Captain Thomas Todd, I, of Toddsbury

Not a known father of Isabella Madison

In 1664 Thomas Todd came from England and settled in Ware Parish, Gloucester Co., Virginia, bringing with him his wife and one or two children born in England. He was a ship master and died at sea in 1676. His wife was Ann Gorsuch, dau of Rev. John Gorsuch, Rector of Walkham, Hertfordshire, and his wife Anne, dau of Sir William Lovelace. Their children were Thomas, Christopher, James, William Phillip, Joanna, Anne, Frances and Averilla.

Anna Gorsuch was the daughter of Rev. John Gorsuch and Anne Lovelace. She was baptized 13 Mar 1638/9 at Walkern, England, and came to America and married first Thomas Todd of Virginia and Baltimore County, Maryland. She married second David Jones of Baltimore County, and third, she married Capt. John Oldton of Baltimore County. (See Baltimore County Families, p266)

Family

Children of Thomas Todd and Anna Gorsuch (from the will of Thomas Todd, Sr and from deeds):[2] There were four daughters and four sons (P 440) -- Robert, John, Thomas Jr, Ann, Frances, Johanna and Averilla. [2]

1. Thomas Todd, eldest b 1660
2. Robert Todd living on Aug 16, 1664 (deed of gift)
3. Ann Todd
4. John Todd living on Aug 16, 1664 (deed of gift)
5. Johanna Todd
6. Frances Todd
7. James Todd (P 433), probably the youngest son
8. Averilla "Aberill" Todd, prob b after April 5, 1669

This child is included by some, without citation:

1. Isabella Todd Wife of John Madison Jr.

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Thomas TODD was born on 12 Sep 1619 in Denton, Durham, England. He died on 30 May 1675 in At Sea/North Parish, Patapsco River, Baltimore County, MD.

Captain Thomas Todd of Virginia and Baltimore Coun ty was baptized in Denton, England in 1619. He came to Virginia in 1637 and wa s granted lands in New Norfolk Count for transporting four persons. He patented Toddsbury in Gloucester County in 1652 and there he erected a dwelling for hi s wife and children. Toddsbury was inherited by his oldest son Thomas Todd. The simple but beautifully-proportioned house of Toddsbury is still standing and has been restored and furnished with antiques by its present owner. It is some times opened to visitors in Garden Tour Week. [NOTE: Toddsbury is now known as the North River Inn.]

Captain Thomas Todd was a shipowner, owning the ships Augustine and Virginia. He had extensive land holdings in Virginia as well as in Maryland.

The name of Captain Thomas Todd of Toddsbury appears in Maryland records of August 17, 1664, in connection with the purchase of lands on Patapsco River. He described himself as living in Gloucester County, Virginia. In 1669, designating himself a resident of Patapsco River, Captain Thomas Todd purchased North Point, a tract of 300 acres on the north side of the Patapsco. This was the site of the famous Battle of North Point, fought on September 12, 1814 between the American and British forces in the War o f 1812. In June 1669 Captain Thomas Todd purchased 400 acres of additional lands and in 1670 he received warrants for 1200 acres for having transported 24 persons to Maryland. He was a burgess of Baltimore County in 1674 and 1675. The will of Captain Thomas Todd was probated on May 20, 1677. By it he devised to his brother Christopher Todd of London a tract of land called Todley situated in Queens Anne County, Maryland. Through Christopher Todd the Todds have been traced to Denton in Durham COunty, England.

Captain Thomas Todd married Ann Gorsuch, the daughter of Rev. John Gorsuch, whose wife Ann was a daughter of Sir William Lovelace, and sister of Richard Lovelace, the poet, and of Colonel Francis Lovelace, Gov. of New York. The Gorsuch-Lovelace ancestry is a distinguished one. Rev. John Gorsuch was a staunch supporter of King Charles I and, according to tradition, he met his death in 1647 when the Puritans caused himt o be smothered in a haystack. The widow Gorsuch then came to Virginia with the children, as her brother, Colonel Francis Lovelace, was in Virginia at that time.

