Samuel Billingsley

William married Clearanna Bowles about 1690 in Maryland, USA. Clearanna was born in 1670 in Calvert County, Maryland, USA; died on 4 Aug 1716 in Calvert County, Maryland, USA; was buried in St Pauls Episcopal Church Cemetery, Prince Frederick, Calvert County, Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Parents: Valentine Bowles & ??

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1652, Maryland, USA

Notes:

John Billingsley was born 1647, in Rotterdam, Holland, died ca 1690 (lost at sea). Married Jan 1669 in Richmond Co, VA, Sarah Ann Billingsley (1st cousin), born 1652 in Essex County, VA, died 1612, probably in St. Mary's County, MD, daugher of William Billingsley and his wife Sarah Bowman, of Essex Co, VA, who married 2nd William Evart. Sarah Ann Billingsley married as her 2nd husband William Brown of Richmond Co, VA
- Historical Southern Families, Volume III, pp 22-23

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John was was a ship captain for most of his adult life, and transported many of the men for which his uncle Francis received land grants. Francis evidently paid for those trips, and that's what counted. I'm not sure whether John undertook transatlantic voyages, or just sailed among the mid-Atlantic states, so I can't say how far at sea he might have been when he was lost.

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He came to Nansemond County, Virginia with his parents and uncles John and James Billingsley prior to 1649. Arrived in Calvert County, Maryland with his parents about 1652. He moved to Richmond County, Virginia with his parents about 1659. He and his brothers Francis and Edward were legatees to a "Cowe Calfe" each in the will of James Billingsley in 1663, who calls them "my three cozens (nephews) on the Rapehannock." They were also mentioned in the will of Susannah Billingsley, widow of James, in the same year.
- Source Unknown. Posted to Ancestry by AnnRice3443

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See also his attached bigraphy from Billingsley Family in America

John married Sarah Ann Billingsley in 1669 in Richmond County, Virginia, USA. Sarah (daughter of William Billingsley and Sarah Bowman) was born in 1652 in Essex County, Virginia, USA; died in 1712 in St Mary's County, Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John Billingsley was born 1647, in Rotterdam, Holland, died ca 1690 (lost at sea). Married Jan 1669 in Richmond Co, VA, Sarah Ann Billingsley (1st cousin), born 1652 in Essex County, VA, died 1612, probably in St. Mary's County, MD, daugher of William Billingsley and his wife Sarah Bowman, of Essex Co, VA, who married 2nd William Evart. Sarah Ann Billingsley married as her 2nd husband William Brown of Richmond Co, VA
- Historical Southern Families, Volume III, pp 22-23

Notes:

Married:
John and Sara Billingsley were first cousins

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Francis Billingsley
• Arrival: 1649, Virginia, USA
• Possessions: 26 Nov 1650, Selby Clifts, Calvert County, Maryland, USA; Received a land grant of 200 acres from Lord Baltimore for the transportation of Thomas Forby from Caecilius into Maryland.
• Civil: 5 Dec 1654, Calvert County, Maryland, USA; Appointed Constable of Clifts
• Possessions: 1661, Parran, Calvert County, Maryland, USA; Grant for 350 acres named Cornehill for the transportation of 5 men to Maryland. A 1786 home on the property is in the National Register of Historic Places. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornehill
• Residence: 1663, Calvert County, Maryland, USA
• Residence: 24 Nov 1682, Talbot County, Maryland, USA
• Residence: 16600; Tax roll

Notes:

Francis Billingsley, a Member of the Lower House fron Calvert County, Maryland, was born ca 1620 at Shropshire, England; died 1684, Selby Clifts, Calvert Co, MD. Married 1646-1647 in Rotterdam, Holland, to Ann (proven by Prov. Court Liber FF Folio 652 - Hall of Records, Annapolis, MD), born 1620-25 in Holland; died ca 1668-70 at Selby Clifts, Calvert Co,MD. Francis Billingsley was a Planter and a Quaker. He was educated in England and resided in England, Holland, and America. - From Historical Southern Families, Volume III by John Bennet Boddie, Chapter 3, "Billingsley of Maryland", p 22.

He was given several land grants around Calvert County, totalling upwards of 2500 acres, for the transportation of men to Maryland on ships owned or captained by his brother John. Most of the parcels had names (I don't know whether the names predated the land grants, which included both the name and detailed metes-and-bounds descriptions.) Some of the properties are intact today.


Died:
As late as 1695 in some records

Francis married Ann Frances Hale about 1647 in Netherlands. Ann was born in 1622 in Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands; died about 1669 in Calvert County, Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Civil: 26 Nov 1668, Calvert County, Maryland, USA; On 26 Nov. 1668 is record of case of Ann Billingsley versus William Kay, said Kay having been indicted for criminal assault and attempted rape upon Ann, the wife of Francis Billingsley. (Prov. Ct. Lib: FF, 601­ 662.)

William married Sarah Bowman in 1651 in Essex County, Virginia, USA. Sarah was born in 1635 in Essex County, Virginia, USA; died in 1690 in Richmond County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]