As with the Gaines family, our Maddoxes intermarried with the Posey family, spanning generations from Colonial Maryland to post-Revolutionary South Carolina. A trip through the current Yellow Pages of Charles County, Maryland, reveals more than one Posey-Maddox, even today. Here’s a look at some early relationships.
- Elizabeth Maddox (1724 – 17 February 1759), daughter of Edward Maddox (son of Cornelius) married John Posey (30 July 1685 – 15 October 1759) in May 1749 after his first wife, Lydia Shuttleworth died in 1744.
- John Posey’s daughter Frances Posey (1716 – 1784) married Benjamin I (1696 – 1770). Reference: Charles County, Maryland land records 2:343-345: ” John Posey and wife Lydia acknowledge a deed dated 26 May 1740 selling Horn fair to Benjamin Maddox and wife Frances.” Maryland wills 30: 641-642: John Posey’s will written 6 Jan 1759 and proved 17 Feb 1759, “I give to my Daughter Frances Madox one shilling Sterling & no more”.
- Benjamin I’s son Thomas (1732 – ) married Frances Posey (1716 – 1784) in 1759. This marriage may conflict with the marriage above.
- Benjamin I’s daughter Mary (1718 – August 1785) married Humphrey Posey (1718 – 28 February 1784), son of John Posey. Reference: Charles County, Maryland Will Book B-1, 1782-1785; Page 278: Humphrey Posey Sr. Will. “I, Humphrey Posey of CC, am weak of body but of sound mind and memory. Firstly, I want my just debts paid. To my sons Prior Posey, Benja Posey, Been Posey, & Roger Posey, and to my daughters Elizabeth Posey, Easter Posey, Mary Posey, Sarah Posey, & Ann Posey – 1 english shilling each & no more. To my wife Mary Posey – the rest of my estate, and at her death, to my son, Wheeler Posey, and if he dies without an heir, to my son Roger Posey. Executor: Benja Maddox. Signed Mar 13, 1783 – Humphrey (HP his mark) Posey Sr. Wit – Leonard Maddox, Benja Maddox. Probated on Feb 28, 1784 by the oath of the executor, Benjamin Maddox Sr and by the oaths of both witnesses.” Charles County Wills, 9.69 dated 9 August 1785: “Wheeler Posey (Mary’s son) an orphan 14 years and 3 months of age is by this Court bound to William Norris…” Maryland wills 30: 641-642, PHL microfilm 0,012,853: Benjamin II and his brother, Leonard, were witnesses of Humphrey Posey, Sr.’s will on 13 March 1783. Humphrey Posey’s wife was Benjamin II’s sister, Mary. Benjamin II was appointed executor of the estate. On 11 June 1784, Benjamin II renounced and gave up administration of Humphrey Posey’s estate. Charles County Wills 8.338: On 9 August 1785, Wheeler Posey, the youngest son of Humphrey and Mary Maddox Posey was an orphan and therefore his mother, Mary Maddox Posey, had died. Ref: Charles County Wills, 9.69
- Benjamin I’s daughter, Mary Ann (1720 – 1776) married Rhodum Posey (1725 – 1787), son of John Posey in 1750. She may have been married to Thomas Dyson prior to marrying Rhodum.
- Benjamin II (1735 – 1811) married Mary Posey
- Benjamin II’s son, Henley (1761 – 1806) married Jannett Luckett (1749 – February 1815) in 1784. She was the widow of Pryor Posey (1745 – 6 November 1782), Humphrey Posey and Mary Maddox’s son, who she had married in 1769
- Edward’s son Rhoda (1730 – 1828) married Elizabeth (NLN). His land is next to William Brawner, who married Rhoda’s sister, Ann Maddox.
- Mary Ann Maddox (1770 – 1790) married Isaac Brawner (1765 – 1830), son of William Brawner in 1787 in Charles County, MD.
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Okay now, this is what I need – what is the documentation on the Jennet marriage to Pryor? That she married to Hendly, I can prove on my end – but I’d like a smoking gun doc concerning that marriage, too, to prove that the Jennet I see in Abbeville and the Jennet you are seeing in MD are one in the same. In my Abbeville work, the name patterns are so dense and consistent, I have found myself matching the wrong people with the right names, so I am trying to move carefully – kind of the way you do on the monkey bars one hand solidly in the past, and the next on the next bar – a continuous contact from one place to the other.
Hi Kristen. Here’s your smoking gun… Jinnett’s marriage to Henley is proven by her gravestone inscription, which I photographed at the Turkey Creek Baptist Church cemetery in Ware Shoals, SC, in 2011. Here’s a link to the photo:
https://hisxmark.com/?attachment_id=1177
This Jinnett was born in 1749 and died 65 years later (1815), which is consistent with the will you have.
LOVELY shot of the gravestone – but what is more important is proving the connection to MD. I have no documents that will do that on my end. And no documents that mention Pryor. Would it have killed them to note family relationships in probates? So I need a marriage record or a probate that mentions her as a married woman. The connection to MD can be proved utterly if there were birth records or mentions of the childrens’ birth (good luck with that, sigh) in an MD doc. My problem is to try to figure out how the Benton/Calhoun County David Price Posey is related to Jennit’s children. I have found a probate for Hebbert that does NOT mention him, and I have found mention of Massa’s family in the probates -but nothing in the census but a Posey I canNOT identify – whose name invariably comes through as Whoose or something. Jennet had only the three sons, if the probate is a complete list, and I cannot imagine a name like David Price Posey being randomly repeated, showing up as married to a member of a family that had been a long-time neighbor in Hodges/Abbeville.
Anyway, documentation of the Pryor marriage would be a lovely help on the way –
Have you ever come across a Joseph Donaldson along with the Posey family? I found a chancery record that list Joseph Donaldson along with John Posey and Elizabeth Adair Posey in regards to Robert Adair’s estate in 1769. Robert was Elizabeth Adair Posey’s brother. I find this very interesting because there were Adairs and Donaldsons on Duncan’s Creek in 1774 in Ninety Six district. Then Thomas Donaldson was living near Ignatious Posey in Abbeville in 1790. The Chancery Record was on Ancestry. I wrote about it on my WordPress blog.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Joseph Posey. I’ll check out your site!
Joseph Donaldson not Posey.
Great detailed work, appreciate your sharing in this format. In your supporting documentation for Benjamin I marriage to John Posey Jr’s daughter Frances, you provided “Charles County, Maryland land records 2:343-345”. Unfortunately I was not able to retrace this & was hoping you could provide clarification on this? As this would appear to conflict with the detailed work of James Wade Emison, I had hoped to find and provide the full description of this transaction to post on the family of John Posey Jr and Lydia Shuttleworth as well as a link to your work (still trying to determine why Emison & McMichael both listed the husband of this Frances Posey as Thomas Maddox). Again, appreciate your sharing your work in this format! God Bless!
I’m going to forward our message to the guy with the answer! Thanks.