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- The registers of St. James Herring Creek have him marrying Mary Franklin within one or two years of marrying Sarah Weems. This is odd, though, since Sarah Weems is named "Sarah Johns" in the will of her father, dated 1794. The Johns Family History trees only have him marrying Sarah Weems.
A Richard Johns definitely did marry a Mary Franklin in St. James Parish, Anne Arundel County, on 11 Jan 1776, though. I keep them here until this straightened out.
On this family, see: Crowther, "The Johns Family Tree," Maryland Genealogical Magazine 4 (July, 1963): ___. The family also married into the Bowies.
I assume that this--or perhaps his father or older relative--is the Richard Johns mentioned by J. Reaney Kelley in Quakers in the Founding of Anne Arundel Co. as one of the several Quaker owners of the brigantine "Betty," captained by Henry Hill. [2]
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