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- I think this couple were Quakers; they were from Talbot County. Hugh was a member of the State Legislature, I think (the "House of Delegates"). Hugh and Mary had about 8 children, including Margaret Sherwood, who married William Hambleton Jr.
His house was named Crooked Intention. According to Weeks (20), "Crooked Intention got its name in 1681 when Hugh Sherwood took out a patent for 130 acres in Talbot County. According to one widely circulated legend, Sherwood had planned to return to England, but this intention was never fulfilled, and he decided to settle in Maryland instead, naming the land here Crooked Intention to signify his revised plans for the future."
Source to look up: A Tavern in the Town, R. Bernice Leonard (?).
A key source is: Geoffrey Sherwood, Sherwoods in America: The Search For Our English Roots (1998). [3]
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