John Cecil, husband of Elizabeth Sollars, was not John Baptiste Cecil, and not the son of William Cecil of St. Mary's County, MD with wife Mary. He was the son of William Cecil and unknown mother. He was given to Mareen the Elder Duvall along with his ONLY siblings, Philip and Susanna. This being the deathbed wish of his mother. Hope that the managers of this profile will make the necessary changes. Unfortunately, the profile for his father and siblings are also at this stage wrong, but every attempt is being made to repair. Thanks!

He signed a will on 4 Jul 1757. Land I now live upon to his son, Zephaniah Cicell after his wife, Elizabeth's marriage or death. Will Probate: 28 Jan 1759, Prince George's Co, MD.

WILL of JOHN CECIL, Prince George's Co.; written 14 Jul 1757; probate 28 Jan 1759 "I give and devise to my wife, Elizabeth Cicell, during her widowhood, all that tract of land I now live upon and after her marriage or death I give and devise same to my son, Zephaniah Cicell. I give and devise to my wife, Elizabeth Cicell, all my Negroes, household furniture, tobacco, horses, cattle, pigs and all of my personal estate. After her death, or marriage, the same to be equally divided between all my children. My wife, Elizabeth, to be Executrix."/s/ John (X) Cecil, Jr.

Source:

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CECIL/2004-02/1077031456

Birth
1689
24 Dec

Prince George's County, Maryland, USA
Queen Anne Parish


 Marriage to Elizabeth Sollers
1718
Age: 29

Prince George's County, Maryland, USA
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He apparently left a somewhat complicated will and his estate was not settled for many years after his death. The Davis connection is interesting--if you have read my data on Wm Cecil in the Witten/Cecil page, I speculate about a "James Davis" who may be the same James Davis involved in the estate of Sabrett in 1852. One James Davis appeared before the council of Philadelphia claiming rights on behalf of William Cecill, the "First Purchaser" who held land in Pennsylvania as late as 1685 (maybe later?). A connection between these two would suggest a link to this Pennsylvania family. May be impossible to prove as James Davis is probably a common name.... Penny<p>

Sabrett's Plantation covered much of what is today Takoma Park, Maryland and Sligo Creek Park. An old log cabin from that plantation was still in existaence in Sligo Creek Park until about 1948 -- Walt Morrow Birth: 1723 in Prince George's Co., Maryland Census: 1776 North West Hundred, Frederick Co., Maryland Note: Age 53 Death: 12 APR 1805 in Montgomery Co., Maryland

Some genealogies show him as the son of Thomas CECIL (d.1662), an engraver of London who came to MD to make maps, and was paid in land. He later returned to England where he died. Supposedly, this Thomas was the son of Thomas CECIL (1544-1622), Lord Burghley, m.1564 Dorothy, dau John NEVILLE. This line is unproven, and the current consensus of Cecil researchers is that John was the son of William, q.v.<p>

Also, John is seen as a descendent of Henry CECIL (c.1577), grandson of Lord Burleigh (the Great Cecil). Birth: 24 DEC 1689 in Queen Anne's Par., Prince George's Co., Maryland Baptism: 31 DEC 1691 Queen Anne's Par., Prince George's Co., Maryland Will: 14 JUL 1757 Probate: JAN 1758/9 Death: 28 JAN 1758/9 in Queen Anne's Par., Prince George's Co., Maryland

ID: I0093 Name: John CECIL Sex: M Birth: 24 DEC 1689 in Queen Anne's Parish, Prince George's Co MD Death: 28 JAN 1759 in Queen Anne's Parish, Prince George's Co MD Probate: JAN 1758 Will: 14 JUL 1757 Note: Court 1755-1760 p. 76
John Cisel PG Feb 5 1759 May 4 1759
Appraisers: Thomas Gordon, William Shaw,Jr.
Creditors: Je. Belt, Jr.
Next of kin: Thomas Cesil, James Cesil
Exe.: Elizabeth Cisel
(note: different spellings in same record are as written)


Wills, Liber 30, Folio 649
"I give and devise to my wife, Elizabeth Cicell, during her widowhoodall that tract of land I now live upon and after her marriage or deathI give and devise the same to my son, Zaphaniah Cicell. I give anddevise to my wife, all my negros, household furniture, tobacco,horses, cattle, pigs and all of my personal estate. After her death,or marriage, the same to be equally divided between all my children.My wife, to be exec. /s/ John Cecil, Jr. By mark, July 4, 1757l Wit.by Joyhn Btown Brassier, Rachel B. Brown, Gordon Thomas. Proved bythe oath of John Brown Brassier on 28, July 1758 in P.G. Co.

