

Josephine married John Marshall Roach Jr on 2 Dec 1950 in Texas. John was born on 31 Oct 1912 in Paris, Texas, died on 11 Jan 1972 in Houston, Texas at age 59, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas.

Third Generation

4. John Marshall Roach,¹ son of James Knox Polk Roach and Martha "Mattie" MCCULLOCH, was born on 20 Sep 1869 in , Red River, Texas, died on 14 Feb 1938 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co, Texas at age 68, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas. Another name for John was "Big John." Ancestral File Number: JD8J-SJ.

John married Mattie Maria Owen on 3 Sep 1902. Mattie was born on 1 Nov 1882 in Princeton, Kentucky.

ii. Annie May Roach was born on 6 Jul 1903 in Jennings, Lamar Co, Texas, died on 11 Jul 1903 in Jennings, Lamar Co, Texas, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Paris, Lamar Co, Texas.

iv. David Polk Roach was born on 30 Aug 1906 in Paris, Lamar Co, Texas, died on 20 Apr 1917 in Paris, Lamar Co, Texas at age 10, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Paris, Lamar Co, Texas.

v. Ruth Dewitt Roach was born on 29 Nov 1908 in Paris, Lamar Co, Texas and died on 22 Dec 1999 in Lubbock, Texas at age 91.

vi. Charles Edward Roach was born on 26 Jun 1915 in Paris, Lamar Co, Texas, died on 12 Feb 2003 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co, Texas at age 87, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas.

Mattie married John Marshall Roach on 3 Sep 1902. John was born on 20 Sep 1869 in , Red River, Texas, died on 14 Feb 1938 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co, Texas at age 68, and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas. Another name for John was "Big John."

ii. Mary Esther O'connor was born on 12 Apr 1903 in Texas and died on 1 Sep 1955 in Almeda, California at age 52.

Fourth Generation

8. James Knox Polk Roach,¹ son of James Roach and Malinda MCCONNEL, was born on 6 Nov 1844 in Of, Coffee, Tenn and died on 19 Nov 1908 at age 64. Ancestral File Number: JD8J-Q6.

James married Martha "Mattie" MCCULLOCH on 2 Sep 1866 in , Red River, Texas. Martha was born about 1850 in , Hempstead ?, Ark.

ii. Mattie Roach was born about 1871 in , Red River, Texas. Ancestral File Number: JD8J-TP.

9. Martha "Mattie" MCCULLOCH,¹ daughter of James MCCULLOCH and Unknown, was born about 1850 in , Hempstead ?, Ark. Ancestral File Number: JD8J-RC.

Martha married James Knox Polk Roach on 2 Sep 1866 in , Red River, Texas. James was born on 6 Nov 1844 in Of, Coffee, Tenn and died on 19 Nov 1908 at age 64.

Fifth Generation

16. James Roach,¹ ^,2 ^,3 ^,4 son of Stephen Roach and Rebecca Jette, was born on 1 Jul 1803 in , Pendleton Dist, SC ^² and died WFT Est 1804-1893 ^² at age 1. Ancestral File Number: 19G8-3J1.

James married Malinda MCCONNEL in 1827 in Kentucky. Malinda was born about 1804 in , Pendleton Dist, SC.

Malinda married James Roach in 1827 in Kentucky. James was born on 1 Jul 1803 in , Pendleton Dist, SC ^² and died WFT Est 1804-1893 ^² at age 1.

18. James MCCULLOCH,¹ son of Isaac MCCULLOCH and Unknown, was born in 1810 in , , North Carolina, died in 1883 in , Red River, Texas at age 73, and was buried in Halesboro Cemtry, Red River, Texas. Ancestral File Number: JD8S-DK.

Sixth Generation

32. Stephen Roach,¹ ^,2 ^,3 ^,4 son of Jonathan Roach and Esebell Lawson, was born on 17 May 1769 in Coventry Parish, Somerset Co., Maryland ^² and died after 1816 in Caldwell County Kentucky.^² Ancestral File Number: 19G8-3Q8.

Stephen married Rebecca Jette about 1793 in Pendleton Co., South Carolina ² ^,3.^,4 Rebecca was born on 19 Jan 1774 in <, Caldwell, KY> ^² and died before 5 Nov 1816 in Caldwell Co., Kentucky.^² Another name for Rebecca was Rebecca Jouett.

i. Lorinda Ellen Roach was born on 30 May 1814 in Princeton, Caldwell, KY and died on 28 Nov 1883 in Crescent, , Io at age 69. Ancestral File Number: TCHR-W0.

ii. Rebecca Roach was born on 17 Oct 1809 in Caldwell County Kentucky,^² died WFT Est 1810-1903 ^² at age 1, and was buried in Bradford, , TN. Ancestral File Number: 19G7-H6V.

iii. Elizabeth Roach was born on 1 May 1794 in , Pendleton Dist, SC ^² and died on 22 Nov 1885 in Walnut Grove, Leake Co., Mississippi ^² at age 91. Ancestral File Number: 19G8-35Q.

iv. Sarah Roach was born on 15 Jun 1795 in , Pendleton Dist, SC ^² and died WFT Est 1796-1889 ^² at age 1. Ancestral File Number: 19G8-375.

v. John Roach was born on 10 Apr 1797 in , Pendleton Dist, SC ^² and died WFT Est 1798-1887 ^² at age 1. Ancestral File Number: 19G8-38C.

vi. Mary Roach was born on 27 Apr 1799 in , Pendleton Dist, SC ^² and died WFT Est 1800-1893 ^² at age 1. Ancestral File Number: 19G8-3BR.

vii. William Roach was born on 26 Feb 1801 in , Pendleton Dist, SC ^² and died in 1879 in , Red River, TX ^² at age 78. Ancestral File Number: 19G8-3GL.

ix. Abner C. Roach was born on 25 Sep 1806 in Caldwell County Kentucky ^² and died WFT Est 1807-1896 ^² at age 1. Ancestral File Number: 19G8-3LF.

x. Stephen J Roach was born on 27 May 1811 in Caldwell County Kentucky ^² and died WFT Est 1812-1901 ^² at age 1. Ancestral File Number: 19G8-3NT.

xi. Lauriny Roach was born on 30 May 1814 in Caldwell County Kentucky ^² and died WFT Est 1815-1908 ^² at age 1.

