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Martha Paca's parents are unproved. She sometimes appears as a daughter of Robert Paca and his wife Mary Parker, widow of John Hall. However, she is not mentioned in the will of Robert Paca (Robert Peaker) of Anne Arundel County, written 26th April, 1681 which confers thehome plantation (345 acres) on son Aquila, and names wife Mary as executrix. [1]
Martha is also not named as a child of Mary Parker in the St. George's Parish Records record of Mary's death, which does name both John Hall from Maryh's first marriage, and Aquila Paca from her second. [2]
Martha's relationship with Robert Paca is inferred from property transfers between Robert Paca and Martha's husbands:
Birth Year Estimation
Based on a likely marriage to Lionel Paully in 1670, when she would not have been younger than 16, estimate Martha Paca's birth year as 1654. Such estimates are highly speculative and useful primarily for placing a person in the right time and place.
Circumstantial evidence points to a marriage beween Martha Paca and Lionel Paully in about 1670. In that year Lionel Paully acquired a portion of the property called Dann from Robert Paca. [3]
Lionell Paully appears to have arrived in Maryland about 1669, and he died in 1671, making 1670 the likeliest year for a marriage. There is no evidence there were any children from Martha's marriage to Lionell.
On 14 Dec 1670, Charles Beaven sold his 50 acres in Anne Arundel County to Captain Lionell Pauley of Anne Arundel County. Pauley had been in Anne Arundel County since 1669 and in 1670 Pauley received 50 acres of land for immigrating. Pauley added his 50 acres to Beaven's and on 10 July 1671 he had it patented as Soldier's Delight (Cert #258-A). Captain Pauley acquired additional land in Anne Arundel County. Some of his acreage included 80 acres which went under the name of Bush Bay [3]
When Lionel Paully of Anne Arundel County made his will (18th Mar., 1670/71; 20th May, 1671.) his "loving friend" Charles Beaven was his executor. [3]
On 10/2/1671 the Paully estate was valued at 6639 pounds of tobacco. (Test Pro 5:110). Martha, Captain Paully's widow, was not named in the will or any of the administrative accounts. [3]
By 10 June 1673 Charles Beaven was married to Martha, who waived dower when Charles Beaven of Anne Arundel County sold to Nathan Smith 400 acres on the west side of the Chesapeake Bay between Lyons Creek and Herring Creek. (Deed JH#1:280). [3] Part of this acreage included Beans and Bacon a part of Dann which traces back to Robert Paca.
Robert Paca had given Pauley 80 acres of “Dann” when he [Pauley] married his daughter Martha and when Charles married her Paca gave him acreage of “Dann.” [5]
On 10 June 1673 Charles Beaven sold to Nathan Smith 490 acres of land on the west side of the Chesapeake Bay between Lyons Creek and Herring Creek. Part of this acreage included Beans and Bacon” a part of Dann which Charles had received from Robert Paca “in his own right.” A thirty year mortgage was drawn up with the stipulation that the land was to become Nathan Smith's or his heirs on 11 October 1703. (Nathan Smith was named in Lionell Pauley's will.) This deed also stipulated that Charles Beaven was the lawful heir and executor of Lionel Paully. [3]
A Restoration Deed (replacing one that burned) reads " ...
It is clear from these excerpts from that deed that Pauley's wife, Martha did not inherit from her husband and that after the death of Pauley she married Charles Beaven, Pauley's heir. [6]
"Martha, the first wife of Charles Beaven and the mother of all his children, died by 8 December 1688. [7]
Charles Beaven's second wife Mary appears in 1688 and Charles' children were born prior to that year. Using the best estimates of their children's births, this would be Charles Beaven's family at the death of Martha, and leads to the conclusion that it was Martha who was the mother of all Charles' children.
Thus, Charles Beaven and his wife Martha Paca had the following children:
Property transfer evidence suggests that Martha (Paca) Beaven was treated by Robert Paca as one would treat a daughter. Martha is born at a time and place where she could have been a daughter of Mary Parker and either her first husband John Hall or her second husband Robert Paca.
However, Martha does not appear in any of the accounts of Robert Paca's children. Therefore she has been disconnected as a child; if evidence of the relationship is found, the connection can easily be restored.
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Categories: Calvert County, Province of Maryland | Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland
Several paragraphs of material related to Charles Beaven or his other wife have been retained but hidden. The next time Charles Beaven's profile is reviewed, this material can be reviwed to see if it adds anything to Charles Beaven's profile. Note, however, that there is much erroneous material in circulation regarding Charles Beaven's marriages.
edited by Jack Day
"Martha, b. 1656. Note -- this birth date would have occurred prior to Robert Paca's marriage to Mary Parker in about 1661. Was Martha actually her mother's daughter by a previous marriage, but brought up as Martha Paca?"
As for Martha Paca herself, the first task will be to better tie her down as a daughter of Robert Paca, and show how a birth year estimate for her is best calculated -- this hasn't been done yet. Then we'll have a better idea of what to do about her mother. If she is indeed born 1656, but brought up in Robert Paca's household, then it may be that she actually is the daughter of Mary Parker Hall Paca -- but from her earlier marriage with John Hall. But this is all speculation until we can find ways of tying it down!
Links are the last thing I change when doing a re-edit, because links have to be derived from the facts in the narrative.
I have not found any material other than the property transfers linking Martha Paca with Robert as her father, so she has been disconnected.
edited by Jack Day