Colonel Thomas Ringgold^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]}

1610 - 1681  (~ 72 years)

• Name	Thomas Ringgold
  Title	Colonel
  Born	Bet. 1609 and 1610	England, United Kingdom   [13]
  Gender	Male
  Naturalization	1650  [14]
  Died	Sep 1681	Maryland, United States
  Person ID	I1167639375	Master Tree
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2011

  
  

  Family 1	Barbara,   b. 1620, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 1657  (Age 37 years)
  Children	+ 1. Major James Ringgold,   b. 1626, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 1686, Kent, Maryland, United States  (Age 60 years)   2. John Ringgold,   b. Abt. 1636,   d. Bet. 25 Apr 1672 and 17 Sep 1672  (Age ~ 36 years)
  Last Modified	3 Jul 2006
  Family ID	F1068927022	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Christian
  Married	1657
  Last Modified	18 Oct 2011
  Family ID	F1068975900	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - Bet. 1609 and 1610 - England, United Kingdom Died - Sep 1681 - Maryland, United States  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S16144775097] Proceedings of the County Courts of Kent (1658-1676), Archives of Maryland Online, (http://www.msa.md.gov), Volume 45, Page 105. Be it known unto all Men by These presence that Isa: Iliue of the County of Kent in the Province of Maryland & for the some of three thousand pounds of Tobacco in hand received being good consideration for acknowledging myself to have bargained and should unto the south of the same county his heirs execute, administrate or assign a plantation commonly known by the name of Beaver Neck with all the appertainanties and privileges thereto belonging forever did belong unto me or Zachary Waed: Being by survey now laid out for two hundred acres more or less and I do by these present warrant to keep indemnified the ....tho south his heirs execute, administrate or assign: from ever making any claim unto the aformentioned land: either by or from me, my heirs executed administrated or assigned or the heirs executed of the aforementioned Zachary Waed forever. But from no other person or persons whatsoever only he or they paying and yielding payment of the accustomed rent and to this agreement I have here unto set my hand and seal this 3rd of February, 1656. Signed and Delivered, in Court and Sealed: Thomas Ringgold, John Russell, Thomas Hynson. [S16144775097] Proceedings of the County Courts of Kent (1658-1676), Archives of Maryland Online, (http://www.msa.md.gov), Volume 45, Page 105. These present witneseth that I, Thomas should within mentioned do assign unto Thomas Hynson his heirs executed, administrated or assigned the half of all my right title claim and in trust of this dead within mentioned forever the consideration of fifteen hundred pounds of tobacco and casks payable this last of November as by bill under hand appeareth and to this agreement I have here unto set my hand this 3rd of February, 1656. Signed and Delivered in the presence of the court: Thomas Ringgold, John Russell, Will Elliot. [S16144775097] Proceedings of the County Courts of Kent (1658-1676), Archives of Maryland Online, (http://www.msa.md.gov), Volume 45, Page 105-106. Be it known unto all men by these present that I, Thomas Ringgold of the County of Kent do ackholedge my self to have bargained and sold unto my son John Ringgold one black cow marked with a croop on both ears and slett on the left, and one yearling steer marked with two nicks cut under each ear with a piece standing in the middle between the nicks, and do bind my self, my heirs executed, administrated or assigned firmly by these present to save and keep harmless and to defend and maintain the sale and quiet anullment thereof and there increes forever unto the John Ringgold, his heirs or assignes as witnessed by hand this 27th of January, 1654: Thomas Ringgold. Signed and Delivered in the presence of Thomas Hynson, James Brown, Gyles Blake. [S16144775097] Proceedings of the County Courts of Kent (1658-1676), Archives of Maryland Online, (http://www.msa.md.gov), Volume 45, Page 106. Be it known unto all men by these present that I, Thomas Ringgold of the county of Kent, Gentile, do acknowledge by self to have bargained and sold unto my son James Ringgold two heifers. The one a brown pied marked with two nicks cut under each ear with a piece standing in the middle between the nicks and the other a black with a white rump and marked as aforesaid. And I do bind my self, my heirs executed or assigned firmly by these present unto the James and his heirs or assigned that they shall quietly enjoy the same and there increase forever: as witnessed by my hand this 27th of January, 1657. Thomas Ringgold. Signed and delivered in the presence of Thomas Hynson, James Brown, Gyles Blake. [S5352860288] Old Kent: Eastern Shore, Hanson, George A., (Regional Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, 1967, Originally pub 1876.), Liber A, No. 1, Folio 61, Sec 10. At a Court holden in Kent County on ye 12th January 1651, Present, among others, Thomas Ringgold, Commissioner. [S5352860288] Old Kent: Eastern Shore, Hanson, George A., (Regional Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, 1967, Originally pub 1876.), Liber A, No. 1, Folio 38, Sec 35. Whereas, the reducing settling and governing of Virginia and all the English plantations within the Chesapeake Bay was referred to certain Commissioners by order from the Council of State for the Commonwealth of England and, whereas, the Governor and Council for this Province of Maryland, in obedience and conformity to the said power, have