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Leonard Calvert was the first provincial governor of Maryland. His property and its geographic location is significant to the following genealogical research.
Research contributors
Laree Lee - Calvert Genealogy Administrator
Michelle Allensworth Pendleton - Calvert Genealogy Document Researcher
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Stinnett Y-DNA participants who match the Calvert branch of Prince William Co. Virginia, descendants of George Calvert the Elder of Stafford County, Virginia.
Y-DNA
Stinnett Y-DNA participants' results to date descend from the oldest known documented Stinnett ancestor, Benjamin Sinnett/Stinnett and Elizabeth Sanders of Charles County, Maryland through their son William Stinnett.
Ten FTDNA Y-DNA Stinnett surname participants and five FTDNA Y-DNA Keys surname participants. Two at 37 markers at varying degrees match each other and match the descent of FTDNA Y-DNA participants that can trace themselves back to George Calvert the Elder of Stafford County, Virginia.
The common Haplogroup for these Calverts, *Benjamin Stinnett descent and Keys is M269.
The common Haplogroup for the descent of James Stinnett Sr. I M233
The six Stinnett surname participants at 37 markers I M233. James Stinnett is believed to be the older half brother of Benjamin Stinnett Sr. of Charles County, Maryland. Four participants match exactly and two participants match -1 to each other at 37 markers. One surname, Stennet, matching the five dna participants -1 and one participant matching -2 at 37 markers. This would make seven in total with one surname variant (Stennet).
We currently have eight participants for our Big Y-DNA haplogroup tree. That includes both Calverts who descend from George Calvert the Elder of Stafford County, Virginia and Stinnetts who descend from Benjamin Stinnett Sr. of Charles County, Maryland. R-L644 YTree.
William Stinnett, son of Benjamin Stinnett Sr and Elizabeth Sanders, married Susannah Whitehead per Virginia Chancery Court records. Three sons of William Stinnett have been identified, William, Charles A., and Lindsey Stinnett and some descendants have participated in Y-DNA tests for the Stinnett Project through FamilyTree DNA (FTDNA) and match descendants of George Calvert the Elder of Stafford County, Virginia Y-DNA participants. Descendants of George Calvert the Elder are known as Prince William County, Virginia (PWCo.) subgroup by the Calvert Genealogy Group researchers.
Benjamin Stinnett Sr. and James Stinnett Sr.
Numerous Stinnett family researchers have attributed Benjamin Stinnett Sr. (b. about 1706) and James Stinnett (b. abt. 1704) of Albemarle and Amherst counties in Virginia with the relationship of brothers. There is enough of circumstantial documentation to support a close family relationship from land grants in Albemarle Co. in 1750 (1747 survey) that share property lines,1 debt owed to the estates of in-laws 2 as well as land sales to in-laws 3 and James Stinnett as a signing witness to the Will of Benjamin Stinnett Sr. 4 Research is on-going and there may be a discovery yet of a primary source document that proves their relationship. On September 13th or 14th (depending on the source) Amherst County was created from Albemarle County. It is more likely that the county lines moved around Benjamin and James than they actually moved from one county to another.
We can place Benjamin Stinnett Sr. earlier in Virginia in Prince William County from land granted to an Amos Janney 4 Dec 1740 where it is mentioned Janney’s land abuts land owned by Benjamin Stinnet, "...near path from Goose Cr. to Benjamin Stinnet's..." 5 More importantly for the purposes of the subject matter for this article, we can place Benjamin Stinnett even earlier living and marrying in Charles County, Maryland.
Benjamin Stinnett married Elizabeth Sanders prior to 1731 in Charles County, Maryland. Elizabeth's father, William Sanders of Charles County, Maryland, in his Will “I Give & bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth Stinnett the Wife of Benjamin Stinnett on half part of that Tract of Land Called Hazard…” His Will was written, 25th Aug.,1731.6 On 14 Mar 1733, Benjamin and his wife Elizabeth sold 200 acres of land in Charles County, Maryland to John King. In the document it states, “…Benjamin Stinnit of Charles County house carpenter and Elizabeth his wife…”.7 This is land Elizabeth inherited from her maternal grandfather John Falkner.
To date no records have been found for James Stinnett in Maryland but research continues.
The Hypothesis
8 March 1727 Calvert County, Maryland, estate inventory for Margaret Calbert/Calvert. Daniel McDaniel and his wife Margaret McDaniel of Charles County, Maryland, administrators. Note: Benjamin and James Colbert signed the estate inventory.
