Chilcote History, not his one, it's out of date.

Date: 30 Oct 2012 to after Mar 2018
Location: Somerset, England and points west
Surname/tag: Chilcote, Chilcoat, Chilcott, etc

I'm satisfied that the following is the best that can be done based upon User Submitted Trees. The very few Historical Records that exist confirm some of the data, do not contradict any of it. 31 Oct. 2012.

History

The Chilcoat Family History The spellings of the surnames Chilcote, Chilcott, Chilcutt, Chilcot, and Chilcoat all are variations of the name Chilcot or Chilcote. It comes from Devonshire and Somersetshire in England and means literally "cold little house." A meaning akin to "cottage of the retainers" might be assumed. This is not a French name as some believe, but is English. While the various families scattered over the United States now use the spelling they like best, or the one they are used to, a researcher in the early records has to watch constantly for variations. Other spellings are Shilcott, Silket, Silcott, and Chillcott, and perhaps the oldest spelling is Childeecote.

John Chilcot and Alice Hole

John Chilcot was born about 1550 in Stogumber, Somersetshire, England and died December 10, 1606. His parents were Henry Chilcot (born about 1525 Stogumber) and Mary Cullidwell/Culliowell. John married Alice Hole. Alice Hole was born in Walton, Somersetshire, England.

When John and Alice were not yet ten years of age Elizabeth became the Queen of England and there she would reign from 1558 until 1603. When she (and her supporters) took over control of England, England was having "separate" military problems (mostly minor) with Scotland, Ireland and France, as well as many local military encounters involving the English Protestants and Catholics. Probably very little of this concerned the Chilcot families in and around Stogumber, which was located in the country far away from the wealthier areas near London.

The children of John Chilcot and Alice Hole included:
Johana ………….….….b. May 27, 1572
Elizabeth ……….….….b. 1573/74
John ……………….....…b. November 3, 1574
George …………....……b. about 1576, Stogumber, Somersetshire, England and died in 1623. He married Frances Arscott about 1596
Agnes …………….....….b. April 19, 1578
William ……………....….b. 1590. William m. Mary Richard and had one child: Mary Chilcote

Genealogy based upon above

Henry Chilcot b abt 1525, Stogumber and Mary Cullidwell

• John Chilcot and Alice Hole (born in Walton, somerset.
  
  • Johana b 27 May 1572
    
  • Elizabeth b 1573-4
    
  • John b 3 Nov 1574
    
  • George b abt 1575 d 1623
    
    • Frances Arscott abt 1596
      
  • Agnes 19 Apr 1578
    
  • William b 1590
    
    • Mary Richard
      
      • Mary Chilcote

The above was found at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/16410631/person/375309364/story/d361cdde-82b9-4f9d-a642-54f779a56f67?src=search

The Following...
Elizabeth b 1473,
Willm b 1590 (1586)
and John, Son of Willm b 27 May 1611
have been confirmed from "England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
The others have not been confirmed.

"Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch leads us to this family.

Henry Chilcot b abt 1525 Stogumber

• Mary Cullidwell
  • John Chilcot b abt 1550
    • Alice Hole b in Walton, Somerset
      • Johanna Chilcot b 27 May 1472
      • Elizabeth Chilcot b 1573-4
      • John Chilcot b 3 Nov 1574
      • George Chilcot b abt 1575 d 1623
        • Frances Arscott m abt 1596
          • George Chilcote ch 20 Jan 1596-7
          • John Chilcote b 22 Apr 1608
            
            • Johanna Baulch m 17 Sep 1634 in Stogumber
              • John Chilcote b 13 Dec 1639
                • Ann Chilcott m 1660
                  • Christopher Chilcote
                  • Harry Chilcote
                  • Peram Chilcote (female)
                  • Agnes Chilcote
                  • Christian Chilcote
                  • Humphrey Chilcote
                    
                  • John Chilcote b 4 Apr 1655 d 1727 Baltimore, Md.
                    
              • George Chilcot ch 1 Apr 1640
                
              • Richard Chilcott ch 1 Jan 1641
                
          • Johanna Chilcote b abt 1616
            
            • William Alford m 12 Jun 1637
              
          • Richard Chilcote ch 15 May 1618
            
          • Lydia Chilcote b 1621
            
      • Agnes Chilcote b 19 Apr 1578
      • Willm b 11 Apr 1586
        • Mary Richard
          • Mary Chilcote
          • John Chilcote ch 27 May 1611

More History

A good relation, though open to some questions is that found in HISTORY OF THE JUNIATA VALLEY, PAGE 1157 (Jordon), pp 1157-9

The following found in Ancestry.com

John Chilcoat was born April 10, 1706 in St. James Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland and baptized there on June 30, 1706. John died about 1780 while living at Western Run, Baltimore County, Maryland [Western Run is now a part of Lutherville-Cockeysville, Baltimore County]. He was the son of John Jacob Chilcote and Alice Ann Sanderson. Margaret Robinson was born about 1716.

