Lodowick Yost/Maria (____?____)
of Georgetown, Maryland

Editor note: We are grateful to Eleanor M. V. Cook for providing this information about Lodowick Yost and his family.

Yost Families

There were two Yost families who were in Montgomery County in the latter part of the 18th century: the family of Casper Yost and the family of Lodowick Yost.

Lodowick Yost -¬

On 6 April 1774 Ludwick Yost and Gerard Briscoe purchased from John Mummert, for 60 pounds Pennsylvania money, 50 acres of the tract Trails Choice, together with houses, gardens, orchards and appourtenances. The same day Joseph West Senior executed a deed conveying to Ludwick Yost, for 5 pounds 6 shillings 10 1/2 pence 14 - 1/4 acres of Resurvey on Mill Tract. Also on the same day David Trail Senior conveyed to Ludwick Yost, for 294 pounds 9 shillings 6 pence, 100 acres of the tract Good Will and 71 acres of the adjoining Resurvey on Small Purchase. The metes and bounds given for Good Will indicate that it was on Seneca Creek. (FC Deeds V, f. 332, 379, 382)

Lodowick Yost was listed in the 1777 tax list for Montgomery County in Seneca Hundred with 1 taxable and took the Oath of Fidelity in Montgomery County in 1778. Lodowick Yost was in the militia during the Revolutionary War, listed in the Middle Battalion for Montgomery County on 30 August 1777 and on 15 July 1780. .

The Maryland 1783 tax assessment records for Upper Newwfound1and and Seneca Hundreds in Montgomery County lists property owned by Lodowick Yost who apparently was living on Resurvey on Mill Tract:

Good Will 100 acres 50 a. cleared. 12 a. marsh no improvements
Resurvey on Small Purchase 72 acres 20 a. cleared 5 a. marsh
no improvements .
Resurvey on Mill Tract 14-1/4 acres 4 acres cleared
1 log dwelling house and 2 out houses

Total value of real estate over 140 pounds. 1 female slave age 14-36
2 male or female slaves under 7 years. 6 horses. 12 black cattle. Other personal property valued over 30 pounds. 6 white inhabitants in household.

In the 1790 Federal census, we find his family in Frederick County:

Lodowick Yost 2 white males over 16 years 2 white females

John Yost 3 white males over 16 5 white females
3 white males under 16

On 5 February 1794 Abraham Faw filed a bill in the Chancery Court against John Yost, Ann Yost, Hannah Yost, and John Watts and Elizabeth his wife, the heirs of Lodowick Yost. Faw stated that on 8 October 1785 Lodowick Yost had land in Montgomery County consisting of 103 1/2 acres of Goodwill, 49 acres of Trails Choice, 63 acres of Resurvey on Small Purchase, 13-4/10 acres of Resurvey on Mi1l Tract, 4-4/10 acres of Fertile Meadows and 45 square perches of Resurvey on Younger Brother, a total of 233 acres lying at or near Seneca Bridge on the main road leading from Frederick Town to George Town. (This land was later included in the patent for Middle Brook.) Lodowick Yost agreed to sell the land to John Calhoun and executed a bond of conveyance; on 22 March 1790 Calhoon assigned his interest to Abraham Faw. Instead of a sum of money, Yost was to receive a Frederick County tract called Resurvey on Trembling. On 13 April 1790 Faw and Yost executed bonds of conveyance to each other. Before Yost died in 1793, his daughter Elizabeth had married John Watts. His daughters Ann and Hannah were minors. Faw wanted ask that the heirs of Lodowick executed a deed conveying the land to him.

By 16 June 1794, Ann Yost had died and the court appointed John the guardian of Hannah Yost. John and Elizabeth Watts were living in Allegany County when their answer was filed 27 July 1794. The court's decree of 12 February 1795 ordered that John Yost for himself and as guardian for Hannah and John and Elizabeth Watts convey the Montgomery County land to Faw and that Faw execute a deed conveying Resurvey on Trembling in Frederick County "on which Lodowick Yost did 1ive."(Chancery B#23, f. 1)

On 14 May 1795 a deed was executed by John Yost for himself and as guardian on behalf of Hannah Yost a minor, by Elizabeth Watts, and by Maria Yost, widow of Lodowick Yost of Frederick County, deceased. The deed stated that Abraham Faw had entered into an agreement with Lodowick in his lifetime for the exchange of certain lands, for which proper conveyances had not been executed. On the death of Lodowick, to enable Lodowick's heirs to complete the contract, Faw had filed a bill in the High Court of Chancery. In accordance with a decree filed 12 February 1795, the heirs conveyed to Abraham Faw, for 5 shillings, the land involved. The acknowledgement to the deed indicates that Yuliama (probably Julianna) Yost, wife of John Yost, appeared and relinquished her dower rights. (MC Deeds G, f. 21)

Eleanor M. V. Cook
October 1993

[Note: John Yost, son of Ludwick, wed Juliana Young 1 Aug 1792, Frederick Co.]