His first wife was Mrs. Barbara (Gerard) Johnson, sister of John Gerard, of St. Clement's Manor, and daughter of Richard Gerard, who came to St. Mary's County, Maryland, in 1663, in the ship, "The Ark and the Dove." His will, dated March 1, 1721 (his great-great-granddaughter, Eliza Woolsey Howland, states that it was dated in 1722), mentions his wife, Elizabeth. He gives his land in King George and Westmoreland Counties and his English estates and moneys to his eldest son, William.

