Re: Early MD Marriages - information request
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Early MD Marriages - information request
Herbert Edwards 4/25/00
Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 6. Issue 31.
Richard Duckett HALL, Planter of Prince George's County, Maryland; b. 22d September, 1816; d. 24th April, 1864. He lived and d. at his homestead “Walnut Range,” about ten miles from Washington, D. C. on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He was an ardent Democrat, and his sympathies with the Southern cause during the Civil War induced him to become surety on a bond to furnish uniforms for the Confederate States to the amount of $80,000 of which $40,000 was paid by his widow to Johns HOPKINS, by way of compromise effected by his brother William Williams HALL as will appear from the Court Records at Upper Marlborough. Richard Duckett HALL, m. 10th February, 1842, Susannah PERKINS, b. 12th November, 1818, d, 14th January, 1901, dau. of John PERKINS, of Prince George's County, and Baltimore, Maryland, b. 13th November, 1781, d. 8th November, 1840, who served in Capt. David WARFIELD'S Company (Independent Command) “Baltimore United Volunteers,” at the Battle of North Point, and at Fort McHenry, 12th September, 1814. John PERKINS, m. 12th May, 1809, Harriet GORSUCH, dau. of Robert GORSUCH, of Homestead, Baltimore County, Maryland.