General Notes

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One legend has it that William Logsdon was picked up as a lad on the
coast of Ireland and brought over as an indentured slave.  The ship was
headed for Vi rginia but a storm changed its course and it sailed into
Baltimore Harbor ins tead.  Records show that a William Logsdon was
transported to America in 1673 (Book 18, page 38, early records of
Maryland).  About 25 years later a shipl oad of young girls was gathered
from the Irish Coast and brought over to be w ives of the settlers.  All
legends and stories repeat that one Irish lass was named Honora O'Flynn.
In the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland, Vol. 15, w e find:  January
16, 1674 "Captain Samuel Smith of Virginia, proved his right to 300 acres
of land, by Hanna, his wife, and Attorney, for transporting:  R obert
Dewsberry, William Belcher, Thomas Humphries, William Logsdon, George
Young, Jesiah Blackwell, and William Golden, to this Province to
inhabit." The indentured servant means that they did not have money to
pay their passag e so the Captain of the ship sold their services; in this
case, William Logsd on was sold to a tobacco planter who would release him
when he worked out the right amount.  Several documents state that Honora
O'Flynn was kidnapped fro m Ireland (b. County Derry or Kerry) and married
William Logsdon 1702 by a mi ssionary priest from Fort Tobacco, Maryland.
He would have been close to 48 tears of age.  The name Honora has been
carried down by the Durbin and Logsdo n families.
The Rent Rolls of Baltimore County, MD:  "William Loftin is charge d with
rent for a tract called 'Brotherly Love' on 28 August, 1687."  From th e
Hall of Records:  Liber DD-5, p. 430, "On 12 May 1707 William Logsdon
pur chased 100 acres that had been assigned earlier to Gregory Davis of
Baltimore County, and called 'Bedford' -- situated on the north side of
the Patapsco R iver and on north side of Middle Branch, thereof . . ."
This was located in what is now Carroll County, Maryland and is about 8
miles southeast of Westmi nster.  Carroll County was formed in 1836 from a
part of Baltimore and Freder ick Counties.
William Logsdon must have a been a tobacco planter for on March 31, 1709
he sued Thomas Gwynn for breach of contract.  Gwynn had signed a con tract
to build a 40-foot tobacco shed on the Island in Baltimore County
(15 0-acre tract on Gunpowder River).
Liber IS-N, p. 336 (or 330), "I, William Log sdon, Baltimore County, . . .
to my beloved daughter, Ann Durbin . . . tract of land called Pleasant
Green, being part of tract called "Logsdon's Addition . . . being 97 1/2
acres more or less . . . the houses, outhouses, barns, st ables, tobacco
houses, orchards, etc. . . . and after the death of her husban d, Samuel
Durbin, the land to return freely and quietly to the heirs of Willi am
Logsdon.  Dated 19 September, 1726 and signed William (his mark)
Logsdon .  And Honor Logsdon, his wife, released her dower rights to the
property.
[ from Durbin-Logsdon Genealogy by Betty Jewell Durbin Carson]


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