Joseph married Celiaia Wright on 14 May 1807 in Dorchester Co., Maryland. Celiaia was born in 1791 in Dorchester Co., Maryland; died on 4 May 1812 in Pike Co., Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William M. Douglas was born on 12 Apr 1808 in Pike Co., Missouri; died on 21 Jan 1855 in Pike Co., Missouri.
2. Amelia Addaline Douglas was born on 25 May 1809 in Dorchester Co., Maryland; and died.
3. Celia Douglas was born on 7 Apr 1812 in Dorchester Co., Maryland; died on 20 Aug 1822 in Dorchester Co., Maryland.

Joseph married Charolette Willison on 28 Feb 1816 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. Charolette was born on 2 Apr 1794 in Maryland; died on 2 Aug 1863 in Dorchester Co., Maryland; was buried on 3 Aug 1863 in Union Methodist Church Cemetery, Dorchester Co., Maryland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Margaret Douglas was born on 6 Feb 1817 in Dorchester Co., Maryland; died on 4 May 1821 in Dorchester Co., Maryland.
2. Louisa Douglas was born on 12 Nov 1818 in Dorchester Co., Maryland; died on 12 Oct 1824 in Dorchester Co., Maryland.
3. James Elbert Douglas was born on 28 Sep 1820 in Dorchester Co., Maryland; died on 21 Nov 1880 in Dorchester Co., Maryland; was buried on 21 Nov 1880 in Union Methodist Church Cemetery, Dorchester Co., Maryland.
4. Thomas Douglas was born on 10 Jan 1822 in Dorchester Co., Maryland; died on 16 May 1824 in Dorchester Co., Maryland.
5. Ann Crofford Douglas was born on 11 Jan 1825; and died.
6. Mary Elizabeth Douglas was born on 14 Jan 1827; and died.
7. Henry Clay Douglas was born on 21 Jun 1832 in Dorchester Co., Maryland; died on 27 Feb 1855 in Dorchester Co., Maryland.

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.