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Somerset County MDGenWeb 1689 Address of Loyalty from Somerset County Inhabitants to William and Mary |
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Somerset County MDGenWeb 1689 Address of Loyalty from Somerset County Inhabitants to William and Mary |
Transcribed by Craig O'Donnell.
Address of the Inhabitants of the County of Somersett.
Nover the 28th 1689.
To the King and Queen most Ext Majty.
Wee your Majesty's Subjects in the Somersett and Province of Maryland, being refreshed and Encouraged by your Majestys great and prosperous undertakings, and by your late gracious letter to these of this Province, do cast ourselves at your Majesty's feet humbly desiring and hopefully expecting the continuance of your Maj care of us, as our Case and Circumstances 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 Papists 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 jun | Thomas Wilson | Henry Philips |
| John Parsons | Thomas Shild | Thomas Stivenson | James Knox |
| John Browne | Wm Alexander | Randolph Revell | Peter Elzey |
| James Smith | Epraem Wilson | Thomas Smith | John Knox |
| Thomas Wallr | John Knox | Thomas Wallr | Alexander Knox |
| Alexander Procter | John Renshaw | James Conner | William Wilmot |
| Micayah Sadler | John Chanceleer | John Smoche | Nicholas Cornwell |
| John Miller | Adam Spence | Tho. Midgley | John Baron |
| John Deale | Martin Curtis | Clement Giles | Robert Johnson |
| William Bowen | Devoraux Diegas | Robert Simson | Edward Evans |
| Hugh Jingle | John Coltston | Richard Warren | Mathew Jones |
| Richard Hill | John Goldsmith | John Browne | Willm Owen |
| Malcom 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 Ractlife |
| William Melvell | William Smith | Richard Mackclure | John White |
| John Rowell | John Killam | John More | Saml Hopkins junr |
| Benjamin Keyar | Ralph Milbourne | Henry Hall | Francis Heap |
| John Pope | Thomas Oxford | William Hearne | Richard Pepper |
| John Saunders | Nathaniell Abbott | William Coard | William Hall |
| William Davis | Joshua Light | John Rust | Nathaniel Vesey |
| Richard Woodcraft | Tobias Pepper | WaIler Read | John Peterfranck |
| Stephen Page | Thomas Edwards | Alexander Mackcullah | George Beniam |
| Andrew Miller | Patrick Reed | John Steell | William Browne |
| Thomas Bromley | William Wouldhave | Richard Wildgoose | John Lucas |
| Richard Cole | William Oswell | John Snow | George Latham |
| William Law | William Alexandr 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 | John Mcknitt | Wm Coulbourne | James Marrah |
| John Roach | Owen Mckgraw | William Round | Richard Farwell |
| Alexander Kyll | Thomas Poynter | John Strawbridge | Adam Fitch |
| William Burch | Thomas Gordon | Nicholas Carpenter | John Henderson |
| John Tarr | Richard Hill | Edmd Beachamp | Allen Ross |
| Geo. Nobell | Richard Britten | Peter Whaples | William Layton |
| William Boyman [Bozman] | Geo. Lane | John Crawley | Samll Worthington |
| Robert Peny | Moses Fenton | John Porter | Ninian Dulap |
| James Henderson | James Duncan | John Barber | John Hicks |
| William Mead | Robert Neame | Henry Mills | Richard Dennis |
| Thomas Morgan | Humphrey Read | William Shankland | David Dresdan |
| John Watt | John Ellis | Thomas Ellis | John Starret |
| William Fossit | Thomas Delahide | Arthur Hanley | John Christopher |
| Philip Askew | Roger Phillips | Robert Crouch | George Bayley |
| Lazurus Maddux | John Davis | Henry Hamon | Miles Harrison |
| Tho. Dixon | Alexander Maddux | John Frankland | Wm Coulbourne |
| Robert Boyer | Nicholas Jodvin [Todvin] | Geo. Layfeild Comtr [sic] | Michael Clugstone |
| Laurence 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 King | William Planer | William Planer junr |
| Richard Tull | Thomas Tull | Robert Hall | John Braughton |
| William Nobell | John Colhoune | John Williams | Richard Chambers |
| John Trupshan | Mathew Dorman | James Langreene | Nathll Horsey |
| Alexander Thomas | John Mackbride | David Brown | Francis Jenkins |
| William Brerton | John Winder | Robt King | James Dashiell |
| Stephen Suff | Thomas Newbold | James Round | Samll Hopkins |
| Edmd Howard | Thomas Jones | Henry Smith | Robert Cade |
| John Johnson | Francis Joyce |
This is a true Copy taken from the Original
Examined and signed by the Order of the Respective Persons above named.
Peter Dent dpty Collr of his Majestys Customes in the County of Somersett.
[Indorsed]
Maryland 1689.
Address of the Inhabitants of the County of Somersett to their Majties.
Recd. from my Lord Shrewsbury, 7th Febry. 1689.
NOTE: It was in 1689 that Lord Baltimore lost the Calvert family's hold on the province of Maryland, and the province came under the rule of King William and Queen Mary. The overwhelming majority of the names signed to this address were Presbyterians, along with the names of 15 or 20 Church of England men (like Huett, Revell, Dixon, Coulbourne, Horsey, Chambers, Dent, Elzey, Tull, Waller, Smith, Dashiell, Brereton and Bozman) . None are identified as Quakers.
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