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The colonial families of Maryland were the leading families in the Province of Maryland. Several also had interests in the Colony of Virginia, and the two are sometimes referred to as the Chesapeake Colonies.
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| Family name | Family members | Notes | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbott | Simon Abbott | Founder | ||
| Madeline Abbott | Wife of Simon, Mother of Dorcas | |||
| Dorcas Abbott | Born 1651 | |||
| Adams | Francis Adams | c. 1645 (or 1626) – December 1698 | ||
| John Adams | c. 1670 – September 1740 | |||
| Charles Adams | c. 1672/3 – 1733. Carpenter. | |||
| Angiers | John Angiers | Son of John Angier | ||
| Billingsley | Francis Billingsley | |||
| John Billingsley | ||||
| Bowie | John Bowie, Sr. | [1] | ||
| Oden Bowie | ||||
| Robert Bowie | ||||
| Thomas Fielder Bowie | ||||
| Walter Bowie | ||||
| Captain William Bowie | ||||
| William Duckett Bowie | ||||
| Brent | Margaret Brent | |||
| Mary Brent | ||||
| Giles Brent | ||||
| Fulke Brent | ||||
| Brice | Brice III | |||
| James Brice | ||||
| Brooke | Robert Brooke, Sr. | |||
| Thomas Brooke, Sr. | ||||
| Thomas Brooke, Jr. | ||||
| Burgess | William Burgess | Founder, Deputy Governor | ||
| Calvert Lords Baltimore | George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore | |||
| Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore | ||||
| Leonard Calvert | ||||
| Phillip Calvert (governor) | ||||
| Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore | ||||
| Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore | ||||
| Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore | ||||
| Benedict Leonard Calvert | ||||
| Benedict Swingate Calvert | ||||
| Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore | ||||
| Henry Harford | ||||
| Eleanor Calvert | ||||
| Charles Benedict Calvert | ||||
| Charles Calvert (governor) | ||||
| Carroll | Charles Carroll the Settler | |||
| Charles Carroll of Annapolis | ||||
| Charles Carroll (barrister) | ||||
| Charles Carroll of Carrollton | ||||
| Daniel Carroll | ||||
| John Carroll (bishop) | ||||
| John Lee Carroll | ||||
| Thomas King Carroll | ||||
| Anna Ella Carroll | ||||
| James Carroll (Maryland politician) | ||||
| Samuel S. Carroll | ||||
| Causey | ||||
| Chase | Samuel Chase | |||
| Jeremiah Chase | ||||
| Clarke | ||||
| Contee | Thomas Contee | |||
| Benjamin Contee | ||||
| Compton | Henry Compton | |||
| Barnes Compton | ||||
| Cresap | Thomas Cresap | |||
| Michael Cresap | ||||
| Crossland | ||||
| Darnall | Henry Darnall | |||
| Philip Darnall | ||||
| Digges | William Digges | |||
| Dent | Thomas Dent Sr. | |||
| Dorsey | Edward Dorsey | |||
| Hon. John Dorsey | [2] | |||
| Major Edward Dorsey | [3] | |||
| Dulany | Daniel Dulany the Elder | |||
| Daniel Dulany the Younger | ||||
| Walter Dulany | ||||
| Duvall | Mareen Duvall | |||
| Gabriel Duvall | ||||
| Robert Duvall | ||||
| Eden baronets | Sir Robert Eden, 1st Baronet, of Maryland | |||
| Sir Frederick Eden, 2nd Baronet | ||||
| Fairfax | Albert Fairfax, 12th Lord Fairfax of Cameron | |||
| Fendall | Josias Fendall | |||
| Greenberry | Nicholas Greenberry | Governor; tombstone transferred to St.Anne's, Church Circle, Annapolis | ||
| Greene | Governor Thomas Greene | |||
| Griffith | ||||
| Hammond | Thomas Hammond (regicide) | Founder and possible Regicide of Charles I | ||
| John Hammond Maj.Gen. | Tombstone from 'Mountain Neck' plantation to St.Anne's, Church Circle, Annapolis | |||
| Hanson | John Hanson | |||
| Alexander Contee Hanson | ||||
| Hatton | Thomas Hatton | MD Secretary, killed in action at the Battle of the Severn | ||
| Heydon | Francis Heydon/Hayden | |||
| Hollis | ||||
| Howard | Matthew Howard Sr | Founder | ||
| John Eager Howard | ||||
| George Howard (Governor of Maryland) | ||||
| Benjamin Chew Howard | ||||
| Jenifer | Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer | |||
| Daniel Jenifer | ||||
| Lanham | Josias Lanham | |||
| Lee | Philip Lee | Blenheim branch | ||
