Mary Liversidge

Notes:

Died:
Source: Dewsbury Parish Registers publ 1898, Samuel Joseph Chadwick, Printed Joseph Ward 1898 Dewsbury, page: 1 Dec 1635

"Marye wife of Thomas Whitakers of this towne buryed"

Mary married Thomas Whitaker 30 Nov 1630, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England. Thomas (son of Avery Whitaker and Mary Greenwood) was born Bef 05 Feb 1607, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, , England ; was christened 05 Feb 1607, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, , England; died 03 Apr 1670, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, , England . [Group Sheet]

Notes:

BIRTH RECORD
FamilySearch.org

England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: Marke Whitakers
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date: 02 May 1631
Baptism/Christening Place: DEWSBURY,YORK,ENGLAND
Father's Name: Thomas Whitakers
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: P00905-1
System Origin: England-ODM
Source Film Number: 100089

LAND RECORDS
In the Wakefield Manor court rolls for 1651 there is a record of a surrender of land in the Nethermoorecroft of the Northfield of Ossett for the use of Mark Whitteakers and his heirs

In the 1672 Hearth tax returns he is paying for 4 hearths.

WILL

28 MAR 1682 Of Ossett The will of Mark Whittaker

In the name of God amen I Mark Whittaker of Osset in the County of Yorks Yeoman doo make this my will in forme following.

First I bequeath my soul to God and my body to decent buriall; and as touching my effects my will is that my oldest sonne Thomas shall have the revetion of the house wherein I now dwell & the buildings thereto belonging after my wive's death which I have surrendered accordingly, And also shall have after her death the farm thereto adjoining & all oth lodge farms which I now hold and have under the Right Honorable the Lord Brudnall and his lady; item I give the said Thomas the interest and Tomiant right of the farme wherein he now dwells which I hold under Mr James Oates in Ossett aforesaid, he paying the rent and and performing the covenants for the farme;

I give my second sonne Marke the farme at Hanging Heaton wherein he now dwells and which I hold under the Right Honorable the Earl of Halifax he paying the rents and performing the services for the farme;

And my will is that my wife take care of the further education of my sonne John now at Cambridge as shall be thought most fitt by my brother and other good friends;

Item I give to my sonne Robert three gross pounds [3 gross pounds is £432] for his portion; And to Dorothy wife of George Chaytor fourty pounds having already given her some considerable portion before;

Item I give to my daughter Mary three gross pounds [3 gross pounds is £432] for her portion;

All the rest of my personal effects I give to Mary my loving wife whom I make executrix of this my will and desiring her endeavor towards the education of my grandchildren Willam and George Speight in [hope] she will get some assistance from their grandfather Speight and their mother in [illeg].

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eight and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord 1682 Marke Whittakers sealed and published in the presence of us Tho Stowell & Tho: Whiteakers.




Christened:
Source: Samuel Joseph Chadwick, Dewsbury Parish Registers publ 1898, Printed Joseph Ward 1898 Dewsbury, page: 123

"Maye 1631 Marke son of Thomas Whitakers baptiised the second daye"

Buried:
Source: Dewsbury Memorial Inscriptions, Peter Whitaker
He recorded the information on the tombstone

"Here lyeth the Body of Marke Whiteakers of Osset, streetside who departed this life the seventeenth day of Aprill Anno Domini 1682 aged 51"

Died:
Source: Dewsbury Parish Register Transcripts, 1653-1699,
Microfilm
Page: April 1682

"Marcus Whiteakers sepultus 20 die"

Mark married Mary Richardson 12 Nov 1649, Mirfield, Yorkshire, England. Mary (daughter of John Richardson) was born Bef 18 Dec 1632, Mirfield, Yorkshire, England; was christened 18 Dec 1632, Mirfield, Yorkshire, England; died Aft 1685, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England; was buried , Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Note by Christopher Richards:
It is not certain that this Elizabeth is the brother of Mark. I'm basing it partly on the 2 year interval and partly that only one Thomas Whitaker is having children bapt at Dewsbury at this time.

Christened:
Source: Dewsbury Parish Registers publ 1898, Samuel Joseph Chadwick, Printed Joseph Ward 1898 Dewsbury, page 127.

