John LeMar (abt. 1653 - abt. 1691)

Descendants

Contents 1 Biography 2 From FAG of G4daughter 3 Notes from Cecilia Fabos 4 Sources

Biography

Dr John was born in Wicres which was part of Flanders in 1653. He was a protestant Huguenot who fled the options of conversion or death. He died in 1691 after his arrival in America.

First Spouse: Margaret Wachob - 1654-1688

Additional sons:

William

James

Christian

John

From FAG of G4daughter

"DR. JOHN LEMAR", who was born in 1645 in the Anjou Province of France, was naturalized in Charles Co., MD in 1673, married “Margaret Waughop/Wahob” (1654-1688) in 1669 @ Charles Co., MD. They lived on the Love Plantation @ Charles Co., MD where they died just weeks apart. Their son, Charles Lemar I, was only 7-years-old when they died

Notes from Cecilia Fabos

I've been looking at Dr. John Lemar as a possible ancestor of my William Lemar b. ca. 1730, married twice, second wife's first name was Hannah, and died in Rockingham county, in August, 1778. (William LaMar (abt.1735-abt.1778)) It looks like he had brothers who arrived with him, James and Jacob, as per Chalkley's chronicles and he had sons: William, James, Christian, John and Charles. I descend from William "Jr." who went to Tennessee (Anderson Co.). I've been researching Dr. Lemar through what primary source records I could find online or published. Here's what I found from Maryland records thus far: he was married July 6, 1675 and his father in law made a settlement of an estate on him in 1676 and gave his daughter a mare. He died in 1687 and his wife was still administering his estate when she died in 1688. I've only found bare minimal abstracts of the estate records and don't know who his children were. He had left everything to his wife and the abstract suggested he had children but didn't name them. He had land in more than one county, if two John Lemar's are not being confused. A John and Charles Lemar both had land in Queen Anne's County by its founding, in 1707. Since the Dr. died in 1687, I have to wonder if he had two sons, John and Charles. Since this was the earliest record I could find so far for Charles as an adult paying taxes and signing deeds (he signed two more in Queen Anne's County, as per the Maryland Land Records found online through the State Archives), I felt he must have been born about 1690 or a bit before. If he was seven when his father died and eight when he mother died, this makes sense. A county history tried to claim that Dr. John Lemar had no sons, only two daughters but I don't find that. I find that his father in law, Archibald Wachob, by his will abstract only had two daughters and no sons and wonder if the two were confused. I'd love to see a full transcription of both John's and Margaret's wills and estate administrations to determine what lands they had total and where, and who were the guardians of their children and who all were their children. Since they were married twelve years, it seems they ought to have had more than one child. It's nice to see that someone else has reason to believe he did have children and that Charles was his son, since Charles was clearly NOT the son of the John Lemar who married Susanna Duvall Tyler. The problem as I see it is both lines of Thomas and the good Dr. converged a generation after emigration in Prince George's County. Both had lands there, and I think there is considerable confusion in the claims for who descends from whom, as a result.

Sources

• LeMar, Harold Dihal; History of the Lamar or Lemar family in America Cockle Printing Company, Omaha, Nebraska, Copyright, 1941.

• https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/john-lamar_6957998