[Note: Researchers have had a difficult time locating exact dates of birth, marriage, death and the movements of the Chilcote generations of Lord John Chilcote, his son John that was imprisoned, and the early life of this generation's John Chilcote. The difficulty relates to the civil war that took place in England earlier that caused the dispersion of the main family at Chilcote Manor (and probably the surrounding Chilcote families as well. Along with their loss of property and contacts with one another many documents must have been lost as well-we know practically nothing about the many children of Lord Chilcote; except those that sought a better life in the New World. As a prisoner in Barbados young John Chilcote was apparently treated fairly well, since there does not seem to be any unhappy memories of that interment that circulated down through the family. The fact that his master seems to have permitted his marriage while being a prisoner leads to the idea that his serving in the West Indies may have been more akin to simply working there, rather than being a prisoner.

It seems that it may have taken John's uncle (James) some time to arrange for the release in Barbados of his brother [this chapter's father]. Apparently the Crown in England, after retaking power again, returned some of the Chilcote lands back to the family and James Chilcote, having been a successful businessman/land holder in Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County and Baltimore City disposed of some of the English properties and used some of the money to pay for his brother's early release. Once released [roughly 1704] the brothers (and John's wife: we do not know if there were any children born to the couple in Barbados) resided for some time in James' land in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. This is where it appears that this chapter's John Chilcote was born. The two brothers may have then purchased properties in Baltimore County and or Baltimore City (at least James Chilcote did so). Again the records are few, but it appears that soon after the married couple arrived in Anne Arundel County or up in Baltimore County they both died. There is no explanation of how they died, but being new to the climate it is likely there was some type of an illness-certainly an accident or something dramatic would have been recorded somewhere.] As mentioned earlier, the parents of this generation's John Chilcote died in the early 1700s, probably sometime between 1707 and 1716. After their deaths, young John Joshua Chilcote moved in with his uncle James who continued to raise him until his maturity.

By March 1739 (when John was about thirty-two years old) he had been married to Margaret Robinson and by the end of the year they had their first child. There is no clear record saying that Margaret's maiden name was Robinson, although their church record has their first child's name as Robinson. At a later date this grown up child signed his name as "Roberson," a similar name as his parent's new neighbor, John Robertson, in the Green Spring Valley. This John Robertson also spelled his name as Robeson and Robinson, as well. John and Margaret were members of St. Paul Episcopal Church, located in Baltimore County, Maryland.

Until 1739 or 1740 John Chilcoat apparently owned no land. [Although there may have been some land transaction that John was involved with in 1727: There was a confusing newspaper article (in an Indiana newspaper in 1875) mentioning two brothers John and James Chilcote. What I believe may have been the case is that they were not brothers, but were James and his nephew John (same name as the deceased brother) and if young John was born in 1706 he would have just turned 21 years of age and maybe there was some form of land transaction around 1727-just a guess? Also, the information supplied for this article was from "Leander Buchanan, Committee for Collection of Funds" and Leander's interest in the Chilcote's revolved around any possible inheritance the Chilcote's were due from the long ago recovered lands in England, and also three tracts of land in the Baltimore area (about 170.5 acres total) for which there seems to have been about 125 heirs to divide the profits with (after Leander's firm is paid)].

Prior to that time he and his new wife may have been living with his uncle on the Valliant Hazardproperty, or on part of Addition to Poor Jamaica Man's Plague property. However, on March 7, 1739/40 John "Chilcoate," planter, purchased part of Friendship (90 acres) in Baltimore County from William Rogers, planter, for L15. In October 1744 John purchased part of Grist's Search (77 acres) in Baltimore County from Nathaniel Gist, planter, for L40 [Grist's Search was probably on the north side of Jones Falls in the Green Spring Valley section of Baltimore County, Maryland]. It is likely that John and Margaret's first three children were born on one of these two plots of land.

In November 1743 James Chilcoat, carpenter (and uncle of John Chilcoat), conveyed crops, two yearlings, a cow, a heifer, and a gray mare, a feather bed, and furniture, all from James' plantation in Baltimore County to his nephew John. John was to have and to hold those items against all former claims and encumbrances. This conveyance was in consideration of L10 which John had already paid to Charles Ridgley as "the cost of an action brought by the said Ridgley against me (James) in said County Court."