My hypothesis is that Benjamin Calbert/Calvert
and James Calbert/Calvert
are Benjamin Stinnett Sr.
and his half brother James Stinnett Sr.
And that Margaret Calbert/Calvert was
nee Sinnett/Stinnett, their mother.
Margaret was married last to a Calvert,
produced son Benjamin, her youngest child.
Margaret (LNU) McDaniel, her eldest child from a first marriage
and her husband Daniel McDaniel of Charles County, Maryland
were Margaret Calvert’s estate administrators. James from previous marriage took his step father’s surname of Calvert.
After the death of their mother, for reasons unknown,
they assumed her maiden name which is spelled
Sinnett in earlier historical documents.
Calvert Genealogy Group researchers believe both Benjamin
and James were at least 21 years of age
(adults by law) by the time of death of Margaret
and thus were able to sign her estate inventory
as next of kin.
Benjamin Stinnett Sr. was born by 1706 or possibly earlier and Margaret Sinnett/Stinnett would have been 39 years old in 1706 based on her Charles County, MD birth record, born 24 October 1667. Margaret Sinnett daughter of Garrett Sinnett and Alice Hunt per birth and parent’s marriage record. 8
In the process of trying to identify who Margaret Calvert was who died 1727 in Calvert County, Maryland per her estate probate, I decided to use the process of elimination for any Margaret Calvert’s of the same time period and geographic location.
1st - 3rd Lord Baltimore Charles Calvert, August 27, 1637 died February 21, 1715. Married four times, Mary Darnell, Jane Lowe, Mary Bankes and Margaret Charleton. Mentioned in her husband’s will, daughter of Sir Thomas Charleton. She married second Lawrence Eliot and died circa 1731 England.
2nd- Philip Calvert, b. 1626- d. 22 Dec 1682 was the youngest son of Sir George Calvert. Phillip Calvert was married twice Anne Wosley and second Jane Sewell.
3rd- William Calvert b. 1642- d. 26 May 1682 was the son of Gov. Leonard Calvert who was the second son of Sir George Calvert. William Calvert married Elizabeth Stone, daughter of Gov. William Stone.
4th- 4th Lord Baltimore, Benedict Leonard Calvert 1679-1715, married Charlotte Lee, their son Edward Henry Calvert b.31 Aug 1701- d. 6 Aug 1730, date based on his inventory, died Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Married Margaret Lee. Executrix Mrs Margaret Calvert. She married second James Fitzgerald Esq.
5th- Charles Calvert Lazenby b.1688- d. 2 Feb 1734, married Rebecca Gerard, 21 Nov 1722 and had three children Charles Calvert 1723 died in infancy, Anne 1724-1737 died as a child, Elizabeth 1731-1788, married her cousin Benedict Swingate Calvert, progenitor of the Mt Airy Calverts.
Who was Margaret Calvert who died 1727 Calvert County, Maryland? We know from her probate administrators Daniel McDaniel and Margaret McDaniel of Charles County, Maryland she had a connection to Charles County, Maryland. She was widowed and her son-in-law and daughter were in charge of her estate probate. Both Benjamin and James Colbert signed her inventory records.
“This Indenture made the three and Twentieth daÿ of September in the twelfth year of y.e Dominion of Charles absolute Lord and proprietarie of y.e Province of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baltemore Annoq Dom 1687 Between Charles Calvert of St. Maries County in the Province of Maryland Gent Eldest sonne and Heir of William Calvert late of the said County Esq who dyed Intestate of y.e one Part and Henry Darnell of St. Maries County Esq of the other Part Witnesseth that the said Charles Calvert for & in Consideration of the good will Love and affection which the said Charles beareth towards Richard Calvert his Brother fourth sonne of the said William Calvert….”
We can positively identify three of William Calvert and Elizabeth Stone’s children.
Elizabeth Calvert- born 1662 and was married by May 1682 to James Neale.
Charles Calvert- the eldest born son born 1664; Deposition given in 1721 gave his age as 57 St Mary’s County, Maryland. He married first Mary Howson and second Barbara Kirke.
Son, William Calvert born about 1666 married last to Margaret Sinnett born 1667 who died 1727.
Son, George Calvert the Elder of Stafford County, Virginia born about 1667/8.
