The Ringgold Family (VLCME9), a typed family history by George E. Valley, Jr., August 1986, with three pages corrected 11 October 1986. It traces Great-Grandmother Rebecca B. Ringgold's line from Thomas Ringgold, who came to Kent Island, Maryland, in 1650, with notes on John Holliday Cummins's two Ringgold wives, famous Ringgold relatives, and the family's Kent Island lands. Based mainly on Mildred C. Schoch's Ringgold in the United States.

[Typed report by George E. Valley, Jr., in a ring binder: a cover, 24 numbered pages and plates. The pages were loose and are put in order here. Page numbers below are the report's own where they show; the rest are worked out from the text. Plates 8 and 9 (the Peale portraits) are not in the scans, and the appendices were not scanned. Three pages were retyped on 11 Oct 1986; the binder also holds the superseded August pages, scanned at the end, and their differences are listed after page 24. The chart layouts are simplified.]

[Cover] [Print of a colonial waterfront scene] THE RINGGOLD FAMILY / VLCME9 / BY / GEORGE E. VALLEY, JR. / AUGUST 1986

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GEORGE E. VALLEY, JR. 607 MAIN STREET, CONCORD, MA 01742 [telephone number left out]

THE RINGGOLD FAMILY, VLCME9

BY GEORGE E. VALLEY, JR.

NOTE This report supersedes an earlier report, VLCM55, dated November 6, 1985. It is based on Mildred C. Schoch's book Ringgold in the United States, and I have used her notation: children are designated alphabetically by order of birth, males being assigned upper-case, and females lower-case letters. The names of our ancestors, usually when they first appear on a page, are sometimes in boldface; the names of other persons of interest are often underlined. Three pages referring to the wife of AABCCEA Thomas Ringgold were corrected 11-Oct-86.

The print on the cover is copied from Middleton's Tobacco Coast.

SUMMARY

Our progenitor was THOMAS RINGGOLD, an English royalist who immigrated to Maryland in 1650. Upon arrival with his two sons, he purchased one thousand acres of Coxes Neck, a part of Kent Island. Although many Ringgolds moved away from Kent Island, and some of them became famous, we descend from Ringgolds who lived for eight generations on or near Kent Island. The last Ringgold to reside on the original Coxes Neck tract was AABCAFEA Edward, a nephew of Great-Grandfather John Holliday Cummins's first wife, AABCAFd Martha Elizabeth Ringgold, who also came from there. We descend from his second wife, AABCCEAc Rebecca B. Ringgold, whose Kent Island family died out in her generation.

An English genealogical research firm engaged by Mrs. Schoch reported that the name seemed, during the 17th century, to be chiefly found in "--East Anglia, in the parishes of Huntingfield, Sprowston and Norwich, in Great Yarmouth and Worstead in Norfolk. At Carleton Rode, at Easton and Holt they appear to be of yeoman stock and of some prosperity--". (A 400 acre property called "Queen Carleton" was owned by one of the Ringgolds in Kent County Md., and THOMAS RINGGOLD'S property on Eastern Neck in Kent Co. was called "Huntingfield")

The report continued: "While Ringgold may be derived from a Germanic or Dutch name, it is more likely to be from an English sobriquet. I would think that the most likely starting point for further investigations would be in Great Yarmouth, Norwich and Easton. Huntingfield is just inside Suffolk."

The report continues with a list of names from wills, here compressed:

William Ringall, yeoman, Easton, Norfolk 1659 Dr. William Ringall, doctor in psyicks, St. Martins-in-the-Field, 1659 Robert Ringall, bachelor, Holt Market, Norfolk 1653 Robert Ringold, Worstead, Norfolk, yeoman, 1595

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Stephen Ringall, Lakenham, Norfolk, husbandman 1600 William Ryngol, Carleton Rode, Norfolk Edmund Ryngold, St. Martin at the Parrysh Gate, Norwich 1526 John Ryngold also Thaxter, Great Yarmouth 1528 John Ryngold, Carpenter, Norwich 1473

--SCHOCH, Introduction. (App.1)

The Ringgold family differed in several ways from the Cummins family: a) there were a number of Scotch and Irish immigrants named Cummins, and also Cummings, but all the Ringgolds descend from THOMAS RINGGOLD; b) our Cummins progenitor was an artisan, but Thomas Ringgold arrived in America rich enough to purchase a thousand acres of land; c) the Cummins's owned few slaves after the Revolution, the Ringgolds owned many; d) the Cummins's tended to be farmers, prominent churchmen and prosperous merchants, but the Ringgolds were patrician planters and military officers, as well as merchants; e) the Cummins's mainly supported the North in the Civil War, whereas many of the Ringgolds supported the South; f) numerous Ringgolds live on the Eastern Shore and around Baltimore, but almost all the Smyrna Cummins's descendants now bear different names, as do we.

My grandfather's mother was AABCCEAc, Rebecca B. Ringgold.

A THOMAS RINGGOLD ----- (English first wife unknown) b.c1610, d.1672 AA JAMES RINGGOLD ----- MARY VAUGHAN b.1626, d.1686 b.----, d.1707 AAB JAMES R. RINGGOLD ----- MARY HARRIS b.----, d.1704 AABC JAMES R. RINGGOLD ----- MARY LOWERY (or LOVELY) b.----, d.1740 AABCC WILLIAM RINGGOLD ----- REBECCA BROWN of Coursey's Point b.1729, d.1790 AABCCE THOMAS RINGGOLD ----- SOPHIA b.----, d.1816 AABCCEA THOMAS RINGGOLD ----- REBECCA BELTON* b.1799, d.----

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AABCCEAc REBECCA B. RINGGOLD ----- JOHN HOLLIDAY CUMMINS b.1819, d.1883 b.1810, d.1884 THOMAS HENRY CUMMINS, my grandfather b.1850, d.1923

*--STEUART: private communications; page 2 corrected on 11-Oct-86.

My mother was christened Edith Ringgold Cummins.

AABCCEAc Rebecca B. Ringgold was John Holliday Cummins's second wife. She was a sister of Thomas Charles Ringgold who built the third and fourth buildings on the campus of Washington College. Rebecca had a daughter, Eudora Cummins (20 Jan 1846--31 Jan 1847); an elder son John Ringgold Cummins (19 Nov 1847--?); and Thomas Henry Cummins (born 29 Aug 1850, at 8PM-interred on 2 July 1923, in lot 2609, Section 125, of Green Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York).

