Aquilla Duvall

Abt 1730 - Bef 1783  (< 53 years)

• Name	Aquilla Duvall  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Birth	Abt 1730	Wilson's Grove, Anne Arundel, MD   [5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 3 Nov 1783	, Montgomery, MD, USA   [5]
  Person ID	I5403	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Father	Lewis Duvall,   b. 16 Jan 1703, All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel, MD, USA d. Aft 1771, , , Pennsylvania (Age > 69 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Eleanor Farmer,   b. 1707, Queen Anne's Parish, Prince George's, MD d. 1755 (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	26 Nov 1722	, Prince George, MD   [6, 7]
  Family ID	F895	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Ridgley,   b. 11 Oct 1737, Howard County, Maryland, United States of America
  _MARRIED	N
  Family ID	F355	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  He and his parents moved from Anne Arundel Co., Maryland to what is now Montgomery Co., Maryland before 1748. He was a Private in Captain Thomas Sappington's Co. during the French and Indian Wars in that year. He and his wife, Elizabete heirs in the estate of her father, William Ridgely in 1755 of Anne Arundel Co., MD. He purchased "Hartley's Lot" of 600 acres on Apr 2, 1755 and "No Matter What" of 387 acres on Jun 8, 1764, both in Frederick Co., MD. On May 14, 1760, he and his wife gave his mother-in-law a piece of property called "Resurvey on Hartley's Lott". He was a private in the Revolutionary War in the "Middle Battalion of Montgomery Co., MD. He died in 1783 leaving a will dated Sep. 29, 1783 that was proved on Nov. 3rd of that year. His will named brother, Lewis Duvall, Daughter, Rachel Musgrove, Sons, Levin, Zadock, Frederick, Aquilla, Eleanor, Elizabeth, William, Claudia, and Aquilla. His executor was his brother, Lewis. Witnesses were Henry Griffith, Jr., Ann PUrdis, and Ann Russell.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1323] Coldham, Peter Wilson, Settlers of Maryland (Genealogical Publishing Company, 4 volumes.). [S1408] Malloy, Mary Gordon, Jane Sween and Janet Manuel, Abstracts of Wills, Montgomery Co., Maryland, 1776-1825 (Washington D.C.: Gray Printing Co., c1977). [S780] Robinson, Dierdre, Kaeling, BIrkel, Kellar, Morrissey, Anderson, Butler, Woodward, Rutter, Mayberry---MD, NJ (Sources "Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation" by Harry Wright Newman, c.1952, reprinted 2000 by Carl P. Brown, Pittsfield, MA). [S97] Ancestry.com, Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;). Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 [S366] Ancestry.com, Global, Find a Grave Index for Burials at Sea and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/235559132/aquila-duvall [S488] Ancestry World Tree Submissions at www.ancestry.com. [S781] Newman, Harry Wright, Mareen Duvall of Middle Plantation (c1952, reprinted in 2000).