"Aprill 1633 Elizabethe daughter of Thomas Whitakers of this towne baptized the first daye beinge Monday"

Notes:

Notes from Christopher Richards (cmrichards@blueyonder.co.uk):

His son Thomas Whiteaker is described as "junior" in the baptism entry for his first two children.

He and his son are the only Thomas Whiteakers in the Thornhill registers. I think it likely that the Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Whiteakers who died in 1678 is his wife rather than his son's wife. The sequence of his son's children doesn't really leave room for a death and remarriage.

Mr Thos Whitacres is listed in the 1672 Hearth Tax list for Thornhill as paying for 9 hearths. Again it is not certain if this refers to the father or the son.

IN the Thornhill Parish Registers for 1653 there is a note that Thomas Webster of Dewsbury, George Allan of Chickerley and Thomas Whiteakers of Dewsbury agreed to pay for any bastard children of Mary Brooke of Thornhillees. I take this to be him.

And in the Thornhill burial registers for 25 November 1663 there is a record of the burial of Peter Alcock, Mr Whitteakers' man in Thornhill.

I deduce from this entries that Thomas Whiteaker was from Dewsbury. His marriage was in Thornhill but there are no baptism entries in the Thornhill registers for his children. So it is likely that his wife came from Thornhill and he took on her Thornhill property while continuing to live in Dewsbury. I think it is also likely that his son Thomas took on the Thornhill house when he got married.

This leaves the problem of which Thomas Whiteaker of Dewsbury he was. It is not certain that this Thomas is the brother of Mark. I'm basing it partly on the 2 year interval and partly that only one Thomas Whitakers is having children bapt at Dewsbury at this time.

I take it that he is the Thomas Whiteakers who was married at Thornhill on 26 July 1654 and therefore the grandfather of the Mark who was baptised in 1677 who is probably the same as Mark of Baltimore.

Naming patterns support this indentification. This Thomas comes after an Elizabeth and a Mark. His presumed son Thomas of Thornhill had a daughter called Elizabeth followed by a son called Mark. Mark of Baltimore had children Elizabeth, followed by Thomas, followed by Mark.

There are several records submitted by members of the LDS church giving his date of birth as 10 February 1634.

I remain unclear about his marriage. There are lots of Thomas Whittaker and variants marriages. I suspect that Elizabeth Thomas died before 1666 and that the Elizabeth Whiteaker in the Thornhill registers is the wife of Thomas the younger of Thornhill.

Source: FamilySearch.org

England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: Thomas Whitakers
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date: 21 Feb 1635
Baptism/Christening Place: DEWSBURY,YORK,ENGLAND
Father's Name: Thomas Whitakers
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: P00905-1
System Origin: England-ODM
Source Film Number: 100089

Christened:
West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812

Name Thomas Whitaker
Father Thomas Whitaker
Baptism 21 Feb 1634 - Dewsbury, All Saints
Vital 21 Feb 1634 - Dewsbury, All Saints, Yorkshire, England

"Thomas Whitakers Christening 21 Feb 1634 Father Thomas Whitakers"

Thomas married Elizabeth Thomas 26 Jul 1654, Thornhill, Yorkshire, England. Elizabeth was born ca 1632; died 23 Apr 1678, Thornhill, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Mark Whitaker's will does not mention her name - just his grandchildren William & George Speight.

Also there is a daughter of Mark Whittakers born the 20th December 1653, who could be her.

Source: FamilySearch.org
England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: Elizabeth Whittakers
Gender: Female
Baptism/Christening Date: 08 Jun 1650
Baptism/Christening Place: DEWSBURY,YORK,ENGLAND
Father's Name: Marke Whittakers
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: P00905-1
System Origin: England-ODM
Source Film Number: 100089

Christened:
Source: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
International Genealogical Index (R)
Page: Batch P009051
Text: Christening 8 June 1650 Elizabeth Whittakers Father Marke Whittakers

Elizabeth married Speight. was born ca 1655. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Source: FamilySearch.org

England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: Dorothie Whittaker
Gender: Female
Baptism/Christening Date: 14 Apr 1652
Baptism/Christening Place: DEWSBURY,YORK,ENGLAND
Father's Name: Mark Whittaker
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: P00905-1
System Origin: England-ODM
Source Film Number: 100089

Christened:
Source: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
International Genealogical Index (R)
Copyright (c) 1980, 2002, data as of January 5, 2003;;
Page: Batch P009051
Text: Dorothie Whitaker Father Mark Whitaker Christening 14 April 1652 Dewsbury

Dorothy married Geroge Chaytor. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Will of Mark Whitaker 1682

He is to have the reversion of the house after his mother's death.... He has the interest in the farm where he now dwells which I hold from James Oates of Ossett.

