The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-11-24
Thomas rhurston,s Descendants.

Mr.. EDITOR: l am glad that Mrs. Coale
kindly endeavored, in your last issue, to throw
some light. though of q negative sort, upon
the question OF Friend Thurston's descendants
must say, however, that the authority which
she quotes to support her view-that Friend
Skipwith Coale, of Deer Creek, was not de-
scended from Thomas Thurston-not only con-
tains statements clearly inconsistent with each
other, but also contravenes well-known histor-
ical facts, She says, for example, that the
run as follows: civilian Coale, of Anne
Arundel county, in his will, made Oct 26th,
1913. mentions and so on. Now there could
have been no William Coale, of Anne Arundel
county, at that time, simply for the reason
that the earles settlements of white men in
Maryland were not made until sixteen years
later, namely. in 1884, when Lord Baltimore's
first colonists landed near ST. Mary's. The
date 1918 is repeated, and hence is presumably
not a mistake of the types, or in copying from
the records.
Again ''Philip, second son of William
Coale and his third wife, Elizabeth, married in
1897 Gassandra daughter Of Sir GeoEge, and
Coale died in 1918, Philip, even If his youngest
child, could not have been born later than the
following year. Hence in 1897, when his mar
rage is said to have taken place, he was in his
eightieth year, if not older after which time
at least two children were born to him.a
thing possible, to be sure, under the old dis
pensation, but hardly under the new.
The above comments are made in all fair
ness, and with the hope of eliciting from Mrs.
Coale an explanation, if possible, of the dis
crepancies set forth, in order that we may
reach tine truth concerning this interesting
genealogy. am inclined TO think that there
is somewhere in the chain, as she gives it, a
link missing, and that if it could be supplied
the difficulty might be cleared up. The mere
fact that the name, George Skipwith, occurs
in both versions of the genealogy, affords some
ground for hoping that they may be recon-
ciled by supplying the supposed missing link:
will add that my paper does not say that
Friend Coale, of Deer Creek, descended from
Elizabeth Thurston, but that such is supposed
to have been the case.
Emmorton, Nov. 18th, 1898
DIR. Paxton's Illness.
A dispatch from Pittsburg to the New York
Sun, concerning the Rev. Dr. John r. Paxton,
formerly pastor of Churchville Presbyterian
Church, who lately resigned the pastorate of
the West Presbyterian Church, New York,
says:
ssDr. Paxton was naturally a robust man !;
likes hard work and has done great deal of
it. He was seized last summer with q very
painful illness and was compelled to undergo
a difficult and trying operation. He thinks
the operation has been successful, but 1t left
him in very weak condition, which has had
a serious effect on his mental forces, already
overstrained by years Of hard work in his
church. He found he could no longer stand
the strain and had to quit altogether.
ssDr. Paxton's physicians advised him to Sc
cure complete rest for year, and upon that
advice he has determined to act. He will re-
main at the home of his sister-in-law at Bridge
vile about month. DIR. Paxton is already
poets later to go to Santa Barbara, Cal, where
he will spend the winter. What he needs is
complete rest, which it is confidently believed
will entirely restore his health"