Richard Kirkland (abt. 1670 - bef. 1743)

Husband of Mary (Snowden) Kirkland — married before 1700 in Maryland

Descendants

Died before 19 May 1743 before about age 73 in Fairfax, Virginia

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Biography

This profile is part of the Kirkland Name Study.

HIS PARENTS AND WHERE HE/THEY CAME FROM ARE NOT KNOWN. IT IS SPECULATED THIS KIRKLAND LINE ORIGINALLY WAS FROM SCOTLAND. ALSO, HIS WIFE'S SURNAME IS UNKNOWN. He has been detached from Richard Kirkland and Sarah Mammock due to lack of sources.

"Available records are insufficient to establish the birth year of this man in a definitive fashion. However, they do provide for a good assumptive year of birth. A good trail of records exists from his ownership of land in Baltimore County, Maryland in December 1694 to his death in Fairfax County, Virginia in 1743, a span of 49 years. Obviously, he was of the age of maturity when he acquired the land in Maryland. He, in fact, may have been the Richard Kirkland who received a wolves-head bounty in Charles City County, Virginia in November 1691, KSB II, p. 299. The addition of 21 years to the year of the Maryland record would place his birth in 1673, and is supported by the trail of records proved to have been left by this man. Should the Charles City County record of 1691 be for this man, a birth year as early as 1670 is possible." ^[1]

Land Records

In Dec 1694, he purchased 200 acres called Brown's Fancy in Baltimore, Maryland from William Brown.

In 1699, he acquired 200 acres called Bold Venture in Baltimore, Maryland (acquired by grant).

On 4 June 1702, he acquired 100 acres called Girlies Portion (by grant).

All 3 tracts of land purchased during this time were located near the boundary of Anne Arundel & Baltimore Counties on the waters of the Patuxent or Patapsco Rivers. They were near the town of Elk Ridge. Elk Ridge and "...the main road to Elk Ridge" are landmarks in the legal descriptions of two of the tracts.

In 1703, he appears on the tax list in Baltimore living on Elk Ridge Hundred.

In 1704, he appears on the quit roll rent with 300 acres in Prince George, Virginia.

On 11 July 1709, Robert & Mary gave a power of attorney to John Jones to sell the tracts Bold Venture & Girlies Portion. The two tracts were sold for 36 pounds, 16 shillings sterling. Richard was identified as a resident of Maryland and a planter by vocation. Mary released her rights of dower, suggesting the land had been their home site in Maryland.^[2]

On 23 Sep 1714, he acquired 268 acres on north side of Occoquan River on a branch called North Run in Stafford, Virginia. Granted to Richard Kirkland and Cornelius Keeife. (Applied for land on 4 Sep 1713.) (Note: North Run apparently became known as Bull Run. The land at the junction of Bull Run and the Occaquan River is currently located in the Bull Run-Occaquan Recreational Area. It can be accessed by a walking trail that follows the Run to the River.) ^[3]

28 SEP 1728 - Owned land between Black Water and Second Swamp adjacent William Wren and Thomas Simmons/Prince George County, Virginia^[4]

On 8 Sep 1731, Richard Kirkland is mentioned as an adjacent land owner on a deed of 142 acres granted to Catesby Cocke of Prince William, Virginia between Woolf Run and Bun Run (likely this is Bull Run). The other adjacent land owner was Capt. John Waugh.

On 24 Sep 1739, he sold 100 acres, north side of Occoquan River in Truro Parish, Prince William, Virginia to his son Edward. Indenture "for natural love and affection." Part of a tract of 268 acres of land granted to Richard Kirkland by patent dated 23 Nov 1714.^[5]

On 23 Jun 1740 in Truro Parish, Prince William, Virginia - Indenture between Richard Kirkland & Richard Snowden Kirkland, son of Richard, for natural love and affection. 100 acres in Prince Wm. Co. on north side of Occaquan River being part of two patents of land bearing date 1712 and 1714, beginning at a marked gum tree on the S side of the fork of the branch down sd. fork to mouth of sd. branch to a spring known as Popular Spring, then along the line of Edward Kirkland to two marked populars ... white oak near a ridge... a line of marked trees crossing the Rolling Rode. One of the witnesses was John Kirkland.^[6]

Will and Death

Richard wrote his will on 17 Nov 1742 in Fairfax, Virginia. The will was presented for probate on 19 May 1743. It names his "beloved wife" Mary and his sons Richard, Robert and John. He devised the movable estate to his wife for the term of her natural life, and it was to be divided equally among all of his sons and daughters after her death. Unfortunately, no daughters were identified. To son Richard 200 acres called Browns Fancy. To son Robert the "plantation on which I now live" after the decease or remarriage of the widow. Son Robert was to pay ten pounds current money of Virginia to brother John. Richard appointed his wife Mary and George Caliburd as executors. Witnesses: Thos. Smith, Francis Stone. The inventory and appraisement was taken 18 Oct 1743 ^[7]

(Note: Court sessions were held at 2-3 month intervals. His death in the remaining months of 1742 should have resulted in probate at a Feb. or March 1743 session. The presentation to the court on 19 May 1743 indicates his death occurred in the spring of 1743.) ^[8]

Inventory made 18 Oct 1743. A list of the goods & chattels indicates the family lived in comfort, for the times, and was among the upper-middle class of society. The items listed included a silk rug, numerous brass utensils, pewter eating ware, ample cooking ware, walnut furniture, spinning wheel, cattle, hogs, horses, farming equipment & furniture. Richard was owed several debts, including two by his sons Edward & John, which were paid.

