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James Dashiell, Senior, the emigrant, son of James Dashiell and Magaret Inglis, born 1634, in Edinburgh, Scotland, emigrated from Yorkshire, England, to Northumberland County, Virginia, in 1653. He married in 1659 to Ann Cannon, daughter of Edward Cannon and Ann, his wife. James immigrated to Somerset County, Maryland, in 1663 bringing with him his wife, Ann, his son, James Jr., and his niece, Elizabeth Dashiell, who was nine years of age.
Lineage for Daughters of the American Colonists
Services: Land Owner; Judge in Somerset Co., MD for Regulation of Civil Affairs; Member of the Lower House of Assembly 1678-1681; Member of Burgesses 1682; Surveyor of Highways 1682
Children: James Dashiell Jr. b. 1660 - d. 1708 1st wife: Mary Waters 2nd: Isabel Mitchell; Thomas Dashiell b. 1666 - d. 1755 wife: Elizabeth Mitchell; George Dashiell b. 1669 - d. 1733 wife: Priscilla Mitchell; Katherine Dashiell b. 1672 - d. 1696 husband: William Jones; Jane Dashiell b. 1675 - d. husband: John Winder; Robert Dashiell b. 1677 - d. 1718 wife: Sarah Haste
2 volumes Dashiell Family Recors compiled by Benjamin J. Dashiell found in Maryland Historical Society
Daughters of the American Colonists, Lineage Bk # XIII - 1963, p. 236
Mary Florence Cowling, admitted to organization through same James Dashiell Sr.
Long Hill proprietorship has been as folows:-
James Dashiellby will, left Long Hill to the use of his wife Ann Dashie
ll and then to his son Robert Dashiell, son of James and Ann, who by wi
ll in 1718 divided the 300 acres into two parts. The upper half of 150 acr
es was left to his son Robert Dashiell (R203), and the lower part of 150 a
cres-which contained the Dwelling House of James Dashiell and Ann Dashie
ll being where they died-was left to Roberts son James Dashiell (R204), w
ho deeded it to his brother Mathias Dashiell (R205), who by will in 1744 l
eft it to John Stewart his brother-in-law, who left it to his son alexand
er Stewart, when after his death it was sold and bought by Benjamin Dashie
ll(J509), who deeded it to Robert Stewart, then it passed to Mathias Dashi
ell (T453), then to his sonCadmus Dashiell (T573), who in 1884 deed
ed it to Thomas Hambury of Wicomico County the present owner, but "reservi
ng the burying ground." It is in this burying ground, located on the seco
nd terrace above the waters of Wetipquin Creek, that James Dashiell and h
is wife Ann are supposed to have their graves.
1634 |
1634
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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1655 |
1655
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Northumberland, Virginia, British America
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1660 |
1660
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Northumberland County, VA, United States
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1666 |
April 23, 1666
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Wiccocomoco Hundreds, Somerset, Maryland, United States
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1669 |
September 15, 1669
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Wiccocomoco Hundred, Somerset, Maryland, United States
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1669
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Somerset County, MD, United States
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1670 |
1670
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Princess Anne, Virginia, United States
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1672 |
September 15, 1672
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Wetipquin, Somerset, Maryland, British America
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1675 |
July 30, 1675
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Somerset, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
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