33. Rebecca Jette,¹ ^,2 ^,3 ^,4 daughter of Unknown Jett and Unknown, was born on 19 Jan 1774 in <, Caldwell, KY> ^² and died before 5 Nov 1816 in Caldwell Co., Kentucky.^² Another name for Rebecca was Rebecca Jouett. Ancestral File Number: 19G7-HBP.

Rebecca married Stephen Roach about 1793 in Pendleton Co., South Carolina ² ^,3.^,4 Stephen was born on 17 May 1769 in Coventry Parish, Somerset Co., Maryland ^² and died after 1816 in Caldwell County Kentucky.^²

36. Isaac MCCULLOCH ¹ was born about 1779 in , , N-Car, died from 1830 to 1840 in , Franklin, Ala about age 51, and was buried in Russellville, Franklin, Ala. Ancestral File Number: JD8S-KF.

Seventh Generation

Esebell married Jonathan Roach on 28 Feb 1759 ³ ^,4.^,5 Jonathan was born about 1728 and died about Nov 1802 about age 74.

Eighth Generation

General Notes: Received from his father the following tracts of land:
Long Town, 150 acres
Father's Care, 63 acres
Lott, 36 acres
Also received "the interest of the Marshes in Little Annamessex Neck",
shared with brother Charles.

Received from his father the following tracts of land:
Long Town, 150 acres
Father's Care, 63 acres
Lott, 36 acres
Also received "the interest of the Marshes in Little Annamessex Neck",
shared with brother Charles.

ix. Samuel Roach was born in 1737 in Eastern Shores, Maryland,^⁷ died in 1781 in Pinesville, Mecklinburg Co., South Carolina ^⁵ at age 44, and was buried in Polk Family Burying Grounds, Pinesville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.

General Notes: The following entry is found in "Old Somerset of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland," on GeneologyLibrary.com:
"August 16, 1662--Stephen Horsey* for himself, wife Sarah*; Jno.,*
Saml.,* Mary* and Abigail Horsey* [his children]; Thos.,* Michael* and
Sarah Williams* [his step-children]; John Roche [Roach],* Benj. Summer*
and Thos. Whittfield (4:580). "

Could this be one of our Roaches?

The following entry is found in "Old Somerset of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland," on GeneologyLibrary.com:
"August 16, 1662--Stephen Horsey* for himself, wife Sarah*; Jno.,*
Saml.,* Mary* and Abigail Horsey* [his children]; Thos.,* Michael* and
Sarah Williams* [his step-children]; John Roche [Roach],* Benj. Summer*
and Thos. Whittfield (4:580). "

Could this be one of our Roaches?

Mary married John III Roach about 1715 ³.^,4 John was born about 1695 and died about Nov 1770 about age 75.

Ninth Generation

256. John II Roach,³ ^,4 ^,8 son of John I Roach and Sarah Williams, was born on 4 Dec 1664 in Annemessex, Somerset Co., Maryland and died in Jun 1727 in Somerset Co., Maryland at age 62.

General Notes: Received the tract of land known as "Makepeace" from his father in will.

1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 MAR 1663/64
2 SOUR S02005

Received the tract of land known as "Makepeace" from his father in will.

John married Alice Hall in Nov 1693 ³.^,4 Alice was born on 2 Jun 1673 and died about Feb 1749 about age 75. Another name for Alice was Alis.

ii. Catherine Roach was born on 11 Jan 1694 in Annemessex, Somerset Co., Maryland ^⁵ and died in 1745 in Worcester, Maryland, USA ^⁹ at age 51.

257. Alice Hall ³ ^,4 ^,10 was born on 2 Jun 1673 and died about Feb 1749 about age 75. Another name for Alice was Alis.

General Notes: [SOURCE: They Lived in Somerset]
1680/12/20 Maryland Calendar of Wills: witnessed will of Daniel
Curtis
Maryland Calendar of Wills: mentioned in will of Daniel Curtis

[SOURCE: They Lived in Somerset]
1680/12/20 Maryland Calendar of Wills: witnessed will of Daniel
Curtis
Maryland Calendar of Wills: mentioned in will of Daniel Curtis

Alice married John II Roach in Nov 1693 ³.^,4 John was born on 4 Dec 1664 in Annemessex, Somerset Co., Maryland and died in Jun 1727 in Somerset Co., Maryland at age 62.

Tenth Generation

512. John I Roach ³ ^,4 ^,8 was born in Jan 1635 in England ^¹² and died in 1718 in Somerset County, Maryland ^¹² at age 83.

General Notes: [From "Old Somerset of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A Study in
Foundations and Founders", by Clayton Torrence, Richmond, Virginia,
1935. Electronic version at geneologylibrary.com. P. 457-458]

Roach. John Roach (also spelled Roch) was an early settler in Annemessex,
coming in with Stephen Horsey.(*) On February 4, 1663/4, John Roach m.
Sarah Williams (daughter of Michael and Sarah Williams and stepdaughter
of Stephen Horsey; see post, Williams, Michael). John Roach d. 1717/18,
leaving by Sarah, his wife, issue: (1) John (1664-1727); m. Alice Hall
(see ante, Hall); (2) Sarah, 1667/8; m. 1683, John Perkins; (3) Mary,
1668/9; m., 1683, Francis Martin; (4) Elizabeth, 1670/1; (5) Abigail,
1672/3; m., 1687, Anthony Bell; (6) William (1674/5-1687); (7) Arabella,
1679; m. (???) Cullen; (8) Nathaniel (d. 1721), m. Elizabeth (???); (9)
Michael (d. 1729); (10) Rebecca, 1685; (11) Hannah, 1687; (12) Joseph,
1689; (13) Samuel (1692-1736) (IKL; EB 9, pp. 66, 72, 111, and 182; EB
14, p. 288; EB 15, p. 135).

