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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: 21 Nov 1761 Cambridge / Dorchester / MD Death: 22 Jun 1801 Cambridge / Dorchester / MD
Maryland's Capt John Smoot chapter marked three graves on 10 Apr 2021
Well-established cemetery in the heart of Cambridge, Maryland. Beginning in 1904, there was an effort to relocate graves of Patriots that were at risk to erosion, overgrowth and farming to an area of this cemetery referred to as Heroes Corner. There are ten known Patriots buried in this cemetery
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Adjacent to the church foundation next to his father, Robert Goldsborough
Author: MG James Allen Adkins
Charles Goldsborough was born in Dorchester County on Maryland's Eastern Shore on 21 November 1761 to Robert Goldsborough and Sarah Yerbury. His father was a member of the First Continental Congress and had a distinguished career in law and government service in Maryland.
While Charles did not serve in the military during the Revolutionary War, he paid Maryland's 1783 Assessment Tax recorded in the Maryland Archives S1437, Middle Hundred, page 135.
It is said that while a student at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, he met the daughter of the college's president and fell in love. He married Williamina Smith, daughter of Reverend William Smith, founder of Washington College, in 1783. Unfortunately, Williamina died in 1790, leaving him with two sons, Robert and William Smith, and a daughter, Sarah Yerbury.
In 1793, Charles married Elizabeth Greenbury Goldsborough, a relative, but within four years, she would die, leaving him a widow for the second time. Charles married his third wife, Anna McKeel, in 1798, and they would have a son, Charles.
Charles Goldsborough died on 12 June 1801, and his funeral was held on 14 June 1801 in Christ Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Maryland.
On 10 April 2021, the Captain John Smoot Chapter marked his grave.
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