John Medley

Abt 1615 - 1660  (~ 45 years)

• Name	John Medley
  Birth	Abt 1615	England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1616	England   [2]
  Death	1660	Newtown Hundred, St. Mary's County, Maryland   [1]
  Person ID	I11029	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	10 Oct 2020

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Thompson
  Children	1. William Medley,   b. Abt 1653, St. Mary's County, Maryland d. Bef 30 Apr 1695, St. Mary's County, Maryland (Age ~ 42 years)   2. John Medley,   b. 1647, Newtown Hundred, St. Mary's County, Maryland d. Bef 19 Aug 1676 (Age < 29 years)
  Family ID	F5286	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Arrived in Maryland 1635 as an indentured servant of Thomas Cornwalleys. Represented Newtown Hundred in the lower house of the Maryland legislature, 1650 and 1651. We know he died in 1660 because on 19 Feb of that year he was subpoened to testify in the case of Stiles vs. Piles, and then later in 1660 James Beane filed a lawsuit against John Medley's estate. Mary Louise Donnelly's John Medley 1615-1660 gives the parents of this John Medley as John Medley and Susannah Rhodes who married 8 Feb 1601 in Elland, Yorkshire. Problems with this include the fact that the elder of these John Medleys was a Protestant while the immigrant was a Catholic, and the fact that the older John Medley was a parish clerk whereas the immigrant was illiterate.

  
  

• Sources

  [S312] John Medley (1615-1660), St. Mary's County Maryland, His Descendants, by Mary Louise Donnelly. Ennis, Texas: Mary Louise Donnelly, 1995. [S936] A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789.