Second Generation
2. Tobias STARNBOROUGH [760]. Born in 1652 in Germany. Tobias died in Baltimore MD, on 23 Apr 1709; he was 57. Emigration: about 1658. Before 1677 when Tobias was 25, he first married Unknown [761]. Born about 1652. Unknown died about 1680; she was 28.
They had the following twins:
| 3 | i. | Thomas (1678-1766) [380] |
| ii. | Daniel. Born in 1678. Daniel died in 1763; he was 85. |
About 1685 when Tobias was 33, he second married Sarah RAVEN, daughter of Maj. Luke RAVEN & Elizabeth HUGHES. Born about 1652 in Gloucester VA. Sarah died in MD about 1741; she was 89.
They had the following children:
| i. | Luke. Born in 1689. Luke died in 1742; he was 53. | |
| ii. | Tobias. Born in 1691. Tobias died in 1764; he was 73. | |
| iii. | Samuel. | |
| iv. | Tabitha. |
Tobias Starnborough, as he sometimes called himself, was born about 1652. He was only a boy when he arrived in Maryland, but grew up quickly and in his teens was already buying land. On the last day of 1670 he bought 100 acres called Poplar Neck on the south side of Bear Creek. (This is north of the Patapsco below Baltimore, just a few miles above the Chesapeake Bay, an area then called Patapsco Hundred.) In 1688 he bought another 135 acres in the same area. He sold that property in 1695 and used the proceeds to buy 185 acres of upland between the Back and Gunpowder rivers, a parcel which lay east of Baltimore between the city and the Bay. He gave this farm the interesting name of Strife.
Tobias was probably married twice. By his first wife he had twin sons, Daniel and Thomas, born in 1678. Then in the mid to late 1680s he married Sarah Raven, daughter of a major landowner named Luke Raven, and had four more children.[4] The Baltimore community of Loch Raven is believed to be named after Sarah’s father.
“Tobias Starnborrow” is found on the list of taxables for the Patapsco Hundred, on the south side of Bear Creek. In 1695, the 185-acre parcel called Strife was surveyed for “Tobias Sternbrow.” In this same year he also became a ranger under Captain John Oldton,[5] which means that he joined the force maintained by the Province to range or patrol outlying districts as a protection against Indians. In October 1695, “Tobias Standborrow” of Baltimore County was given an allowance of 4,200 pounds of tobacco for seven months service as a ranger.[6]
Sources:
[4] C. Johnston, op. cit.
[5] John Oldton was married to Anna Gorsuch, older sister of our ancestor Charles Gorsuch. In 1691, Oldton was tried and sentenced to death for the murder of his neighbor, Dennis Garrett (another relative by marriage), in a dispute of unknown origin. He was given a royal pardon, probably due to political connections. Oldton went on to command the Baltimore County Rangers. See “The LOVELACE/GORSUCH Families.”
[6] C. Johnston, op. cit.