Notes

Note for: Jane Pollard, 1670 - BEF 13 JAN 1731 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Taylor Island, Dorchester Co., Maryland
Will note:    Wife, Jane was the executrix of the will. John Woollen and
William Grantham were her surities. The administrative bond
was 150 pounds sterling.

Individual note:   See husband's notes for extensive bio info.
Source: 'We Woollen' by Keith C. Woollen.

Information from: Dorchester Co. MD Court records Hall of
records, Annapolis MD 'Shaw-Woollen' Collection, Duke
University, Durham NC 'Early Settlers of Maryland' by Gus
Skordas
WILL: John Pollard in Will dated 21 JAn 1700 devised to
grandaughter, Ann Woollen, 1000 acres 'Herring Point', on
Northwest branch of Blackwater Creek, to be her & her heirs
forever. A commission defined boundaries on the tract
belonging to John Wollen in 1729, his sister apparently dying
and tract falling to him. John Woollen, by will 20 Nov 1750
devised tract to Sons, William Woollen & Edward Wollen, as he
had set it out to them.
DEED: Dorchester Co. MD 11 May 1712: William Robson Jr. to
Daughter Elizabeth, two negro girls named Low and Hanah Low
except first child of Low to be given to John Woollen; to
daughter Mary Robson, a child of Hannah; to Daughter Jane, a
child of Hannah. (Note: of compiler: The sister of William
Robson Jr, Jane Robson, m 12 Nov 1701 Tobias Pollard,
Dorchester Co. MD.) Tobias Pollard, a militia Captain &
Justice of the Peace, was a brother of Jane Pollard (Woollen)
Robson.
William Robson Jr. made last will 3 Jul 1728 Probated Dor. Co.
MD 4 Feb 1729. Wife, Jane, Executrix. John Woollen & William
Grantham were her sureties, administrative bond 150 pound
sterling.

Source: Woollen Edward A. Woolen, Library of Congress #
84-072574

Notes

Note for: John Pollard, - 1702 Index

Notes

Note for: William Robson, - Index

Will note: Wife, Jane was the executrix of the will. John Woollen and
William Grantham were her surities. The administrative bond
was 150 pounds sterling.

Notes

Note for: Ann Wooland Woollen, 1670 - BEF 1711 Index

Will note:    John Pollard, in his will dated 21 Jan 1700 devised to
grandaughter, Ann Woollen, 1000 acres 'Herring Point', On the
Northwest branch of Blackwater Creek to be her and her heirs
forever. A commission defines boundries on the tract belonging
to John Wollen in 1729, his sister apparently dying and the
tract falling to him. John Wollen, by will 20 Nov 1750 devised
the tract to his sons, William Woollen & Edward Woolen, as he
had set it out to them.

Death note:    May have d. by 1711 when Stepfather gave slaves. Grandfather
John Pollard
willed her 'Herring Point' 100 acres on NW branch of
Blackwater river, 25
Oct 1702. Brother John later had this propertyper 8 OLD 378,
Aug 17, 1720 -
Dec 1, 1729. (Could she have m. John Barnes and they have
children and be
the reason Jane (Pollard Woollen) Robson named John Barnes John
Woollen as
as next of Kin in her will of 13 Jan 1731)?

Individual note:   May have d. by 1711 when Stepfather gave slaves. Grandfather
John Pollard willed her 'Herring Point' 100 acres on NW branch
of Blackwater river, 25 Oct 1702. Brother John later had this
propertyper 8 OLD 378, Aug 17, 1720 - Dec 1, 1729. (Could she
have m. John Barnes and they have children and be the reason
Jane (Pollard Woollen) Robson named John Barnes John Woollen as
as next of Kin in her will of 13 Jan 1731)?
Source: 'We Woollen' by Keith C. Woollen.

Notes

Note for: Mary Robson, - 28 JAN 1749 Index

Individual note: Died 28 Jan 1794 18 Old 344, 10 Sep 1762 18 OLD 344, 10 Sep 173
(sic We Woollen), called (minor) less than 21 years old when
receiving 1/3 to 2/3 of Robson's Chance and Robson's Range,
value set by John Woolen and Thomas Dean.
Inheritied 'Obscurity' from grandfather John Pollard, land then
went to half brother John Woollen. Zebulon Keene (Mary's
brother-in-law) set value of Robson's Chance & Robson's Range.
MAry made a will on her death bed and Zebulon named himself
executor and was thereby able to inherit part of Mary's estate.
William Keene's wife Mary's daughter-in-law) didn't like this.
THe court ruled her will void. Both her son William and his
wife Mary (Gadd?) Keene d soon after. Thomas Murphy, Richard
Gadd & Thomas Woollin wit: her will. William Traverse, Edward
Woolen, Henry Travers and B. Enalls also testified. Mary
married Henry Keene who was born in Calvert Co., ca 1692 and
came to Dorchester Co. before 1704. Henry d 1749.
Source: 'We Woollen' by Keith C. Woollen.