The Wills Family
  • Southern Maryland Families
    • The Floyds of St. Mary’s
      • Jesse Floyd, Jr.
      • Capt. William Floyd
      • David I. Floyd
  • The Bowlings of Boarman’s Manor
    • English Ancestry of the Bowlings
      • Friends and Relations of James Bowling
      • Roger Bowling the Shoemaker (d. 1673)
    • Capt. James Bowling
    • Thomas Bowling (d. 1700) and son John (d.1711)
      • Thomas Bowling of Prince George’s Co.
      • William Bowling of Bryantown
  • Mortons of the Patuxent
    • John Morton of Chas./P.G.
    • Thomas Morton, Jr
    • Joseph Morton of Charles Co.
      • James Morton of Benedict
      • Mary B. Morton (Smoot)
      • William Morton of Calvert County
    • Geo. Morton of Morton’s Mill
    • Samuel Morton of St. Mary’s
      • John Hooper Broome Morton
      • Samuel Morton of Kentucky
      • George Hooper Morton
      • Henry E. Morton of Stokely
    • Mortons of Stafford Co, Va
      • Ann “Nancy” Morton (Hedgman)
      • James Morton of Spring Hill
      • Allen Waller Morton, the City Clerk
      • John Brightwell Morton
    • Miscellaneous Mortons
  • Wills Family
    • The Wills in the Colonial Period
    • John Baptist Wills, Sr.
      • Anne Livers ancestry
      • Anne Wills Thompson
      • Joseph Ignatius Wills
      • John Baptist Wills, Jr.
      • Eliz. B.D. Wills [Digges]
      • William Livers Wills of La.
      • Frederick Wills of La.
      • Charles Wills
  • Stories and Letters
    • Fox Hunting in Charles County
    • A Cavalryman in the War of 1812
    • Recollection of the Mortons and Wallers of Stafford Co.
  • History
  • Places

Family History

The historical section of this site tells the story of the Wills Family of Port Tobacco and several interrelated families in Southern Maryland.  Currently we have material on these families:

The Bowlings of Boarman’s Manor

The Floyds of St. Mary’s and Charles Counties

The Mortons of the Patuxent River Valley


Family history means different things for different people. For some, it is tracing a line back to the earliest known ancestors. For others, it is a discovery of self and relatives — distant ancestors are both your most intimate family and also complete strangers.

What were these people like?

A good family history sketches out the background of the place and time of its characters so the reader can better appreciate the story of these relatives, so that the family history becomes an inter-connected biography.  For these reasons, we welcome contributions of oral tradition, photos, maps, and the social history of Southern Maryland.

All the information on this website is based on original sources, except where indicated as tradition.  However, to make the site as readable as possible, we have avoided footnotes and tried to minimize citations. If you have questions about the information or need a fuller citation, please contact the editor.

It is our goal to cover these families from the colonial period through the beginning or middle of the 20th century.  For reasons of privacy, we do not usually publish later generations.

Contributions of photos, documents, or stories are all welcome!

Credits and copyright:  The material on this site is written and copyrighted by J.Wills but is available for private use. These pages are periodically updated and corrected and it is not useful to have outdated versions of this information elsewhere on the web. The usual rules apply: if you use large selections from this site in a publication or another website, please cite WillsFamily.com or the primary source, or contact the editor for permission.

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