George Mackall at his death in 1676 left a widow and four daughters. What became of widow and three oldest daughters is not known. The youngest (Rachel) I believe married Benjamin Mauldin of Calvert Co., and settled on land willed her by her father, in Cecil Co.

(December l944)

Very recently I received some information that I believe furnishes the solution as to what became of the youngest daughter of George Mackall of Saint Mary's Co.

George Mackall died in l675 and in his will he left two tracts of land in what is now Cecil Co, Md., "then known as Baltimore Co," to his youngest daughter, Rachel Mackall. The tracts were known respectively as Maggy's Jointure and Hepburns Choice, each containing 100 acres.  Benjamin Mauldin of Calvert Co., married a Miss Mackall (whom I believe to have been the above mentioned Rachel Mackall) and settled in Cecil Co.; A son of theirs known as Col. Francis Mauldin of Cecil Co., married, his wife's name is unknown and their daughter Ann Mauldin married in 1727 Zebulon Hollingsworth. The Hollingsworth families of Maryland and Delaware are descendents of this union, as are also the descendents of Dr. Richard Covington Mackall, 1820/1902, who married l/2/l85 Isabel Hollingsworth, 1830/1893.

I am less enthusiastic than Louis C. Mackall to declare James Mackall and George Mackall to be brothers. There is simply no primary evidence that I have seen that would suggest a sibling relationship. I see nothing in the wills, nothing in naming patterns, nothing in property transactions, nothing in witnessing, nothing in court business.

It is noted, however, that: 1) Rachel Mackall married Benjamin Mauldin of Calvert Co. whose property adjoined that of James Mackall; 2) George Mackall names in his will Robert Grahame as his friend and James Mackall married a Mary Grahame in Maryland; 3) George, as did the early Calvert County Mackall family, spelled his name Maccall.

My own theory, entirely speculative, would argue that George Mackall and James Mackall are related; maybe brothers. Judging from his wealth, George Mackall might have transported James Mackall to Maryland. This could explain the lack of documentation that normally associates itself with the Scottish Prisoners or indentured servants. Hopefully time will unearth something.

George MACKALL (-1676) married Ann WATTS (not proved)

1. MACKALL, Jane (?-)
2. MACKALL, Hannah (?-) married Philip Clarke
      children: George, Roger, Philip Jr. , Hannah, Eleanor.
3. MACKALL, Sarah (?-)
4. MACKALL, Rachel (?-) married Benjamin Mauldin

Talbot County Court Proceedings, 1662-1674
Liber BB * Volume 54 * Page 479

Know all men By these Presents tht I George Macall of St Marys
County Plantr haue Assignes Ordained & made & In my Stead &
Place Putt & Constitute my trusty and welbeloued friend Jno Radway
of Talbott County to be my true & Law full Attorney for me & in
my Name & to my usse to aske Sue for Reqr Recouer and Receue all
Tobocoe which are Now due or owing unto me By Any mannor of
waies or menes Whatsoeuer Giueing & Granting unto my said At-
torney my Whole Poware and Authority in & aboute the Primisses
& upon recept of Such debts Suth or SuThs of tobacoe a fore said
Accquittances or accquittance or other discharges for me and In my
Name To make scale or deliuer and all & euery other acte or actes
thing & things deuise & deuises in the Law Whatsoeuers needfull &
Nessesary to be done aboute the pmisses Impowareing my sd At-
torney one or more Attorney or Atorneys to make and againe to
Recall for Recouery of the seurall Debts due or owing unto me ether
by Bill or accompts for me or in my Name to doe Execcute & pforme
as fully Largly & in euery Respect to all Intents & Constructions &
porposses as I my selfe might or Could doe if I weare psonally pres-
ent Rattifling & Allowing and houlding firme & Stable all & whatso-
euer my said Attorney Shall doe Lawfull or Cause to be done in or
about the pmisses In Wittness Whereof I haue hereunto sett my hand
& scale this 21th day of jully 1670

Signed Sealed & DD
in the presents of uss
Thomas Jones
Hurbart Croift