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  • 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.
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Stories and Letters

Fox Hunting and Social Life in Charles County, 1826 — a letter of Joseph P. Floyd to Francis Reed Wills, with background on fox hunting in Southern Maryland.

A Cavalryman in the War of 1812 — Joseph P. Floyd (uncle of Olivia Floyd and Francis Reed Wills) rides daringly to escape from the “British”.

Recollection of the early Mortons of Stafford Co. (page 1, page 2) by Mrs. Annie (Morton) Dix, daughter of James Morton of Stafford County, Va.   We have two pages of typewritten notes passed on by the late Nancy Moncure (Ralls) Southworth. It is is not clear who compiled the text we have, but the compiler properly comments that this text seems to have two parts: 1) most of the first page, in the voice of Mrs. Dix, “I only know as far back as my great-grandmother, who was Ursula Brightwell Morton.”  2) Starting at the bottom of the first page in the voice of James Morton, “My father, Richard Morton, came from Maryland”.   The two parts differ in a few details, but are basically complementary, the first part mostly about Morton descendants, and the second part about the Wallers.

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