Jane Brock

Notes:

Daughter of Captain Edward Brock;
See the following court case and transcribed as reads.

The Court Recordings that tell the whole of the case.

Prince Georges County June Court 1709
Upon the Petiton of Capt Edwd Brock ordered that a veni
re Issue forth for Jane Mackeboy ye wife of Mathew Mac
eboy for her appearthe next Court Coming and that
She bring along with her Mathew Magbee and Brock
Magbee [PGLR D.170]

Prince Georges County August Court 1709
The Widdow Magbee appeared by vertue of her Majesties
writt of venire to answer ye Complaint of Capt Edward Brock
of and Concerneing the Orphants of Mathew Magbee had
by his former wife Capt Brocks Daughter the Orphants
Likewise appearing and Mrs Brock allsoe to make good
The Complaint of her Husband Upon hearing ye Complaint
and the Defence of ye Widdow Magbee it appears to ye Court
that although they ware ye Orphants of Captaine Brocks Daughter they ware alsoe the Orphants of ye Deceased Magbee Likewise who had
Left two or three Small Chilldren behind him wch must have
a Mainteince and that those bigger Chilldren might be a
a great help in Doeing ye Same and ye Said Widdow haveing
a Gennerall good Carocter the Said Orphants ware again
Commanded home againe with their mother in Law they
being first of all admonished to be Duetifull and industri-
ous [PGLR D, 219]


Prince George's County March Court 1710
To ye Worshipfull ye Justices of Prince Georges County
and Court Sitting
The Humble Petition of Jane Magbee ye Widdow of Mathew
Mackbee Submissively Sheweth That your Petitioners Husband being dead and thereby Left in a Desolate Condition with three Small Children one of which is a Criple and unable to help himselfe and She haveing at ye time of her husbands decease with her two boyes wch her Said Husband had by a former wife ye Daughter of one Capt Brock of this County who as being their Grandfather pretended to take them away from your Petitioner till a more Just Complaint ware made But now Soe it is may it plase your Worshipps yt within a very Small time after Such Order ye Said boyes wth out ye Knowledge of your Petitioner or any Cause Given by her but as your Petitioner Supposes was by ye fair and insinuateing promises of ye Said Capt Brock Left your Petitioner and went to him and there remains Contrary to your worshipps Order and to ye Great Dam age of your poor Petitioner who hath noe Servt to worke for her whereby to maintaine her Said Children and further the Charge wch did Acrew by ye Said Brock Complaint is Chargd to our Petitioner [PGLR D.276]

Your Petitioner therefore most humbly ____ of your worshipps to Consider her Condition and if you think fitt not to Order ye Children Againe to her as Once you ware Pleased that ye Said Capt Brock may be Compelld to pay the tha he Occationed by his Complaint and to Allow your Petitioner wherewith to mainteine ye Said Small Children he depriveing her of ye means to doe itt other wise and as in Duety bound Shall pray The Petiton being read ordered that Capt Brock deliver the two Orphant Children of Matthew Magbee to ye Said Widdow wch he by soe Clandestine & unjust manner Deteines Contrary to a forme Order of this Court and that he be Served wth a Coppy of this Order [PGLR D.277]

Name:
Daughter of Edward/Edmund; Sister is Mary.

Jane married Matthew McBee/Magby/Mocobee/Mocaboy/McGehee/McGhee. Matthew (son of William McBee/Magby/Mocobee/Mocaboy/McGehee and Mrs. William McBee/Magby/Mocobee/Mocaboy/McGehee) was born 1669, Scotland; died 16 May 1709, Prince George Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet]

1. Brock McBee/Magby/Mocobee/Mocaboy/McGehee/McGhee was born 1696, Prince George Co., Maryland; died 6 Sep 1760, Frederick Co., Maryland.
2. Matthew McBee/Magby/Mocobee/Mocaboy/McGehee/McGhee was born Est 1694, Bristol Parish, Brunswick Co., Colonial Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.
3. Mary Brock McBee/Magby/Mocobee/Mocaboy/McGehee/McGhee was born Est 1698, Bristol Parish, Brunswick Co., Colonial Virginia; died Abt 1719, Prince George Co., Colonial Maryland.
4. James McBee/Magby/Mocobee/Mocaboy/McGehee/McGhee was born Bef 1690; died 16 Jun 1711, Calvert Co., Maryland - Inventory.
5. Ann [Barkabee] McBee/Magby/Mocobee/Mocaboy/McGehee/McGhee was born 1700, Charles City County, Maryland Colony; died Yes, date unknown.