John Hammond Dorsey

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John Hammond Dorsey

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Baltimore County, Maryland
Death: February 12, 1774 (55-56)
Maryland
Immediate Family:

Son of John Dorsey and Comfort Rebekah Dorsey
Husband of Frances Fanny Walker
Father of Stephen Hammond Dorsey; Stephen (1) Dorsey; Mary Hammond Cromwell; Rebecca Lane; John Hammond Dorsey, III and 1 other
Brother of Comfort Cromwell; Capt. Greenbury Dorsey; Joshua Dorsey; Venetia Cromwell; Sarah Dorsey and 1 other

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About John Hammond Dorsey

Primary heir (along with his mother and to a more limited extent 3 siblings) to the Estate of John Hammond of Cecil County: (NOTE: Hammond died about 6 years after Comfort's husband left for the Carolinas.)

http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I363...

"To my beloved friend Comfort Dorsey, all my right, etc., to White Oak Spring in Anne Arundel County, 161 acres, during her life — at her death to go to her son Vincent Dorsey."

– to my friend, John hammond Dorsey, son of John and Comfort Dorsey, all my title, etc., to "Success in cecil County", being my dwelling plantation, 375 acres, also 200 acres in Baltimore County on the fork of Gunpowder River called Wignalls rest and Wey Bitt

– to my friend Comfrot Dorsey, negroes, after her death to go to her 4 children: Vincent, John Hammond, Saray Dorsey and Venesha Dorsey

– to my friend Vincetn Dorsey, a negro boy

– to my friend John Hammond Dorsey, 3 negro boys

– to my friend Sarah Dorsey, daughter of John and Comfort Dorsey, a negro girl

– to my friend Venesha Dorsey, daughter of John and Comfort Dorsey, a negro girl

– Comfort and her son Vincent, executors

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John Hammond Dorsey's Timeline

1718
1718
Baltimore County, Maryland
1747
1747
1749
February 21, 1749
1752
March 22, 1752
1754
February 14, 1754
Maryland, United States
1756
April 19, 1756
1758
March 7, 1758
MD, United States
1774
February 12, 1774
Age 56
Maryland