General Notes

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BIOGRAPHY: Anna Margarita Herman (1658 -l729) was baptized March 10, 1658. According to the Labadists' account, she was keeping house for her brother Ephraim at New Castle when they visited him in 1679. They spoke of her as "little volatile, but of sweet and good disposition." She complained to them "that she was like a wild and desolate vine, trained up in a wild and desolate country, that she wanted to know more of God and to serve him, and hoped the Lord would be merciful to her.

BIOGRAPHY: She became the wife of Captain Henry Ward, a wealthy planter and legislator of Cecil County. They bad at least one son, by name ofHenry, whose daughter Margaret later married Benjamin Pearce, The descendants of the latter are living today.

BIOGRAPHY: Upon Henry Ward's death, Anna Margarita married as her second husband, Matthias Vanderheyden, a wealthy merchant, planter and Maryland legislator from Cecil County, Prom this marriage came atleast four daughters, namely Anna Francina., Jane V., Augustina and Ariana. Lots of information exists about the descendants of Ariana Vanderheyden who was married three times: first to James Frisby, second to Thomas Bordley and third to Edmund Jennings. In contrast to the wealth of information about Ariana, very little is known about the descendants of her three sisters. More research should be devoted to these lines.


The name of Mrs. Anna Margritta Ward appears in a list of debtors in the inventory of the estate of Samuel Pilsworth of CE Co., submitted on 3 September 1686.

On 22 July 1739 Anna Margaretta Vanderheyden of CE Co. at her house on the Bohemia River, for the affection she has forher grandson Harcules Coutts and because she is moving, gives to said HarculesCoutts, a mulatto boy called James.