Elizabeth Combs

Married 1) Cornelius Manning 2) William Combs (son of Enoch Sr & Barbara)

Family

"William COMBS, second son of Enoch I, was born about 1672 after his parents, Enoch and Barbara, immigrated to Maryland; in a deposition in Chancery Liber P.L. No. 1, p. 750, it is stated: "William COMBS, gent., of St. Mary's county age at 50 years in 1722."

He was married before 1704; the identity of his first wife is unknown, but by her we know that he had three children:

• Mary WAUGHOB, who married Thomas WAUGHOB;
• Eleanor MEDLEY, who married John MEDLEY; and
• Enoch, who married Mary (MANNING) MILLS, widow of John MILLS.

By his second wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas HATTON and Susannah Blackistone), his wife, whom he married in 1722, he had at least two children:

• Thomas Hatton and
• Susannah;

Notes

Mary JENKINS. Liber J.J. No. 1. fol. 453, Leonardtown. Sept. 30, 1788,
Granddaughter, Susannah SPALDING, granddau. Susannah COMBS, Dau. of Philip COMBS, grandson Robert COMBS, brother of Susannah, also two other brothers of Susannah, grandau. Treasy COMBS, sons John JENKINS, Joseph JENKINS, Augustus JENKINS and Edmund Courtney JENKINS, dau. Susannah COOPER, granddaus. Anne COMBS and Elizabeth COMBS. Legacy to Rev. John BOARMAN. Executors; John JENKINS and Edmund C. JENKINS.

MD Tercenary history says this was Mary Hatton, but can find no Mary Hatton, of either Thomas or anyone else in right age range. Thomas Hatton's will does not mention a Mary, and if she was born of his wife, who was pregnant at his death, she was too young to marry William Combs.

(Per Jerry Clarke) Mary Hatton was the unborn child mentioned in her father's will. The 200 ac. "Grapenall" and 300 ac. "Wilderpoole" matches nicely with the 500 ac. devised by Thomas Hatton to his unnamed daughter in 1701. William COMBS mentions no land in his will. It is possible that he married a daughter of James JOHNSON and in that way his son Enoch came in possession of the two tracts of land, which were surveyed by James JOHNSON in 1637 (who went to Virginia), 200 acres of "Grapenall" and 300 acres of "Wilderpool". We find no conveyance of them, but as we have seen, the Debt Books show Enoch COMBS' heirs in possession of them in 1766.

Mary Jenkins named her daughter Susanna Cooper in her will in 1788. I believe this is Susanna who married HENRY Cooper. They had three children--Mary, b. 1749; William, b. 1751; and Henrietta, b. 1754 all of whom were baptized at St Andrew's Epis. Church.

References

• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I0024...