There are no reliable records showing the birth date for Eleanor Magruder. Mike Marshall estimates her birth year as, say, 1705. [1]
She would have been born on her parents' plantation, which was in Calvert County until Prince George's County was created in 1694.
She is named as a child of Samuel Magruder by Papenfuse. [2]
Elinor is given as the daughter of Samuel and Sarah Magruder and the wife of Nehemiah Wade in the 16 Jan 1731/32 will of her mother, Sarah Magruder. [3]
1711 Inheritance from Father
Eleanor was to receive, with Verlinder & Mary, 2/3 of her father's personal estate. She was named in the Will of her father Samuel [4]
Marriage
Eleanor married Nehemiah Wade.[2] She was named in her mother Sarah's 1731Will as the wife of Nehemiah Wade.
Nehemiah Wade was born about 1705, and Eleanor and he were married about 1729. [3]
↑ Mike Marshall. Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties.Profile for Sarah (Unproven) Mills Accessed 26 July 2020 jhd
↑ Samuel Magruder will 23 Nov 1710-31 Dec 1711 (Prince George's County Will book I Page 46. Included in research notes by Donna Cooper at Mike Marshall, Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties.Profile for Sarah (Unproven) Mills Accessed 26 July 2020 jhd
See also:
Source: S167 Abbreviation: World Connect Project Title: \i RootsWeb's World Connect Project`\i0. Author: Submitted by various individuals Publication: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com Date: 7/22/09
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Ancestry.com
Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775, Ancestry.com
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Ila Barnett for creating WikiTree profile Magruder-67 through the import of Wrenn.ged on Jan 23, 2013.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Eleanor by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Eleanor:
Magruder-199 and Magruder-67 are not ready to be merged because: Profiles appear to be duplicate, but the mothers are not the same. This needs to be resolved before merge.
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