After the death of Captain Thomas Todd, his widow Ann Gorsuch Todd married Captain David Jones, who lived at Cole's Harbor, part of the site of the city of Baltimore. Captain Jones, who gave his name to Jones Falls, the stream which runs through Baltimore, arising in the Green Spring Valley, had a dwelling house at what is approximately the corner of High and Fayette Streets in downtown Baltimore. This tract, originally Cole's Harbor, was later re-patented by James Todd, son of Captain Thomas Todd, and called "Todd's Range". It extended from Broadway on the east to Howard Street on the west, the northern boundary being Madison Street and the southern boundary the Baltimore waterfront. When Baltimore Town was established in 1729 "Todd's Range" was subdivided into building lots.

Captain David Jones died in 1686 and his widow, Ann Gorsuch Todd Jones, then married Captain John Oldton of Garrison Forest. Captain Oldton was commanding officer of the Baltimore County Rangers at Garrison on the Reisterstown Road. One of the properties which he and his wife owned was Darley Hall, located at what is now Harford Road and North Avenue in Baltimore City, extending northward to Darley Avenue. This tract was sold to John Ensor in 1697.

_________________________ There are in this country three distinct families of Yorkshire Todds. One of these sprung from Thomas Todd, who settled in Virginia, whence his descendants have spread into Kentucky.

In 1664 Thomas Todd came from England and settled in Ware Parish, Gloucester Co., Virginia, bringing with him his wife and one or two children born in England. He was a ship master and died at sea in 1676. His wife was Ann Gorsuch, dau of Rev. John Gorsuch, Rector of Walkham, Hertfordshire, and his wife Anne, dau of Sir William Lovelace. Their children were Thomas, Christopher, James, William Phillip, Joanna, Anne, Frances and Isabella.

One of the descendents of Capt. Thomas Todd, the eldest child, was the distinguished jurist, Thomas Todd of Kentucky.

_______________________ LAST LETTER FROM THOMAS TODD TO HIS SON Dear Son:  My love to you remembered, this is to give you notice that I am aboard of Captain James Conaway Commander of the Ship “Virginia” factor bound for England.  I am very weake and sick and have beene a long time, all my desire is to see you before I goe for fear I shall never see you.  We lie against Munday’s Creek and intend to set sayle tomorrow if it be a faire winde being the eleventh day of April.  I want some good syder to keep mee alive, which I suppose you have enough of; if the win hand Easterly wee may stay longer but if North or Horthwest or south west we shall be gone.  I looked long for you to bring up the negroes, which I shall loose my crop for want of them.  If it be not my luck to see you, let me heare from you by writing.  Direct your letters to M: Barnaby Dunne his house for me.  Yo’r mother brothers and sisters are well.  I pray you send me what tobaccos you can, and my love to John Robinson & all the rest of my friends.  I have made my will and made you my executor.  Nor else at present but the Lords blessing and mine be with you.  Your loving Father till death.  April the 10th 1676    

______________________ Thomas Todd was a merchant and was described as the "merchant of the Patapsco River"  He was very successful and used his plantations to complete his merchant's business.  At his death, he was taking 87 hogsheads of tobacco to England.  Unlike other merchants, he did not use agents to conduct his business.  He owned two ships the "Augustine" and "Virginia" and they were perfect ships to conduct business along the coast. 

At Todd's death, 65% of his personal assets were in livestock. He evidently had orchards because in a letter to his son sent from the ship "Virginia" he asked his son Thomas to send "some good syder" that might "keepe mee alive". It may have been he marketed some apple sidar and possibly some hard cidar. He shifted labor and other assets back and forth between his plantations.

Todd's first plantation was on the North River in Gloucester County Va of more later. When he moved to Maryland he built another plantation called Toddsbury but also had Todd's Range on the Patapsco River. It was at the corner of High and Fayette street in downtown Baltimore. Called Cole's Harbor, it was repatented by James Todd who was the son of Captain Thomas Todd. It was then called Todds Range. It extended from Broadway on the East and Howard Street on the west. The Northern boundary was Madison Street and the Southern boundary the Baltimore Waterfront. (See map) Todds Range was divided into lots in 1729

