Devorax /Deverick Driggus

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viii. Devorax1/ Deverick, born free in say 1656. received a bay mare from his father Emmanuel Driggers by a 1673 Northampton County deed, and he was named in the 9 May 1673 Northampton County will of Francis Payne, "Negro," proved 29 September 1763, which stated that Devrox Dregushe was to have nothing [D&c 1668-80, fol.59-60; Orders 1664-74, 220-1]. He moved to Somerset County, Maryland about 1677 when he was one of the headrights claimed by Stephen Cosden in his patent [Maryland Provincial Patents, Liber 15:433]. In 1689 he signed a Somerset County address of loyalty to King William and Queen Mary [Torrence, Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore, 349]. On 12 January 1701/2 he provided security in Somerset County court for Deborah Wildgoose who had an illegitimate child by Samuel Webb. He and several whites were indicted in All Hallows Parish for being drunk on the Sabbath, but he was acquitted after paying court costs [Judicial Records 1702-5, Liber G-I, 21; 1707-17, 16]. He was renting a 300 acre plantation in Pasquadenorton Hundred of Somerset County in 1707 [Somerset County Rent Roll, 1707, Calvert Papers, ms. 174, MHS]. He died in 1709 when his estate was valued at about 37 pounds [Inventories and Accounts, Liber 30:88]. He may have been the father of

i. Devorax2, born about 1680, a "Molatto"