• General Notes

  REFN: 1811
  John Jarboe, a Catholic, was born in 1619 in Dijon, France, and in 1642,
  he emigrated to York (later Elizabethtown), Virginia.  There is
  documentation that he arrived in Virginia under the name of John Parkes.
  During the "Claiborne and Ingles Rebellion" in 1645-1646 against Lord
  Baltimore, Leonard Calvert took refuge in York, Virginia.  While in York
  he met and enlisted several men to help him regain his power in
  Maryland.  Two of the men he enlisted were Colonel William Evans and John
  Jarboe.    John Jarboe was among a group of plantation owners in 1648 who
  took the "Oath of Fidelity" to Lord Baltimore.  (Patents 1:205).    On
  12/1/1648 William Evans and John Jarboe received a Patent for 100 acres
  each for transporting themselves into the province in 1646 as part of the
  Maryland Militia. (Patents 2:440)  On that same day a warrant was issued
  and they received the 100 acres each on the west side of "Bretton's Bay
  in St. Mary's County.   This area became a village called "Newton".  He
  was 27 years old when he immigrated to Maryland.   In the earliest
  records of Maryland, his name is spelled "Jarbo".    In a deposition
  given at Newtown on 6/21/1659, John Jarboe gave his age as 40 (Provincial
  Court S:312).  In 1653 he witnessed the will of Henry Fox.  In 16__,
  William Tattershall appointed "my brother Lt. Col John Jarboe" as one of
  the overseers of his estate (1:391).
  July 15, 1658, John Jarboe in command of all forces from Poplar Hill to
  Wicomico River.
  Naturalization Record July 30, 1661, John is granted leave to inhabit as
  a free denizen of Province of MD. (Believed to be the first petition for
  naturalization in British America)
  April 22, 1667, made High Sheriff of St. Mary's Co. for one year.
  John made a written will in 1671 naming just two children, John and
  Mary.  In 1674, when he was again ill, and just before his death, he made
  an oral will including two sons born since.  After her husband's death,
  Mary married Stephen Gough.  Rent rolls show the children living with
  their mother and step-father on the home farm called "Jarboe".  None of
  the children were of age.
  John Jarboe bought and sold many pieces of land before his death.  His
  land at his death:
  St. Lawrence   300 acres
  St. Peter's Hills    500 acres
  Jarboe's       150 acres
  Marsh's Hope   150 acres.
  Maryland Calendar of Wills:  Volume 1:
  JARBOE, JOHN, Lt.-Col, (nunc.), St. Mary's Co., 4th Mch., 1674;
  9th Mch., 1674.
  To wife MARY, execx., home plantation during life.
  To son JOHN and hrs., sd. plantation at death of mother and 150 A of "The
  Mill Land."
  To son PETER and hrs., 300 A on Britton's Bay
  To son HENRY and hrs., 500 A on St. Lawrence's Ck.
  To dau MARY Jarboe, personalty; land having been given her by deed.
  Test:  Jno. Jordan.
  Note:  Will of Lt.-Col. JOHN JARBOE, drawn 2nd of Sept., 1671, is also
  recorded, the bequests being virtually the same as in the above, save
  that the 2 younger sons, Henry and Peter, were born later.
  There is an account of a quote from a book called YESTERDAY IN ST MARY'S
  COUNTY by Fred Pughe that said that John Jarboe went on a particular
  mission to Virginia for the Calverts, and that he was never picked up by
  the boat that was supposed to come and get him.  He said that he walked
  all the way back home, which would mean he would have had to walk all the
  way around the Potomac River.  John Jarboe reportedly said that he wore
  out "six payre of shooes" and that it cost hime 300 pounds of tabacco. 
  The Book TIDEWATER MARYLAND by Paul Wilstach c. 1931, 1945, tells the
  circumstances of that quote.

Details of John's family with Mary M. Tattershall