Court Baron records indicate what actually happened:
(Notes made by Peter David Whitaker and copied from him)

1)The Court Baron, Wakefield 24 February 4 James II (1688)
They (the jury) said that the persons named below refused to pay customary dues payable to the lords of the Manor, and their customary land was forfeit and should be seized?..the heirs of Mark Whiteaker.

2)The Court Baron, Wakefield 6 April 4 James II (1688)
It was attested by William Turner,gen, lords? tenant, that Thomas Whiteakers of Ossett, gen on 17 March 1685 surrendered into the lords hands the reversion, following the death of Mary Whiteakers of Streetside in Ossett, widow, mother of Thomas, of a messuage or residence at Streetside in Ossett and all ?outhouses, barns, structures, stables, folds, orchards, gardens, crofts, yards and easements appurtenant, now occupied by Mary or her assigns at an annual lords? rent of 5d: to the use of Joseph Richardson of Dunsfold, Surrey, clerk, his heirs and assigns for ever, on condition that if Thomas Whiteakers, his executors, administrators or assigns or any of them paid or caused to be paid to the said Joseph Richardson, his heirs, executors or administrator the sum of £26 15s on 29 September following without fraud or delay at the residence of William Turner at Wakefield, the surrender would become void.

What Thomas is apparently doing is giving away the family home and lands unless he can find a large sum of money by 29 September. That land is also going to someone in Surrey! The answer to what this is about may lay in the name of the person taking over the land title ? Joseph RICHARDSON. Thomas? mother was Mary RICHARDSON so the land may have been kept in the family after all.

Notes:

The farm he inherited was held from the Earl of Halifax

The YAS publication of the 1709 Wakefield Manor Book records that he was a resident of Hanging Heaton and paid 3 shillings. He was a freeholder and copyholder in the graveship of Ossett (page 99).

He also paid (page 103) 5 pence rent for two houses and Lands in Ossett

He is known from Deed in Vol A page 596 at Wakefield Registry of Deeds
The date is 9 Nov in 8th year of Queen Anne's reign

People involved
Mark Whitaker the elder of Streetside, Ossett
Samuel Williams of the City of York Doctor of Physick
Theodore Williams
John Whittaker, fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (Mark's son)

In the second part are
Mark Whitaker the younger, Grocer and Anne Gleadhill of Mirfield, Spinster

Concerning 3 houses in Kirkgate in the hands of
John Fox
John Fowler
Joseph Holbrook

The witnesses were William Oates and William Heron

Mark married Elizabeth Pearce 17 Jan 1681, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England. Elizabeth (daughter of John Pearce and Elizabeth Haigh) was born ca 1658. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Mr Thomas Whitacres is listed in the 1672 Hearth Tax list for Thornhill as paying for 9 hearths. It is not certain if this refers to the father or the son. Most probably it is the father because in the baptism registers the son is referred to as "Junior".

Name:
Name is known from his son's baptism entry in the Thornhill Parish registers:
"Marke the sonne of Mr Thomas Whiteakers junior of Thornhill bapt 8 Nov 1677"

Buried:
Source: Thornhill Registers: Yorkshire Parish Registers,
Edited by John Charlesworth,1907, Vol 2 Page 311.

1684 March 11 Mr Thomas Whiteakers of Cowne-hill buryed

Died:
Probate granted May 21 1685 at Pontefract but the will not entered in registers.

Thomas married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Christened:
Source: Dewsbury Parish Register Transcripts 1653-1699
Source Medium: Microfilm
Page: December 1669
"John son of Thomas Whyteakers baptized the 1st Day"

Notes:

Will of Mark Whitaker 1682
Text: ..towards the education of my grandchildren William & George Speight...

