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Notes for Seaborne Battee and Elizabeth Hanslap

1687 The will of Seaborn Battee (AA) was exhibited to the court and was proved before Maj. Nicholas Gassaway, by Wolfram Hunt, Richard Wigg, & Henry Hanslop (witnesses). Also exhibited oath of Elisabeth Battee executrix & widow. Also exhibited oath of John Gresham & James Saunders, appraisers. Dated March 9. [1]

c 1688 Joseph Chew married Elizabeth, relict and executrix of Seaborne Battee of Ann Arundel, Maryland. She was a daughter of Henry Hanslap. [2]

"Seaborn Battee had died in 1687/88; his widow married Joseph Chew in about 1689; in 1694/95 Seaborn's lands were held by the Chews in trust for Seaborn's only son Samuel (see article 1, pp. 477, 495)." Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, Volume 39, 504


Footnotes:

[1] V. L. Skinner, Jr., Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland, Volume VI:1686-1689, 1692-1693, 68, [URL].

[2] Robert W. Barnes, comp., Maryland Marriage Evidences, 1634-1718 (Genealogical Publishing Company, 2005), 64, [GoogleBooks].