Nicholas Gassaway

Nicholas Gassaway
Member of the Committee of the Twenty
In office
< 1690 – 1691
ConstituencyMaryland Colony
Gentleman Justice of the Quorum, later Justice of the (Maryland) Provincial Court
Commissioner of Londontown, Commissioner of the Peace, & Colonel, Maryland Provincial Forces
Incumbent
Assumed office
1683 & 1686
Personal details
Born1634
London, England
Died1691
Anne Arundel, Maryland
SpouseAnne Besson
RelationsAncestor of Henry G. Davis
ChildrenAnn Gassaway Watkins (2nd Burgess, 3rd Jones), Captain Nicholas Gassaway, Captain John Gassaway, Jane Gassaway Cotter (2nd Sanders), Lord Sheriff Captain Thomas Gassaway, Margaret Gassaway Larkin, and Hester Gassaway Groce (2nd Warman)
Residence(s)Love’s Neck, Bessondon, Poplar Ridge & Gassaway's Addition Plantations, Anne Arundel, MD
OccupationPlantation owner, provincial military officer, justice and politician

Colonel Nicholas Gassaway (baptized 11 March 1634 – between 10 and 27 January 1691[1] Julian Calendar) was a colonial military and political leader and justice in early Maryland. He is the progenitor of the some five and a half thousand Americans who bear the family name in the 2000 census.[2]

  1. ^ Cotton, Jane Baldwin (1906). The Maryland Calendar of Wills, Wills from 1685 to 1702, Volume II. Baltimore, Maryland: Kohn & Pollock, Publishers. pp. 48–49.
  2. ^ US Census Bureau, 2000 United States Census – list of family names