RECLAIMING LLOYDS FORREST

Or How to track family migration through deeds

So far in my research of the Causey family originating in Dorchester-Caroline Counties, Maryland, nothing has tied their descendants together like the quest for the land called “Lloyds Forrest.” Those acres of land in Caroline County, Maryland were purchased Edward Lloyd by Thomas Causey’s sons and grandsons, Solomon Causey-I, William Causey-II, Beachum aka Beauchamp Causey-I, and Frederick Causey-I, all in the year 1775. Some twenty years later Peter Taylor Causey began a quest to bring much of the Lloyds Forest plantation back under Causey ownership. But who was this Peter Taylor Causey?
Peter Taylor Causey (1767-1828) of Sussex County, Delaware, was very likely the son of William Causey-II son of Thomas Causey-I. Patrick Causey (1746–1812) of Worcester County, Maryland also had a son named Peter to which this lineage has oft been attributed. However, Peter Taylor’s son Peter Foster Causey, (1801-1871), 38th governor of Delaware, named his sons William Frederick Causey, Peter Foster Causey, Jr., John W. Causey and Robert H. Causey, all names found among the Dorchester/Caroline County, Maryland Causeys. Additionally, based on the British naming convention generally used in the Causey family, there would have been a Patrick among the sons of Peter Foster Causey if his grandfather had been Patrick Causey. However, his firstborn was named William probably after the grandfather, William Causey-II.
The Causey families of Maryland and Delaware should be researched geographically without political boundaries of county and state in mind. Many of us see political boundaries as somehow having impact on lineage. It doesn’t. Besides that, a border conflict between Pennsylvania and Maryland known as Cresap’s War led in 1750–1751to a survey known as the Transpeninsular Line, (the Mason-Dixon Line) which established the southern boundary of Sussex County and made it part of Delaware not Maryland. The Causeys of both states were all brothers, uncles, and cousins with close Causey clan ties. As far as I can tell they all had a common ancestor.

I want to turn your attention now to the attached PDF file. You should be able to open it directly and read “The Rest of the Story of the Amazing Hunt.”