(*)The two last named, Elizabeth and William, are recorded as children of
John Rhodes and Elizabeth, his wife. John, Robert, Martha and Werenia are
simply recorded as children of John Rhodes. Werenia's death is recorded
as daughter of John Rhodes and Katherine, his wife. Evidently John Rhodes
was married twice.

(*)"Makepeace," the Roach family home established by John Roach, first of
the name in Somerset County, 150-acre tract at head of Apes Hole Creek,
several miles east of town of Crisfield. This tract was patented by John
Roach, February 9, 1663. The brick colonial dwelling house is stated to
date "immediately after 1663" (Forman, Early Manor and Plantation Houses
of Maryland, p. 149). This was the home of John Roach (d. 1717/18), who
devised his dwelling plantation, "Makepeace" (after death of wife Sarah),
to eldest son, John Roach, who, dying in 1727, devised "Makepeace" to his
son, Charles Roach (wills of John Roach, Sr., 1717/18, and John Roach,
Sr., 1727, Will Liber EB 9, pp. 66 and 111, Somerset Registry of Wills).

[p. 490]
Somerset Court, Liber IKL, pp. 196 and 255. Liber IKL, containing
register of marriages, births and deaths (though probably by no means a
complete record), gives record of marriages of James Nicholson and Mary
Price in 1663; John Roch [Roach] and Sarah Williams in February, 1663/4;
and of Edward Surnam and Ann Frowin in 1664.

[p. 469-471]
(d) PATENTEES OF LAND IN OLD SOMERSET AREA, 1662-1666
The list as given below has for its objective a statement of the names of
persons who received warrants for lands within the area of Old Somerset
(the present Somerset, Worcester and Wicomico Counties) from the time of
the origin of that settlement under proclamation of November, 1661 (see
ante, p. 13), to August 22, 1666, when Somerset County was created (see
ante, p. 67). This list of "patentees" of lands in this area, together
with the list of "rights," proved for transportation into the province
(appended hereto) has been made in attempt to obtain from the remaining
original sources the names of the early settlers: those persons who were
within the area when Somerset County was created and thus were truly
"first settlers." The list as here given has been made up from the Lord
Proprietor's Rent Roll (in the Calvert Papers, Maryland Historical
Society) with additions from the Land Patent books in the Hall of
Records, Annapolis. There are variations in the dates of surveys between
the Rent Roll and the Land Patent records. These variations are, however,
slight, and this list gives the dates as carried by the Rent Roll. The
dates here given follow the so-called "old style" with the year beginning
on March 25th and ending with March 24th.

[Many entries omitted]
Stephen Horsey, Jr., Undoe, 200 a., April 2, 1664.
Stephen Horsey (Tract on Tomatico), 500 a., March 26, 1664.
Stephen Horsey, Horsey's Down, 150 a., March 30 [1664].
Stephen Horsey, Coleburn, 650 a., August 18, 1663.
Charles Hall, Hall's Choice, 300 a., June 6, 1665.
John Horsey, Watkins' Point, 150 a., February 20, 1664.
Stephen Horsey, The Desert, 400 a., March 10, 1665.
John Roach, Makepeace, 150 a., February 9, 1663.
Stephen Horsey, Chance, 300 a., March 1, 1663.
Stephen Horsey, Horsey's Bailwick, 500 a., March 26, 1664.
Charles Hall, Hall's Choice, 300 a., June 6, 1665.

The tracts of land noted in the above list as surveyed for and patented
by the parties whose names are given were in the sections of the Old
Somerset area along the Pocomoke, Great Annemessex, Manokin, and Wicomico
Rivers (with one or two of them in the neighborhood south of Nanticoke
River) and about Morumsco, Monie and Back Creeks. In July, 1666, the
governor issued a proclamation authorizing the commissioners for "the
Eastern Shore" to issue warrants for lands on "the seaboard side" to
those who wished to settle there (Somerset Court, Liber O 1). However, it
was several years later before there appears to have been any movement
towards the section comprehended by this proclamation. In 1670 William
Stevens and James Weedon were appointed deputies for granting lands on
"the seaboard side" (Ar. Md., Proceedings of Council, 1667-1687/8, pp.
79, 90 and 96). The objective of this movement was principally the
establishment of settlements in the northeastern section of the Old
Somerset area which at the dates given included what is now the lower
part of Sussex County, Delaware. By 1672 numerous warrants were issue for
lands in this section and a county by the name of Worcester was proposed
(see ante, p. 423, et seq.).

The following persons were entitled to 50 acres of land each for coming
into Maryland to settle. In some instances they assigned their "right" to
the 50 acres to others, who received a grant thereof. In other instances
the parties were transported by others who therefore received the "right"
of 50 acres of land. Those whom we can prove to have been actual settlers
in the Somerset area are marked with an asterisk. The names of these
"rights" have been obtained
[entries omitted]
August 16, 1662--Stephen Horsey* for himself, wife Sarah*; Jno.,* Saml.,*
Mary* and Abigail Horsey* [his children]; Thos.,* Michael* and Sarah
Williams* [his step-children]; John Roche [Roach],* Benj. Summer* and
Thos. Whittfield (4:580).
March 10, 1663--Stephen Horsey for Reba [Rebecca?] Horsey (6:255).
March, 1663--Stephen Horsey entered "rights" for John King,* Jane King,*
John King [Jr.?], Mary King, Jas. Davies, James Cane,* George Carter, Wm.
Howard (6:255).

Somerset County Marriages:
John Roch [Roach] and Sarah Williams, February 4, 1663.