On January 7, 1744 John Chilcoat, planter, conveyed the 90-acre Friendship and the 77-acre Gist's Search tracts of land to John Pindall for a total of L50. Along with John's signature was his wife "Margrett Chillcoat's" signature relinquishing her right of dower.

In April 1745 John Chilcoat witnessed a land conveyance from Richard Bond, planter. In June 1747 John also witnessed a conveyance of 100-acres of Molly and Sally's Delight in Baltimore County from Jonathan Tipton of Baltimore County to John Stevenson. This Jonathan Tipton was probably related to John through Jonathan's marriage to a widowed Chilcote.

In October 1748 John purchased part of Merryman's Adventure (100-acres) in Baltimore County from John Price, Sr. for L40. He purchased Merryman's Adventure only four months after his uncle (James) had sold part of Addition to Poor Jamaica Man's Plague for the same amount. The indenture states that the tract began at a red oak on Thomas Mathews' land [The 1783 tax list shows that it was in the Middle River Upper and Back River Upper Hundreds, which probably was close to where Thomas Matthews and John Chilcoat had resided in 1737]. Merryman's Adventure was located just northeast of the Green Spring Valley; it was not far from the two tracts that Chilcoat had owned until 1745. It was also described as: east of Falls Road, between Padonia Road and Ivy Hill Road, and north of Drunkard's Hall, and northwest of Sater's Church. These various descriptions are not meant to correct each other, just different views of giving directions.

John was still in possession of Merryman's Adventure in 1750, according to that year's Baltimore County Debt Book, and he was still in possession of part of Merryman's Adventure in 1754, as recorded in that Debt Book, but on May 11, 1756 John Chilcoat, planter, mortgaged Merriman's Adventure (100-acres) to John Ridgely, merchant, for L20, with interest on that amount due on May 1, 1757. The mortgage referred to it as "the land whereon the said John Chilcoat now dwelith."

On October 24, 1759 John Chilcoat paid L23 to Ridgely, who then released to him the land that had been mortgaged, as recorded in the Baltimore County, Maryland land records.

In February 1760 John Chilcoat's two oldest sons, Robinson/Roberson (b. 1739) and James (b. 1741), obtained a proprietary lease for the tract Robertson and James' Delight. This property was located in the Reserve of Baltimore County, and was leased on the 21st day of February 1760 to Robertson and James Chilcote for 306 acres (according to a secondary record made in 1786). On April 14, 1760 Margaret' Pleasure was laid out for John Chilcoat of Baltimore County. This was a 98-acre tract "being part of lands reserved in said county for his Lordship's use, beginning at the end of the first line of a tract of land called Vineyard." It appears that Margaret's Pleasure was in Pipe Creek Hundred of present day Carroll County, Maryland [but in Baltimore County in 1760].

It appears that in 1763 our John Chilcoat was recorded in the tax assessment ledger of Aquila Hall, High Sheriff of Baltimore County. The ledger recorded the names of those persons owing quit rents on the assessed value of the land that they owned by patent or deed (i.e. freeholds or private land, as distinguished from leaseholds), located primarily within the boundaries of St. Thomas's Parish. The ledger entries showed that John Chilcoat was assessed 4 shillings for part of Merryman's Adventure100-acres.

In April 1764 John Chilcoat, signing by mark, conveyed 89-acres of Merriman's Adventure to William [Tolley] Towson, joiner, for L133.5, with his wife Margaret consenting. This may have been around the time that John moved his "dwelling" plantation to the Western Run of the Gunpowder? On July 1773 John Chilcoat, Sr. was recorded in the tax list for the North Hundred of Baltimore County; living on his property was Silvan(a) Sonecraft, a female servant [John Chilcoat, Jr. was also recorded in that tax list as having three servants (both families on North Hundred)].The property was probably part of Robertson and James' Delight, on which he also paid taxes in 1783. In 1783 John Chilcoat was in possession of part of Robinson's and James's Delight (40-acres) in theNorth Hundred. That tract probably was where he and his family lived. The tax list showed three white inhabitants, who may have consisted of himself, his wife Margaret, and their grandson Christopher Chilcoat (Christopher was probably born after 1764 and before 1772; he was in the Delaware Militia in 1810, then being of military age not older than 45). There was only one free male who was age 21 and over [i.e. John]. John Chilcoat died after March 1783 (when he was shown on a tax list) and before November 17, 1788, when a Baltimore County license was issued for the marriage of "Margarett Chilcott" [John's widow] and John Gill. Margaret was probably at least 65-years old, assuming she was at least age 16 when she had conceived her first known child about March 1739. John Turner, a Baptist minister, signed the marriage license.