It has been assumed (and debated!) by over 200 years of genealogiststhat William's sons John and Phillip, given to the Duvalls in 1697/8,are the same men who appear in later PGC records. In the case of JohnCecil of PGC, this is supported by several pieces of evidence:

John Cecil, a landowner in Prince George's County, married ElizabethSollars in Queen Ann's Parish, PGC in 1718. Elizabeth's mother waspresumably one Ann Sabrett Sullivan Sollars.
John and Elizabeth's children were probably Zephaniah, Samuel W.,Sabrett
and Thomas. (references for this not cited here). They may have hadsons William and James. Samuel Cecil was William's administrator,assisted by John (possibly
William's son and Samuel's father?), Sabrett and Thomas. Samuel W.Cecil was wed to Rebecca White, who was christened in Queen Ann'sparish by Rev. Jacob Henderson, who wed the widow of Mareen Duvall theImmigrant, Mary Duvall Ridgely. It is assumed that Mareen's son,Mareen the Elder, was the one to whom William Cecil bound hischildren.
Obviously there was close association of all these people. It ispossible that the William who died in 1749 was not John Cecil's fatherbut another relative, such as an unknown son of William the widower of1697/8...but this is speculation. Most genealogists accept that thisWilliam was John's father and Samuel's grandfather.

Phillip Cecil was also a landowner in PGC. He wed Elizabeth ??(probably Gittings) around 1715, and died in March of 1733. Accordingto the accounting of his estate, he left children Susannah, Mary,Elizabeth, John, William, Joshua and Phillip Jr. Phillip was probablythe son of William Cecil and the younger brother of John Cecil.However, his widow Elizabeth
stated in court that her dead husband had "...no relation to yedeceased in this Province," an assertion which has troubledgenealogists for years.

If this was actually Elizabeth Gittings Cecil, she was the daughter ofPhillip Gittings and Ann Sprigg, gentry of the area. Some genealogistshave speculated that since she was the daughter of a gentleman, shemight have been embarrassed by her husband's lowly relatives. However,John Cecil's wife Elizabeth Sollars was the daughter and sister ofgentlemen, and John died with a respectable amount of property.William Cecil's estate of about 113 pounds puts him in the middleclass of his time. Phillip Cecil's estate left nothing but debts andproperty which he had purchased from his brother in law. Thisspeculation does not hold up.

However, other lines of evidence do converge to allow the assumptionthat Phillip and John Cecil were brothers. John's son Samuel andPhillip's daughter Elizabeth Cecil Whitten traveled in the same groupto Western Virginia about 1767. The names of the Perre, Dent, Sprigg,Beall, Duvall and Pile families appear with those of Phillip and JohnCecil too often for mere coincidence.

