Peake - Stiles - Person Sheet
Peake - Stiles - Person Sheet
Misc. Notes
Emmigrated to Maryland from England in 1641 w/ wife and one child.
According to a deposition he made in Saint Mary's County in 1654, John Wheatley was born about 1605 and immigrated "about twelve years since" as a free man. After taking the oath of fidelity on 2 January 1646/47, he requested (30 October 1647) two hundred acres for having transported himself, wife, and son in 1641. No actual grant in that amount has been found on record; however, fifteen months after the petition (January 1648/49), fifty acres were surveyed for John along a waterway cited as Wheatley's Fresh, lying on the east side of Packer Creek and west side of Saint George's River. The 5 July 1649 patent for that tract, denoting it as John Wheatley's Hould, states that the land was due him "for transporting himself into this Province in anno 1641."In his will of 23 January 1657 (probated 30 September 1659), he cited no wife, and requested that his children be raised Catholic. The wording of the will implies that all surviving children were minors. Eventually some of the land came into the possession of Lord Calvert, according to a rent roll of 1707.
According to a deposition he made in Saint Mary's County in 1654, John Wheatley was born about 1605 and immigrated "about twelve years since" as a free man. After taking the oath of fidelity on 2 January 1646/47, he requested (30 October 1647) two hundred acres for having transported himself, wife, and son in 1641. No actual grant in that amount has been found on record; however, fifteen months after the petition (January 1648/49), fifty acres were surveyed for John along a waterway cited as Wheatley's Fresh, lying on the east side of Packer Creek and west side of Saint George's River. The 5 July 1649 patent for that tract, denoting it as John Wheatley's Hould, states that the land was due him "for transporting himself into this Province in anno 1641."In his will of 23 January 1657 (probated 30 September 1659), he cited no wife, and requested that his children be raised Catholic. The wording of the will implies that all surviving children were minors. Eventually some of the land came into the possession of Lord Calvert, according to a rent roll of 1707.