Notley Rozier Young (1738 - 1802)

Born 24 Sep 1738 in Prince George's, Maryland

Ancestors

Husband of Eleanor Jane (Digges) Young — married before 1762 in Maryland

Husband of Mary (Carroll) Young — married after 1783 in Maryland, United States

Descendants

Died 23 Mar 1802 at age 63 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Biography

Notley Rozier Young, was born on September 24, 1738 in Prince George's County, MD. He was the son of Benjamin Young and Anne Elizabeth Rozier. His mother was a widow when she married his father and Notley had 3 older half siblings.

He married Eleanor Jane Digges in 1742 and they had 5 children.

Eleanor and Notley

Paintings by John Wolleston

Notley Rozier Young, was a staunch Catholic at a time when Catholics were oppressed and persecuted in England, Ireland and America. His manor, built in about 1756, included a private chapel and became a refuge for Catholics, when public Catholic churches were prohibited. The Notley Young manor stood on a bank of the Potomac River in what is now G Street, between 9th and 10th, SW.

His wife Eleanor died in 1782 aged 40, in the family home. Notley was remarried (date unknown) to Mary Carroll a relative of his mother's by her first marriage. Notley and Mary had no children.

Thomas Jefferson visited Notley's home in the fall of 1790. Evidently the purpose of this specific visit by Secretary of State Jefferson, was to meet with landowners in that area to plan the federal city of Washington. The Young home and that of other landowners was obtained by an act of Congress to build the new capital city.

Like other landowners, Notley Rozier Young had some issues with Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French engineer tasked with designing the new Federal City who was "autocratic and irascible" ^[1] towards Notley whose manor occupied part of L'Enfant's plan for the new federal city. Ironically, today L'Enfant Plaza is located there. Notley's wealth appears to have been made by the lease and sale of his lands. He owned a large number of slaves, and tobacco was most likely farmed on his property. Click on the link for a panoramic view of his plantation from the Potomac.

[http://visualizingdc.org/2011/08/young-plantation-view-from-potomac-park/ ] [1]

Research Note on property and the Capitol

Cerne Abbey Manor was located on Jenkin's Hill where the Capitol now stands. The land was originally owned by Thomas Notley, who arrived from England in 1660 and purchasing 3 lots, comprising Duddngton Manor, Duddngton pasture and New Troy, combined them into one, renaming it the Cerne Abbey Manor after his family home in Dorset, England, in 1671. The land stretched from the Anacostia River north to approximately L Street, and included all of Jenkins Hill, now called Capitol Hill. Thomas Notley was the land agent and attorney of Charles Calvert, 3rd baron of Baltimore. He willed the land to Benjamin Rozier, son of his friend Jane Lowe who married Lord Calvert as a widow. The property appears to have reverted to the original name of 'Duddington Manor' after the death of Thomas Notley.

Benjamin Rozier left the property to his daughter and sole heir, Anne Elizabeth Rozier, Notley's mother. She left it to Notley's elder half brother Charles Carroll of Duddinton, who in turn left it to his son. Daniel Carroll of Duddington. Daniel Carroll sacrificed it under an act of Congress which aquired the land for the establishment of the District of Columbia. 'Thompson sold his Capitol Hill properties in 1670, including Duddington Manor, to Thomas Notley; The Duddington property was handed down over the generations to Daniel Carroll, of Duddington.'^{[2] [3]}

Notley died on March 23 in 1802 in his office at the Bank of Columbia, DC. Both he and his first wife Eleanor were buried on their estate in the family mausoleum on the banks of the Potomac river and later reinterred at the Carroll burial ground at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church Cemetery at Rock Creek in Forest Glen, Montgomery County, MD as the city expanded.

When Notley died in 1802, his farms were put up for sale that September through the DC "Orphan's Court".

In Pursuance of Orders From the Orphans Court of Washington County, in the District of Columbia, and of Prince George's County, in the State of Maryland, we shall proceed to sell by public sale, at the farms of the late Notley Young, Esq. in Washington County, on Monday the 25th of October next, if fair, if not fair on the first fair day, A valuable Stock of Cattle, Draft Horses, Hogs, Sheep, Farming Utensils, and various other articles of the personal Estate of the said Notley Young, deceased--- and on the Monday succeeding, being the first day of November we shall sell all the personal property belonging to the Estate of the said deceased, at his plantation in Prince George's County, in the Forest of Queen Ann, except his slaves, consisting of a very large and valuable stock of every kind, farming utensils, etc. Nine months credit will be given for all sums above twenty dollars, on bonds with approved security. BENJ. YOUNG NICH. YOUNG, } Executors. ROBT. BRENT. N. B. The Sales will commence at the Farm adjoining the City, which belonged to Mr. Young. Sept. 27th, 1802

Sources

Will Notley Rozier Young 1798

1. ↑ http://earlywashingtondc.org/families/carroll
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Washington,_D.C.
3. ↑ JOURNAL ARTICLE The Earliest Proprietors of Capitol Hill Margaret Brent Downing, Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. Vol. 21 (1918), pp. 1-23 (23 pages), Published by: Historical Society of Washington, D.C. retrieved 17 Aug 2019.

• Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland, a Carroll Saga 1500 - 1782, Ronald Hoffman in collaboration with Sally D Mason , Published for Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill & London, 2000. Appendix Chart E
• http://earlywashingtondc.org/families/carroll
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83678622/notley-rozier-young
• http://visualizingdc.org/2011/03/notley-youngs-mansion-and-chapel/
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:LINEAGE_OF_THE_YOUNG_HILL_HURTT_DIGGS_FAMILY
• Name: Notley Rozier Young Gender: Male Birth Date: 24 Sep 1738 Birth Place: Prince George's County, Maryland, United States of America Death Date: 23 Mar 1802 Death Place: Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, United States of America Cemetery: Saint John the Evangelist Catholic Church Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Forest Glen, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States of America Has Bio?: Y Spouse: Eleanor Jane Young Children: Nicholas Young Mary Brent
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83678622/notley-rozier-young
• JOURNAL ARTICLE The Earliest Proprietors of Capitol Hill Margaret Brent Downing, Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. Vol. 21 (1918), pp. 1-23 (23 pages), Published by: Historical Society of Washington, D.C. retrieved 17 Aug 2019.

See also:

• Jamestowne Society, Lineages to the Revolutionary War Era
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 12 March 2020), "Record of Notley Young", Ancestor # A130190.