His death notice from the 28 May 1816 edition of the Easton Republican Star:
DIED—On Monday last, at his residence in Dorchester county, E.S. Md. Mr. JOHN MITCHELL, at the very advanced age of one hundred and five years and nine months. [Page 3]
The following is from Henry C. Peden, Jr's Revolutionary Patriots of Dorchester County Maryland 1775–1783, page 166:
MITCHELL, JOHN SR. (August, 1710–May, 1816). "Jon. Mitchell" subscribed to the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity in 1778 [Ref: L–116]. He is buried at Mitchell's Garden on Maryland Route 343 in the Neck District of Dorchester County, and near John Mitchell, Jr. (1736–1814) and Aaron Mitchell (1742–1811), among others [Ref: BB–33]. From the Republican Star of Easton on May 28, 1816: "Died Monday last at his residence in Dorchester County, John Mitchell, at the very advanced age of 105 years and 9 months." [Ref: UU–47]. His tombstone, however, states John Mitchell, Sr. was born in 1709 and died in 1815 [Ref: BB–33]. See "John Mitchell, Jr.," q.v.
A deposition from 21 July 1764 in Dorchester County Court Proceedings:
To the aforegoing commiſsion were the following Depositions and Return annexed Dort County ſs The Deposition of John Mitchel of sd. County aged fifty four years or thereabouts deposeth and saith that about seventeen years agoe he was present when Thomas Mackeel & William Byus met as commiſsioners to take Dipositions conscerning the Bounds of the Land formerly called Indian Quarter now called Thomas Chance when John Soward swore that his Father John Soward told him that the place where he now shews was a pine as well as he remembers which was the first bounder of Indian Quarter & father saith not } Sworn to ye. 21st. Day of 7br. 1764 before Robt. Hon Hugh Spedden } Commiſsioners. John (his[‡]marke) Mitchel [19/OLD/429-430]
DIED—On Monday last, at his residence in Dorchester county, E.S. Md. Mr. JOHN MITCHELL, at the very advanced age of one hundred and five years and nine months. [Page 3]
The following is from Henry C. Peden, Jr's Revolutionary Patriots of Dorchester County Maryland 1775–1783, page 166:
MITCHELL, JOHN SR. (August, 1710–May, 1816). "Jon. Mitchell" subscribed to the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity in 1778 [Ref: L–116]. He is buried at Mitchell's Garden on Maryland Route 343 in the Neck District of Dorchester County, and near John Mitchell, Jr. (1736–1814) and Aaron Mitchell (1742–1811), among others [Ref: BB–33]. From the Republican Star of Easton on May 28, 1816: "Died Monday last at his residence in Dorchester County, John Mitchell, at the very advanced age of 105 years and 9 months." [Ref: UU–47]. His tombstone, however, states John Mitchell, Sr. was born in 1709 and died in 1815 [Ref: BB–33]. See "John Mitchell, Jr.," q.v.
A deposition from 21 July 1764 in Dorchester County Court Proceedings:
To the aforegoing commiſsion were the following Depositions and Return annexed Dort County ſs The Deposition of John Mitchel of sd. County aged fifty four years or thereabouts deposeth and saith that about seventeen years agoe he was present when Thomas Mackeel & William Byus met as commiſsioners to take Dipositions conscerning the Bounds of the Land formerly called Indian Quarter now called Thomas Chance when John Soward swore that his Father John Soward told him that the place where he now shews was a pine as well as he remembers which was the first bounder of Indian Quarter & father saith not } Sworn to ye. 21st. Day of 7br. 1764 before Robt. Hon Hugh Spedden } Commiſsioners. John (his[‡]marke) Mitchel [19/OLD/429-430]
His death notice from the 28 May 1816 edition of the Easton Republican Star:
DIED—On Monday last, at his residence in Dorchester county, E.S. Md. Mr. JOHN MITCHELL, at the very advanced age of one hundred and five years and nine months. [Page 3]
The following is from Henry C. Peden, Jr's Revolutionary Patriots of Dorchester County Maryland 1775–1783, page 166:
MITCHELL, JOHN SR. (August, 1710–May, 1816). "Jon. Mitchell" subscribed to the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity in 1778 [Ref: L–116]. He is buried at Mitchell's Garden on Maryland Route 343 in the Neck District of Dorchester County, and near John Mitchell, Jr. (1736–1814) and Aaron Mitchell (1742–1811), among others [Ref: BB–33]. From the Republican Star of Easton on May 28, 1816: "Died Monday last at his residence in Dorchester County, John Mitchell, at the very advanced age of 105 years and 9 months." [Ref: UU–47]. His tombstone, however, states John Mitchell, Sr. was born in 1709 and died in 1815 [Ref: BB–33]. See "John Mitchell, Jr.," q.v.
A deposition from 21 July 1764 in Dorchester County Court Proceedings:
To the aforegoing commiſsion were the following Depositions and Return annexed Dort County ſs The Deposition of John Mitchel of sd. County aged fifty four years or thereabouts deposeth and saith that about seventeen years agoe he was present when Thomas Mackeel & William Byus met as commiſsioners to take Dipositions conscerning the Bounds of the Land formerly called Indian Quarter now called Thomas Chance when John Soward swore that his Father John Soward told him that the place where he now shews was a pine as well as he remembers which was the first bounder of Indian Quarter & father saith not } Sworn to ye. 21st. Day of 7br. 1764 before Robt. Hon Hugh Spedden } Commiſsioners. John (his[‡]marke) Mitchel [19/OLD/429-430]
DIED—On Monday last, at his residence in Dorchester county, E.S. Md. Mr. JOHN MITCHELL, at the very advanced age of one hundred and five years and nine months. [Page 3]
The following is from Henry C. Peden, Jr's Revolutionary Patriots of Dorchester County Maryland 1775–1783, page 166:
MITCHELL, JOHN SR. (August, 1710–May, 1816). "Jon. Mitchell" subscribed to the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity in 1778 [Ref: L–116]. He is buried at Mitchell's Garden on Maryland Route 343 in the Neck District of Dorchester County, and near John Mitchell, Jr. (1736–1814) and Aaron Mitchell (1742–1811), among others [Ref: BB–33]. From the Republican Star of Easton on May 28, 1816: "Died Monday last at his residence in Dorchester County, John Mitchell, at the very advanced age of 105 years and 9 months." [Ref: UU–47]. His tombstone, however, states John Mitchell, Sr. was born in 1709 and died in 1815 [Ref: BB–33]. See "John Mitchell, Jr.," q.v.
A deposition from 21 July 1764 in Dorchester County Court Proceedings:
To the aforegoing commiſsion were the following Depositions and Return annexed Dort County ſs The Deposition of John Mitchel of sd. County aged fifty four years or thereabouts deposeth and saith that about seventeen years agoe he was present when Thomas Mackeel & William Byus met as commiſsioners to take Dipositions conscerning the Bounds of the Land formerly called Indian Quarter now called Thomas Chance when John Soward swore that his Father John Soward told him that the place where he now shews was a pine as well as he remembers which was the first bounder of Indian Quarter & father saith not } Sworn to ye. 21st. Day of 7br. 1764 before Robt. Hon Hugh Spedden } Commiſsioners. John (his[‡]marke) Mitchel [19/OLD/429-430]
Inscription
JOHN MITCHELL Senr.
departed this life in 1815
In the 106th. year of
his age.
Gravesite Details
The tombstone has the wrong year. John Mitchell, Sr. died in 1816—not 1815!