Toddsbury is one of the Old Dominion's celebrated early homes." Founded by Thomas Todd in the early part of the seventeenth century, this property was once part of a "generous acreage in Maryland and Virginia." At his death in 1676 his son, Thomas Todd inherited the estate where it "remained directly in the Todd family for four generations before passing from Christopher Todd to his nephew, Phillip Tabb, son of Lucy Todd and Edward Tabb, whose home was in Amelia County. Phillip Tabb married his first cousin, Mary Mason Wythe-Booth, daughter of Elizabeth Todd, leaving Toddsbury in possession of two direct descendants of the first Thomas Todd." The house of colonial architecture style is surrounded by a wide expanse of lawn facing the North River. "Seven generations of Todds lie in the old family burying grounds at the East side of the lawn, their records inscribed on the monument. The house itself is a story and a half building of brick, laid in Flemish bond. It is covered by a gambrel roof with an unusually steep lower slope which is pierced by gabled dormers. The house is L shaped with a center stair hall and two flanking rooms in the long arm and a subsidiary stair hall and another room in the wing. In elevation, the river front of the building, which is the facade, is six bays long with the doorway off center to the left. Centered on the building and covering the doorway and one window is a three bay porch with slender Doric columns which support a porch room above. This has two windows on the front, off center with the windows below, and are at either end. The gable roof of the porch motive’ was formerly treated as a high pediment but recently the gable end was pitched back and shingled. The lower windows have the original nine over nine light sash and the upper six over nine light. The north end windows vary in size. The interior has excellent woodwork of the period. The hall has a dado and a cornice with a dentil band, the stair has an open string with scrolled brackets. The balusters are square in section set diagonally, three to a tread. The molded handrail is not ramped. The flanking rooms are fully paneled. The dining room, to the north has arched recesses at either side of the chimney heart. These have glazed cupboards in the Jambs with double hung sash. The stair in the rear wing has a closed string with turned Balusters. The wing room, was the kitchen, has a paneled end as do the second floor rooms in the front section of the house Toddsbury is often called a 17th century house with 18th century additions, the wing being called the earlier section. There is, however, no evidence of this as the roof boarding of the latter projects under the roof of the former, indicating that they were built simultaneously. The land was patented by Thomas Todd but later went to the Tabb family. It was purchased by the parents of Mr. William Mott, who died about 1939 and it has been since then become the Mott family house. It is located East of the Junction of Routes 662 and 14. 37o 26’ 0” N 76o 27’ 9” west.

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Captain Jones, who gave his name to Jones Falls, the stream which runs through Baltimore, arising in the Green Spring Valley, had a dwelling house at what is approximately the corner of High and Fayette Streets in downtown Baltimore. This tract, originally Cole's Harbor, was later re-patented by James Todd, son of Captain Thomas Todd, and called "Todd's Range". It extended from Broadway on the east to Howard Street on the west, the northern boundary being Madison Street and the southern boundary the Baltimore waterfront. When Baltimore Town was established in 1729 "Todd's Range" was subdivided into building lots.
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References

• Stanard, W. (1895). The Todd Family. The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 3(1), 79-83. Retrieved June 15, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4241868

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Nine Children

According to the book, Colonial Families of the United States, Thomas Todd and Ann Gorsuch had nine children: Thomas II, Christopher, James, William, Phillip, Joanna, Anna, Frances, and Averilla. Where did the rest of these come from?

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!DEATH:Wrote letter to son dated April 1

