56. ELISHA⁴ PURNELL (MATTHEW³, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) birth date unknown. ELISHA died 1800 in Worcester Co., MD. Will dated February 10, 1800, Probate September 19, 1800. He named his wife, Mary, daughters Martha, Mary, Sarah and Elizabeth, son-in-law James Trip and John Purnell, grandsons Elisha Purnell, Jephthat Purnell Marshall. Witnesses: Esme Purnell, Milby Purnell and James Houston, Jr. (Ruth T. Dryden, Worcester Co., MD Will Book JBR f.126)

He married MARY AYRES. Elisha was under age in 1760 and was still living in 1780. He owned a tract at "Purnell's Industry." (Ruth T. Dryden, Worcester Land Records) He served as 1st Lt., Worcester Militia, Sinepuxent Battalion, Capt. John Purnell's Co., August 30, 1777 and commissioned Captain August 14, 1779. (Henry C. Peden, Revolutionary Patriots of Worcester & Somerset)

ELISHA PURNELL and MARY AYRES had the following children:

199 i. JEPTHA⁵ PURNELL. JEPTHA died after 1778 in Worcester Co., MD. Jeptha was named "brother Elisha's son" in the will of his uncle, John Purnell, in 1778.

+ 200 ii. ELIZABETH PURNELL.

201 iii. SARAH PURNELL.

202 iv. MARTHA PURNELL. In Genealogy of the Purnell Family, Melanie A. Merryweather shows Martha married a John Purnell.

+ 203 v. HULDAH PURNELL.

204 vi. JOHN PURNELL.

205 vii. MARIA PURNELL.

206 viii. JANE PURNELL. She married JAMES TRIPPE in Worcester Co., MD, December 18, 1795. (Mary Beth & Vanessa Long, Worcester Marriage Records) (Melanie Ayres Merryweather, Genealogy of the Purnell Family, p.23)

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