Lewis Duvall

Children of Mareen Duvall and Marie Bouth [sic - unknown] are:

v. Lewis DuVall was born ABT 1676 in Anne Arundel Co, Maryland, and died 1724 in South Carolina. He married Martha Ridgeley 5 Mar 1699.

Biography

Lewis Duvall was born about 1665 in Middle Plantation, Anne Arundel, Maryland, son of Mareen Duvall I (1630 - 1694) and Marie (Bouth) Duvall (~1639 - ~1672).

Lewis (~33) married Mary Ridgely (~19) (~1679 - ~1709) on 5 Mar 1699 in Maryland.[1] "LEWIS Duvall married Martha Ridgley, only daughter of the Honorable Robert Ridgely, of St. Inigoes, in 1699."[4]

Their children were:

1. Martha Duvall (1700 - )
2. Mary Duvall (1702 - )
3. Susanna Duvall (~1707 - <1730)
4. Anne Duvall (1709 - ).

Notes

according to "Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation" by Harry Wright Newman, page 142: Susannah Duvall daughter of Lewis and Martha Ridgley Duvall was baptized September 14 1707....

"Within a reasonable time his daughters joined him in South Carolina and there he died in 1724, leaving his three daughters co-heiresses to his estate. Susannah, the second daughter, died unmarried within a few years, and Martha, the senior daughter, about 1730 returned to her native Maryland home in order to dock the entail of "Middle Plantation", but was apparently unsuccessful. She made her home with her step-grandfather, the Rev. Mr. Henderson, in Prince Georges County.

On February 6, 1732/3, a commission was appointed to define the boundaries or division of "Middle Plantation" belonging to Mistress Martha Duvall and Anne Wey wife of Joseph Wey of South Carolina, daughters and co-heiresses of Lewis Duvall, deceased.

During her last illness Martha Duvall was nursed by Elizabeth Wells, daughter of Nathan Wells, to whom she on October 20, 1739, shortly before her death deeded her a negro child called Peg "inasmuch as Elizabeth hath carefully attended to me in my sickness". The deed of gift was witnessed by Jacob Henderson and Elizabeth Denune.

She dated her will May 2, 1739, by Benjamin Jacob, Mordecai Jacob, and John Thomson. She bequeathed personally to Martha the wife of Thomas Wells, and to her cousins - Mary Whitehead, Anne Carrick and Elizabeth Denune. The residue of her estate was willed to her sister, Ann Way, of South Carolina. The Rev. Jacob Henderson was named as executor."

Will

research notes from Mark Easterlin
Last Will of Lewis Duvall is in South Carolina Dept of Archives and History (SCDAH) online records index.

http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/

One-page transcribed will, dated 19 April 1724, proven 4 July 1724. Duvall, Lewis Of Charleston District Will.(Typescript) Date: 7/4/1724

• Lewis Devall, Will South Carolina
• in the name of God Amen, I Lewis Duvall of Berkeley County in the parish of St. George's being sick and weak of body but of sound and perfect mind and memory, calling to mind the uncertainty of this transitory life do make and declare this my last will and testament in manner and form following;
• First I bequeath my soul into the hands of God Almighty my creator hoping and afearedly believing the salvation of the same through the alone merits of Jesus Christ my blessed Savior and link my body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereafter named in a sure and certain type of joyful resurrection at the last day and as for my temporal estate it has pleased God to bless me with I hereby order and dispose of in manner and form following
• Imprimis; I will that all my just debts be satisfied and paid out of the first income of my estate
• Item; it is my will that my executors herein named to sell and dispose of all my lands, goods and chattels, real and personal estate whatsoever the same may be found lying or being in any part of the world and the most presents thereof after my just debts are paid I will and bequeath to my three daughters, Martha, Susannah, and Ann, to be equally shared and divided amongst them and their heirs forever.
• Lastly I nominate and appoint my loving friends Col. Joseph Blake and Thomas Waring and my loving daughter Martha to be executors of this my last will and testament and do hereby revoke and make void & null all other wills by the same. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 19th day of April in the year the Lord 1724 ..... Lewis Duvall
• signed, sealed in the presence of
• Joseph Waring
• Ann Waring
• John Parepoynt [Pierpoint]

References

1. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I1906...
2. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Lewis_Duvall_%282%29
3. "Maryland Births and Christenings, 1650-1995," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4Z2-Y4W : 12 December 2014), Anne Duvall, 23 Sep 1709; citing Anne Arundel County, Maryland; FHL microfilm 13,279.
4. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Duvall-84
5. Last Will of Lewis Duvall of Berkeley County SC 19 April 1724. https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/121305113?cid=mem_copy
6. Harry Wright Newman, Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation: a genealogical history of Mareen Duvall, Gent., of the Province of Maryland and his descendants with histories of the allied families of Tyler, Clarke, Poole, Hall, and Merriken (Washington, D.C.: H.W. Newman, 1952), digitized by FamilySearch.org. page viewer 149 of 609. < FamiySearch >