DUVALL, Catherine

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Immigrant from Nantes, about 1650. He came as one of the 150 adventurers brought over by Colonel William Burgess. Settled near Col. Burgess in Anne Arundel Co., on the South side of the South River, and became a successful merchant and planter of that favored section.

He left his third wife a such vast estate that she became the third wife of Col. Henry Ridgely, and later the wife of Rev. Mr. Henderson, the commissary of the Church of England.

Mareen's will was probated in 1694; about the time of the removal of the Capitol from St. Mary's to Annapolis. It is not known who his first wives were. His heirs, in order mentioned in his will were:
1. his wife, Mary, who inherited a life interest in "Middle Plantation" with the remainder at the death of his step-mother;
2. Elizabeth, who received 150 pounds sterling and 375 acres call "Bowdels Choice" in Calvert County; Benjamin, who received 150 pounds sterling and 200 acres, which was one-half of "Howertons Range";
3. Mareen the younger, who received 150 pounds sterling and 300 acres called "The Plains" in Calvert County; Mary who received 150 pounds sterling and 320 acres called "Morleys Grove" and 370 acres called "Morleys Lott";
4. Johanna, who received 150 pounds sterling and 311 acres called "Larkins Choice" and 200 acres called "Duvalls Range", both located in Anne Arundel Co.;
5. John who received 5 shillings, all wearing apparel and a silver tobacco box. John was appointed co-executor with his brother, Lewis, and his brother-in-law Robert Tyler; Samuel, who received 5 shillings; Mareen the elder, who received 5 shillings; and Susanna, who received a silver tankard. It has been suggested that Mareen might have been partial to some of his children. In view of the holdings of his other children, it is preferred to think that he was insuring the security of the younger children. Mareen;s widow, Mary, married second Colonel Henry Ridgely Sr.
One wife was closely allied to John Larkin, a neighbor and enduring friend of Mareen. Five of his 12 children were married during his lifetime. "Mareen the Elder" also called "Marius", by his mother-in-law, married Frances Stokett, daughter of Thomas. He was ancestor of John P. Duvall (Virginia Legislature member). Capt. John Duvall, who held a large estate, married Elizabeth Jones, daughter of William Jones, Sr. Of Anne Arundel Co. Their daughter Elizabeth, married Benjamin Warfield, youngest son of Richard, the immigrant. Her sister, Comfort, married William Griffith, of Frederick Co. Eleanor Duvall, of Mareen, married John Roberts, of Virginia. Samuel Duvall married Elizabeth Clark, in 1687; Susannah married Robert Tyler and was the ancestress of General Bradley T. Johnson; Lewis Duvall married Martha Ridgely, only daughter of the Honorable Robert Ridgely, of St. Inigoes, in 1699.

Mareen married BRASSIEUR, Susannah Abt 1674. Susannah (daughter of BRASSIEUR, Benois and RICKFORD, Mary) was born Abt 1650, Isle of Right County, Virginia; died 1692, Ann Arundel County, Maryland. [Group Sheet]

Massoit — ORBIN, Margaret. Margaret was born Abt 1608; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Benois married RICKFORD, Mary Bef 1645, Nansmond, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

William — MAMUSIN, Alexine. [Group Sheet]

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This family became prominent in Nansemond County, Virginia in 1653. They moved to Calvert. County, MD in about 1658. He died in about 1665.
!Book 975.5. G864 Greer, "Early Virginia Immigrants 1622-1666" has listings for Katherine, Bennet, Persie and Mary as 1653 immigrants by Robert BRASSEUR of Nansemond County, VA..
!Charles Brasheur (see A BRASSEUR FAMILY for details) research has not been able to prove the name of Robert's wife.
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The BRASSEUR family from France to the USA. The name is also spelled: Brassieur, Brashieur, Brashear, Brashears, Brassure, Brasheur, Brazier, Brasier, Broshear, Boshear, Beshear, Breshear, Breashear, and many other ways. They settled in Nansemond Co., Virginia in 1653. They move to Calvert County, Maryland in about 1658. The name BRASSEIUR (BRAS = arm, as in a part of the body (not the weapon) and SEIUR = lord or knight, hence...Lord of Arm or Might by Strength. The first Brasseiur was a page, his descendents Lords and Knights. Robert Brasseur was a Huguenot, that is, Puritan-Protestant dissenters who followed the teachings of John Calvin. Most of the country (at that time) was Catholic. During the mid to late 1500s, Huguenots were openly persecuted and several thousand were slaughtered in the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre that occured on 24 August 1572. Henry III of France feared the power of the Catholics and allied himself with Henry of Navarre and the Hughenots. After Henry III was assassinated, Henry of Navarre became King and granted religious freedom to the Hughenots in some 75 towns where they were the majority. The proclamation granting religious and political freedom was know as the Edict of Nantes, 13 April 1598. Even through the mid 1600s there were outbreaks and the Hughenots didn't get complete relief from oppression until the French Revolution, 1798.

Robert married Florence Abt 1619. [Group Sheet]