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View Tree for Vachel DorseyVachel Dorsey (b. October 20, 1726, d. 1798)

Vachel Dorsey (son of John Dorsey and Honor (Elder?) Stafford) was born October 20, 1726 in Queen Caroline Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland65, and died 1798 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland65. He married Ruth Dorsey, daughter of Edward Dorsey Jr. and Sarah Todd.

 Includes NotesNotes for Vachel Dorsey:
Vachel Dorsey, son of John Dorsey and Honor his wife, married his kinswoman, Ruth, the daughter of Edward and Ruth (Todd) Dorsey and the granddaughter of Lancelot and Elizabeth (Rockhold) Todd.

There is no record of his subscribing to the Oath of Allegiance in Anne Arundel County, but inasmuch as his plantations were partly in Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties, he can be placed as the Vachel Dorsey who took the oath before Judge Edward Cockey of Baltimore County who filed his returns on February 28, 1778. (Baltimore. Co. Oaths, box 3, folder 3)

In 1750 Vachel Dorsey received a gift from his father of a tract of 800 acres called Belt's Hills and seven negroes.

On December 20, 1752, Vachel Dorsey bought 111 acres of Invasion from John Hood of Anne Arundel County. (A.A. Co. Deeds R.B. No. 3, f. 599)

A tract called Anything was patented to Vachel Dorsey in 1759, and in 1762 and 1763, The Addition, Dorsey's Industry, Addition to Vachel's Purchase, Young Man's Folly, and Dorsey's Interest were patented to him. (Patents B.C. & C.S. No. 10, f. 237; No.. 17, f. 257; No. 20, folios 47, 60)

On December 1, 1763, Vachel Dorsey sold Dorsey's Thicket of 300 acres to John Dorsey, Ruth his wife, signed. (A.A. Co. Deeds B.B. No. 3, f. 91) In 1770 Vachel Dorsey and his bro-ther Edward Dorsey bought 3 tracts of land, Mistake, Dispute Ended, and Yate's Contrivance from Nathan Dorsey. (A.A. Co. Deeds I.B. and J.B. No. 1, f. 322)

In 1786 Vachel Dorsey gave to his son Johnsa Dorsey 500 acres of land, and to his son Elias Dorsey, Industry, containing 473 acres. (Balt. Co. W.C. No. V, folios 297, 344) In 1790 he also gave to his son Johnsa Dorsey, Baltimore County, 564 acres, including tracts, John's Chance, Polly's Inheritance, Addition, Vachel's Part of Dorsey's Thickett. (BaIt.Co. Deeds W.G.. No. EE, f. 464)

Vachel's will made March 26, 1790 and probated March 9, 1798 left:

To son Levin Dorsey, Dorsey's Interest, 30 acres, Salophia, 100 acres and Lost Sheep, which lies partly in Baltimore County and partly in Anne Arundel County

To son Edward Dorsey, Belt's Hills, 790acres, part of Invasion, 111 acres

To daughter Ruth Owings, tracts Doxterity, 580 acres, Young Man's Folly, 44 acres, Vachel's Purchase, 24 acres, Addition to Vachel's Purchase, 25 acres, Ely's Lot, 50 acres. If no issue to descend to granddaughters Ruth and Maria, daughters of sons Elias and Vachel Dorsey

To daughter Ruth Owings, 5 negroes. To granddaughter Elizabeth Frost, a negro boy

Rest of estate to be divided equally among children, Johnsa, Elias, Vachel, Edward, and Ruth Owings.

Exrs: sons Johnsa and Elias Dorsey(A.A. Co. Wills J.G. No. 2, f. 37)


Children of Vachel Dorsey and Ruth Dorsey are:
  1. +Elias Dorsey, d. Abt. 1794, Baltimore County, Maryland.
  2. Ruth Dorsey, d. May 1835.
  3. +Joshua Dorsey, b. 1750, d. 1821, Jefferson County, Kentucky.
  4. Levin Dorsey, b. 1755, d. Aft. 1833, Jefferson County, Kentucky.
  5. Vachel Dorsey, b. 1760, d. October 27, 1814, Baltimore County, Maryland.
  6. +Edward Dorsey, b. May 4, 1762, Anne Arundel County, Maryland66, d. August 5, 1804, Jefferson County, Kentucky67.
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