An American Family History

Samuel Magruder was born in 1654 and was the son of Alexander Magruder and Margaret Brainthwaite.

He married Sarah Beall.

Samuel and Sarah's children icluded:

Samuel Magruder (married Eleanor Wade)
Ninian Magruder (1686,, married Elizabeth Brewer),
John Magruder (married Susan Smith),
James Magruder (Barbara Coombs),
William Magruder
Alexander Magruder (married Susanna Lamar),
Nathaniel Magruder,
Elizabeth Magruder (married Ninian Beall (1673)),
Sarah Magruder,
Verlinda Magruder (married Beall)
Mary Magruder (married George Claggett), and
and Eleanor Magruder (married Nehemiah Wade).

Samuel Magruder was vestryman in St. Paul's Church in 1692 and a member of the Assembly from 1704 to 1707.

In 1702, Samuel witnessed Thomas Rickett's will.

Sarah died in 1734.

Ninian Magruder was born about 1686. His parents were Samuel Magruder and Sarah Mills.

He married Elizabeth Brewer.

Samuel Magruder (1708, married Margaret Jackson).
John Magruder (1709, married Jane Offutt),
Ninian Magruder, Jr. (1711, married Mary Offutt),
Sarah Magruder (1713, married William Beale),
Elizabeth Magruder (1717, married Benjamin Perry),
Ann Magruder (1719, married Thomas Clagett, Sr.),
Nathaniel Magruder (1721),
James Magruder (1723, married Sarah Bowie),
Rebecca Magruder (1725, married James Offutt)
Rachel Magruder (1727, married Thomas Claggett, Jr.),
Verlinda Magruder (1730, married John Beale).

In 1710, Ninian, inherited a plantation from his father that had belonged to his uncle John and three hundred acres which were a part of Alexandria. (Alexandria, Virginia, was formerly known as Beall Haven).

In 1715 Ninian Magruder bought part of Friendship, now known as Magruder's Purchase, lying between the falls of the Potomac and Rock Creek, from Charles Beall and Thomas Fletcher for eighty-eight pounds sterling.

In 1720, Ninian sold the 42 acres Beall's Gift in Prince George's County.

Ninian owned Magruder's Purchase, and Grubby Thicket.

Ninian died in 1751. When he died, he left his land and people he had enslaved to his children.