Also spelled: Cawsin, Cossin, Causoon, Causen, Coksute, Causeen, Causeene
Marylandwas established with religious freedom for Catholics. The colonial economy was based on tobacco cultivated by Africans who had been enslaved.
Nicholas Causine was born about 1608 in France.
He married Jane Hicks Cockshutt. She was the widow of John Cockshutt. John and Jane's children included:
Mary Cockshutt (1631, married Henry Adams) and
Jane Cockshutt (1640, married Thomas Matthews, John Breade and Thomas Hussey).
They came to America in 1641.
John died in 1642
Aug. 30, 1649
Jane wife of Nicholas Cawsin late widow of John Cockshott demanded 2000 acres for Mary & Jane Cockshott her children by said John, due said John for transporting self & 7 persons in 1642, per Robert Clarke (surveyor.)
Warrant for Patowmeck River between Cedar Point & head of Port Tobacco Creek.
Source: Maryland Land Office, Patent Records, Liber 2, pp. 506-7.
Jane gave the rights to 1,000 acres of John's land to Nicholas. The remainder she gave to daughters.
Nicholas and Jane's children included:
Ignatius Causine (1644) and
Nicholas Causine (1646/47).
Oct 25 1649 Laid out for Mary and Jane Cockshott a parcell of land lyeing on the East side of Patomeck River bounding on the north with the land of Nicholas Causine, Conteyning and nowe laid out for twelue hundred Acres more or lesse
Nicholas died in February, 1652/53
After he died, his widow, Jane, married Robert Clarke.
Jane died in 1662.
American colonists continued to use British monetary units, namely the pound, shilling and pence for which £1 (orli) equalled 20s and 1s equalled 12d. In 1792 the dollar was established as the basic unit of currency.
