He first married
Margaret CLAGETT, daughter of
(?) CLAGETT, on 4 Jul 1833 in Annapolis, Anne Arundel Co., MD.
[124] “last Thursday” on 11 Jul 1833.
Born abt 1819 in Maryland. [71] age 31 in 1850 census. Margaret died bet 1850 and 1853. [12] 1850 census and husband remarries. aka: Margaret Watkins. [35]
Their Anne Arundel Co. marriage license gives her name as Margaret Watkins, but the marriage record in the “Maryland Gazette” gives her name as Margaret Claggett. [12] Perhaps one was a maiden name, and the other was the surname of a first husband? The fact that a Bettie Clagett was living with Henry and Margaret at the time of the 1850 census would seem to increase the probability that her maiden name was Clagett. (Probably Bettie was a sister, and was likely the same one who later married Henry.)
[35], [71], [12], [124]