Re: John Jump
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In reply to:
Re: John Jump
Jean Scarlott 7/13/08
Jean,
That's quite a sequence of events.The teeny bit of silver is that you know where he died.I am sure you have investigated whether there were estate records - or possibly guardianships in the event there were minor children.Sometimes the estate records also reveeal when a widow has remarried.
Land records are not always immediately helpful at the time of death.I am not sure whether MD had a civil disenfranchisement law as many States did at the time: a convicted felon became an 'unperson', lost many rights to transact business, to vote or stand for office, might have forfeited any lands to the State.For those not executed, such provisions sometimes also dissolved marriages.These provisions did not always work out well for the surviving family.The widow if any might have taken shelter among her immediate relatives.
The County Court records might tell you more about the repercussions, mentioning such things as seizure of land and resale at auction.Possibly a relative of the widow might have tried to buy the lands.If any.
It is just possible that your Shelby and his brother came from the Queen Anne's Co, MD Jumps, of whom there was a core in the middle 18th century.My distant cousin Peter Jump was descended from that family (his paternal grandfather Edward moved to Sussex Co., DE about the 1720s).They left pretty good estate records up to when the Prerogative Court was abolished at the time of the Revolutionary War; I don't know about later.If this is so, that's another place to look for members of Shelby's family fleeing the bad reputation issues and financial problems.
Good hunting,
Jade