Maryland Historical Magazine, 1937, Volume 32, Issue No. 1
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MSA SC 5&81 -1 - U5 MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE PUBLISHED UNDEK THE AUTHORITY OP THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOLUME XXXII BALTIMORE 1937 CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXXII. PAGE JOHN W. M. LEE, 1848-1896. By Ruth Lee Briscoe, 1 LETTEES OF JAMES RUMSET. Edited iy James A. Padgett, Ph.D., 10, 136, 271 A NEW MAP OP THE PEOVIKCB OF MARYLAND IN NORTH AMERICA. By J. Louis Kuethe, 28 BALTIMORE COUNTY LAND RECORDS OF 1633. Contributed by Louis Dow Scisco, 30 LETTERS OF CHARLES CARROLL, BARRISTER. Continued from Vol. XXXI, 4, 35, 174, 348 NOTES, QUERIES, REVIEWS, .... 47, 192, 291, 292, 376, 385 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, 53, 190, 381 LIST OP MEMBERS, 73 POE'S LITERARY BALTIMORE. By John C. French, 101 SOME RECENTLY-FOUND POEMS ON THE CALVERTS. By Walter B. Norris, 112 GOVERNOR HORATIO SHABPB AND HIS MARYLAND GOVERNMENT. By Paul H. Giddens, 156 A LOST COPY-BOOK OP CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON. By J. G. D. Paul, 193 AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER. By Roger B. Taney, 225 HISTORIC FORT WASHINGTON. By Amy Cheney Clinton, .... 228 THE PAPERS OP THE MARYLAND STATE COLONIZATION SOCIETY. By William D. Eoyt, Jr., 247 * " PATOWMECK ABOVE YE INHABITANTS." By William B. Marye, . 293 JOHN NELSON MCJILTON. By W. Bird Terwilliger, 301 THE SIZES OF PLANTATIONS IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MARYLAND. By T. J. Wyckoff, 331 INCIDENTS OP THE WAR OP 1812 . From the " Baltimore Patriot," . 340 THE SOCIETY OP THE CINCINNATI, 369 THE ROCKHOLDS OP EARLY MARYLAND. By Nannie Ball Nimmo, . 371 'BALTIMORE COUNTY LAND RECORDS OF 1684. By Louis Dow Scisco 286 ARCHIVES OF M^HYLA^ISro Edited by J. HALL PLEASANTS, M. D. Fublished toy authority of tlie State VOLUME LII Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, 1755-56 This is the 52nd volume of the general series and the twenty-fourth of the sub-series relating to Assembly affairs. As is usually the case, the letter of transmittal to the Society, is a scholarly monograph on the period covered. The years 1755 and 1756 -were marked in Maryland by increased military activity on the western frontier against the French; the dis- astrous defeat of Braddock at the Monongahela; and at home by in- creaded tension and bickering between the Upper and Lower houses of Assembly. The seeds of dissension between the absentee landlord and his tenants had already been sown, and had taken root in the soil fertilized by mutual distrust and by dissensions on the subject of taxation; the seedling was being prepared for a vigorous, independent growth when a few years later it was to be further nourished by an added resentment against the King and his schemes of Taxation. The Roman Catholic question was also agitating the fears and prejudices, of the people. The abortive Scotch uprising in favor of the Young Pretender, although it had resulted in Charles Edward's defeat at Culloden in 1746, still filled men's minds with fear, and various addi- tional repressive measures against Catholics in England ensued. The aggressions of the Ereneh, a Catholic nation, on the western frontier, and the outrages practiced by their Indian allies, caused the religious question to blaze up in Maryland with even greater intensity than in England. In the Appendix may be found a number of hitherto unpublished papers, preserved among the manuscript archives of the State, reflecting upon the proceedings of the Assembly for the years 1755-1756. THE MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED 1843. H. IKVINB KETSER MEMORIAL BUILDING, 201 W. MONUMENT STREET, BALTIMORE OFFICERS. President, CLINTON L. EIGGS, Vice-Presidents GEOEGE L. RADCLIFFE, J. HALL PLEASANTS. SAMUEL K. DENNIS. Corresponding Secretary, Recording Secretary, WILLIAM B. MARYE. JAMES E. HANCOCK. Treasurer, HEYWARD E. BOYCE. THE COUNCIL. THE GENERAL OFFICERS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF STANDING COMMITTEES: G. CORNER FENHAGEN, Representing the Trustees of the Athenaeum. W. STULL HOLT, " Committee on Publication. L. H. DIELMAN, " Committee on the Library. WILLIAM INGLE, " Committee on Finance. MRS. ROBERT P. BRENT, " Committee on Membership. LAURENCE H. FOWLER, " Committee on the Gallery. KENT ROBERTS GREENFIELD, " Committee on Addresses. BENEFACTORS AND CONTRIBUTORS TO THE FUNDS OF THE SOCIETY. Mrs. Mary Washington Keyser, Gift of the Buildings and grounds of the Society (1916). George Peabody, Gift (1866) $20,000.00 J. Wilson Leakin, Bequest (1923), Historical relics and 10,000.00 Drayton Meade Hite, Gift (1919) 1,000.00 and Bequest (1923) 6,000.00 Mrs. Drayton Meade Hite, Bequest (1927) 4,000.00 Mendes Cohen, Bequest (1915) 5,000.00 Mrs. Caroline