Jarboe, Lt Col. John

Birth Name Jarboe, Lt Col. John
Gender male
Age at Death 55 years, 2 months, 3 days

Narrative

John Jarboe, Catholic, migrated to Virginia from France about 1646. During the Claiborne and Ingles Rebellion of 1645-1646, Governor Leonard Calvert came to Virginia to raise troops to quell the unrest in Maryland. John Jarboe was one of the men who answered his call, for which he was given land in Maryland. He became a trusted aide to the Governor, and later served as Lord High Sheriff, and also as the St Mary's Co delegate the Maryland Lower Assembly. He was granted full rights as a citizen by Lord Baltimore on July 30, 1661, which may have made him the first naturalized citizen of a British colony in the New World.

There is an account of a quote from a book called Yesterday in St Marys County by Fred Pughe that said that John Jarboe went on a particular mission to Virginia for the Calverts, and that he was never picked up by the boat that was supposed to come and get him. He said that he walked all the way back home, which would mean he would have had to walk all the way around the Potomac River. John Jarboe reportedly said that he wore out "six payre of shooes" and that it cost him 300 pounds of tobacco. The book Tidewater Maryland by Paul Wilstach c. 1931, 1945, tells the circumstances of that quote.

A note in the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT (FHL 985186 indicates that Catherine Hall emigrated with the John Jarboe family from Dijon, France. Her uncle was John Shircliffe, which would make her husband Thomas Spalding a nephew by marriage to John Shircliffe, not a cousin as listed in the will of Shircliffe.
The Jarboe, Shircliffe and Spalding families all intermarried in Maryland and Nelson Co, Kentucky, and those famiies, along with the Clarkes and the Haydens, also intermarried with the Mattinglys.

See also Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol XV, No. 4, Dec 1920.

 

 

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 1619 Dijon, Cote d'Or Department, FRA    
Death 1674-03-04 Maryland    

Families

Family of Jarboe, Lt Col. John and Tattershall, Mary

Married Wife Tattershall, Mary ( * about 1630 + about 1677 )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Jarboe, John II16591705-05-16
Jarboe, Maryabout 1669before 1739
Jarboe, Peterabout 1671about 1698
Jarboe, Henry1672about 1708