[p.348-350]
It was to the court of Somerset, held "12th 9ber" and "13th 9ber, 1689"
[November 12th and 13th] that the matter of this address of loyalty to
William and Mary and the Protestant religion and succession to England's
throne was brought, and we find in the court record reference thereto in
the following terms:

"This same day viz the 13th of 9ber There was an Address presented by the
Grand Jury to the Worll Court humbly craving there [their] Worps and
freemens concurrence therein and that it may be with Speed sent to there
Majestys--Immediately after ye Justices of ye Court signed the
Address,(+) and so did many others that attended the Court. Then the
Court Ordered that the aforesaid Address when finished should Be sent
over the bay, in order to be presented to there Maties. It was then
likewise Ordered by the Court that when ye said Address was Sent over the
Bay that it should be certifyed there that the Court had appointed and
made Mr William Brereton high Sheriffe of this County instead and place
of Capt William Whittington."

(*)The Coulbournes, Dixons and Horseys were originally most sympathetic
with the Quaker and other "non-conformist" elements in the founding of
Somerset
County; but in the second generation transferred their loyalty to the
Church
of England, which was indeed their "mother church."

(+)The 12 names, Brown, Jenckins, Brereton, Winder, King, Dashiell, Luff,
Newbold, Round, Hopkins, Howard and Jones, signed at the end of the
"Address,"
represent 12 of the 14 "Justices of ye Court"; the name of William
Coulbourne,
another "Justice," appears also in the body of the list of signers. Roger
Woolford seems to have been the only "Justice" commissioned who did not
sign the "Address."

The "address" of loyalty, signed as stated in the above court record, was
sent "over the Bay" and was no doubt thence transmitted "to there
Majestys." In the provincial archives we find a paper entitled: "Address
of the Inhabitants of the County of Somersett Nover th 28th 1689," with
its signatories, which reads as follows:19

"To the King and Queen most Ext [excellent] Majty [majesty] Wee your
Majesty's subjects in the County of Somersett and Province of Maryland
being refreshed and encouraged by your Majestys great and prosperous
undertakings, and by your late gracious letter to those of this Province,
do cast ourselves at your Majesty's feet humbly desiring and hopefully
expecting the continuance of your Majtys care of us, as our Case and
Circumstance doe or may require, in the confidence whereof wee resolve to
continue (by the Grace of God) in the Profession and defence of the
Protestant Religion and your Majesty's Title and interest against the
French and other Paptists that oppose and trouble us in soe just and good
a cause not doubting but your Majestys wisdom and clemency will afford
unto us all needful suitable Aid and Protection for securing our Religion
lives and liberty under Protestant Governors and Government, and for
enabling us to defend ourselves against all Invaders. Thus praying for
your Majestys long and happy Reigne over us. Wee know ourselves to bee
(with due Reverence and sincerity) Your Majestys Loyall Obedient and
humble Subjects. John Huett, Wm. Coulbourne, junr., Thomas Wilson,(*)
Henry Phillips, John Parsons, Thomas Shild [Shiall?], Thomas Stivenson,
James Knox, John Brown, Wm. Alexander, Randall Revell, Peter Elzey, James
Smith, Epraem [Ephraim] Wilson, Thomas Smith, John Knox, Thomas Wallr
[Waller?], John Knox, Thomas Wallr,(+) Alexander Knox, Alexander Proctor,
John Renshaw, James Conner, William Wilmot, Micayah [Micajah] Sadler,
John Chanceleer, John Smocke, Nicholas Cornwell, Robert Cade, John
Miller, Adam Spence, Tho: Midgley, John Baron, John Deale, Martin Curtis,
Clement Giles, Robert Johnson, William Bowen, Devoraux Dregas, Robert
Simson, Edward Evans, Hugh Jingle [Tingle], John Colston, Richard Warren,
Matthew Jones, Richard Hill, John Goldsmith, John Browne, Wilm Owen,
Malcolm Knox, William Knox, William Hacaland, Richard Jarrett, Nathaniel
Clark, George Boyman [Bozman], John Nelson, William Waller, George
Phebus, John Rawley, John Jones, George Park, Wm. Polk, Wm. Wilson,
Edward Surnam, Charles Ratclife, William Melvell, William Smith, Richard
Macklure, John White, John Rowell [Powell?], John Killam, John More, Saml
Hopkins, junr., Benjamin Keyar [Keysar?], Ralph Milbourne, Henry Hale,
Francis Heap, John Pope, Thomas Oxford, William Hearne, Richard Pepper,
John Saunders, Nathaniell Abbott, William Coard [Cord?], William Hale,
William Davis, Joshua Light, John Rust, Nathaniel Vesey, Richard
Woodcraft, Tobias Pepper, Walter Read, John Peterfranck, Stephen Page,
Thomas Edwards, Alexander Mackcullah, George Beniam [Benjamin?], Andrew
Miller, Patrick Read, John Steell, William Browne, Thomas Bromley,
William Wouldhave, Richard Wildgoose, John Lucas, John Johnson, Richard
Cole, William Oswell, John Snow, George Latham, William Law, William
Alexand[e]r, Junr., John Gray, Robert Polk, Thomas Pollett, Charles
Mullen, Arnold Elzey, Alexander White, William Nelson, Michael Hannah,
William Lawrence, John Swaine, Ambrose Archer, William Stevenson, James
Barber, Samll Showell, William Jurvill [Turvill], John Mcknitt, Wm
Coulbourne, James Murrah, John Roach, Owen Mckgraw, William Round,
Richard Farwell, Alexander Kyll [Kyle?], Thomas Poynter, John
Strawbridge, Adam Fitch, William Burch, Thomas Gordan, Nicholas
Carpenter, John Henderson, John Tarr, Richard Hill, Edmd Beauchamp, Allen
Ross, Geo: Nobell, Richard Britten, Peter Whaples, William Layton,
William Boyman [Bozman], George Lane, John Crawley, Samll Worthington,
Robert Peny [Perry?], Moses Fenton, John Porter, Ninian Dulap, James
Henderson, James Duncan, John Barber, John Hicks, William Mead, Robert
Neame [Nearne?], Henry Mills, Richard Dennis, Thomas Morgan, Humphrey
Read, William Shankland, David Dresden [Dreaden, Dryden?], John Watt,
John Ellis, Thomas Ellis, John Starret, William Fossit [Fassitt], Thomas
Delahide, Arthur Hanley, John Christopher, Philip Askew, Roger Phillips,
Robert Crouch, George Bayley, Lazarus Maddox, John Davis, Henry Hamon
[Haymon], Miles Harrison, Tho: Dixon, Alexander Maddux, John Frankland,
Wm. Coulbourne, Francis Joice, Robert Boyer, Nicholas Jodvin [Todvin,
Toadvin], Geo: Layfield, Comtr., Michael Clugstone, Lawrence Crawford,
Wm. Traile, Thomas Wilson, Samll Davis,(*) Peter Dent, John West, John
Boyman [Bozman], James Sangster, John Tayler, Edward Jones, Thomas Poole,
Roger Burkham, John Emmit, John Kine, William Planer, William Planer,
junr., Richard Tull, Thomas Tull, Robert Hall, John Broughton, William
Nobell, John Coulbourne, John Williams, Richard Chambers, John Trupshaw,
Matthew Dorman, James Langreene, Nathl Horsey, Alexander Thomas, John
Mackbride, David Brown, Francis Jenkins, William Brer[e]ton, John Winder
Robt King, James Dashiell, Stephen Luff, Thomas Newbold, James Round,
Samll Hopkins, Edmd Howard, Thomas Jones, Henry Smith.