AABCAFd Martha Elizabeth Ringgold, John Holliday Cummins's first wife, was of the generation previous to that of my Great-Grandmother Rebecca.

AABCA THOMAS RINGGOLD ----- ELIZABETH SUDLER of Coxes Neck b.----, d.1795 AABCAF EDWARD K. RINGGOLD ----- AABCCg MARTHA RINGGOLD b.----, d.1854 AABCAFd MARTHA E. RINGGOLD ----- JOHN HOLLIDAY CUMMINS b.1814, d.1843

Martha Elizabeth (Ringgold) Cummins had two daughters, Martha Rebecca Cummins, and Mary J. Cummins; Martha R. Cummins married William Charles Clayton Ringgold a sometime Civil War blockade runner who had helped feed Lee's Confederate Army, and they had three children: Helen Cummins Ringgold, Clarence Ringgold, and Cummins Ringgold. In 1907 my mother spent a week sight-seeing in Philadelphia with her cousin Helen Cummins Ringgold.

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THE EASTERN SHORE

PLATE 1: An early map showing Chesapeake Bay, the Delmarva Peninsula, and Kent Island. Published by Johns Hopkins University.

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The Eastern Shore of Maryland occupies the part of the Delmarva peninsula that lies west, and some of what lies south, of Delaware. "Eastern Shore" refers to a vantage point across the bay, where much of the Maryland population lives. If you need a way to remember where it is, think of it as being the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

The settlers on the Eastern Shore were mostly British. Enough of the early settlers were well-born so that the social organization was a republic of aristocrats, and like that of Virginia, reminiscent of early Rome before the Caesars.

The land has the same fertile soil and warm climate as the corresponding part of Delaware, but in addition it had a superabundant supply of fish. Crabs and oysters, as well as finned fish, grew so abundantly that a large dinner could be seated in confidence that the cook would be supplied with an all she needed, fresh from the sea. The land is low-lying: none of Kent Island is more than 20 feet above sea level. Although the tidal range is only about one foot, the land washes away in storms, so that the foundation stones of Thomas Ringgold's 1650 house on Turkey Point are now visible only at low tide.

PLATE 2: A map of the Delmarva Peninsula from the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica.

Until early in the nineteenth century, the the settlers of the Eastern Shore grew tobacco. By the middle of that century tobacco was a less popular crop, and many farmers grew wheat and produce. Slaves became less economical, and by the time of the Civil War, half of the black population of Maryland was free. The Ringgolds continued to hold slaves and, like other patrician families of the Eastern Shore, they were strongly sympathetic to the secessionist south.

The United States Census for 1870 was the first to record the names of former slaves, who usually took the last names of their masters. In that census, the contrast between the Cummins's and the Ringgolds is strong: I saw only a handful of Cummins names followed by the letter "B", but there were twice as many black Ringgolds as white, and an equal number of "M" mulattoes. The Ringgolds were outnumbered by their former slaves three to one.

Scharf, in his history of Maryland, devotes several pages to "the habits of life of the people of Maryland". He says that the city merchants were frugal and thrifty, but since our people were plantation owners, it seems more appropriate to quote a few sentences about them:

"On the plantations, on the contrary, the style of living was almost from hand to mouth and exceedingly extravagant. The planters mortgaged their crops in the most reckless fashion--in a fashion, in other words, which up to 1861 was perfectly familiar to the factors who furnished supplies and cash to the planters---. So long as slave labor existed, a "crop" of tobacco paid all advances and the interest also upon the mortgages created upon the estates: but the personal expenses of the planters continually involved them in new debts, and,

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when slavery was abolished, in general insolvency.---"

"--The genuine "old Maryland way" was one of the heartiest and most cordial which can be conceived. It comprehended the utmost scope of hospitality, all houses always full of guests and a busy succession of visitings and convivial meetings, such as engaged almost every land and water vehicle in the entire province.---"

"--Tea, in warm weather, was served upon the lawn, and the table abundantly supplied "with every suitable luxury" (so the account has it), from either India and from a well-stored dairy and larder; with every variety and preparation of fruit and with merriment warm from the hearts of various ages. Sometimes, in the midst of this gay, clattering hilarity, the whole Lloyd family would suddenly appear, the noise of their ten-oared barge having been lost in that of tongues. Then there was an accession of mirth and conviviality from those gay, good humored neighbors.---"

Note: The last paragraph describes life on Wye Island, which is situated on the Eastern shore, a little south of Kent Island.

--SCHARF/MD. vol.2, pp.88-92, (App. 2)

For another description of this ante-bellum society, and some of the same families, See Wye Island by Boyd Gibbons.

--GIBBONS, pp. 144-151. (App. 3)

PLATE 3: Title page, plus a description of the Eastern Shore, from Western Wind Eastern Shore, a sailing guide by Robert de Graft, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1975.

PLATE 4: Copy of a photograph of the shoreline of the Eastern Shore, from Western Wind Eastern Shore.

FIRST GENERATION

A THOMAS RINGGOLD

"THOMAS RINGGOLD who came to Maryland in 1650 was undoubtedly a man of substantial means for upon his arrival he purchased 1000 acres of land in Coxes Neck (originally patented by William Cox in 1640) on Kent Island. When he made his deposition to his

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sons in 1661, he was titled "Gentleman".

--SCHOCH, Introduction. (App.1)

"THOMAS RINGGOLD being in the fortieth year of his age, came to Kent, with his two sons John and James in the year 1650"

"Thomas Ringgold was a Royalist and fled Cromwell with his two sons, James and John."

--SCHOCH, Ch.1, p.1. (App.1)

For a description by Lord Baltimore of the terms by which a settler could acquire 1000 acres of land, see his A Relation of Maryland, first published in 1635. From this you can estimate how much it cost William Cox to acquire Coxes Neck in current money, and how much Thomas Ringgold might have paid him, assuming a good mark up.

