1695 in Calvert Co., MD and died after 1776. We Veitches . Although Guthrie, in his We Veitches , says that John Veitche's wife, Grace, was a Masters, this has been found nowhere else and Guthrie offers no documentation. John's wife was named Grace, as found in their many land records, but the fact that she was a Masters cannot be proven. The usual procedure was for the witnesses of a will to be relatives of the wife and the husband, protecting the dowery.
More work needs to be done here.
Original thought was that these were the same person. In 1678 a William Masters arrived on the ship Joseph and Benjamin and in 1679 a Robert Masters was transported to Maryland by Robert Treago. The usual age of transported servants was between fourteen and twenty-three, so probably these three men were born between 1652 and 1665. In fact, the normal thing for men who had survived their period of indenture to do was move west where land was available to present day Prince George s County, for example. William Norris is not in the 1719 tax list for Prince George s County, but is in the levy lists for 1716 and 1717.