Richard Calvert born about 1670 and died 3 November 1718 Prince George's County, Maryland.
It is my hypothesis that the reason the Stinnett descendants of Benjamin Stinnett Sr. of Charles County, Maryland and the Calvert descendants of George Calvert the Elder of Stafford County, Virginia match Y-DNA test results is because they both descend from William Calvert and Elizabeth Stone. We have a Calvert participant matching a Stinnett participant Y-DNA -1 at 111 markers, and a separate Calvert participant and separate Stinnett participant Y-DNA -2 at 111 markers.
Charles County, Maryland
Sinnett/Stinnett Research
Extensive research began to find ancestors of Benjamin Stinnett Sr. with the focus on Charles County, Maryland. Special attention during research was kept in mind of what Calvert connections may be possibilities for a male Calvert and a female Stinnett relationship according to the hypothesis born from the DNA findings.
Garrett Sinnett first appeared in records in 1657 in Virginia. He, along with 59 others were transported to the Colony of Virginia by 1657 when Capt. Edward Streater received a land patent for 3000 acres for land in Westmoreland Co. for transporting the 60 people, recorded 19 Mar 1657. 9 The record does not state from where any of the people were transported nor the year transported.
Another Westmoreland County, Virginia record from 30 Mar 1657 finds a Power of Attorney from William Greene to Capt. Giles Brent for a suit brought against Greene by Garrett Senrett, "I appoint Mr Giles Brent my Atturney to Answeare in my behalfe to the suite of Garrett Senrett and to impleade in my behalfe Mr John Leer in an Action of the Case both to be done in the County Court to be held in Westmorland on the 20th of this present month Witness my hand William Greene..."14
Garrett Sinnett did not stay long in Virginia.
In 1659 on 28 Jan in Charles County, Maryland
he entered into the court his mark for hogs and cattle. 10
Also in 1659 “Garrett Synnett demands land
for transportation of Walter Newman assigned unto him
from John Nevill(e) by indenture dated
18 (Jan. or June, writing very faded) 1656.
And 50 Acres more the said John Nevill assigneth
out of the Right of his former wife Brigett Howsbey …” 11
Garrett purchased the two headrights and
the 50 acres of land for each from John Nevill(e).
At some point during 1659 Garrett had purchased a headright from Christopher Jones for the transportation of one person and Garrett Sinnett claimed 50 acres for transporting himself to the Province. That brings a total of 200 acres and on 10 May 1659 he received a Certificate for 200 acres in Charles County. The land description in part states, “Laid out for Garrett Sinnett of this province planter a parcel of Land lyeing in the on the Westside of St. Thomas or Portobacco (Port Tobacco) Creek about a Mile and half from the said Creek, and on the Eastside of the Northernmost branch of Avon River, Running East for Breadth from the said Oak cross a Swamp one hundred perches to a marked Oak standing upon the side of a Hill..."12
The actual Land Patent for the 200 acres was recorded 3 Jan 1661 and begins, “…Know yee that we for and in consideration that Garrett Sennett of this province planter hath due unto him One hundred Acres of Land by assignment John Nevill and fifty Acres more by assignment of Christopher Jones, and fifty Acres more for his own transportation into this our province..."12
NOTE: Avon River/Creek was once called Nangemy/Nanjemy (Nanjemoy) Creek.
There were no documents found where Garrett Sinnett demanded headright land for the transportation of a wife or children. His earliest years in Maryland do appear to be as a single man.
14 Sep 1659- A warrant was demanded against Garrett Sennett for debt/non-payment for one cow, one cow calf and a steer. The case was carried over for several months and finally on 7 May 1761 was heard. James Lindsey gave a deposition testimony on Garrett's behalf stating that Garrett paid for the cattle which was also affirmed by the oath of Edward Deane.13
Also on 7 May 1661 after several months carry-over a case involving suit against James Lindsey by Thomas Kelle a witness deposition was given by Garrett Sinnett, “Garratt Sennett Sworne and examined in Open court sayeth that Mr. Linsey gave order unto this deponent and the rest of his family that neither he nor they should let Thomas Kelle have anything out of his house unless he himself were at home and further sayeth that he the deponent had linen of this said Kelle and he this deponent put the said linen into the Chest of the said Mr. James Linseys when he was from home and further sayeth not."13
The implication of the above record is that Garrett Sinnett was living at the home of James Lindsey. As a single man with newly acquired land needing cleared and a home built this would certainly make sense, he needed a place to stay. Add to that his purchase of a mating pair of cattle and a calf to add to his effort to make a homestead."F1
NOTE: Benjamin Stinnett Sr. had a grandson named Lindsey Stinnett.
