History and genealogy of Peter Montague, of Nansemond and ...

APPENDIX.
GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF FAMILIES BY NAME OF
MONTAGUE WHO HAVE NOT BEEN TRACED
TO PETER MONTAGUE No. i.
3383.
Stephen Mountague. The records of Charles County, Maryland,
have a deed dated 1667 for 200 acres of land sold by John Dobson
to Stephen Montague. The early archives of the colony of Mary-
land state that one of the delegates from Charles Co. to the Colonial
General Assembly of 1669 was Mr. Stephen Mountague. In the
journal of later proceedings the name " Mr. Mountague " is twice
mentioned. The Colonial Council of Maryland on May 15, 1662,
ordered 50 pounds of tobacco paid to Mr. Mountague "for the aid
which he rendered in seizing and securing the Barcke expedition of
Piscataway in New England, for a supposed violation of the act for
navigation and increase of shipping." No record has been found
connecting this Stephen Montague with Peter Montague or his family
in England or America. No records exist that Stephen ever married
or left children or descendants in Maryland or elsewhere. The name
" Stephen " does not occur on the Boveney or Dorney pedigree of
Montague, nor has it been found in any of the various Montagu
pedigrees connected with the English peerage, and we must conclude
that he belonged to a family unknown to us. His will has been pre-
served among colonial records at Annapolis, Md. It bears date June
21, 1672, proved Oct. 4, 1672, signed Stephen Mountague, witnessed
by Nicholas Solby and John Hanson; he wills that his 300 acres of
land at Gingoamuxon, also all his goods, cattle and chattels be sold
to pay his debts. He gives to Mary Emanson dau. of Nicholas and