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Harwood. Their mother Ann also patented 300 acres along Utey's Creek in nearby York County in
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William Harwood of Martin's Hundred, as deduced by family historian Jim Harwood p. 10, who traces that Samuel's descent from the slaughtered William's son Joseph (1640-1680) and his son by his wife Joyce Meldrum, also Joseph (1659-1737, who married Agnes Cocke and whose son married a woman of the same name).
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Complicating matters, another less genteel Thomas
Harwood (who died in 1657) patented 100 acres in York County in 1637 and became a justice of the peace of that county, as well as had sons named Thomas, Samuel and Gerard. Family historian Jim Harwood p.14 believes that man was the son of this man's
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Burgesses expelled him in 1635. Harwood and Francis Pott sailed to England with Harvey, but carrying letters to the King as representatives of the House of Burgesses and council. Harvey had Harwood jailed temporarily in England, but he was quickly released, and returned to
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Harwood and his wife Grace had moved to Mulberry Island, and were tenants living at a house owned by Capt. William Peirce. However Harwood's initial land grant at Blunt Point proved uncultivable, and Grace presumably died shortly thereafter, for Harwood married Anne, who became the
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in 1647 and re-elected him in 1649. (A 1626 dispute concerning funds
Harwood paid Claiborne for a boat not received having been resolved.) In the latter session, the legislature declared that doubting the succession of Charles II to his father's throne would be treason. Harwood was named to the
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was still a minor when his father died, so neighboring planter
William Whitaker was appointed guardian for him and his sisters, who presumably on Humphrey's behalf took out a patent for 2070 acres in Warwick County in November 1652, mentioning that 1350 of them had been granted to Capt. Thomas
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