By the time Garrett Sinnett married he had acquired 150 more acres of land in Charles County and a young indentured servant, Joseph Grey, whom the court had adjudged to be thirteen years of age on 8 Mar 1660. At some point Garrett joined the militia and was shot and wounded in July 1665 while on a march to Piscataway.
The confirmed bachelor finally took a bride in Charles County and married Alice Hunt on 21 Nov 1666. Alice brought to the marriage her two-year-old daughter, Mary Hunt. The newlyweds soon had a daughter, Margaret, born 24 Oct 1667. 8
Margaret Sinnett (1st MNU) Calvert is the subject of the hypothesis that she is potentially the mother of Benjamin Stinnett Sr. through a Calvert father and potentially the mother of James Stinnett Sr from a previous marriage.
Garrett Sinnett References with His Contemporaries- Right time, right place, shared records.
The Land, Hazard, Ward's Run, Avon River /Creek, Charles County, Maryland.
1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County, Maryland Hundred - Newport: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 438-430: BLACK BEARDS MISTAKE: 60 acres; Possession of - 60 Acres - Haslip, Henry: Surveyed 16 March 1741 for Henry Haislip beginning between a tract of land called HAZARD and a branch called White Hall Branch: Other Tracts Mentioned: HAZARD; {mm Note; not identified to a specific Hundred. Location identified by watercourse or nearby tract.}
1642-1753 Rent Rolls Charles County, Maryland Hundred - Port Tobacco: Rent Roll page/Sequence: 411-239: HAZARD: 83 acres; Possession of - 83 Acres - Rumney, Edward: Surveyed for Edward Rumney, 9 Oct 1726, lying about two miles from the head of Mattawoman Creek near the land of John Ward.: {mm Note; not identified to a specific Hundred. Location identified by watercourse or nearby tract.}, 83 Acres - Edward Brawner from Edward Romney; 3 Nov 1737.
Sanders, William, planter, Charles County, 25th Aug., 1731; 14th Oct., 1731.
To dau. Frances (wife of Charles Sample) and hrs., 1/2 of "Hazard"'; sd. land not to be sold or mortgaged.
To dau. Elizabeth (wife of Benjamin Stennett) and hrs., residue of "Hazard," same conditions.
William Sanders married Alice Faulkner, mother of Elizabeth (Sanders) Stinnett, and he married second Catherine Ward, granddaughter of John Ward
The map below shows Ward’s Run and Avon River -Creek in early colonial land records in relation to Garrett Sinnett’s property description.
Calvert Research
The Calvert branch involved in this Y-DNA research descend from George Calvert the Elder of Stafford County, Virginia.
Prince William Reliquary Vol. 9, No.2(December 2011) Article starts page 38.
“Who was the First George Calvert of Stafford County, Virginia? By the Calvert Genealogy Group.”
This is an update from our last compiled research for George Calvert the Elder of Stafford County, Virginia.
When the results of the St Mary’s Lead Coffins DNA study was published for Philip Calvert and his infant son, our Calvert Genealogy Research group upgraded some of our Calvert Y-DNA participants who descend from George Calvert the Elder of Stafford County, Virginia. These participants and participants for Benjamin Stinnett Sr. are part of the R-L644 YTree. We believed by refining our Y-DNA test we could find a refined haplogroup match to Phillip Calvert and his infant son’s haplogroup. The DNA collected from their samples were several generations removed from modern Calvert’s DNA that’s been tested. These results will be posted in a subsequent blog post for Philip Calvert’s Y-DNA analysis.
George Calvert the Elder’s son George Calvert who married first Constant Barton and second Esther (Kirkland) Stone, have three sons descendants represented, Obediah Calvert Sr, John Calvert, and William Calvert through his son Raliegh Calvert.
The LAND
William Calvert, son of Governor Leonard Calvert and grandson of the 1st Lord of Baltimore inherited land in Charles County, Maryland which upon his death was inherited by his eldest son, Charles Calvert. The wife of William Calvert was Elizabeth Stone as noted earlier and after her husband’s death she was referred to in documents as Madame Elizabeth Calvert.
