Samuel (Madoc) Maddox

Marriages

• With Ann (Anne) Notley — 1669, St. Marys County, Maryland

Notes

First of this lineage to travel from Wales to America, landing in St. Marys County, Maryland in 1665; his friend Thomas Notley (later Maryland's eighth Governor) came on the same ship. First recorded in a St. Marys County ledger book in 1667. Settled the 300-acre 'Green Springs Farm' on the Wicomico River and owned 100 acres called the 'Indian Fields'. Served as a Lieutenant under Captain Gerrard in the 1675 expedition against the Susquehanna Indians. Left a will dated 18 January 1684 dividing the estate among his four sons in the old-world style (daughters received nothing; first-born received the bulk): Notley received the Green Springs Farm, Samuel the Indian Fields, William and John quarter shares of livestock and goods. The will also bequeathed enslaved people ('one Negro woman and child and three English hands') equally among the sons, and named Captain Justian Gerrard, John Hilton, Ralph Foster and John Smith to look after the children. Burial at Christ Church, Chaptico is inferred from a memorial stained-glass window there (dated 1882) naming several generations of Samuel Maddoxes; no burial record or grave marker has been located. The town of Maddox, Maryland is named for Samuel and the Maddox family (its U.S. Post Office ran 1892-1960; first Post Master George William Maddox, appointed 23 August 1892).