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Ancestors of Charles Hines Dorsey

Generation No. 6


      32. Vachel Dorsey, born October 20, 1726 in Queen Caroline Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland; died 1798 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He was the son of 64. John Dorsey and 65. Honor (Elder?) Stafford. He married 33. Ruth Dorsey.

      33. Ruth Dorsey, born 1726; died 1814 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. She was the daughter of 66. Captain Edward Dorsey Jr. and 67. Sarah Todd.

Notes 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)


Notes for Ruth Dorsey:
Ruth Dorsey was the daughter of Edward and Sarah (Todd) Dorsey. In her will made December 24, 1813 and proved May 27, 1814 she left:

To son Johnsa Dorsey, silver spoons

To daughter Ruth Owings, wearing apparel, bed and furniture

To granddaughter Eliza Owings, a negro boy in case her father will pay 30 pounds to assist in the maintenance of son Levin

To son Levin Dorsey, 30 pounds for his maintenance

To granddaughter Ruth Maria Dorsey a negro in case her father Johnsa Dorsey will pay 30 pounds to assist in the maintenance of son Levin

To granddaughters Maria and Caroline, and May Dorsey, a negro each in case their fathers will assist in the maintenance of son Levin

To granddaughter Rachel Dorsey, 15 pounds

To granddaughter Elizabeth Frost, residuary legatee

All money from Samuel Owings and all property to be used in Maintenance of son Levin

Exr: Edward Dorsey(A.A. Co. Wills J.G. No. 3, f. 63)

     
Children of Vachel Dorsey and Ruth Dorsey are:
  i.   Elias Dorsey, died Abt. 1794 in Baltimore County, Maryland; married (1) Susannah Snowden June 2, 1779; married (2) Mary Lawrence February 17, 1786; born February 28, 1767; died August 20, 1810.
  ii.   Ruth Dorsey, died May 1835; married Beal Owings February 18, 1790; born 1774; died December 25, 1821.
  Notes for Ruth Dorsey:
Ruth DORSEY and Beal OWINGS had the following children:

i. Peregrine OWINGS.
ii. Samuel Christopher OWINGS(31) was born in Sep 1793.
iii. Rachel OWINGS was born in 1795. She died about 1796.
iv. Eliza OWINGS.

  Notes for Beal Owings:
son of Christopher OWINGS and Elizabeth LAWRENCE

  iii.   Joshua Dorsey, born 1750; died 1821 in Jefferson County, Kentucky; married Sarah Hammond March 9, 1788 in Evangelical Reformed, Frederick County, Maryland; born Abt. 1765.
  Notes for Joshua Dorsey:
Johnsa DORSEY and Sarah HAMMOND had the following children:

i.Hammond DORSEY died in 1826 in Kentucky.
ii. Ruth Maria DORSEY.
iii. Vachel DORSEY.
iv. Sarah Anne DORSEY.
v. Matilda DORSEY.
vi. Julianna DORSEY.
vii. Corilla (Corinne) DORSEY.
viii. Elizabeth Chew DORSEY.
ix. Columbus DORSEY.
x. Nimrod DORSEY.
xi. Henrietta DORSEY.

  Notes for Sarah Hammond:
daughter of John HAMMOND and Ann GAITHER

  iv.   Levin Dorsey, born 1755; died Aft. 1833 in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
  v.   Vachel Dorsey, born 1760; died October 27, 1814 in Baltimore County, Maryland; married (1) Sarah Nelson April 9, 1783; died Bef. April 5, 1798; married (2) Elizabeth Dorsey March 19, 1798 in St. Pauls Church, Baltomore. Maryland; died 1840.
  Notes for Vachel Dorsey:
Vachel DORSEY and Sarah NELSON had the following children:

i. Maria Cecila DORSEY died in 1826.
ii. Caroline DORSEY.
iii. Mary DORSEY.
iv. Rachel DORSEY.
v. Charles DORSEY died in battle of North Point..

Vachel DORSEY and Elizabeth DORSEY had the following children:

i. Evaline Mary DORSEY.
ii. Ann DORSEY.
iii. Emma Ridgely DORSEY.
iv. Elizabeth Hall DORSEY.
v. Essex Ridley DORSEY.


  Notes for Elizabeth Dorsey:
daughter of Joshua DORSEY and Elizabeth HALL

  16 vi.   Edward Dorsey, born May 4, 1762 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland; died August 5, 1804 in Jefferson County, Kentucky; married Susannah Lawrence February 21, 1786 in Baltimore, Maryland.


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