!DEATH:Wrote letter to son dated April 1, 1676, while aboard ship,"Virginia." The 26 Feb 1676 date is when the will was written. !EVENT:Thomas Todd was the progenitor of the TODDS OF BALTIMORE COUNTY. !NOTE:There were other Todds named Thomas in Virginia in the 1630's and 1640's but their connection to the Thomas Todd of Baltimore County, MD, has not been established. !EVENT: Thomas Todd was in Gloucester Co, VA, by 27 Oct 1652, when he patented 150 acres on Easternmost River in Mobjack Bay. On 15 Oct 1653, he received 600 acres on the opposite side of the Easternmost river. Capt. Thomas Todd first appeared in MD on 17 Aug 1664. Stated he lived in Gloucester Co, VA. He purchased three tracts of land, 287 acres called Old Road; 300 acres called Richardson [later called Black Walnut Neck]; and 100 acres called Powell's Point, (adjacent to Walnut Neck). On 14 Jun 1670, owned 700 acres on Corsica Creek, on the Chester River,on the Eastern Shore. In 1669, purchased 300 acre tract,called North Point. Thomas Todd left a will dated, 26 Feb 1676, which was probated in MD & in London. Value of estate was 14,870 lbs. of tobacco. Prior to her 2nd marriage, Anne Gorsuch Todd executed a deed of gift, dated 18 Jan 1676/1677, conveying her estates to her children, providing they made her a liberal allowance for life. [Todds Farm Book, p 41] Refer to Anne Gorsuch, R#11, for added information. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ REFER TO THE BALTIMORE MORNING SUNPAPER; JANUARY 30, 1910 "OLD MARYLAND FARMS AND FAMILIES ON PATAPSCO NECK" Patapsco Neck History Discovered by Capt. John Smith..............1608 Surveyed by Lord Baltimore's Order..........1652 Land granted to Thomas Sparrow and others...1652 Thomas Todd settled on the Neck.............1664 Philip Jones acquired a tract...............1733 Walnut Grove built..........................1786 Todd home burned by the British.............1814 "The First Settlers" ...Capt.John Smith, of Jamestow n was the first white man to enter the Patapsco. He visited it for the first time in the spring of 1608, making the voyage up the bay in an open boat. We have no record of any settlements being made along the Patapsco, nor of any grants of land thereon, until in 1652. On the 19th day of November of that year, the Surveyor-General of the colony entered the river and landed on the south side. That same day he surveyed 1,550 acres, which were distributed between four persons, all in accordance with the proprietary's promise to give 50 acres of land for each able-bodied man introduced into the colony. Of the 1,550 acres surveyed on that day, there were two tracts of 200 acres each for Thomas Sparrow, 200 acres for Samuel Withers, 350 acres for Richard Ewing and 600 acres for William Blay. The next day, November 20, the Surveyor-General crossed the river and laid out two more tracts. One of 600 acres weas for Thomas Sparrow. This is now the site of the busy little town of SPARROWS POINT. On the same day 1,150 acres were surveyed for Thomas Thomas and William Battin, jointly. Todd's Inheritance, or Todd's Industry as it is sometimes called, the present home of Mr. Thomas B. Todd, president of the School Board of Baltimore County, is a part of that tract. At the time the survey was made, the tract was named "Old Road". The Old Todd Tract It afterward gave its name to Old Road Bay. On November 22; 425 acres for Richard Owens were surveyed, and another tract of 300 acres for Augustine Gillett. Thus it appears that the first grants on the Patapsco were to eight persons and that all were surveyed within then short period of four days. The eight grantees were: THOMAS SPARROW RICHARD EWING SAMUEL WITHERS THOMAS THOMAS RICHARD OWEN WILLIAM BATTIN AUGUSTINE GILLETT WILLIAM BLAY Thomas Sparrow, at the time of this grant, was living in Anne Arundel county, having previously received a grant of 590 acres on the west side of Rhodes River."This place he called "Sparrows Rest," even a s the first Sparrow homestead on the north side of the Patapsco was called "Sparrow's Nest." Ancients Of The Neck When one thinks of the oldest inhabitants or settlers of Patapsco Neck (distinguishing between grantees and settlers), one involuntary thinks of the Todds, Gorsuches, Jones, Stansburys and Lynches. ... The Todd family antedated the Jones family on the river by more than 100 years. Just when the Gorsuches came no one knows. Todds Are The Oldest Thomas Todd, a resident of Gloucester county, Virginia, in 1664 bought of Thomas Thomas and William Battin the land which they had named "Old Road." This Thomas Todd was evidently the first of his name in America, and at the time of this purchase was the holder of laand in Anne Arundel county, which was surveyed July 8, 1651, and is now embraced in the present city of Annapolis. "For Thomas Todd on ye South Side of Severn River," so the record reads.The waterfront of this lot began at a point on the harbor line and ran up the mouth of Spa Creek. His first American patent was taken out in Elizabeth City county, Virginia, in 1647. Ever since the purchase in 1664, of the property on the Patapsco, the Todd Family has been resident there, and with but one break the land has been held by succesive generations of Thomas Todds. Shortly after his purchase of the property from Thomas Thomas and William Battin, Mr. Todd built a residence, which stood until the War of 1812, when it was burned by the British. The present house was built on the site of the first one and with the exceptions of a few minor changes, remains today the same as when first constructed, nearly 100 years ago. Thomas Todd died on the ship "Virginia" while en route to England. A letter, dated April 1st of that year, written on shipboard, shows that he knew he was near death's door, for it is addressed as follows: "This is for my son, Thomas Todd, at his home on the North river, Gloucester county, Virginia, withall speed." His will was proved in 1677. Ann Gorsuch, his wife, was a sister of Charles Lovelace and Robert Gorsuch, of the Eastern Shore. The Old Burying Ground Following the custom of the period, the Todds had a family burying ground near the house. ....the oldest stone is not hardly decipherable.....there are no graves of the Todd Family bearing an eighteenth century date. [The oldest stone is of Elizabeth Coon and her child. She was wife of Hugh Coon, a minister, native of England, who settled in Baltimore county.] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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(Copied from) Genealogical and Personal History of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Vol II, 1916 https://archive.org/details/genealogicalpers02jord/page/n6

Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Published by Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York;

(The Todd Line.) The Todds were an ancient

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!Name: Baltimore Co. Families, 1659=1759

!Name: Baltimore Co. Families, 1659=1759, p.266. (975.271, D2b.) F.1036063, I9, Came from Lancaster Co, VA in 1655. In Balt. Co. MD in 1659.

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BIRT PLAC "Of" Gloucester Co Va & Baltim

BIRT PLAC "Of" Gloucester Co Va & Baltimore Md

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SOURCE: Ancestral File - ver 4.19 21 Jun

SOURCE: Ancestral File - ver 4.19 21 Jun 2000

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DEAT DATE WFT EST 1666/1711

DEAT DATE WFT EST 1666/1711

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From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2

From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

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BIOGRAPHY: "Some Notable Southern Famili

BIOGRAPHY: "Some Notable Southern Families" by Zella Armstrong states that Roger and Richard Gaines married Rawlings sisters. This is supported by the will of James Rawlins Sr. of 1757, in which he leaves land and a slave to his daughter, the wife of Roger Gaines. This maybe the best proof available.

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Edward Dorsey History EDWARD DORSEY, SR.

Birth: 1619 Death: Aug. 2, 1659 Kent Island Queen Anne's County Maryland, USA

This name is well very well known in the annals of early colonial days and Maryland records contain f

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!http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/

!http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/o/n/Carlin-D-Conrad/GENE2-00... - Ancestors of Warren Lemuel Conrad. !AF

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Place of death

http://www.ourfamtree.org/location.php/eid/519991 website claims Capt Todd died at sea, hence no standard place of burial!

See also: http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Capt-Thomas-Todd/p177629

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A Brief History

Thomas Todd, son of Thomas Todd (1610-1671), died in 1677 leaving a widow Sarah, who later married William Stafford. On 18 April 1677, Sarah Todd of Anne Arundel County was granted administration of the estate of her husband, Thomas Todd, deceased. On 24 September 1678, Lancelot Todd of Anne Arundel County filed a petition alleging that his brother Thomas Todd's widow, Sarah, who since married William Stafford, was wasting the orphans estate.

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Life Sketch

Died at sea aboard the Virginia (ship that he owned) bound for, London, England

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Captain Thomas Todd married Ann Gorsuch

About Captain Thomas Todd, I, of Toddsbury Thomas TODD was born on 12 Sep 1619 in Denton, Durham, England. He died on 30 May 1675 in At Sea/North Parish, Patapsco River, Baltimore County, MD.

Captain Thomas Todd of Virginia and Baltimore Coun ty was baptized in Denton, England in 1619. He came to Virginia in 1637 and wa s granted lands in New Norfolk Count for transporting four persons. He patented Toddsbury in Gloucester County in 1652 and there he erected a dwelling for hi s wife and children. Toddsbury was inherited by his oldest son Thomas Todd. The simple but beautifully-proportioned house of Toddsbury is still standing and has been restored and furnished with antiques by its present owner. It is some times opened to visitors in Garden Tour Week. [NOTE%3A Toddsbury is now known as the North River Inn.]