Joshua Doyne Sr. married second Jane Matthews.
Doyne, Jane,St. Mary's Co.,Maryland 17th Oct., 1738;
5th March 1738.
Testatrix states that her late husband Joshua Doyne, gent., had by his will made her residuary legatee of his estate; but had made no mention of 200 A. which he had formerly designed to give to his son Dennis. She therefore bequeaths said 200 A. to Joseph and hrs., second son of Jese Doyne, dec'd., (who was heir at law to Denis Doyne, afsd.), sd. 200 Acres being on Ward's Run, pt. of tract of 600 Acres. bound by afsd. husband of Madam Elizabeth Calvert and her son Charles.
No. 8. Henry Haislip of CC, aged about 84, says that he knew old Edward Rookwood and remembers to have seen him at Nevits Race near Wards Run, that he always knew about the descendants of Edward Rookwood and about the sale of the land to Mr. Bayne Smallwood, and this Deponent says that he was informed by old John Franklin that Edward Rookwood had a 2nd wife, who ran away with a man named Goslin, to Virginia, and that John Franklin afd informed this Deponent that he lived with Edward Rookwood and served his time, a part thereof, with sd Rookwood. Signed Jun 4, 1789 - Henry Haislip. Wit - Dan Jenifer.
The significance of Ward’s Run in the above record and its relation to Calverts of Charles County, Maryland and Prince William County, Virginia is through Edward Rookwood Sr. His last wife was Mary (Davis) Nelson, widow who married John Gosling of Stafford/Prince William County, Virginia. Their daughter, Mary Gosling, married Obediah Calvert Sr., son of George Calvert and Constance Barton and grandson of George Calvert the Elder of Stafford County, Virginia. Obediah Calvert Sr received land from his father George property on Neabsco Creek shown on the map below. The record is part of a much larger suit brought about by the grandson of Edward Rookwood, Thomas Rookwood, who was claiming the lands owned by his grandfather Edward in Maryland and now owned by General William Smallwood, should never have been escheated, but should have come to his father William Rookwood deceased and then to him. Thomas Rookwood married Sarah Calvert, granddaughter of George Calvert the Elder of Stafford County, Virginia. Ward’s Run and Avon River/Creek are prominent geographical features in land descriptions for the Sinnett/Stinnett and Calvert families.
1794/1795 map (Legend below) shows that Ward’s Run actually extended further north than it does today. It was very near the land known as Christian Temple Manor and the land owned by William Calvert, son of Leonard Calvert; lands that descended to William Calvert’s son Charles Calvert and the 600 acres gifted to William's daughter Elizabeth who married James Neale. It is also very near Chicomaxen Creek (Chicamuxten). The area between Ward’s Run and the Avon River/Creek just above Nanjemy (Nanjemoy) River is only about ten (10) miles south of Indian Point and the mouth of Mattawoman Creek to give a perspective of distance when viewing this map. Nanjemy Church marked on the map is a Protestant church lying in the Protestant parish known by the same name which was later changed to Durham parish. The parishes were established in 1692 after the Maryland Protestant Rebellion of 1689.
Map of the State of Maryland, 1794-1795; Library of Congress (loc.gov)
Keys Research
Key family contact with Calverts in Charles County, Maryland.
Henry Key left four orphans, William, Job, Victoria and Sarah Key. Henry Key married Sarah Maris.
Dec. 1701 - Sarah Key, orphan of Henry Key, deceased; bound to Charles Calvert to age 16 years.
Source: Charles Co., MD. Circuit Court, Liber A No. 2, pp. 208-9
Charles Calvert, son of William Calvert and Elizabeth Stone is raising Henry Key's daughter. I thought it was worth noting because we have Keys matching Calverts in Prince William Co.,Virginia Y-DNA surname project.
This is Henry Key's orphan William Key living next to Matthew Stone. The point of this deed is to show that William Key lived next to Matthew Stone's Pointon Manor as shown in the deed between George Lanham and Thomas Maris. (See Google satellite map above marked Poynton Manor Farm Place and Poynton Manor Farm RD).
