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OLD SOMERSET
ON
THE EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND
A Study in Foundations and Founders
BY
CLAYTON TORRENCE
1935
Richmond, Virginia
WHITTET & SHEPPERSON Wale (also Whale and, later, Whaley). Edward Wale was in the Pocomoke section when Somerset was created August, 1666. He first owned and lived on lands ("Aquintica" and "Springfield") on Pocomoke River which had been conveyed to him by George Wale and Lewis, his wife. These lands Edward Wale sold to Thomas Newbold and removed about 1678 to the Sinepuxent section on the seaboard side. Edward Wale (d. 1718), m. January 29, 1668/9, Elizabeth Ratcliff (sister of Charles Ratcliff, of Somerset County), and had issue: (1) John, 1669; (2) Sarah, 1671; (3) Charles, 1673; (4) George, 1678; (5) Elizabeth, 1677; m. William Turvile (or Turvill); (6) Bridget, 1681; m. Ebenezer Franklin; (7) William, 1683; (8) Nathaniel, 1686; (9) Rachel, 1688; (10) Elias, 1690-1720) (IKL; O 5, p. 358; O 18, p. 18; Md. Cal. Wills, IV, p. 165, and V, p. 44). The Wale, or Whaley, family, of Somerset County, for many years made claim (traditionally) to descent from the celebrated Edward Whalley, "the Regicide," but finally abandoned the claim. In Penna. Mag. of Hist. and Biog., IV, p. 258, appears a letter by Dr. Robert P. Robins, May 24, 1880, in which the evidence against this claim is well summed up. |
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