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See Thomas Jenkins of Maryland 1670, pg. 74: "Susannah Gerard was thedaughter of Thomas Gerard of England who came to Maryland in 1636 and(with?) his wife Susannah Snow, sister of Justinian Snow." (Also"Gerrard.")
See SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND, Vol II, FrancisBarnum Culver, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1940, 1997; pg 352:
"GERARD, Thomas, 1600-1673, MD. Member of Maryland Assembly from St.Mary's Hundred, 1641; member of the council, 1643, et seq, Comm issionerof the Proprietary and Lord of St. Clement's Manor."
See COLONIAL VIRGINIANS AND THEIR MARYLAND RELATIVES, Norma Tucker,Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, 1994, pg 133. (Some of thefollowing is claimed to be in error; see below.)
"Sir Thomas Girard, who married Rose, the widow of John Tucker ofWestmoreland Co., VA, came to Maryland in 1637, having married (1 )Frances Mullineaux, daughter of Lord Mullineaux, and, after her death,(2) Susanna Snow, daughter of Justinian Snow, Lord Baltimore's factor inthe Indian trade and one of the founders of Maryland. (JS: T heChronicles of St. Mary's, Vol 7, pg 336, reprints from the US CatholicHistorical Society - Historical Records and Studies, XLIV 1956 and statesthat Justinian was Susanna's brother, not her father.) Susanna'sbrothers Marmaduke and Abel immigrated to Maryland also and, like ThomasGerard, received a manorial grant there. The grant to Thomas, whobrought with him his wife, five children and five servants, amounted to2,000 acres of land. (Edwin W. Bitzell "Thomas Gerard and hissons-in-Law," Maryland Genealogies from the Maryland Historical Magazine,Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore. Also Gust. Skordas,The Early Settlers of Maryland. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co.,Baltimore).
"Born about 1605, at Newhall, Lancashire, England, Thomas Gerard wasthe son of Sir Thomas Gerard, head of an "ancient and distinguished"Roman Catholic family. His line "has been traced back to the time of theGeneral Survey of the Kingdom in 1078." (Beitzell op.cit . p 478) JohnGerard, a Jesuit priest and another son of Sir Thomas, was tortured inthe Tower, but survived to found a college at Liege , France. Richard,another brother, came with the first settlers to Maryland, arriving in1634, but returned to England where he later became cup-bearer for theking. (Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families.) (JS: Dr. Gerard wasnot the son of Sir Thomas as stated above. See article op.cit. below inChronicle's of St. Mary's.)
"Thomas Gerard received a grant for St. Clement's Manor on 3 Novem ber1639, along with authority for the establishment for Court Baron andCourt Leet. The record of the original Baron Court Leet Carries thesignature of Lord Sir Thomas Gerard, Son of the Baron of Byrne, and notesthat his grant of St. Clements and Heron's Island of St . Clement's, St.Katherine's and St. Cecilia's put him in charge of the "most sacred spotin Maryland, the place of Maryland's beginning March 25th, 1634."(Register, op.cit. pg 478. See also Louis DeCogne is, Jr., 'GovernorGarrard of Kentucky.' ---:Author, 1962)
"An early chirugeon (physician) in the Province, Lord Sir ThomasGerard drew patients not only from Maryland but also from Virginia as, in1639, Richard Lee and his wife of Virginia, who had come to him fortreatment, died at his home. On 19 February 1638, Thomas Gerard waselected Burgess from St. Mary's Hundred and on 16 March 1639 CeciliusCalvert appointed him Conservator of the Peace of St. Clement' sHundred. He became burgess from St. Clement's 19 July, 1641. (Beitzel,op.cit.; Register, op.cit.)
"Between 1638 and 1641, Sir Thomas Gerard established his home atLongworth's Point, "a high bluff on St. Clement's manor overlooking St.Clement's Island and commanding a sweeping and beautiful view of thePotomac. Because of his duties at St. Mary's City, he retained a townhouse, Porke Hall, at the city. This house was destroyed by RichardIngle during the Ingle Rebellion. The second house was destroyed by theBritish on 13 June, 1781, during the Revolutionary War and one ofGerard's descendants, Herbert Blackistone, was carried off as a prisonerof war." (Beitzell, op.cit., pp. 479-480.)
