Individual Details
Zacharias Wade
(Abt 1627 - 2 May 1678)
WILL OF ZACHERY WADE 1677, MD Calender Of Wills, Vol 1 Page 204
Will of Zachery Wade, Charles Co., MD Written: 5 Mar 1677 Probated: 25 May 1677
To eldest son Richard and heirs, 550 acres, "Limme" and "Limmis Enlargment", 400 acres,"Wadeson" and "Wadeson's Enlargement", and one half of 1060 acres, "Locust Thicket", being land bought by testator and brother, Randolph Hinson, from Thomas Brookes; also land at head of Piscataway Creek.
To son Robert and heirs, 600 acres, part of "Market Overton", 500 acres, "Forrest Green", 350 acres, "Stoney Harbor", on Piscataway Creek, and 200 acres "Friendship"
To daughter Theodosia, land on eastern branch of Piscataway, taken up by testator and brother Luke Gardner, also remainder of "Market Overton", aforesaid.
To Mary Hinson personalty.
To three children aforesaid, residue of estate; should any die without issue, survivor or survivors to inherit decease's portion.
In the event of death of all children without issue, estate to be divided among brother-in-law Randolph Hinson's sons (unnamed) and William Hatton's son (unnamed).
Executors: Brother Randolph Hinson, William Hatton
Test: Abraham Sapcoate, John Guyott, Richard Hodson (MCW I.203; Wills, 9.16)
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Zacharias (Zachery) Wade , father of Robert Wade, and the immigrant ancestor of the Wade Branch of the family was one of the grantees before 1700, whose grants embrace much of what is today our Nation's Capitol City, His name is recorded on the Ellipse, South of the White House. This is an honor that he could not have envisioned when he stepped off the creaky tub of a ship used to ferry indentured immigrants across the Atlantic Ocean from England. He landed at Saint Marys, Maryland's first Capitol. Skorda's "Early Settlers of Maryland" says that Zachery Wade (original spelling Zacharias Waad) reached America in 1641, transported as a "servant". He was 14 years of age at that time. He was of a well established Warwickshire family. The Wade's (original spelling Wadd) produced some distinguished public servants, such as, Armagil Wadd, who served as the trusted Clerk of the Privy Council under King Edward VI in the early 1500's. Another was Field Marshall George Wade (1673-1748) who brought order to the rebelious Highland Clans of Scotland. Zachery, who was presumably a younger son, would not under the law of primogenture inherit any land. In America there would be no nobility caste system, no overpopulation, no ossified economey to hold him back, and there would be no lack of land, whose possession , in England, was the ultimate mark of status. Young Zachery, much to his credit and to the good fortune of his descendants, indentured himself and left for America. He served out his endenture, probably 5 years, on Kent Island in the Upper Chespeake Bay, and duly received a grant of 50 acres of land. Kent Island was claimed by both the Maryland Virginia colonies and showed signs of becoming a scene of violent conflict. Sensing this, he knew that the place to be to gain advancement was the Capitol, Saint Marys. He left Kent Island, but not before taking his stand there with Lord Baltimore's party against William Claiborne and the Virginia claiments of the Island. We next see him as a young lawyer. Did he spring from a family of lawyers in England, or was he endentured to a Maryland plantation owner, versed in the law, who let his ambitious young "servant" read his law books? In any case we find hinm repersenting minor litigants, one case involved the disputed ownership of a strayed cow, soon after he completed his indenture. His legal talent must have been impressive for in January of 1648, while not quite 21 years of age, being handed whar was the most important assignment that year in Maryland. On his death bed in June of 1647, Govenor Leonard Calvert, had named his cousin, Dame Margaret Brent, an immensely able and wealthy woman, as the Executrix of his estate. Dame Brent, who was known as "America's First Suffragist", by virtue of having claimed, although in vain, the right to not one but two votes in the Maryland Assembly. Her post as Executrix of Calvert's Estate envolved her in a series of struggles with Govenor Thomas Green. In addition, she had the responsibility of administering her own in Maryland and Virginia. She required a skilled and reliable lawyer to relieve her from some of her responsibilities. On January 13, 1648, she appointed young Zachery Wade to "be my attorney to sue for, recover and receive all debts belonging to me, and demand for the Lord Proprietary his rent, and to give and discharge for the same, and what my said attorney shall do therin, I do ratify and affirm." Thereafter his law practice must have flourished for he soon patented land at Wade's Point, on the Eastern Shore in Talbot County, in Charles County on Piscataway Creek and later in Prince Georges County. There he hade several parcels of land including, "Brothers Purchase" 780 acres of land, owned jointly with brother-in-law Captain Luke Gardner (July 16, 1670) This tract of land was in what is now the District of Columbia. In 1659, at age 32, Zachery married Mary Hatton, aged 22, a belle of a prominent Maryland family. As were his relatives, he was a prominent Civil Servent. Land Records, Vol 1, Charles County, MD. "Mr. Thomas Mathews, and Zachery Wade had the Commissioners Oath given to them by Henry Addames by virtue of the ensueing Commision; 26 March 1663; You are hereby empowered to administer oath to Mr. Thomas Mathews, Mr. Zachery Wade and Mr. Humphery Haggat whom I do hereby nominate and appoint to serve as Commissioners for Charles County. Given under my hand this 26 March 1663, /s/ Charles Calvert; to Henry Addames" MD Archives Vol 15, (Assem. Proc.) Page 68: "On January 2, 1665,...chosen by unamimus consent to serve as Burgesses for Charles County: Mr. Zachery Wade,..." "In March 1675 Mr. Zachery Wade and Mr. Francis Pope were named Justices of Peace for Charles County."
