Seventh Generation

68. Richard CROXALL was born in 1685 in Stoke-Golding, Leicester, England. He died in 1747 at the age of 62 in Baltimore County, MD. The Croxall's were an old English gentry family that originated in Darbyshire. The original spelling was Crochalle, and is found in the Domeday Book. The branch of the family that emigrated to Maryland in the early 18th century had earlier relocated to Warrickshire, and included several persons of distinction.

As a child, he lost an ear when he fell from a cart. He married in Ireland and in 1715 the couple emigrated to Maryland where they initially settled on Poplar Island (just south of Kent Island in Chesapeake Bay). They moved to Baltimore County, where he was the manager of The Baltimore Company Ironworks, a business owned by the Carroll family, to whom he became a trusted advisor. The Croxall's later were the proprietors of Garrison Forest Plantation in Baltimore County (near present-day Owings Mills, MD) where the old family burying ground exists to this day. Joanna CARROLL and Richard CROXALL were married in 1715 in Ireland. There were six children of this marriage, the three sons and daughter shown, and two daughters whose given names are unknown. One of them married a man named Howard; the other died unmarried.

69. Joanna CARROLL died on 18 March 1756 in Maryland.

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