Charles County Court Liber E, Page 7-1/2, 2 January 1670; Indenture George Langham, planter, to Thomas Maris [Morris], planter, for 3,300# tobacco; a parcel of land bounded by Cap Will Stone's manor called Poynton and land laid out for James Lindsy; containing 100 acres now occupied by George Langham, being part of a parcel purchased of Gerrard Browne called Drury Lane dated 10 Mar "long past", /s/ George Langham, wit Gerrard Browne, John Godsall.
p. 52 TLC Genealogy, Charles County Land Records, 1722-1729; Book L#2 Page 235. At the request of Jno Allen, the following lease was recorded on Sep 3, 1725. Mar 10,1724 from Mattw Stone of CC Gent to John Allen of CC planter, for the yearly rents and for divers and other causes, the lease a part of a tract of land in CC whereon the same Matthew now dwells, which part is bounded by Wm Keys, the plantation of said Mattw. This is a 10 year lease, to commence Dec 25 of the year above mentioned. John Allen may cut down timber for building and any other improvements which sd John shall have occasion of. John may not waste or embezzle any timber. The rent, after the first 2 years, is 500 lbs. of tobacco. John agrees to build one dwelling house 15 foot long by 15 foot wide, and one tobacco house 40 foot long as is usual to build them. Also, John is to plant 80 apple trees & to keep them within a close fence. Matthew is to deliver the quantity of apple trees to John Alen, as aforementioned. Sd Allen shall not employ or keep more than 4 working hands, his wife included, to finish or make crop. Signed -Mattw Stone. Witness Walter Story, Robert Hanson.
This Matthew Stone is the son of John Stone, brother of Elizabeth (Stone) Calvert and first cousin to Charles Calvert. Sarah Key was bound to Charles Calvert until she reaches the age 16.
Wm Key 9.252 Accounts CH £28.16.7 £6.17.6 Jan 21 1728
Payments to John Allen, Benjamin Carpenter, Anne Mecan paid to John Waters, Samuel Hanson, Daniell McDaniel.
Administratrix Margaret Williams, wife of Lewis Williams.
Matthew Stone 17.117 Inventory 5.14.0
Appraisers John Wood, Garrett Sinnott, written (Aug 1698)
Son of Matthew Stone, brother of Elizabeth (Stone) Calvert, and first cousin to Charles Calvert.
We have two Keys participants in our Calvert Y-DNA surname project that descend from Edward “Jesse” Keys son of William Keys and Elizabeth Grinstead, Prince William County, Virginia. They tested at 37 markers. William Keys was identified as the son of William Keys Sr. when he substituted for his father in the Revolutionary War. Reference Rev. War pension and Rev. War records. There are three more Keys FTDNA participants. One tested at 67 markers and descends from Edward “Jesse” Keys also. Two more Keys FTDNA participants tested 1-700 markers with no oldest known Keys ancestor listed- they match both the Calvert and Stinnett Y DNA results. Their refined haplogroup is R-BY9552. This is consistent with the Calvert and Stinnett Y-DNA participants.
Alice Sinnett
From Michelle Allensworth Pendelton’s deep dive research into Sinnett/Stinnett's residing in early Maryland. A
8 November 1681 Charles County, Maryland
Alice Sinnett, servant of Philip Lynes, presented to the county court by county Grand Jury for having a bastard child.
29 November 1681 Charles County, Maryland
Servant of Phillip Lynes ordered to have 20 lashes on her bare back for having a bastard child.
This appears to be Phillip Lynes Jr. born circa 1649 of Charles County, Maryland.
Philip Lynes Sr. at one point was in the possession of the Governor’s Manor property in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. This property was passed from Gov. Leonard Calvert to his son William Calvert. Philip Lynes sold the property to Gabriel Parrott who died before 19 December 1704, Anne Arundel County, Maryland probate date. Parrott left his property to his daughter Susannah (Parrott) Parker’s children and specifically his grandchild Gabriel Parker who is mentioned in Margaret Calvert’s 1727 Calvert County, Maryland probate.
Margrett Calvert 8.534 Accounts, Calvert County, 26.4.0 4.3.6 March 9 1727
Payments to: Gabriell Parker, Mary Parker
Administrators: Daniell McDaniell and his wife Margrett McDaniell
It appears this was rent being collected on behalf of Gabriell Parker's sister Mary Parker.
Chronicles of Colonial Maryland, The First Capitol page 27. See footnote bottom of page 27.
Parrott, Gabriel, Anne Arundel Co., 9th Feb.,1700; 19th Dec., 1704.
