THIRD GENERATION

37. Thomas DORSEY was Marsh may be his middle Name.. This first commissioner of Anne Arundel County, MD, coming us from Va. with Wm. Durand, he surveyed lands, he surveyed lands. First upon the severn. He was an active member in every movement of the proprietary government, in 1658, refused to recognize his right to land. His Tract know as "Majors Choise" became histories as a long disputed line dividing the counties of Ann Arundel and Calvert. He Assigned a 100 acres upon the Chesapeake to Ed. Dorsey and Thomas Manning.


The first Edward Dorsey at the time of his death was living on "Major's Choise" now Howard County.

He was married. Copy from letter of Mrs. Bates on May 5, 1927. Thomas DORSEY had the following children:

99 i. Elizabeth DORSEY.
+100 ii. Rebecca DORSEY.
+101 iii. Mary Ridgely DORSEY.
102 iv. Benedict DORSEY.

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