Penny Cecil Bloodhart Twelve Generations Removed from William andUnknown

Some genealogies show him as the son of Thomas CECIL (d.1662), an 
engraver of London who came to MD to make maps, and was paid in land. He 
later returned to England where he died. Supposedly, this Thomas was the 
son of Thomas CECIL (1544-1622), Lord Burghley, m.1564 Dorothy, dau John 
NEVILLE. This line is unproven, and the current consensus of Cecil 
researchers is that John was the son of William, q.v.
Also, John is seen as a descendent of Henry CECIL (c.1577), grandson of 
Lord Burleigh (the Great Cecil).
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I am a descendant of Benjamin Sollers Cecil and Priscilla Boyleston. Benjamin was the son of Samuel Cecil and Rebecca White. They had migrated from Frederick Co MD/formerly Prince Georges Co MD in 1760. Samuel Cecil was the son of John Cecil and Elizabeth Sollers of Prince Georges County MD. John and Elizabeth were married in the the old St Barnabas Anglican Church, Queen Ann's Parish, a log church built on the site of the present church. John Cecil, brother Phillip Cecil and sister Susan Cecil were children of Wiliam Sesell and unknwn who had been in the Province most of his life. William's parents have never been identified and the associations claimed over the years with Sir Thomas Cecil of William Lord Burleigh Cecil's family remain in the realm of speculation. Samuel Cecil was the executor of his grandfather William Sesell's estate. When just children John, Philip and Susan Cecil on their mother's deathbed and at her request were sent into the foster care of Mareen Duvall the Elder suggesting the speculation that their mother may have been a kinswoman of Mareen. Susan dissappears from history but John and Phillip leave a large posterity. The family is sometimes confused with the Cissels of Calvert County who were Catholics. Phillip Cecil's daughter Elizabeth, when her father died, apparently went to live with her uncle John Cecil's family and there she grew up. Later she married Thomas Witten Sr and migrated with her cousin Samuel and Rebecca to southern VA. Samuel and Rebecca settled at the site of Dublin in Montgomery/Pulaski Co VA and the Wittens moved on to Tazewell VA. There were five second cousin marriages between these two families. The Cecils and Witten both may have been in Barbadoes before coming to the Maryland Colony, a somewhat common occurrence.

Benjamin Sollers Cecil and Priscilla Boyleston Cecil moved after the Revolution to southern Wayne County KY. Thir daughter Rebecca married Ezekiel Newport and made their home in the area that would become Scott Co TN. Their son Samuel Cecil m Katy Pevehouse dau of Abraham Pevehouse and Rebecca York of Fentress County TN and had one son James Timothy Cecil. Katy died and Samuel married Jane Chrisman and had a large family. James Timothy Cecil married Pharaba Reed dau of Isaac Reed and Pharaba Hatfield and they raised 17 children on their farm at the junction of the Old Monticello and Huntsville rds in Scott County TN. This is about a mile or so west of Huntsville and 1/2 mile east of the junction with US 27. I descend from two of James and Pharaba's sons, Riley Cecil m Artema Sexton and William "Squire Bill" Cecil m Nancy Williams West of Scott County TN.


Mareen Duvall the younger, son of the immigrant Marin Duval, a Frenchman who won the favor of Lord Baltimore in the late 1600s. Upon completion of an indenture which merited him quite a few acres of land in Ann Arundel County, Mr. Duval became a very wealthy man and one of the established gentry of the early colony.


Marriages and Births – Queen Anne’s Parish (1700s), Prince George’s County, Maryland 
Salt Lake FHC Film No. 0014304, Item 3 

John Cecill Elizabeth Sallars 1718 Jno. White

Phillip Cecill Elizabeth ??
Susanna Cecill Born March 15, 171?
Mary Cecill Born July 02, 1716 

