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Ruth (Tharp) Long (abt. 1751 - aft. 1818)

Ruth Long formerly Tharp
Born about in Kent Upon the Delawaremap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married about 1775 in Kent Co., Delawaremap [uncertain]
Descendants descendants
Died after after about age 67 in Baltimore Hd., Sussex County, Delaware, USAmap
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Biography

Ruth Tharp was born abt 1751, probably after her father John Tharp and mother Elizabeth Jordan had migrated from Talbot Co., Province of Maryland to Kent-Upon-the-Delaware (Bay/River), now Kent Co., Delaware.

She married abt. 1775 to Benjamin Long who was living in Sussex, Delaware in 1775. (1775 is the date that part of Worcester Co. Maryland became Sussex Co. Delaware.) Following tradition, the location of their marriage would have been where Ruth lived-- presumably with her parents in Kent Co., Delaware.
The marriage date of 1775 is based on the 1776 estimated birth of their first child, "Lovey" (son Marshall b. 1799, of John Bunting, Lovey probably died in childbirth.) [1] [2]

In 1790 Benjamin Long (wife Ruth and family) were living in Baltimore Hundred of Sussex Co., near now Selbyville, Delaware. [3]

Ruth outlived Benjamin by almost 20 years. In 1800 and 1810 Ruth Long was still living on Benjamin's property which had been bequeathed to her in Benjamin's 1799 will; the property location was in Baltimore Hundred of Sussex Co., just north of what is now Selbyville, Delaware. [4] [5]

Ruth sold a tract of Benjamin's property on 19 Sep 1818, with daughter "Betsy" (Elizabeth) Long (m Paul Howard). [6]

Ruth Long is not found in the 1820 United States Federal Census for Baltimore, Hd., Sussex Co., Delaware so she may have died between the property sale on 19 Sep 1818 and the 1820 census. However, she could have been living with one of her children (if so, her name would not show on the 1820 census; she would have been included in an older age category on the child's census.)

Her burial was probably in what is now Joe Long Cemetery, but was, at her death, her property which eventually was in possession of son Joseph Long. (Benjamin's will divided his property among his children at the death of his wife Ruth.) There is no extant tombstone in that cemetery for either Ruth or Benjamin, or for Joseph, their son, who is said to have set aside the land for the cemetery. [7]

Research Notes

Adams-16917

  • Ruth Tharp (of the Kent Co. Maryland/Delaware Tharps) is my 4th gr grandmother Long. I have puzzled much over how Ruth met Benjamin Long (of lower Sussex Co. Delaware, earlier a part of the Worcester Maryland), as locations are at some distance.

However, there are connections that offer hints: It is likely that Ruth's grandfather (William Tharp) and Benjamin Long's grandfather (John Long) knew each other as they both had settled in Kent Co. Maryland, near the Chester River at the Chesapeake Bay.

  • The Tharps relocated from Maryland to Kent Co, Delaware and Ruth's father John Tharp was on Tax Lists there at least until 1764, about 10 years before the marriage in question.
  • Benjamin Long's father (David of John) had patented land further south in Maryland (at the time; later Delaware) at the head of the St. Martin's River at the edge of the Cypress Swamp. David Long also bought another parcel of land a bit further south, also at the edge of the Swamp, where his son Benjamin settled. Both of David's parcels were part of the area which became Sussex, Delaware in 1775. It was a sparsely settled area due to swampy conditions and lack of roads. I suspect the limited availability of marriageable girls led Benjamin's family to look back to Kent Delaware for a wife for Benjamin.
  • A John Tharp is found in the Sussex Tax List of 1782. He may have been Ruth Tharp's father, having remarried and relocated to Sussex County, Delaware where Ruth and Benjamin Long were living.

Sources

  1. Will of Benjamin Long 1744-1800, Sussex Co. Delaware, transcription by William Long [1]
  2. Wiki-Tree profile for Benjamin Long.
  3. Leon DeValinger, Jr., Reconstructed 1790 Census of Delaware, National Genealogical Society, Washington, 1962. p58 (Sussex, Baltimore Hd.)
  4. 1800 United States Federal Census, Baltimore Hd., Sussex Co. Delaware at Ancestry.com [database on-line] Ancestry.com Operations Inc. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Second Census of the United States, 1800. NARA microfilm publication M32 (52 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
  5. 1810 United States Federal Census, Baltimore, Hd., Sussex Co., Delaware; Roll: 4; Page: 449; Image: 0224381; Family History Library Film: 00238 at Ancestry.com. - Online - The Generations Network, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data - Third Census of the United States, 1810; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M252, 71 rolls); Bureau of the Census.
  6. Delaware Public Archives; Delaware Land Records; Roll Number: 14. Delaware, Land Records, 1677-1947
  7. DGS Journal, v15, n4 (Oct 2012), p86+,"Genealogy of the Joe Long Cemetery" by Marjorie Adams.

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Acknowledgments

  • John Long started this profile before 2013.
  • Thanks to Marj Adams for adopting it.
  • Tharp-192 created through the import of O'Bryan Family tree.ged on Sep 6, 2011 by Tim Tropeck.




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