--Baltimore. (App. 4)

By 1651, Thomas Ringgold was one of four commissioners charged with "reducing, settling, and governing" Kent Island. These men had the power "to call courts, to choose the Sherif" and "to act in all the things of peace, safety and welfare of the said Island and the inhabitants thereof,--"

"The beginnings of New Yarmouth may be traced to 1650 [sic?] when Colonel THOMAS RINGGOLD, at heart a man of vigorous individualism, despite his forty odd years emigrated to the shores of Kent County from neighboring Kent Island. He was accompanied in the adventure by his equally energetic sons Major James and John. Attracted to the fertile soil of Kent County, embracing one of Maryland's most beautiful regions, Ringgold secured a patent for twelve hundred acres of land which was surveyed July 17, 1659. This large grant consisted of land that stretched lazily from Gray's Inn Creek across Eastern Neck, a long peninsula terminating in an island, to the broad waters of the Chester River. Such a vast tract, ideally situated, was christened "Huntingfield" by Ringgold who, as a keen student of nature, had unbounded faith in the potentialities of developing it profitably."

THOMAS RINGGOLD'S first wife is unknown. His second wife was Christian Hill, widow of Thomas Hill.

--SCHOCH, Introduction, Ch. 1, p.1. (App.1) --MYERS. (App. 5)

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"SEC. 10. At a Court holden in Kent County on ye 12th January, 1651:

PRESENT Capt. Robt VAUGHAN, COMMANDER, Mr. PHILLIP CONNER, Mr. NICHOLAS BROWNE Mr. HENRY MORGAN, Mr. THOMAS BRADNOX, Mr. THOMAS RINGGOLD, Mr. JOSEPH WICKES, Commissioners SEC. 27. "January the 9th being the Lords Day, one Burton shot a goose, and one Thomas Farington going on the ice towards the goose, was drowned, the said Farington being late servant of Mr. Philip Conier, on the Isle of Kent. Upon this occasion, a Jury was empanelled, and the Coroner sat Jan. 11th, 1652,0.s.

"The deposition of Christian Hill, the Wife of Thos. Hill, being of age about 45 years, concerning the death of the said Thos. Farington, the said Christian Hill, sworne & examined, said, that the boy was at our house upon occasion for his Mistress, and I despatched him away presently, and he said, he was to go with Goodman Burton for a goose, and within a while after, I went to look out after him, and I saw Goodman Burton upon the ice, and he went into the canoe, and the boy went out of the canoe upon the ice upon his knees with a stick afore him, and when he came almost to the goose, he called to Goodman Burton, and said, the ice cracked, and he turned about another way, and presently fell in, and then he called to Goodman Burton to help him, and he went forth out of the canoe, and when he came within a paddle's length to my discerning, he fell in also. I saw him labour with his hands and could endure to see the sight no longer, but went in, and further your deponent saith not." (Fol. 44.) Thos. Hill testified to the same facts as his mother. And the Jury gave the following verdict:

"That the said Thomas Farington came by his death, as far as they can discern, not by his own will, intent, or purpose, nor by the intent of any other but according to the evidence, fell through the ice, and perished, before any help could come to save his life." Fol. 64.

MRS. CHRISTIAN HILL survived her fist husband, Thomas Hill. On the 5th day of November, 1657, I find her recorded as being, then, the wife of THOMAS RINGGOLD.

--Hanson, pp. 21,24,25.

"-- the Susquehannoughs limited the cession on the eastern shore southward by the Choptank river, thus leavin the territiories of the Nanticokes and the Wighcomocoes in the present counties of Dorchester and Somerset unaffected by their grant. No sooner had this powerful tribe thus buried the hatchet, than the Nanticokes and other Eastern Shore Indians showed signs of discontent. And the settlers of the Isle of

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Kent becoming alarmed deputed Mr. Philip Conner, Mr. Thomas Ringgold, Mr. Henry Morgan, and Mr. John Philips, to go to St. Mary's, with a petition to the governor and council, setting forth, "that whereas formerly there had been by the eastern shore Indians one murthered, and now of late one shot, another killed and stript near to his own house, all of them inhabitants of this island and subjects of this province, a dwelling house and much goods burned, as is conceived, by Indians, to say nothing of the continual trade of killing of hogs, they are so emboldened, these murthers being past by, and being so well furnished with gun-powder and shot, that they come about our houses night and day, so that larums and disturbances are occasioned weekly, nay daily, so that some are so dreaded and affrighted they have left their plantations, and many are resolved to desert the island".

--SCHARF/MD. vol.1, p.212. (App. 2)

PLATE 5 is a map of Kent Island contributed by Marian Steuart (see pp. 22,23). The stones of the 1650 house of Thomas Ringgold can be seen in the water off Turkey Point. The southern tip of Coxes Neck was occupied as late as 1905 by Edward Ringgold. The first wife of Great-Grandfather John Holliday Cummins came from one of the two farms south of the heavy line. A vertical line indicating a length of one mile has been drawn in Coxes Creek, and from a comparison with the map, one sees that the original thousand acres must have included most of Coxes Neck.

PLATE 6 is a copy of a U.S. Geological Survey map of Eastern Neck, showing Huntingfield plantation. No longer in the possession of the Ringgold family, it is now a repository for old maps, owned by the Huntingfield Corporation (of New York).

SECOND GENERATION

The children of A Thomas Ringgold by his first wife were:

AA James Ringgold, b.circa 1626, died between May 18, 1685 and September 28, 1686. m. 1st----; m. 2nd Mary Vaughan, b.----, d. December 11, 1707.

AB John Ringgold, b. circa 1636, died between April 25, 1672 and September 17, 1672. Not known to have married.

AA JAMES RINGGOLD

"Major James Ringgold Lord of Eastern Neck Favorite of the Crown Major of Kent Militia 1678-1683 Justice 1661-1674

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Commissioner of Kent 1682

"His Lordship doth intend to add Eastern Neck to Cecil County by which he places the Arms in the custody of Major James Ringgold --."

"Major James Ringgold allowed to trade with Indians in Kent Co."

--SCHOCH, Ch.2, p.3. (App.1)

1674 At a Court houlden for ye County of Kent, September ye 28th, 1674, Present--Mr. Thomas South Mr. Joseph Wickes Mr. John Hinson Mr. James Ringgold Mr. William Lawrence : Commissioners, The Complaint of William Drake, servant to Mr. John Wells.

To the worshipful Justices of ye peace, Commissioners for said County, or to any or either of them. The humble petition of William Drake, servant to Mr. John Wells, showeth yt the sd John Wells your petitioner's master, have severall times abused by giving of me unlawfull correction, by tying my two handwrists together, hanging me up to ye gunne racks, and whipped me without mercy giving me at least on hundred blows upon my bare skin. And let me hang so long, by the handwrists upon ye sd Gunn Racks, yt ye blood started through and out of my fingers and all my hands pealed, and his chiefest ayme was to strike me upon my members, when he was whipping of me.

