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Note for:   Dewalt WILLIARD,   1798 -          Index

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     Birth: Maryland

Married: 16 Jun 1820 in , Frederick, Maryland

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Note for:   Jacob WILLIARD,   1770 - 1809         Index

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     Birth: Frederick, Maryland
Death: Frederick, Maryland

Married: 14 May 1791 in , Frederick, Maryland

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Note for:   Elizabeth BRANDENBURG,    - 1825         Index

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     Death: Frederick, Maryland

Married: ABT 1768 in Of Maryland

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Note for:   Dewalt WILLIARD Jr,   1739 - 7 Oct 1808         Index

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     Birth: Erlenbach, Hessen, Germany
Death: Near Broad Run, Frederick, Maryland
Burial: Broad Run, Frederick, Maryland

Married: ABT 1768 in Of Maryland

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Dewalt Jr. appears in his father's will of 1781

His name is also spelled Dewald, Devault, Devalt

Immigrated to America in 1750. the arrived on the ship "Brotherhood".

Note#2:
He engaged in military service with his brother, Elias, as an Ensign under the command of his brother-in-law, George Poe. He was an Ensign in Capt. George Poe's Co., Middle Dist, 34th Battalion Revolutionary War, commissioned 11 Jun 1776. He purchased "Madam's Defeat" and "Kemps Long Meadow."

As sources: the will of Devault Willard, 21 Oct 1808, the 1798 Tax Assessment of Lower and Middle Kittoctin hundred and the land patent certificates of the Maryland State Archives.

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Note for:   Anna Katherine KIRCH ,   1710 -          Index

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     Birth: Drehentaler, Ralferslautern, Germany
Death: Middletown, Frederick, Maryland

Married: 17 Apr 1731 in Erlenbach, Pfalz, Germany

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Note for:   Dewalt (Theobald) WILGAR or WILLIARD,   8 Jul 1711 - 26 Nov 1781         Index

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     Birth: Erlenbach, Pfalz, Germany
Death: Frederick, Maryland

Married: 17 Apr 1731 in Erlenbach, Pfalz, Germany

Note:
Strassberger"s Pennsylvania Pioneers" records that Teobalt Weylland andAnna Katherine Kirch reached Philadelphia on Nov 3, 1750, according tothe passenger list of the ship "Brotherhood," dated November 3, 1750. The Rupp edition of Ship Lists shows Teobalt Williahr. They probably joined Dewalt's brothers in York County, Pennsylvania, for awhile, then probably went on into Maryland at the same time as brother Johann Peter in 1751.

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Dewalt was also known as Theobald, and a Theobald Williard was naturalized April 10, 1760. (Colonial Maryland Naturalizations," by Jeffrey A. and Florence L Wyland.

Note#3:
"Western Maryland Genealogy" (a magazine published quarterly by Pat Abelard Anderson, GenLaw Resources, Box 9187 Gaithersburg, Maryland, 20898)says Dewalt dictated his will on 26 November 1781 and that it was proved on 12 Jan 1782. (Frederick County Will GM#1:215)

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He and his wife were members of the Middletown Maryland Evangelical Reformed Church

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Note for:   George KIRCH,    -          Index

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     The marriage record in the Erlenbach German Reformed Church for Dewaltand Anna Katherina refers to her
as the "daughter of George Kirch of the glassworks at nearaby Drehentalerhof."

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Note for:   Mary Elizabeth CORDIER,   1682 - 14 Oct 1770         Index

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     Birth: Erlenbach, Pfalz, Germany
Death: Graceham, Frederick, Maryland

She is buried in the Graceham Moravian Church Cemetery, Graceham, Maryland--#16, Grave 73, 4th row, 2nd grave in the women's section. ("Monocacy and Catoctin," Vol. 2, Pg. 296). Her gravestone said "Alte Mutter." (old mother)

Married: 1702 in Erlenbach Otterbach, Pfalz, Germany

Mary Elizabeth Gordier Williard was the founding matriarch of the entire Williard clan in America. She came over from Germany with her son, John Peter, probably through the port of Philadelphia around the year 1744.Most likely she stayed with her family in York, Pennsylvania for a fewyears before moving to Maryland.

"Monocacy and Catoctin," Vol. 2, mentions that she led her four children to settle in the Graceham and Middletown Valley area of Maryland, where the family name became Williard and Willard as time passed.

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