Mary Vaughan

Family/Spouse: Edward Burton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rebekah Burton

Mary married Major James Ringgold on 8 Feb 1672/3 in Maryland, United States. James (son of Colonel Thomas Ringgold and Barbara) was born in 1626 in England, United Kingdom; died in 1686 in Kent, Maryland, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Ringgold
2. James R Ringgold was born in 1671; died in Bef. 15 Mar 1704/5 in Kent, Maryland, United States.
3. Barbara Ringgold was born on 28 Dec 1671.
4. William Ringgold was born in 1677; died in 1754 in Kent, Maryland, United States.
5. Charles Ringgold was born in 1685 in Kent, Maryland, United States; died in Bef. 8 Sep 1723 in Kent, Maryland, United States.

Notes:

Commander of Kent 1647-1652

Capt. ROBERT VAUGHAN had lately been deposed by the "Keepers of the Liberty of England," and could not stomach and digest the doings of a Court organized by the Puritan Commissioners. 95% Old Kent: the Eastern Shore of Maryland A second time, Capt. ROBERT VAUGHAN insulted the Court by using most "opprobious" epithets, bending his "fist" over the "heads" of the Judges and "swearing" at the Clerk as "he sat at table." For this offence the Court imposed a fine of 600 lbs. of Tob. Fol. 56.



Governor Calvert, also, the 18th day of April, 1647, o. s., commissioned Robert Vaughan, gent., to be "chief captain and commander," under him (the Governor), "of all the militia of the Isle of Kent, and with it to command and execute whatsoever shall beby him thought requisite for the said island against all intestine mutinies or seditions;" invested him with the power of martial law; "provided that where the offense shall deserve the forfeiture of life or member, that such offender for his trial be referred, and judgment to the provincial court, to be held by his Lordship's Governor and Council of this province." He further authorized "the said Captain Robert Vaughan to award all process necessary, according to the law and custom of this province," etc.; and he also authorized the said Captain Robert Vaughan, William Cox, Thomas Bradnox, Edward Comins, Philip Conner and Francis Brooke, gent., or the major part of them, whereof the said Robert Vaughan to be always one, to hear, try and judge, accord ing to the laws of this province, all actions and causes civil," except "where the freehold of any one shall come in question," provided that it shall be lawful for any man, at any time before execution served, "to appeal unto the provincial

Robert married Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]