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BELT, JEREMMAH, COL Prince George's Co. 15 Oct, 1750; 23 Nov, 1768
Wife: Mary.
I bequeath to Edward Talbot, a tract of land on Sennet's Creek, called "Belts Tomahawk," in Frederick Co.
To Jeremiah Belt, son of Col. Joseph Belt and If he should died then to his eldest son Richard Belt and If he dies befores coming of age then to his 2nd son Edward Belt and If he should die before coming of age then to the eldest son of Jospeh Belt son of Col. Jos. Belt.
Mentions: Tobias Belt and Joseph Spriggs Belt and Thorns Belt bro. to Joseph Sprigg Belt.
To Fielder Gant, Negro Sarah and Negro Roger.
Mortgage to John Brenner.
Tracts: "Belt's Pigpen," 200 acres, "Breshers Neck, Orphens Gift," Francis Dorset's land.
Exs: Wife Mary and Jeremiah Belt.
Wit: Joseph Holyfield, George Cross, Ellison Holyfield. 36. 633
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Col. Jeremiah Belt 107.422 Page £1502.11.4 Dec 19 1768 Jan 19 1769
Appraisers: Richard Duckett Jr., Thomas Williams.
Creditors: J. Sprigg, Magruder & Hepburn.
Next of kin: Charity Mullikin, Sarah Harwood.
Executor: Jeremiah Bett.
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Col. Jeremiah Belt 108.281 Page £226.4.0 Aug 3 1769 May 7 1772
Appraisers: Richard Duckett, Jr., Thomas Williams (deceased by May 7 1772).
Creditors: Thomas Mortan, Jr., for Magruder & Hepburn, Richard Brooke.
Next of kin: Sarah Harwood, Charity Mullikin.
Executor: Jeremiah Belt.
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Col. Jeremiah Belt 6.232 D Page £1531.1.1 Jul 6 1773
Distribution to: Widow (unnamed, 1/3).
Residue to (equally): Jeremiah Belt, Tobias Belt.
Executor: Jeremiah Belt.
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EFSM Vol 1.
Will of Col.. JEREMIAH BELT, Prince George's Co.; 13 Oct 1750; microfilm badly faded
Wife: Mary
I bequeath to Edward Talbot a tract of land on Bennet's Creek called Belt's Tom_hawk in Frederick Co.
Kinsman Jeremiah Belt, son of Col. Joseph Belt
Mentions: Jeremiah Belt, son of Richard; Jeremiah Belt, son of Edward; Joseph Belt, son of Col. Joseph Belt; Tobias Belt; Joseph Spriggs Belt
Wit: Joseph _field, ,_son _field
Tracts: Belt's_______ 200 acres, Bresher's Neck, Orphans ______
Widow's renunciation, 30 Dec 1768 (Wills, Liber 36, folio 633)
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Two sources show two wives for Jeremiah Belt - "Maryland History. Mag. Volume 8 1913, Page 195, Belt Family by Christopher Johnson", indicates that his wife was Mary Wight; while records of "Queen Anne Parish; original register. 1686-1777, filed at HR", indicate that his wife was Mary Sprigg.
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Anne White 8.240 A Page £29.1.8 £35.5.1 Jun 2 1727
Received from: James Bradley.
Payments to: Dr. Sims, Dr. Pile, Mr. Marsham Waring.
Executor: Jeremiah Belt.
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Lamb, Elizabeth, A. A. County, 1st Aug., 1737; 14th Dec., 1737.
To sons John, Joseph, Benjamin and Jeremiah Belt, 20s. each,
to daus. Charity Mullakin, Sarah Harwood and Margaret Watkins, 20s. each.
to son-in-law Nicholas Watkins, ex... 25.
to granddau. Mary Norwood, personalty.
to grandson Nicholas Watkins and hrs., entire estate; shd. sd. grandson die before he attains age of 20, estate to pass to two granddaus. Elizabeth and Anne Watkins,
Test: Samuel Smith, George Taylor, Edward Scott. 21. 815.
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Mrs. Elisabeth Lamb 23.213 AA £282.19.4 Aug 5 1738
Appraisers: Thomas Stockett, Fardinand Batte.
Creditors: Jeremiah Belt, Samuell Chew.
Next of kin: Joseph Belt, Jeremiah Belt.
Executor: Nicholas Watkins.
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Elisabeth Lamb 16.351 A AA £282.19.1 £86.5.9 Dec 7 1738
Received from: Mr. Charles Rogers (merchant in London).
Payments to: Jeremiah Belt, Zachey Maccubbin, William Rogers, Zachy Maccubbin.
Legatees: Mary Norwood, Joseph Belt, John Belt, Jeremiah Belt, Benjamin Belt,
Charity Mullakin, Sarah Harwood, Margaret Watkins (wife of accountant),
accountant.
Executor: Nicholas Watkins.
