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Jonathan Plowman, Jr.
Jonathan Plowman (1717–1795) was a spy and a privateer during the American Revolutionary War. His spying activities were as part of a group of Revolutionaries who reported on British troop movements. Jonathan Plowman Jr. became a privateer after the War broke out and trade with Britain was halted. Jonathan Plowman Jr. along with other merchants of Baltimore became privateers. They took their merchant ships and sent them out to raid and plunder British commerce enriching themselves and Baltimore.〔()〕 His resistance to British rule began early then that when as a prominent merchant in Baltimore Jonathan Plowman Jr. signed the non-importation agreement along with other merchants throughout the 13 colonies in a united effort to resisted British taxation and abuses.〔(GenealogyInc )〕 His sons fought the British redcoats on the battlefield as members of both the regular army and the Maryland Militia. Jonathan Plowman Jr's many accomplishments ranged from a town commissioner member,〔(Maryland Online Archives Volume 203 page 68 )〕 an attorney〔(Maryland Online Archives Volume 702 page 125 )〕 and Justice of the Peace.〔(Maryland Online Archives, Volume 63 page 428 )〕 He was also a Freemason〔(Masonic Lodge Roster )〕 and a developer〔 laying out streets and lots and having the land added to Baltimore. Most of all he was a successful merchant,〔 and owned at least one ship named ''Pokomoke''〔Baltimore Historical Magazine page 20〕 and trading in goods including indentured servants. Plowman's own father was shipped to America at age 12 as an indentured servant. Jonathan Plowman Jr. became a member of the town commission of Baltimore, Maryland, prior to and served during the American Revolution. Many references to Jonathan Plowman may be found in the Maryland Archives, as he participated in town business and ran afoul of the British more than once. Jonathan Plowman Jr. usually signed "Jon" Plowman on documents such as the records of the many indentured servants he imported to the Americas.〔(National Park Service )〕
==Father's arrival in America==
January 27, 1701 (1700 O.S.), Liverpool, England a young 12-year-old Jonathan Plowman of Yorkshire, England found himself boarding the ship ''Robert and Elizabeth'' as an indentured servant the ship's captain known as a 'Master' was Ralph Williamson.〔( The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, page 44 )〕 The ship was bound for Jamestown, Virginia. Records from Jamestown, Virginia do not record his landing there. It wasn't uncommon for ships to not sale out of every single indentured servant and so the ship would move on to other colonial cities such as Baltimore, Maryland. At age 12 he may not have been a very attractive indentured servant. The next record of Jonathan Plowman Sr. is in Baltimore County, Maryland.〔( Root Web )〕 Once in Baltimore County he met Ann Vickory Stevenson, a widow two years younger than him who also was born in England. She had a young son named Richard Stevenson Vickory(bef 1711-1737) from her first marriage to John Vickory then deceased. They were married in February 1713 O.S. (1714 N.S.).〔(Genforum Plowman )〕 One year later on February 22, 1714 O.S. (1715 N.S.)they had their first child together, a daughter named Rachael Plowman who would go on to marry her cousin Richard King Stevenson. On February 25, 1716 O.S. (1717 N.S.) their son and subject of this article Jonathan Plowman was born. A third child, a son named John Vickory Plowman, was born about 1718. On March 30, 1747 at age 59 Jonathan Plowman Sr. died.〔 By this time Jonathan Plowman had started his own business as a merchant in the newly created town of Baltimore established in 1729.
(''Note: Dates marked O.S. for Old Style are from the Julian calendar which applies for dates before September 1752. Our current Gregorian calendar system for dates after September 1752 when Britain and its colonies around the world adopted it is translated for dates predating this by N.S. or new style.'')
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