My
9th
Great
Grandfather
Parents of George Mount
Generation No. 12
RICHARD2
MOUNT
(GREGORY1)
was born December 01, 1588 in Kennington, Kent, England, and died
January 24, 1639/40 in Boughton Aluph, Kent, England.
He married (1) JOAN
OWRE
July 07, 1610 in Kennington, Kent, England, daughter of ALEXANDER OWRE and MARGARET
BOYS.
She was born 1590 in Boughton Aluph, Kent, England, and died
September 29, 1631 in Boughton Aluph, Kent, England.
He married (2) MARY
MOUNT
1633 in Boughton Aluph, Kentshire, England.
She was born 1600 in Boughton Aluph, Kentshire, England.
Richard married Joan Owre (1590 - 1631) on July 7, 1610 in Boughton Aulph Parish, Kent County, England. They were most likely married in parish All Saints Church which was built in the thirteenth century. Richard and Joan had two daughters (Dorothie and Priscilla) and four sons (Thomas, John, George and Daniel). Their son George (1626 - 1705) was the founder of the American family.
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The origins of the church at Boughton Aluph can be traced back to
Anglo-Saxon times, when Bocton, as the area was then known, was held
by Earl Godwin and his son, King Harold.
After the Norman Conquest, in 1066, it became one of the manors of
Eustace, Earl of Boulogne. This was confirmed in the Domesday Book
of 1086, which went on to describe how Boltune - formerly Bocton -
lay in the lathe of the men of Wye and in the hundred
of Wye. The land was rated for taxation purposes as having seven
and a half sulungs, a sulung being what would be
called
today a family farm. There was land requiring thirty-three teams of
oxen,
with eight oxen to a team, for its proper cultivation. The lord of
the manor had three teams, while the villeins or feudal
tenants, who numbered sixty-seven, together with five bordars
or cottagers, had among them thirty teams. There were seventeen
slaves, who were probably criminals. There was a church and two
mills that were either water- or animal-driven, with an annual
rental value of seven shillings and two pence. There were
twenty-six acres of meadow, which were presumably beside the river,
while the woodlands of the manor had sufficient acorns and beech
mast to support two hundred pigs.
Some ancient cellars under the farmhouse near the church and traces
of masonry that have been found in the grounds probably mark the
spot where the Earl’s steward lived, although the actual fabric of
the building is thought to be of later date.
By 1210, the manor had passed to Alulphus of Boctune. He is
believed to have replaced the Anglo-Saxon church, which would have
been largely constructed out of wood, with the building that is the
present day north chancel. Alulphus is still remembered for the
fact that he gave his name to this manor nearly eight hundred years
ago and the parish has been called Boughton Aluph to this day.
The manor passed in due course to Stephen de Bokton and on his death
in 1288 it was divided between his three daughters. By 1310 however,
it had been reunited under Maud de Burghersh, grand-daughter of
Stephen. She first married Sir Walter de Paveley, and then, in
about 1329, Sir Thomas de Aledon who was Yeoman at the court of King
Edward III.
Sir Thomas was a well-known figure in Kent at that time. Amongst
other things, he was responsible for building a wall and dyke to
protect tenants’ lands in Wittersham, Rolvenden, Iden and Peasmarsh
from encroachment by the sea. During his tenure of the Manor
extensive enlargement of the church took place. The presence in the
windows of coats of arms, some of which are known to have been there
300 years ago, suggests that he received financial aid for his
grandiose schemes from the Royal Household and from holders of other
manors with whom he was connected as King’s Yeoman.
The arms of Edward the Black Prince, John of Gaunt and Lionel, Duke
of Clarence, who were all members of the family of Edward III, are
still there in the windows.
The figures in the centre of the east window are supposed to
represent Edward III and Queen Philippa. The head of a woman in the
south-east corner of the chancel is said to be that of the Fair Maid
of Kent, wife of the Black Prince. There is another bracket, with
the carved head of an angel, on the east wall of the vestry.
More About RICHARD
MOUNT:
Burial: Boughton Aluph, Kent, England
More About JOAN
OWRE:
Burial: Boughton Aluph, Kent, England
Records at Ancestry.com for Richard Mount & Joan Owre
Children of RICHARD
MOUNT
and JOAN
OWRE
are:
1. DORITHIE3
MOUNT,
b. June 19, 1612, Boughton Aluph, Kent, England; d. 1613, Boughton
Aluph, Kent, England.