This is a true Copy taken from the Original examined and signed
by the Order of the Respective Persons above named.
PETER DENT depty Collr of his Majestys
Customes in the County of
Somersett."

(+)The repetition of these names is probably due to inadvertance on the
part of the first copyist

[p. 132]
"In the beginning" the Quaker hue of Annemessex was untouched by any
"shadow of conformity"; but such a shadow did at last cast itself upon
this section in the persons of John Rhodes, Charles Hall, John Roach,
Cornelius Ward, Thomas Tull, Richard Tull and Edmund Beauchamp.

[Tobacco list; so-called since it shows in pounds of tobacco amounts paid
to "Inhabitants of the Province in the late Expedition against the
Nanticoke Indians ...", Archives of Maryland VII:97-100; archived in They
Lived in Somerset]
Listed as 11/01/1678

John signed the "Advice of Loyalty", from Somerset inhabitants to William
& Mary on the occasion of their accession to the throne of England, as
quoted by Torrence in "Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland".

On 12/10/1691 John witnessed the will of Thomas Hobbs; jr (Maryland
Calendar of Wills)

On 06/18/1698 John approved the invoice John Atkins (Liber in Somerset
County probate series)

1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 FEB 1662/63
2 SOUR S02122

[From "Old Somerset of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. A Study in
Foundations and Founders", by Clayton Torrence, Richmond, Virginia,
1935. Electronic version at geneologylibrary.com. P. 457-458]

Roach. John Roach (also spelled Roch) was an early settler in Annemessex,
coming in with Stephen Horsey.(*) On February 4, 1663/4, John Roach m.
Sarah Williams (daughter of Michael and Sarah Williams and stepdaughter
of Stephen Horsey; see post, Williams, Michael). John Roach d. 1717/18,
leaving by Sarah, his wife, issue: (1) John (1664-1727); m. Alice Hall
(see ante, Hall); (2) Sarah, 1667/8; m. 1683, John Perkins; (3) Mary,
1668/9; m., 1683, Francis Martin; (4) Elizabeth, 1670/1; (5) Abigail,
1672/3; m., 1687, Anthony Bell; (6) William (1674/5-1687); (7) Arabella,
1679; m. (???) Cullen; (8) Nathaniel (d. 1721), m. Elizabeth (???); (9)
Michael (d. 1729); (10) Rebecca, 1685; (11) Hannah, 1687; (12) Joseph,
1689; (13) Samuel (1692-1736) (IKL; EB 9, pp. 66, 72, 111, and 182; EB
14, p. 288; EB 15, p. 135).

(*)The two last named, Elizabeth and William, are recorded as children of
John Rhodes and Elizabeth, his wife. John, Robert, Martha and Werenia are
simply recorded as children of John Rhodes. Werenia's death is recorded
as daughter of John Rhodes and Katherine, his wife. Evidently John Rhodes
was married twice.

(*)"Makepeace," the Roach family home established by John Roach, first of
the name in Somerset County, 150-acre tract at head of Apes Hole Creek,
several miles east of town of Crisfield. This tract was patented by John
Roach, February 9, 1663. The brick colonial dwelling house is stated to
date "immediately after 1663" (Forman, Early Manor and Plantation Houses
of Maryland, p. 149). This was the home of John Roach (d. 1717/18), who
devised his dwelling plantation, "Makepeace" (after death of wife Sarah),
to eldest son, John Roach, who, dying in 1727, devised "Makepeace" to his
son, Charles Roach (wills of John Roach, Sr., 1717/18, and John Roach,
Sr., 1727, Will Liber EB 9, pp. 66 and 111, Somerset Registry of Wills).

[p. 490]
Somerset Court, Liber IKL, pp. 196 and 255. Liber IKL, containing
register of marriages, births and deaths (though probably by no means a
complete record), gives record of marriages of James Nicholson and Mary
Price in 1663; John Roch [Roach] and Sarah Williams in February, 1663/4;
and of Edward Surnam and Ann Frowin in 1664.

