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A History of Essex

Compiled by Derrick Pitard

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This draft of this essay is dated 1/22/11.

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The Battees

Essex was patented by Lord Baltimore to Fardinando Battee Sr. on August 5, 1664.

Battee was probably from the southeast of England--evidenced in part by the name of this

property--and left to join fellow puritans in the America.1 He probably immigrated to America

in about 1649 with his whole family, including Millicent his wife, Seaborn his son, and Dina,

Mary, and Ruth his daughters. He was definitely in America by the early 1660s according to the

land patents he filed. On 8 July 1663 he and Andrew Skinner surveyed 300 acres of land called

Essex; ten days later (18 July 1663) he surveyed another 300 acres called Hopewell near Herring

Creek (in what was to be St. James Parish), which lay farther south.2 Within the next twenty

years, he patented three other properties which abutted Essex: Kent (patented 14 August 1672),

Battee's Due (surveyed 13 Sept. 1677), and Suffolk (patented 18 June 1683).3

The survey for Essex came to 300 acres of land. It is hard to say precisely what the

boundaries of the property then were. The deed for Essex describes it as

a parcell of Land (called Essex) lying and being in Ann Arrundell County on the North

Sid of a river in the Said County called West river beginning at a Markt Oak and

running for breadth from the said Oak North one hundred and fifty perches to a Marked

red Oak bounded on the North by a line drawn West from the said Oak for length ffour

hundred and twenty perches to a Marked Oak on the West [. . . ]

and so on. The patents (together with Kent, Suffolk, and Battee's Due) lay in the extreme south

of the West River Hundred of Anne Arundel County, in what was later to be All Hallow's

1 Loeser, "Corrections and Additions" 505 n. 83. The primary sources for Fardinando Battee and his immediate family are Rudolf Loeser, "Fardinando Battee of Anne Arundel County," Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 37 (1997) 475-521, and his follow-up article "Fardinando Battee of Anne Arundel County: Corrections and Additions," Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin 39.4 (Fall, 1998) 491-518. Margaret Sparrow, Letter to Rudolf Loeser, Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin (1998) 236, suggests that he may have been a Huguenot from the French/Spanish border; Loeser thinks this is doubtful (in Loeser, " Corrections and Additions" 504-05) noting that there several instance of the name "Battey/Battie" in the southeast of England, "especially counties Essex and Suffolk." The name of the farm would seem to indicate an attachment to that part of the world as well. 2 Colonial Families of Maryland, 1600s-1900s, 57. Hopewell was patented 17 May 1666.

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Parish.4 Fardinando Sr. lived on the Essex property. The deed mentions that "Fardinando

Battee of this province hath due unto him three hundred of land within this province for

transporting himself Millicent his wife Seaborn his Son Dina Mary and Ruth his daughters into

this province here to inhabit." According to a map created by Dr. Jacob Franklin Sr., the original

house stood near what is now the entrance to the farm, in the field across the small lane from

what was Charles Parker's house. Next to the house, on his side of the lane, is a stand of trees

under which the Battees lie buried.

On 24 September 1684 Fardinando Sr. passed on 127 acres of Kent and Essex and 52

acres of Suffolk to his only son Seaborn, who was "about to enter the state of matrimony."5

Seaborn later passed on these properties to his son Samuel.6 However, Seaborn later

predeceased his father in 1687. Fardinando Sr.'s wife Millicent died around the same time,

between about 1685 and 1689, and he remarried, to Elizabeth Wood. Fardinando must have

been born around 1630—if he immigrated as a young man—so he was quite old by the time of

this second marriage. Nevertheless by his second wife he fathered six more children, whose

names are recorded in the parish register of All Hallow's, which was established when the

Anglican Church was established in Maryland in 1692.7 These children included another Dinah,

born in 1690; Benjamin; Fardinando Jr.; another Mary, who died as a child; John; and Elizabeth.

