WE ARE DESCENDANTS OF THE EARLY COLONIAL SETTLERS IN MARYLAND. THE FIRST COSKERY OFFICIALLY REPORTED IN MARYLAND WAS IN THE 1790 CENSUS (THE FIRST U.S. CENSUS).  THERE IS A JOHN AND JAMES COSKERY LISTED IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND FOR 1790.  JOHN  AND JAMES APPARENTLY, HOWEVER, WERE THE ORPHANED SONS OF ARTHUR COSKERY AND WERE RAISED BY A GUARDIAN, FRANCIS COSKERY, PROBABLY AN ACCOUNTANT.  FRANCIS AND ARTHUR WERE BROTHERS ALONG WITH A FELIX COSKERY, ALL IN MARYLAND IN THE MID 1700'S.  THEY EITHER HAD ANOTHER BROTHER OR COUSIN NAMED BERNARD COSKERY.  THERE ARE A JOHN, HENRY, ARTHUR, FELIX, FRANCIS AND BERNARD LISTED IN THE BOG LEASE RENTAL LEDGER OF THE EARL OF CHARLEMONT ON THE MANOR OF CHARLEMONT IN CO. ARMAGH/TYRONE, NORTH IRELAND IN THE 1700'S. JOHN HAD THREE KNOWN SIBLINGS--BROTHER JAMES AND SISTERS ELIZABETH AND MARTHA (PATTY), THE LATTER OF WHOM MARRIED A CHARLES O'BRIEN. JOHN COSKERY (AKA MC COSKEY) MARRIED JACOBA CLEMENTINA MATILDA SPALDING, YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF ANNE ELDER AND HENRY SPALDING. JOHN AND JACOBA CLEMENTINA MATILDA WERE MARRIED BY ARCHBISHOP CARROLL, FIRST CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP IN THE UNITED STATES. THEY WERE THE PARENTS OF FR. HENRY BENEDICTUS COSKERY, V.G. BALTIMORE; RENOWNED SR. OF CHARITY ANASTASIA MATILDA COSKERY; AND DR. FELIX STANISTAN COSKERY, SURGEON OF BALTIMORE.  DR. FELIX S. COSKERY WAS THE FATHER OF DR. OSCAR JOHN COSKERY, SURGEON IN BALTIMORE; HENRY JOHN COSKERY, PHARMACIST IN CATONSVILLE, MARYLAND; AND CAROLINE (CARRIE) COSKERY TUBMAN.  HENRY JOHN COSKERY MARRIED ELIZABETH V. SITLER AND TOGETHER THEY HAD MANY CHILDREN, INCLUDING EUGENE CAMPBELL COSKERY, SR., WHO IS OUR DIRECT PENNSYLVANIA LINK BACK TO JOHN COSKERY OF TANEYTOWN, EMMITSBURG AND BALTIMORE, MARYLAND AND ARTHUR COSKERY OF MARYLAND AND PROBABLY CO. ARMAGH/TYRONE NORTH IRELAND. JACOBA CLEMENTINA MATILDA SPALDING COSKERY'S ANCESTORS CAME DIRECTLY FROM THE  GUY FINCH, ARNOLD LIVERS, WILLIAM ELDER FAMILIES, BROUGHT OVER BY LORD CECELIUS CALVERT, SECOND LORD BALTIMORE.  GUY FINCH WAS THE FIRST TO ARRIVE IN THE USA IN 7 JANUARY 1688 ON THE SHIP DOVE(R). HENRY SPALDING FOUGHT IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND WAS A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT. SEPARATE PAGES WILL BE WRITTEN ON EACH OF THESE INDIVIDUALS AS INFORMATION BECOMES AVAILABLE.