[p. 469-471]
(d) PATENTEES OF LAND IN OLD SOMERSET AREA, 1662-1666
The list as given below has for its objective a statement of the names of
persons who received warrants for lands within the area of Old Somerset
(the present Somerset, Worcester and Wicomico Counties) from the time of
the origin of that settlement under proclamation of November, 1661 (see
ante, p. 13), to August 22, 1666, when Somerset County was created (see
ante, p. 67). This list of "patentees" of lands in this area, together
with the list of "rights," proved for transportation into the province
(appended hereto) has been made in attempt to obtain from the remaining
original sources the names of the early settlers: those persons who were
within the area when Somerset County was created and thus were truly
"first settlers." The list as here given has been made up from the Lord
Proprietor's Rent Roll (in the Calvert Papers, Maryland Historical
Society) with additions from the Land Patent books in the Hall of
Records, Annapolis. There are variations in the dates of surveys between
the Rent Roll and the Land Patent records. These variations are, however,
slight, and this list gives the dates as carried by the Rent Roll. The
dates here given follow the so-called "old style" with the year beginning
on March 25th and ending with March 24th.

[Many entries omitted]
Stephen Horsey, Jr., Undoe, 200 a., April 2, 1664.
Stephen Horsey (Tract on Tomatico), 500 a., March 26, 1664.
Stephen Horsey, Horsey's Down, 150 a., March 30 [1664].
Stephen Horsey, Coleburn, 650 a., August 18, 1663.
Charles Hall, Hall's Choice, 300 a., June 6, 1665.
John Horsey, Watkins' Point, 150 a., February 20, 1664.
Stephen Horsey, The Desert, 400 a., March 10, 1665.
John Roach, Makepeace, 150 a., February 9, 1663.
Stephen Horsey, Chance, 300 a., March 1, 1663.
Stephen Horsey, Horsey's Bailwick, 500 a., March 26, 1664.
Charles Hall, Hall's Choice, 300 a., June 6, 1665.

The tracts of land noted in the above list as surveyed for and patented
by the parties whose names are given were in the sections of the Old
Somerset area along the Pocomoke, Great Annemessex, Manokin, and Wicomico
Rivers (with one or two of them in the neighborhood south of Nanticoke
River) and about Morumsco, Monie and Back Creeks. In July, 1666, the
governor issued a proclamation authorizing the commissioners for "the
Eastern Shore" to issue warrants for lands on "the seaboard side" to
those who wished to settle there (Somerset Court, Liber O 1). However, it
was several years later before there appears to have been any movement
towards the section comprehended by this proclamation. In 1670 William
Stevens and James Weedon were appointed deputies for granting lands on
"the seaboard side" (Ar. Md., Proceedings of Council, 1667-1687/8, pp.
79, 90 and 96). The objective of this movement was principally the
establishment of settlements in the northeastern section of the Old
Somerset area which at the dates given included what is now the lower
part of Sussex County, Delaware. By 1672 numerous warrants were issue for
lands in this section and a county by the name of Worcester was proposed
(see ante, p. 423, et seq.).

The following persons were entitled to 50 acres of land each for coming
into Maryland to settle. In some instances they assigned their "right" to
the 50 acres to others, who received a grant thereof. In other instances
the parties were transported by others who therefore received the "right"
of 50 acres of land. Those whom we can prove to have been actual settlers
in the Somerset area are marked with an asterisk. The names of these
"rights" have been obtained
[entries omitted]
August 16, 1662--Stephen Horsey* for himself, wife Sarah*; Jno.,* Saml.,*
Mary* and Abigail Horsey* [his children]; Thos.,* Michael* and Sarah
Williams* [his step-children]; John Roche [Roach],* Benj. Summer* and
Thos. Whittfield (4:580).
March 10, 1663--Stephen Horsey for Reba [Rebecca?] Horsey (6:255).
March, 1663--Stephen Horsey entered "rights" for John King,* Jane King,*
John King [Jr.?], Mary King, Jas. Davies, James Cane,* George Carter, Wm.
Howard (6:255).

Somerset County Marriages:
John Roch [Roach] and Sarah Williams, February 4, 1663.

[p.348-350]
It was to the court of Somerset, held "12th 9ber" and "13th 9ber, 1689"
[November 12th and 13th] that the matter of this address of loyalty to
William and Mary and the Protestant religion and succession to England's
throne was brought, and we find in the court record reference thereto in
the following terms:

"This same day viz the 13th of 9ber There was an Address presented by the
Grand Jury to the Worll Court humbly craving there [their] Worps and
freemens concurrence therein and that it may be with Speed sent to there
Majestys--Immediately after ye Justices of ye Court signed the
Address,(+) and so did many others that attended the Court. Then the
Court Ordered that the aforesaid Address when finished should Be sent
over the bay, in order to be presented to there Maties. It was then
likewise Ordered by the Court that when ye said Address was Sent over the
Bay that it should be certifyed there that the Court had appointed and
made Mr William Brereton high Sheriffe of this County instead and place
of Capt William Whittington."

(*)The Coulbournes, Dixons and Horseys were originally most sympathetic
with the Quaker and other "non-conformist" elements in the founding of
Somerset
County; but in the second generation transferred their loyalty to the
Church
of England, which was indeed their "mother church."

(+)The 12 names, Brown, Jenckins, Brereton, Winder, King, Dashiell, Luff,
Newbold, Round, Hopkins, Howard and Jones, signed at the end of the
"Address,"
represent 12 of the 14 "Justices of ye Court"; the name of William
Coulbourne,
another "Justice," appears also in the body of the list of signers. Roger
Woolford seems to have been the only "Justice" commissioned who did not
sign the "Address."

