"Morgan's Neck" / Richard Bennett III and Elizabeth Rousby

"Morgan's Neck" / Richard Bennett III and Elizabeth Rousby (HM1GN)

Location: Queenstown, MD 21658 Queen Anne's County
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Country: United States of America
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N 38° 52.144', W 76° 11.833'

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"Morgan's Neck"
 "Morgan's Neck" (300 acres) was patented by Cecil Calvert on January 26, 1658, to "Henry Morgan, of the Isle of Kent, gentleman," for transporting into the province Frances Malyn and Francis Ash. The tract descended to his daughter Frances Sayer, in 1674; and to Elizabeth Rousby, his granddaughter, in 1698. Elizabeth Rousby married Richard Bennett, III, grandson of the puritan Governor of Virginia. Their dwelling nearby was excavated in 1973.


Richard Bennett III
1667-1749
his wife
Elizabeth Rousby
1682-1740
Bennett's will (1749) ordered 250 pounds sterling to be "expended in a decent house to be built over the graveyard and burying place where my dear wife lays interr'd." The will (1698) of Frances Morgan Sayer ordered "a chapel built of lime and breek" (20 by 30 feet) over the grave of her husband, Col. Peter Sayer, at this site. Archaeological evidence indicates that the Sayer Chapel was most probably incorporated in the Bennett Chapel. Also buried here: Dorothy Blake Carroll (mother of Charles, the Barrister); Thomas Greene (d. 1674).
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Placed ByQueen Anne's County Historical Society and Maryland Historical Society
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Date Added Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 at 12:18pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 396138 N 4302927
Decimal Degrees38.86906667, -76.19721667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 52.144', W 76° 11.833'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 52' 8.64" N, 76° 11' 49.98" W
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Area Code(s)410, 443
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 113-199 Ice House Point Dr, Queenstown MD 21658, US
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