Notes:

Will of Mark Whitaker 1682
Text: ..towards the education of my grandchildren William & George Speight...

Notes:

Birth:
Source: Dewsbury Parish Register Transcripts 1653-1699;;
Microfilm
Page: January 1691
Text: Maria filia Marci Whitakers junior nata 27 Decembris & baptizata 6th January 1681

Notes:

He is known from Deed in Vol A page 596 at Wakefield Registry of Deeds
The date is 9 Nov in 8th year of Queen Anne's reign

People involved
Mark Whitaker the elder of Streetside, Ossett
Samuel Williams of the City of York Doctor of Physick
Theodore Williams
John Whittaker, fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge

In the second part are
Mark Whitaker the younger, Grocer and Anne Gleadhill of Mirfield, Spinster

Concerning 3 houses in Kirkgate in the hands of
John Fox
John Fowler
Joseph Holbrook

The witnesses were William Oates and William Heron


Christened:
Source: Dewsbury Parish Registers
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Whitaker (& variant entries) Transcribed by Jennifer Pinner
Page: November 1683
Text: Johes filius Marci Whiteakers baptized 10 die

Notes:

He is known from Deed in Vol A page 596 at Wakefield Registry of Deeds
The date is 9 Nov in 8th year of Queen Anne's reign

People involved
Mark Whitaker the elder of Streetside, Ossett
Samuel Williams of the City of York Doctor of Physick
Theodore Williams
John Whittaker, fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (Mark the elder's brother)

In the second part are
Mark Whitaker the younger, Grocer and Anne Gleadhill of Mirfield, Spinster

Concerning 3 houses in Kirkgate in the hands of
John Fox
John Fowler
Joseph Holbrook

The witnesses were William Oates and William Heron

His marriage is also recorded in the Northowram Register - Mr Mark Whitaker, shopkeeper in Wakefield married Dec 9 1709

In the rent rolls of the Earl of Cardigan for 1724 (Brudenell papers ARS/2 at Northampton RO there is a record of a Mark Whiteaker paying rent of £73/10/0 as a tenant in New Park, Dewsbury. In 1709 (ARS1) he he is listed as Mark Whittakers owing £3/11/3 out of a total rent of £36/15/-

Also in the will of William Ingham of Ossett (d 1723) there is: "I give to my four daughters Susannah, Elizabeth, Rachel, and Hannah, all the housing, malt killn, gardens, backside croft in a street called Westgate in Wakefield, now in the possession of Mark Whiteaker, (and others)..."

Christened:
Source: Dewsbury Parish Registers
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
Whitaker (& variant entries) Transcribed by Jennifer Pinner
Page: August 1685
Text: Marcus filius Marci Whiteakers baptizat 6th

Mark married Ann Gledhill 07 Dec 1709, Mirfield, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Christened:
Dewsbury Parish Register Transcripts 1653-1699
Microfilm
Page: Mense Junii 1687
Text: Elizabetha filia Marci Whiteakers baptizata 5 die

Buried:
Title: Woodkirk Bishops Transcripts
Original is in Borthwick Library, Yorkshire
Microfilm
Page: Burials 1748
Text: June 21 Elizabeth Scott of Nettleton Hill Widow in this parish

Tombstone inscription: Here Lieth the body of Elizabeth Scott late wife of John Scot of New Laythes who departed the life the 19th day of June in the 62th (sic) year of her age AD 1748

Elizabeth married John Scott 12 Apr 1710, Woodkirk, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Entry in Alumni Cantabrigienses
Adm sizar Emmanuel College, June 22 1706. S of Mark of Ossett, Yorks. Matric 1706, BA 1709-10, MA 1713, BD 1720. Fellow, 1712. Taxor 1715. Ord Deacon (York) Dec 1712 priest (London) Mar 17 1716.
V of Fressingfield, Suffolk 1724-38
Married Ursula Fox 1724
Died 1738 aged 49. Buried Fressingfield.