The "address" of loyalty, signed as stated in the above court record, was
sent "over the Bay" and was no doubt thence transmitted "to there
Majestys." In the provincial archives we find a paper entitled: "Address
of the Inhabitants of the County of Somersett Nover th 28th 1689," with
its signatories, which reads as follows:19

"To the King and Queen most Ext [excellent] Majty [majesty] Wee your
Majesty's subjects in the County of Somersett and Province of Maryland
being refreshed and encouraged by your Majestys great and prosperous
undertakings, and by your late gracious letter to those of this Province,
do cast ourselves at your Majesty's feet humbly desiring and hopefully
expecting the continuance of your Majtys care of us, as our Case and
Circumstance doe or may require, in the confidence whereof wee resolve to
continue (by the Grace of God) in the Profession and defence of the
Protestant Religion and your Majesty's Title and interest against the
French and other Paptists that oppose and trouble us in soe just and good
a cause not doubting but your Majestys wisdom and clemency will afford
unto us all needful suitable Aid and Protection for securing our Religion
lives and liberty under Protestant Governors and Government, and for
enabling us to defend ourselves against all Invaders. Thus praying for
your Majestys long and happy Reigne over us. Wee know ourselves to bee
(with due Reverence and sincerity) Your Majestys Loyall Obedient and
humble Subjects. John Huett, Wm. Coulbourne, junr., Thomas Wilson,(*)
Henry Phillips, John Parsons, Thomas Shild [Shiall?], Thomas Stivenson,
James Knox, John Brown, Wm. Alexander, Randall Revell, Peter Elzey, James
Smith, Epraem [Ephraim] Wilson, Thomas Smith, John Knox, Thomas Wallr
[Waller?], John Knox, Thomas Wallr,(+) Alexander Knox, Alexander Proctor,
John Renshaw, James Conner, William Wilmot, Micayah [Micajah] Sadler,
John Chanceleer, John Smocke, Nicholas Cornwell, Robert Cade, John
Miller, Adam Spence, Tho: Midgley, John Baron, John Deale, Martin Curtis,
Clement Giles, Robert Johnson, William Bowen, Devoraux Dregas, Robert
Simson, Edward Evans, Hugh Jingle [Tingle], John Colston, Richard Warren,
Matthew Jones, Richard Hill, John Goldsmith, John Browne, Wilm Owen,
Malcolm Knox, William Knox, William Hacaland, Richard Jarrett, Nathaniel
Clark, George Boyman [Bozman], John Nelson, William Waller, George
Phebus, John Rawley, John Jones, George Park, Wm. Polk, Wm. Wilson,
Edward Surnam, Charles Ratclife, William Melvell, William Smith, Richard
Macklure, John White, John Rowell [Powell?], John Killam, John More, Saml
Hopkins, junr., Benjamin Keyar [Keysar?], Ralph Milbourne, Henry Hale,
Francis Heap, John Pope, Thomas Oxford, William Hearne, Richard Pepper,
John Saunders, Nathaniell Abbott, William Coard [Cord?], William Hale,
William Davis, Joshua Light, John Rust, Nathaniel Vesey, Richard
Woodcraft, Tobias Pepper, Walter Read, John Peterfranck, Stephen Page,
Thomas Edwards, Alexander Mackcullah, George Beniam [Benjamin?], Andrew
Miller, Patrick Read, John Steell, William Browne, Thomas Bromley,
William Wouldhave, Richard Wildgoose, John Lucas, John Johnson, Richard
Cole, William Oswell, John Snow, George Latham, William Law, William
Alexand[e]r, Junr., John Gray, Robert Polk, Thomas Pollett, Charles
Mullen, Arnold Elzey, Alexander White, William Nelson, Michael Hannah,
William Lawrence, John Swaine, Ambrose Archer, William Stevenson, James
Barber, Samll Showell, William Jurvill [Turvill], John Mcknitt, Wm
Coulbourne, James Murrah, John Roach, Owen Mckgraw, William Round,
Richard Farwell, Alexander Kyll [Kyle?], Thomas Poynter, John
Strawbridge, Adam Fitch, William Burch, Thomas Gordan, Nicholas
Carpenter, John Henderson, John Tarr, Richard Hill, Edmd Beauchamp, Allen
Ross, Geo: Nobell, Richard Britten, Peter Whaples, William Layton,
William Boyman [Bozman], George Lane, John Crawley, Samll Worthington,
Robert Peny [Perry?], Moses Fenton, John Porter, Ninian Dulap, James
Henderson, James Duncan, John Barber, John Hicks, William Mead, Robert
Neame [Nearne?], Henry Mills, Richard Dennis, Thomas Morgan, Humphrey
Read, William Shankland, David Dresden [Dreaden, Dryden?], John Watt,
John Ellis, Thomas Ellis, John Starret, William Fossit [Fassitt], Thomas
Delahide, Arthur Hanley, John Christopher, Philip Askew, Roger Phillips,
Robert Crouch, George Bayley, Lazarus Maddox, John Davis, Henry Hamon
[Haymon], Miles Harrison, Tho: Dixon, Alexander Maddux, John Frankland,
Wm. Coulbourne, Francis Joice, Robert Boyer, Nicholas Jodvin [Todvin,
Toadvin], Geo: Layfield, Comtr., Michael Clugstone, Lawrence Crawford,
Wm. Traile, Thomas Wilson, Samll Davis,(*) Peter Dent, John West, John
Boyman [Bozman], James Sangster, John Tayler, Edward Jones, Thomas Poole,
Roger Burkham, John Emmit, John Kine, William Planer, William Planer,
junr., Richard Tull, Thomas Tull, Robert Hall, John Broughton, William
Nobell, John Coulbourne, John Williams, Richard Chambers, John Trupshaw,
Matthew Dorman, James Langreene, Nathl Horsey, Alexander Thomas, John
Mackbride, David Brown, Francis Jenkins, William Brer[e]ton, John Winder
Robt King, James Dashiell, Stephen Luff, Thomas Newbold, James Round,
Samll Hopkins, Edmd Howard, Thomas Jones, Henry Smith.

This is a true Copy taken from the Original examined and signed
by the Order of the Respective Persons above named.
PETER DENT depty Collr of his Majestys
Customes in the County of
Somersett."

