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== Biography ==
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===Origin===
=== 1642 Birth and Parentage ===
Charles was born August 25, 1642 (or August 27) at Walkern, Hertfordshire, England. He was a son of [[Gorsuch-22|John Gorsuch]] and [[Lovelace-8|Ann Lovelace]]. Charles was baptized in infancy, at Walkern, Hertfordshire, England, August 25, 1642, and died, a resident of Maryland, before June 27, 1716. <ref>Musser and allied families : a genealogical study with biographical notes [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data: Musser and allied families : a genealogical study with biographical notes. New York: The Company, 1941</ref> Charles was one of the seven members of his parents' family who were transported to Virginia prior to February 22, 1652, by Theo. Hoane, Gent.
===1657 Guardianship===
At the Lancaster, Virginia, County Court, April 1, 1657, "Richard, Robert and Charles Gorsuch, sonnes & Cohiers of John Gorsuch, professor of Divinity, dec'd," had appointed "their sister Katheryn Whitby, widd, their guardian for such estate as doth any ways belong to them in England,"and Francis Morrison, Esquire, for their estate in Virginia. <ref>Musser and allied families : a genealogical study with biographical notes [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data: Musser and allied families : a genealogical study with biographical notes. New York: The Company, 1941</ref><blockquote>April 1st, 1657, At this Court personally appearing Richard, Robert & Charles Gorsuch, sonnes & Coheirs of John Gorsuch, professor of Divinity, dec'd, did by their petition presented to this Court noiate (?) that their sister Katheryn Whitby, widd. their guardian for such estate as doth any ways belong to them in Englande. The Court taking the question into consideration did accordingly admitt & approve of the s'd Katheryn guardian according to the request of petitioners. At this Court personally appearing Richard, Robert & Charles Gorsuch sonnes & Coheirs of John Gorsuch, professor in Divinity, dec'd, did by their petition presented to this court noiate (?) that Francis Morrison Esqr their guardian for such estate as doth any ways belong to them in Virginia, craving this court to admit thereof, of such request this Court taking consideration did admitt & approve of the s'd Coll. Francis Morrison according to the request of the petitioners. (Lancaster County Records Vol. 1656-LXVI p. 7)<ref name="VMHB24.1">Pleasants, J. Hall, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4243492 "The Gorsuch and Lovelace Families"] ''The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,'' Vol. 24, No. 1 (Jan., 1916), pp. 81-93, Virginia Historical Society, JSTOR.org accessed February 16, 2015</ref></blockquote>
===1659 To Patapsco River, Maryland ===
Charles and his family were apparently new converts to Quakerism and removed with a group of settlers to the shores of the Patapsco River (site of present Baltimore) in Maryland.<ref name="VMHB24.1"/> This first settlement was made about 1659 where today the Gwynn's Falls empties into Baltimore's harbor, and Robert Gorsuch took out a patent for 500 acres he called 'Grosuch'. <ref>Maryland Patent Records Liber 4 folio 228 & 322</ref> Robert then seems to have removed his family to the area around the Gunpowder River north of present day Baltimore where his wife was killed by Indians in 1660<ref>Archives of Maryland Vol. 3 pg. 413</ref> John Gorsuch, sold the original tract in 1733 as the eldest son and heir at law.<ref>Provincial Court Records Liber PL 8 folio 694.</ref>
On February 24, 1661, Charles Gorsuch patented fifty acres in Baltimore County located between branches of the Patapsco River and where Fort McHenry stands today, at the proprietary rent of £1 per year.<ref name="Scharf">Scharf, John Thomas, [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=6tF4AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA50 ''History of Baltimore City and County, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day ...''] (Page 50) Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, 1881, GoogleBooks.com accessed February 1, 2015</ref> Charles apparently vacated this land, and it was patented on June 2, 1702 to James Carroll at the yearly rent of 2 shillings.<ref name="Scharf"/> Carroll called the property "Whetstone Point."
Charles apparently relocated to Talbot County sometime before December 1679 when he and his wife Sarah Cole conveyed 1200 acres of land Sarah inherited from her father, Thomas Cole, to David Jones the husband of his sister in exchange for 300 acres called Jones Range. Both parties signed a letter of attorney with their signatures. <ref>Baltimore County Land Liber IS IK folio 60</ref>
=== 1679 Quakers at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Haven_Meeting_House "Tred Avon"] ===The first meeting was the Betty's Cove Meeting (1660-1693), and in 1693, the Third Haven Meeting was formed out of it.<ref name="THMeeting">Shattuck, Candace, clerk, [http://www.thirdhaven.org/history.php Third Haven Friends Meeting (Quaker)] November 20, 2014 accessed November 26, 2014</ref> Charles is known to have been a Quaker, as were his brother Lovelace and his sister Elizabeth (Gorsuch) Powell.<ref name="Gorsuch24.3">J. H. P., [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4243537 "The Gorsuch and Lovelace Families (Continued)"] ''The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography,'' Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jun., 1916), pp. 317-327, Virginia Historical Society, JSTOR.org accessed January 5, 2015</ref> It is uncertain whether their brother, Richard Gorsuch became a Quaker.<ref name="Gorsuch24.3"/>
==Land Holdings==
