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John Dorsey (son of Caleb) of "New Year's Gift"
(1708-1765)
Elizabeth Dorsey
(1720-1803)
Captain John "Patuxent John" Dorsey of Dorsey's Search
(Abt 1695-Abt 1761)
Elizabeth <Brown>
(Abt 1703-Between 1775/1777)
Caleb Dorsey [son of John of Anne Arundel]
(1740-1795)
Sophia Dorsey
(-1762)
Elizabeth Dorsey
(1762-)

 

Family Links

Elizabeth Dorsey 1 2

  • Born: 14 Jan 1762, Christ Church, Queen Caroline Parish, Anne Arundel, Maryland, (United States) 3

  Research Notes:

From The Dorsey Family, p. 142:
"Sophia Dorsey, d. bef. 1760, m. Caleb Dorsey, son of John... Their daughter Elizabeth was left personalty in the will of her aunt Rachel Ridgely, 1792, and a plantation in the will of her aunt Lucy, 1808."

Sources

1 Dorsey, Maxwell Jay, Jean Muir Dorsey, Nannie Ball Nimmo, <i>The Dorsey family: descendants of Edward Darcy-Dorsey of Virginia and Maryland for five generations, and allied families</i> (Orig. Pub. M. J. Dorsey, 1946; reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997.), p. 142.

2 <i>http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi</i>. Rec. Date: 25 Aug 2001, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mdannear/firstfam/dorsey/b15230.htm#P15230.

3 Website:, http://www.biblerecords.com/dorsey.html. "From an Old Dorsey Bible" by Ida M. Shirk, originally published in <u>Genealogy</u>, Volume 3, Number 10, October 1913, p. 98
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