Archibald Trail

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Archibald Trail

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Montgomery County, Maryland, Colonial America
Death: 1814 (59-60)
Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of James Trail Sr. of "Rock Head" (c.1715-1799) and Rachel Ray Trail (1717-1799)
Husband of Monica Trail
Father of Henry Trail; Archibald Trail; David Trail; Elizabeth Trail; Ann Trail and 1 other
Brother of Eleanor Lee; William Trail; Jean Eugenia West; Sarah Trail McCoy Buxton; James Trail II (c.1748-1823) and 5 others

Occupation: Planter
Managed by: Private User
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About Archibald Trail

  • Following records provided by George Arthur Trail IV
  • (Revolutionary Muster Rolls 1776).....Captain Benjamin Spyker's Company in the Flying Camp...Capt. Benjamin Spyker..1st Lieut. Greenbury Gaither...2nd Lieut. Richard Anderson...Ensign ..Nicholas Seybert...Privates...Zachariah Riley,...George Seybert, Edward Northcraft...Henry Burton,, John Smith, Archibald Trail, Nathan Green,...Nathan Trail, James Artis,....William Leitch,....Walter Nicholls...John Haymond Nicholls...Osborne West...Robert Ricketts...Benjamin Holland...
  • (Revolutionary Papers)....And your Excellency will be pleased to commision these Asines.....James Artis, Edward Northcraft, Thomas Nicholls, Archibald Trail, Osborne Trail...."
  • (Montgomery County Orphan's Court)...... Oct.1799, ........."Catherine Bray, daughter of Nancy Bray of George Town an orphan said to be 5 years of age is bound unto Archibald Trail until she arrives to the age of sixten years , the said Trail to have her taught to read and write also to sow knit and spin, and other common business about a house and at the expiration of her time to give her a decent suit of clothes independent of her common apparel also to give her a spinning wheel and and a pair of wool cards and a pair of cotton cards"
  • (Montgomery County Land Records Liber D pg. 403)...." I Archibald Trail of Montgomery County...in consideration of a debt owed William Deakins Jr....and also all such money which may be recovered from George Clarke Sommerville of St. Marys County in an action brought by me Archibald Trail against the said George Clark Sommerville..."
  • The aforementioned record is of note because correspondence between the family of George Clarke Sommerville and Archibald Hamilton Rowan ( aka Archibald Rowan Hamilton) ,of Delaware, has survived to this day. Archibald Rowan Hamilton inherited the Killyleagh Castle where Eleanor Trail resided as a child in County Down, Ireland before coming to Maryland with the Rev. William Trail. Archibald Hamilton Rowan returned to Killyleagh Castle in 1806 to claim his inheritance.
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Archibald Trail's Timeline

1754
1754
Montgomery County, Maryland, Colonial America
1770
1770
Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
1775
1775
1805
1805
1814
1814
Age 60
Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
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