Peter MAJORS (-1751)

Mary SLIDER

Elias MAJORS (Abt 1738-1820)

 

Family Links Spouses/Children: Diana BOSLEY Greenbury MAJORS Deborah MAJORS Hannah MAJORS Jerusah MAJORS Elizabeth MAJORS Nancy MAJORS Mary MAJORS Belinda MAJORS Elias MAJORS 3 Born: Abt 1738, Baltimore County, Maryland 3 Marriage: Diana BOSLEY in Sep 1763 in Baltimore County, Maryland 1 2 Died: 1820, Frederick County, Maryland 4 Elias married Diana BOSLEY in Sep 1763 in Baltimore County, Maryland.1 2   Marriage Notes: The Peden transcription of St. John's Parish Register gives 8 Sep 1763 as the date of marriage, while the Barnes history of Baltimore Co. families gives 3 Sep 1763 as the date of marriage and cites as its source St. John's Parish Register. Query which source is correct.

1 Henry C. Peden, Jr, St. John's & St. George's Parish Registers 1696-1851 (Reprint of 1987 edition, Heritage Books, Westminster, Maryland, 2006), Page 110 (page 225 of transcribed records).

2 Robert W. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1989), FHL Call No. 975.271 D2b, Page 421 (citing St. John's Parish Register).

3 Robert W. Barnes, Baltimore County Families, 1659-1759, (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1989), FHL Call No. 975.271 D2b, Page 421 (citing court records from Mar 1750/1751 identifying Elias, age 12, as an orphan of Peter Majors in a proceeding whereby he was bound out to John Simkins).

4 Family Records of Teri Majors Johnson, http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/j/o/h/Teri-Johnson/GENE2-0001.html.