Re: Maryland Quatermus

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.org>]

>In the Quarterman book, there's an appendix that discusses the possible Maryla
>nd connection.  The two Quartermans in Maryland, John and Thomas, are mentione
>d, along with some who went by the name of "Quatermus" (at least that's how th
>eir names were recorded.)  The Quatermus individuals apparently lived in Dorch
>ester County, Maryland, an area where English Puritans were living alongside F
>rench Huguenots.  And as you cite the History of Dorchester County, Maryland, 
>they mention that English Puritans came there because they were expelled from 
>Virginia.  
>
>So--has anyone searched the early Virginia records?  I realize it's a rather b
>ig jump from our Robert Quarterman back to Virginia, but if he died quite old,
> there's a chance he might have been among the Virginia Puritans.

Or son of some of them.  I haven't searched them.  I was hoping someone else
would.

>I have a subscription to genealogy.com's "Genealogical Records: Virginia Land,
> Marriage and Probate Records, 1639-1850."  They've compiled a list of about 1
>35,000 individuals mentioned in various records from Augusta, Isle of Wight, N
>orfolk, and Spotsylvania Counties in Virginia.  I checked, and found nothing o
>n Quarterman or Quatermus (or Katermint, for that matter).  That's just those 
>counties, though.  

Well, that tells us something about those counties, at least.

>-Connie

John S. Quarterman <jsq@quarterman.org>

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