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About Mary Mackall
Bowie, Walter Worthington. The Bowies and their Kindred. p. 76
Her [Priscilla Mackall's] father was an officer of the militia, and one of the foremost men of his county during the Revolutionary period, representing Calvert at nearly all the meetings and conventions in Annapolis during that exciting period. He was born November 29, 1717, and married Mary, daughter of Benjamin Hance. He was the son of Col. John and Susanah Mackall, and grandson of James Mackall, "of the Cliffs," Calvert County. James Mackall was born in Scotland about 1630, and, after his marriage with a Miss Graham, emigrated to Calvert County, Maryland, where he received a grant of thirty thousand acres of land, and died in 1693. He has a large number of descendants in Maryland, Virginia, and Georgetown, D. C.
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Mary Grahame Mackall, wife of James Mackall whom he married after his arrival in this country, was born in England in 1639. It is said that she was of the Grahames of Montrose, a connection of the Clavendish Family of the Earl of Dundee. James Mackall died at "The Cliffs" in 1693, his will dated 30 November 1693 and proven 11 December 1693. He provided for his wife and five children: Ann Mackall Skinner; Elizabeth Mackall Skinner; Col. John Mackall,I; James Mackall,Jr; and Benjamin Mackall,I, leaving the bulk of his estate to his eldest son Col. John Mackall,I-executor of the will. Mary Grahame Mackall died at "The Cliffs" in 1718. Her will dated 25 June 1718 and proven 15 May 1718 mentioned her five children and the following grandchildren: Mary Mackall, daughter of James Mackall,Jr; Mary Skinner, daughter of Elizabeth Mackall Skinner; and Ann Skinner, daughter of Ann Mackall Skinner.
Jess R. Finley, A Mackall Family In America,1996
- **** ...James (1630-1693), who immigrated from Scotland as an indentured servant, and was free by 1668; illiterate...
ancestry notes
From Louis C. Mackall, A Short History the Mackall Family,1946
James Norbury MacKenzie says in his "Colonial Families", that James Mackall married in Scotland, Mary Grahame, a connection of the Claverhouse family "of the Earldom of Dundee". Now this marriage could not have taken place in Scotland for the following reason: had James Mackall been married before coming to Maryland, he would (after residing here for eight years) been entitled to 100 acres of land free and clear for the services of himself and his wife in establishing the Colony; such was the practice of the authorities at that time.
At about the same time, George Mackall of Saint Mary's Co, received a grant of 100 acres of land free and clear, for the services of himself and his wife Ann, both of these grants are recorded at Annapolis, Md. James Mackall received only fifty acres of land, which proves that he was unmarried when he reached these shores.
It has been stated that Mary Grahame, who married James Mackall, was a descendent of Earl Grahame of Montrose, but I think it more than probable that she was of the house of Earl Grahame of Lennox. The Grahames of Lennox and Montrose are believed to have been of the same Clan.
There was a family of Grahames that settled in Maryland at a very early date and intermarried with quite a few of the early pioneer families, but the Grahame name as far as that branch of the family is concerned died out in the early part of the eighteenth century and the Grahames now in Maryland are the descendents of Charles Grahame, who came to this country in l742 and died in 1779. "He was of the house of Montrose". The only male of that family now living in Maryland is Mr. Malcolm Grahame, who is now in his eighties, "he has been a life long friend of my family and mine", he told me that his Grandfather said that he thought that all of the Grahames that came to this country were of the same family.
Now to support my contention that our Mary Grahame was of the line of Lennox, in the reign of Alexander III of Scotland, Malduin Earl of Lennox chartered certain lands to Sir Richard Grahame, who is referred to as the Earls brother. The Mackall clan were said to have been one of the principal vassals of the Earls of Lennox, after arriving in this country the families of Grahames, Mauldin and Mackalls have been closely connected by marriage and friendship, in many instances they acted as executors for each other. That friendship has been carried down thru the ages, to the present time.
Mary Grahame was always supposed to have been born in 1649. George Norbury MacKenzie gives that date in his "Colonial Families" but in view of the testimony of her daughter Ann that she was born in 1661, such being the case, her mother would have been only 12 years old at the time of Ann's birth, which I think is highly improbable. She must have been born quite some time prior to 1649.
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1639
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Brickness, Orkney Islands, Scotland
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1661
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Calvert County, Maryland
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1665
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Calvert County, Maryland
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1669
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Cliffs, Calvert County, Maryland
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1671
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Calvert County, Maryland
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1675
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"Hallowing Point", Calvert County, Maryland
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1678
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Cliffs, Calvert County, Maryland
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May 15, 1718
Age 79
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Cliffs, Calvert County, Maryland
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