After he commanded me to goe with him into ye wood along with him; which I did, accordingly, to his desire, and when he had me there he was so unmercifull in beating of me, that, he broke a hycory stick all in pieces--severall other matters I could alege, but loath to be tedious, wherefore your humble petitioner desire yt your worshs, will take it into youer wise consideration and think upon my misery, I doe endure, and your poor servant will pray for you, &c.

A true copy. CHARLES BANKES, Clk.

HANS HANSON,aged 28 years, sworne in open Court, saith yt John Wells stript his servant, William Drake, about ye spring of ye yeare & bound him cross-handed & and so hung him on ye Gunn Racks, & he was hung up so high yt his toes touched ye ground, & there the said Wells gave his sd servant fifty lashes upon his naked body, and furthermore your deponent spoke to James Curlow to speak to Mr. Robert Wells to take away ye whipp out of his hands for he thought he had enough & yt sd Mr. Wells tould me your deponent, with his own mouth, that he had basted him, afterwards, in the wood, & further saith not.

HANS. HANSON

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--HANSON, p. 223

[Sorry, I don't know what the verdict was.]

AB John Ringgold, brother of James will not be described here because we are not descended from him, and he seems not to have been as important a figure as was James Ringgold. He is described in App. 1.

THIRD GENERATION

The child of AA James Ringgold and his unidentified first wife was:

AAA Thomas Ringgold, b.c1670, d. before October 10, 1711. m.1st, Sarah ----; m.2nd, Mary Tilden; m.3rd, Frances Sayer. He was the foremost member of the family in this generation, being one of seventeen signers of the paper excerpted below:

ADDRESS OF PROTESTANTS OF KENT COUNTY November, 1689.

"To the King's Most Excellent Majestie:

"Wee, your Majesties most loyall and dutyfull subjects, the ancient Protestant Inhabitants of Kent County, in your Majestie's Province of Maryland, who have here enjoyed many halcyon dayes under the mediated Government of Charles, Lord Baron of Baltemore, and his honorable Father, absolute Lords Proprietaries of the said Province, by charter of your Royall Progenitors, wherein our Rights and Freedoms are so interwoven with his Lordship's prerogative, that wee have all waies had the same liberties and priviledges secure to us as other your Majestie's subjects in the Kingdome of England. And wee againe by vertue of the said Charter (as it enjoyned us) have alwayes paid our obedience to the said Lord Baltemore and his honorable Father, by whom equally and indifferently were justice, favour, authority & preferment administered, bestowed, conferred and given to and upon your Majestie's subjects of all perswasions: Doe in prostate and humble manner testifie to your Majesty that we abhorr & detest the falsehood and unfaithfullness of John Coade and others his Associates and Agents, who first by dispersing untrue reports of prodigious armies of Indians and French Papists invadeing us, did stirr up unjust jealousies and dismall apprehensions in the less cautious sort of people of this Province, and then haveing thereby created unnecessary feares & disposed the people to mutiny and tumult, made further insurrection, and extorted the lawfull government from the Lord Proprietary, who was alwayes as ready to redress our

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For the remainder of this, you may consult:

--SCHARF/MD. vol.1, P.333, (App. 2)

The Children of AA James Ringgold and his second wife, Mary Vaughan were:

AAB JAMES RINGGOLD

AAB JAMES RINGGOLD b.----, d. 1704; m. Mary Harris. He was a freeholder and planter in Kent County, and heir to Coxes Neck on Kent Island. He also held Parsons Point which had been patented to Robert Vaughan in August 1650, coming to him as the eldest son of Mary (Vaughan) Ringgold. He married Mary Harris and had three children. The complete will of AAB James Ringgold is given in App.1.

AAC William Ringgold

AAD John Ringgold

AAE Charles Ringgold

AAf Barbara Ringgold

--SCHOCH, Ch.3, pp.6,7. (App.1)

FOURTH GENERATION

The children of AAB James Ringgold and his wife Mary Harris were:

AABA Moses Ringgold

AABB Mary Ringgold

AABC JAMES RINGGOLD

AABC James Ringgold b.----, d. 1740; m. 1st, ---- Carroll; m. 2nd, Mary Lowery (Lovely?) on December 2, 1726, He left the upper part of Coxes Neck to his son Thomas; the residue of Coxes Neck to his son William. The part of Coxes Neck left to William may have been the narrow part, about a mile long, that ends at Turkey Point (Plate 5). If so, it would comprise about 200 acres.

--SCHOCH, CH 4, p. 11. (App.1)

In this, the fourth generation of Ringgolds, there seem not to have been any notable figures.

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It is in this generation that the lines of the two wives of John Holliday Cummins, Martha Elizabeth Ringgold Cummins and Rebecca B. Ringgold Cummins, diverge. AABCAFd Martha Elizabeth Ringgold, the first wife of John Holliday Cummins, descended from AABCA Thomas Ringgold of Coxes Neck, who was her grandfather. AABCCEAc Rebecca B. Ringgold, his second wife, descended from AABCC William Ringgold, who had inherited the residue of Coxes Neck, (but lived on Coursey's Point), and was her great grandfather. Therefore John Holliday Cummins twice married into the part of the Ringgold family that was connected with Coxes Neck, the original purchase of Thomas Ringgold in 1650.

The child of AABC JAMES RINGGOLD and his first wife ---- Carroll was:

AABCA Thomas Ringgold, who inherited the upper part of Coxes Neck, was known as "Thomas Ringgold of Coxes Neck". He was the grandfather of Martha Elizabeth Ringgold, who was John Holliday Cummins's first wife.

The children of AABC JAMES RINGGOLD and his second wife MARY LOWERY were:

AABCb Martha Ringgold AABCC WILLIAM RINGGOLD He was born on July, 19, 1729; he died in 1790. He married Rebecca Brown on May 11, 1741, the daughter of Dr. Isaac Brown and Margaret Brown. They had ten children. Although he had inherited the "residue of Coxes Neck", he lived at Coursey's Point (also in Queen Anne's County, Md). AABCd Mary Rachel Ringgold AABCE James Ringgold AABCf Sarah Ringgold AABCg Susanna Ringgold --SCHOCH, CH 5, pp. 15,16 (App.1)

At the time of the Revolution there were several William Ringgolds, e.g. William of Chestertown, William of Eastern Neck, and William of Coursey's Point.