For the next thirty years Charles Gorsuch claimed lands in the Baltimore area near Dundalk using Lord Baltimore's conditions for plantation amounting to over 1300 acres. Most of these patents appear to be investments because they were sold over the ensuing years. <ref> Maryland Patent Records Index</ref> According to the Baltimore County land rents Charles held on to a 500 acre parcel called 'Gorsuch' that was patented by his brother Robert Gorsuch in 1659, and was listed as the possessor in 1705. This tract was sold by his son John in 1733. <ref>Maryland Historical Magazine Vol. 21 pg. 290</ref>
===1679 Maiden Choice===
In a Deed, December 8, 1679, Charles Gorsuch of Talbot County and his wife Sarah convey to his brother in law David Jones the three Baltimore County tracts, Cole’s Harbour, 550 acres, upon which Baltimore Town was later laid out; Maiden’s Choice, 450 acres, at the head of the Middle Branch of the Patapsco, and Marybourne, on Jones Falls in what is now North Baltimore, 200 acres, the deed reading, his wife Sarah “being heiress to said land, as ye last will and testament of Thomas Cole will make appear. “And again, in a confirmatiory deed to these same tracs executed by Sarah, with Charles Gorscuh, alone, August 1, 1682, she is described as “the only and sole heir of Thomas Cole, late of Patapsco River, Baltimore County, deceased. The Annapolis patent records show that Thomas Cole in 1649 transported himself and wife Priscilla into the Province and settled in Anne Arundel County on the Severn, but later patented Maiden’s Choice and Cole’s Harbour in Baltimore County.” <ref name="jhp"> J. H. P, Baltimore, MD. The Gorsuch and Lovelace Families. Pages 207-222 and 325-332. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Published Quarterly by the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia. Volume XXVI for the year ending December 31, 1918. Richmond, Virginia: House of the Society. https://books.google.com/books?id=Tgc1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA326&lpg=PA326&dq=land+OR+grant+OR+patent+OR+tract+%22Maiden%27s+Choice%22&source=bl&ots=dg_R9c78SM&sig=UFBwAVXNSgZWD28DsdbBGLgQYgw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZtvLo2aHRAhXE7iYKHXF5CisQ6AEIODAH#v=onepage&q=land%20OR%20grant%20OR%20patent%20OR%20tract%20%22Maiden's%20Choice%22&f=false.. Accessed January 1, 2017 </ref>
===1687 Maiden Choice===
John Gorsuch, carpenter, the oldest son of Charles Gorsuch and his wife Sarah Cole, apparently born between 1678 and 1679, jointly with his brother Thomas Gorsuch, planter, received the tract Maiden’s Choice, 450 acres, under the will of David Jones 1687. Jones was the second husband of their aunt Anna Gorsuch. They sold it in 1708-9. <ref name="jhp"/>
=== 1704 Upper Patapsco Hundred, Baltimore County, Maryland ===
Charles was taxed at the Upper Patapsco Hundred in 1704 and in 1706, living next to his son, John.<ref name="Gorsuch26"/> Charles Gorsuch, Sr., March 3rd, 1708-9, by a deed of gift conveys to his son John the tract Wheatstone or Whetstone Point, "where I now live", reserving the use during his life (idem. R. M.: H. S.; 636).<ref name="Gorsuch26"/>
==Marriage & Family==
=== 1679 Marriage to Sarah Cole ===
Charles Gorsuch, of "Tred Avon," married by 8 Dec 1679, to Sarah Cole, heir of Thomas Cole (BALR IR#PP:46, IR#AM:185).<ref name="Gorsuch26"> J. H. P., [https://archive.org/stream/jstor-4243688/4243688#page/n1/mode/2up "The Gorsuch and Lovelace Familes, Continued"] (Vol 26, Page 325) ''The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography'' JSTOR.org accessed November 26, 2014</ref>
They were the parents of at least four sons who lived to adulthood, and likely also had some girls.
===Children===
Children:<ref name="Gorsuch26"/>
#Robert Gorsuch deceased 1720, his son, Robert also died without issue
# [[Gorsuch-28|John Gorsuch]], eldest b 1678-9
# [[Gorsuch-20|Charles Gorsuch, Jr]] b 1678-80
# [[Gorsuch-37|Thomas Gorsuch]]
Note: Researcher, Haschemeyer, reverses the birth order of Charles and Thomas thus: * John b. 1678-1732, Thomas 1680-1774, Charles 1686-1746/7<ref name="Haschemeyer"/>
===1691 Marriage to Anne Hawkins===
Charles is identified as Charles Gosidge of Baltimore County, son of John and Anne of the Kingdom of England, deceased in the marriage certificate of the West River Maryland Quakers dated the 15th day of the 12th month 1690/1 to Anne Hawkins <ref>Peden, Henry C. Jr. "Quaker Records of Southern Maryland 1658-1800" Willow Bend Books, Westminster 2000</ref> There is no record of children from this marriage.
Charles was deceased by 25 JUL 1716 when an inventory of his estate was taken in Baltimore County. It's a pretty sad collection of old tools, an old bull, and some hoggs. The value was 11.07.20L.<ref>Baltimore County Inventories Liber 5 folio 1, [[familysearch.org]]</ref> There is no accounting of the land he owned at death and no will has been found.
== Sources ==
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See also:
* Scisco, L.D. (1935). Land records of Baltimore County, 1679 and 1680, (pp.271- 277). * J.Hall Pleasants, ed., "Proceedings of the Court of Chancery of Maryland, 1669 - 1679," Vol. LI, Series 5. Maryland Historical Society, XXX(3), Archives of Maryland, [msa.maryland.gov. [http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5800/sc5881/000001/000000/000119/pdf/msa_sc_5881_1_119.pdf PDF]
== Acknowledgments ==* Thank you to Sue N. Haschemeyer for your research and for publishing it on the "Dunn*ck Family Genealogy" website. Note: This information is [http://www.dunnuck.com/copyright.html#Copyright copyright]; it is free for use, as long as it is never used for profit (this includes never uploading it to a genealogy website which charges a fee for access).
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