Captain Thomas Stockett
"Thomas Stockett emigrated to Maryland with his brothers and settled at the head of Chesapeake Bay, certainly at that time the outposts of the Province. According to a Treaty of Peace begun at Spes Utia on May 16, 1661, it was agreed that the Susquehanna Indians should apply at the house of Captain Thomas Stockett for "ticketts" to pass "further among the English Plantacons" and that the Susquehannas should deliver all runaways to Captain Thomas Stockett. At this time he was addressed as Captain and there is every reason to believe that his commission as a military officer had been granted by the Lord Proprietary."
"For over a hundred years or more the descendants of Captain Thomas Stockett were centered around
'The Obligation' in All Hallow's Parish and to a lesser extent around 'Doden' another plantation of the South River area."
picture: Knapp family