--SCHARF/Md. vol.II, p. 149. (App. 2)

PLATE 7 is from a U.S. Geological Survey map of Coursey's Point.

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AABCA Thomas Ringgold

His birth date is not given by Schoch; he died in 1795. He was the son of AABC James Ringgold and his first wife ---- Carroll. He is identified as "of Coxes Neck", probably to differentiate him from his relative AAAAA Thomas Ringgold the prominent merchant in Chestertown. He is believed to have been a member of the Committee of Safety of Queen Anne's County during the Revolution, for "in July 1776 the Council of Safety ordered a bbl. of gunpowder and 400 lbs of lead to be sent, presumably from Chestertown to Thomas Ringgold, Aquila Brown and Dr. Ringgold for use on Kent Is." He and his second wife, Elizabeth Sudler, had eight children, one of whom, Edward, was the father of Martha Elizabeth Ringgold Cummins.

AABCA Thomas Ringgold bequeathed his son Edward the lower part of the tract known as Coxes Neck. Whether this refers to the same part previously bequeathed to AABCC William as "the residue of Coxes Neck", or is the lower part of the "upper part" that had been bequeathed to AABCA Thomas, I do not know.

--SCHOCH, CH 5, pp.15,16 (App.1)

In this, the Fifth Generation, there were the following notable persons:

AAAAA Thomas Ringgold, b.December 5, 1715, d. April 1, 1772. He was a merchant in Chestertown. He married Anna Maria Earle on October 24,1734; she was born in 1723, died in 1794. He was a member of the Congress of 1765 and member of the Legislature of Md. 1762,3,5,6,&68. He was known as "The Merchant". He built ships on speculation; he helped provide funds for the then struggling Charles Wilson Peale to study painting (and it was either he or his only son AAAAAA Thomas, who with his wife, was painted by Peale in portraits dated 1775).

--SCHOCH, Ch. 5, p. 14. (App.1)

--SCHARF/MD. vol. I, pp.537-540, 552. vol. II, pp.106,107. (App. 2)

--SELLERS. (App. 6) --MIDDLETON. (App. 7) --PAPENFUSE, et al. (App. 8)

PLATES 8 & 9, are copies of the Peale portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ringgold; the originals are now in the Baltimore Museum of Art.

AAAAB William Ringgold, Major. b. February 23, 1723, d. 1808. Member of the Committee of Safety of Kent County during the Revolution; member of the Md, Constitutional Convention August 1776;

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The children of AABCC William Ringgold and Rebecca (Brown) Ringgold were:

AABCCA William Ringgold, d. before May 31, 1818, without issue.

AABCCB James Brown Ringgold, b. April 4, 1742

AABCCc Mary Ringgold

AABCCd Rebecca Ringgold

AABCCE THOMAS RINGGOLD

AABCCE Thomas Ringgold, b.----, d. before October 9, 1816; m. Sophia ----, and had five children. He bequeathed his son Thomas 420 acres on Kent Island, and to his son William the part of Coursey's Point called "Smith's Mistake".

AABCCF: Schoch gives no entry for this person, so I suppose an infant died.

AABCCg Rachel Ringgold. She married her cousin AABCAE Samuel Ringgold.

AABCCh Martha Ringgold. She married her first cousin AABCAF Edward Ringgold, and they had Martha E. Ringgold the first wife of John H. Cummins. Thus we see that there was a close family connection between John H. Cummins's first and second wives, although they were not close blood relatives. I think that on the male side they were third cousins, once removed; on the female side they were first cousins, twice removed. But I learned to make these calculations from a none too clear article in the Brittanica, so I may be wrong.

AABCCi Ann Brown Ringgold

AABCCj Sarah Ringgold

The children of AABCA Thomas Ringgold and his wife Elizabeth Sudler were:

AABCAA William Ringgold of Coursey's Point, b.----, d. 1789.

AABCAB John Ringgold, b.----, d. before May 30, 1807. m. Margaret Griffith, a widow with two children; they had no children.

AABCAc Rebecca Ringgold, m. 1st William Hambleton and 2nd Jonathan Beard in 1793.

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AABCAE Samuel Ringgold, b.----, d. before April 5, 1851. He married his first cousin AABCCg Rachel Ringgold, as mentioned above. They had seven children. He probably married a second time, to Christina Holmes on December 13, 1845. An amusing tale about this old autocrat is told on page 23 of Schoch (App.1). He owned a farm and mill in Church Hill, Queen Anne's County, and Forest Manor a farm of 684 acres in Kent.

AABCAF Edward Ringgold

"He was a farmer and planter possessed of large landed estates on Kent Island and in Kent County. He was of retiring disposition, great moral worth and unblemished Christian Character." quoted by Schoch, p.24, from Biog. Encyclo. of Rep. Men of Md.&D.C.

He lived most of his Life at Coxes Neck, but in later years moved to Chestertown. He married twice, 1st to his first cousin AABCCh Martha Ringgold, as described above. They had six children, George,Charles, Mary Rebecca, Martha, Samuel and James. [Thus we know that John Holliday Cummins found his first wife on Coxes Neck.] AABCAF Edward's second wife was Rebecca Smith, m. September 30, 1819. They had two children.

He owned land at Coxes Neck, another property on Kent Island, a house and lot in Chestertown, and other lands. His will made provision for his grandchildren, including the children of Martha Ringgold Cummins.

His will, and that of his wife Rebecca Smith Ringgold, are paraphrased on page 24 of Schoch; these wills are interesting for the enumeration of the slaves that were bequeathed to various members of the family.

AABCAG Thomas Ringgold, who married and had a son, Thomas.

AABCAh Ann Ringgold, who married first, William Eliot and second Joseph Barnes.

AABCAi Mary Ringgold, who married John Blake.

A prominent member of the sixth generation was:

AAAAAA Thomas Ringgold, b. 1744, d. 1776; m. Mary Galloway. He was a merchant in Chestertown, and probably manufactured linen, woolen and cotton goods. He was one of three delegates chosen to represent Maryland in the Continental Convention of 1765. He was a member of the Convention of Maryland which met at Annapolis in 1776. He was one of the earliest victims in Maryland of the opposition, during the early revolutionary period, to the importation of English goods. He should not be confused with his contemporary relative, "Thomas Ringgold of Coxes Neck", who was Martha Ringgold Cummins's grandfather.

