Notes:

Birth:
He was the youngest child of Col Douglas and lived to the very old age for those times of 82

Joseph married Penelope Morris about 1704 in Bowls Plantation, Charles Co. Maryland. Penelope was born on 13 Nov 1684 in Ceder Point, Charles Co. Maryland; died before 17 Dec 1711 in Charles Co. Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Date calculated from birth of the first child.

1. Elizabeth Douglas was born in 1705 in Bowls Plantation, Charles Co. Maryland; and died.
2. Penelope Douglas was born in 1707 in Bowls Plantation, Charles Co. Maryland; and died.
3. William Douglas was born about 1709 in Charles Co. Maryland; died after 23 Feb 1765 in Fauquier Co., Virginia.
4. John Douglas was born in 1711 in Bowls Plantation, Charles Co. Maryland; died on 9 Dec 1761 in William & Marry Parish, Maryland.

Family/Spouse: Sarah Hanson. Sarah and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Sarah Douglas was born in 1725 in Bowls Plantation, Charles Co. Maryland; and died.

Joseph married Catherine Musgrove about 1745 in Bowls Plantation, Charles Co. Maryland. Catherine died about 1768 in Bowls Plantation, Charles Co. Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Capt. Joseph Hamiliton Douglas, Jr. was born in 1747 in Charles Co. Maryland; died on 1 Jan 1810 in Caroline Co., Maryland.
2. Elizabeth Douglas was born in 1749 in Charles Co. Maryland; died on 19 Jul 1787 in Dorchester Co., Maryland.

Notes:

Emmigrated to Charles County, Maryland in 1654

Col. Douglas was actively involved with the Charles county militia and with politics through his entire life in Maryland and was serving as a Burgess in the Maryland lower house at the time of his death

Due to Col. Douglas's service any female descendant is eligible for membership in the National Association of Colonial Dames of the Seventeenth Century, The Daughters of Colonial Wars, The National Society of the American Colonist, and many more.

Birth:
the year of birth was set by his own deposition
Born 'near Glasgow, Scotland'?

John married Sarah Bonner about 17 Aug 1663 in Charles Co. , Maryland. Sarah was born about 1636 in Charles Co. Maryland; died in Jul 1718 in Bowls Plantation, Charles Co. Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The family name of Bonner is of Norman-French origin with the original Bonners arriving in Britain during the Norman Conquest in the 11th century. There have been numerous spellings of the name: in France as Bonheur and Bonaire all of which have the key of "good". Other spellings of the surname include Bona, Bonar, Booner, Bonney, Bonher and Boner. Many of these latter spellings probably resulted from writing the name as it sounded. Today the name of Bonner is common in France, Germany, England and Northern Ireland.


The Bonners were a prominent family in England with Quentin de Riddell an ancestor of the noble house of Buchanan-Ridell. Quentin first bore the ensign of Bonner. Numerous documents, during the reign of Henry the VIII have references to Riddell and Bonner. The Ridell and Bonner families bear the same coat-of-arms, indicating that Bonner descended from Riddell


There were several Bonners appearing in America in the 1600's including Thomas ,Henry and Richard around 1638. Thomas, James and William Bonner migrated to the Carolina's and Georiga from the Chesapeake Bay area.

Notes:

Sir Archabald Douglas the first son and heir of Alexander Douglas became the 10th Larid of Mains. His wife was Isobel of Blyswood, married 22 July 1633. He died 1 July 1647 leaving his entire estate to his wife. Due to heavy debts, the landed estate of Mains was deeded over to John Douglas, a relative. At this time Mains stayed in the Douglas family but passed to another Douglas line.

Sir Robert obtained Blackerston by marriage. He purchased Blythswood. It should be noted that Col. John Douglas's plantation in Maryland was named Blythswood (Blythswood) the name of the Manor in Scotland.

Sir Robert, as did most Scots, suffered greatly from the ravages of Oliver Cromwell. This was the primary cause of his financial problems along with a default , of the city of Glasgow, on money owed to him.

Robert married Lady Susanna Douglas on 3 Feb 1635 in St. Andrews Church At Holborn, England. Susanna (daughter of Robert (Viscount Belhaven) (of Spot) Douglas and Elizabeth Whalley) was born about 1617 in London, England; died about 1692 in London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Susan Douglases birth was legitimized on 30 July 1631, by Royal Decree, when she was thirteen years old. This would put her date of birth at 1617 or 1618.
Presumably Nicolas was not her mother.

Notes:

Married:
Conducted by the Bishop of London

Alexander married Grizel Henderson in 1618. Grizel died in 1618. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Grizel Henderson was the daughter of James Henderson of Fordel, Fifeshire.

Notes:

See Sir Robert of Spott

Early in life he was Page of Honour to Henry, Prince of Wales, upon whose death he was appointed one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to King James VI., and continued in the same office to King Charles I. He was afterwards Master of the Household and a member of the Privy Council, and in 1633 he was by patent created Viscount Belhaven, in the Peerage of Scotland. He died without issue, 14th January 1639, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. He was buried in the chapel of Holyrood House, where his monument is still to be seen, and upon which was carved an epitaph giving an account of his "remarkable actions."


It is also it is said that he died childless, and the viscountcy became extinct.

Elsewhere I note:
Children of Sir Robert and Susanna:
John Douglas of Blythswood, arr Maryland 1655 (b c1636, d 1678, to America in 1654, Colonel) m. (17.08.1663) Sarah Bonner (Mrs. Bowles) had issueSusannah Douglas (b 07.02.1647) m. (1672) _ Johnston of Hilton and Huttonother issue - Alexander, Robert, James, Elizabeth, Charles (b c22.02.1661

Sir Archibald and Sir Robert Douglas, sons to his eldest brother, were nominated his heirs

Robert + Elizabeth Whalley. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard Whalley, of Kirkston and Frances Cromwell) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

By a Miss Whalley of the county of Nottingham,
he had
two natural children, John and Susanna, who had letters
of legitimation under the Great Seal 30 July 1631.2 Susanna, then aged eighteen, had a licence from the Bishop
of London to marry at St. Andrew's, Holborn, on 2
February 1635-36, a widower, aged thirty-four, Robert
Douglas, afterwards Sir Robert Douglas of Blackerston,
to whom and his spouse, Lord Belhaven, in 1636, made over
the barony of Gorbals, reserving his own liferent. By them
it was sold in 1650 to the Corporation of Glasgow. They
had issue a large family.

(Research):Alleged sister of Edward Whalley, MP and Regicide