| Thomas Sim Lee | Blenheim branch | |||
| Lloyd | Edward Lloyd (Colonial Governor of Maryland) | |||
| Edward Lloyd (delegate) | ||||
| Edward Lloyd (Governor of Maryland) | ||||
| Henry Lloyd (governor) | ||||
| James Lloyd (Maryland) | ||||
| Mason | William Mason (1757–1818) | |||
| Ogle | Samuel Ogle | |||
| Benjamin Ogle | ||||
| Paca | William Paca | |||
| Paddy | John Paddy | 17 Reg't (Beall's) Maryland Militia (War of 1812)- Drummer | ||
| Robert Paddy | 17 Reg't (Beall's) Maryland Militia (War of 1812) Private | |||
| Benjamin Paddy | c.1750 | |||
| Peale | Charles Willson Peale | |||
| James Peale | ||||
| Raphaelle Peale | ||||
| Rembrandt Peale | ||||
| Rubens Peale | ||||
| Titian Peale | ||||
| Anna Claypoole Peale | ||||
| Charles Peale Polk | ||||
| Margaretta Angelica Peale | ||||
| Sarah Miriam Peale | ||||
| Riggin | Teague Riggin | Founder; Planter, Golden Lyon Plantation, Pocomoke Sound | ||
| Darby Riggin | Founder; Planter, Annemessex, later moved to Accomack County, Virginia | |||
| John Riggin | Planter, Marumsco, Pocomoke Sound | |||
| John Riggin | Planter, Annemessex | |||
| Isaac Riggin | Corporal, Maryland Militia, War of 1812. | |||
| Elisha Riggin | Shipbuilder, Crisfield | |||
| John Riggin | Deputy clerk of the court, Worcester County; father of Brig. Gen. John Riggin, Jr. | |||
| John Riggin, Jr. | Bvt. Brig. Gen., Union Army; additional aide-de-camp, to Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War. | |||
| Rodgers | John Rodgers (naval officer, War of 1812) | |||
| John Rodgers (American Civil War naval officer) | ||||
| John Rodgers (naval officer, World War I) | ||||
| Calbraith Perry Rodgers | ||||
| Saffell | Samuel | Sons and daughters: John Saffell, Samuel Saffell, William Saffell, Ann Saffell, Charles Saffell, James Saffell, Elizabeth Saffell, Joshua Saffell and Sarah Saffell. At least one of Samuel's sons, likely Charles, served under Richard Montgomery in the French and Indian and the American Revolutionary Wars. | Saffell, Samuel. Born 1712, originally from Essex, England. Arrived Oct 1732 on the ship, Patapsco Merchant, captained by Capt Darby Lux. Samuel was a "King's Passenger," either a convict or volunteer indentured servant for free passage. The Patapsco Merchant departed London in April 1732.Samuel owned land and was married to Mary Saffell née Watson in 1738. When he died in 1777, his will was the second will ever probated in the newly incorporated Montgomery County. | |
| Sewall | Henry Sewall | MD Secretary; grandson and grand nephew of the Mayors of Coventry | ||
| Nicholas Sewall | Dep.Governor | |||
| Skirvin Skirven | George Skirvin/Skirven | Judge, Chestertown, Kent Co., Skirvin's Neglect | ||
| Francis Skirvin/Skirven | Planter, Ordinary owner, Annapolis | |||
| William Skirvin/Skirven | Physician, Queen Anne's Co. | |||
| Smallwood | Governor William Smallwood | |||
| Sparrow | Thomas Sparrow | Planter, Sparrows Point, Rhode River | ||
| Stafford | William Stafford | |||
| Steuart | George H. Steuart (planter) | Planter | ||
| George Steuart Hume | ||||
| George H. Steuart (Major General) | ||||
| Richard Sprigg Steuart | ||||
| George H. Steuart (Brigadier General) | ||||
| William Steuart (Mayor of Baltimore) | ||||
| Stone | William Stone | |||
| Thomas Stone | ||||
| Michael J. Stone | ||||
| John Hoskins Stone | ||||
| William Murray Stone | ||||
| Frederick Stone | ||||
| Tasker | Benjamin Tasker, Sr. | |||
| Benjamin Tasker, Jr. | ||||
| Vallette | Elie Vallette | |||
| Warfield | Richard Warfield Capt. | Founder; ancestor of Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor; tombstone transferred from plantation to St. Anne's, Church Circle, Annapolis | ||
| Worland | John Worland of Charles County | Master of Sly Fox Plantation | ||
| Worthington | John Worthington Capt. | Founder; tombstone transferred to St. Anne's, Church Circle, Annapolis |
Colonel Benjamin Tasker Jr. was a politician and slave trader in colonial Maryland, and Mayor of Annapolis from 1754 to 1755. He was the son of Benjamin Tasker Sr., Provincial Governor of Maryland from 1752 to 1753.
