Benjamin Gill

- 1655

• Name	Benjamin Gill
  Birth	St. Andrew's, Holborn, London, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Charles County, Maryland   [2]
  Death	22 Nov 1655	Port Tobacco, Charles, Maryland   [1]
  Alternate death	1658  [3]
  Person ID	I35752	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2021

  
  

  Family	Anne Maria Mainwaring
  Marriage	Bef 16 Jul 1641  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Anne Gill   d. Between 28 Jun 1697 and 3 Jun 1698, Charles County, Maryland
  Family ID	F21007	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He was a tailor of Holborn, styled both "gentleman" and "yeoman." He and his wife were indicted for recusancy and not attending church in 1626, 1627/28, 1629, 1631-33, and 1635. They emigrated to Maryland in 1635. His nuncupative will names his son-in-law, James Neale, and his "cousin" Robert Cole. "Upon his return to England [James Neale] married Anne Gill, a gentlewoman, the daughter and heiress of Benjamin Gill, Gent., who had come to the Province about the same time as he, or about 1641. Benjamin Gill was a business partner of John Pile, of Sarum, but somehow his family remained in Europe and none of them joined him in Maryland. He died in 1658, whereupon Robert Cole, Gent., who had come from Middlesex, declared himself as his nearest of kin in the Province." [The Maryland Semmes and Kindred Families, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S4306] Christopher Johnston, "Neale Family of Charles County." Maryland Historical Magazine 7:201, 1912. [S5937] The Maryland Semmes and Kindred Families by Harry Wright Newman. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1956.