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Chestertown, 25th Oct. 1774 "Dear Sir;

I have the pleasure to tell you that we reached home yesterday very well and found all so here. You have no doubt an Annapolis paper giving an acct. of the Burning of Anthony Stewart's Vessell--as the account does not satisfactorially justify the violence I will shortly tell you how it happened as I have it from the people of Annapolis. Upon the arrival of the vessell it was made known that the tea was on board. Tom Williams who is now in England had it put up in blankets and he knew nothing about it until papers were put in his hand at Gravesend. Mr. Stewart had it seems no interest in the Tea nor had he any goods as reported and the people would have been satisfied even with the Teas being stored without the Duty. But Anthony Stewart obstinately went and paid it without being able to assign a good reason for it & contrary to the advice of his Friends. This incensed the people and a great number came in from all parts of the County and nothing less than tarring anf feathering would satisfy them. This they were diverted from by the influence of Barrister Carroll and others in pity of Mrs. Stewart who was then in labor. Anthony then proposed to attone for his offence by having the Tea burnt on his own loss. This was not thought to be sufficient and it was put to vote whether the ship too should not be burnt. A majority determined they should not but many appearing discontented Old Mr. Dick insisted that in order to give general satisfaction which he thought was due the people that the vessell should be burnt. She was accordingly committed to the flames. From the whole of Mr. Stewart's conduct I have no doubt but he premeditated the exploit to endear himself to the minority and I am glad the people have shewn so much spirit.--

We shall be glad to hear from you by the post and with our best loves I am dear Sir your most affectionately, Thomas Ringols Jr."

And an entry from George Washington's Diary

"May, 1773 13 - 'Dined on board the Annapolis at Chestertown, and Supped and lodged at Ringold's near Chestertown.'"

--SCHOCH, CH 6, pp. 18,19,22-25 (App.1)

SEVENTH GENERATION

The children of AABCCE Thomas Ringgold and his wife Sophia ---- were:

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He was born in 1799, and inherited 420 acres of land on Kent Island from his father. Neither the date of his death, nor the name of his wife are given by Schoch, but a letter from Marian Steuart gives her Name as Rebecca Belton*. [His daughter, Rebecca B. Ringgold gave Queen Anne's County as her residence when she married John Holliday Cummins, and she probably grew up on Kent Island, which is in Queen Anne's.] This man was not the father of Clayton Ringgold mentioned by Schoch, p. 105. *corrected on 11-Oct-86.

AABCCEb Sophia Ringgold

AABCCEC William Ringgold. He married AABCAFc Mary Rebecca Ringgold, daughter of AABCAF Edward and AABCCh Martha Ringgold Ringgold (see below). They had two children. He died 1830.

AABCCEd Louisa B. Ringgold

AABCCEe Rebecca Brown Ringgold

The children of AABCAF Edward Ringgold and his first wife AABCCh Martha Ringgold were:

AABCAFA George W. Ringgold, m. Louisa Tilden on September 15, 1836, and had one child who died young.

AABCAFB Charles Ringgold

AABCAFc Mary Rebecca Ringgold, m. 1st William Ringgold, son of Thomas and Sophia Ringgold and had two children; m. 2nd, Robert Wilson Rasin and had four children.

AABCAFd Martha Elizabeth Ringgold

She was born in 1814, and died in 1843. She married John Holliday Cummins, son of John and Susan Wilson Cummins, as his first wife on April 2, 1834.

AABCAFE Samuel Ringgold, b. 1804, d. 1854, m. 1st Sarah Augusta Smith on November 7, 1826, and had three children; m. 2nd Harriet Sudler.

AABCAFF James B. Ringgold, b. June 14, 1806, d. December 1866; m. Rebecca Harris on December 6, 1845.

--SCHOCH, CH 7, pp. 33-35. (App.1)

One of the most prominent of the Ringgolds was AAAAAAB Samuel Ringgold, b. January 15, 1770, d. October 10, 1829. He moved from Chestertown to Washington County, in the far western reaches of Maryland, and there established a 17,000 acre estate, called "Fountain Rock". He was a General in the army. He married first Anna Marie Cadwalader in 1792.

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Among their eleven children were the famous artillerist and Mexican War hero Samuel K. Ringgold, and the Civil War admiral (U.S.Navy), Cadwalader Ringgold. His second wife was Marie Antoinette Hay, granddaughter of President Madison. They had five children. [Note of 11-Oct-86: Madison had no children, ergo no grandaughter.]

General Ringgold was a member of Congress 1810-1818. He was a state senator from Washington County, 1801-1806; a member of the House of Delegates 1795; a Justice of the Levy Court, 1806-1810.

--SCHOCH, CH 7, p 28. (App.1) --Who Was Who, (App. 9)

AAAAAAE Tench Ringgold, b. 1776, d. 1827; m. 1st. Mary Christian Lee 1799; m. 2nd Mary Aylett. He was U.S. Marshall for the District of Columbia for several terms, and was with President Madison when the British burned the Capitol in the War of 1812. After the Capitol was repossessed, Tench Ringgold was one of the three commissioners appointed to rebuild the public buildings in Washington destroyed by the British. This included restoration of the Capitol. He owned a leather factory in Washington, and rented ferries and taverns in the town of Havre De Grace.

--SCHOCH, CH 7, p 29. (App.1)

AACDBAB Richard Williamson Ringgold, b. 1803, d. 1873; m. 1st. Sarah Rebecca Browne 1820, and had four children; m. 2nd. Sarah Henrietta Browne, 1852. He was president of Washington College in Chestertown Md., 1832-1854. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of Md. of 1867 from Kent County. [This means that he was one of the Ringgolds not ruined by the Civil War, and was trusted by the Federal authorities after the War.].

--SCHOCH, CH 7, p 36. (App.1)

EIGHTH GENERATION

The children of AABCCEA Thomas Ringgold and Rebecca Belton were:

AABCCEAA Thomas Charles Ringgold, b. February 7, 1822, d. February 10, 1881, m. April 30, 1844 Sarah Eliza Millan. They had nine children: Adelia, Eudora, Marian, Thomas A., Sara De Coursey, Thomas C.,(all of whom died young), and Mary Rebecca, Etta C., and Louisa Wickes. They lived in Millington, and after the Civil War (which ruined them financially), in Baltimore. He was a builder, as well as a planter, and built the third and fourth college buildings at Washington College and the Voshell House in Chestertown. This is the most notable Ringgold closely related to our line, since he was Great-Grandmother Rebecca's brother. He is mentioned in the writings of Genevieve Frazer Cockey, a granddaughter of his daughter Mary Rebecca Ringgold.

