Family History - Person Sheet
NameMary Kittamaquund 401
Spouses
DeathSeptember 2, 1679, Middlesex County, Virginia401
ReligionRoman Catholic402
Notes for Mary Kittamaquund
The story, as far as we can retrieve it, seems to be an interesting one. One history reports,
Indeed, the evidence suggests that the early Jesuits had no interest in living among the English once they arrived in Maryland. They wanted to live among the Indians. Andrew White actually did take up residence, briefly, in what the Jesuits called the "palace" of the Piscataway "king." He wrote proudly to Lord Baltimore of the progress he was making in learning the Piscataway language, eventually translating the Catholic catechism and several prayers into that language and creating a manuscript that survives today as the only extant example of an eastern Algonquian language. White also arranged for the Piscataway chief's seven-year-old daughter to live and be educated among the English in St. Mary's City. At the age of eleven, that girl - who was given the Christian name of Mary Kitamaquund - was married to Giles Brent, a Catholic convert who held a number of prominent positions in Maryland's government and was in his forties when he took his child bride.403