59. MATTHEW⁶ PURNELL (ELIZABETH⁵ MARSHALL, ISAAC⁴, JOHN³, THOMAS², JOHN¹) (#16007) was born in Worcester Co., MD about 1755. MATTHEW died June 16, 1791 in Worcester Co., MD, at 35 years of age. (Melanie Ayres Merryweather, Genealogy of the Purnell Family)

He married MARY HOUSTON. (MARY HOUSTON is #16008.) MARY died 1822 in Worcester Co., MD. She made a will in Worcester Co., MD, June 8, 1822. (Ruth T. Dryden, Worcester Co. MD Wills MH2 f.562, p.42)

MARY's will was probated in Worcester Co., MD, December 20, 1822. Mary was the sister of James Houston. She married second Unknown Townsend. Witnesses to her will: Esme P. Bowen and Riley Jones.

He made a will in Worcester Co., MD, June 16, 1791. (Ruth T. Dryden, Worcester Co., MD Wills JWB f.38-39)

MATTHEW's will was probated in Worcester Co., MD, August 23, 1791. Matthew's will gives his wife's name. He was named in his grandfather, Matthew's, will in 1760 and his father left him "all lands that my father Matthew willed me and "Purnells Industry." Matthew named two of his sons and two daughters, his sister, mother and uncle Elisha.

MATTHEW PURNELL and MARY HOUSTON had the following children:

+ 165 i. CHARLOTTE "CHARLOTTY"⁷ PURNELL.

166 ii. ELIZABETH MARSHALL PURNELL (#16171). ELIZABETH died 1830 in Worcester Co., MD. She made a will in Worcester Co., MD, March 25, 1829. (Ruth T. Dryden, Worcester Co., MD Wills MH 1822-1833, p. 33)

ELIZABETH's will was probated in Worcester Co., MD, February 26, 1830.

+ 167 iii. DAUGHTER PURNELL .

168 iv. LEVI PURNELL (#16165) was born in Worcester Co., MD 1773. He was under 18 in 1791. (dob-notes of Suzanne B. Hurley, Ocean City Lifesaving Museum) His father left him "Purnells Industry."

+ 169 v. MOSES PURNELL was born 1784.

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