James
Nowell
Jr
aka Noell
Born in Dorchester, Maryland, British Colonial America
Ancestors 
Son of James Nowell
and Margaret (Harwood) Nowell
Brother of
Septimus Nowell, John Nowell, Elizabeth Nowell, Ann (Nowell) Kempston, Hannah Nowell and Basil Nowell
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died after
after age 63
[location unknown]
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Biography
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James Nowell Jr was a Maryland colonist.
James was born about 1683 in Dorchester County, MD.. He was the son of James Nowell and Margaret Harwood. We do not know who he married or his children. The last we know of James is in a land record dated June 1746.
He is mentioned in the will of John Whitley which was filed in 1701 in Dorchester County. A daughter of James Nowell, Sr. is also mentioned. [1]
"Dorchester Land Record 6 Old 74 dated September 8, 1705, shows that James Noell, Jr. was 22 years old then and Record 6 Old 215 dated February 8, 1713, identifies him as a carpenter."[2]
Land Records: [3] Vol. 5: Liber 8, Old 258: Jan, 13, 1728; James Nowll wit.
Vol. 6: Liber 9, Old 126: Nov. 14, 1733: James Noell of Dorchester Co., to Bazell Noell of Dorchester Co., "Saw Box" on So. side of Choptank River, 50 acs.
Vol. 9: Liber 14, Old 59: Aug. 1745 - June 4, 1746: Deposition mentions . . . . . . . . James Noel. [4]
Sources
- ↑ Baldwin, Jane, compiler. Maryland Calendar of Wills, (1732 - 1738) Baltimore, MD: Kohn & Pollock, 1925.
- ↑ Mowbray, Calvin W. First Dorchester Families. Silver Spring, MD: 1984. p. 118.
- ↑ McAllister, James A., Jr. Abstracts from Land Records of Dorchester, Maryland, Cambridge, Md., 1963, 14 vols.
- ↑ Brown, Dorothy L. W. (Compiler). The Ancestors of George Clinton White and Julia Ann Noel White and their Descendants. Published 1974. (p. 58)
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