Mary Heard
Bef 1782 - Bef 1799 (< 17 years)
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Name Mary Heard Birth Bef 30 Mar 1782 Gender Female Death Bef Oct 1799 Patriarch & Matriarch 
Stephen Gough, b. Abt 1630, County Gloucester England
d. Between 22 Oct 1700 and 2 Jan 1701, St. Bernards, Newtown Hundred, St Mary's Co., Md. (Age 70 years) (2 x Great Grandfather) 
Elizabeth Heard, b. 1767, St. Mary's County, Marylandd. Bef 1828, Spencer County, Kentucky (Age < 60 years) (Mother) Person ID I4816 1665 GOUGH/GOFF (US-MD-STM/US-VA-LOU) I-Y6902-A Last Modified 20 Oct 2023
Father Ignatius Gough, b. Bef 1762, St. Mary's County, MD d. Between 1 Jan 1782 and 30 Mar 1782, Frederick County, Maryland (Age > 20 years) Mother Elizabeth Heard, b. 1767, St. Mary's County, Maryland d. Bef 1828, Spencer County, Kentucky (Age < 60 years)
Other Partners: John Baptist Gough m. 1784Family ID F1814 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Mike -
Ignatius was never married to Elizabeth but they definitely had a relationship as proven by this which calls Elizabeth's daughter Mary his natural illegitimate daughter.
Jackie
THOMAS'S Lessee vs. WOOTTON.
[NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL]
COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND, GENERAL COURT
4 H. & McH. 428; 1799 Md. LEXIS 42
October, 1799, Decided
PRIOR HISTORY: EJECTMENT for a tract of land called Chance, lying in Saint-Mary's county.
It appears by the case stated for the court's opinion, that Ignatius Gough being seised in fee of the land mentioned in the declaration in this cause, in the year 1782 duly made and executed his last will and testament, and thereby devised the land in question as follows: "First of all I desire that all my just debts be paid; and my will and desire is, that all my plantation and tract of land lying in Saint Mary's county, called Saint Margaret's, containing 147 acres, be in possession of Elizabeth Herd, for the use and maintenance of her and her daughter Mary Herd, until the said Mary Herd, daughter of the same Elizabeth Herd, and granddaughter of John Basil Herd, arrives to the years of sixteen, then the said land to belong to the said Mary Herd, and to her heirs and assigns, forever."
That the said Mary Herd, in the said will mentioned, was the natural, illegitimate daughter of the testator, by the said Elizabeth Herd. That the said Mary Herd died under the age of sixteen, unmarried, intestate, and without issue. That the plantation on which the testator lived, consisted of several tracts of land, the whole of which amounted to 157 acres. That the dwelling house was not on the tract of land called Saint Margaret's, but that Saint Margaret's, and the other tracts, composed and made but one plantation, and was occupied and possessed as one entire tract. That a warrant of escheat issued to affect the said land in the name of John Allen Thomas, who by his will duly executed, devised the same to the lessor of the plaintiff, who obtained a patent therefor prior to the commencement of this action for the said land, by the name of Chance.
The question was, whether the said land was liable to escheat.
DISPOSITION: Judgment for the plaintiff.
COUNSEL: Johnson, for the plaintiff.
W. Dorsey, for the defendant.
It was contended on the part of the plaintiff, that under the will, immediately on the death of the testator, an estate in the land vested in Mary Herd, and that on her death, without issue and intestate, the land was liable to be escheated. Boraston's case, in 3 Coke 19, was relied on as in point--2 Mod. 289, and Fearne Con. Rem. 318, were also cited.
OPINION
THE GENERAL COURT gave judgment for the plaintiff for possession and costs.
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