 Death
1759
28 Jan
Age: 69

Prince George's County, Maryland, USA

Descendants of John Sessell Cecil 1 John 'Sessell' Cecil b: December 24, 1689 in Queen Anne Parish.,Prince George County, Md d: January 28, 1759 in PGC ,Maryland Will: July 14, 1758 Probate,PGC , Jan 28,1759 Father William 'Sessell' Cecil. 1665-1749. mother Mary? Unknown. . +Elizabeth Sollers b: 1696 in Calvert, PGC, Md D/o John & Ann Sabrett Sollers m: 1714 in PGC Maryland d: 1775 in PGC,Maryland Father: John Sollars Mother: Ann Sabrett .... 2 Zephaniah 'Sollers' Cecil b: Abt. 1715 in PGC, Maryland d: Aft. 1769 in Dublin Pulaski co VA ....... +Mary A Unknown b: Abt. 1740 .......... 3 Elizabeth Sollars Cecil b: May 26, 1765 in PGC Maryland .... 2 Samuel Witten Cecil b: March 23, 1717/18 in Queen Anne Par, PGC,, Md d: March 23, 1785 in Pulaski Va ....... +Rebecca White b: August 20, 1723 in Queen Anne Par, PGC, Md m: 1744 d: March 16, 1815 in Dublin Pulaski Va Father: Benjamin White Mother: Ann Hilliard .......... 3 Elizabeth " Linnie" Cecil b: 1745 in Prince George Cty Md d: Unknown in Bedford Co Va ............. +John Gates Witten b: Bet. 1742 - 1743 in Md m: Abt. 1760 in Prince George Cty Md, second cousins d: Unknown Father: Thomas Witten Mother: Elizabeth Cecil .......... 3 William " White" Cecil b: May 20, 1750 in Prince George Md. d: December 11, 1836 in Tazewell co Va ............. +Ann "Nancy" Witten b: 1755 in Md m: May 29, 1774 in Botetourt Va, second cousins d: 1843 Father: Thomas Witten Mother: Elizabeth Cecil .......... 3 John "Uncle Jack" Cecil b: January 24, 1750/51 in Prince George Cty Md d: August 05, 1832 in Neck Creek, Pulaski co Va ............. +Keziah Witten b: February 13, 1751/52 m: 1770 in Pulaski VA, second cousins d: in Pulaski VA Father: Thomas Witten Mother: Elizabeth Cecil .......... 3 Eleanor " Nellie" Cecil b: July 29, 1754 in Prince George Cty Md d: April 10, 1836 in Tazewell Va ............. +Thomas JeffersonJr Witten b: 1752 in Maryland m: March 29, 1774 in Fincastle VA,second cousins d: Aft. 1832 in Tazewell co Va Father: Thomas Witten Mother: Elizabeth Cecil .......... 3 Thomas "White" Cecil b: September 03, 1756 in Prince George Ctyor Frederick Co Md d: August 20, 1823 in [1812]Troy, Miami Co, Ohio ............. +Nancy Grayson b: August 12, 1763 in Culpepper Co Va m: 1780 in Pulaski VA d: September 14, 1814 .......... 3 Zachariah"White" Cecil b: 1758 in Prince George Cty Md [Cecil County?] d: Abt. 1823 in Wash Twp, Shelby County, Ohio ............. +Nancy Ingram b: Abt. 1767 in NC m: October 24, 1782 in Montgomery coVirginia d: Abt. 1810 in Piqua,Shellby co Ohio Father: Samuel Jr Ingram Mother: Ingramfirstwife LNU .......... 3 Malinda 'White' Cecil b: April 15, 1760 in Prince George Cty Md d: February 02, 1850 in Miam iCty Ohio ............. +Samuel Mitchell b: Abt. 1855 .......... 3 James 'White" Cecil b: Abt. 1764 in Prince George,Md d: October 17, 1838 in Tazewell, Va ............. +Margaret Peggy Wysor b: January 12, 1768 in Northhampton co Pa. m: December 05, 1787 in Montgomery coVirginia d: Abt. 1835 in Tazewell Co Va. Father: Adam Weiser Mother: Elizabeth Beck .......... 3 Benjamin Sollers Cecil b: January 23, 1764 in Dublin Montgomery Va d: 1815 in Monticello, Wayne Ky ............. +Priscilla Peggy Boylston b: Abt. 1766 m: Abt. 1783 in Montgomery Cty Va d: Unknown .......... 3 Rebecca " White" Cecil b: 1765 in Prince George Cty Md d: 1844 in Va ............. +James B. Witten b: January 07, 1759 in Prince George Co, Me m: December 25, 1783 in Montgomery coVirginia, second cousins Father: Thomas Witten Mother: Elizabeth Cecil .......... 3 Samuel "White" Cecil b: January 23, 1769 in Dublin Pulaski, Va d: Bef. 1834 in Mo ............. +Mary Polly Ingram b: Abt. 1774 m: October 24, 1792 in Montgomery coVirginia Father: Samuel Jr Ingram Mother: Ingramfirstwife LNU .... 2 Sabret 'Sollers' Cecil b: Abt. 1723 in PGC,Maryland d: Abt. 1809 in Montgomery coMd ....... +Mary Beale m: Abt. 1751 .......... 3 Samuel "Beale' Cecil b: October 04, 1753 d: Bef. 1834 .......... 3 Eleanor 'Beale' Cecil b: April 19, 1754 d: Aft. 1834 ............. +Alexander Barrett m: January 19, 1779 .......... 3 John 'Beale' Cecil b: October 09, 1757 d: Bef. 1834 .......... 3 James 'Beale'. Cecil b: Bet. February 08 1759 - 1761 in Md d: October 1833 in Garrard Co Ky ............. +Eleanor Willson Wilson b: Abt. 1769 m: Abt. 1783 d: June 19, 1844 Father: Henry Wilson Mother: Folander Unknown .......... 3 William 'Beale' Cecil b: January 31, 1761 in MD d: Unknown ............. +Verlinda Unknown b: Abt. 1780 m: Abt. 1798 .......... 3 Mary 'Beale' Cecil b: January 31, 1763 .......... 3 Jemima 'Beale' Cecil b: November 25, 1767 ............. +Joseph Davis m: Abt. 1785 .......... 3 Thomas 'Beale' Cecil b: March 20, 1771 in Montgomery coMd d: Aft. 1850 ............. +Deborah Unknown b: Abt. 1775 m: Aft. 1790 .......... 3 Ann 'Beale' Cecil b: July 12, 1775 in Md d: Unknown ............. +James Davis m: April 25, 1799 in Montgomery Co Md .... 2 Thomas 'Sollers' Cissel/Cecill b: Abt. 1726 in PGC,Maryland d: Abt. 1786 in PgGC ....... +Mary Unknown b: Abt. 1737 .......... 3 Ann Cissel/Cecil b: Abt. 1756 ............. +Ninian Beall b: Abt. 1755 m: Abt. 1772 .......... *2nd Husband of Ann Cissel/Cecil: ............. +Richard Mullikin m: December 14, 1785 .... 2 John 'Sollers' Cecil b: 1730 in PGC,Maryland d: 1808 in Md? .... 2 William Sollers Cecil b: 1732 in PGC,Maryland d: 1808 in PGC,Maryland ....... +Rachel Unknown b: Abt. 1740 .... 2 James 'Sollers' Cecil b: 1734 in PGC,Maryland d: October 17, 1801 in Montgomery coVirginia ....... +Jane Thomas b: Abt. 1740 m: Abt. 1760 Father: Thomas Thomas Mother: Eleanor Unknown .......... 3 James 'Thomas' Cecil b: Abt. 1764 in PGC Maryland d: October 17, 1801 in PGC Maryland ............. +Wife Unknown d: September 06, 1796 .......... 3 Elizabeth 'Thomas' Cecil b: Abt. 1761 in PGC Maryland d: Bet. 1844 - 1845 ............. +Nathan Summers b: Abt. 1750 .......... 3 Firsttwin Cecil b: Abt. 1766 d: Aft. 1790 .......... 3 Secondtwin Cecil b: Abt. 1766 d: Aft. 1790 .......... 3 Phillip 'Thomas' Cecil b: Abt. 1768 d: April 1807 ............. +Rachel Lizure m: January 21, 1800 in Montgomery Co Md .......... 3 Richard 'Thomas' Cecil b: Abt. 1773 d: Bet. 1820 - 1830 in Garrard Co Ky ............. +Charlotte Unknown b: Abt. 1775 .......... 3 William 'Thomas' Cecil b: Abt. 1775 d: June 13, 1860 ............. +Susan Nancy Ann Owens b: Abt. 1775 m: December 21, 1802 in montgomery Co Md .......... *2nd Wife of William 'Thomas' Cecil: ............. +Eliza Gardner b: Abt. 1815 m: January 05, 1835 in Baltimore co Md .......... *3rd Wife of William 'Thomas' Cecil: ............. +Amelia Coffield b: Abt. 1833 m: August 15, 1853 in Baltimoreco Md Source: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CECIL/2006-04/1143994363

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John Baptist Cecil