Christened:
Source: Dewsbury Parish Register Transcripts 1653-1699
Repository:
Microfilm
Page: November 1689
Text: Thomas filius Marci Whiteakers bapt 7 die

Thomas married Ursula Fox 22 Aug 1724, Chesterton, Cambridge, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Christened:
Source: Dewsbury Parish Register Transcripts 1653-1699;;
Microfilm
Page: March 1690/91
Text: Robertus fioius Marci Whiteakers bapt die 16

Notes:

Christened:
Source: Dewsbury Parish Register Transcripts 1653-1699;;
Microfilm
Page: May 1693
Text: Susannah filia Marci Whiteakers bapt 7

Died:
Source: Dewsbury Parish Register Transcripts 1653-1699;;
Microfilm
Page: September 1694
Text: Susannah filia Marci Whiteakers sep die 18

Notes:

Streetside is the road from Chickenley along the top of Ossett to Wakefield.

Note copied from Peter David Whitaker

"In 1753 Martha is mentioned in Benjamin?s short Will, where the property will remain with ?Martha Whitaker my wife for the rest of her life?

Mention is also made of Thomas, my eldest son, Francis, Joshua, daughter Martha and brother in law Joshua Haigh. This one document confirms Martha Haigh as being the person marrying Benjamin and the link to Francis in the next generation."

Christened:
Source: Dewsbury Parish Register Transcripts 1653-1699;;
Microfilm
Page: November 1697
Text: Benjamin son of Mark Whiteaker baptised 29th day

Benjamin married Martha Haigh 09 Jun 1720, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England. Martha (daughter of Joshua Haigh) was born Bef 23 Nov 1700, Thornhill, Yorkshire, England; was christened 23 Nov 1700, St. Michael All Angels, Thornhill, West Riding, Yorkshire. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Christened:
Source: Thornhill Registers: Yorkshire Parish Registers,
Edited by John Charlesworth,1907, Vol 1 Page 200.

"Mr Thomas Whiteakers junior had a child baptised the 2nd Day of July 1676"

Notes:

Christopher Richards (cmrichards@blueyonder.co.uk) has done the best research on Mark and his ancestors to this point. Here is his reasoning for the Maryland Mark Whitaker to be the same as the one baptized in Thornhill, Yorkshire, England.

1. The spelling is the same as in the Thornhill registers
2. The naming patterns used for his children are the same as the naming patterns for his presumed ancestors.
3. Mark seems to be of some status when he arrived in New England. So were his presumed father and grandfather in Yorkshire.
4. The dates fit.
5. Mark of Thornhill's younger siblings died young but he seems to have survived.
6. Mark Whitaker (and all spelling variants) is not a common name but there is a group of Mark Whitakers in the Dewsbury are in the seventeenth century.

But these are all reasons for making the identification - they do not prove that Mark of Maryland is the same man as Mark of Thornhill.

However, the Mark Whitaker of Maryland was an educated man as evidenced by his position in St. George's Parish and status in society. Records show that he worked for the St. George's Parish as a vestry clerk in 1724, 1725 and 1726.

He went to Cambridge. The records of his matriculation are as follows:

Whiteacre, Mark
Adm. sizar at EMMANUEL, Nov. 27, 1693. Of Yorkshire. S. of Thomas, of Thornhill. Bapt. Nov. 8, 1677. ' Matric. 1697. (J. B. Peace.)

[Note: "Sizar" is an undergraduate at Cambridge University, receiving financial help from the college and formerly having certain menial duties.]

Emmanuel was the seminary school for Church of England Priests/ministers.

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Why did Mark Whitaker immigrate? The educated and religious class in England had a secure life and had little desire to leave that life for one of danger and struggle. On the other hand, England was desperate to secure educated and church trained immigrants to the Colonies. We may never know the reason. His father, Thomas, died in 1684 and we don't his mother's name or death at this time. His only surviving sibling, George, died in 1698. With no surviving family and possible inducements from the Church of England for a responsible position in a church in the colonies, Mark may have decided to immigrate. There may not have been many opportunities for church positions in Thornhill or Dewsbury or advancement may have been limited. We may never know the true reason, but the Colonies may have offered an opportunity he couldn't refuse.

