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Private User
1/31/2020 at 8:24 AM

I don't know whether this is because they are corrupted (one of them, which I just tried to add, claims a 404 error) or because the documents are too big or because you cannot view sources of a Locked profile.

This needs investigation.

And does anyone have *primary* documentation for (mis)spelling his surname "Mattox"? I.e. did he sign (or affirm) his name that way, did neighbors etc. spell his name that way, is it spelled that way on any legal documents from his time?)

Private User
1/31/2020 at 8:40 AM

A "locked" profile, presumably one where some of the fields are locked as opposed to a completely locked profile, does not prevent you from viewing anything on the profile. Other than keeping any random person from editing a field without consulting someone, the only "side effect" is that it requires a curator to resolve data conflicts that existed before the fields were locked. It doesn't spread coronavirus, create world hunger, or any other would-be catastrophe that those who support complete editing access to all of the fields that are apparently completed. (For that matter, a completely locked profile does none of these either... it simply keeps you from adding any data to a profile, including to the About section, which I would agree is a bit more drastic than locking only some of the fields that appear correct.)

If the surname needs to be changed in accordance with the finding of a primary source, I'll be happy to help. -Ben.

Private User
1/31/2020 at 9:05 AM

The "Mattox" spelling seems to have come in through one or more merges. I don't know where it originated.

Thomas Maddocks (also spelled Maddux and Maddox therein) wrote his will on Mar 3 1735/6 and it was probated in Somerset Co., MD on Apr 10 1736 with the following provisions:
- To well beloved wife Mary, my inland plantation within the ditch that parts me with John Outten excepting some liberties that I shall make mention of hereafter. She is also free to get firewood and log timber from my outland and my moveable estate during her widowhood
- To son Bell, all my land, marshes, orchards and houses except a marsh hummock known by the name of Lindsey Green, also feather bed/furniture, cow/calf, 4 chairs (two are black walnut and two others), half my hogs that use the back woods, six shoats in the great marsh, my great large black walnut table and bench but it to remain where it is now during my wife's widowhood. He to sow wheat with his mother on the plantation and divide it between them and a third part of the fruit from the orchards and 400 gallons of cider casks.
- To son Alexander, feather bed/furniture, cow/calf, 2 hogs, to be paid at the day of marriage and give him liberty to ark and doe? in my house in his trading for 7 years as he has in my lifetime
- To son Thomas, cow/calf, 2 breeding sows, 2 hogs for housekeeping, and liberty to build a house on my outland given before to my son Bell to hold for 14 years in case he thinks to live in it
- To daughter Margaret Maddux, negro girl Cate and her increase except her first child that lives more than one year. She not to take Cate from her mother during her widowhood. Also feather bed/furniture.
- To daughter Sarah Maddux, the first child born of negro Cate that lives more than one year, feather bed/furniture, 2 cows/calves, two pewter dishes/plates, one mare colt, black walnut table.
- To sons Alexander and Thomas and daughters Margaret and Sarah, 100a tract of land known as Lindseys Green not to be sold or divided but remain a perpetual pasture. Son Bell my till the land
- If son Bell dies without lawful issue, son Alexander to get dwelling plantation and Thomas to get my outlands
- Remainder of estate to go to Bell, Margaret and Sarah equally
- Appoint son Bell as executor
Witnesses: John Riggin Sr., John Outten, Samuel Adams (SoW-EB9:192) (MdW-21:595)

Source http://mikehitch.com/me/5318.htm - attributed parentage is not certain, because both Alexander and Lazarus Maddox (they were half-brothers) had sons named Thomas, who were born and died within a few years of each other. To compound the problem, both Thomases married women named Mary.

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