Family/Spouse: Jenette Smoot. Jenette and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Joseph Douglas owned a plantation known as "St. George's Regulation", 319 acres in Dorchester and Caroline Counties, Maryland.
A Captain, he served in the 14th Battalion of the Caroline County, Maryland militia during the American Revolution.

Died:
died at the home of his son-in-law Risden Smith in Dorchester County, Maryland.

Joseph married Rebecca Lee Nichols in 1772 in Caroline Co., Maryland. Rebecca died in Mar 1812 in Dorchester Co., Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

he is said to be the niece of Captain Harry Lee, the "Lighthorse" Lee of Revolutionary War fame and father of Robert E. Lee, the Confederate General. According to one source, the Lee connection is supposed to explain the frequent use of the name Henry in the Douglass family. Joseph Douglass' first son, Joseph, Jr., married a Celia Wright and then in 1816 took Charlotte Wilson as his second wife. Seven children were born to them, the fifth being Ann Crawford Douglass. She was the young lady who in 1848, at the age of seventeen, became Mrs. Charles Wesley Carroll."

Notes:

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

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]

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.