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: It is difficult to get death records directly,
: unless the deceased owned property in the
: county,in which case there is an estate file
: for the deceased. (The State of Maryland
: has death records from 1898 on.) If not (as
: in the case of Sally Duckett who died as a
: child) you have to go by newspaper accounts,
: wills of other members of the family, or
: various other accounts, Orphans Court
: records, or other Court records. And you
: have to go through a lot of trial and error
: to do that.
:
: I am not positive exactly who Sally Duckett
: was, though I am almost certain. We know
: from her grave inscription that she was the
: daughter of Thomas Duckett (unfortunately
: there were many Ducketts in Prince George's
: County named Thomas). I am, however, almost
: positive that she was the daughter of the
: Thomas Duckett who lived 1797 to 1849, and
: who was the son of Judge Allen Bowie Duckett
: (1775-1809, also buried in the Melford
: cemetery), and the nephew of the Judge's
: brother, Dr. Richard Duckett, who lived at
: Melford for most of the first half of the
: 19th century. This Thomas Duckett was
: married twice, and had at least two
: children, including one son Richard who was
: born in 1831, within a few years of the the
: birth of Sally (ca. 1828). This Thomas
: (1797-1849) became the part owner (after his
: father's death in 1809) of the Melford
: plantation, together with his uncle (brother
: of Judge Allen B. Duckett), Dr. Richard
: Duckett (1779-1854), who lived at Melford.
: As I said, Dr. Richard owned the plantation
: jointly with his nephew, Thomas, but Thomas
: died young (1849) leaving at least two sons,
: and so Dr. Richard and his wife, took over
: the raising of their two great-nephews,
: Thomas' two sons - Richard, born in 1831 and
: named for his great-uncle, and Thomas Allen
: Duckett, born circa 1842. (Richard was the
: son of Thomas Duckett's first wife, and
: Thomas Allen of his second.) My guess is
: that Sally was the sister of the younger
: Richard, daughter of Thomas Duckett and his
: first wife, Katherine; she died sometime
: before 1840, which was the year that Thomas
: married for a second time. Thomas Allen
: would have been a child of the second
: marriage. It was the second Richard
: (1831-1864) who inherited Melford from his
: great-uncle, and who continued to live there
: until his death in 1864. Melford was sold
: out of the Duckett family at that time.
:
: We do not have any information about the
: slave population at Melford (the Ducketts
: certainly did own slaves, and one of the
: surviving outbuildings is believed to have
: originally been a slave quarter). So you
: need to spend some time with tax assessments
: and the Federal Census Slave Schedule to
: determine more about the population of
: enslaved persons who worked at Melford. If
: you need guidance in this research, just let
: me know!
:
: Susan G. Pearl, Historian
: Prince George's County Historical Society
: 301-464-0590
:
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: Does anyone know where I can find a record
: of
: all deaths in PG county around 1830?
: Im trying to find out more about Sally
: Duckett, who is buried at the Melford house.
:
:
:
: If anyone has any information about her, or
: the duckett family, there slaves etc, please
: reply or email me at fiona@van99.com
: thanks in advance.
:
:
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