General Notes

From the Maryland State Archives 1999
http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/sc4300/sc4341/html/search.html
Supplement to Early Settlers Query by Dr. Carson Gibb
Ewen, Richard, Major
R:52b Film No.: SR 8199
Of Anne Arundel Co., immigrated by 1659 with Sophia, his wife, & Elizabeth & David, his children
Transcript. 4:113 [SR 7346]
MSA SC 4341-6098

Commissioners appointed by Parliamentary Commissioners: William Fuller, William Durand, John Smith, John Lawson, Richard Wells, Richard Preston, Edward Lloyd, Leonard Strong, John Hatch, and Richard Ewen, 1654-1657

Richard Bennett and William Claiborne, with authorization from the Puritan government in England, issued an ordinance July 22, 1654, to ten Marylanders as commissioners <169>for the well Ordering, directing and Governing the affaires of Maryland<170> with powers that included the right to summon assemblies. Later additions to the body of commissioners were William Parker (October 20, 1654), Robert Slye (April 24, 1655), Thomas Meeres and Thomas Marsh (June 26, 1655), Sampson Waring, Michael Brooke, John Pott and Woodman Stockley (August 13, 1655), William Parrott (March 23, 1656/57), and Philip Morgan, William Ewen, Thomas Thomas, Philip Thomas, Samuel Withers and Richard Woolman (by spring, 1657). Thomas Marsh died in 1656/57 and Leonard Strong was serving as agent in England ca. 1655, but the other commissioners presumably remained active. The records, however, are incomplete and therefore the full service of all the commissioners cannot be established. The commissioners surrended their powers to the restored proprietary government March 24, 1657/58.
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Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families Vol 1 -- HOPKINS -- Page 182
MANSELL--GASSAWAY--TALBOT--LAWRENCE--EWEN GENEALOGY:
Eleanor Susanna Mansell was dau--of Samuel Mansell of A. A. Co. (Revo. soldier) and Susanna Gassaway; she was the dau--of Nicholas Gassaway and Elizabeth Hawkins (one of his three wives); Nicholas Gassaway was son of Capt. John Gassaway and Elizabeth Lawrence. Capt. John Gassaway was son of Col. Nicholas Gassaway and Hester Besson (dau--of Thomas Besson). Elizabeth Lawrence, who m--John Gassaway, was dau--of Benj. Lawrence and Elizabeth Talbott; she was dau--of Richard Talbott and Elizabeth Ewen (who was dau--of Col. Richard Ewen)

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Ewen Richard, ?-1660 was one of the members of the General Assembly between 1635 and 1789 whose biographies were published in A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979-85).