EADES.
A family named Eades were among the early settlers in the
southern part of the county. Abraham Eades patented land
on Ballenger's Creek in 1751. In 1758 Joseph gave to his
sons, Thomas and John, one hundred and fifty acres on
Totier, and the next year Jacob sold three hundred acres on
Totier to Rev. John Ramsey, rector of St. Anne's. It is likely
Abraham, Joseph and Jacob were brothers. The two latter
disappear from the records, and they, or their families, probably
fell in with the tide of emigration that bore away such
numbers to the West. Abraham, a son of Abraham, was
for many years in the early part of the century, engaged in
the inspection of tobacco in the Nicholas Warehouse at Warren.
He died in 1828. His family were Joseph, Mildred,
the wife of a Shepherd, Abraham, Susan, Charlotte, and
Sarah, the wife of Richard Chandler. Shepherd Eades, a
son of one of this family, married Mary, daughter of Benjamin
Norvell, and died in 1848. He left a son Shepherd, and
three daughters, Mary Ann, the wife of a Starke, Charlotte,
the wife of a Turner, and Sarah, the wife of a Venable.