3 Rudolf Loeser, "Corrections and Additions" 497. There is a difference between the survey date and the patent date; I give the latter since it marks ownership. Loeser doesn't know the patent date for Battee's Due. 4 Loeser, "Corrections and Additions" 498. "Hundreds" were administrative areas that later evolved into election districts. The term is Anglo-Saxon, dating to at least to the 10th century; in the post-Norman conquest land assessment known as the Domesday Book, a Hundred was a tax and legal district of a shire. In 1696, Anne Arundel County consisted of the Town Neck, Middle Neck, Broad Neck, South River, West River, and Herring Creek Hundreds (Quoted from "Maryland Hundreds and Parishes ca. 1696," 28 June 2003, < http://www.combs-families.org/combs/records/md/hundreds.htm>, which takes its information from the Archives of Maryland 23, 17-25, from the Proceedings of the Council of Maryland 1696/70). On the Hundreds see ; and Pat Melville, "Hundreds of Anne Arundel County," The Archivist's Bulldog: Newsletter of the Maryland State Archives 16.20 (Nov 12, 2002) 1-2, though she incorrectly states that the first reference to the Hundreds is in 1714. According to Melville, the West River Hundred was divided in 1741 into to "overseer precincts," one supposes because by then the population had grown significantly, and borders needed to be re-established to enable efficient taxation and to maintain the growing county infrastructure. 5 Quoted in Colonial Families 57. He married Elizabeth Hanslap in 1684. 6 His will is quoted in Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 495-96. 7 Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 501.

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At his own death in 1706, Fardinando Sr.'s heirs were listed as his wife Elizabeth and

various of his children and grandchildren. 8 The will records that he left to his wife Elizabeth

"use and benefitt of my now dwelling house & plantation & all ye lands theereunto belong being

by Estimation three hundred acres more or less according as ye patents shall appear and also ye

use and Benifitt of ye tract of land Called Hopewell."9 His will also stipulates that after her

death, the property is to revert to her sons: "after my afd Wifes Decease [all 600 acres of his

land, more or less] may be Equally Divided Between my afd Two Sons Benj:a & Fardinando

Battee ye same by Even & Equall portions to the man each of their heirs Lawfully begotten."10

From their own wills, it is apparent that Benjamin got the 300 acres at Hopewell, and

Fardinando Jr. got the 300 which formed the Essex properties.11

The fact that a full 300 acres of Essex could be passed on here means the property must

have been re-consolidated after Seaborn's death; as stated above, the property had been

partitioned when Fardinando Sr. had passed some on to his son Seaborn, and Samuel had

inherited the parts of Essex which his father Seaborn had owned, so these must have reverted

back to Fardinando Sr. if he was able to will them to his wife.12 In fact, soon after Fardinando

Sr.'s death, but before Elizabeth's remarriage, information was collected on the owners of land

in Anne Arundel county.13 Essex, described as "300 acres at 6s rent," was then owned by the

"widow Battee."14 Kent, Suffolk, and Battee's Due are all recorded here as being owned by

Samuel. So, as Loeser explains, "at one point there must have been an exchange of tracts, Essex

reverting to Fardinando [Sr.] in its entirety and Samuel ending up with Battee's Due."15 The

8 Fardinando Sr.'s will was dated 21 December 1704, and probated 2 April 1706. 9 Quoted in Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 503. 10 Quoted in Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 503. 11 Benjamin records in his will that he was unhappy about the distribution of the land for some unknown reason; the will is quoted in Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 506-07; and see the noted in Loeser, "Corrections and Additions" 513. The division of the land is also the subject of a deed from Benjamin and Ann Battee to Fardinando Jr. dated 15 Oct. 1718, and quoted by Loeser, "Corrections and Additions" 498. 12 Yeah, I know, its all very confusing. See the family charts in the Appendix for help. 13 Elizabeth Wood remarried to Thomas Hood. See Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 505. 14 Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 505. 15 Loeser, "Fardinando Battee" 505.

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point is that 300 acres of Essex were under one owner, Elizabeth, before she later passed the

property to Fardinando Jr.

