Thomas Rowland (abt. 1694 - bef. 1727)

Born about 1694 in Sussex County, Delaware, British Colonial America

Husband of Sarah (Miers) Clayton — married about 1 Feb 1715 in Sussex County, Delaware, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died before 1727 before about age 33 in Sussex County, Delaware, British Colonial America

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Biography

This profile is part of the Rowland Name Study.

Thomas was born about 1694. Thomas Rowland was a son of Samuel Rowland, who emigrated from England about 1682. He settled in Sussex County, Delaware. ^[1]

Thomas Rowland married Sarah Miers about 1715 and they had children:

1. Sarah 1716 ^[2]
2. Samuel 1718

He passed away before between 1718 and 1727.

Research Notes

1. Research Note 1. Immigration to the New World. In 1682 a Thomas Rowland arrived in Delaware Bay (River) aboard the Welcome.^[3] Note: This record refers to Thomas Rowland (1658-1708). The Thomas Rowland of this profile was not born until 12 years aftger the arrival of the Welcome

When Thomas's mother-in-law Mary Haworth Haslum Miers wrote her will in 1727, her daughter Sarah was married to Jonathan Ozburn and had children with the Rowland surname

Age: I presume that Thomas was of age to receive his father's gift in 1715 -- that is born about 1694 to be 21 years old.

Sources

1. ↑ "Genealogy of the Fisher Family 1682 to 1896" by Anna Wharton Smith, Philadelphia, 1896 (page 22) https://archive.org/details/genealogyoffishe00smit/page/22/
2. ↑ "Genealogy of the Fisher Family 1682 to 1896" by Anna Wharton Smith, Philadelphia, 1896 (page 22) https://archive.org/details/genealogyoffishe00smit/page/22/
3. ↑ "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s," database, Ancestry {https://www.ancestry.com : 16 Mar 2022), Thomas Rowland; citing Cowgill, E. B. "The Passengers on the Welcome." In Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, vol. 6 (1897-1900), pp. 56-59.

Also see:

• Deed Records of Sussex County, Delaware, 1693-1886: Deeds, book C3-D4, 1698-1721. FamilySearch.org. Accessed 23 Oct 2019

Image: 370 [1]

Date: 3 Nov 1715

Buyer: Thomas Rowland, mariner, son of Samuel Rowland

Seller: Samuel Rowland, Esq.

Price: “love and affection”

Property Details: Two lots on Lewes River,

formerly belonged to Nehemiah Field, Gent., deceased and to Jonathan Wynn son of Doctor Thomas Wynn, dec’d

• Deed Records of Sussex County, Delaware, 1693-1886: Deeds, book C3-D4, 1698-1721. FamilySearch.org. Accessed 23 Oct 2019

Image: 371 [2]

Date: 7 Nov 1716

Buyer: Thomas Rowland, of Lewes

Seller: Jeremiah Claypoole, of the Broad Kill

Price: £5

Property Details: two lots in Lewes

• Delaware: U.S., Land Records, 1677-1947: Sussex: Book 003. Page 50, Image 32. Available at Ancestry.com Image

2 May 1721

Deed of Sale: Samuel Rowland Esq. to Tho. Rowland & Wm. Rowland

Price: £200; description 250 acre Plantation lying on SW side of Lewes

• Sussex, Delaware Orphan’s Court dockets and minute dockets, 1728-1802. Image: 41. Images available at FamilySearch.org [3]

Court sitting 3 Sept 1734

Joshua Fisher who intermarried with Sarah Rowland, daughter of Thomas Rowland Late dec’d, petitioned the court for a division of a tract of land which descends to her by the will of [her] grandfather Samuel Rowland, Esq. dec’d.” Tract near Lewes. Court appoints Charles Dingey, John Mires, Joseph Eldridge, Jacob Wiltbank & Abraham Wiltbank to divide.

• Sussex, Delaware Orphan’s Court dockets and minute dockets, 1728-1802.Page 134, Image: 74. Images available at FamilySearch.org : [4]

2 Sep 1741

”Samuel Rowland. Eldest son of Thomas Rowland, late dec’d peticoned ye Court for a division of the Lands which ye sd Thomas Rowland dyed possessed of in the town Hundred and that the same be laid out and divided pursuant to law.”

• Delaware, Land Records, 1677-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original source: Delaware, Land Records, 1677–1947. Recorder of Deeds, Sussex County, RG 4555, Subgroup 000, Series 030. Delaware Public Archives, Dover, Delaware.

Sussex county: Roll 006: Image 38 [5]

Purchaser: Richard Horvard, pilot, of Lewes

Seller:Joseph Cord and Jane Cord his wife

Date: 31 July 1784

Price £72 ; Property: in Lewes, fronting Lewes Creek

Originally granted to Jeremiah Scott; sold 169s to Thomas Oldman; sold 8 March 1693/94 to John Miers; left by will dated 26 March 1721 to John Miers (2); left by him to his daughter Jane Cord

Deed of sale quotes John Miers's will: “[if Jane has no heirs] to fall to Samuel Rowland son of Thomas & Sarah Rowland (&?) to Joseph Palmer son of Daniel & Mary Palmer”

This Thomas Rowland or another one???

Thomas Rowland married Ann Saunders on 18 Jan 1818 in Delaware. ^[4]