FATHER

John White

MOTHER

Sarah Leonard

HUSBAND

   1st. Robert DeButts

   2nd John Ferguson

CHILDREN with Robert DeButts

1. John Donaldson Debutts

2. Margaret Barnard Debutts

3. Mary Ann Christian Abigail DeButts

DE BUTTS, ROBERT, Frederick Co., gentleman. 10 Dec, 1752; 18 Dec, 1752
To son John Donaldson Debutts, and my unborn child. land.
To dau. Margaret Barnard, slaves.
To son John, slaves.
To dau. Mary Ann Christian Abigal Debutts, slaves.
To wife Abigail Debutts, slaves, and 1 lot in Frederick Town.
I make over to John Hattaway Clark, my wife Abigail Debutts, balance of person estate, after debts being paid, whom with Kennedy Farrell, I constitute and ordain my sole exs. of my will and disallow all former testaments.
Wit: P. Butler, Philip Murphey, John Radford, Robert DeButts. 28. 496

Robert Debutts 67.297 FR £479.2.10 Jun 22 1753 Mar 24 1759
Appraisers: Nathaniel Wickham, Joseph Woode.
Creditors: George Gordon.
Robert Debutts 67.297 FR £479.2.10 Jun 22 1753 Mar 24 1759
Appraisers: Nathaniel Wickham, Joseph Woode.
Creditors: George Gordon.
Executrix: Abigail Ferguson, wife of John Ferguson.

Robert Debutts 67.301 FR £14.17.4 Nov 3 1756 Apr 24 1759
Appraisers: Nathaniel Wickham, Joseph Woode.
Executrix: Abigail Ferguson, wife of John Ferguson.

Robert Debutts 3.2 D FR £547.7.8 Mar 2 1759
Distribution to: Representatives unknown to this Office.
Executrix: Abigail Ferguson, wife of John Ferguson.
Death: BEF 18 DEC 1752 in Frederick County, MD
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Archives of Maryland, Volume 32

 pg 175-175
Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769

"The Affirmations of Yost Blickenstaff taken before me the Subscriber One of his Lordships Justices of the Peace for Frederick County.  That Whereas Mary Ann Cristy Abigail Debutts was in Possession of some Land and Tenements in said County, which fell to her by Birth Right, and as her Uncle Peter  Bainbridge  had a young Man at his House named Samuel Armit that came from Philadelphia which said young Man said that Bainbridge was a cousin of his, and the said Peter Bainbridge Represented this Armit to be a very Rich Man and got him married to this young Woman, and after they were Married but a very little time he wanted to sell a small Piece of Land which she consented to and this Affirmer wanted to buy said Piece of Land, Set in Case he could get a good right to it, and said Bainbridge told this Affirmer that Armit could give him a good Deed for the Land, but this Affirmer was told by several People that Armit could not give him a good Deed for it.  Then said Bainbridge told him and persuaded him that if Armit and his Wife would Enter into an Obligation Bond of Performance without security that it would be good, as the said Affirmer insisted for security so that he bought said Land upon his Say so.  Then said Armit wanted to sell all the rest of her Lands and Tenements but could not seeing his Wife was not willing nor could not make a good Right and after that said affirmer had paid  and made Satisfaction for the Land and the said Armit wnet off left his Wife, left his Cousin Peter Bainbridge as he said a Power of & U. S. Attorney to Rent and dispose of her Lands and Tenements as he seed Cause, and a short time after Armit went away, the said Bainbridge was at this Affirmers House and told him and his Wife that Armit was gone to the West Indies and that he had a Power of Attorney from Armit to Rent her Lands and Tenements and that she should have nothing from him to live upon and that her Step Father was not able to maintain her and that she should not live with him her said Uncle and when she was low enough that then he wou'd send a Letter for Armit and that he would come and then buy all her Lands and Tenements and that she would be glad to go with him any where.

Affirmed to before Yost Blickenstaff.

Wm Luckett.

The Deposition of Mary Ann Christy Abigail Armit Taken before me the Subscriber One of his Lordships. That whereas this Deponent was in Possession of some Land in said County and a House and a half Lott in Frederick Town, and as this Deponents Uncle Capt Peter Bainbridge, had a Cousin as he said that came from Philadelphia, One Samuel Armit, whom said Bainbridge Reported was worth some Thousand Pounds and by her Uncles recommendation of him and her Uncles Advice and Persuasion to her and her Mother this Deponent Married said Armit and remained some time in her Uncles House, and as her Husband against her Inclination wanted to sell the said Land and upon her being unwilling her Uncle told that she must and shall make it over and told her if she would not that he would buy said Land and keep her out of it as long as her Husband lived and to the best of her Remembrance he said that he would Cut down the Timber off said Land and the said Deponents Husband did sell a small Quantity of said Land and through Persuasions &c she Consented to sign an Obligation Bond with her Husband, and he made away with the Price of it and now he has gone and left her she knows not where and did not give her a penny to support her, and also left her in a bad State of Health and this Deponent declares to be the best of her Knowledge.

Mary Ann Christy Abigail Armit.

Frederick County ss: