Fitch, George (b. AFT 1538, d. BEF 18 JUN 1605)

Given Name: George

Death: BEF 18 JUN 1605

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Given Name: Joan

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Given Name: John

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Given Name: Mary

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Hyde
Title: Myrtle Stevens Hyde, Ancestors in England of Anne Stacie, Wife of Thoma
s Fitch of Norwalk, Connecticut (The Genealogist, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1997 p
p.163-175.)
s Fitch of Norwalk, Connecticut
s Fitch of Norwalk, Connecticut. The Genealogist, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1997 p
p.163-175.

Given Name: William

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Given Name: Elizabeth

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Given Name: Roger

Death: BEF 22 FEB 1558

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Given Name: Margery

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Given Name: Thomas

Death: 21 APR 1514

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Given Name: Agnes

Death: BEF 9 SEP 1533

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Given Name: John

Death: ABT 9 APR 1468

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Given Name: Juliana

Death: ABT 9 NOV 1514

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Given Name: Robert

Death: BEF 21 DEC 1493

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Given Name: Margaret

Death: BEF 21 DEC 1505

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Given Name: William

Death: ABT 24 APR 1466

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Note: Edward Pegram resided at "Edgefield" in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Pegram
Title: Henry pegram, Origin of the Pegram Family in the United States and Hist
ory of the Same During the Eighteenth Century (William and Mary Quarter
ly, June 1922)
ory of the Same During the Eighteenth Century
ory of the Same During the Eighteenth Century. William and Mary Quarter
ly, June 1922.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Ancestors of American Presidents
Title: Compiled by Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents (Santa C
larita, California: C. Boyer 3rd, in cooperation with the New England H
istoric Genealogical Society, 1995.)
larita, California: C. Boyer 3rd, in cooperation with the New England H
istoric Genealogical Society, 1995.

Given Name: Edward Strange

Death: 23 AUG 1888

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Given Name: Sarah

Death: 16 MAY 1852

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Papenfuse
Title: Edward C. Papenfuse, et al, A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland L
egislature, 1635-1789 (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Pr
ess, 1979, 1985)
egislature, 1635-1789
egislature, 1635-1789. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Pr
ess, 1979, 1985.

Given Name: Sarah Ennalls

Death: 1837 Annapolis, Maryland

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Note: Roger Nelson was born at the family homestead near Point of Rocks, Frederick County, Maryland. He studied at the College of William and Mary.

On Jul 15 1780, he joined the 5th Regiment of the Maryland Line and was commissioned a lieutenant. The regiment was sent south to join General Gates's army and fought at the Battle of Camden. Nelson was wounded during the subsequent retreat and, lying on the field, was surrounded by a band of British soldiers who wounded him further and left him for dead. When it was realized that he was not dead, he was taken as a prisoner of war and placed in one of the British prison hulks in Charleston harbor, where he remained for many months.

Exchanged, he transferred to the regiment of cavalry commanded by Col. William Washington, a cousin of General George Washington. At the Battle of Guilford Court House he took part in the charge against the British Guards that was led by Col. Washington and was the decisive moment of the Battle. He also fought at the Battle of Eutaw Springs in September of 1781 and was present when the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown brought the Revolution to an end.

In 1793, he organized and led a troop of cavalry against the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania. He was later commissioned a brigadier general in the Maryland Militia.

He was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1785, having studied in the offices of William H. Dorsey in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. He practiced briefly in Taneytown before moving to Frederick, where he quickly developed a large practice. Not a brilliant lawyer, he was a brilliant orator and it was said that Frederick County juries found him irresistable. He was soon involved in politics, where his oratorical skills served him well. In one campaign, where he was opposed by a man of great influence, according to T. J. C. Williams in his History of Frederick County, Maryland, he sensed that he was making no headway with the audience. "Suddenly," Williams wrote, "he bared his breast and displayed the scars from the wounds he had received at Camden. That was a dramatic moment and had an electric effect upon his audience and he was triumphantly elected."

He served in the Maryland House of Delegates in 1792-93 and from 1800 to 1802. He was Speaker pro tem in 1800. He was elected to the state Senate in 1802, but did not serve that year. He was also elected in 1803, when he did serve, and in 1804, when the election was voided. In November, 1804, was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington. A Jeffersonian, he was named a manager of the impeachment proceedings against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase but refused to serve on account of Chase's services to the country during the Revolution. He supported Jefferson's Embargo Act, despite near universal opposition to it in his district, and he survived the election of 1808 only because of his own popularity.

He resigned from Congress in May, 1810, when he was named an associate judge of the 5th Judicial Circuit of Maryland, where he served until his death. He also served as County Clerk of Frederick County in 1815.

An article on General Nelson appears in the Dictionary of American Biography.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: T.J.C. Williams
Title: T. J. C. Williams, History of Frederick County, Maryland Regional Publi
shing Company
Baltimore, Maryland, 1967 (a reprint of the 1910 original)
ishing Company
Baltimore, Maryland, 1967 (a reprint of the 1910 original).

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: DAB
Title: Dictionary of American Biography

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Eisenberg
Title: Gerson G. Eisenberg, Marylanders Who Served the Nation: A BIographical D
ictionary of (Annapolis, Maryland: Maryland State Archives, 1992)
ictionary of
ictionary of. Annapolis, Maryland: Maryland State Archives, 1992.

Given Name: Roger

Death: 7 JUN 1815 Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland

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Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: CD
Title: William C. Marye, Colonial Dames ancestor chart, prepared for Margaret M
. Steele, Jan. 3, 1916
. Steele, Jan. 3, 1916
. Steele, Jan. 3, 1916.

Source: (Individual)
Abbreviation: Eisenberg
Title: Gerson G. Eisenberg, Marylanders Who Served the Nation: A BIographical D
ictionary of (Annapolis, Maryland: Maryland State Archives, 1992)
ictionary of
ictionary of. Annapolis, Maryland: Maryland State Archives, 1992.

Given Name: Mary Brooke

Death: BEF 2 FEB 1797

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