Captain Thomas Todd was a shipowner, owning the ships Augustine and Virginia. He had extensive land holdings in Virginia as well as in Maryland.

The name of Captain Thomas Todd of Toddsbury appears in Maryland records of August 17, 1664, in connection with the purchase of lands on Patapsco River. He described himself as living in Gloucester County, Virginia. In 1669, designating himself a resident of Patapsco River, Captain Thomas Todd purchased North Point, a tract of 300 acres on the north side of the Patapsco. This was the site of the famous Battle of North Point, fought on September 12, 1814 between the American and British forces in the War o f 1812. In June 1669 Captain Thomas Todd purchased 400 acres of additional lands and in 1670 he received warrants for 1200 acres for having transported 24 persons to Maryland. He was a burgess of Baltimore County in 1674 and 1675. The will of Captain Thomas Todd was probated on May 20, 1677. By it he devised to his brother Christopher Todd of London a tract of land called Todley situated in Queens Anne County, Maryland. Through Christopher Todd the Todds have been traced to Denton in Durham COunty, England.

Captain Thomas Todd married Ann Gorsuch, the daughter of Rev. John Gorsuch, whose wife Ann was a daughter of Sir William Lovelace, and sister of Richard Lovelace, the poet, and of Colonel Francis Lovelace, Gov. of New York. The Gorsuch-Lovelace ancestry is a distinguished one. Rev. John Gorsuch was a staunch supporter of King Charles I and, according to tradition, he met his death in 1647 when the Puritans caused himt o be smothered in a haystack. The widow Gorsuch then came to Virginia with the children, as her brother, Colonel Francis Lovelace, was in Virginia at that time.

After the death of Captain Thomas Todd, his widow Ann Gorsuch Todd married Captain David Jones, who lived at Cole's Harbor, part of the site of the city of Baltimore. Captain Jones, who gave his name to Jones Falls, the stream which runs through Baltimore, arising in the Green Spring Valley, had a dwelling house at what is approximately the corner of High and Fayette Streets in downtown Baltimore. This tract, originally Cole's Harbor, was later re-patented by James Todd, son of Captain Thomas Todd, and called "Todd's Range". It extended from Broadway on the east to Howard Street on the west, the northern boundary being Madison Street and the southern boundary the Baltimore waterfront. When Baltimore Town was established in 1729 "Todd's Range" was subdivided into building lots.

Captain David Jones died in 1686 and his widow, Ann Gorsuch Todd Jones, then married Captain John Oldton of Garrison Forest. Captain Oldton was commanding officer of the Baltimore County Rangers at Garrison on the Reisterstown Road. One of the properties which he and his wife owned was Darley Hall, located at what is now Harford Road and North Avenue in Baltimore City, extending northward to Darley Avenue. This tract was sold to John Ensor in 1697.

_________________________ There are in this country three distinct families of Yorkshire Todds. One of these sprung from Thomas Todd, who settled in Virginia, whence his descendants have spread into Kentucky.

In 1664 Thomas Todd came from England and settled in Ware Parish, Gloucester Co., Virginia, bringing with him his wife and one or two children born in England. He was a ship master and died at sea in 1676. His wife was Ann Gorsuch, dau of Rev. John Gorsuch, Rector of Walkham, Hertfordshire, and his wife Anne, dau of Sir William Lovelace. Their children were Thomas, Christopher, James, William Phillip, Joanna, Anne, Frances and Isabella.

One of the descendents of Capt. Thomas Todd, the eldest child, was the distinguished jurist, Thomas Todd of Kentucky.