COLONISTS IN BONDAGE: Some family historians pefer to avoid the mention of "Indenture". Yet all honor is due to the brave souls who dared to pledge 4 to 7 years of backbreaking toil on the Colonies to pay for their passage to America. They were heros who are little mentioned in the classrooms in our schools. The ships they came here in were little better than the slave ships that later transported black people to America. In many instances, food was so scarce that records tell of starvation. After arriving in the Colonies the "indentures" not chosen as house servants, worked from sunup to sundown at grueling labor that they had never inured in Europe. They were struck down by the thousands by disease's like Malaria, Dengue, Dysentary, Pneumonia, and Small Pox. Abbott Emerson Smith, the authoriative historian of this period of American immigration, says in his book "Colonists in Bondage": they were subjected by masters that exploited them and they were by the whole machinery of Colonial Law to keep them at their tasks, even if it killed them. And kill them it usually did, at least in the first years, when 50 to 75 of every 100 indentured servants died without ever having a decent chance of survival."
Source: " Ancestors Discovered, The Edmundsons, Tinkles, Wades, Wards, Pattons and Some Others"
unpublished manuscript by Charles Edmundson, Memphis, August 1981
Will of Zachery Wade, Charles Co., MD Written: 5 Mar 1677 Probated: 25 May 1677
To eldest son Richard and heirs, 550 acres, "Limme" and "Limmis Enlargment", 400 acres,"Wadeson" and "Wadeson's Enlargement", and one half of 1060 acres, "Locust Thicket", being land bought by testator and brother, Randolph Hinson, from Thomas Brookes; also land at head of Piscataway Creek.
To son Robert and heirs, 600 acres, part of "Market Overton", 500 acres, "Forrest Green", 350 acres, "Stoney Harbor", on Piscataway Creek, and 200 acres "Friendship"
To daughter Theodosia, land on eastern branch of Piscataway, taken up by testator and brother Luke Gardner, also remainder of "Market Overton", aforesaid.
To Mary Hinson personalty.
To three children aforesaid, residue of estate; should any die without issue, survivor or survivors to inherit decease's portion.
In the event of death of all children without issue, estate to be divided among brother-in-law Randolph Hinson's sons (unnamed) and William Hatton's son (unnamed).
Executors: Brother Randolph Hinson, William Hatton
Test: Abraham Sapcoate, John Guyott, Richard Hodson (MCW I.203; Wills, 9.16)
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Zacharias (Zachery) Wade , father of Robert Wade, and the immigrant ancestor of the Wade Branch of the family was one of the grantees before 1700, whose grants embrace much of what is today our Nation's Capitol City, His name is recorded on the Ellipse, South of the White House. This is an honor that he could not have envisioned when he stepped off the creaky tub of a ship used to ferry indentured immigrants across the Atlantic Ocean from England. He landed at Saint Marys, Maryland's first Capitol. Skorda's "Early Settlers of Maryland" says that Zachery Wade (original spelling Zacharias Waad) reached America in 1641, transported as a "servant". He was 14 years of age at that time. He was of a well established Warwickshire family. The Wade's (original spelling Wadd) produced some distinguished public servants, such as, Armagil Wadd, who served as the trusted Clerk of the Privy Council under King Edward VI in the early 1500's. Another was Field Marshall George Wade (1673-1748) who brought order to the rebelious Highland Clans of Scotland. Zachery, who was presumably a younger son, would not under the law of primogenture inherit any land. In America there would be no nobility caste system, no overpopulation, no ossified economey to hold him back, and there would be no lack of land, whose possession , in England, was the ultimate mark of status. Young Zachery, much to his credit and to the good fortune of his descendants, indentured himself and left for America. He served out his endenture, probably 5 years, on Kent Island in the Upper Chespeake Bay, and duly received a grant of 50 acres of land. Kent Island was claimed by both the Maryland Virginia colonies and showed signs