Mary Shanks

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/129938253/mary-shanks

Birth 1652
Maryland, USA
Death unknown

Mary was the daughter of John Bailye.

Family Members
Spouse

   John Shanks

   1652 – unknown

Children

   Photo

   Thomas Shanks

   unknown–1791

References

• < ST. CLEMENT’S ISLAND WAS SCENE OF HISTORIC LANDING > St. Clement’s Island, a 62-acre state park in the Potomac River off the shore of St. Mary's County, MD, is accessible only by boat. If you take the water taxi from the mainland, you will have a faster and more pleasant trip than the English settlers who arrived there on March 25, 1634. Those travelers — about 140 Protestants and Catholics — left England four months earlier on Nov. 23, 1633, on the feast day for St. Clement, patron saint of sailors. They sailed on the Ark, which carried the passengers, and a smaller pinnace called the Dove, which carried additional supplies. Within three days, a storm separated the ships and the Dove was presumed lost at sea. Another violent storm soon split the Ark’s mainsail. At Christmastime, an illness struck 30 of the passengers and 12 died. …. The landing at St. Clement’s Island marks the founding of Maryland and an important moment for religious heritage in the United States, for Catholicism specifically, and the broader principle of religious tolerance.