To grandson Gabriel Parker, son of dau. Susannah (Parratt) and George Parker,
her husband, land (unnamed), bought from Philip Lynes in St Mary's Co. In the event of afsd. Gabriell's death to pass to the next heir at law of afsd. Susannah.
Phillip Lynes of St Mary's County, Maryland and his son Phillip Lynes of Charles County, Maryland records.
Autosomal DNA
DNA comes in long stretches called chromosomes and people typically have 23 pairs of chromosomes for a total of 46. There are two broad categories of chromosomes - autosomal and sex chromosomes. Sex chromosomes are made up of X and Y chromosomes and people typically have either a pair of X chromosomes or X and Y chromosomes.
Autosomal chromosomes make up the other 22 pairs and most everyone has a complete set of these. An autosomal DNA test only looks at the DNA from these 22 chromosome pairs.
The most common method is to use a DNA array to look at hundreds of thousands of positions, or markers across all 22 pairs.
Autosomal DNA test have the ability to analyze the DNA from more of your relatives than other DNA test. For instance, an autosomal DNA test can find genetic information about your grandfather, which other test typically can't do.
Autosomal DNA test are the most information-rich test available. These test can find relatives, from long lost siblings to 10th cousins, and tell you where your ancestors may have lived, from 500 to more than 1,000 years ago. (AncestryDNA website)
For Benjamin Stinnett Sr. circa (1706-1773) we have multiple participants from his youngest son William Stinnett Sr. circa (1746-1831) and an autosomal DNA participant from his son Benjamin Stinnett Jr., who married Ursla Isham, through their son John Stinnett who married Elizabeth Justice, 2 January 1788 in Franklin County, Virginia and died in Sevier County, Tennessee. Through John and Elizabeth (Justice) Stinnett’s son, Riley Robert Stinnett, who was born 1809 in Sevier County, Tennessee, to Riley’s son, John Riley Stinnett Sr. then through his son John Riley Stinnett Jr. to his daughter Mary Ellen Stinnett with 15 cM match with longest segment 15 cM; matches descendant of William Stinnett Sr. through his son Lindsey Stinnett.
3rd Cousin - 5th Cousin
Shared 15 cM Longest block 15 cM
Tennessee, U.S. Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895
Riley Stinnett. Residence 1837 Sevier, Tennessee, United States
Riley Stinnett is first enumerated in the 1830 Sevier County, Tennessee census age range (20-30) 1800-1810. Two households from his father John Stinnett age range (60-70). 1760-1770.
This being the case that both of Benjamin Stinnett Sr.’s sons, Benjamin Stinnett Jr. and William Stinnett Sr., have descendants matching each other (autosomal DNA) and the descendants of William Stinnett Sr. are matching descendants of George Calvert the Elder of Stafford County, Virginia Y-DNA. This suggests that it is Benjamin Stinnett Sr. born by 1706 of Charles County, Maryland who is carrying the Calvert Y-DNA and passing it down to his sons and their male descendants. The Stinnett Y-DNA group’s Y-DNA project needs participants for Benjamin Stinnett Jr. and Urlsa Isham’s descent to prove whether it’s the common father Benjamin Stinnett Sr. who is the source for the Calvert Y-DNA.
The Stinnett Genealogy DNA project at FTDNA is in the process of publishing the DNA results they have gathered for both Y-DNA and Autosomal DNA test results in collaboration with The Calvert Genealogy DNA project at FTDNA members' research.
Part two of this blog post will include more Stinnett and Calvert research in early Charles County, Maryland. Other Stinnett and Calvert records and relationships present in the early Maryland colony. We have covered the pertinent Key records.
Footnotes:
F1 23 Oct 1660 • Charles County, Maryland; John Cherman demands a warrant for Mr. James Lindsey in action of case; subpoena Garet Sennet and Edward Dean to testify.
12 Mar 1660 • Charles County, Maryland; Thomas Kelle demands warrant against John Baptista; debt value of 380# of tobacco; subpoena for Mr. Linsey and Edward Deane to testify for Thomas Kelle; and Garrard Sennett
24 Mar 1661 • Charles County, Maryland; Garrett as a signing witness in a case in which James Lindsey was Attorney for the Plaintiff, William Williams of Boston.
6 May 1664 • Charles County, Maryland; Credit Debt- In a receipt, Garrett agrees to pay Edmond Custis 1,733 pounds of good and well-conditioned tobacco and caske. James Lindsey on same page for same type of credit/debt to Custis.
