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Charles County, Maryland

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Rev. Thomas Jenner, II (1601 - 1676)
All children born before 1635 were born in England, several sources prove this fact. Online ancestry trees have all of Rev Thomas Jenner's children born in the American Colonies by mistake. Thomas...
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Christian Mary "Elizabeth" Tennison (c.1675 - 1759)
Biography Christian Mary "Elizabeth" Tennison was born in 1680 in Charles, Maryland, United States. Her parents were Justinian Tennison, Sr. and Mary Katherine Tennison . Christian married Capt. Sa...
Gilbert Lewis (1690 - 1730)
Biography Gilbert Lewis was born in 1690 in Calvert County, Maryland, USA. Gilbert married Elizabeth Lewis Harris in 1721 in Maryland, USA. Together they had the following children: Jane Lewis ...
Elizabeth Lewis Harris (1690 - bef.1750)
Biography Elizabeth Lewis Harris was born in 1690 in Charles, Maryland, United States. Her parents were Capt. Samuel Cooksey, Captain and Christian Mary "Elizabeth" Tennison . Elizabeth married Gil...
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Capt. Samuel Cooksey, Captain (1646 - 1709)
GEDCOM Note ===In 1680, Samuel Cooksey was appointed by Lord Baltimore as "Captain of the North Potomac". In the Proceedings of the Maryland Council, dated 1690, he is referred to as "a retired naval o...

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History

Charles County was created in 1658 by an Order in Council. There was also an earlier Charles County from 1650 to 1653, sometimes referred to in historic documents as Old Charles County.

In April 1865, John Wilkes Booth made his escape through Charles County, on his way to Virginia, after shooting President Abraham Lincoln.

On April 28, 2002, a tornado cut through the County and destroyed much of downtown La Plata.

The county has a number of properties on the National Register of Historic Places. Among which, are the distinguished Green Park and the historical Pleasant Hill, home of the Green and Spalding Families.

On December 4, 2004, a large fire took place in the development of Hunters Brooke which is located a few miles southeast of Indian Head. It later became the largest residential arson in the history of the state of Maryland.

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