AABCCEAb Sarah Ringgold, who married ---- Chambers.

AABCCEAc REBECCA B. RINGGOLD

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[The top of this page is cut off in the scan.] ... Great-Grandmother, and married John Holliday Cummins as his second wife on April 2, 1845. At her marriage, she gave Queen Anne's County as her home, so that she probably came from Kent Island, possibly from Coxes Neck.

--SCHOCH, CH 8, p.48 (App.1) --J.H.Cummins BIBLE (App. 10) --DeProspo (App. 11)

AAAAAABC Major Samuel K. Ringgold

The most prominent of all the Ringgolds was AAAAAABC Samuel K. Ringgold, son of the afore mentioned AAAAAAB Samuel R., b.October 16, 1796, d. May 8, 1846; unmarried.

Many books record his deeds, and his stature as a national hero of the Mexican War. Previous to the Mexican War, he had made a reputation as a reformer of artillery practice and as an inventor of cannon. During the war he was responsible for an American victory against heavy odds and what had seemed a sure and bloody defeat before his arrival on the battle field with his battery. There are six towns in the United States named Ringgold, and all were named after Samuel K. His portrait hangs in the meeting rooms of the Kent County Historical Society. An ink drawn portrait is printed in Scharf's Maryland.

--SCHOCH pp. 39-41. (App.1) --SCHARF vol.3, pp.221,222. (App. 2) --WEIGHLEY. (App. 12)

PLATE 10 contains fragments of the maps of six states, showing five towns and a county that were named in honor of Samuel K. Ringgold, copied from the 1911 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. The states are Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia.

AAAAAABF Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold, U.S.N.

Less well known was Sam's brother, AAAAAABF Cadwalader Ringgold.

"He was a distinguished officer of the United States Navy, and died with the rank of Rear Admiral. He was born at Fountain Rock in Washington County, Md. in 1802, and was appointed a midshipman on March 4, 1819, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1828. He was made Lieutenant Commander in 1849, captain in 1856, and commodore in 1862, and Rear Admiral in 1867. While a lieutenant commander he was for a short time in charge of the surveying and exploring expedition to the North Pacific and China Seas. At the breakout of the Civil War he was transferred to the command of the frigate "Sabina". On Friday, Nov. 1, 1861, the blockading fleet to which the Sabina was attached encountered a terrific storm. The steamer "Governor"

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shortly afterwards the steamer sank.

Admiral Ringgold rendered the Federal government valuable service in blockading the Southern ports, and in the operations against Port Royal and other ports of the Atlantic. He was made rear-admiral in 1867 and died in New York in that year." This is from Scharf's History of Western Md., quoted by Schoch.

Although he was not so famous as his brother Samuel K. Ringgold, there are even more references available about him.

--SCHOCH, p.42. (App.1) --WHO WAS WHO (App. 9) --Dict. Amer. Biog., pp. 617,618. (App. 13)

On page 336 of volume 10 of the 1911 edition of the Brittanica is shown a map of the Fiji islands, explored by Ringgold; a subset of these islands is marked "Ringgold Group".

--Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1911 edition, v.21, p. 964; v. 10, pp. 335, 336. (App. 13)

NINTH GENERATION

The children of Martha Elizabeth Ringgold and John Holliday Cummins were [in fact, of the eighth generation of Ringgolds, but I thought it might be too confusing to split the family]:

Martha Rebecca Cummins b. 1840, d.1921?, married in 1875 to William Charles Clayton Ringgold. He was a Civil War blockade runner who carried food to Lee's army in Virginia. Mary Jane Cummins The children of Rebecca B. Ringgold and John Holliday Cummins were: Eudora, b. 1846, d. 1847. John Ringgold Cummins, b. 1847, d.----. Thomas Henry Cummins, b. 1850, d. 1923, my grandfather. --SCHOCH, pp. 70, 105. (App.1) --J.H.C. BIBLE (App. 10)

The surviving children of Rebecca's brother, Thomas Charles Ringgold

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AABCCEAAb Etta (Henrietta) Ringgold b. February 16, 1847, d. ----.

AABCCEAAc Louisa Wickes Ringgold, b. July 8, 1849, d. April 3, 1924.

--SCHOCH, CH 9, pp. 55. (App.1)

These are "Molly", "Etta", and "Little Louisa" of Genevieve Cockey's story "The Dark of the Moon", about the blockade running adventures of William Charles Clayton Ringgold who married Grandpa's half sister Martha as his fourth wife in 1875. They were Grandpa's childhood playmates.

Kent Island, a recapitulation:

Here is a list of Ringgolds in Rebecca B. Ringgold's line, who are known to have owned land on Kent Island:

A Thomas Ringgold, Coxes Neck,

AA James Ringgold, Coxes Neck

AAB James Ringgold, Coxes Neck

AABC James Ringgod, Coxes Neck

AABCC William Ringgold, residue of Coxes Neck

AABCCE Thomas Ringgold, 400 acres on Kent Island

AABCCEA Thomas Ringgold, 420 acres on Kent Island.

AABCCEAc Rebecca B. Ringgold came from Queen Anne's County, where Kent Island is located, to become the second wife of John H. Cummins.

The evidence is that we stem from a Kent Island branch of the Ringgolds.

Furthermore, when AABC James left his son AABCC William the "residue of Coxes Neck", he also left his first son, AABCA Thomas, the "upper part of Coxes Neck". So:

AABCA Thomas Ringgold, Upper part of Coxes Neck.

AABCAF Edward Ringgold, was bequeathed "the lower part of Coxes Neck", where he lived for most of his life. [Presumably this was the lower part of the previously defined "upper part" which AABCA had received from his father. ]

AABCAFd Martha Ringgold, who married John Holliday Cummins as his first wife.