of becoming a scene of violent conflict. Sensing this, he knew that the place to be to gain advancement was the Capitol, Saint Marys. He left Kent Island, but not before taking his stand there with Lord Baltimore's party against William Claiborne and the Virginia claiments of the Island. We next see him as a young lawyer. Did he spring from a family of lawyers in England, or was he endentured to a Maryland plantation owner, versed in the law, who let his ambitious young "servant" read his law books? In any case we find hinm repersenting minor litigants, one case involved the disputed ownership of a strayed cow, soon after he completed his indenture. His legal talent must have been impressive for in January of 1648, while not quite 21 years of age, being handed whar was the most important assignment that year in Maryland. On his death bed in June of 1647, Govenor Leonard Calvert, had named his cousin, Dame Margaret Brent, an immensely able and wealthy woman, as the Executrix of his estate. Dame Brent, who was known as "America's First Suffragist", by virtue of having claimed, although in vain, the right to not one but two votes in the Maryland Assembly. Her post as Executrix of Calvert's Estate envolved her in a series of struggles with Govenor Thomas Green. In addition, she had the responsibility of administering her own in Maryland and Virginia. She required a skilled and reliable lawyer to relieve her from some of her responsibilities. On January 13, 1648, she appointed young Zachery Wade to "be my attorney to sue for, recover and receive all debts belonging to me, and demand for the Lord Proprietary his rent, and to give and discharge for the same, and what my said attorney shall do therin, I do ratify and affirm." Thereafter his law practice must have flourished for he soon patented land at Wade's Point, on the Eastern Shore in Talbot County, in Charles County on Piscataway Creek and later in Prince Georges County. There he hade several parcels of land including, "Brothers Purchase" 780 acres of land, owned jointly with brother-in-law Captain Luke Gardner (July 16, 1670) This tract of land was in what is now the District of Columbia. In 1659, at age 32, Zachery married Mary Hatton, aged 22, a belle of a prominent Maryland family. As were his relatives, he was a prominent Civil Servent. Land Records, Vol 1, Charles County, MD. "Mr. Thomas Mathews, and Zachery Wade had the Commissioners Oath given to them by Henry Addames by virtue of the ensueing Commision; 26 March 1663; You are hereby empowered to administer oath to Mr. Thomas Mathews, Mr. Zachery Wade and Mr. Humphery Haggat whom I do hereby nominate and appoint to serve as Commissioners for Charles County. Given under my hand this 26 March 1663, /s/ Charles Calvert; to Henry Addames" MD Archives Vol 15, (Assem. Proc.) Page 68: "On January 2, 1665,...chosen by unamimus consent to serve as Burgesses for Charles County: Mr. Zachery Wade,..." "In March 1675 Mr. Zachery Wade and Mr. Francis Pope were named Justices of Peace for Charles County."
COLONISTS IN BONDAGE: Some family historians pefer to avoid the mention of "Indenture". Yet all honor is due to the brave souls who dared to pledge 4 to 7 years of backbreaking toil on the Colonies to pay for their passage to America. They were heros who are little mentioned in the classrooms in our schools. The ships they came here in were little better than the slave ships that later transported black people to America. In many instances, food was so scarce that records tell of starvation. After arriving in the Colonies the "indentures" not chosen as house servants, worked from sunup to sundown at grueling labor that they had never inured in Europe. They were struck down by the thousands by disease's like Malaria, Dengue, Dysentary, Pneumonia, and Small Pox. Abbott Emerson Smith, the authoriative historian of this period of American immigration, says in his book "Colonists in Bondage": they were subjected by masters that exploited them and they were by the whole machinery of Colonial Law to keep them at their tasks, even if it killed them. And kill them it usually did, at least in the first years, when 50 to 75 of every 100 indentured servants died without ever having a decent chance of survival."
