Mary (Wheeler) Brooke (1750 - 1799)

Born 1750 in Calvert County, Province of Maryland

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Holdsworth Heighe — married about 1766 in Calvert County MD

Wife of John Thomas Bond — married about 1776 in Calvert County MD

Wife of John Brooke — married Jun 1786 in Calvert County MD

Descendants

Died Mar 1799 at about age 49 in Calvert, Maryland, United States

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Biography

Mary Wheeler was born in 1750 in Calvert County MD, the daughter of Roger Wheeler and Suzanna Weems. ^[1] Mary Wheeler died in Calvert County MD in 1799.

Marriage

Mary Wheeler married three times.

She married first Thomas Holdsworth Heighe, about 1766. ^{[2] [3]}

She married second before 1776 John Thomas Bond. ^{[4] [5]}

She married third Major John Brooke in June 1786. ^[6]

Children

Thomas Holdsworth Heighe and Mary Wheeler had one daughter, Elizabeth (Betty} Holdsworth Heighe, born in 1768. She married Dr. James Heighe Blake, the third mayor of Washington DC. ^[7]

Betty Heighe Blake died in Washington DC in 1845, the mother of five children with Dr. Blake. ^[8]

John Thomas Bond and Mary Wheeler had three children:

• Mary Wheeler Bond 1777 m. Benjamin Hance Mackall
• Sarah Wheeler Bond before 1781 m. Daniel Kent
• John Thomas Bond Jr. 1781 m. Sarah Howe Duke

John Brooke and Mary Wheeler had two children:

• John James Brooke 1787 m. Juliet Duke
• Ann Harriett Brooke 1789 m. Dr. Ireland

Sources

1. ↑ Her age is given in Chancery 3556, Calvert County MD, 1790.
2. ↑ In Chancery 3556, Mary asserts that her grandfather James Weems supported her until 1766. I assume this is when she married Thomas.
3. ↑ Oct 1771: Division of Roger Wheeler's property, identified as Mary Heighe
4. ↑ 1782 Calvert County Tax List, St. Leonard's Creek Hundred, Mary Bond, 300 acres Brooke Place Manor, 17 slaves 1 male over 16, total 7 white inhabitants
5. ↑ 1784: Chancery 4931 identified as Mary Bond,
6. ↑ 31 Oct 1789 Chancery 3556 identified as Mary now wife of a certain Major John Brooke,
7. ↑ Wikipedia [1]
8. ↑ Find-a-Grave [2]

• 21 May 1792: James Heighe Blake and Betty Holdsworth Heighe Blake, daughter and heiress of Thomas Holdsworth Heighe, late deceased, and now wife of James Heighe Blake; John Brooke and his wife Mary, formerly wife of Thomas Holdsworth Heighe, to William Dawkins Broome, 100 acres, part of Brooke Place Manor.