Since Rebecca seems likely to have lived close to the family of Martha, we have an easy explanation of why Great-Grandfather John H. Cummins [the rest of this sentence is not in the scans]

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One of the people who helped me learn about the Ringgold family was the late Genevieve Frazer Cockey (Mrs. James Sudler Cockey), of Elkton Maryland (Cecil County). She was descended from Great-Grandmother Rebecca B. Ringgold Cummins's brother Thomas:

AABCCEAA Thomas Charles Ringgold ----- Sarah Jane Millan Mary Rebecca Ringgold ----- Joseph R. Price Etta Corinne Price ----- Dr. E. H. Hinman Genevieve Price Hinman ----- (1) David S. Frazer (2) Edward Holmes (3) James Sudler Cockey Anne Elizabeth Frazer ----- Kenneth Wilcox

Ms. Anne Wilcox has been especially helpful to me.

Genevieve's third husband, James Sudler Cockey, also descended from a Ringgold, from the Confederate sympathizer, William Charles Clayton Ringgold. It was Mr. Cockey who inspired Genevieve to write her story The Dark of the Moon. It will be remembered that my grandfather's half sister married Clayton Ringgold as his fourth wife in 1875. Mr. Cockey descended from Clayton's third wife:

W. C. Clayton Ringgold ----- Laura J. Sparks 1822 - c. 1889 Carrie Ringgold ----- Harry Tolson Manie Tolson ----- J. Sudler Cockey J. Sudler Cockey ----- Genevieve Frazer Holmes

Marian Steuart (Mrs. Lloyd L. Steuart) of Stevensville on Kent Island has very kindly shared many interesting facts about the Ringgolds. She too descends from Rebecca (Ringgold) Cummins's brother Thomas Charles Ringgold. It was Mrs. Steuart who was able to tell me the maiden name of AABCCEA Thomas Ringgold's wife. She is doubly a Ringgold:

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Mary Rebecca Ringgold ----- Joseph R. Price Thomas Ringgold Price ----- Mary Rebecca Ringgold Marian Ringgold Price ----- (1) Julian Cockey Bryan (2) Julian H. Hardesty (3) Lloyd L. Steuart

--SCHOCH, pp. 48,55,84,105. (App.1)

LIST OF APPENDICES AND OTHER BIBLIOGRAPHY

Appendix 1: 35 pages from Ringgold In The United States, by Mildred Cook Schoch, Privately published, 1970. Title page and acknowledgements; Introduction (2pp); Ch.1, p.1; Ch.2, pp.3-5; Ch.3, pp.6,7; Ch.4, p.11; Ch.5, pp.14-16; Ch.6, pp.18,19,22-25; Ch.7, pp.28,29,33-36; Ch.8, pp.39-42,48; Ch.9, pp.55,70,105.

Appendix 2: 20 pages from History of Maryland, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day, by J. Thomas Scharf. Published by John B. Piet, Baltimore, 1879. Title page, vol.2, pp.88-92; vol.1, pp.212,333; vol.2, pp.149,184,185; vol.1, 537-540,552; vol.2, pp.106,107; vol.3, pp.221,222.

Appendix 3: 10 pages from Wye Island, by Boyd Gibbons. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1977. Title page, map, pp.144-151.

Appendix 4: 13 pages from A RELATION OF MARYLAND, an advertising brochure published in 1635 by, or for, Lord Baltimore to entice settlers. Republished by Microprint Corporation, 1966.

Appendix 5: 3 pages from Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey, and Delaware, 1630-1707, by Albert Cook Myers. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1912, Title page, pp. 140,141.

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[Appendix 6:] 2 pages from Portraits & Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale, by Charles Coleman Sellers. Published by the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1952. Title page; p. 181.

Appendix 7: 20 pages from Tobacco Coast, A Maritime History Of Chesapeake Bay In The Colonial Era, by Arthur Pierce Middleton. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press and the Maryland State Archives, Baltimore, 1984. Title page and frontispiece; pp. 186-189,220,221,283,376-379,424,434,435,446,447.

Appendix 8: 2 pages from MARYLAND A NEW GUIDE to the OLD LINE STATE, by Edward C. Papenfuse, et al. Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1976. Title page, p. 121.

Appendix 9: The biographies of Samuel Ringgold and of his son Cadwalader Ringgold, copied from Who Was Who In America.

Appendix 10: 4 pages from the bible of John Holliday Cummins (also appears in VLCM98 as App. 7).

Appendix 11: Letter from Katherine M. DeProspo, reporting that Rebecca B. Ringgold came from Queen Anne's County.

Appendix 12: 3 pages from History of the United States Army, by Russel F. Weighley. Published by Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1984. Title page, pp. 172,184.

Appendix 13: Biography of Cadwalader Ringgold from p. 617 of The Dictionary of American Biography, published 1928-1944 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Also, 3 pages from the 1911 edition of Encyclopedia Brittanica: vol. 21, p.964; vol.10, pp.335,336.

Old Kent was written by George A. Hanson of Radcliffe Hall, Kent County, Md. c. 1875. It is a history of Kent and its early settlers, but carries the lives of some of their offspring into the 19th century. I possess a good many photo-copied pages, but not the whole book. Because this book was one of Mildred Schoch's sources, I have used it only as a source of flavorful quotations.

Printed on August 14, 1986, FILE VLCME9

[Plates in the scans: Plate 1, a 1651 map, "A mapp of Virginia discouered to ye Hills", by Virginia Farrer; Plate 2, Delmarva Peninsula, from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica; Plate 3, title page and opening text of Western Wind Eastern Shore; Plate 4, photograph of the Eastern Shore shoreline; Plate 5, map of Kent Island, Queen Anne's County, with Stevensville and Queenstown insets, marked "VLCME9 PLATES"; Plate 6, USGS map of Eastern Neck, showing Huntingfield; Plate 7, USGS map of Coursey's Point on the Chester River; Plate 10, map fragments of Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia, with the towns and county named Ringgold circled.]

[Superseded August 1986 pages, scanned at the end: p. 1: the same, without the sentence "Three pages referring to the wife of AABCCEA Thomas Ringgold were corrected 11-Oct-86." p. 2: the chart's last line reads "AABCCEA THOMAS RINGGOLD ----- ----BETTON*" in place of "REBECCA BELTON*". p. 3: the footnote reads "*--STEUART, private communication". p. 17: "Neither the date of his death, nor the name of his wife are given by Schoch. [His daughter ...] ... Schoch, p. 105." followed by "NOTE: Mrs. Steuart discovered that his wife's last name was Betton, cf. p. 2." p. 18: the top lines are cut off in the scan; the heading reads "The children of AABCCEA Thomas Ringgold and his wife ---- Betton were:", and the page lacks the note of 11-Oct-86 about President Madison.]