• General Notes

  REFN: 2107
  William Wilkinson arrived in Virginia with wife, Naomi, by October 3,
  1635.  Generally regarded as the first Protestant minister in Maryland. 
  1632, Magdalen College, Oxford (M.A.)
  Ancestry.com database, "American Emigrant Ministers, 1690-1811":
  The Church in Maryland was ministered to by the Rev. Richard James, who
  embarked for Virginia in 1635.  Years passed, and in the re-establishment
  of the monarchy and the restoration of the authority of the Proprietary,
  we find but little mention of the church, though the records inform us
  that about the year 1650, the Rev. William Wilkinson, Clerk, fifty years
  of age, with his wife and family and servants, arrived in the colony.  It
  would seem that Mr. Wilkinson was the first resident clergyman of the
  Church in the province other than the ministers of Kent Island."
  Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families Vol 1 p 173:
  "The first Episcopal minister of the province of Maryland was the
  Reverend William Wilkinson, who came out from Yorkshire in 1650, with his
  daus--Mary, Rebecca, and Elizabeth, with his step-dau--Margaret.  Rebecca
  became the wife of Thomas Dent and Elizabeth m. William Hatton, son of
  the Hon. Thos. Hatton, Sec. of the Province.  The Hattons were
  descendants of Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Chancellor of Queen Elizabeth
  and the most elegant courtier of her reign.  The Rev. Wm. Wilkinson's
  will of 1663 named Thomas Dent and Wm. Hatton as Executors."
  Will Abstract:
  William Wilkinson - 1663- St. Mary's Co., MD
  29th May 1663
  21st September 1663
  To Eliza. Budden, dau. of Margaret Budden, "my" last wife,
  personalty.
  To 2 grandchild., viz, William Dent, eld. son of Thomas and Rebecca
  Dent, and William Hatton,     eld. son of William and Eliza. Hatton,
  personalty
  To son-in-law Thomas Dent and Rebecca, his wife, 1/2 residue of
  estate, real and personal.
  To son-in-law William Hatton and Eliza. his wife, other 1/2 residue
  of estate, real and personal.
  Exs:  Sd. sons-in-law Thomas Dent and William Hatton
  Test:  Randall Hanson, Daniell Smith

Details of William's family with Margaret Budden

Details of William's family with Naomi Hughes