Does anyone know what Cawood did after the war?

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Yes, John, E. Pliny Bryan's plantation is now the National Colonial Farm - right across the river from Mt. Vernon. When you say that Cawood's home was in Piscataway, that could mean within the Piscataway District -- not the village itself. Surrattsville was in the Piscataway District until they created a new district for it in 1854.

Mr. Hall had me looking in the area around the old Marshall Hall and Ft. Washington areas for graveyards way back when. I found John C. Thompson, who ran the T.B. Hotel in 1865, buried in that area, but no sign of a Cawood. There were many forested areas, however, that I was too afraid to venture into. I know of many old family graveyards within a ten mile radius of my home right now that are abandoned and difficult to find. Most of the stones have toppled and are covered by vegetation.

I have one other source that I don't think I looked in way back when. The DAR did magnificent work about fifty years ago in identifying graveyards and interments throughout the ages in Prince George's County. The county's genealogical society assisted in printing a huge book entitled Stones and Bones giving all the information they could find. I'll check it and see what I find.

I don't know how Bryan came to acquire his farm on the river because he was raised about a mile from Surratt House - which is about ten miles from Bryan Point. I have a sneaky feeling that the Cawood family may have lived already at Mockley Point.

P.S. Please drop the "t" on Bryan when talking about Pliny - you get me so confused...

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I struck out on finding a listing for any Cawood in the Stones and Bones book. However, I mentioned earlier old Marshall Hall. There is a listing for the Marshall family cemetery (dating back to the 1680s), BUT it now lies within Charles County. They listed it in the book because that portion of land originally belonged to Prince George's County. There is a possibility that Cawood's grave is in that same area, but now in Charles County. If I am not mistaken, part of the National Colonial Farm straddles the county line also.

Do we know Charles Cawood's middle name? Sometimes that can give a hint as to his mother's maiden name, etc.