Source Citations:
1 Ancestry.com. Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: The Virginia Genealogical Society. Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly and Magazine of Virginia Genealogy Vol. 28 Number 4, November 1990, Pages 275-276; Albermarle County.
Land Patent Book 29 p. 173 Benjamin Stennet, 400 ac., Albemarle Co., near Tobacco Row Mt. (beside pedlar mills in Amherst) on the N brs of Huff's Cr., 1 Jun 1750
Land Patent Book 29 p. 178 James Stennet, 227 ac., Albemarle Co., on the Brs of Huff's Cr, bounded by John Wheeler's c in John Grave's line, Benjamin Stennet's line, 1 Jun 1750
2 Amherst County, Virginia, Benjamin Stinnett and James Stinnett both listed as paying debts owed to the estate of James Isham/Ison. Could be Ben Sr. or Jr, but more likely Sr. Amherst Co., VA, Will Book 1, pp. 95-96. Note: Benjamin Stinnett Jr. married Ursula Isham, daughter of James Isham.
3 Amherst County, Virginia DEED BOOK B - PAGE 414 - March 6, 1769 James Stinnet and wife Anne of Amherst Co. to William Camden of same. 35 pds. for 152 acres part of patent of 227 ACRES to James Stinnet on June 1, 1750. Note: Burcher Whitehead was Susannah (Whitehead) Stinnett's brother; wife of James' nephew, William Stinnett. Burcher's father-in-law William Camden bought land from James Stinnett in 1769. Burcher married Nancy Camden.
4 Will Book 1, Amherst County, Virginia, Pages 245-249. Written and dated 21 Oct 1764. Presented to probate court 5 July 1773.
5 Prince William County, Virginia, Land grant to Amos Janney mentions abutted land owned by Benjamin Stinnet, "...near path from Goose Cr. to Benjamin Stinnet's..." Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1694-1742. Vol. 1, Book E Ancestry.com. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1694-1742. Vol. I [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Gary, Gertrude E. Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1694-1742. [Vol. I]. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997.
6 Wills Liber C. C. No. 3, Vol. 20, 1730-1734 Pages 239-241 Charles County, Maryland. Maryland State Archives.
http://guide.msa.maryland.gov/pages/series.aspx?ID=S538
https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagser/s500/s538/000000/000029/pdf/msa_s538_000029.pdf
7 Maryland State Archives; MDLandREC.Net Deed Book M 2 pages 330-331. Charles County, Maryland.
8 Liber Q Charles County Births, Deaths and Marriages; 1654-1706. Maryland State Archives Online.; Pages 2 and 3. Page 2, first entry is Mary Hunt, “daughter of law of Garrett Sinnett and also Page 2, 5th entry from bottom is marriage record for Garrett Sinnett and Alice Hunt. Birth record for Margarett Sinnett, Page 3, 10th entry from the top. Lists father as Garett Sinnett. https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/coagserm/cm1200/cm1234/000000/000003/pdf/mdsa_cm1234_3.pdf
9 Patent Book 4 pg. 210 transcribed from "Old Volume 5" pg. 143. NELL MARION NUGENT, Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666. Vol. 1. Richmond [VA]: Dietz Printing Co., 1934. Reprinted 2004 by The Library of Virginia, Richmond.
10 Archives of Maryland Online, MDLANDREC.NET; Charles County Court (Land Records) 1658-1662, Liber A, page 82
11 Maryland State Archives Online, Land Office, Charles County; Liber RX, contains R only, 1658-1659, Page 83
https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se24/000000/000002/pdf/mdsa_se24_2.pdf
12 Maryland State Archives Online, Land Office, Liber 4, transcript of R and X, 1659-1663. Certificate page 84, Land Patent pages 619-620. https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagserm/sm1/sm2/000000/000007/pdf/mdsa_sm2_7.pdf
13 Archives of Maryland Online, MDLANDREC.NET; Charles County Court (Land Records) 1658-1662, Liber A, page 59 and 131 for Garrett Sinnet suit of debt against him. Page 130 for the suit against James Lindsey in which Garrett Sinnett gave deposition testimony.
14 “Virginia Colonial Abstracts Vol. 23 Westmoreland Co.1653-1657”; Beverly Fleet; Baltimore Genealogical Publish Co. Reprinted 1961. Family History Library; Title No. 268617. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/451186/?offset=0#page=64&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=