In 1711, apparently at the death of Elizabeth, 50 acres of Essex and 127 acres of Kent

were sold to Willam Barton, a free African-American. At the time, he was a cooper.16 In 1739,

he made a deed of gift of Essex (presumably this 50 acres) to Anthony Hill.

Fardinando Jr. married Elizabeth Wooden (or Wooding, the daughter of a John

Wooding) on 11 December 1718. She was a Quaker, born in about 1698. His will is undated,

but was probated on 29 April 1745. They had five children: John, Samuel, Elizabeth, Dinah,

and Fardinando III. At his death, he left Essex to his second child, and second son, Samuel.

Samuel married Ann Sellman, whose family was from Accomack County, Virginia. His

will was probated on 7 December 1767, after which the property must have passed down

through his children, starting with his oldest son, another Fardinando. In 1783 an assessment

was made of land in Anne Arundel Co. which lists several lands under "Fardinando Battee,"

including Battee's Due, Essex, Kent, Rick's Neck, and Smithfield. Essex is listed here as having

176 acres.17 I assume that this is Samuel's son Fardinando. It also says that all of these

properties are in the "Road River Hundred," which I assume is the "Rhode" River. The older

West River Hundred must have been subdivided by this date. Two different Fardinando

Battees were also elected to the South River Club, on 5 August 1784 and on 3 September 1807.

The first was most likely Fardinando III (d. 1808), the son of Fardinando Jr.; the latter was

probably Samuel's son Fardinando (unknown dates).18

16 Mechelle Kerns-Nocerito, Stories Dead Men Tell: A Geophysical Survey in the All Hallows Graveyard . This is a fragment of the history of how the original patents were divided and re-sold. I intend (time permitting!) to make a concerted search for the land history of Essex itself, rather than compile other's work, done for other purposes. The source cited here is [Land Records 1709-12, PK, 469-74; 1737-40, RD#3, 221, 224]. Also on Barton, see Paul Heinegg, Free African-Americans of Maryland and Delaware March 2004. . A further question to track down: how does this 127 acres of Kent and 50 acres of Essex compare to the 127 acres of Essex AND Kent passed on to Seaborne in 1784? 17 Maryland State Archives, Assessment of 1783, Index. 16 June 2003. . 18 The Ancient South River Club: A Brief History, the Historical Committee of the Club (1952), 56, 57. JL Sr. notes this as well, though he seems to have identified the wrong Fardinandos as members.

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The property was apparently passed down through Samuel and Ann Battee's children.

Elizabeth, Samuel Battee's youngest child, lived from 1749 to 1822, and was the last of the

Battees to own Essex. It had remained in the Battee family for 158 years.

The Franklins

It then passed to the Franklin family. Elizabeth's older sister Anne had married Jacob

Franklin (Jr.) on March 5, 1776, in Anne Arundel County.19 They had six children: Mary, Jacob,

Samuel, Anne, Benjamin, and Thomas. Jacob, and his father Jacob Sr., were Episcopalians,

though they were descended from a Quaker family, and Jacob Sr.'s wife Mary Giles was also a

Quaker.20 All of them were married in the West River Meeting, which had been founded in the

late 1600s (by George Fox himself, the founder of Quakerism, according to the plaque by the

Burying Ground).21 Franklin graves are still in evidence at the burying ground, and evidently

Battees were buried there too, though their graves are not

in evidence any more.22 As with the Battees, the Franklins

had appeared in Anne Arundel County in the latter half of

the seventeenth century. Robert Franklin, the immigrant,

purchased land in Anne Arundel county on 7 May 1674

called "Beverdam Branch."23 His son Robert Jr. had married

Artridge Giles in 1697 at West River Meeting, at which

Elizabeth Battee the wife of Fardinando Sr. had been

present.24 Jacob Sr. was born in 1702; it was he who

19 Again—see the Appendices for help with sorting out all of these folks. 20 The Franklin family history is partially described in John Hall, The Hall Family of West River and Kindred Families (Denton, MD: Rue Publishing, 1941) 218-21. On Mary Giles' family see Hall 228-29. 21 The records of the Meeting are published in Henry Peden, Quaker Records of Southern Maryland (Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books, 2000). 22 There is also a gravesite in a grove of trees on the Essex property where, family tradition has it, Battees were buried. 23 Donna Valley Russell, First Families of Anne Arundel County, MD (_______) 45. 24 Peden, Quaker Records 17.

