Anne E Terrett

From the Hyten family archive; subject is Anne E Terrett (1633–1695), a tenth great-grandmother of the compiler in the paternal-grandfather (PP) line. This entry covers her English birth in Lancashire, her mother Ellen Rhodes, her marriage to Dr. Stephen C Cawood, her son Stephen Cawood III, and her death in colonial Maryland. Notable: 17th-century transatlantic migration from Lancashire to the Maryland colony.

Anne E Terrett (1633–1695) stands among the earliest transatlantic figures in the compiler's paternal-grandfather line, a tenth great-grandmother whose life spanned the upheavals of seventeenth-century England and the formative decades of the Maryland colony. She was born in 1633 at Plumpton Wood, in Lancashire, England, to a mother recorded in the family register as Ellen Rhodes, who died in 1650 when Anne was a young woman of about seventeen.

Lancashire in the 1630s and 1640s was a region of religious tension and political unrest, as the Stuart kingdoms moved toward the Civil Wars that would reshape England between 1642 and 1651. The death of Anne's mother in 1650 fell within that turbulent period, when ordinary households across the north of England were touched by war, dislocation, and shifting fortunes. Whether these conditions influenced Anne's later passage across the Atlantic is not recorded; only the outcome is preserved.

Anne married Dr. Stephen C Cawood, a union that carried her, in time, to the Province of Maryland, established under the Calvert proprietorship in 1632 and during Anne's lifetime steadily drawing English settlers to its tobacco-growing tidewater. The Cawoods settled in what is now Cecil County, in the region historically associated with Charles parish. Of Anne and Stephen's issue, the family register preserves a son, Stephen Cawood III, born in 1669 and living until 1735, through whom the line descends toward the compiler.

Anne died in 1695 in Charles, Cecil, Maryland, having lived approximately sixty-two years and having bridged, in her single lifetime, the older Lancashire world of her birth and the still-young Chesapeake colony in which her descendants would take root.

Anne was the compiler's tenth great-grandmother on the paternal-grandfather (PP) line.