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James Hughes 2005-11-10 11:14:29
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Individual Note: it is thought by preponderance of evidence that Hugh Conn Jr's 1st wife was Eleanor WILCOXEN. Eleanor's brother, Josias Wilcoxen, gave deposition for Hugh & Eleanor's son-in-law Michael Ashford. Eleanor d.abt Jul 1754 because Hugh Jr had m.2d and had son b.1755 according to the son's Rev. War pension.
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1752-1757 Prince George's County, Maryland Land Records Liber NN [Abstract by Mike Marshall]; Page 84. At the request of Hugh Conn, Eleanor Conn and Jane Conn the following Lease was recorded November 28, 1752
Indenture made October 5, 1752; Benedict Calvert, Esq, of the City of Annapolis in consideration of the rents and covanents hereafter mentioned hath granted to farm let unto Hugh Conn, Eleanor Conn and Jane Conn all that tract called "Seaman's Delight" lying in PGCo for and during their natural lives paying yearly the rent of 1200 pounds of net and every way conditioned tobacco prized into a hogshead at some convenient landing on the Potomack at or before the last day of April. And futher within 7 years plant a fenced orchard with 150 apple trees. Signed Benedict Calvert in the presence of Richard Burdus, Thomas Johnson Jr., and acknowledged before John Darnall
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