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Edward the wolf hunter

19 Sunday Jan 2020

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Continuing from our previous posting describing the contents of a collection of Stafford County, Virginia, courthouse papers called “Record Book, 1686-1693/4”, we’ve uncovered a trove of receipts for wolves’ heads taken by Dr. Edward Maddox (d. 1694) in that time period.  The place must have a been a true wilderness – Edward was among dozens of bounty recipients each year. Here’s the running list…

  • Edward was paid for 3 wolf heads, originally collected by Indians, 14 Oct 1688 (p. 118).
  • Edward was paid for 5 wolf heads, 14 Oct 1689 (p. 148).
  • Edward was paid for 1 wolf head, 13 November 1691 (p. 237).
  • Edward was paid for 2 wolf heads, originally collected by an Indian servant, 13 November 1692 (p. 291).

In 1692, the court documented whether the wolves were taken by “Gun” or by “pitt.”  Edward’s were taken by gun.

Source: Record Book, 1686-1693/4, Family History Library microfilm #1445833

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Pulling a thread

21 Friday Apr 2017

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The 16th-century Guild in Shrewsbury.
The 16th-century Guild in Shrewsbury.
A ribbon of metal inlaid in the stone below the Guild explains that the Welsh and English cooperated in the Guild.
A ribbon of metal inlaid in the stone below the Guild explains that the Welsh and English cooperated in the Guild.
A Shrewsbury church steeple.
A Shrewsbury church steeple.

We’ve been trying to understand our Edward Maddox‘s (d. 1694) origins in Shropshire, England, and add any more evidence to our assessment of his migration to the American Colonies.  Most evidence of such early migration is oblique, so maybe it shouldn’t be surprising to find hints of Edward’s origins in obscure write-ups about the 17th-century English cloth trade…

It turns out that the town of Shrewsbury, in Edward’s County of Shropshire, was the center of trade (export) for woolens and the headquarters of the Drapers Guild.  Edward lived just south of Shrewsbury in the town of Munslow, placing him ideally for involvement in the cloth trade.  Perhaps he was warehousing locally grown wool.  Other towns in the area were used as markets or warehouses.

One author explains that “The ‘proud Salopians’ of Shrewsbury, as their rivals termed them, achieved the high-water mark of their prosperity in the century before the [1642-51] Civil War: the town’s population rose from 3,000 to 7,000, the urban area was largely rebuilt, and the borough evolved from a county seat into the economic and social focus of an area stretching from the Wrekin to Cardigan Bay. Shrewsbury’s urban growth mirrored developments at neighbouring Chester and Worcester, but the simultaneous expansion of its hinterland gave it a regional significance comparable to that of much larger centres such as York, Norwich, Bristol or Exeter. This expansion was partly due to Shrewsbury’s location at the head of the Severn navigation, which facilitated communications to Gloucester, Bristol and beyond, while Shrewsbury’s proximity to the upland pastures of southern Shropshire [where Edward’s town of Munslow is located] made it the entrepôt for top-quality March wool coveted by broadcloth weavers from Gloucestershire to the Low Countries.” (Source: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/constituencies/shrewsbury)

The Drapers Guild fell apart in the mid-1600s after the Glorious Revolution. According to a Wikipedia article, “after the English Civil War (1642–51) regulations were made in 1654 ‘for preventing the Drapers forestalling or engrossing the Welsh flannels, cloths, etc.’ Many of the drapers supported Parliament during the civil war, and as a consequence the Company was not given royal support after the monarchy was restored in 1660 under Charles II (r. 1660–85). The cloth trade went into a gradual decline after this date. The number of drapers had fallen back to 61 in 1665.” (Source: The Shrewsbury Drapers and the Welsh Wool Trade in the XVI and XVII Centuries, T.C. Mendenhall)  Edward migrated to Virginia at about this time.

The cloth trade suggestion is particularly compelling as an explanation for Edward’s migration because he imported “fuetiane” (a kind of heavy cloth) to Maryland in 1675 .  It was enough cloth to be reported in official Colonial records (Source: Colonial Survey Report #3964, p. 16).  His son Cornelius would be called a merchant in some records and this might have been because of a cloth import business.  We’ll have to continue pulling this thread.  The Shrewsbury archive contains records of the Guild.

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Alice

30 Saturday Apr 2016

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We’re perplexed by Alice, the wife of Charles Cale in King George County in the early 1700s.  We believe she’s the daughter of our Edward Maddox because we know Edward had a daughter named Alice of the same approximate age and he gave 200 acres in King George County, Virginia, to Alice Cale in his 1694 will.

Today we discovered that Alice Cale was married to at least three men: (FNU) Watts, William Strothers, and Charles Cale, based on Westmoreland County deed 1:635, dated 5 December 1729.  Of course records don’t provide her maiden name, so we have no way of corroborating her Maddox origins from that particular document.  But her inheritance of 200 acres from Edward would otherwise lock it in.  Sigh.

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Cornelius… not a “pauper”

14 Thursday Nov 2013

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We received the Maryland Archives’ official copy of the “Returns of the Deputy Commissary of Charles County,” 19 April 1706.  We previously explained that Cornelius was described as a “pauper” in this record of the bond posted for the administration of his estate.  Well it turns out that the “pauper” description is a clerical error.  In the original, the word can be seen abbreviated in the margin next to Cornelius’ entry.  In contrast, some adjacent entries for other deceased men are annotated with the word “inventory” in the margin.  It looks like a reviewer of the record somehow overlooked Cornelius’ (extensive) inventory, which was conducted on 9 March 1706.  A scan of the archival copy is below.

As a silver lining, this document proves that James Maddox was the first son of Cornelius Maddox – a question for some other researchers.  It also provides further proof of Mary Smallwood’s marriage to Cornelius.

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Box camera fun on John Napoleon Maddox’s farm, circa 1940

21 Thursday Feb 2013

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Diane Irene Maddox and Suzie Maddox on John Napoleon's farm, circa 1940.

Diane Irene Maddox and Suzie Maddox decked out on John Napoleon’s farm.

Viola, Napoleon and John William Maddox on the farm.

Viola, John Napoleon and John William Maddox on the farm.

John Napoleon and Suzie Maddox with their children

John Napoleon and Mattie Maddox with their son John and John Napoleon’s son, Roy, and his wife Suzie (wearing the flower).

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Out on a family treelimb

26 Saturday Jan 2013

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Out on a family treelimb

An intriguing new internet find… the http://www.drwilliams.org/genealogy/2/30609.htm site page, which claims a link back in time from Cornelius Maddox to Edward Maddox to Thomas Maddox, and then even further back to a lord in Wales.  These are links we’ve struggled with for years.  The goal of our research is less about our European origins than it is about our American heritage, but the drwilliams.org claim makes us wonder.  We’ve asked him for the sources of his claims.

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