Done, John, 1747-1831
John Done was the son of John Done and Sarah Waters. He was married twice, first to Sarah Rigley and then to Patience Bayley and fathered eighteen children. John Done served as an attorney to the Somerset County court and the Worcester County court from 1769. He was Sheriff of Worcester County from 1773 to 1775, on the Committee of Observation for Worcester County in 1776, Worcester County Clerk 1777, Served in the Worcester County Conventions: 1st (1774) and 6th-8th (1775-1776). He was a Colonel in the Princess Anne Battalion, Somerset County Militia in 1781 during the Revolutionary War. After the War, he served as a Senate elector for Maryland in 1786, attended the Constitution Ratification Convention, was Chief Judge of the 4th District Court (1791-1799/1812-1814). He was a Presidential elector for President John Adams in 1796. He was a member of the Somerset Parish Vestry and a Freemason. He enslaved between ten to forty-three people in his household. John Done died on October 9, 1831 in Annapolis, Maryland.