The Wills Family > Southern Maryland Families
  • 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

Southern Maryland Families

After the 1700s, there were few newcomers to the shores of the Potomac, so those that stayed inevitably married among themselves. The limits of travel by horse and boat in a rural region meant that social and business contacts were local and few. In fact, social circles were much narrower, almost always separated by race, usually by religion, and often by wealth and social status.  Not surprisingly, families spent most of their social life with their relatives, close neighbors and fellow churchgoers.

By the mid-1800s, many of the Catholics around the Jesuit missions in Southern Maryland were cousins of their neighbors or even their spouses.

One of the advantages of an internet genealogy is that these family histories can be easily linked together just as the families themselves were intertwined.  One of our hopes is that you will come to know not just one ancestral line, but the whole extended family networks of the past.

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

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