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apparently converted to be Episcopalian.25

When Elizabeth Battee died in 1822, she left Essex to Benjamin Franklin, the son of Jacob

Jr. and Anne. His portrait was in the parlor at Essex (picture). He, however, died later that

same year, on 30 December 1822. From Benjamin, Essex passed to his minor nephew, Samuel

Franklin Jr., the son of Benjamin's older brother Dr. Samuel Franklin Sr. This seems to be quite

an inheritance to pass to the boy, since his father was still alive. In any event Samuel also soon

died; somewhere between 1822 and 1830 he drowned in College Creek while he was attending

St. John's College in Annapolis.26 He died intestate, and Essex passed to his four younger

sisters: Rachel, Harriet, Nancy, and Maria.

Rachel Franklin married Dr. Franklin Waters, and over the next several years he

gradually bought out the other three sisters' interests in the farm.27 Harriet, who married

Thomas Hyatt Lansdale (1808-1878), deeded her 1/4 interest to him on 27 December 1838;

Nancy, who married her first cousin Dr. Thomas Jacobs Franklin (1813-1896),28 deeded her 1/4

interest to him on 8 July 1853; and Maria and her husband Robert Freeland deeded their interest

to him 27 May 1856. Maria and Robert's portraits are also in the parlor at Essex, and were great

friends of the Waters, often coming down from Baltimore to visit. According to John Lansdale

Sr.'s notes, his "Uncle" Robert Freeland (that is, his great uncle) said that Franklin Waters had

had the portraits painted "to preserve her beautiful face." They are certainly a handsome

couple.29 By 1856, then, the farm had fully passed from the Franklin family to the Waters. Dr.

Franklin Waters moved to the farm in 1851. By then, the farm had been in the Franklin family

25 The Lansdales are descended from Jacob Sr. and Mary Giles via two of their children, Rachel and Jacob Jr., since their grandchildren married each other: Mary Waters, the daughter of Rachel Franklin and Arnold Waters, married Samuel, the son of Jacob Jr. and Anne Battee. See the Appendices on the Franklin family for more information. 26 St. John's has no record of him in their alumni database. 27 The Waters family are another old Anne Arundel family. On them see Harry Wright Newman, Anne Arundel Gentry vol. 2 (1971; rpt. Delaware: Colonial Roots, 2003) 394-495; the relevant group is descended from Samuel Waters (1674-1749) on 399-448—Dr. Franklin Waters is discussed on 435-36. Also see Hall, The Hall Family 175-190. 28 Nancy and Thomas Jacobs have common grandparents in Jacob Franklin II and Anne Battee: Nancy's father is their third son Samuel; and Thomas Jacob's father is their youngest child Thomas. See also note 26, below.

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for 29 years. Yet though they did not all continue to own the farm, these four sisters and their

families continued to be very close, and formed a core of relationships which dominated the

history of the property for the next century.

The Waters

Dr. Franklin Waters built the core of the present house at Essex in 1852-53. Records of

this are at Essex still. It was large, comfortable farmhouse. It had a front porch raised about a

foot from the ground and made of very wide, heavy pine boards, and a long banister on the

stairway, extending 2 floors, which was made in Baltimore. He and his wife clearly used the

property to develop the strength of the house and the family well into the following century.

Their centrality is in part signaled by the couple's decision to own Essex themselves, rather than

collectively with Rachel's sisters, as well as by building the new house. Yet they kept very close

familial connections with relations developed through her sisters; the link with Maria and her

husband is just one example. The Dr. and his wife were also first cousins, since both claimed

Jacob Franklin Sr. and Mary Giles as grandparents.30

Several relics of Essex's past as a slave farm date from this time. The house behind the

main house was originally a slave cabin. It has been renovated, but its fundamental structure

remains as an example of the kind of cabin which was typical for rural Maryland servants in the

mid-19th century. It was built at the time Franklin Waters built the main house, in about 1852.31

Also, in the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis there are copies of orders to pay for the

service of two former slaves, one for the service of Frederick Gray, a former slave of T.J.

