Magdalen Polk

First marriage to Col. Porter, who was an intimate friend of and in charge of the Parliamentary regiment Capt. Robert Bruce Polk was in. After Col. Porter's death, Magdalen married Robert.

The are said to have been of French descent and were related to the Countess of Normington and her sister Prudence; aunts to the Duke of Wellington. Captain Robert Bruce Polk and his family were Presbyterians. They came to Maryland, presumably about 1672; landed at "Damn Quarter" (now called "Dane's Quarter") and planted there new home in that locality, between Nonokin and Nanticoke Rivers, near the junction of those streams with Chesapeake Bay.

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/o/l/Melanie-C-Nolan-2/...

Information Cite: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3C5T-98W : accessed 2016-06-20), entry for Magdalen /Tasker/.

AFGS 1 UID C1B9421E986941F3AF99040B455484CE519D

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Magdalen Pollock's Will, wife of Capt. Robert Bruce Polk III:

In the name of God Amen.
I, Magdalen Pollock, being weak and sick of body, yet of perfect mind and memory, praise be to Almighty God, do make and ordain this my last will and Testament, in manner and form as followeth.

First:—I give my soul into the hands of Almighty God, hoping through the merits of my Savoir Jesus Christ to receive full pardon of all my sins. And my body I commit to the Earth from whence it was taken, to be buried in Christian burial, at the discretion of my Executor hereafter nominated.

Item—I give and bequeath a tract of land called Moneen, lying in the Kingdom of Ireland, in the Barrony of Rafo and County of Donegal, and in the Parish of Liford, unto my son Joseph Pollock and to the heirs of his body forever, with all the rest of my moveable estate, and him to be whole Executor of this my last Will and Testament, hereby Revoking all other Wills and Testaments by me made by word or writing.

In Testimony whereof I set my hand and seal this 7th day of April, 1726.

Magdalen Polk Seal.

Signed, sealed and delivered in sight and presents of us. David Polk, William Pollet, Magdalen Pollet. March ye 20th. 1727.

Then came David Polk, William Pollett & Magdalen Pollett, subscribing evidences to ye within Will, who made oath upon ye Holy Evangelist of Almighty God that they see ye within named Magdalen Polk, ye Testator, sign and seal ye within Instrument as her last Will and Testament, and that they heard her publish and declare ye same as so to be, and that at ye time of her so doing she was of sound, disposing mind and memory. Sworn to before me the day and year above written.

John Tunstall. Depty. Com'y of Somerset County.

- From Polk Family and Kinsmen, 1912, page 59

This is a possible burial site.....not somerset but.... https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/111826259/magdalen-t-polk

There is a connection to the other name on the tombstone (Leonidas Polk) on page 566 of the link below.

https://books.google.com/books?id=JdoDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA565&dq=magdalen...

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Dec 29 2018, 17:44:51 UTC

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