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21 May 1720 Jeremiah Belt purchased for £26 a tract of land from Charles Beall which had been taken up by Col. Ninian Beall and left to Charles to be sold; bounded by Good Luck (P. G. Co. land Rec., Liber I, folio 11)
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Prince George's Land Records 1717-1726 - Liber I - Folio: 633 o Deed of Gift, 1 May 1725; enrolled 15 May 1725
From: Anne Wightt, widow of Prince George's County
To: Mary Belt, her daughter, wife of Jeremiah Belt, Gent. of Prince George's County A Negroe girl named Nell
/s/ Anne Wightt (seal)
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1730-1733 Prince George’s County, Maryland Land Records Liber Q, [Elise Greenup Jourdan]; Page 110
Enrolled at request of Jeremiah Belt 25 Sep 1730:
From John Child, Gent., for 5s by Col. Joseph Belt, Capt. Jeremiah Belt, Thos. Williams, Jno. Magruder and Osborn Sprigg, trustees for gentlemen of the Western Branch Club or Society; a parcel called Western Branch Club House being part of a tract called Sprightfull; containing 10,000 square feet; /s/ John Child; wit. Ralph Crabb, Edwd. Sprigg
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1730-1733 Prince George’s County, Maryland Land Records Liber Q, [Elise Greenup Jourdan]; Page 191
Enrolled at request of Justices of Prince George's Co. 19 Dec 1730:
Indenture, 19 Dec 1730; Between Daniel Carroll of Upper Marlborough Town, merchant, of one part and Ralph Crabb, Thomas Gantt, George Noble, Leonard Hollyday, John Magruder, Jeremiah Belt and their associates, Gent. Justices the Peace; for 5s; a parcel in Marlborough being part of Darnall's Chance where the County Court House and County Prison Stocks and Pillory now stand; containing 1 acre; mentions Col. Joseph Belt and Elizabeth Sinton; /s/ Danll. Carroll, wit. Philip Lee, A. Contee; 19 Dec 1730 ack. by Daniel Carroll
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1739-1743 Prince George’s County, Maryland Land Records Liber Y, [Elise Greenup Jourdan]; Page 108.
Memorandum that on the special petition of Morris Miles of PG, planter, preferred to sd court on the 4th Tuesday of Mar, [1739] the court order, dated Apr 3, 1739, was as follows: to Jeremiah Belt, Benjamin Jacobs, John Lemarr, & Thomas Hilleary of PG, Gent, greeting. Morris Miles of PG, seized of a parcel of land in Charles County called St. Andrews, on the 4th Tuesday of last Mar, preferred his petition to our County Court held at Upper Marlborough Town before Leonard Hollyday, Gent, & his associates, to examine the witnesses to prove and perpetuate the memory of the bounds of sd tract of land. We have given you (not being related to the petitioner or any contiguous proprietor, nor interested in sd land) power to examine all witnesses concerning the bounds of the land afd. Signed Mar 30, 1739 - A Contee, CI Cur. On Sep 19, 1739, Messrs Jeremiah Belt, Benjamin Jacobs, John Lemar, and Thomas Hilleary, qualified themselves to execute the within commission. Before Tumor Wootton*.
Page 109. Benjamin Brassure, aged about 80 years, declares that he came to a certain white oak with his brother, Samll Brashure and Morris Miles, and his sd brother ran a line from sd white oak, and they both declared that sd white oak was the beginning tree of Saint Andrew. The above deposition was taken before us this Nov 26, 1739. Signed - Jere: Belt, Berija Jacob, John Lamar, Tho: Hillary.
Page 109. John Rydle, aged about 70 years declares that, living on a plantation of John Ray's, the sd John Ray showed him the afd white oak & told him not to clear any ground or cut any wood beyond this tree, for that it was the beginning tree of Saint Andrews. The above deposition was taken before us this Nov 26, 1739. Signed - Jere: Belt, Benja Jacob, John Lamar, Tho: Hilleary.
Page 109. Nov 26, 1739. Luke Bamard, aged about 55 years, says that his father bought of Colo Ninian Beall, part of a tract of land called St. Andrews, and further says that the deponent's father was the first buyer of sd land, and this deponent says that after his father's death, he, this deponent, enjoyed the sd land by his father's will, and his part laid out by Mr. Clerrit Hill from a bounded white oak at the foot of a hill near a little branch that runs into the Western branch facing a little marsh, which sd hill, this deponent said, was the beginning of sd land called St. Andrews. The above deposition was taken before us this Nov 26, 1739. Signed - Jere: Belt, Benja Jacob, John Lamar, Tho: Hilleary.
Page 110. Nov 26, 1739. Nat'l Wickham, aged about 82 years says that he bought part of a tract of land called St. Andrews of Colo Ninian Beall, & that the sd Beal took this deponent the afd white oak, from which tree Wm Hutchison was ordered and began to lay out this deponent's part of St. Andrews, which sd Colo Beall told this deponent was the beginning tree of St. Andrews. The above deposition was taken before us this Nov 26, 1739. Signed - Jere: Belt, Ben ja Jacob, John Lamar, Tho: Hilleary. Recorded Nov 28 , 1739.
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1739-1743 Prince George’s County, Maryland Land Records Liber Y, [Elise Greenup Jourdan]; Page 605.