In the period of 1670-1700, the Colonial Parish Church was both the church and the local government. The vestry house was used to hold civil trials, as a jail, record wills and deeds and keep records of business transactions with England. Church records show Mark was a Vestryman. Crops, primarily tobacco, were harvested and shipped to England. The merchant would pay the church and the funds would be dispersed to the farmers after debts were settled. This position required an educated and a trusted man by the inhabitants. Many deed and wills were witnessed by Mark, another indication of trust in the man.

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Beaumont W. Whitaker, "The Whitaker Family of Baltimore County, Maryland, 1677-1767" Maryland Historical Magazine, Volume 79 (Summer 1984), pages 165-182

"Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759"

He appears in the Tax rolls of Spesutia Hundred for 1702, 1703, 1704, 1705 and 1706.

Mark Whitaker & Elizabeth his wife, Baltimore Co., MD (Ellerton) 500 acres, 1 Nov. 1725, Reference PL6/143; ILA/636 Emerson, Anne & Rachel: Baltimore Co., MD (Ellerton), 500 acres; 1 Nov. 1725.

3 Mar 1713, Robert & Sarah West, planter, of Baltimore Cp., Maryland to Mark Whitaker, planter, of same, 2,500 pounds of tobacco, 100 acres...Deer Creek. Signed Robert (X) West. Wit: John Miles and Gregory Farmer.

3 Mar 1713, John & Mary Miles, carpenter, of Baltimore Co., Maryland to Thomas Cullin, shoemaker, of same, 100 acres. Signed John Miles. Wit. Mark Whitaker and Gregory Farmer.

3 Aug 1715, John & Mary Miles, of Baltimore Co., Maryland to Robert Hawkins, planter, of same, 2,800 pounds of tobacco, 100 acres. Signed John Miles and Mary (X) Miles. Wit: James Isham and Mark Whitaker.

June 1718 Mark Whittaker appointed overseer of the rolling road from Deer Creek to the rolling house of John Hall, Esq., and the other roads from said creek to the main road through the county or to the water.

14 Aug 1718, Robert West, planter, of Baltimore Co., Maryland to John Hall, gentleman, of same, 78 acres...Dear Creek. Signed Robert (X) West. Wit: John Deavor, Marke Whiteaker and Thomas Bucknell.

1722, Thomas & Mary Tully, gentleman, of Baltimore Co., Maryland and Jane Thomas, of Anne Arundel Co., Maryland to Samuel Howell, of Baltimore Co., Maryland, 24 lbs., formerly owned by Richard Freeborne, deceased of Baltimore Co., Maryland. Signed Thomas Tolley, Mary Tolley and Jane Thomas. Wit: Mark Whiteaker and John Stokes.

20 Jul 1725, Samuel & Mary Brown, planter, of Baltimore Co., Maryland to John Durbin, gentleman, of same, 200 acres...head of Bush River...except part sold to Charles Whiteacre. Signed Samuel Brown. Wit: Mark Whiteakers and Thomas Jones.

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WITNESS TO DR. EVANS' WILL

Page 101. Evan EVANS, D. D.. St. George's Parish, Baltimore CO; 25 may 1721;
10 Nov 1721. To Rev. Geo. ROSS, of New ___ ___, for preaching funeral sermon, 2 guineas; eldest son of only dau. Mary (wife of Rev. Thos. LOYD, of Denbigh CO, England), proceeds from sale of 2 tracts of manatiane, Philadelphia CO, PA, viz. 600 A. "Rhydyearn" and 400 a. "Trevaglnys"; sd au. Failing male issue, to her eldest dau, rs. Int. of proceeds for use of wife Alice, during widowhood, to revert t hrs of dau. Mary as afsd; wife Alice, rents & profits due from living at Sutterton, CO Lincoln, and 1/3 int. in mortage on est. of Wm. ROBINSON, Esq, CO Denbigh, during life; dau Mary afsd, res. Of sd. Mortage, w/reversion of third beq. Wife; Mr. Charles READ, mercht, in Philadelphia, 5 lbs; Edw. HALL & Roger MATHEWS, exs, personalty. Test. Directs he be buried a n. end of the altar table in st. George's Church. Test: Mark WHITAKER, Chas. BAKER, Obidiah PRICHARD.
Maryland Calendar of Wills: Volume 5

PROBATE

Prerogative Court Abstracts 1728-1734
MARK WHITAKER 15.452 BA (Baltimore) L50,186 June 14, 1729 Apr.18, 1730 Appraisers: Antel Deaver, Richard Deaver
Creditors: Jon. Middlemore, Tim Keen
Next of Kin: Flowers Swift [husband of Elizabeth; son-in-law of Mark Whitaker] Administrex: Elizabeth Taylor. widow of Mark Whitaker. She married Francis Taylor.Mark Whitaker died intestate.