"On 29 October 1642, Gerard received Lord Baltimore's commission totake action (including killing if necessary) to end troubles with theIndians. And on 17 November, 1643 Lord Baltimore named Thomas Gerard tothe Maryland Provinical Council, a position he held until Fendall's 1659Rebellion. "Thomas Gerard ... not only was active in the practice ofmedicine, as a member of the Council, and a judge of the Provincialcourt, but he was also an able farmer, a manufacturer of liquors,particularly peach brandy, and a breeder of fine cattle. Apparently hewas also an excellent sailor for many of his trips between LongworthPoint and St. Mary's City were also made by boat...He might also bedescribed as one of the first realtors in Maryland for in the proceedingsof the Provincial Court one finds records of the sale or transfer of manyparcels of land." (Beitzell, op.cit. pp . 482-3)
"Because Susanna Snow was a Protestant and Thomas Gerard was aCatholic, he built a chapel to be used by both. In 1641, when Catholicauthorities attempted to force Thomas's children to become Catholic, hebecame angry and locked the chapel. He was fined 500 pounds sterling andforced to re-open it. Apparently he did not repent for, in 1658, FatherFrancis Fitzherbert threatened to force Thomas, Susanna and theirchildren to attend Roman Catholic services under threat ofexcommunication. Fitzherbert was brought to trial because the act wasagainst a Maryland Act of Assembly. Gerard testified that he had toldFitzherbert the action was not safe for Fitzherbert or himself.
"(After a dispute with Lord Baltimore) after Charles II returned tothe throne...Thomas Gerard was fined 100 pounds sterling and 5,000 poundsof tobacco. In addition, Gerard's lands were confiscated and he wasbanished from Maryland. He removed to Westmoreland Co., VA , whereearlier, on 18 October, 1650, he had patented land. There he claimedheadrights for his wife and children, except Anne, who was claimed by herhusband, Walter Broadhurst, on his patent of the same day. Dr. ThomasGerard patented an additional 1,000 acres on the Lower Machodoc on 9January 1662. A house built by his grandson John Gerardin 1682 was stillstanding in 1942. (Historical Atlas of Westmoreland County)
"On 9 January, 1662, Thomas Gerard patented 1,000 acres inNorthumberland Co., VA, which he purchased from William Hoccaday on 3April, 1651. He also bought 500 acres in Westmoreland County fromHawkins, whose widow Elizabeth married Seth Foster and, with her son,sold the land. That deed was witnessed by John Fontaine and John Walker. (John Frederick Dorman, Westmoreland County, Va., Deeds, Patents ,Etc. 1665-1677. Parts I-IV, Washington, D.C.: Author, 1973.)
"But Gerard's Maryland lands were restored to him and he returned toMaryland, where he lived until the death of his wife, Susanna, in 1666.Then he married Rosanna, the widow of John Tucker of Westmoreland Co.,and returned there to live out his life....
"In his will, dated 1 February, 1672/73, proved 19 November, 1673 ,(Hall of Records, Annapolis, Wills, Liber 1, follio 567-573.) (See alsoOriginal Records, Westmorland County) Thomas Gerrard, Esq., ofMadchotecks in Westmoreland County, requested to be buried beside hisformer wife, Susanna, and left extensive bequests. His personal estatein Maryland, Virginia, England, upon the seas "and any other place of theworld," was left to his son John and "loving and deare wife Rose," whowere joint executors. Daughter Mary received 30,000 pounds of tobaccoand "foure seates of land": one adjoining "my son in law Blaxstone's";another called St. Katheren's Island; another called Westwood Lodge; and300 acres between Mr. Cole and Mr. Salles.
"Eldest son Justinian received "one moety of that mannor of St.Clement's and the other Moety to my loving wife Rose during hir natural llife.." Rose's share was to go to any unborn son of Thomas Gerard orrevert back to Justinian, which it did. In addition, Justinian receivedall of Thomas Gerard's lands in England.
"Youngest son John received "Moeity of those lands called BassfordManor" with the same provisions for Rose. John also received "one moeityof that land in Virginia called Garrard's Reserve at Lower Machotock"with the same provisions for Rose.
"Grandchild Garrard Payton received a "young Negro of a year or two ofadge," but that bequest was delayed. "Whereas Thomas Gerrard be queathedto Gerard Payton 1 Negro servant...order that James Johnston who marriedElizabeth, the relict and executrix of John Gerard, executor of the willof Thomas Gerard, pay..." (Westmorland County Order Book 1660-62, pg 219A)
"Thomas Gerard's three sons and five daughters were each to receivetwenty shillings sterling to buy each a mourning ring "in remembrance ofme," as was his friend John Waugh. To a Negro boy "baptized and namedThomas" he left 1,000 pounds of tobacco for learning and education.