Franklin (presumably Thomas Jacobs Franklin, Nancy Franklin's husband), dated 23 November

1864; and second for the service of Richard Jackson, who had been a slave of Franklin Waters,

29 I discuss the Freelands and these portraits further in "The Freelands and Essex." 30 See note 23, above. 31 "Inventory of African-American Historical and Cultural Resources," 29 June 2003, .

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dated 30 November 1864.32 Both men served in the 39th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment (Gray in

Company G, and Jackson in Company H) which was organized in Baltimore in late March of

1864, and which distinguished itself in various battles in Virginia and North Carolina until the

end of the war. These orders to pay were made during the war; the only reasons I can think of

why owners would have received such payment is if they had specifically released the slaves

for military service (they are called "former slaves" in the documents). And the only reasons I

can see for doing this are because they had Union sympathies, because they saw the war going

against the Confederacy, because they wanted or needed the money, or some combination of

these. More research needs to be done on this.

Connections abound between the Waters (and Franklin and Lansdale) children,

grandchildren, and further, and are worth noting though they take us forward by a century.

Harriet married Thomas Lansdale, and it would be to their grandchild John that the farm would

be deeded in 1934. Today, several photo albums from Essex exist with pictures from the latter

half of the nineteenth century. One is of Richard Hyatt Lansdale

("Uncle Dick"), a son of Harriet and Thomas. A second is a baby

picture from the next generation of William Hartshorne, a

grandson of Thomas Hyatt and Harriet via their daughter Ella

Mariah (see picture); he entered Haverford College in 1909, so

the picture must have been taken around 1892. The

Hartshornes were a well-known Quaker family from

Montgomery County into which Ella Mariah (known as Nellie)

32 MSA SC 2443-1-29, and MSA SC 2443-1-41. Both men enlisted on 31 March 1864: Jackson mustered out on 15 June 1865, and Gray was last listed as "Absent in hospital since Aug., 1864, Co. M. O. rolls." See L. Allison Wilmer, et al., History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-65 (Baltimore, 1899) 261 ff. Gray was listed as living in Baltimore in 1880.

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had married. That these images of the families of Rachel and all three of her sisters can be

collected at Essex today is evidence of the care which Rachel and Franklin Waters no doubt took

to keep those attachments strong.33

Franklin Waters died on 27 March 1879, and he and his family are buried at Christ

Episcopal Church in Owensville.34 At his death Dr. Waters deeded Essex to his wife Rachel,

who died ten years later, on 15 August 1889. She in turn deeded it to her youngest daughter

Rachel Alice Waters, who went by "Miss Alice," but whom the whole family affectionately

called "Aunt Jig." She had three older sisters (Mary, Catherine, and Olivia), and two older

brothers (Samuel Franklin and Franklin). She never married, however, and was the last of her

siblings to survive. On 25 June 1934, she deeded the farm to John Lansdale Sr., and when she

died in April of 1939 he received ownership of the farm. It had been in the Waters family for 83

years.

The Lansdales

At this point, then, Essex passes to the Lansdales. John Lansdale Sr.'s grandmother

Harriet Franklin, who had deeded her interest Essex to Franklin Waters in the 1850s, had

married Thomas Hyatt Lansdale.35 His mother Jemima Hyatt was apparently descended from