CHURCH HISTORY

St. George's Episcopal Church is also known as Spesutia Church is located in Perryman, Harford County, MD. Detailed church records exist going back to the 17th century. It is the oldest Episcopal parish in MD.

Founded in 1761, the original wooden church was built in what is now part of Aberdeen Proving Grounds, about 2 miles away from its current site. In 1718 the parish moved to the current location with the present church constructed in 1851. It is the third to be built on the site. The cemetery dates from 1718 when the second church was built on the same site.

Source: Maryland Historical Society, "The Migrations of Baltimore Town."
http://www.mdhs.org/migrations-baltimore-town

Rev. S. W. Crampton, in 1851, published an account of St. George's Parish, in which he states, " The first Church stood near Michaelsville, at a place called "Gravelly." Here are the almost obliterated remains of the Log Church where the first founders of this Parish worshiped, while the sunken graves on every side mark their last earthly resting places. A bridge near this locality called 'Church Bridge,' corroborates this evidence."

In the journal of Freeborn Garretson in 1809, he wrote, "As the country became more settled and probably with a desire
to reach a less miasmatic region, James Philips, Esq., the
ancestor of the Philips already mentioned in the epitaph, gave in 1718, two acres of ground to the vestry of St. George's Parish, at what is now known as " Spesutia Church," and about that year, six years after the decadence of Old Baltimore, the remains of the dead with their tombstones were probably removed to the new burial ground about seven miles westwards.

The monuments in the Spesutia ground are of a historical
character, representing generation after generation. Among the names I recognized, was that of Giles, a family recorded among the earliest settlers of Baltimore County. Edward Giles married Cordelia, daughter of James Philips.

There is belonging to the vestry of this parish a parchment
Registry of births, marriages and deaths, and the first name recorded is John Cook, son of John Cook, born at Bush River, 25th September, 1681. The record of Vestry Acts is unfortunately lost."

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The St. George's Parish Vestry House, also known as Spesutia Vestry House, is a small structure of Flemish bond brick construction dating to about 1766. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Although it was built after Mark Whitaker served as vestry clerk, the building he used was a meeting place to conduct parish business and to perform certain civil duties, particularly the monitoring of the moral codes of the day and the administering of justice for violations in colonial Maryland. Vestry Houses were often used as schoolhouses, school being conducted by the clergyman or a member of his family, or someone else hired by the parish for the purpose.

According to an article in the Baltimore Sun, the church had its final service in December 30, 2012.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/harford/publications/the-aegis/ph-ag-st-georges-0102-20121230-story.html

A Pentecostal congregation now uses church, but churchyard remains Maryland diocesan property of the Episcopal Church.

AREA HISTORY

Harford County Maryland was explored in 1608 by Captain John Smith of the Virginia Colony, when he mapped the upper country and its islands and shores. Colonel Nathaniel Utie came from Virginia to explore the upper bay region and find a place to settle around 1649, and he was granted an island located a few hundred yards south of Havre de Grace. He named it Spesutie, using the Latin Spes-Utie, meaning Utie's Hope. The spelling was later changed to Spesutia. When the Church of England became the established church in Maryland, Spesutie Parish was divided into St. George's and St. John's Parishes. The Spesutia Church of St. George's Parish was erected near Perryman, where it still stands today. Until 1773 it was part of Baltimore County.

Source: THE MIGRATIONS OF BALTIMORE TOWN, Maryland Historical Society

http://www.mdhs.org/migrations-baltimore-town


In 1659, Baltimore County was established, including not only Harford, Cecil and Kent, but all the Western Shore north and northwest of Anne Arundel County. Baltimore County was divided into Hundreds. The site of our present Baltimore City was in Deptford Hundred (then Patapsco Hundred), Gunpowder, Middle River, and that part on Bush Neck up to the Susquehanna River was known as the "Baltimore Hundreds."

