Captain Robert Vaughan

1597 - 1668  (71 years)

• Name	Robert Vaughan
  Title	Captain
  Born	1597	England, United Kingdom
  Gender	Male
  Died	1668	Maryland, United States
  Person ID	I1167761462	Master Tree
  Last Modified	9 May 2008

  
  

  Family	Mary
  Children	1. Thomas Vaughn,   d. 1684, Talbot, Maryland, United States + 2. William Vaughan,   b. Parsons Point, Queen Anne's, Maryland, United States ,   d. 1684, Maryland, United States + 3. Charles Vaughan,   b. 30 Aug 1655, Kent, Maryland, United States ,   d. Maryland, United States + 4. Mary Vaughan,   b. 1657,   d. 11 Dec 1707, Eastern Neck, Kent, Maryland, United States  (Age 50 years)
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2006
  Family ID	F1068975901	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1597 - England, United Kingdom Died - 1668 - Maryland, United States  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Commander of Kent 1647-1652 Capt. ROBERT VAUGHAN had lately been deposed by the "Keepers of the Liberty of England," and could not stomach and digest the doings of a Court organized by the Puritan Commissioners. 95% Old Kent: the Eastern Shore of Maryland A second time, Capt. ROBERT VAUGHAN insulted the Court by using most "opprobious" epithets, bending his "fist" over the "heads" of the Judges and "swearing" at the Clerk as "he sat at table." For this offence the Court imposed a fine of 600 lbs. of Tob. Fol. 56. Governor Calvert, also, the 18th day of April, 1647, o. s., commissioned Robert Vaughan, gent., to be "chief captain and commander," under him (the Governor), "of all the militia of the Isle of Kent, and with it to command and execute whatsoever shall beby him thought requisite for the said island against all intestine mutinies or seditions;" invested him with the power of martial law; "provided that where the offense shall deserve the forfeiture of life or member, that such offender for his trial be referred, and judgment to the provincial court, to be held by his Lordship's Governor and Council of this province." He further authorized "the said Captain Robert Vaughan to award all process necessary, according to the law and custom of this province," etc.; and he also authorized the said Captain Robert Vaughan, William Cox, Thomas Bradnox, Edward Comins, Philip Conner and Francis Brooke, gent., or the major part of them, whereof the said Robert Vaughan to be always one, to hear, try and judge, accord ing to the laws of this province, all actions and causes civil," except "where the freehold of any one shall come in question," provided that it shall be lawful for any man, at any time before execution served, "to appeal unto the provincial