"The will included a paragraph willing that every clause of the deedof gift to the Tucker children be upheld. Witnesses to the will wereJohn Waugh, Isaac Allerton, J. Lee and John Cooper." (Article names thechildren of Thomas Gerard and their spouses and cites as authority:4W(1)36, Upshur Papers [unpublished letters in the Archives of theLibrary at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Box 9,Folder 4, 1894/5; The Maryland Semmes and Kindred Families, Harry WrightNewman, The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, 1956.)
In a supplement to the foregoing book by Norma Tucker we find,beginning at page 268, a section entitled "ERRATA, ADDITIONS ANDCORRECTIONS" and on page 269, the following:
"GERARD: Brother Ambrose, Our Lady of Tikhvin Center, St. Benedict,Oregon, 97373, reports that he descends from the first marriage ofElizabeth Girard, daughter of Thomas, to Robert Ellyson, and that ThomasGirard was not SIR Thomas Girard who married Francis Mullineaux . FatherJohn Gerrard, S.J. was not Thomas's son, but cousin. He says that ThomasGirard had daughters Susannah, Frances, Temperance, Elizabeth and Mary,but that Judith and Anne were not Gerard's daughters. Brother Ambrosesays that the lineage of Thomas Gerard/Gerrard, the immigrant, is asfollows:
1. William FitzGerald of Carrun Castle, County Pembroke, died 1173;
2. William FitzWilliam Fitzgerald
3. William Gerrard of Kingsley died before 1316
4. William Gerrard of Kingsley and Catenhall died before 1352
5. William Gerard of Kingsley, born ca 1322
6. Sir Peter Gerard of Kingsley and Bryn, died before 1380
7. Sir Thomas Gerard of Kingsley and GBryn, Kt, died 1415/16
8. John Gerard of Kingsley, died 1431
9. Sir Peter Gerard of Kingsley and Bryn
10. Sir Thomas Gerard of Kingsley and Bryn
11. Peter Gerard died 1485
12. Sir Thomas Gerard of Kingley and Bryn
13. William Gerard of the Newhall
14. Thomas Gerard of the Newhall died 1628/9
15. John Gerard of the Newhall
16. Thomas Gerard, the Immigrant (1608-1673).
"W. Bradley Wallace, 909 St. George's Road, Baltimore, MD 21210-14 10,agreed, correctly noting that a 1980 reprint of older material wasassumed to be the latest research, when it actually was not, and thatSusanna (Snow) Gerard was not the daughter of Justinian Snow."
See EARLY MANOR AND PLANTATION HOUSES OF MARYLAND by H. ChandleeForman, Bodine & Assoc., Inc., Baltimore, 1982 for photographs ofBachelor's Hope and the following text:
"BACHELOR'S HOPE (Before 1679) Dr. Thomas Gerrard had Basford Manor,1,500 acres, surveyed for him in 1650. He later sold it to Gov. ThomasNotley, who in 1678 laid off 300 acres of the Manor as the " ManorLodge", and named it "Bachelor's Hope", and placed it in the possessionof Col. William Rozer. Rozer was the husband of Ann Sewall, stepdaughterof Lord Baltimore.
"The hunting lodge was built for those who liked bedrooms downstairs.Carved end-boards to the cornices, a frieze of alternate rosettes andtriglyphs, a quarter round base, and glazed flemish bond distinguish theapproach front. The Hunting Room mantel and cupboard doors havevanished. The main stairs extend partly on the outside of the lodge.Dimensions: Overall, main wing, 56' 5" by 31' 2". Grade to floor, 24.Ceiling 10' 8".
See also the Maryland Historical Magazine, XLVI, 1951, 189-206.
See also two lengthy articles appearing in the CHRONICLES OF ST.MARY'S, July 1959, Vol 7, No. 7. The first is on pps 327-334 entitledTHOMAS GERARD OF MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA, OLD WORLD ROOTS. The second andlonger article is on pps 335-357 entitled THOMAS GERARD: THE STUDY OF ALORD OF THE MANOR AND THE ADVANTAGES OF MANOR HOLDING IN EARLY MARYLANDby David Spalding, C.F.X. (Reprinted by permission of the United StatesCatholic Historical Society - Historical Records and Studies, XLIV 1956)
BAPTISM: In a letter from R. Sharpe France, county Archivist,Lancashire Record Office, County Hall, Preston, England, dated September9, 1958, he states that the Bishops Transcripts of the Winwick registerfor 1608 shows "on 10 December, 1608, is recorded the baptism of Thomas,son of Mr. John Gerard of New Hall."