33 One further connection goes beyond Essex, though it is worth noting, since it is referred to often in John Lansdale Jr.'s life of his father (John Lansdale, A Life [1993]). It takes us a generation back, to the Franklins. The youngest of the children of Jacob Franklin Jr. and Anne Battee was Thomas Franklin (1786-1865). His son, Thomas Jacobs Franklin (1813-1896) in turn had a son by his first wife Josephine Harris (Nancy Franklin was his second wife), named Joseph Harris Franklin (1851-1884). J.H. Franklin graduated from VMI in 1871, and unfortunately died young. His son, Harris Franklin (1880-1937), was the third cousin and a great friend of John Lansdale Sr., who felt his death deeply (they shared GG Grandparents). One of the pictures in the Lansdale album at Essex is of Harris and his younger brother Edmund. Harris Franklin and his wife Carol Wilson (d. 1990) are buried at the West River Burying Ground. 34 This is Lot no. 17. A certificate at Essex dated October, 1971, in the name of John Lansdale, Jr., says the lot "is hereby certified to have been duly endowed for perpetual care and assigned to the said "John Lansdale Jr." his heirs and assigns forever." 35 Information on the Lansdales comes from Lansdale, John Lansdale, A Life; Maria Horner Lansdale, Two Colonial Families: Lansdale and Luce (Philadelphia: privately printed, 1938); and the notes of John Lansdale Sr. and Jr.

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the Hyatts who founded Hyattsville in Prince George's County.36 Thomas and Harriet had

moved west to Triadelphia, on the Pautuxet River in Montgomery County, and were quite

successful there, running a mill. The town is now covered by the Triadelphia Reservoir. He

was also a member of the state legislature, serving in 1864 when a new constitution was drafted

for the state at the end of the Civil War.37 They had six children: Samuel, Richard Hyatt, Mary

Jemima, Thomas Franklin, Elizabeth Franklin, and Ella Mariah.38 Thomas Franklin, the fourth

child, had married Elizabeth Wimberly Strain, and had died in 1891; they are buried at All

Hallow's Chapel in Davidsonville. He was therefore a first cousin of "Aunt Jig," since they had

common grandparents in Dr. Samuel Franklin and Mary Waters—and his son John Lansdale

Sr., then, was her first cousin once removed.39

John Lansdale Sr. did not move to Essex right away. He did a lot of renovation

beginning in 1946 and 1947 (at which point the Skinners, who had been living there, moved

out), including the addition of the wings containing the library and the office. Records of this

are at Essex. He moved to Essex in September of 1949.40 He also bought Cherry Branch, which

adjoins Essex along the Galesville Road (MD 255). This wasn't the only land he bought and

sold. In 1940 he bought 200 acres of Cumberstone, but sold it the same year to Albert

Woodfried of Galesville. This was part of the property once owned by the Giles family, most of

which, according to his notes, was owned by Woodfried in 1940.41 He also bought and sold the

properties of Anti-Lebanus and Suffolk which adjoin Essex to the south and west, respectively.

36 The fullest history of the Hyatts is in Luther Welsh, Genealogy of the Hyatt and Welsh Families (Independence, MO: Lambert Moon, 1928); also see Donna Lou Cuttler, The History of Hyattstown, Maryland (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), though this seems not to help much for our genealogical history. 37 For a brief description of T.H. Lansdale and Triadelphia, see The Sandy Spring Museum at , along with various family pictures of the Lansdales and Hartshornes. 38 Got all that? See the appendices for a chart of the family's descent. 39 On Aunt Jig see in John Lansdale Jr., John Lansdale, A Life (1993). John Lansdale Sr. has preserved all of his correspondence with her as well (along with all of his other correspondence too). 40 This information is from Marjorie Skinner. 41 See the note by JL Sr. in the margin of Hall, The Hall Family 229.

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He died on 2 May 1961, and is buried at All Hallow's Chapel in Davidsonville, next to

his wife May Mannen. At his father's death, his children John Jr. and Sally inherited Essex; John

bought out his sister's interest within several years. He was living in Cleveland, and did not

then move to Essex full time. In 1971 they sold their house in Cleveland and moved to Essex as

their primary residence. In the early 1974 he "retired" to Essex.

In 1984, John Lansdale Jr. received from the county an easement for Essex (though not

Cherry Branch) that sold the property's development rights to Anne Arundel County in return

for the amount which price which the development of the land would have then brought.