(+)The repetition of these names is probably due to inadvertance on the
part of the first copyist

[p. 132]
"In the beginning" the Quaker hue of Annemessex was untouched by any
"shadow of conformity"; but such a shadow did at last cast itself upon
this section in the persons of John Rhodes, Charles Hall, John Roach,
Cornelius Ward, Thomas Tull, Richard Tull and Edmund Beauchamp.

[Tobacco list; so-called since it shows in pounds of tobacco amounts paid
to "Inhabitants of the Province in the late Expedition against the
Nanticoke Indians ...", Archives of Maryland VII:97-100; archived in They
Lived in Somerset]
Listed as 11/01/1678

John signed the "Advice of Loyalty", from Somerset inhabitants to William
& Mary on the occasion of their accession to the throne of England, as
quoted by Torrence in "Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland".

On 12/10/1691 John witnessed the will of Thomas Hobbs; jr (Maryland
Calendar of Wills)

On 06/18/1698 John approved the invoice John Atkins (Liber in Somerset
County probate series)

• Land patent: 9 Feb 1663, "Makepeace", 150 Acres, Head Of Apes Hole Creek, Several Miles East Of Crisfield, Maryland.¹³

Marriage Notes: married by Henry Boston, JP

1 REFN 3280

married by Henry Boston, JP

ii. Sarah Roach was born on 4 Mar 1666 in Annemessex, Somerset Co., Maryland ^¹² and died after 5 Apr 1709.

iii. Mary Roach was born on 3 Feb 1669 in Annemessex, Somerset Co., Maryland ^⁸ and died after 5 Apr 1709.^⁵

v. Abigail Roach was born on 3 Jan 1673 in Annemessex, Somerset Co., Maryland ^¹³ and died in Somerset Co., Maryland.^¹²

vi. William Roach was born on 6 Mar 1675 in Annemessex, Somerset Co., Maryland,^¹³ died on 1 Feb 1687 in Annemessex, Somerset Co., Maryland ^¹³ at age 11, and was buried in Feb 1687 in Annemessex, Somerset Co., Maryland.^¹⁵

vii. Arabella Roach was born on 25 Jul 1679 in Annemessex, Somerset Co., Maryland ^{⁵^,8} and died about 1745 in Somerset Co., Maryland ^⁵ about age 66.

viii. Nathaniel Roach was born in 1681 ^¹² and died in 1721 ^⁸ at age 40.

xiii. Samuel Roach was born on 4 Sep 1692 ^⁸ and died in 1736 ^⁸ at age 44.

General Notes: Stephen Horsey was her step-father.

[Clayton Torrence, "Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland", p.463]
Williams. Michael, Thomas and Sarah Williams were children of Michael
Williams (died ante, December, 1650) and Sarah, his wife, of Northampton
County, Virginia. Mrs. Sarah Williams married, second, Stephen Horsey
(see ante, p. 297) (Northampton records, Order Book, 1651-4, p. 194).
Michael and Thomas Williams and their sister Sarah (who married John
Roach; see ante, Roch) came to Annemessex, 1661 or 2, with their
stepfather, Stephen Horsey.

Michael Williams (died 1699) settled at "Williams Conquest," south side
Annemessex River, part of which he sold to his brother Thomas in January,
1686/7, and the remainder he deeded to his second wife, Patience Browne,
in January, 1696/7. Michael Williams married, first, 1672, Ann Williams;
second, Patience Browne, and had issue, first marriage: (1) Elizabeth,
1674; (2) Sarah, 1676; and by second marriage: (3) Rebecca, 1688; (4)
Michael, 1691; (5) Nathaniel; (6) Walter.

Thomas Williams (brother of Michael, above) lived on south side
Annemessex River; died April, 1720; married, 1684, Frances Robinson;
issue: (1) Thomas, 1684/5; (2) Sarah, 1686; (3) Hannah, 1688, m. (???)
Turpin; (4) John, 1692; (5) Elizabeth, m. (???) Herne; (6) Mary. (O 6, p.
793; O 7, pp. 441 and 452; IKL; EB 5, p. 189, and EB 9, p. 32.)

Stephen Horsey was her step-father.

[Clayton Torrence, "Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland", p.463]
Williams. Michael, Thomas and Sarah Williams were children of Michael
Williams (died ante, December, 1650) and Sarah, his wife, of Northampton
County, Virginia. Mrs. Sarah Williams married, second, Stephen Horsey
(see ante, p. 297) (Northampton records, Order Book, 1651-4, p. 194).
Michael and Thomas Williams and their sister Sarah (who married John
Roach; see ante, Roch) came to Annemessex, 1661 or 2, with their
stepfather, Stephen Horsey.

Michael Williams (died 1699) settled at "Williams Conquest," south side
Annemessex River, part of which he sold to his brother Thomas in January,
1686/7, and the remainder he deeded to his second wife, Patience Browne,
in January, 1696/7. Michael Williams married, first, 1672, Ann Williams;
second, Patience Browne, and had issue, first marriage: (1) Elizabeth,
1674; (2) Sarah, 1676; and by second marriage: (3) Rebecca, 1688; (4)
Michael, 1691; (5) Nathaniel; (6) Walter.

Thomas Williams (brother of Michael, above) lived on south side
Annemessex River; died April, 1720; married, 1684, Frances Robinson;
issue: (1) Thomas, 1684/5; (2) Sarah, 1686; (3) Hannah, 1688, m. (???)
Turpin; (4) John, 1692; (5) Elizabeth, m. (???) Herne; (6) Mary. (O 6, p.
793; O 7, pp. 441 and 452; IKL; EB 5, p. 189, and EB 9, p. 32.)

Sarah married John I Roach on 4 Feb 1663 in Annemessex, Somerset County, Maryland ³ ^,4.^,17 John was born in Jan 1635 in England ^¹² and died in 1718 in Somerset County, Maryland ^¹² at age 83.

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