Nicholas WYATT

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April 1620 , England

Died

abt. 1673 , Anne Arundel County, Crown Colony of Maryland

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Born: April 1620 in England

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Nicholas married Damaris STOCKETT . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Damaris STOCKETT was born abt. 1620 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA. Damaris died abt. 1674 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA.

Nicholas WYATT died abt. 1673 in Anne Arundel County, Crown Colony of Maryland.
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Sarah WYATT

Born: abt. 1657, Middle Neck, Wicomico, Crown Colony of Maryland
Died: abt. 1692, Annapolis, Crown Colony of Maryland

Married: Edward DORSEY

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Birth — 1620
April 1620
England

Biography
One of the first settlers of the Severn was Nicholas Wyatt, Gent., a wealthy planter, who migrated in 1649 with the non-conformists from Virginia up the Severn along with his wife, Damaris, and her daughter, Mary.

Children of Nicholas and Damaris Wyatt
1. Sarah Wyatt Bland Dorsey, born 1650.
2. Samuel Wyatt, born ca 1657, died young.

In 1651 Nicholas Wyatt took up lands on the Severn nine miles west of Annapolis, called 'Wayfield.' Among his Maryland patents were 'Wyatt's Harbor' and 'Wyatt's Hill.' Apparently Nicholas transported people into Maryland in exchange for land as he has several land grants in Anne Arundel County.

Nicholas Wyatt is usually associated as one of the Puritans of Virginia, but like several of the Dissenters, he became 'convinced' of the Quaker beliefs and refused to take an oath. On October 10, 1662, he was fined 500 lbs. of tobacco or two months imprisonment without bail for refusing to bear arms.

Nicholas Wyatt died in 1674.

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