Elizabeth Coursey

Information regarding the DeCoursey family of Maryland can be found here: 1. Beatty, Alma Gilliland.. The House of DeCoursey : A.D. 814-1971. 2. Ancestry.com. The House of DeCoursey : A.D. 814-1971 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.

"...Col Henry had issue by his second wife, Elizabeth Carpenter, who died 12/1702. Their children are as follows: Thomas Coursey, died 1701, married Oct 17, 1699, Ann Harris, and had one daughter, Jane (1701-1772). Jane married Major John Brown of Kent Co., MD.; John Coursey, (d. 1713) m. Mary Turbutt; James Coursey (d. May 1714) m. Jane.; Jane Coursey (d. 1696) see will of 1696."

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Henry Coursey (d. 1695) MARRIED first, in 1658 Mary, widow of Richard Harris (?-1657). MARRIED second, Elizabeth (?-1702), widow of Simon Carpenter (?-1670).

CHILDREN

SONS: Thomas (?-1700/1), who married in 1699 Ann Harris; Henry Coursey (1662-1707), who married Elizabeth (?-1728), daughter of Elizabeth Desmyniers, of Dublin, Ireland; James (?-1714); and John (?-1713), who married Mary, daughter of Michael Turbutt.

DAUGHTER Jane (?-1696).

STEPDAUGHTERS: Ann (?-ca. 1709), who married Michael Earle (?-1709); Mary, who married John Lillingston (?-1709).

Notes

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• Carpenter, Simon, Chester River, Talbot Co., 22nd Mch., 1669; 23rd Nov., 1670.
• To Eliza: Mirix and Anne Morgan, personalty.
• Wife Eliza:, execx. and residuary legatee of estate, real and personal, during widowhood.
• To son William at 21 yrs. of age, home plantation at marriage or death of wife afsd.
• To 3 daus. (unnamed) personalty at marriage or 21 yrs. of age.
• Overseers: Henry Coursey, Wm. Coursey. Test: John Rye, John Simmons. 1. 399.

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• Morgan, John, 16th Oct., 1667; 30th May, 1668.
• To Simon Carpenter, Christopher Barnes, personalty.
• Only dau. Eliza: Morgan, execx. and residuary legatee.
• Brother-in-law William Coursey, overseer, and guardian of said dau.
• Test: Wm. Hemsley, Robert Kent.

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Will

https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I9237...

• Coursey, Eliza:, widow of Henry Coursey, Talbot Co., 14th Dec., 1702; 13th Jan., 1702.
• To grandsons Carpenter Lillingston and Carpenter Earle, personalty, part of which belonged to dec 'd husband, Henry Coursey, and part to first husband.
• dau. Ann Earle, personalty which belonged formerly to son William Carpenter.
• granddau. Eliza: Earle, personalty which formerly belonged to dau. Eliza:.
• To granddaus. Jane, Mary and Francis Lillingston, personalty.
• Sons John and James Coursey, exs. and residuary legatees of estate.
• Rich. Macklyn and Rich'd. Tilghman requested to assist exs. in managing estate.
• Test: Chas. Fitzgarrett, Win. Fitzgarrett, Rich'd Tilghman.
• 11. 262.

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References

1. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I9237...
2. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I9087...
3. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I9237...
4. "A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature 1635-1789 by Edward C. Papenfuse, et. al." < link > Volume 426, Page 236. STEPDAUGHTERS: Ann (?-ca. 1709), who married Michael Earle (?-1709); Mary, who married John Lillingston (?-1709).
5. Johnson, R. Winder (comp.), The ancestry of Rosalie Morris Johnson: daughter of George Calvert Morris and Elizabeth Kuhn, his wife (1905), p. 135.