Family Card - Person Sheet
NameEmigrant Alexander Magruder Emigrant 
Birthbef 1605, , , Perthshire, Scotland
Death1677, , Calvert Co.?, Md.
FatherAlexander MacGregor (1569-1605)
MotherMargaret Campbell
Notes for Emigrant Alexander Magruder Emigrant
Royalist officer captured at Battle of Worcester 1651, sent to Va. via Barbadoes, ransomed himself, got a grant of 500 A. "Turkey Buzzard Island", Calvert Co., near the Patuxent. Owned 4000+ A. ("Graignaigh", "Dumblane", "Good Luck", "Anchovie Hills") by his death.
See note for Elizabeth Howard, a wife of Henry Ridgely, for possible marriage to Alex Magruder.
Md. GRC (NSDAR) Rept. March 1934 (vol. 8) p. 289: Will probated Annapolis 25 July 1677 Folio 261. Buried on plantation called The Valley, nr. Upper Marlboro, acc. to Balto. Sun 7 Apr 1907. B. 1610; 1st w. Margaret Braithwaite.
His will is transcribed in Index of Md. Wills, App. II, pp. 542-543. Ref. there is: "Calvert Co. Wills 5, folio 261. Original Will M#19, at Hall of Records, Annapolis, Md. Inventory & Accounts 4, folio 606 - Inventory appraised 14 Sep, 1677." Will dated 10 Feb 1676 names wife Elizabeth who has three children; sons Alexander, Nathaniell, James, John, Samuell (last three apparently under age of twenty); dau. (apparently unm.) Elizabeth. Ref: Magruder, James M. Jr, Index of Maryland Colonial Wills, 1634-1777, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland, with additions and a new introduction by Louise E. Magruder. Balto., GenPubCo, 1986. [at Kensington FHC].
See note for Elizabeth Howard, a wife of Henry Ridgely, for possible marriage to Alex Magruder.
Md. GRC (NSDAR) Rept. March 1934 (vol. 8) p. 289: Will probated Annapolis 25 July 1677 Folio 261. Buried on plantation called The Valley, nr. Upper Marlboro, acc. to Balto. Sun 7 Apr 1907. B. 1610; 1st w. Margaret Braithwaite.
His will is transcribed in Index of Md. Wills, App. II, pp. 542-543. Ref. there is: "Calvert Co. Wills 5, folio 261. Original Will M#19, at Hall of Records, Annapolis, Md. Inventory & Accounts 4, folio 606 - Inventory appraised 14 Sep, 1677." Will dated 10 Feb 1676 names wife Elizabeth who has three children; sons Alexander, Nathaniell, James, John, Samuell (last three apparently under age of twenty); dau. (apparently unm.) Elizabeth. Ref: Magruder, James M. Jr, Index of Maryland Colonial Wills, 1634-1777, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland, with additions and a new introduction by Louise E. Magruder. Balto., GenPubCo, 1986. [at Kensington FHC].