Feb 21, 1742 from Francis Dorsett of PG, carpenter, to Major Jeremiah Belt of PG, Gent, for 27 £10 shillings, a tract of land called Plague Enough, being part of a tract called the Orphans Gift, containing about 40 acres. Also I gray horse branded T, and 2 cows and 2 yearlings and 12 hogs. If, however, sd Dorsett pays sd Belt by next Nov 10, the afd sum with legal interest, then this deed shall be void. Signed Francis Dorsett, Jere Belt. Wit - George Parker*, Jo. Belt Jr*. This deed was acknowledged by Francis Dorsett and Jane, his wife. Recorded Feb 25, 1742/[43].
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Prince George's Land Records 1739-1743 - liber Y -Page 649.
Mar 29, 1743 from John Breshears (Brashears) Sr of PG, planter, to Major Jeremiah Belt of PG, Gent, for 16 £2 shillings and I penny sterling, a tract of land called Brashears Neck, lying in PG, bounded by a live oak standing on a point by a marsh on the Beavor Dam Branch of the Western branch and also the beginning tree of a tract of land called Hogg Harbour, containing and laid out for about 86 acres. If, however, sd Brashears, by next Nov 10, pays the sd Majr Jeremiah Belt the afd sum, with legal interest from today, then this present deed shall be void. Signed - John Braeshas, Jere Belt. Wit - Jno Hawkins Jr*, Geo Parker*. This deed was acknowledged by John Brashear Sr and Ruth, his wife. Recorded Mar 29, 1743.
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1749-1752 Prince George's County, Maryland Land Records Liber PP [Abstract by Mike Marshall]; Page 86. Recorded abt. November 28, 1750; Memorandum that on the special petition of the Basil Waring prefrerred to the justices of Prince George's County, Maryland on the 4th Tuesday in March in the 35th year of his Lordship commission the Right Hon. the Lord Proprietory Dominion ect., his said Lordship commission issued by order of the justices aforesaid out of the county aforesaid on the 6th day of April Anno Domine 1750. In these words following, Charles Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Province of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore Vizt; to Messrs James Beck, Richard Duckett and Jeremiah Belt, Jr., of PGCo gentleman, whereas the Basil Waring is seized of a parcel called "Hearts Delight" and preferred his petition in writing to our county court held at Upper Marlborough Town before Edward Sprigg gentleman and his associates then and still justices within our county to examine evidence to prove and perpetuate the memory of the bounds of the said tract of land. Therefore we command you any three or two of you to examine all witnesses or persons concerned touching their knowledge of the bounds of the said tract. Witness Edward Sprigg, Gent, March 31, 1750. Issued April 6, 1750, Joseph Sim, Clk
Advertisement July 29, 1750; by virtue of a commission from Prince George's County court commissioning and empowering us the subscribers to examine evidences to prove and to perpetuate the memory of the bounds of a tract of land called "Hearts Delight" in possession of Mr. Basil Waring we therefore agreeable to acts of assembly in such cases made and provided do hereby give public notice that we intend to meet at the house of Mr. Basil Waring on Thursday the 23rd day of August next in order to execute the said commission. Signed James Beck, Richard Duckett, Jeremiah Belt, Jr.
Thursday, August 23, 1750; We met at the house of Mr. Basil Waring and proceeded to an old standing tree standing at the head of a glade where Thomas Hileary aged about 43 years was sworn and declared that about 19 or 20 years years ago he was present at a white oak tree which he thinks to be this, when Water Evans declared upon oath before the commissioners that this tree was the beginning of a tract belonging to Richard Smith of Calvert County, Maryland the said Smith having then a commission to examine the bounds of his said land Messrs Jeremiah Belt, Richard Keene and John Beall being commissioners and further saith not.
At the same place, Major Jeremiah Belt aged near 52 years being sworn declared that 19 or 20 years ago being a commissioner to examine the bounds of a tract belonging to Richard Smith of Calvert County, Maryland, old Walter Evans being duly sworn at a white oak which he thinks to be this, declared that the said oak was the beginning tree of a tract of land in the possession of the said Smith and further saith not. The other evidences not appearing we adjourned till Thursday the 13th of September next ensuing to meet at the same place. Signed Jeremiah Belt, Jr., Richard Duckett, James Beck,
Thursday, September 13, 1750; We met according to adjournment and the evidences not appearing we adjourned till Monday the 17th instant to meet at the same place.
Monday, September 17, 1750; We met at the white oak where Col. Edward Sprigg aged about 53 years was sworn and declared that upwards of 30 years ago he asked Philip Gittings if he knew the beginning tree of Mr. Darnall's land called "Prevention" and Gittings told him he did and should him this tree and this deponent further saith that about 26 years ago Thomas Booke having a commission to examine the bounds of these lands Charles Walker and Joseph Brown being sworn at this tree declared that some years before they were with Colonel Henry Darnall about purchasing a tract called "Prevention" and wanting to see the lands Colonel Henry Darnall desired them to go to Colonel Ninian Beall who shew them the trees which he did and brought them to this tree and told them it was the beginning tree of the said "Prevention" and further saith not. Signed Richard Duckett, James Beck
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1698 - 1768 (70 years)