| 1744/00/00 |
Abraham Barnes |
Owner |
Abe Barnes buys 1,096 acres on Breton Bay in Leonardtown and names the property "America Felix Secundus". "America Felix" is 156 acres located in Beaverdam Manor patented by Col. Thomas Truman Greenfield in 1720. |
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| 1746/00/00 |
Abraham Barnes |
Architect |
Abraham Barnes, probably, constructs a dwelling, 1745-1746. |
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| 1763/00/00 |
John Thomson Mason Sr |
Home |
Living in England by 1763, Abraham Barnes advertises his house for rent in the Maryland Gazette, which could be Tudor Hall. Unable to find a tenant, Barnes's son-in-law, John Thompson Mason, lives in his house. |
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| 1778/00/00 |
Richard Barnes |
Architect |
Richard Barnes inherits America Felix Secundus from his father, Abraham Barnes. |
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| 1778/00/00 |
Abraham Barnes |
Died |
Col Abraham Barnes dies in Maryland. Abraham Barnes and Elizabeth (Rousby) Barnes, an infant daughter of Mary (King) Mason, were buried at America Felix Secundus. |
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| 1798/00/00 |
Richard Barnes |
Home |
America Felix Secundus consist of a 1.5 story wooden house with two brick wings. The one story brick wings will be raised to two stories and the center section replaced with a two story brick central block. |
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| 1804/00/00 |
Richard Barnes |
Died |
Richard Barnes dies without direct heirs. His main concerns are that his heir should take the name Richard Barnes and that his 100 or so slaves are freed within 3 years of his death. Barnes' plan is for the able body to take care of the young and the old. |
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| 1804/00/00 |
John Thomson Mason Jr |
Home |
John Thompson Mason Jr inherits Richard Barnes' estate. Mason frees 101 of Barnes slaves. Those under 22 will be freed when they come of age and those 45 and older will remain on the estate. A 1796 law forbids the freeing of Negros over 45. |
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| 1816/00/00 |
John Thomson Mason Jr |
Owner |
John Thomson Mason deeds 893 acres of America Felix Secundus and lots and houses in Leonardtown to the children of his deceased brother, Stevens Thomson Mason. |
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| 1817/09/18 |
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Armistead Thomson Mason, son of Stevens Thomson Mason, deeds America Felix Secundus in its entirety "always excepting from this grant, the graveyard in the garden attached" to Philip Key. |
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| 1818/00/00 |
Philip Key |
Home |
Philip Key raises the roof and enlarges the main house into a 14 room mansion. |
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| 1818/00/00 |
Henry G S Key |
Home |
Philip Key transfers title to America Felix Secundus to his son, Henry Greenfield Sothoron Key who recently married Henrietta Tayloe of Mt Airy, Virginia. Henry will call the mansion 'Tudor Hall'. |
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| 1818/00/00 |
Sophia Hall Key |
Home |
Sophia and Philip Key make a home at 'America Felix Secundus'. |
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| 1828/12/00 |
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By an Act of Maryland Assembly, John Thomson Mason, son of John Thomson Mason the heir of Barnes' estate, changes his name to 'Richard Barnes' and claims he is the rightful owner of Barnes' estates. |
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| 1830/00/00 |
Henry G S Key |
Owner |
Henry G S Key settles the claims of the new 'Richard Barnes' by providing a bond of $12,000 to secure a payment of $7,000. |
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| 1832/01/14 |
Henrietta Hill Tayloe Key |
Died |
Henrietta Hill Tayloe Key dies at home, Tudor Hall, Leonardtown, St Mary's, Maryland. |
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| 1949/00/00 |
Mary Patterson Davidson |
Benefactor |
Mary Patterson Davidson buys Tudor Hall from developers with the intention to gift it to the St Mary's County Memorial Library Association. |
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| 1950/00/00 |
Gertrude Sawyer |
Architect |
Washington, DC, architect, Gertrude Sawyer, restores and remodels Tudor Hall into a library. |
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| 1968/00/00 |
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By 1967-68 repairs are needed and an efforts are made to restore Tudor Hall to its 1830 state. |
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