_______________________ LAST LETTER FROM THOMAS TODD TO HIS SON Dear Son: My love to you remembered, this is to give you notice that I am aboard of Captain James Conaway Commander of the Ship “Virginia” factor bound for England. I am very weake and sick and have beene a long time, all my desire is to see you before I goe for fear I shall never see you. We lie against Munday’s Creek and intend to set sayle tomorrow if it be a faire winde being the eleventh day of April. I want some good syder to keep mee alive, which I suppose you have enough of; if the win hand Easterly wee may stay longer but if North or Horthwest or south west we shall be gone. I looked long for you to bring up the negroes, which I shall loose my crop for want of them. If it be not my luck to see you, let me heare from you by writing. Direct your letters to M: Barnaby Dunne his house for me. Yo’r mother brothers and sisters are well. I pray you send me what tobaccos you can, and my love to John Robinson & all the rest of my friends. I have made my will and made you my executor. Nor else at present but the Lords blessing and mine be with you. Your loving Father till death. April the 10th 1676

______________________ Thomas Todd was a merchant and was described as the "merchant of the Patapsco River" He was very successful and used his plantations to complete his merchant's business. At his death, he was taking 87 hogsheads of tobacco to England. Unlike other merchants, he did not use agents to conduct his business. He owned two ships the "Augustine" and "Virginia" and they were perfect ships to conduct business along the coast.

At Todd's death, 65% of his personal assets were in livestock. He evidently had orchards because in a letter to his son sent from the ship "Virginia" he asked his son Thomas to send "some good syder" that might "keepe mee alive". It may have been he marketed some apple sidar and possibly some hard cidar. He shifted labor and other assets back and forth between his plantations.

Todd's first plantation was on the North River in Gloucester County Va of more later. When he moved to Maryland he built another plantation called Toddsbury but also had Todd's Range on the Patapsco River. It was at the corner of High and Fayette street in downtown Baltimore. Called Cole's Harbor, it was repatented by James Todd who was the son of Captain Thomas Todd. It was then called Todds Range. It extended from Broadway on the East and Howard Street on the west. The Northern boundary was Madison Street and the Southern boundary the Baltimore Waterfront. (See map) Todds Range was divided into lots in 1729

Toddsbury is one of the Old Dominion's celebrated early homes." Founded by Thomas Todd in the early part of the seventeenth century, this property was once part of a "generous acreage in Maryland and Virginia." At his death in 1676 his son, Thomas Todd inherited the estate where it "remained directly in the Todd family for four generations before passing from Christopher Todd to his nephew, Phillip Tabb, son of Lucy Todd and Edward Tabb, whose home was in Amelia County. Phillip Tabb married his first cousin, Mary Mason Wythe-Booth, daughter of Elizabeth Todd, leaving Toddsbury in possession of two direct descendants of the first Thomas Todd." The house of colonial architecture style is surrounded by a wide expanse of lawn facing the North River. "Seven generations of Todds lie in the old family burying grounds at the East side of the lawn, their records inscribed on the monument. The house itself is a story and a half building of brick, laid in Flemish bond. It is covered by a gambrel roof with an unusually steep lower slope which is pierced by gabled dormers. The house is L shaped with a center stair hall and two flanking rooms in the long arm and a subsidiary stair hall and another room in the wing. In elevation, the river front of the building, which is the facade, is six bays long with the doorway off center to the left. Centered on the building and covering the doorway and one window is a three bay porch with slender Doric columns which support a porch room above. This has two windows on the front, off center with the windows below, and are at either end. The gable roof of the porch motive’ was formerly treated as a high pediment but recently the gable end was pitched back and shingled. The lower windows have the original nine over nine light sash and the upper six over nine light. The north end windows vary in size. The interior has excellent woodwork of the period. The hall has a dado and a cornice with a dentil band, the stair has an open string with scrolled brackets. The balusters are square in section set diagonally, three to a tread. The molded handrail is not ramped. The flanking rooms are fully paneled. The dining room, to the north has arched recesses at either side of the chimney heart. These have glazed cupboards in the Jambs with double hung sash. The stair in the rear wing has a closed string with turned Balusters. The wing room, was the kitchen, has a paneled end as do the second floor rooms in the front section of the house Toddsbury is often called a 17th century house with 18th century additions, the wing being called the earlier section. There is, however, no evidence of this as the roof boarding of the latter projects under the roof of the former, indicating that they were built simultaneously. The land was paten

References

• *Pleasants, J. Hall, "The Gorsuch and Loverlace [sic Families (Continued): Anna Gorsuch and the Todd Family of Virginia and Maryland."] The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Oct., 1916), pp. 425-440, Virginia Historical Society, JSTOR.org accessed April 19, 2015

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Thomas Todd of "Toddsbury"