Individual Details

Marriage

In this year Janet Freeman for natural love and affection deeded negroes and other personal property to her daughters Margaret Luckett and Anne Weston (sometimes spelled Westmer and Westman). The gift was witnessed by John Hamill, Henry Martin, and Holland Middleton.

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On March 18, 1754, Ignatius Luckett, Gent., conveyed to Thomas Hussey Luckett, Jr., a moyety of "Moore's Ditch" on the east side of Port Tobacco Creek, which by the last will and testament of Ignatius Luckett was devised to his wife Jane, now his relict during life. Margaret Luckett, wife, relinquished her third, while George Dent and Richard Edelen witnessed the conveyance.

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Ignatius Luckett negotiated three land patents during his lifetime--"Luckett's Hazard" in 1759, "Chance" in 1764, and "Slipe" in 1769.

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On October 27, 1770, Ignatius Luckett deeded to Edward Scott Ware, Gent., of Charles County, "Luckett's Level" lying on the east side of Port Tobacco Creek and "Small Hope" on the Wicomico River. On May 8, 1773, he deeded to Charles Sewell for ?71 "Square Adventure" of Port Tobacco Parish, and a portion of "Small Hope".

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At the settlement of the estate of William Douglas in 1771, it was shown that Ignatius Luckett and John Speake were sureties for the administrator Bulcher Franklin.

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Jane Kinsman ultimately settled in Fairfax County, Virginia, where her will was probated on June 18, 1774, having been made on November 8, preceding. She bequeathed to her granddaughter Marcia Minor at marriage a negro then in the possession of Ignatius Luckett "my son-in-law", and to her granddaughter Jane Minor "sister to the above" negroes. To Eleanor and Mary Anne Luckett, daughters of Ignatius Luckett, she willed various articles of personal property. The "large oval table and the beautiful large corner cubbard now in the mansion house at Port Tobacco unto my son-in-law John Minor". Other personalty were left to her sons-in-law Ignatius Luckett and John Minor whom she named as executors.

"Letters of administration were issued to Ignatius Luckett on July 19, 1774, when James Mudd and Francis B. Franklin presented b

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At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, Ignatius Luckett was one of the inspectors at the tobacco warehouse of Chickamuxon which was situated on the land of Colonel William Smallwood, of Durham Parish. In 1778 Ignatius Luckett took the Oath of Fidelity and Allegiance to the State of Maryland in Charles County, his name appearing upon "His Worshipful Walter Hanson's Returns".

Death

The will of Ignatius Luckett was dated December 13, 1782, and proved June 11, 1783, in Charles County. He named his sons Lawson, Samuel, and David; and his daughters Jannet Posey, Mary Anne Luckett, and Elizabeth Luckett. The inventory of his personal estate was filed in court on August 12, 1783, with his widow Margaret Luckett as administratrix. His son Samuel Luckett signed as kinsman.