Source: " Ancestors Discovered, The Edmundsons, Tinkles, Wades, Wards, Pattons and Some Others"
unpublished manuscript by Charles Edmundson, Memphis, August 1981
Events
| Birth | Abt 1627 | Warwickshire, England | |||
| Birth | 1627 | Cecil, Warickshire, England | |||
| Occupation | Bet 1641 and 1646 | Indentured Servant | |||
| Immigration | 1641 |  | |||
| Immigration | 1641 | Landed at St. Marys, Maryland - Transported as an indentured servant. | |||
| Occupation | Bet 1647 and 1677 | Lawyer/Planter | |||
| Occupation | 1648 | attorney - Maryland | | ||
| Event | 1650 | St. Marys | | ||
| Marriage | 1659 | St. Marys, Charles County, Maryland - Mary Hatton | |||
| Event | 26 Mar 1663 | | |||
| Occupation | 2 Jan 1665 | Burgess - Charles County | | ||
| Property | 16 Jul 1670 | | |||
| Occupation | Mar 1675 | Charles County | | ||
| Death | 2 May 1678 | Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland | | ||
| Death | 2 May 1678 | Port Tobacco, Charles County Maryland | |||
| Alt name | Zachary | ||||
| Burial | Port Tobacco, Charles County Maryland |
Families
| Spouse | Mary Hatton (1637 - 1678) |
| Child | Mary Wade (1661 - 1661) |
| Child | Sarah Wade (1662 - 1662) |
| Child | Richard R. Wade (1664 - 1727) |
| Child | Theodosia Wade (1666 - 1747) |
| Child | Robert Wade , Sr (1668 - 1713) |
| Child | Edward Wade (1670 - 1672) |
| Child | William Wade (1673 - 1673) |
Notes
Immigration
Zacharias (Zachary) Wade came to America in 1641 and thereafter was the Wade family's administrator of English relatives in America. His descendants would later marry into the Hatton, Stone, Harrison (and through them the Elgin), & Graves families. He provided transport to America to Francis Adams, father of Elizabeth Adams who married immigrant George Elgin.Occupation
Mr. "Zachary" Wade, as he is referred to in the Archives of Maryland, was an attorney at St. Marys as early as 1648, during which year he gave evidence in the case of a stolen "Red Cow"which had been presented by the "late Governor deceased" to Captain Vaughn.
Event
In 1650, he was attorney for Thomas Bradnock of the Isle of Kent, who brought to the court at St. Marys his troubles with Edward Hudson, age 25 years, who claimed that he had hidden (for security)"in the Corne Loft of Mr. Bradnock a parcell of peese, a Kacke of Sope, and also a bottell of
Vinegar, also a parcell of Shott."
Event
Charles County Land Records Volume 1Mr. Thomas Mathews, and Zachary Wade had the commissioners oath given
them by Henry Addames by virtue of the ensueing commission; 26 mar
1663; you are hereby empowered to administer oath unto said Mr.
Thomas Mathews, Mr. Zachary Wade and Mr. Humphrey Haggat whom I do
hereby nominate and appoint to serve as Commissioners for Charles
County given under my hand this 26 mar 1663; /s/ Charles Calvert; to
Henry Addames
Occupation
On January 2, 1665, ... chosen by unanimus consent to serve as Burgesses for Charles County: Mr.Zachary Wade, ...
Property
Zachary Wade''s patent of 780 acres, "Brother's Purchase," was taken up, with Capt. Luke Gardner,July 16, 1670.-- ...
Occupation
In March 1675, Mr. Zachary Wade and Mr. ffrancis Pope were named Justices for the Peace forCharles County.
Death
Maryland Calendar of Wills: Volume 1page 204
Wade, Zachary,Chas. Co. 5th Mch., 1677;
25th May, 1677.
To eld. son Richard and hrs., 550 A., Limme and Limmis Enlargement; 400 A.,
Wadeson and Wadeson's Enlargement, and of 1,060 A., Locust Thicket,
being land bought by testator and brother, Randolph Hinson, from Thomas Brookes; also land at hd. of Piscataway Ck.
To son Robert and hrs., 600 A., part of Market Overton; 500 A., Forest
Green; 350 A., Stony Harbor, on Piscataway Ck.; and 200 A., Friendship.
To dau. Theodosia, land on eastern branch of Piscataway, taken up by
testator and brother, Luke Gardner; also remainder of Market Overton afsd.
To Mary Hinson, personalty.
To 3 child. afsd., residue of estate; should any die without issue, survivor or survivors to inherit deceased's portion. [p.204] In event of death of all child. without issue, estate to be divided among brother-in-law Randolph Hinson's sons (unnamed) and William Hatton's son (unnamed).
Exs.: Brother Ran. Hinson, Wm. Hatton.
Test: Abraham Sapcoate, Jno. Guyott, Richd. Hodgson. 9. 16.
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Zachariah Wade 5.197 I CH #61510 May 30 1678 Jun 20 1678
Appraisers: Richard Lloyd, John Cambill.
Approvers: William Smith, Richard Hodgson.
List of debts: Mr. Thomas Allin, John Ashbrooke, Edward Maddock, David Tovell, Cornelius Marloe, Cornelius Thomas, John Hinson, Lewis Johns, John Mum, Robert Wheeler, Peter Ackillis, Dr. John Lemar, Thomas Allcock, George Athey, Edward crouch, Mr. Richard Boughton, Thomas Shattleworth, Mrs. Margerie Stone, Abraham Sepcoate, Capt. Robert Cresman, Col. Giles Brantpace, Nathaniell Barton & John Pack, John Gibson, Nathaniel Mottershed & John Organ, Mr. Rozer for William Potter.