Philip Dowell
b. c1681
d. 26 Jan 1732/33 AACo., MD
Children | |||
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Ann Dowell | b. c1707 MD | d. | m. Joseph Wilson |
John Dowell | b. c1709 | d. | m. |
Mary Dowell | b. | d. 1815 aged 84, Harriman, Roane Co., TN | m. 1726 John Brashear JR (son of Benjamin Brashears Sr. and Mary Jones) lived in MD, VA, NC, SC and TN |
Charity Dowell | b. 4 Apr 1711 | d. Pensacola, FL 1788 | m. 1726 Robert C.
Brashear (son of Samuel Brashears Sr. and Ann Jones) |
Philip Dowell | b. c1713 | d . | m. |
Peter Dowell | b. c1715 | d . | m. |
Richard Dowell | b. c1717 | d . | m. |
Elizabeth Dowell | b. c1719 | d. | m. |
Luke Dowell | b. c1721 | d . | m. |
Philip Dowell owned property in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland on the upper branches of the Gunpowder River. The following will of Philip Dowell lays out his estate.
"...being weak of body..
Unto my son Philip Dowell,
200 acres out of a tract called New Years Purchase, nigh
Gunpowder River in Baltimore county; fifty acres out of a tract
called Kemps Desire in Calvert County, including a house lately
built by Philip Dowell.
Unto my son Peter Dowell,
250 acres out of my lands called Kemps Desire and Coxes Choice
where he things fit to take it, except where I have given my son
Philip and 100 acres I gave my son John by deed.
Unto my daughter Elizabeth,
the remaining part of Kemps Desire and Coxes Choice.
Unto my son Richard Dowell,
the
remaining part of New Years Purchase.
Unto my son Philip Dowell,
one Negroe called Cezear.
Unto my son Peter Dowell,
one Negroe called Harry and one negroe called Will.
Unto my daughter Elizabeth,
one Negroe called Tom.
Unto my son John Dowell,
a Negroe man now in his possession called Harry.
Unto my son Luke, one
Negroe man called James.
Unto my son Richard Dowell,
one Negroe woman called Sarah.
Unto my daughter Ann Wilson,
one Negroe woman called Bess and her increase now in her
possession.
Unto my daughter Mary
Breshiers, one Negroe woman called Sarah.
Unto my daughter Charity,
one Negroe boy called James now in her and her husband's
possession.
My now dwelling plantation to be sold. The remaining part of my
estate be equally divided between all my said children.
My two sons Philip and John
Dowell and my friend
Edward Reynolds, executors. If Edward Reynolds depart
this life, his son Thomas be joined executor.
/s/Philip Dowell
Witnesses:
1740- Some of his children went to court to get their share of
Philip Dowell estate.
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