More About DORITHIE
MOUNT:
Burial: Boughton Aluph, Kent, England
2.
THOMAS3 MOUNT (RICHARD2, GREGORY1) was born February 07, 1612/13 in Bough Aluph,
Kent, England, and died 1703 in Bough Aluph, Kent, England.
He married (1) ELIZABETH LACEY.
He married (2) MARGARET PREBLE April 25, 1636 in
Eastwell, Kent, England. She
was born 1615 in Eastwell, Kent, England, and died April 1639 in
Kennington, Kent, England
More About THOMAS
MOUNT:
Burial: Bough Aluph, Kent, England
Children of THOMAS MOUNT and MARGARET PREBLE and Grandchildren of Richard Mount & Joan Owre Are
Children of THOMAS
MOUNT
and MARGARET
PREBLE
are:
i. JOHN4
MOUNT,
b. 1635, Swiss Palatinate, Southern Germany.
ii. MARGARET
MOUNT,
b. 1639.
3. PRISCILLA
MOUNT,
b. July 25, 1619, Boughton Aluph, Kent, England; d. 1713.
4. JOHN3
MOUNT
(RICHARD2,
GREGORY1)
was born February 03, 1621/22 in Bough Aluph, Kent, England, and
died in Bough Aluph, Kent, England.
More About JOHN
MOUNT:
Burial: Bough Aluph, Kent, England
John Mount, Son of Richard Mount, Bough Aluph, Kent, England 2-22-1621
Child of JOHN MOUNT and Grandchildren of Richard Mount & Joan Owre Are
i. JOHN4 MOUNT, b. 1640, Bough Aluph, Kent, England; d. Virginia; m. ISABELLE; b. Abt. 1645
5. GREGORIE
MOUNT,
b. August 22, 1624, Boughton, Aluph, Kent, England; d. 1705,
Boughton, Aluph, Kent, England; m. MARGARET
ALDRIDGE,
December 29, 1668; b. 1647, Boughton Aluph, Kent, England.
More About GREGORIE
MOUNT:
Burial: Boughton, Aluph, Kent, Englan
6. GEORGE
MOUNT,
b. March 18, 1625/26, Boughton Aluph, Kent, England; d. August 31,
1705, Middletown, Monmouth County New Jersey; m. KATHERINE BORDEN, 1662, Providence,
Providence, Rhode Island; b. 1638, Providence, Providence, Rhode
Island; d. 1705, Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey.
7. DANIELL
MOUNT,
b. June 01, 1631, Boughton Aluph, Kent, England; d. 1721, Boughton
Aluph, Kent, England.
Burial: Boughton Aluph, Kent, England
Child of RICHARD
MOUNT
and MARY
MOUNT
is:
8.
RICHARD3
MOUNT
(RICHARD2,
GREGORY1)
was born March 26, 1635 in Elmstead, Essex, England, and died in
Province of Maryland.
Migrated about 1666 from England
Child of RICHARD
MOUNT
and Grandchildren
of Richard Mount & Joan Owre Are
i. RICHARD4
MOU
NT, b. Abt. 1690, Anne
Arundel County, Maryland; m. SARAH
DAVIES,
August 17, 1718, Anne Arundel County, Maryland; b. Abt. 1695, Anne
Arundel County, Maryland.
Anne Arundel is the most centrally located county in the state,
bordered to the north by Baltimore County, to the east by the
Chesapeake Bay, to the south by Calvert County and to the west by
the Patuxent River, Prince George's and Howard counties. Providence,
the first settlement, was established on Greenbury Point in 1649 by
a group of Puritans fleeing persecution in Virginia. The county was
legally established the following year and named in honor of Lady
Anne Arundel, wife of Cecilius Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, and
founder of the Maryland Colony.
In 1695 the colonial seat was moved from St. Mary's City to
Annapolis. Annapolis has served not only as the state capital but as
the nation's capital when the Continental Congress met in the city
from November 1783 to August of 1784. The dome of the State House
still dominates the skyline here. Maryland government still meets in
the oldest State House in continuous legislative use.