Charity Tydings was not a known daughter of Thomas Sparrow & Elizabeth S Johns
No birth record for Charity Tydings has been found in Maryland. Some researchers have suggested her maiden name was Sparrow. Robert Barnes, a well-known Maryland genealogist, lists several possible women named Charity who could have married Richard Tydings, none of them were named Sparrow. His possibilities include: Charity Adams who was named in the will of William Battin of Somerset Co. in 1662; Charity Bagbie who was named as a daughter in the will of John Bagbie of Calvert County in 1670; Charity Stone who witnessed the will of George Puddington of Anne Arundel County in 1674.
Charles Brashear had stated that Richard TYDINGS' wife Charity was a SPARROW, daughter of Thomas SPARROW and Elizabeth KINSEY, and that this was the Thomas SPARROW who died about 1674.9 There is simply no evidence to support such a conclusion.
One of the more important SPARROW documents was recorded in Anne Arundel Co, MD Land Records.10 This shows that:
** 1. Thomas SPARROW transported himself and his wife Elizabeth, and his children Thomas and Elizabeth to MD in 1649.
* 2. In 7 Sep. 1659 Thomas SPARROW, son and heir of the first Thomas SPARROW received a patent of 590 for Sparrow's Rest, which had been surveyed for his father.
The above show that the first Thomas SPARROW was deceased by 1659, and that his Thomas [Jr.] obtained the patent for his land in 1659.
===References
* https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-507363
*Barnes, Robert, "Colonial Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland" Willow Bend Books, Westminster, MD 2000
* http://fzsaunders.com/tydings.html
