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- Folio 104 ELIZABETH TOLSON 03/09/1778 08/26/1778
"being in perfect mind and sound memory
Bequeaths to:
1. Francis Tolson --brother
-to have Negro woman Mary" and her four children: "Will" "Lucy" "Cassey" and "John" and should Francis die w/out heirs, then "Mary" and her four children are to be free.
2. Amelia Trahem --aunt
-to have Negro woman "Lucy" and her 2 children: "floe" and "Gin" on the condition
that she pay testatrix's uncle Henry Lowe the sum of 50 pounds currency
3. James Stonestreet
-to have Negro wench "Cress"
4. Henry Stonestreet
-to have Negro man "George" and is to pay to testatrix's uncle Henry Lowe the sum of 225 pounds for the said Negro
-Negro man "Charles" to be sold to some person convenient to his wife
5. Henry Lowe --uncle
-to have the proceeds from the sale of Negro man "Charles"
-to have the residue of the estate after debts
6. Richard Stonestreet
-to have 50 pounds currency
7. John Hancock Beanes
-to have testatrix's bay horse
8. James Lowe --uncle
-to have testatrix's black horse
9. Amelia (Trahem ?) --niece (daughter of aunt Amelia Trehern)
-to have testatrix's saddle
10. "Mary" --Negro woman
-to have testatrix's bed and furn.
Witnesses: John Stonestreet, Phillip Ryon, Henry Stonestreet
Then came: John Stonestreet and Phillip Ryon
Note: the testatrix signed the will with her mark
=== Marylanders to Carolina-Henry C. Peden, Jr.
LOWE, DENNIS. Dennis Lowe (or Low), son of Henry, was born about
1764 and enlisted in the Revolutionary War in Prince George's
County, Maryland. He served as a Private in the First Partizan
Legion, commanded by Brig. Gen. Armand, Marquis de la Rouerie. On
October 4, 1820 in Edgefield District, South Carolina, aged about
56, he applied for a pension (838917), stating he had 5 children
(not named) and only one was under age, All his children were
living in Georgia. He also received Bounty Land Warrant
(#2253-100) and stated said papers were with the claim of Basil
Lowe (#2252-100). He also referred to the claim of his brother,
John Tolson Lowe (Ref: VDW-2131, VDW-2132, and AMD-594).
=== Marylanders to Carolina-Henry C. Peden, Jr.
LOWE, JOHN TOLSON. John Tolson Lowe, son of Henry, was born in
Prince George's County, Maryland and served in the First Maryland
Line during the Revolutionary War. He was also a Sergeant and
Ensign in the Second Maryland Line in 1780, and possibly became
Lieutenant. He married Susannah Riddle (born June 7, 1768 and her
parents, not named, were of Prince George's County, Maryland) on
July 11, 1784. They lived in Maryland for awhile after the war
and received 200 acres of land in 1795 from the State of
Maryland, namely lots 2493, 2494 and 2497 west of Cumberland in
Allegheny County, and also Bounty Land Warrant (#1297-200-28)
from the U. S. Government. They later moved to South Carolina,
about 10 miles from Edgefield. In 1804 they moved to Florida,
where John died on December 20, 1824 in Nassau County, opposite
the village of St. Mary's in Camden County, Georgia. John had
built mills on Bells River, about 4 miles from St. Mary's,
Georgia and his heirs (not named) received 16,000 acres from the
United States which was confirmed at Washington, D. c. in 1839.
He had 16 children (not named) with the oldest being born on
April 1, 1785 in Maryland and the youngest being born on January
8, 1808 in Florida. In 1846 his children living in Florida were:
J. Wesly (or Westly) Lowe, of Columbia County; Rebecca Reed;
Eliza Smith; and Ellen Miller. A son, Bartley or Bartly M. Lowe
was formerly President of the Branch State Bank in Huntsville,
Alabama and in 1846 was living in New Orleans, Louisiana. Other
children mentioned were: Hezekiah, Fernando, Thomas, Alla and
Fanny. John's brothers Basil and Dennis Lowe also served in the
Revolutionary War and his sisters Elizabeth and Ellen, and his
uncle John Lowe, were at his wedding to Susannah Riddle. On
September 5, 1864 Susannah Lowe applied for a pension (824575)
while living with a son-in-law William M. Reed in Hamilton
County, Florida (where he was then a County Judge). In 1877 a
Philip E. or Philamon E. Lowe, an heir of John, was in Wellburn,
Swanee County, Florida (Ref: VDW-2132, and AMD-132, 476, 478,
518).
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1754 - 1824 (70 years)