Because of this the property can only be used for agricultural purposes, and the easement binds

present and future owners of the land. Six plots on the Essex property are reserved from the

easement, and can used to develop private dwellings.

At the 200th anniversary of the Constitution, in 1987, John Lansdale registered Essex as a

Bicentennial Farm, one which had been in one family since the Revolutionary War. Only about

two dozen farms in the area are similarly designated. Signs commemorating this, and the

easement, are at the property's entrance.

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Appendices (see the website for C-F)

A. List of owners of Essex

B. The genealogical connection between Fardinando Battee Sr., and John Lansdale Jr.

C. Chart of Battee Descendants (selected)

D. Chart of Franklin Descendants (selected)

E. Chart of Waters Descendants (selected)

F. Chart of Lansdale Descendants (selected)

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Appendix A: List of Owners of Essex

There may have been other family members who had title to the property between the death of

Fardinando Battee Sr. and Elizabeth Battee (d. 1822).

Fardinando Battee Sr. (abt. 1630-1706)

Elizabeth Battee (his wife, who owned it as his widow until her death (d. 1718)

Fardinando Battee Jr. (1697-1745; son of Fardinando Sr. and Elizabeth)

Samuel Battee (d. 1767, son of Fardinando Jr.)

Elizabeth Battee (1749-1822)

Benjamin Franklin (1783-1822)

Samuel Franklin

Rachel, Harriet, Nancy, and Maria Waters Franklin

Dr. Franklin Waters (1804-1879)

Alice Waters (1852-1939)

John Lansdale Sr. (1882-1961)

John Lansdale Jr. (1912-2003)

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Appendix B: the genealogical connection between Fardinando Battee, the original owner of Essex, and John Lansdale Jr. This is not, however, a list of owners of Essex.

(1) Fardinando BATTEE Sr. b. about 1630 d. about 1706, Anne Arundel Co. & Elizabeth Wood d. May 1718 (2) Fardinando BATTEE Jr. b. April 22, 1697, Anne Arundel Co. d. 1745, Anne Arundel Co. & Elizabeth WOODEN b. about 1698 m. December 11, 1718, All Hallows, South River Parish, Anne Arundel Co. (3) Samuel BATTEE d. December 1767 & Ann SELLMAN b. September 25, 1725, Accomac, Accomack Co., Virginia d. after December 1767 (4) Anne BATTEE b. December 29, 1747/8, Anne Arundel Co. d. December 29, 1788, Anne Arundel Co. & Jacob FRANKLIN Jr. b. November 21, 1743, Anne Arundel Co. d. October 28, 1819, Anne Arundel Co. m. March 5, 1776, Anne Arundel Co. (5) Dr. Samuel FRANKLIN b. November 21, 1780, Anne Arundel Co. d. October 22, 1821, Anne Arundel Co. & Mary WATERS b. January 19, 1782, St. James Parish, Anne Arundel Co. m. January/July 17, 1807, Prince George’s Co. (6) Harriet FRANKLIN b. 1813 d. 1886 & Thomas Hyatt LANSDALE b. 1808 d. 1878 m. December 10, 1834, Prince George’s Co. (7) Thomas Franklin LANSDALE b. October 10, 1844, Triadelphia, Montgomery Co. d. January 31, 1891, Davidsonville & Eliza Wimberly STRAIN b. January 16, 1853, Memphis, Tennessee d. November 22, 1906 m. February 5, 1880, St. John’s Church, Olney

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(8) John LANSDALE Sr. b. June 24, 1882, Triadelphia, Montgomery Co. d. May 2, 1961, Essex & May Hamilton MANNEN b. March 3, 1884, Paris, Kentucky d. August 5, 1958, Essex m. March 3, 1911, Oakland, California (9) John LANSDALE Jr. b. January 9, 1912, Oakland, California & Metta Virginia TOMLINSON b. September 4, 1913 d. October 31, 2001, Essex m. June 17, 1936, Trinity Church, Houston, Texas

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