authorized and deputized the persons whose hands are hereunto subscribed for settling the Isle of Kent. These are, therefore in the name of the Keepers of the Liberty of England by authority of Parliament to signify, and declare that for the present till further order out of England, ----, -----, Mr. Thomas Ringgold, ---- be Commissioners for the said island and that they or any four of them, whereof My. Philip Conner or Mr. Thomas Ringgold to be always one, shall have the power to hear and determine all differences and to call courts for that purpose as often as they shall see cause, to make choice of Sheriff and a Clerk for keeping Records, and execution of Writs and all other process and to act in all the things of peace, safety and welfare of the said Island and the inhabitants thereof, as they or the former Commissioners did, or might do, by virtue of their commission from the Lord Baltimore, and the Governor and Council of the Province under him: Given at the Isle of Kent on the 31st day of July, 1652. [S5352860288] Old Kent: Eastern Shore, Hanson, George A., (Regional Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, 1967, Originally pub 1876.), Liber A, No. 1, Folio 44, Sec 28. The license given by the Governor to Thomas Ringgold to kill any unmarked hogs within any of His Lordship's forests upon the Island was revoked and returned to the clerk, on this 2nd of Feb. 1652. [S5352860288] Old Kent: Eastern Shore, Hanson, George A., (Regional Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, 1967, Originally pub 1876.), Liber A, No. 1, Folio 70, Sec 29. At this same court (Feb. 1652) Thomas Ringgold gave a deposition on a shipping case. [S5352860288] Old Kent: Eastern Shore, Hanson, George A., (Regional Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, 1967, Originally pub 1876.), Liber A, No. 1, Folio 42, Sec. 36. Upon folio 42 is recorded the following document, and interesting list of names: We whose names are hereafter subscribed to promise to engage ourselves to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England without King or House of Lords. among others: Thomas Ringgold, John Ringgold, 5th Apr 1652. Mildred Schoch: This list of sixty six names undoubtedly includes all the adult white male colonists living in Kent County 1652-53 or nearly all; and we may therefore infer that the white population upon the Island then numbered 330 souls. Many of these may be autographs; some of them certainly are not. Thomas Ringgold never pronounced his name Ringgould. "Thomas Ringgold, Commissioner of Kent 1651, 1653, 1654, Member of Court Feb. 1 & Apr 25 1655, Sept 1, 1656". [S16144775099] Captains and mariners of early Maryland, Semmes, Raphael, (The Johns Hopkins press, 1937). Thomas Ringgold was a Royalist and fled Cromwell with his two sons, James and John. [S16144775100] Rock Hall Historical Collection, Planning Committee of Rock Hall Commemoration, Inc., (Rock Hall, MD, 1958). The beginnings of New Yarmouth may be traced to 1650 when Colonel Thomas Ringgold, at heart a man of vigorous individualism, despite his forty odd years emigrated to the shores of Kent County from neighboring Kent Island. He was accompanied in the adventure by his equally energetic sons Major James and John. Attracted to the fertile soil of Kent County, embracing one of Maryland's most beautiful regions, Ringgold secured a patent for twelve hundred acres of land which was surveyed July 17, 1659. This large grant consisted of land that stretched lazily from Gray's Inn Creek across Eastern Neck, a long peninsula terminating in an island, to the broad waters of the Chester River. Such a vast tract, ideally situated, was christened "Huntingfield" by Ringgold who, as a keen student of nature, had unbounded faith in the potentialities of developing it profitably. [S16144775098] Kent County, Maryland, Court Documents. To all Christian people to whom these presents shall come, greetings. Know ye that I, Thomas Ringgold of the Isle of Kent in the Province of Maryland, Gentleman, do acknowledge myself to have given and bequeathed unto my sons John Ringgold and James Ringgold the one half of my land called "Huntingfield" which is in estimation twelve hundred acres lying o the East side of the Chesapeake Bay beginning at a marked locust being the nethermost bounds of Mr. South's land. I say the one half o that parcel of land which is sex hundred acres more or less, according to survey beginning at the locust aforesaid and ending at a marked chestnut tree which is marked with twelve notches sanding upon the bank of the bay side near a marsh. I say all that parcel of land before mentioned and divided between my sons according to their own desires at a deep valley guessed by themselves to be the middle of the six hundred acres and my son John to go from the Valley to the locust above and my son James to go from the Valley upward to the Chestnut tree. I the said Thomas Ringgold do bind myself, my heirs, my executors and my administrators to warrant the peaceable and quiet enjoyment of all that aforesaid parcel of land with all the rights and privileges specified in the patent to whom their heirs, executors and administrators or assignees forever as witnessed by my hand and seal this 2nd Day of Dec 1661. [S1070432059] Ringgold in the United States, Mildred Cook Schoch. [S5352860288] Old Kent: Eastern Shore, Hanson, George A., (Regional Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, 1967, Originally pub 1876.), Liber A, No 1, Folio 61, Sec 36C. Thomas Ringgold, being in the fortieth year of age, came to Kent, with his two sons, John and James in the year 1650.