Timeline

Event:

Type: Received Payment

Date: 02 DEC 1699

Place: Mentioned in the administration of estate of William Brown./Anne Arundel County, Maryland^[9]

Event:

Type: Land Survey

Date: DEC 1701

Place: 969 acres called Chance./Baltimore County, Maryland^[10]

Event:

Type: Inventoried Estate

Date: 07 MAR 1702

Place: Daniel Gascon's estate on the north side Gunpowder Hundred, was inventoried by Richard Kirkland and George Yate./Baltimore County, Maryland^[11]

Event:

Type: Sold Land

Date: 25 MAY 1704

Place: Conveyed 200 acres known as Brown's Survey to Alexander Delemyrosa, innkeeper of Anne Arundel County, Maryland/Baltimore, Maryland^[12]

Event:

Type: Sold Land

Date: 11 JUL 1708

Place: Richard and Mary Kirkland were "late of Baltimore" when they sold 200 acres called Bold Venture in Elke Ridge; also 100 acres called Girles Portion between the branches of Puttuxent River in Baltimore County to George Valentine./Elk Ridge, Anne Arrundel County, and Baltimore County, Maryland, USA^[13]

Event:

Type: Purchased Land

Date: 23 NOV 1714

Place: 268 acres on branches of the Occaquan River/Truro Parish, Prince William County, Virginia^[14]

Event:

Type: Deed of Gift to Son, Edward

Date: 1714

Place: Truro Parish, Prince William County, Virginia^[15]

Event:

Type: Purchased Land

Date: 27 JAN 1735

Place: 351 acres on southside of Blackwater Swamp adjacent his "Old Land" for 1 Pound 15 shillings/Prince George County, Virginia^[16]

Event:

Type: Purchased Land

Date: 07 JUL 1735

Place: 200 acres on north side of Jones Hole Swamp, above his settlement, for 1 Pound./Prince George County, Virginia^[17]

Event:

Type: Vestry Minutes

Date: 27 APR 1740

Place: An Indenture between John Colville, Gentleman, and Edward Barry, Church Warden of the one part and Richard Kirkland of the other...put and bind Betty Shortin, an apprentice or servant of said Richard Kirkland, until she reaches 18 years./Pohick Church, Lorton, Truro Parish, Fairfax County, Virginia^[18]

Event:

Type: Deed of Gift

Date: 25 AUG 1740

Place: Gives 100 acres on north side of Occaquan River to son, Richard Snowden Kirkland/Truro Parish, Prince William County, Virginia^[19]

Event:

Type: Wrote Will

Date: 17 NOV 1742

Place: Fairfax County, Virginia^[20]

Event:

Type: Final Accounting of Estate

Date: 20 OCT 1743

Place: Fairfax County, Virginia^[21]

Research Notes

Origin

Numerous records cited in KSB II, pages 358-374, document the presence of the Kirkland Family in Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland for years preceding the presence of Richard in the American Colonies. Some efforts have been made by other researchers to connect the family of Richard to these Scotland locations, with inconclusive results. Kathleen Stickney's research located Kirkland men in Derbyshire, England in 1664 with the given names of Richard, Robert, William, Edward, and John, among others. These are the given names assigned to the sons of Richard Kirkland d. 1743 in the Colonies of Maryland and Virginia in the early 1700s. Future searchers should give consideration to more research in the Derbyshire, England area.

Other records document the migration of Kirkland men from England to the American Colonies. The List of Persons of Quality 1600-1700: Hotten, reports migration of Nathan Kyrtland, 19 years age, and Philip Kyrtland, 21 years age, to New England in April 1635. They were transported on the ship Hopeful, out of London. Information in The American Genealogist, Volume 65 pages 65-69, report these men were brothers and natives of Alney Parish, Sherington, Buckinghamshire, England. The Bristol Register of Servants sent to Foreign Plantations: Coldham, reports John Kirtland sailed from Bristol, England to Virginia 18 January 1678. He was transported in the ship Gabriel. It is assumed this man was from the West Country of England, near the port of Bristol.

Family tradition reports the family of Richard d. 1743 was a native of Scotland. They may be correct. However, documents reviewed in the scope of this research are inconclusive. The origin of the family remains for a future project.

Possible Daughter

Some researchers have brought forth the idea that Richard may have had a daughter Esther who was first married to Francis Stone Jr. and then to George Calvert. It is noted that George Calvert was an executor of Richard Kirkland's will along with Richard's widow Mary. Additionally, in Prince William County, Virginia in 1740, William Kirkland and Edward Barry provided bond for Esther Stone, administratrix of the estate of Francis Stone.^[22]

Sources

1. ↑ Kirkland Family Roots, by Dr. James R. Peacock, publ. 2002, p. 2
2. ↑ Provincial Court Judgments Liber PL 3, Folio 104-109
3. ↑ Northern Neck Grant Book 5
4. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
5. ↑ Deed Book Liber D, pp. 227-228
6. ↑ Deed Book E, pp. 53-55
7. ↑ Will Book A-1, pp. 31-32
8. ↑ Kirkland Family Roots, by Dr. James R. Peacock, publ. 2002, p. 2
9. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
10. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
11. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
12. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
13. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
14. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
15. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
16. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
17. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
18. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
19. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
20. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
21. ↑ Source: #S186 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Richard Snowden Kirkland Sr.
22. ↑ Descendants of Virginia Calverts, Book I, Part II, by Ella Foy O'Gorman, publ. 1947, p. 71

See also:

• S-1763179263 Repository: #R-1790658744 Title: Maryland Census, 1772-1890 Author: Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.Original data - Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.Orig Note: APID: 1,3552::0
• Source: S186 - Virginia land and court records
• http://www.next1000.com/family/EC/kirkland.rich1.html