The " Hundreds" included so many able-bodied men, and
their history would furnish a most interesting chapter extending back to their introduction into England by Alfred the Great, derived by him from Denmark, where they yet exist. "Old Baltimore" was, in 1674, "New Baltimore." It became old when its Court House was removed to Forster's Neck, on Gunpowder River, in 1700, at which time the ground probably reverted to the original proprietor.



Birth:
James Drew-Whitaker and Christopher Richards were the sources for this information.

Christened:
Source: Thornhill Registers: Yorkshire Parish Registers,
Edited by John Charlesworth,1907, Vol 1 Page 202.

"Marke the sonne of Mr Thomas Whiteakers junior of Thornhill bapt 8 Nov 1677"

He was baptized by Rev. John Savile rector of St. Michael All Angels (1671-1701).

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Source: West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812
Name Marke Whiteaker
Father Thomas Whiteaker
Baptism 8 Nov 1677 - Thornhill, St Michael and All Angels
Vital 8 Nov 1677 - Thornhill, St Michael and All Angels, Yorkshire, England

Name:
He spelled his name Marke Whiteakers when he signed documents.

Buried:
Memorial Marker and photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=81096764&ref=acom

Inscription:
MARK WHITEAKER
MARK WHITAKER
1677 - 1729

Marke was christened "8 Nov 1677 the sonne of Mr. Thomas Whiteakers junir of Thornhill by Dewsbury, Yorkshire England."'

He was admitted "sizar"[an undergraduate at Cambridge University receiving financial help from the college and formerly having certain menial duties] to Emmanuel college, Cambridge University on 27 Nov 1693 and matriculated in 1697.

Mark first appears on the 1702 tax rolls of Spesutia Hundred: present day Harford County MD.

3 mar 1713: Mark Whitaker planter, bought from Robert West for "2500 pounds of good tobacco" 100 acres in a tract called Westwood.

Vestry records say "1726 by an order to Mark Whitaker for his "sallery being clk of the vestry . . . . "

Mark died 1 May 1729, his grave is lost to time.


Died:
Now in Harford Co. MD, formed in 1773 from Baltimore Co..

Mark married Catherine Teague 13 May 1705, Maryland. Catherine was born Between 1690-1695, Teggs Delight, Cecil Co. MD; died 15 Nov 1717, St. George Parish, Baltimore Co. MD. [Group Sheet]

Mark married Elizabeth Empson 13 Feb 1717, St. George Parish, Baltimore Co. MD. Elizabeth (daughter of James Empson, III and Rebecca) was born 1700, St. George Parish, Baltimore Co. MD; died 1746, Rowan Co. NC. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Christened:
Source: Thornhill Registers: Yorkshire Parish Registers,
Edited by John Charlesworth,1907, Vol 1 Page 203.

"George the Sonne of Mr Thomas Whiteakers of Cown-hill"

Died:
National Burial Index 2nd edition, Federation of Family History Societies 2004.

12 Jan 1698 George Whiteakers Thornhill, St Michael and all Angels

Notes:

Christened:
Source: Thornhill Registers: Yorkshire Parish Registers,
Edited by John Charlesworth,1907, Vol 1 Page 205.

"John the sonne of Mr Thomas Whiteakers of Cownhill"

Died:
Source: Thornhill Registers: Yorkshire Parish Registers,
Edited by John Charlesworth,1907, Vol 2 Page 307.

"1681 29 May John the Sonne of Mr Thomas Whiteakers of Coumhill"

Notes:

Christened:
Source: Thornhill Registers: Yorkshire Parish Registers,
Edited by John Charlesworth,1907, Vol 1 Page 206.

"Sarah the Daughtr of Mr Thomas Whiteakers of Cownhill:

Died:
Source: Thornhill Registers: Yorkshire Parish Registers,
Edited by John Charlesworth,1907, Vol 2 Page 310.

"1683 Jan 1st Sarah the daughter of Mr Thomas Whiteakers"