On September 1, 1795 "John Gill of Stephen" and John's wife, Margaret [widow of John Chilcoat], deeded to Christopher Chilcoat for L50, 20 acres of Robinson and James' Delight as well as all their personal property. Christopher was probably the son of James and Sarah Chilcoat, the grandson of John and Margaret Chilcoat; and possibly the grandson of Christopher and Sarah Cole. Margaret (Chilcoat) Gill was still alive on June 4, 1796 (probably at least 73 years old), when she and her second husband, John Gill of Stephen, deeded part of Conception Valley to Abraham Cole [the one born in 1728?].

The children of John and Margaret (Robinson) Chilcoate were: Robinson ...........………....b. December 8, 1739 and christened at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Western Run, Baltimore, MD. Married Amy Ann Heathcote (b. 1743 Baltimore County, MD d. 1803 Huntingdon County, PA). Robinson died during the Revolution about 1781 in a British POW Camp in North Carolina. Robinson had moved to Pennsylvania before 1770, but the Indians became troublesome and he moved from his farm near Shirleysburg to North Carolina at the time of the Revolution. He joined the American Army, was captured by the British, and died of swamp fever in a British Prison Camp in North Carolina while a prisoner. Robinson had a least seven sons: Nicodemus, John, Heathcoat, Joshua, Humphrey, Benjamin, and James.

James ...............…..….….b. June 4, 1741 Baltimore County and later baptized at St. Paul Episcopal Church, located in Baltimore County, Maryland. Grew up in Western Run, MD and married Elizabeth Ensor, daughter of George Ensor and Elizabeth Reeves. James and Elizabeth had at least seven children: James, Ann, Robinson, Nathan, Joshua, Margaret, and Sarah. James is believed to have died a little before 1800, probably in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth was born in 1748 in Spring Garden, Baltimore County, MD and died June 28, 1832 in Perry County, Ohio, where she was also buried. John, IV ........…….....…….b. March 30, 1743 Western Run and later baptized at St. Paul Episcopal Church, located in Baltimore County, Maryland. Grew up near Western Run, MD. He moved to Huntington County, PA about 1784 and from there he moved to Fairfield County, Ohio in 1807, and from there to Richland County, Ohio in 1811. He died there (near the village of Orange) in Orange Township, Ashland County, Ohio on August 7, 1833 and was buried on the family farm. He married three times: (1) Delilah Cole in 1764 in Baltimore County, and by her had three children: Elizah, Mary and Mordecai. Delilah died about 1771 in Baltimore County. (2) m. December 24, 1771 Prudence/Providence Ensor born about 1753 and (daughter of George and Elizabeth Ensor), and by her had children: John, Joseph, Elizabeth, Margaret, Ensor, James and Prudence (James and Prudence died young) All of these children are believed to have been born in Western Run, (3) m. 1788 in Huntingdon County Sarah McKrill (she b. 1757 Huntingdon County, PA & d. 1809 in Fairfield County, Ohio) and by her had six children. Elisha, Sarah, Prudence, Nancy, Humphrey and Joseph. Nancy died without heirs. The last set of children were all born in Huntington County, PA. In 1806 John and Sarah migrated to Fairfield County, Ohio and there Sarah died in 1809. In 1811 John moved to Richland County (now Ashland County), Virginia, where he died on August 7, 1833. He died in his daughter Mary's house (another researcher has John dying in Orange Township, Ashland, Ohio).

Joshua .........………..........b. about 1745 in Baltimore County, MD. Little is known of Joshua, but it is believed that he married his brother James' widow, Elizabeth. Joshua died June 28, 1832 in Perry County, Ohio. Joshua had a family by a previous marriage. This researcher believes that Joshua moved back to Maryland to live at "Middle River and Back River Upper Hundred" in Baltimore County at the eastern suburbs of Baltimore City, since his name appeared in the 1790 federal census for Baltimore County.

Humphrey ........….....……..b. 1749 in Baltimore County, Maryland and died September 9, 1804 in Huntingdon County, PA. Humphrey married Sarah Ensor in Baltimore, MD on March 3, 1772

All five of these sons are believed to have located at one time or other in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Some believe that Elihu Chilcott (1757-1831) who married Lydia Payne, may also have been a son of John and Margaret.

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