John Cash Sr. (abt. 1659 - 1726)

Born about 1659 in London, England [uncertain]

Husband of Mary (Dawson) Traquear — married 1711 in Maryland

Descendants

Died 1726 at about age 67 in Prince George's County, Maryland

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Biography

Cautionary Note: This is not the same John Cash who is the son of William Cash and Elizabeth Skinner.

John Cash migrated from London to Maryland as an indentured servant in 1684.

Cautionary Note; This line of the Cash family has no know connection to the ancestors of country singer Johnny Cash. The forbears of Johnny Cash are known to have immigrated from Fife County Scotland to Virginia.

Notes

"John Cash (Jr) is the son of John Cash and Mary Dawson. This proof is by virtue of a tract of land called “Dawson’s Mill Land” that he left to his children at his death in 1794. The land abstract from Montgomery County Maryland reads: "Thomas Owen Williams from Ann Cash, John Cash, William Cash, Jonathan Cash and Isaiah Cash, all of Montgomery County, for £87..10, parcel known as Mill Land, or Dawson's Mill Land, containing 50 acres. Left by the will of Edward Dawson, 15 December 1729, to his grandson, John Cash, who is now deceased, and by his will, 15 December 1793, made over to parties herein. Signed by Ann Cash, John Cash, William Cash, Rezin Cash, Jonathan Cash and Isaiah Cash, before J. Holmes and Greenberry Howard. Acknowledged, and Ann Cash, wife of John Cash, deceased, and Margery Cash, Keziah Cash and Sarah Cash, wives of John Cash, William Cash and Jonathan Cash, all relinquished dower rights." This tract of land was left to John Cash by his grandfather, Edward Dawson, Mary Dawson’s father. John’s father, also John Cash, died in 1726 in Prince George’s County, Maryland. (I am awaiting a copy of his Will, and also the Will of Edward Dawson, from the Maryland Archives.) The St. Barnabas Church Record, Queen Anne Parish, Prince George’s County, Maryland, has John Cash & Mary Dawson baptizing the following children:

Dawson Cash – 11 Aug 1712

John Cash – 22 Aug 1714

Ruth Cash – 05 Oct 1717

Rachel Cash – 01 Jul 1720

Caleb Cash – 10 Jul 1722

Ann Cash – 28 Apr 1723

The parish record lists the marriage of an additional daughter, Mary Cash, daughter of John Cash, to William Harr in 1726/7, although there is no record of her baptism in the parish register. The parish record also lists John’s widow, Mary Dawson, marrying after his death to Alexander Traquear. ^[1]

MD Calendar of Wills: John CASH, planter, Pr. Geo. Co., 28 Aug. 1726, 26 Sep. 1726. To wf. Mary, dw. plantation for life, then to son Caleb. Sons to receive portions at 21, daus. at 16 or marriage. To sons Doren [Dawson?] & John, Huckillberry Hill at east branch of Potomack R. Wit. Joseph WATERS, John MOORE, John PURDUM. ^[2]

Edward DAWSON, planter, Prince Geo. Co., 15 Dec. 1729, 28 Je. 1732. To son Edward, 214 acres, Mill Land, where he lives, except 50 acres to grandson John, s/o John CASH, decd., to be taken out of afsd. tract by son Edward after decease of wife. Personalty to granddau. Mary, wf/o Wm. HARR; grandson Edward, s/o John PERRY; & to Mary, wf/o Alexander TRAQUEER. To wf. Mary, exx., dw. plantation for life or widowhood. Wit. Richard DAINTRY, Nathan WARD, Richard DUCKETT.

Will

Will of John Cash, Prince George's County, MD.

In the Name of God, Amen. This twenty eighth day of Aug 1726, I John Cash of Prince George’s County in the Province of Maryland, plantar, being of a sound and perfect mind and memory, thanks be to God for the same, and calling to mind the uncertainty [estate?] of this life and that all flesh must yeild unto death when it shall please God to call do make and ordain and appoint this my Last Will and Testament, revoking and making void all other Wills by me made theretofore and this to be taking as my Last Will and Testament and none other and first being sorry for my sins past, humbly crave of God forgiveness for the same and into his hands commit my soule hopeing through the merritts of my Blessed Savior to be eternally saved and my body I committ to the Earth to be decently interred and for such temporall estate as it hath pleased God to bestow upon me being far above my Deserts, I give and bequeath the same in manner and form following.

Item: I give and bequeath until my dear loving wife Mary Cash that plantation I now dwell on and the land belonging to the same during the term of her naturall life and after her decease I give it to my son Caleb Cash, and for my land that lyes at the eastern branch of the Potomock calld Huckillberry hill, I give to my two sons Doren Cash and John Cash to be equally divided between them both.

Item: I give and bequeath after my debts, legacies and funeral charges are paid, all the remainder part of my personall estate whatsoever and wheresoever to be equally divided between my male children and female children share and share alike after the decease of my wife, but if she happen to marry, then to enjoy the third part of my personall estate and the rest to be divided amongst my children as aforesd. Each child their part to be paid when the male children arrive to the age of twenty one years and for the female children their part shall be paid when they arrive to the years of sixteen or the day of marriage, which shall first happen and this I leave and ordain to be my Last Will and Testament that I make in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale y: Day and year within written.

Sources

1. ↑ Courtesy of Kathy; https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.northam.usa.states.maryland.counties.princegeorges/1587/mb.ashx; accessed 6/18/2018
2. ↑ Maryland Calendar of Wills

• Likely christening record John Cash 2/28/1660, born on 6/20/1660, parents Thomas Cash, carpenter, and wife Martha. City of London, St. Botolph, Aldgate, on ancestry.com.

• List of indentured servants transported from England to Maryland in 1684/85 by agent Richard Heath. Some may have crossed the Atlantic together.

• COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. The Complete Book of Emigrants: A Comprehensive Listing Compiled from English Public Records of Those Who Took Ship to the Americas for Political, Religious, and Economic Reasons; of Those Who Were Deported for Vagrancy, Roguery, or Non-Conformity; and of Those Who Were Sold to Labour in the New Colonies. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. 1661-1699. 1990. 894p. p. 465.

• From "The Land Records of Prince George's County, Maryland" by Elise Greenup Jourdan

• folio 197/784

Indenture. 10 August 1719 From: Charles Beall, Carpenter of Prince George's County To  : John Cash of Prince George's County

For 4000 pounds of tobacco a 150 acre tract of land called Huckleberry Hill part of a larger tract called Turkey Thickett 'in Prince George's County lying on the north side of the eastern branch of the Potomac containing 500 acres.

/s/ Ch* Beal (seal) Wit: Will Tannehill, Tho. Addison Acknowledge by Mary Beale, wife of Charles enrolled 16 Sep 1719

Note: Turkey Thicket is today a neighborhood in Northeast Washington, D.C. , near the Catholic University of America.