Samuel Ogle was the 16th, 18th and 20th Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1731 to 1732, 1733 to 1742, and 1746/1747 to 1752.
Highland is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Howard County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 1,133. It uses the 20777 zip code.
Alexander Randall was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland, and served as Attorney General of Maryland from 1864–1868. He was the thirteenth child of his parents, John and Deborah Knapp Randall. His father was a Revolutionary War veteran, born in Westmoreland County, Virginia and later was Collector of the Port of Annapolis and was elected three times as Mayor of Annapolis between 1813 and 1818.
John Tolley Hood Worthington was a U.S. Representative from Maryland and a slaveholder.
Mareen Duvall (1625–1694) was a French Huguenot and an early American settler.
Richard Bennett was an English planter and Governor of the Colony of Virginia, serving 1652–1655. He had first come to the Virginia colony in 1629 to represent his merchant uncle Edward Bennett's business, managing his plantation known as Bennett's Welcome in Warrascoyack. Two decades later, Bennett immigrated to the Maryland colony with his family, and settled on the Severn River in Anne Arundel County.
James Thomas Woodward was an American banker and owner of a major thoroughbred horse dynasty.
Daniel Dulany the Elder (1685–1753) was a prominent lawyer and land-developer in colonial Maryland, who held a number of colonial offices. In 1722 Dulany wrote a pamphlet entitled The Right of the Inhabitants of Maryland, to the Benefit of the English Laws, asserting the rights of Marylanders over the Proprietary Government.
The South River Club is a social club located just south of Annapolis in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The name also refers to the group's clubhouse, which was built in 1742.
Joseph Dorsey House was a historic building in West Brownsville, Pennsylvania. It is designated as a historic residential landmark/farmstead by the Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation.
Colonel Nicholas Gassaway was a colonial military and political leader and justice in early Maryland. He is the progenitor of the some five and a half thousand Americans who bear the family name in the 2000 census.
John Lovet MacTavish was a Scots-Canadian heir to the North West Company and diplomat.
Dr. Charles Alexander Warfield (1751–1813) was a prominent American in the Howard District of Anne Arundel County Maryland. He was president of the board of regents of the Maryland Agriculture College from 1812 to 1813.
Hickory Ridge or White Hall is an historic property located in Highland in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is registered in the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties.
Hon. John Dorsey was a colonial settler of Maryland and Anne Arundel County, the youngest son of Edward the Shipwright. He and his brothers Edward and Joshua patented "Hockley-in-the-Hole" on the south side of the Severn in 1664. He acquired Troy in 1699.
Sally Scott Murray was the first lady of Maryland.
Gerard Thomas Hopkins was an American businessman, Quaker religious leader, and uncle to philanthropist Johns Hopkins. Gerard Thomas Hopkins was born on October 24, 1769, in Anne Arundel County, Maryland to Elizabeth Thomas and Johns Hopkins, Senior. On April 16, 1796, at the age of 26, Hopkins married Dorothy Brooke at the Sandy Spring Meeting House in Frederick, Maryland. The couple would go on to have eight children: Mary, Deborah, Elizabeth, Thomas, William, Gerard, Jr., Margaret, and Rachel. Eventually, they moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where Gerard opened his wholesale grocery business and became clerk of the Meeting of the Society of Friends at Baltimore for the Western Shore of Maryland and the adjacent parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
William Cotter was a former pirate who lived in Maryland in the late 1600s. He became notable due to his association with the Gresham Estate.
Ann Jennings Johnson was the inaugural First Lady of Maryland and wife of the first non-colonial Governor of Maryland, Thomas Johnson.