J. Lytle (1928) 5,000.00 Van Lear Black, Gift 1,500.00 Miss Eleanor S. Cohen, Gifts (1919), Historical relics and 300.00 Memorial to her parents, Israel and Cecilia E. Cohen (1926) 1,000.00 Miss Susan Dobbin Leakin (1924), Preparation of J. Wilson Leakin room and contribution to its contents. Charles Exley Calvert, Gift 1,150.00 Mrs. Thomas B. Gresham, Bequest (1926) 1,200.00 Isaac Henry Ford, Bequest (1916) 1,000.00 W. Hall Harris, Gift 1,000.00 Isaac P. Nicholson, Gift (1909) 1,000.00 Isaac Tyson Norris, Gift (1916) 1,000.00 J. Henry Stickney, Bequest (1892) 1,000.00 Mrs. Emilie McKim Reed, Bequest (1926) 1,000.00 Henry Stockbridge, Gift (1920) 1,000.00 DeCourcy W. Thorn, Gift 1,000.00 Mrs. DeCourcy W. Thom, Gift 1,000.00 Mrs. Mary Parkhurst Hayden, Bequest 1,000.00 Jane James Cook, Gift 1,000.00 United Daughters of the Founders and Patriots of America: Carroll Papers $442.63 Taney Papers 25.00 Williams Papers 195.80 663.43 Judge Walter I. Dawkins, Bequest 500.00 W. G. Baker, Gift 500.00 Mrs. W. Hall Harris, Gift 500.00 Adelaide S. Wilson, Gift 500.00 J. Appleton Wilson, Gift 500.00 William Power Wilson, Gift 500.00 Mrs. Rebecca Lanier King, Bequest (1928) 500.00 McHenry Howard, Gift 333.34 Charles McHenry Howard, Gift 333.33 Elizabeth Gray Howard, Gift 333.33 Simon Dalaheimer, Gift 300.00 Miles White, Jr., Gift 300.00 Mrs. Charlotte Gilman Paul, Gift 300.00 Mrs. Arthur Robeson, Gift 200.00 Henry F. Reese, Bequest 200.00 Miss Nellie Williams, Gift 200.00 Charles C. Homer, Jr., Gift 150.00 Raphael Semmes, Gifts 140.00 Mrs. George F. Libby, Gifts 125.00 Samuel M. Wilson, Gift 120.00 Louis H. Dielman, Gift 100.00 R. C. Hoffman, Gift 100.00 Henry P. Hynson, Gift 100.00 William Ingle, Gift 100.00 Mrs. Rebecca Littlejohn, Gift 100.00 John H. Morgan, Gift 100.00 Bernard C. Steiner, Gift 100.00 Jane Griffith Keys, Gift 100.00 Mrs. Katherine Bibb Stehman, Bequest 100.00 MARYLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE VOL. XXXII. MARCH, 1937. No. 1. JOHN W. M. LEE,1 1848-1896. Librarian of the Mercantile Library Association, 1810-1885; Librarian and Curator of the Cabinet, Maryland Historical Society, ISfl-lSBB. By KUTH LEE BEISCOE. [This paper, prepared in commemoration of the fortieth anni- versary of Mr. Lee's death, is a tardy recognition of his services to the Society, and to the City and State as well. In the ninety-two years of its existence the Society has had the services and cooperation of hundreds of our most distinguished citizens, but it is safe to say, that no one has made greater contributions in the upbuilding of the institution than did John W. M. Lee in the fifteen years of his librarianship. As scholar, antiquarian and historian, he has left an indelible impression on the organization, which is hereby gratefully acknowledged.—EDITOK.] Nearly half a century has passed since the purchase of the Calvert Papers for the Maryland Historical Society, by the late John W. M. Lee, the Society's Librarian. During that time inquiries have been made for a biography of Mr. Lee, for the newspaper accounts at the time of his death were meagre. Owing to the paucity of printed information, this account of his life has been written with the aid of material gleaned from the Archives of Maryland, family records, correspondence, news- paper clippings, etc., and I dedicate it to the dear memory of my father. John Wesley Murray Lee, born August 12, 1848, in Balti- 1 Read before the regular meeting of the Maryland Historical Society, December 14, 1936. 1 2 MAETLAND HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. more, Md., was the second son of John Wesley Lee and his wife Lucinda Green Fowler—parents of a large and gifted family. His father was one of the leading architects and builders of the city, a charter member of the Maryland Academy of Sciences, and an amateur mineralogist of note, whose superb collection of minerals was bequeathed to Western Maryland College. Fine dwellings, several churches in the city, and the Mount Vernon Cotton Duck Mills at Woodberry, were designed and built by him—the latter, built in 1874, said to have been a quarter of a century in advance of the modern building methods of that period. Mr. Lee retired from active business after the com- pletion of these buildings, to devote his time to his financial interests, and to his scientific researches in the fields of geology and mineralogy. The Lee Building, northeast corner of Park and Lexington streets, owned by him prior to the Civil War— before Park street was condemned and opened by the city—is a Baltimore landmark. His wife, Lucinda Green Lee, was a beautiful woman, of impelling presence and strong character- istics. She lived to be 92 years old, and her accurate recollection of events of the past in Baltimore caused her to be consulted by those writing local history. As a very small child she was present with her mother, Mrs.