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From: "Fredric Z. Saunders" <>
Subject: [BEALL] BEALL-POTTENGER one more time
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 22:16:33 -0700


Hi Greg,

You will be pleased with my new findings. It took me the better part of the day, but I believe I have found an alternate way that Robert POTTENGER was a "cousin" to John DUMALL. While this does not disprove Brice CLAGETT's anaylsis, in that BOTH his version and my version could be true, it does add an alternate way.

If BOTH are true, then Mary and Sarah being BEALL sisters married to POTTINGER and MAGRUDER is disproved for the reasons discussed before regarding his findings.
If ONLY my findings are true, then the BEALL sisters is still a possibility.

The net result is everything is still unproved at present as to the wives of POTTENGER and MAGRUDER, my findings only serving to cast a doubt on CLAGETT's findings as to their wives, and provide an escape method for them to be BEALLs.

All that said, I still would like to see something more solid on why they are considered to be BEALLs.

Here is a copy of what I sent to Brice CLAGETT regarding my findings:
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Dear Mr. Clagett,

I am writing in regard to your posting last November on the Gen-Medieval forum as having concluded that John POTTENGER married Mary MULLIKIN and Samuel MADGRUDER married Sarah POTTINGER.

Under your scenario, Robert POTTINGER was the blood-nephew ("cousin") of John DEMALL, Jr. of the 1725 will. One thing which you left uncovered, was the possibility that Robert POTTINGER or his wife Ann EVANS was the blood-nephew/niece of John DEMALL Jr.'s wife Mary and how John called Robert "cousin." My analysis has concluded that John DEMALL Jr.'s wife was Mary EVANS, and her blood niece was ANN EVANS, husband of Robert POTTINGER. This does not invalidate your anaylsis, in that John DEMALL Jr.'s blood-nephew Robert POTTENGER could have married John's wife Mary EVANS blood-niece Ann EVANS. It does, though, add an alternate way that Robert POTTENGER could have been called "cousin" by John DEMALL, as DEMALL's wife was the aunt of POTTENGER's wife.

This is based on the following:
John DUMALL's widow Mary wrote her will 20 Jan. 1739, prove 26 June 1740 in Prince George's County. [MD wills 22:220, FHL microfilm 0,012,849. Note this is incorrectly abstracted as DUVALL in the MD Cal. of wills. The will book copy is very clearly DUMALL]
To Cousin Ann POTTENGER's children which she now has 20 pounds equally divided between them for the services done by their father Robert
POTTENGER, deceased.
To Cousin Brock MOCKBEE my young negro Man Charles.
To cousin Edward MOCKBEE my Negro many Toby.
To friend Nathan SMITH my dwelling plantation with all lands an Negro
man Nacy.
To Alice RAY wife of Joseph RAY all my wearing apparel.
To my beloved friend Mr. William SMITH my Negro woman Sue and her four children with all residue of my estate.
Aforesaid friend Mr. William SMITH executor.
Mary (X) DUMALL
Wit.: George PARKER, Archibald SMIH, Mary (x) SOAPER
Proved 26 June 1740 by all three witnesses.
[Below I'll show why I believe Brock and Edward MOCKBEE were children of Mary's half (or step) sister Jane (BROCKE) MOCKBEE and that Ann (EVANS) POTTENGER was Mary's niece, daughter of Mary's brother Richard.]

MD patents Liber 16 (vol 19):402, FHL microfilm 0,013,070.
5 Jan. 1671
Came Edward BROOKE of Calvert County and proved his right to five
hundred acres of land to him due for Transporting himself, John MILES,
[blot] MILES, William GOFE, Sarah EVANS, Edward EVANS, Wm. [blot],
Richard EVANS, John EVANS & Mary EVANS into this Province to Inhabit.
Skordas gives the two names blotted on the microfilm as Sarah MILES and William EVANS.
[Note this is very clearly written BROOKE. I haven't found any further records of an Edward BROOKE in Calvert County, and based on records below, believe the clerk misread the original of BROCKE in copying this into the patent book. I believe all the EVANS to be his step-children, or perhaps one (Sarah?) was his wife and transported before marriage. I believe the Richard to be the Richard EVANS who was father of Ann EVANS who married Robert POTTENGER. I believe Mary EVANS to be the wife of John DEMALL, Jr.]

Edward BROCKE wrote his will 5 Mar. 1712, proved 19 June 1714. Among other heirs he named his grandsons Mathew MOGBEE and Brock MOGBEE. [Md. Cal. of wills 4:17]

St. Ann's has the birth of James MOCKBY of Matthew and Jane on 20 Jan. 1702. William MOCKBY of Matthew and Jane b. 22 10th 1704. Brock MOCKBY m. Elizabeth BECKETT 22 Dec. 1715, and 8 children's births are also recorded.

Jane MOGBEE was age 53 in 1719. [Peden. *Maryland Deponents*]

Brock MOCKIBEY age 35 in 1731. [PGLR Q:608]

Matthew MOCKBEE inventory in 1709 mentions widow [not named]. MD Inv. and Accounts 30:447

>From the preceding, it appears likely that Jane BROCKE b. ca. 1666, married Matthew MOCKBEE and was the father of Brock b. ca. 1696 and Edward who were called "cousins" in the will of John DEMALL's widow Mary. Below I'll show that Jane BROCKE was a half (or step) sister to Mary EVANS, and that Mary (EVANS) DUMALL's gift to her "cousins" Edward and Brock MOCKBEE were her nephews.

Richard EVANS of Calvert County wrote his will 7 Jan. 1702, proved 25 Apr. 1703, named wife Elizabeth, son Samuel, unborn child, daughter Elizabeth, and daughter Ann who received "Greene's Delight." [Md. Cal. of Wills 3:1-2] Richard's widow Elizabeth remarried, and as Elizabeth KINGSBURY named her daughter Ann POTTENGER in 1743 [Md Cal. of wills 8:214] The tract "Green's Delight" is also mentioned by Robert POTTENGER in his will in 1735/6. [Md. Cal. of wills 7:249]

The document that ties everything together, showing that the EVANS family members transported by Edward "BROOKE" (BROCKE) were his step children is:

Prince George's Co., MD land records TT:371-372, FHL microfilm 0,014,252
By virtue of a commission 11 June 1764, signed and sealed 2 July 1764.
James PLUMMER age 68 or thereabouts, Quaker, affirmed that between 20 and 30 years ago Mrs. PILE and Mrs. DUMALL had some dispute concerning the lines of their lands, which they chose Mr. John LAMAR to run the line.

James MOCKLEE (sic) age 43 said that after Mrs. DUMALL's death Mr. Nathan SMITH to whom she gave her land ran it out.

John PERRY age 53 said "that about thirty years ago there was a Commission to prove the Bounds of Brock Hall when Mrs. DUMALL was sworn at said last mentioned place who upon her oath said that her father in law Captain Edward BROCK had often Times Told her that a read then standing the last mentioned stump being the Remains thereof was the third Bound Tree of the said Brocks land and this Deponent further saith that after said Mrs. DUMALL married John DUMALL he heard her say that her father in Law had cautioned her Husband not to make too free this way for that he intended to move a point of the Compass about thiry perches further to the north..."

As stated at the beginning, concluding that John DUMALL's wife was Mary EVANS, and that Ann (EVANS) POTTENGER was her niece ("cousin") doesn't invalidate your conclusion that John DUMALL's blood-nephew was Robert POTTENGER, as theoretically both could be true. It does, though, cast doubt on concluding John POTTINGER-Mary MULLKIN and Samuel MAGRUDER-Sarah POTTENGER marriages as proved.

Rick Saunders

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